Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

The bipartisan infrastructure law provided up to $7.5 The market at the time (all of 6,743 California sales in 2011) was dominated by the 73-mile range Nissan Leaf, the plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt (with a 35-mile electric range ). There was robust debate about the feasibility of EVs reaching 15 percent market share in CA by 2025.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

On extreme weather days, the Texas utilities declare a CPP day and the subset of consumers now face much higher power prices and as we know from the law of demand they consume less power. Read Frank Wolak's 2011 paper.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 9, 2012

By Megan Spencer In our December 20, 2011 E-Newsletter , we reported on the status of: (1) EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule; and (2) the EPA Inspector General’s report, “EPA Must Improve Oversight of State Enforcement.”

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

Patricia provides an important message throughout her memoir that ‘the laws of nature are non-negotiable,’” says Your Spiritual Journey Podscaster, Bob Dove, Ph.D. 2011-present). DeMarco is a native of Pittsburgh, PA. with a doctorate in Biology from the University of Pittsburgh.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

On September 4, the PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center released a new study showing how nine Pennsylvania school districts regularly expose children to lead in school drinking water by violating state law, skirting reporting requirements and ignoring best practices. Pennsylvania’s school water safety laws are sorely outdated.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 18, 2024

Extensive details regarding the impact fee distribution are available online , including specifics on funds collected and distributed for each year since 2011. The PUC has forwarded the information to the Department of Treasury and expects payments to be distributed in early July. Visit the PUC’s Act 13 webpage for more information.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

She joined the DEP Policy Office in 2011 and worked as the Policy Director and most recently served as the Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator for programs related to the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Act.

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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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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

CES-E was designed to maintain the state’s existing clean energy supply from nuclear and large hydroelectric generators with a nameplate capacity greater than 30 megawatts and whose commercial operations started prior to 2011.

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Endangered Species Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In 2011, a population was discovered which inhabits a 5.6 The freshwater snail exists only in the Cahaba River in central Alabama and subsists on algae growing on the riverbed. The oblong rocksnail was declared extinct in 2000 after several decades without a confirmed specimen observation and multiple river surveys.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 7, 2010

Thus, in the case of greenhouse gases, EPA announced that the PSD requirements will likely not be triggered until January 2, 2011, the date upon which EPA’s rule limiting the greenhouse gas emissions for cars and light trucks is expected to take effect. For more information on the announcement, see the EPA New Source Review.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

But the country changed course as a result of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which led to the forced shutdown of nuclear power plants and greater reliance on fossil fuels. Civil law cases. Japan’s dependency on fossil fuel s had been slightly declining until 2010. In September 2017, in Sendai Citizens v. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Energy & the Law

JULY 26, 2021

Regency’s 2011 application for an amended permit predicted that the injectate plume created by increased disposal would take 30 years to migrate 2,900 feet from the injection point. For the sake of clarity that might be gained from additional Supreme Court rulings, we encourage the parties to make some more law.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

More Background - Presumption Pennsylvania law provides , generally, an oil and gas well owner is presumed to be responsible for water supply contamination if the oil and gas well is within 1,000 feet of a water supply for a conventional well and 2,500 feet for an unconventional shale gas well. There are currently 438 cases on that list.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Legal scholars called the targeting of essential infrastructure a violation of international law. But, in his mind, they can distract from the grinding work of establishing new policies and laws to redirect society. “If The last famine in Somalia occurred in 2011, when about a quarter-million people died. Keith Schneider.

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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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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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Energy & the Law

MARCH 7, 2023

Lots of cash was flown by private jets to Cameroon and South Sudan from 2011 through 2016. There oughta be a law … While the world needs energy, your Administration commits govenmental malpractice. The payments were concealed as an unspecified service fee, signing bonus, or success fee. Punishment: Pending.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 19, 2022

That decision—along with a 2011 decision of the Ninth Circuit vacating the only two National Corridor designations—brought FERC’s transmission permitting activity to a halt. The post FERC Proposes to Implement Expanded Transmission Siting Authority first appeared on Law and the Environment. FERC Order No.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Implementation of these new laws will be the true test of that statement, but they provide an exciting starting point. Prior to this new law, the state was required by law to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. Climate Change Mitigation.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The hybrid set-up, with video links between the two hubs and digital attendence through zoom, was a change from previous ICRCs held in ICTP (2011) , Brussels (2013) , Stockholm (2016) , and Beijing (2019). The “law of small numbers ” implies a minimum number of independent simulations in an ensemble (Rabin, 2002).

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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. Cruden , Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2011 ) -- Blackhill Energy LLC - 16-Inch Steel Gas Pipeline: DEP issued a Chapter 105 permit for a pipeline project Mill Creek, Pisgah Creek, Sugar Creek located in Springfield, Troy, West Burlington and Branville Townships, Bradford County. Received Feb. 10, Issued Feb. PA Bulletin, page.2008 Bradford County. (

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Energy & the Law

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

From 2011 to 2015 he arranged to hire companies owned by his close friend Robertson to perform post-frac drillout operations. A “fiduciary duty” apples to a person who occupies a position of particular confidence towards another and requires a higher standard of behavior than in just about any other relationship.

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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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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 16, 2021

Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. For nearly all that time, the firm also has written Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 3d, a 12-volume treatise on California real estate law. Please contact Arthur F. Coon of Miller Starr Regalia.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

Created by law and reporting to the Governor, the General Assembly, DEP and the public, the Councils duty is to review the work of the DEP and make recommendations for improvements, study major environmental issues facing Pennsylvania, and promote sound environmental legislation.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Perry was named Deputy for Oil and Gas Management in September 2011 by Gov. Perry holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in General Arts and Sciences - Economic and Environmental Policy from Penn State University and a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree and a certificate in Dispute Resolution from Willamette University College of Law.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The 2011 General Plan EIR ultimately established three thresholds of significance—one for residential, one for commercial and industrial, and one for transportation activities—based on the strategy and assumptions underlying AB 32’s year 2020 GHG emissions reduction goal, estimated in the 2008 Scoping Plan as 15% below 2005 levels.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2025

Wells drilled in 2011. Read more here. Three generators used to power cryptocurrency mining operations have been removed as well as production equipment. DEP noted the well abandonments violate an August 3, 2023 consent order and agreement between Diversified Production LLC and DEP. EQM Gathering OPCO LLC Sue Union Twp.,

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Decedent’s parents [1] filed suit under general maritime law and products liability for the wrongful death of their son, and sought punitive damages under the general maritime law. 4] This case is the first pronouncement from the Louisiana Supreme Court that punitive damages are available under general maritime law. 3d 628 (La.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The PUC’s amendments to Chapter 59 of Title 52 of Pennsylvania’s Public Utility Code do not apply to pipelines covered under Act 127 of 2011, the Gas and Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Act. However, the operations and maintenance, accident reporting, and public awareness regulations do apply to existing hazardous liquid pipeline facilities.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

The country’s struggle to reduce its reliance on coal was significantly helped by the purely ideological and populist decision to phase out all its nuclear power stations by 2022 (initially following the Fukushima accident in 2011 in Japan) .

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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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Physics World

AUGUST 20, 2021

Grimstrup does away with the question of whether he is chasing ghosts in little more than a sentence, arguing that the laws of nature seem to have a minimal length scale and that settles the case. It’s an untypical book for the non-fiction genre. Half of it is an attempt to convey the mathematics that Grimstrup believes matches his 2002 idea.

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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. The case is pending a decision. Peru : Alvarez et al v.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A short list of environmental and energy law changes compared to recent years: Fisheries. For stormwater and other nutrient sources, the law continues to require nutrient offsets in the same hydrologic area. House Bill 329 (Renewable Energy Amendments) makes several relatively minor changes to energy laws. The law, G.S.

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