Legal Planet

AUGUST 6, 2023

Last week, the California Supreme Court unanimously ruled that an initiative measure that would have imposed severe restrictions on oil and gas development in Monterey County is preempted by state law and therefore invalid. The decision came in the case of Chevron U.S.A., County of Monterey.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2023

The two states engaged with Carson Consulting to review existing state litter laws and interview key stakeholders to evaluate the strength of the states’ current litter enforcement tools and systems. This study helps to support and identify what is most effective from a law enforcement and judicial perspective.”

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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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OCTOBER 4, 2022

From 2016 to 2021, a total of 811,070 cubic feet of TENORM waste was sent to low-level radioactive facilities for disposal, while all the other industries combined in the four states sent 1,272,003 cubic feet of LLRW. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Neuman said it is undisputed that in 2013 the Mariner East pipeline was an interstate pipeline that provided no service in Pennsylvania and was regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Authority as common carriers under federal law with no eminent domain authority. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2022

million as part of the federal National Disaster Resilience Competition.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

As of 2016, half of its total emissions are from the power sector, with 20% from industry and 15% from transportation, and. A law on “green growth” requires carbon neutrality by 2050. It has also gone from being a military dictatorship to a robust democracy. With economic growth have come carbon emissions.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Ongoing Battle to Keep Toxic Chemicals at Bay Outdated federal water laws and chemicals that were approved for industry without assessing for risk leave Ann Arbor and other communities struggling to ward off water contaminants before they foul drinking supplies. It’s frustrating,” he said. For example, U.S.

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Energy & the Law

MAY 24, 2023

The question for the Court: Did the North Block expire on December 31, 2015, or January 1, 2016? The day the North Block expired determined whether Apache breached the contract by failing to offer the lease back to Sellers or had until the end of 2016 to drill the 20,000 feet. Thus, the North Block expired on January 1, 2016.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Between 2006 and 2016 sea levels globally rose 2.5 Though increasingly climate migrants to other countries are described as “ climate refugees ”, displacement by disasters and climate change is yet to be included in the definition of a refugee as established under international law. Their rights are only covered under human rights law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The foundational document of international human rights law is the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 2016, the Human Rights Council declared that damage to cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, of any people, constitutes damage to the cultural heritage of humanity as a whole.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 14, 2021

When California voters legalized cannabis in 2016, a key argument for legalization was that legalization would benefit the environment. If cannabis growers necessarily operated outside the law, then they had little incentive to comply with environmental regulatory standards.

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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

MARCH 1, 2023

EPA’s own scientists concluded in 2016 that the risk value of ethylene oxide is 60 times more toxic than previously understood. In 2016, the EPA updated the air value for ethylene oxide (called an “inhalation unit risk factor”) using more recent and robust science. You can contact your legislator to support this important new law.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

So far, the country has adopted several laws to strengthen the legal framework towards achieving these goals. Colombia ’s Legal Climate Framework Colombia’s climate change laws are extensive and align with its open commitment to fight climate change and its devastating effects. Law 629 of 2000 on the Kyoto Protocol.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The Silencing Science Tracker is a joint initiative of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and theClimate Science Legal Defense Fund.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A fixed length for rest breaks—a minimum of 15 minutes every two hours—rather than progressively longer breaks as the temperature rises, as was suggested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in their 2016 recommendations. Shorter-than-needed acclimatization periods.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2016 ) -- CNX Gas Co. PA Bulletin, page 2016 ) -- Range Resources Appalachia, LLC - Stevenson Thomas Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP issued a Chapter 102 permit for a well pad located in Smith Twp., PA Bulletin, page 2016 ) -- Eastern Gas Transmission & Storage, Inc. Received Dec. 23, Issued Feb. Washington County.

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Energy & the Law

JUNE 28, 2023

In 2016, Torch assigned its interest to PBEX. On appeal, Torch and PBEX asserted that Dorchester could not establish adverse possession as a matter of law. Cahill is a rising 3-L at Texas A&M University School of Law and a Gray Reed summer associate. The next year, Torch conveyed that interest to Dorchester Minerals L.P.’s

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

Since 2016, the Los Angeles Regional Open Space and Affordable Housing Collaborative (LA ROSAH) has been working to advance parks and affordable housing projects and educate stakeholders and decision makers about the benefits of joint development. Wilmington Townhomes development with tot lot. Photo by Abode Communities.

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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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Endangered Species Law

JANUARY 17, 2025

Fish & Wildlife Service (Service) will publish a positive 90-day finding on a 2016 petition (Petition) to delist the golden-cheeked warbler ( Setophaga chrysoparia ) (GCWA). On January 20, 2025, the U.S. The decision comes on the heels of the agency’s recent recommendation to downlist the GCWA from endangered to threatened.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

At least 3,641 lives were lost to the crisis between 2016 and 2018, according to Amnesty International , with over half of the fatalities recorded in 2018 alone. And, in 2016, the government awarded contracts through the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) to two companies, paying them ?544 Photo by Murtala Abdullahi.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

The last coal plant in Scotland closed in 2016. This covers electricity, heating, transportation, etc., and is separate from their 2020 goal which centered just on electricity. There is an interim target of 75% reduction of 1990 levels by 2030. However, Scotland has not quite met these aggressive targets. Northern Ireland.

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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. See for instance Benestad (2016). 679-688, 2016. References R.E.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 2, 2023

After two unsuccessful attempts to create an oil and gas buffer zone at the state level and the success of numerous local efforts to phase out oil and gas activities, the State of California passed SB 1137 , a drilling setback law that was introduced by Senator Lena Gonzalez. Remember the plastic bag ban?

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Law and Environment

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

He also vacated EPA’s 2016 chronic freshwater criterion for cadmium. first appeared on Law and the Environment. Last month, Judge John Hunderaker held that the Endangered Species Act requires EPA to consult with the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service before issuing recommended water quality criteria.

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Energy & the Law

JUNE 1, 2022

March 2016: Landowners visit the property for the first time since 2010 and noticed a “white area” around the saltwater tanks near the Bash #1. Jamie emerged victorious in 1L year at Baylor Law and is a Gray Reed summer associate. November 2008 : Bash #1 ceases production, oil field equipment remains on the ground, readily visible.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 15, 2022

Little did I know how prescient I was, because later on Friday, Judge Brian Morris – the same judge who invalidated the RMPs – went farther and reinstated the moratorium on leasing of public lands for coal mining that had been implemented by then-Secretary Jewell in 2016. . Once more, Judge Morris found DOI’s NEPA analysis inadequate.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Supplement to: THE TOXIC DIVIDE: INTERNATIONAL WASTE DUMPING AND THE FIGHT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY By Christine Paul This blog is a supplement to an original article published by Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 13] Waste management remains problematic even after the laws promulgation.[14] 26 Issue 2. million people.[3]

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), signed into law in August, will also turbocharge new clean energy, clean vehicle, and clean building infrastructure. Overall, the law is a $369-billion investment in climate and energy solutions, and is expected to reduce economy-wide emissions by 40 percent below 2005 levels.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 7, 2021

Houston also had so-called 500-year floods in 2015 and 2016. That doesn’t seem to be true any more. In 2017, Hurricane Harvey dumped up to 60 inches of rain on some parts of Houston. It was a 500-year flood. Obviously, a 500-year flood “ain’t what it used to be.”

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AUGUST 23, 2021

As a matter of law, the Court also held the County improperly relied on the existing facilities exemption for the project. or if the public agency failed to give the notice required by law.” Existing Facilities Exemption Did Not Apply As A Matter of Law. Factual/Procedural Background. Applying the holding of Tomlinson v.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2023

Established in 2016, the AMLER program funds projects that return legacy coal mining sites to productive uses through economic and community development.  On March 9, the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement announced the award of FY 2023 of $135 million in Abandoned Mine Land Revitalization (AMLER) grants to states.

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Energy & the Law

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The parties amended the MSA in January and July 2016, adding Gulfport Buckeye (now Gulfport Appalachia) as a party in the July amendment. The July 2016 amendment explicitly added Gulfport Appalachia to the definition of “Company” – as was required by the agreement in order to amend. The MSA and amendments. The district court reverses.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

(This post was authored by Eric Peshkin, a JD candidate at NYU School of Law and CLEE summer research assistant). 2016 , Benchaar and Greathead, 2011 , Gutierrez et al., 2016 , LaHue et al., 2016 , Price et al., Searchinger, 2019 , Islam and Lee, 2019 , Adhya et al., 2014 , Moeletsi and Tongwane, 2015 , Kritee et al.,

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