Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

UCLA Professor of Law William Boyd. William Boyd is Professor of Law and Michael J. Klein Chair in Law at UCLA Law, with a joint appointment as Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability ; Alex Wang is Professor of Law at UCLA Law. UCLA Professor of Law Alex Wang.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Applicable Law to the ITLOS Advisory Opinion The applicable law for the ITLOS advisory proceedings is determined by Article 293 of UNCLOS. Similarly, several authors have argued that this obligation predates the Convention, with UNCLOS simply codifying an existing customary law rule ( e.g. , Corfu Channel Case , p.

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Energy & the Law

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The background In 2012 mineral lessee Swift and landowners the Quintanilla Ranch and the Dickinson Ranch sued Regency Field Services (now ETC) for tort and trespass in connection with Regency’s H2S disposal well. ETC moved to dismiss based on Ageron’s lack of standing, arguing that the H2S claims accrued in 2012 to the Dickinson Ranch owners.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

I had the good fortune to meet Ryan back in 2012, when UC Berkeley Law and UCLA Law convened a group of experts (including Ryan) on ways that California could dramatically scale up the sale of battery electric vehicles by 2025, now just a few short years away. Ryan was a major contributor to that report.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

An ambitious law that promises to accelerate the state’s clean energy transition, CEJA provides a detailed framework for greater utility transparency and accountability to update electricity distribution infrastructure to ensure a clean energy future. Illinois utilities contributed to that trend. billion to $2.2 Starting with stakeholders.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

These laws ban new fossil fuel plants and set aggressive targets for the state’s two major utilities, requiring emission cuts of 80% by 2030, 90% by 2035 and 100% by 2040. The cuts are measured from a 2010-2012 baseline. The law also contains provisions addressing wages and benefits for workers on renewable energy projects.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

As a matter of law, the Court also held the County improperly relied on the existing facilities exemption for the project. The proposed amendments relied on the 1999 MNDs and 2012 addendum, with no additional CEQA review or mitigation deemed necessary by the County. or if the public agency failed to give the notice required by law.”

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 18, 2024

The PUC is responsible for implementing the collection and distribution of an unconventional gas well fee (also called an Impact Fee), established by the Unconventional Gas Well Impact Fee Act and signed into law as Act 13 of 2012. Visit the PUC’s Act 13 webpage for more information. Posted: June 18, 2024] PA Environment Digest

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Currently, only 24 states and the District of Columbia have laws requiring them to set targets and track their greenhouse gas emissions from transportation. The rule follows an existing framework of performance management started in 2012 that already tracks outcomes for safety, infrastructure conditions, and reliability.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 22, 2023

According to Statista, emergency firefighting costs have increased exponentially over the last ten years in California, from $140 million in 2012 to more than $1 billion in 2021 and 2022. Wildfire suppression expenditures in California from fiscal year 2012 to fiscal year 2022, in million U.S. Source: Statista 2023.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 24, 2023

” Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law DOI: 10.1080/02646811.2023.2256593 Abstract: It has been over a decade since the article that kickstarted energy justice research was published in 2012. Heffron (2023) “Energy justice – the triumvirate of tenets revisited and revised.”

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The Energy Law Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2012

2012-N06 (2012), [hereinafter NTL 2012-N06]. NTL 2012 N-06, 3. NTL 2012 N-06, 5. NTL 2012-N06, at 28 (emphasis added). By Sarah Y. Dicharry and Robert E. 30 CFR 254.23. Also, 30 CFR 254.23(g) 30 CFR 254.23(g)(2). For instance, 30 CFR 254.26

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Vermont Law

APRIL 26, 2019

In November 2012, after many years of persevering, Amendment 64 passed. Colorado’s expansive legal framework surrounding cannabis use and cultivation should be a model for other states when enacting cannabis laws. Bio: I am a second-year law student at Vermont Law School. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In his first proposed budget, Mayor Brandon Johnson is seeking to establish an environmental department at City Hall, though it’s initially a small staff expansion of an existing office that would not enforce pollution laws.

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Real Climate

APRIL 6, 2023

3, which is from small samples of global climate models (sample size of 5-15) prone to “the law of small samples”. 2012) to understand why such small samples give non-robust and insufficient information for making regional future projections. 775-779, 2012. Another detail is the data behind Figure SPM.3, Solomon, and A.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2023

DOT Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and states were preempted from “prescribing and/or enforcing safety standards and practices for interstate natural gas pipeline or storage facilities” by federal law. Wells serving these fields are regulated as conventional oil and gas wells by DEP.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

A 2015 law, AB197, requires that the scoping plan discuss the following for each emission reduction measure: (a) The range of projected greenhouse gas emissions reductions that result from the measure. The 2012 scoping plan was challenged in court but upheld because of the painstaking process that the Board had followed.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The Coalition said Section 3225(a)(1) Act 13 of 2012 set bond amounts for oil and gas wells, but did not differentiate between conventional and unconventional wells. The operative language links these Fiscal Code provisions to Section 3225(a)(1) of Act 13 of 2012 and says-- “Section 1606-E. Conventional oil and gas well bonding. (a)

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 12, 2022

The Kyoto Protocol focused on reducing emissions and increasing contributions from wealthier nations, setting a goal of overall emissions reductions of 5 percent below 1990 by 2012. first appeared on Law and the Environment. The post Climate Policy at 30: Glasgow Climate Pact.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 4, 2023

2012) and account for random regional climate variations on scales up to decades. The “law of small numbers ” implies a minimum number of independent simulations in an ensemble (Rabin, 2002). 775-779, 2012. Rabin, "Inference by Believers in the Law of Small Numbers", The Quarterly Journal of Economics , vol.

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Legal Planet

MAY 6, 2024

The issue is created by a 2012 Supreme Court. But if the government doesn’t build the levee, it faces no liability from the urban landowners. That’s the adaptation dilemma: preparing for climate disaster is legally disfavored.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Learn how to use the formalism to obtain new conservation laws. Asher was a postdoctoral fellow (1998) in the Department of Electrical Engineering of Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK, during 2005–2006, 2008 and 2012. Understand how MHD can be simplified mathematically.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

Environmental protection laws must be enforced in response to incidents like last year’s major spill and leak from Imperial Oil’s Kearl mine. This includes the Joint Oil Sands Monitoring Program (JOSM) set up in 2012 and the Oil Sands Advisory Group (OSAG) set up in 2016. The Alberta government has allowed 1.4

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2021

In this blistering year in California drinking water wells are going dry in increasing numbers, rekindling memories of the historic drought of 2012 to 2016, when more than 2,600 wells across the state stopped producing water. Another incident report from Orland this month estimated the cost of drilling a new well at $20,000.

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Endangered Species Law

JUNE 28, 2024

The species’ listing follows a 2012 petition filed by the Center for Biological Diversity to list 53 amphibians and reptiles, including the alligator snapping turtle ( Macrochelys temminckii ), which, due.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In these “carbon intensity” calculations, CARB is not allowed to count reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that are already required by law. At the federal level, agricultural operations are exempt from laws intended to prevent pollution to water and to the air.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 , the notorious law the Legislature passed in 2019 that slapped Ohio ratepayers with a monthly surcharge to bail out two struggling nuclear plants. Indeed, the OVEC coal plants have been selling electricity for less than it costs to generate for a decade, operating at a loss since 2012. 6 was signed into law by Ohio Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2024

In 1977, he graduated from Capital University School of Law with a Juris Doctorate magna cum laude. As a law student, he authored a paper on land development after a tornado had destroyed the small town of Zenia, Ohio. This research began his keen interest in real estate law. In 2012, WPC v.

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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. in Physics from Yale University, and a Ph.D.

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Environmental Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In re University of Vermont State and Agricultural College. hjones@eli.org. Wed, 11/02/2022 - 12:25. 03/17/2017.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

Since companies and policymakers do not want to pay a lot to ensure reliability, they both subscribe to the theory that the law of supply and demand will provide an adequate supply at a low cost. Consider what happened in New York City and northern New Jersey when Hurricane Sandy struck in 2012. That can prove disastrous.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 22, 2013

Wiegand On August 16, 2012, EPA issued new source performance standards (NSPSs) for the oil and gas sector. By Stephen W. The standards applied to various sources including storage tanks used in crude oil and natural gas production. On April 12, 2013, EPA announced proposed amendments to the rule pertaining to storage tanks.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is a critical environmental and civil rights law that gives communities the chance to weigh in on federal projects that may affect their neighborhoods, nearby lands and waters, air quality and more. 1] Ocean and Coastal Law and Policy (2nd Edition) by Donald C. Baur (Editor), et al.,

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CEQA Developments

JULY 6, 2021

38; and (3) due process, all as a matter of law. County of Marin (2012) 205 Cal.App.4th In SPAWN (my April 27, 2012 post on which can be found here ), plaintiff SPAWN challenged the County’s EIR for a general plan update for the San Geronimo Valley watershed. Factual/Procedural Background. 4th 195, 204, fn.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

APRIL 8, 2024

As noted in a recent farmdocdaily post “ the CBO baseline, combined with budget laws and procedures, requires the [House and Senate] agricultural committees to remain inside the spending projections or find offsets from other areas within their jurisdiction to offset 10-year cost projections of any changes. ” In 2012, CBO projected $113.5

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Energy & the Law

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The primary term of Cromwell’s leases passed in 2012 and 2014 respectively. Anadarko netted Cromwell’s debts against his share of production proceeds in months when costs exceeded revenues. In letters Anadarko addressed Cromwell as a “working interest owner”. Anadarko claimed this was in error.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Ahead of COP18 in 2012, U.K. This provision, known as Paragraph 51, effectively ensures that the Paris Agreement cannot give rise to legal claims to recover for loss and damage, but at the same time it doesn’t preclude claims under existing law. In its written statement on the declaration , the U.S. At COP25, the U.S.

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