Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It was initiated nine years ago, but now it comes back to haunt the German government with a vengeance. The background of the case goes back to the year 2011. After the Fiúkushima incident the government decided to speed-up the phase out and set 2022 as an end-date.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

counties have experienced a federal climate disaster between 2011-2021, with some having as many as 12 disasters during that time. Pennsylvania From 2011 to 2021 Pennsylvania had 9 climate disaster declarations with six counties having fire or more disasters. In 2021 alone, the U.S.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

According to the Times article, since 2011 U.S. Loose state laws governing fracking operations result in a significant fraction of the toxic chemicals injected underground by the petroleum industry remaining there long term. (In oil and gas operators have consumed about 1.5

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Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The Injection Well Act (Chapter 27 of the Texas Water Code) governs the permitting process for underground injection wells in Texas. January 13, 2011: the RRC rescinds its no-harm letter. + February 17, 2011: TCEQ issues an order approving the application. April 2, 2011: TCEQ reissues the order. The litigation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 29, 2022

In 2011, a raccoon found its way into some electrical equipment at the Delaware City Refinery, taking a number of units offline. This study , and a recent report from the Government Accountability Office—the non-partisan congressional watchdog agency—found that roughly a third of RMP facilities are at increased risk from climate impacts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

million BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute spent lobbying the federal government since 2011, the vast majority was directed at obtaining tax breaks, while almost nothing was spent on carbon pricing legislation, which the companies publicly claim to support.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2022

Such a policy may have prevented Benton Charter Township’s 2011 secession from the Benton Harbor water system — a move that financially hobbled Benton Harbor’s water revenue, and left Berrien County with three separate treatment facilities within a 5-mile area. More state and federal assistance. It can pay for the loan,” Adriaens said.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 6, 2023

Count of extreme events in Yolo and Sacramento counties from Sept 2011 to July 2019. Local, regional, and state governments, water managers and decisionmakers all need to concern themselves with how and whether residents perceive climate risks. Like most older millennials, climate change has shaped my time on planet Earth.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 18, 2024

County and municipal governments directly affected by drilling will receive a total of $100,302,825 for the 2023 reporting year. Extensive details regarding the impact fee distribution are available online , including specifics on funds collected and distributed for each year since 2011.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

In 2011, in AEP v. 410 (2011). After all, EPA had never regulated in that manner, despite having issued many prior rules governing power plants under Section 111. I will leave to others a discussion of “major question doctrine” and other aspects of the West Virginia case. Now, in West Virginia v. Connecticut , 564 U.

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Energy and Climate Law

APRIL 29, 2020

The government of the Netherlands, is concerned about the reliability of all energy grids and wants to ensure they are still being maintained and can work as ususal.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Members of Congress from Oregon are asking the federal government to declare an emergency declaration as the state’s salmon population continues to die off in warming waters. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. Climate catastrophes are threatening the rivers Amazonian Indigenous tribes depend on. IN RECENT WATER NEWS. According to a letter from U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2024

In addition, dozens of units would have to be produced before manufacturers could learn how to make their processes more efficient and achieve those capital cost reductions, meaning that the first reactors of a given design will be unavoidably expensive and will require large government or ratepayer subsidies to get built.

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Arnold Porter

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This anticipated spending provides significant opportunities for government contractors. But companies seeking government contracts should be aware that there is a new cop walking this beat. For example, concrete is an essential component of many construction projects, including road and bridge projects managed by government agencies.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

government ordered the seven states to correct a longstanding misalignment of water supply and demand. Unless the states acted, she said, the federal government would “protect the system” and apply its own remedy. The last famine in Somalia occurred in 2011, when about a quarter-million people died. Brett Walton. Brett Walton.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 29, 2021

Chicago‘s Stormwater Management Ordinance, or SMO, governs new development and redevelopment in the city and regulates how rainfall is captured, stored, or released at each site. Incentivizing Development. Because of city policy, local drainage systems in Chicago are deeply intertwined with private sector development. A “Smart” City Approach.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 24, 2022

An Arizona agricultural coalition proposes the federal government pay farmers to conserve water. In 2011, an earlier deep freeze caused blackouts. Government officials have repeatedly blamed global climate change for extreme heat across several states and low water levels on the country’s largest rivers. 66 RIVERS .

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2023

Digitalization is reshaping environmental governance in profound ways. To explore the intersection of digitalization and environmental governance and the power dynamics that are at play, I interviewed three social scientists on the matter. The Belizean government is another strong proponent of SMART, Stinson claims.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

On June 20, the Public Utility Commission announced the distribution of a record $278,881,450 in Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fee revenue to local governments and a variety of state programs. County and municipal governments directly affected by drilling will receive a total of $157,349,593 for the 2022 reporting year.

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Corp Watch

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Lockheed Martin to Pay $2 Million to Resolve Allegations Resulting from Fraudulent Submission of Government Contract US Department of Justice PaulaR Mon, 09/18/2023 - 19:48 Monday, January 24, 2011 Read more Case Involved National Center for Critical Information Processing and Storage at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 27, 2022

Residents in a major neighborhood in Lagos, Nigeria lack access to clean drinking water and say their government has abandoned them. Lagos Neighborhood Lacks Clean Water and Proper Infrastructure After Years of Neglect from Federal Government. We don’t have water to drink and we wonder if we have a government,” he said.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

Germany has recently experienced fatal and apocalyptic climate- fuelled floods , after which the country’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, promised the government would do more to tackle climate change. Photo credit: CnndrBrbr via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen. They could of course enter discussions to buy more clean energy from their neighbours.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

If these reactors were kept in operation, a complete exit from coal would be possible by 2028, ten years earlier than Angela Merkel’s government has planned. As we recently reported, none of the parties seeking to form the next government is likely to go down the nuclear route. Climate neutrality is far off.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

Bedrock federal environmental, health, and safety laws have gaping loopholes and exemptions that allow radioactive oil and gas materials to go virtually unregulated, including the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act that governs waste management, the Atomic Energy Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Clean Air Act.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Except in this case, it appears she helped tie the department’s hands: According to the Daily Montanan , Nowakowski herself drafted the original 2011 MEPA limitation for a state senator. Their attorneys argue that the court could bring “immediate redress” for their psychological injuries.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We saw a continued focus on incentivizing affordable and infill developments on the condition that the project pay prevailing wages (AB 2011), reducing barriers for specified sustainable transit projects (SB 922), and amendments akin to “pet project exemptions” that are targeted to solving a narrower set of concerns (SB 118 and SB 886).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Getting this right is important, both for California and to ensure the LCFS remains a workable model for other states and the federal government. Moreover, absent reform, the LCFS is not a replicable model for other states or the federal government.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

He argues that the government should stop issuing mining licences in protected forests or conservation areas. “It Jatam’s 2021 report reveals that coal permits issued by local and central governments cover 72,000 sq km of East Kalimantan’s 127,000 sq km, or 70% of the province. gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

Over the last decade, courts, legislatures and various bodies of government in countries around the world have sought and won ecosystem protection through nature rights. The court ordered the government to develop and implement action plans to address deforestation. What countries have declared rights of nature?

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Something that advocates have been pushing for years is, how do we make government more inclusive? Around 2011, a salesperson for water filters tested his tap water and informed him it was contaminated. “We In the meantime, she and Hauptman have urged the federal government to adopt the same 1,2,3-TCP regulations as California.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The government had abruptly stopped subsidies, dramatically increasing the price for consumers. The government resigned on 5 January, and the situation continues to develop. The government resigned on 5 January, and the situation continues to develop. Social unrest related to fossil fuels is not a new phenomenon in Kazakhstan.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Interestingly, this sense of urgency has compelled various scholars, governments, development practitioners, and activists to turn toward the language of security to convey the increasingly dire need to confront widespread ecological change. Photo Credit: John Englart, Flickr References: Barnett, J., Dabelko (eds.).

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

European world leaders and Russia celebrate during the opening ceremony of the gas pipeline Nordstream 1 in 2011. In the UK the David Cameron government (2010 – 2016) got rid of their energy efficiency programmes – labelling it as green crap. Photo credit: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia. By Anders Lorenzen.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In 2011, it was Tropical Storm Lee , in 2017, it was Tropical Depression Harvey , in 2018 it was micro-storms causing flooding in communities all over the state and again just this week.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2022

In 2008, the year before I turned 30, the UK government introduced the world’s first legally binding climate change legislation the Climate Change Act. Just months after my 32nd birthday in 2011, the world’s population reached 7 billion people. In 1990 the IPCC completed their First Assessment Report climate report.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2023

He was the author and lead advocate for the environmental amendment to the state constitution that declares a right to a clean environment by the people and makes the state government the trustee of the public natural resources. constitutional amendment on environmental rights.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Apart from Korea’s values embedded in their religion and culture, the Korean government has instilled in their people the act of tree planting as an “act of patriotism” (Rivera, 2011). Its lush forests that stretch across vast horizons are a product of decades of institutional changes to prioritize a greener nation. link] Rivera, R.

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