Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The CEFR reached criticality in July 2010 and connected to the grid in July 2011. Russian export laws and bilateral agreements with China explicitly prohibit the use of supplied materials for military purposes. U-235) for China’s CEFR. Transfers of highly enriched uranium happened in July 2004 , March 2014 , and July 2019.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Million Natural Gas Royalty Restitution From Chesapeake Energy For PA Property Owners [March 2021] -- Courier Times: PA State Attorney General Investigates Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline Leaks For Potential Environmental Crimes In Bucks County [Convicted Of Other Criminal Charges, Penalized Over $48.1

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Arnold Porter

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

News - Best Lawyers has named Arnold & Porter as a "Law Firm of the Year" in the "Litigation - Environmental" category. The firm also received 43 national rankings and 102 metropolitan rankings (Chicago, DC, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco) in the "Best Law Firms" report. Biotechnology Law.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The regulations were amended in 2020 to include a program for existing generation units, CES-E, which has several distinct requirements. Clarifying language related to banking of Clean Generation Attributes by aligning the regulation with language that has been included in the CES Frequently Asked Questions document since 2018.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A 2011 study in the journal Asthma and Allergy , said the parallel increase of global asthma and carbon dioxide emissions is “remarkable.” An analysis by the Environmental Law Institute found that 24 states do not independently protect their wetlands, relying completely on the Clean Water Act. No one likes uncertainty,” Gold said.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 7, 2010

By Stephen Wiegand EPA recently announced its position regarding the timing of the regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act’s Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) Program. However, pollutants such as carbon dioxide, for which EPA regulations only require monitoring and reporting, are not subject to PSD permitting.

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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. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2022

As the collaborative explored last week , regulators are now encouraging some water utilities to consolidate, a catch-all term that could mean small steps like sharing staff, or big changes like closing decrepit, oversized water plants in favor of buying water from a neighbor. All that excess infrastructure is expensive to maintain.

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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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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 13, 2022

On December 2, 2022, the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative (RELDI) , in collaboration with the law firm Sidley Austin LLP, filed an amicus brief on behalf of five New York farmers and three community groups urging a New York appellate court to uphold the State’s new regulations for siting renewable energy projects. Docket Nos.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Perry was named Deputy for Oil and Gas Management in September 2011 by Gov. Corbett when that Deputate was formed to focus more attention on regulating unconventional (shale) gas drilling in Pennsylvania. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit as an Attorney and Counselor of Law. No other comments on personnel actions were made.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2021

In addition, we already have regulations in place to achieve methane reductions, so we are essentially subsidizing compliance with existing rules. In fact, the Polluter Pays principle is enshrined across provincial and Canadian laws: companies don’t just have a moral obligation to clean up after making huge profits from public resources.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Gas prices: Without a cap, the flood of bio-based diesel into California will continue, requiring a rapid increase in stringency to stabilize LCFS credit markets, sending 2030 stringency from the 30 percent proposed in the regulation to 34.5 The lower stringency results in lower costs and reduced economic impact of the regulation.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

million; and in FY 2024-25 Shell will get another $65 million-- the maximum amount available by law. The law authorized the tax credit for the next 16 years through December 31, 2042 when the tax credit expires. So far, the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County is scheduled to receive a total of $130.9 Read more here.

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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. Youll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations.

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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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The Energy Law

MAY 5, 2016

ISDA ) announced the 2016 ISDA Credit Support Annex for Variation Margin for use with New York law transactions (the 2016 CSA ). prudential banking regulators [1] , the U.S. For over 20 years, the existing 1994 CSA has been the preferred instrument for detailing credit support arrangements related to New York law ISDA contracts.

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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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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

On April 29, 2021, the departments of Justice, Commerce and Treasury announced that they had reached a global resolution with SAP SE (SAP), a multinational software company based in Germany, resulting from the company’s disclosure of the fact that it had provided software to users in Iran in violation of export and sanctions regulations.[[N:

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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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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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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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The Energy Law

JUNE 19, 2013

On October 25, 2012 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its corrected definition of “regulated NSR pollutant.” The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) adopted EPA’s revised definition of “regulated new source review (NSR) pollutant” at LAC 33:III.509.B B in a May 20, 2013 Louisiana Register Notice.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 17, 2022

Since 2011, the Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee has resulted in total revenues of $2.258 billion. Extensive details regarding the impact fee distribution are available online, including specifics on funds collected and distributed for each year since 2011. Also, $25,189,477 will be distributed to state agencies, as specified by Act 13.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 15, 2017

The record in Abbott included a 2011 report by the Department of the Interior which concluded, following a Congressionally-mandated investigation, that “Mr. United States ex rel. Escobar , 136 S.Ct. 1989 (2016).

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

He was appointed as a mediator by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to work with the environmental community and industry to establish better regulations for water quality monitoring in areas impacted by coal ash. from Villanova University School of Law.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 17, 2023

From June 10 to 16, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 651 inspection entries that resulted in reporting 67 violations of environmental regulations-- 61 violations by the conventional oil and gas industry and 6 violations by the unconventional shale natural gas industry.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

In order to steer investment toward environmentally sustainable activities, the European Union launched the Taxonomy Regulation framework to define activities deemed sustainable. The following elements of the Regulation proposal are dealt with in this review. of the proposal) and for existing installation only until 2040 (see §4.28).

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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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PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2022

Department of Interior in December for the well plugging funds authorized under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. It was drilled by Atlas from 2011 to 2012. Jain made these comments at the May 18 DEP Citizens Advisory Council meeting and in a subsequent interview. It produced gas copiously for two years and then declined very quickly.

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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. Even though the foregoing sampling is really just the “tip of the iceberg” when it comes to CEQA developments, it can readily be seen that our Supreme Court has been quite active in shaping CEQA law over the last decade.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2023

Under the COA, Shell will pay a civil penalty of $4,935,023 – and as required by Act 57 of 2011, 25 percent of this penalty will be directed to local communities. Until Shell can prove their facility can operate within the law, the Shapiro administration and PADEP must order a temporary shut down." Josh Shapiro.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 8, 2023

46 days after publication allowing for a comment period, the Department will be free to adopt the 2021 IgCC by regulation. . A decade later, in 2011, Maryland was the first state to authorize the use of the IgCC for private and public construction. Live webinar “Does Your Lease Address New GHG Laws?” The backstory is important.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 6, 2017

At the Fourth Annual Liskow & Lewis Energy Law Lecture, Professor Jim Rossi of Vanderbilt Law delivered a presentation entitled “Federalism Battles in Energy Transportation.” Natural gas pipelines have historically been governed by federal law since the passing of the Natural Gas Act of 1938.

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Law Columbia

MAY 29, 2024

The Advisory Opinion handed down by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on 21 May 2024 is truly remarkable. Under the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea ( UNCLOS ), States must now take all necessary measures to prevent, reduce and control GHG emissions. under Arts.

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