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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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

In 2011, in AEP v. CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the Clean Air Act and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants. 410 (2011). Connecticut , 564 U. Post, at 20. That description of the holding in AEP v.

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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. Posted: June 18, 2024] PA Environment Digest

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2022

But under current law, Michigan regulators have little ability to force local communities to engage in such partnerships. Some water advocates have called for more financial help from state and federal governments. There’s no other way to do it,” he said. More state and federal assistance. It can pay for the loan,” Adriaens said.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

As I outlined here , Montana state law prohibits the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions or climate impacts–– inside and outside the state’s borders––when reviewing projects and approving permits. This now-infamous climate prohibition has been called a “limitation” on the Montana Environmental Policy Act, or MEPA.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 26, 2024

In 2011, my community experienced what was the second-largest oil spill in the province’s history – 4.5 The pipeline owner – Plains Midstream Canada ULC – later faced three charges under provincial law. When Canada’s federal government first started talking about legislation to support a just transition – I must admit, I was hopeful.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2021

Last spring, we released a report – Paying Polluters: Federal Financial Support to Oil and Gas in 2020 – that revealed the federal government announced a minimum of nearly $18 billion to the oil and gas sector in 2020. Companies put their own remediation programs on hold while they waited for the government to pay to clean up their mess.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 21, 2024

“Throughout this rulemaking proceeding, the Commission received and considered extensive comments from a diverse cross-section of vested parties to include regulated industry, government officials, environmental advocates, and the general public,” Chairman DeFrank said. “In Click Here for the complete PUC announcement.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2025

Drilled in 2011 but not produced. [ Drilled in 2011 but not produced. [ Drilled in 2011 but not produced. [ Drilled in 2011 but not produced. [ Inactive status expired on February 7, 2019. DEP inspection report ] -- Springfield Twp.: Inactive status expired on April 22, 2019. Drilled in 2013 but not produced. [

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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

According to the “Rights of Nature” doctrine, an ecosystem is entitled to legal personhood status and as such, has the right to defend itself in a court of law against harms, including environmental degradation caused by a specific development project or even by climate change. What countries have declared rights of nature?

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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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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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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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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

In her current role as vice president, government and community relations, she has oversight of all public policy matters and strategic government affairs. Over the five decades she has committed to WPC, she has held several leadership positions.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2023

On April 12, DEP, DCNR and many guests dedicated the Law Library Conference Room in the Rachel Carson Building in Harrisburg to Franklin Kury, the legislative author of Pennsylvania's Environmental Rights Amendment to the state Constitution. constitutional amendment on environmental rights.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Department of Justice, will give the first David Sive Memorial Lecture on Environmental Law at Columbia Law School on Thursday, October 22, 2015, 7:00 p.m. His topic will be “The Arc of Environmental Law and the U.S. Department of Justice.” Senate on December 16, 2014. Further information is available here.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

et al. ) This blog post explores how the citizens in Kobe, a city in west Japan, attempted to stop the construction and operation of new coal-fired power plants through administrative and civil law actions. Those rights are established through case law and frequently invoked in environmental pollution cases. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In 2015, the NGO Klimaatzaak and thousands of concerned citizens as co-plaintiffs initiated a judicial procedure against four Belgian governments—the federal government and the regional governments of Wallonia, Brussels, and Flanders—before the Tribunal of First Instance of Brussels. Facts, procedure, judgment.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 15, 2024

A review of the literature by John Morrison Download report as a PDF Advocates of hate speech laws believe that because speech is a precursor to action, this in itself is proof of the relationship of cause and effect between hate speech and violence. This is not a surprise.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Joseph Otis Minott - Lifetime Achievement Award PennFuture honored Joseph Otis Minott, an environmental law leader, with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades-long career fighting for the environment and public health in Pennsylvania. from Villanova University School of Law.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

County of Madera (2011) 196 Cal.App.4th In Chawanakee , the court recognized that later-enacted Government Code section 65996 limited the analysis and mitigation of impacts on school facilities by allowing and capping developer impact fees. The Court’s analysis was guided by cases such as Goleta Union School District v.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A short list of environmental and energy law changes compared to recent years: Fisheries. The statutes do not require direct notice to either the local government or to owners of property along the affected shoreline. House Bill 329 (Renewable Energy Amendments) makes several relatively minor changes to energy laws.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 17, 2022

County and municipal governments directly affected by drilling will receive a total of $123,217,163 for the 2021 reporting year. Since 2011, the Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee has resulted in total revenues of $2.258 billion. Also, $25,189,477 will be distributed to state agencies, as specified by Act 13.

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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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The Energy Law

JANUARY 20, 2021

By granting certiorari and hearing oral arguments, the Supreme Court has agreed to review the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision remanding the suit to state court after rejecting the energy companies’ contention that they were acting as federal officers pursuant to historical contracts with the federal government.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

On September 13, 2011, I began the endeavor of writing Miller Starr Regalia’s CEQA Developments blog. 4th 439, clarified the rules governing CEQA’s “environmental baseline,” the analytical construct intended to represent the existing physical conditions in the project’s vicinity against which a project’s environmental impacts are measured.

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 3, 2022

In a lengthy, but mostly unpublished, opinion filed December 16, 2021, the Fourth District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court’s judgment rejecting a petitioner group’s CEQA, Planning and Zoning Law, and procedural due process/fair hearing challenges to the City of San Diego’s approval of a four-lane road connecting existing developments.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

For every one degree Celsius that the temperature increases, the atmosphere can hold 7% more water, a thermodynamic law of physics called atmospheric holding capacity. Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011. Courtesy Philadelphia Water Department. Courtesy Philadelphia Water Department.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

on the ESA in 2017 and more than 235 since the Republican Party took control of the House of Representatives in 2011. This trend of undercutting the ESA goes directly against the law’s purpose, the Supreme Court’s decisions, and Congress’s intent “to halt and reverse the trend toward species extinction, whatever the cost.” government.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 2, 2022

acre feet per acre (2011-12) to zero acre feet per acre (2015-16). Because the material facts were undisputed, the Court treated this as a question of law. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. Please contact Arthur F.

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The Energy Law

MAY 27, 2011

3] “The FAA is not the only way into court for parties wanting review of arbitration awards: they may contemplate enforcement under state statutory or common law, for example, where judicial review of different scope is arguable.” [4] 08-0613, 2011 WL 1820875, at *7 & *10, 2011 Tex. May 13, 2011). Mattel, Inc. [2]

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Washington Nature

JULY 20, 2023

For comparison, the left is a photo of the Fraser River from 2011, the right was taken on November 17, 2021, showing the floods from space. What started as a vision for better floodplain governance has grown into an ambitious public-private partnership. SounderBruce, CC BY-SA 4.0,

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 17, 2021

Formed in 2011, the OWB was established one year after the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) amended the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) by, among other things, adopting Section 21F. Background. The Commission has relatively straightforward procedures for claiming a whistleblower award.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 11, 2021

EPA’s current policy on tribal consultation is set forth in the May 4, 2011 “EPA Policy on Consultation and Coordination with Indian Tribes.” Administrator Regan’s pledge to improve the consultation process suggests substantive changes to EPA’s 2011 Consultation Policy may be in the works.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The middle ring is the space of informal, improvised action by diverse actors, including national governments, international organizations, private business and industry, and environmental and other civil-society groups. Of course, the COP also decides where future meetings will be held.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

China also required stricter pre-shipment inspections to enforce existing laws, such as the import ban on electronic waste (e-waste). The Chinese government cited its need to protect public health and the environment, improve domestic waste management, and halt illegal waste imports. The Chinese government estimates that.

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