Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

This month , Jacob Elkin joins the Sabin Center as the 2021-2022 Climate Law Fellow. Jacob graduated from Columbia Law School in 2021, where he was awarded the Alfred S. Jacob graduated from Columbia Law School in 2021, where he was awarded the Alfred S. Forsyth Price for dedication to the advancement of environmental law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Number of cars are up, but gasoline use is down The number of passenger cars, trucks, and SUVs in California has continued to increase over the last ten years, from less than 23 million in 2013 to almost 29 million in 2023. Only around 50,000 EVs were on the road in 2013, but there are now over 1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

However, since major US environmental laws are enacted to protect the air, water, and land separately (i.e. Reports informing decisions Minnesota passed a cumulative impacts law in 2008 that implemented a method that required facilities to include a report on potential health impacts when applying for a permit.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In the 2021 update to its Nationally Determined Contribution, under the Paris Agreement Japan pledged to reduce its GHG emissions by 46 % by 2030 compared to its 2013 levels (with aspirational target of 50%) and to achieve net-zero GHG emissions by 2050. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The proposed amendment is a brief but powerful statement of principle, according to John Dernbach, a law professor at Widener University Commonwealth Law School. Environmental Protection Agency and passed landmark environmental laws to protect air, land, and water. Dernbach told Circle of Blue. It doesn’t need to be long.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 16, 2025

The core of the study and its fatal weakness is a survey of all federal appeals court decisions involving NEPA lawsuits from 2013 through 2022. And identification of what claims are being raised in lawsuits can give an indication of what changes to law might reduce (or increase) litigation.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

However, this federal scrutiny is clearer when considering Vermonts status as home to one of the nations leading environmental law schools, which trains attorneys to advocate for stronger environmental oversight. Vermont Law School cited numerous concerns with how ANR issued and enforced discharge permits to prevent water pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The share of online transactions among total US sales grew from just under six percent in 2013 to around 15 percent in 2021, according to the Census Bureau’s Annual Retail Trade Survey.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Act 14 Notices To Municipalities Many communities and citizens are not aware that a state law passed in 1984 gives them the first chance to comment on Department of Environmental Protection permit applications even before they are submitted to the agency. Youll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 20, 2023

F]ederal maritime law governs whether a claim sounds in admiralty and that the relevant substantive law governs whether a plaintiff has alleged a valid prima facie claim,” citing Blue Whale Corp. Both the time charter and the voyage charter selected the law of England to apply. Grand China Shipping Dev. 3d 488, 495 (2d Cir.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

since 2013 have been integral to creating the conditions that led to the County’s actions, is also a member of the County coalition. The Board’s motions also track recommendations made by UCLA Law’s Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic in two letters sent to Los Angeles County earlier this summer on behalf of clients.

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Energy & the Law

JUNE 23, 2023

Federal tax law treats them as partnerships unless they elect to be treated otherwise. Hegar , a Texas court addressed how Hibernia, a non-taxable entity under federal law, is taxable under Texas law. Your musical interlude *Kamal is a rising 3L at SMU Law School and a Gray Reed summer associate.

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Energy & the Law

AUGUST 11, 2021

The plaintiffs disclaimed any claim arising under federal law (wanting the cases to remain in the state courts). The petitions did not affirmatively reveal on their face any grounds for federal-officer removal, and allegations of violations of Louisiana orders did not reveal a relationship to federal law. The result.

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Law and Environment

JULY 27, 2023

Early this afternoon, Governor Janet Mills signed into law LD 1895 , legislation directing the state to procure up to 3 GW of offshore wind by 2040. Now that the bill is signed into law, Maine is the seventh U.S. I am pleased with of the outcome of this legislation and proud to sign it into law.” The post Maine Gov.

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2023

Just last week, Governor Newsom signed an amended version of this package into law, with the CEQA bills passing through largely untouched. As such, cases subject to 270-day judicial streamlining are often not resolved within the allotted time period, even though all CEQA cases already receive calendar preference under existing law.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

2013), claims under the ERA had very little teeth without a supporting claim of a violation of some other statutory or regulatory provision, and an ERA claim often served as strongly worded bluster without any substance. 2013)) (citing Pa. Commonwealth, 83 A.3d 3d 901 (Pa. Further, the Commonwealth (i.e. Pennsylvania Envtl.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2025

Between 1970 and 2013, Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, and Sarawak experienced surface mean temperature increases of 0.14C0.25C per decade. Climate litigation follows a similar path of accountability objectives, urging governments to fulfill their international climate law pledges, among other commitments.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The legislation would prohibit municipalities from receiving Act 13 drilling impact fees if they set protective standards on the development of natural gas that “imposes a standard or condition on well development that conflicts with or exceeds those contained” in state law. Read more here. Cecil Township is in Sen. Bartolotta’s district.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

As a result, Japan’s CO 2 emissions increased, peaking in 2013. In its Nationally Determined Contribution , Japan has committed to reducing GHG emissions by 46% in 2030 from 2013 levels and achieving net zero emissions by 2050. Civil law cases. As of May 2022 , there are 163 operating coal-fired power plants in Japan.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2023

Federal Infrastructure Louie Krak, DEP Federal Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator, will provide the update on mine reclamation, well plugging and other projects in the agency funded by the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Visit DEP’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law webpage for more background. Read more here. Read more here.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 17, 2022

s language and, in pertinent part, stated as follows: [t]his letter is to call to your attention your company’s failure, as unit operator of the 3 units, to comply with Louisiana law which requires an operator to report to an unleased owner in a unit ongoing operating costs and expenses for the unit well by sworn, detailed, itemized statements.

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Vorys Law

APRIL 21, 2025

The plaintiffs contended that SWN's hydraulic fracturing operations on an adjacent property in 2013 unlawfully caused proppants to invade the subsurface of their property and allowed gas from their property to flow unimpeded for capture.

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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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Physics World

JUNE 14, 2021

The gravity law of human migration says that the movement between two urban areas decrease with distance and increases with population size or importance of the areas. The data were collected during different periods between 2006 and 2013. Gravity and radiation. Or put more simply, people are unlikely to travel far too often.

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CEQA Developments

DECEMBER 7, 2022

County of Merced (2013) 216 Cal.App.4th 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. “The

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Energy & the Law

MAY 4, 2022

In 2018, amidst the Eagle Ford Shale leasing frenzy, EP acquired the “First Presbyterian” lease and the “Donaldson Brown” lease, both effective back to 2013. EP: It would pay only for acreage on which it paid bonuses after the effective date of the Donaldson Brown lease—September 25, 2013., EP paid bonuses of $500 per net mineral acre.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

The shale gas wells were drilled from 2009 to 2013 in the earlier days of the shale gas revolution and never produced. Drilled in 2013 but not produced. [ Their inactive status expired without being renewed between 2019 and 2022, which means they should have been plugged three to six years ago. Drilled in 2011 but not produced. [

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

So far in 2025, DEP issued 39 violations to 10 shale gas drilling companies for abandoning and not plugging their well, most drilled in the early days of shale gas development in Pennsylvania-- 2009 to 2013. Read more here. Read more here. In response, the General Assembly passed and Gov. Read more here. Read more here.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 26, 2024

The pipeline owner – Plains Midstream Canada ULC – later faced three charges under provincial law. In 2013, I returned to university to complete a master’s degree with a research focus on energy transition. In 2011, my community experienced what was the second-largest oil spill in the province’s history – 4.5

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Presumably Dagsvik and Moen are used to this kind of model, but they seem to be inexperienced with the models used for weather and climate, which on the other hand are based on the laws of physics. On the other hand, we expect to see the effect of greenhouse gases when we look at the temperature averaged over the entire globe.

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The Energy Law

JULY 1, 2021

In 2013, the decision in State of Louisiana v. This was all done in light of this Court’s 2013 La. The Energy Law Blog will explore the import of the prescription ruling in a separate post. LL&E II , at *2. The interplay between Act 312 and private land-damage lawsuits has been in a state of constant evolution. 12-0884 (La.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As previously reported on this blog, ocean CDR research could implicate various international and domestic laws that might affect whether, when, where, and how projects take place. Both the LC and LP require parties to adopt domestic laws to regulate the “dumping” of “waste and other matter” at sea. Many haven’t yet done so.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 12, 2024

Act 14 requires applicants to submit notices to municipalities and counties for air quality, water obstruction (Chapter 105), any permit issued under the Cleans Streams Law (including Chapter 102, stormwater, NPDES, many more), any solid waste and hazardous waste, land recycling and water allocation permits. Read more here. Montgomery County.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Ian Irvin Ian Irvin is an attorney-- graduate of Dickinson Law School-- who worked for the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the last eight years specializing in administrative law related to nuclear material licenses. DEP’s Monthly Written Report to Council on agency activities is also available for review.

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Endangered Species Law

MAY 18, 2022

The Service proposed the Bi-state Grouse for listing as threatened in 2013, then later withdrew that proposal. The Bi-state Grouse lives along the California-Nevada border within six population management units (PMUs) monitored by the Service.

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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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Legal Planet

AUGUST 17, 2022

When Caltrans and other state and local agencies build or approve projects that increase car traffic, state law requires them to mitigate those impacts. Senate Bill 743 , originally enacted in 2013, called for a new transportation impact measure that promotes greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction and multimodal transportation.

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