Columbia Climate Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

2] Under a cooperative federalism framework, PURPA directed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) to promulgate regulations to promote development of QFs and delegated to states the role of implementing FERC’s regulations. U-18090, May 31, 2017 Order (Mich. U-18091, July 31, 2017 Order (Mich. Footnotes. [1]

Fossil Fuels

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

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. In 2017, after the ban was announced but before it entered into force, Chinese authorities investigated 286 criminal cases involving.

Recycling

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.

Clean Water Act

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. Where did the gas industry pick up the finer points of PR disinformation?

2013

Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

This is part of an occasional series of posts about the evolution of pollution standards. Today’s subject is pollution control for new vehicles, which have been known to cause smog since the 1960s. The history of these pollution standards is quite distinctive. Tier 3 standards were phased in starting with 2017 cars.

Ground-Level Ozone

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This map shows nitrate concentrations in drinking water between 2016 and 2018 for federally regulated water systems. At the maximum, nitrate in Aurora is just below the federal standard, though the town did exceed the 10 parts per million (ppm) threshold in the summer of 2017, registering 11.4

2011

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Refineries have the highest rate of pollution in the oil industry, including air, water and soil pollution. Between 2017 and 2023 there were over 1500 injuries and seven deaths in 153 refineries across the US. A study of the causes of the explosion suggested the need for stronger safety regulations.

Ground-Level Ozone

CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

City of Newport Beach (2017) 2 Cal.5th The Court further explained that, unlike the position of responsible agency occupied by the Coastal Commission in Banning Ranch Conservancy v.

Renewable Energy

Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Total Penalties $241,580,318 (July 7, 2023) Number of Records 118 Books Agrifood Atlas: Facts and figures about the corporations that control what we eat by Heinrich Böll Foundation, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation & Friends of the Earth Europe (2017) Citizen Coke by Bartow J.

2015

Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

*in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

2013

Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

*in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

2013

Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

*in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

2013

Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

*in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

2013

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

*in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

2013

Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

*in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

2013

Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

*in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

2013

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The state and the county, with farmer endorsement, approved new regulations that require nutrient management plans for farms that produce more than 100,000 gallons of liquid manure, or 350 tons of solid manure annually. Farmers who don’t agree to adopt the new pollution-control measures would lose the insurance subsidy. .

Law

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

2016

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017. The court said the trade group had satisfied the stringent requirements for a stay pending judicial review and stayed the rule “insofar as it purports to regulate trailers.” 16-42529 (Bankr.

2017

Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Occasional opposition to local pollution problems and the casual animal cruelty that characterize conventional US dairy, hog, and poultry production did little to alter practices that are embedded in the rural landscape. The Trump and Biden administrations ignored the 2017 petition, meant to compel the E.P.A That may be changing.

Clean Water Act

Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

EPA in defense of EPA’s authority to effectively regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. The case involves a group of challenges to EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing stationary sources under the 1970 Clean Air Act, a monumental piece of environmental and public health legislation.

Climate Change

ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Biden administration proposed repealing Trump administration Endangered Species Act regulations. 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. Executive Branch.

2021

Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. This blog post summarizes the history of federal vehicle emissions regulations, the arguments made by Petitioners in Texas v. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

Clean Air Act

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. Council on Environmental on Environmental Quality – National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations Revisions.

2021

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Beginning in January 2017, environmental policy disagreements between California and the federal government under President Trump quickly morphed into four years of outright legal and political warfare. Nor was it successful in stifling California’s own, multifaceted pollution control, climate change and public health initiatives.

Endangered Species Act

Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Chevron filed the third-party complaint in December 2017 against the company—of which the Norwegian State is majority stakeholder—for indemnity and contribution. Virginia Federal Court Said Challenge to NEPA Regulations Was Not Justiciable. June 25, 2021). Washington State Dairy Federation v. Washington Department of Ecology , No.

2021