Vermont Law

APRIL 19, 2019

To make meaningful progress in lowering water pollution, the federal government should begin incentivizing agroecological practices that both allow farmers to keep their land in production and actively work to reduce excess nutrients, pesticide waste, and erosion. However, the CWA does not address agricultural pollution in a meaningful way.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Activists Spill Symbolic Oil at the Louvre to Protest Its Sponsorship Deal Claire Voon | HyperAllergic | March 9, 2017 Protestors dressed in all black staged a dramatic performance at the Louvre last Sunday to pressure the museum to cut its 20-year-long ties with French multinational oil and gas company Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Activists Spill Symbolic Oil at the Louvre to Protest Its Sponsorship Deal Claire Voon | HyperAllergic | March 9, 2017 Protestors dressed in all black staged a dramatic performance at the Louvre last Sunday to pressure the museum to cut its 20-year-long ties with French multinational oil and gas company Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Activists Spill Symbolic Oil at the Louvre to Protest Its Sponsorship Deal Claire Voon | HyperAllergic | March 9, 2017 Protestors dressed in all black staged a dramatic performance at the Louvre last Sunday to pressure the museum to cut its 20-year-long ties with French multinational oil and gas company Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Activists Spill Symbolic Oil at the Louvre to Protest Its Sponsorship Deal Claire Voon | HyperAllergic | March 9, 2017 Protestors dressed in all black staged a dramatic performance at the Louvre last Sunday to pressure the museum to cut its 20-year-long ties with French multinational oil and gas company Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Activists Spill Symbolic Oil at the Louvre to Protest Its Sponsorship Deal Claire Voon | HyperAllergic | March 9, 2017 Protestors dressed in all black staged a dramatic performance at the Louvre last Sunday to pressure the museum to cut its 20-year-long ties with French multinational oil and gas company Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Activists Spill Symbolic Oil at the Louvre to Protest Its Sponsorship Deal Claire Voon | HyperAllergic | March 9, 2017 Protestors dressed in all black staged a dramatic performance at the Louvre last Sunday to pressure the museum to cut its 20-year-long ties with French multinational oil and gas company Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

While TRPA had “jurisdiction by law” in that it exercises authority over resources affected by the project, it was not a responsible agency. Per the Court: “CEQA…does not require the lead agency to accept and utilize the threshold or significance standards which the jurisdiction-by-law agency used to determine the impact was significant.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison Radio Free Asia PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:44 Thursday, January 11, 2024 Read more Nguyen Van Hoa was arrested in 2017 following massive demonstrations against a Taiwan-owned steel plant. By RFA Vietnamese 2024.01.11 billion complex in St.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

China also required stricter pre-shipment inspections to enforce existing laws, such as the import ban on electronic waste (e-waste). However, most of the world’s recycling is exported to lower-income countries, where recycling is cheaper to process due to weak law enforcement and informal sector recycling with no pollution controls.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice They are expensive, in many cases experimental, and take a long time to work. The federal Clean Water Act includes specific provisions to limit pollution from such “point sources” of contamination. But the Platte Lake advocates did not rely on federal law.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

DEP again repeated their legal position that Act 52 does not apply to regulations promulgated under the state Air Pollution Control Act like the one before the Board for the vote. The regulation is a result of a rulemaking petition submitted by the Delaware RiverKeeper and accepted by the Environmental Quality Board in August of 2017.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Just a year later, however, the industry encountered a potentially major obstacle: A study conducted by the government’s National Air Pollution Control Administration found a link between outdoor NO2 exposure and childhood respiratory problems. Likewise, they have been busy shoring up their markets.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

In 2016, the Supreme Court took the unprecedented step of staying the rule while the DC Circuit Court of Appeals considered a challenge by conservative states and coal companies, and the Trump Administration took office in 2017 before the DC Circuit issued an opinion. The court then paused the litigation while EPA revisited the issue.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The cities also have filed a motion to amend their complaints to withdraw federal common law public nuisance claims that they added after the district court denied remand.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

We knew that this outcome would pose real threats, even more escalated this time around, to our hard-fought wins on policies that have a real and positive impact on people’s lives, from clean energy to pollution control to scientific and public participation process improvements. But no matter who holds power in Washington, D.C.,

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

The Obama Administration set the first vehicle GHG emissions standards in 2010 for vehicles manufactured in model years 2012 through 2016, and set revised standards in 2012 for model years 2017 through 2025. The post Sabin Center Files Amicus Brief in Support of New GHG Vehicle Emissions Standards appeared first on Climate Law Blog.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The bill repeals section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. million for conserving pollinators, freshwater mussels, desert fish and Hawaiian Islands plants. Lawmakers also allocate $9.7

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The bill repels section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. However, these laws are often exploited by groups seeking to harass publicly funded scientists. Lawmakers also allocate $9.7

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 1, 2022

It’s been building and building,” said Rob Michaels, an attorney for the Environmental Law and Policy Center (ELPC), a Chicago-based legal group, who is working to limit CAFO manure discharges in Ohio and Michigan. The Trump and Biden administrations ignored the 2017 petition, meant to compel the E.P.A As a legal issue.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In general, California’s progressive environmental laws and policies since the 1980’s have been in tension with federal environmental policies under recent Republican presidential administrations, while in relative harmony with environmental policies undertaken by Democratic presidents. And then came Donald Trump.

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