Law and Environment

JULY 22, 2021

These efforts mark an emerging trend of legislative bodies directing utility regulators to help advance climate policies. This enhanced vision of utility regulation gives me hope in the fight against climate change. greenhouse gas emissions–they have had little to do with addressing climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Back in 2018, California legislators were considering a bill that would have created an independent governance structure for California’s grid operator , the California Independent System Operator (CAISO). The 2018 bill did not pass, but the idea never faded. The list goes on, but you get the point.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

It is important to acknowledge this oversight in Carson’s work, and in the subsequent regulatory infrastructure designed to regulate chemicals, and to commit ourselves to do better in today’s world by working to identify and address these environmental injustices. These concerns are still alive today.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2024

Information provided by the Department of Environmental Protection in response to a Right to Know request shows DEP took major enforcement actions against 26 shale gas drilling and pipeline companies in 2023, including imposing $2,290,849 in penalties for violations going back to 2018.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 14, 2022

Utah regulators have identified high numbers of toxin-producing algae in the southern reaches of Utah Lake , a water body notorious for summer algae outbreaks. California regulators passed an emergency order in June that took small steps to address the supply-demand imbalance. 3) Cutbacks Are Inevitable. Their plan is due next month.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By Dr Romain Mauger, Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability (GCELS) On 19 November 2020, the Conseil d’Etat (the French supreme administrative court) issued a historic ruling in the Commune de Grande Synthe case , potentially the first step towards a landmark climate litigation outcome in France.

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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. 6 was signed into law by Ohio Gov. Ohio regulators need to act. Even if you don’t live in Ohio, you may have heard about H.B. But thanks to H.B. Mike DeWine.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Among the targets of the critics is the work of William Nordhaus, who won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2018 for advancing economic analysis of climate change, and for his steadfast advocacy of a carbon tax. If you can’t get the politics right, you can’t enact a law, or the law won’t stick. Politics is central in policy.

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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. Starting with stakeholders.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 18, 2022

Founded in 1871, the National Association of Insurance Commission represents insurance regulators in all fifty states. Voluntary” is in quotes because about 80% of the insurance market is regulated by states that mandate the survey. However, the group has just issued a new “voluntary” survey for insurance companies about climate risks.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Now the Terner Center has a report on discussions with developers revealing that we still have quite a long way to go to make the law work as intended. But localities can deal with their own regulations.). Photograph by Eli Pousson, 2018 April 24. Housing advocates rejoiced, and NIMBYs screamed that it was the end of the world.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest. Amendments to the Climate Action Law are adopted, setting a binding 2045 date for carbon neutrality, with a 2031 target of a 65% emissions reduction compared with 1990. Renewables are 42% of electricity.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In 2018, Russia agreed to supply fuel for the CFR-600 for seven years. Russian export laws and bilateral agreements with China explicitly prohibit the use of supplied materials for military purposes. These provisions against military use are also present in a 2018 contract for Russia to provide fuel for the CFR-600 reactors.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

In the face of disappointing legislation and regulation, activists have increasingly turned to courts in the last fifteen years. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. To determine what this requires, the court turns to the 2018 Special Report on 1.5°C Third is causation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

But large-scale battery storage has actually gotten much safer in recent years, with the failure rate dropping 97% between 2018 and 2023. Codes and standards are typically developed by model code-making organizations, then become law when adopted by state or local governments. First responders have been injured.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

And while state laws across the region regulate how, when and why water rights are sold, some worry it won’t be enough to hold back the tide. “I A 2018 deal showed the tremendous speculative value of land/water deals in the Columbia River Basin. Because if water law is anything, it’s complex. A world of scarcity.”.

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National Law Center

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

In 2018, California voters passed “Prop 12,” a ballot proposal regulating space requirements for farm animals. An Update appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. The proposal had two main. The post What’s Cooking with Prop 12?:

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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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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In a recent opinion released by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the court declined to vacate a deficient environmental impact statement (“EIS”) prepared in connection with two offshore lease sales held in 2018, the records of decision announcing the sales, or the leases issued.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

This condition was originally discovered by DEP on October 4, 2018 and the operator has been trying to correct the problem since then. SPLP estimates around five days for the cleanup.” “DEP DEP inspectors will check the site daily during the cleanup and someone from DEP was out there this morning to check the cleanup,” said Shader.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The regulations were amended in 2020 to include a program for existing generation units, CES-E, which has several distinct requirements. Increasing the CES-E stringency from 20% to 25% of 2018 retail sales starting in 2023. These changes will set the CES standard at 60% in 2030 and 80% in 2050.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2023

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and State Financial Officers Foundation have drafted or promoted more than a hundred laws at the state level to prevent state governments from doing business with companies or financial firms that publicly support climate policy—often at the expense of state residents.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Civil law cases. Civil lawsuits were filed in Sendai in 2017 and Kobe in 2018 by citizens against corporations that planned to build new coal-fired power plants. In September 2018, in Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. Both courts took the position that the regulation of GHG emissions was a policy issue.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 17, 2019

Oregon argued that while a state may not regulate wholly out-of-state commerce, there is no constitutional bar to a state regulating its fuels market based on a product’s objectively measured contributions to in-state harms ( i.e. , regulating based on harm caused by a fuel’s carbon intensity).

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C. For background on the REPS law, see an earlier post on the first of several unsuccessful attempts to repeal the REPS standard.) law, but it can guide the use of existing authority.

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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. Complicating matters, traders from across the border in Niger prefer to sell their cattle in Nigeria because of decreased regulation. Photo by Murtala Abdullahi.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. Many regulations will have to be promulgated to make all of this happen. Many regulations will have to be promulgated to make all of this happen.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

(This post was authored by Eric Peshkin, a JD candidate at NYU School of Law and CLEE summer research assistant). The first step in regulating agricultural methane emissions (and emissions in general) is to develop an accurate inventory of emissions, which can be used to set a baseline for future targets.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 17, 2019

2018 Year in Review: Public agencies prevailed in 65% of CEQA cases analyzed. Over the course of 2018, Latham & Watkins lawyers reviewed all 57 California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) cases, both published and unpublished, that came before California appellate courts. Read the full CEQA Case Report Year in Review 2018.

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 10, 2023

The American Chemistry Council case deals with the interplay of CEQA with another statutory scheme, the so-called “Green Chemistry” law (Health & Safety Code, § 25251 et seq.) and its implementing Safer Consumer Products regulations (Cal. 22, § 69501 et seq.), in the context of exhaustion of administrative remedies.

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Environmental Law Centre

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Since 2018, Alberta has had legislation which supports PACE programming via the Clean Energy Improvements Regulation (CEIP Regulation) and amendments to the Municipal Government Act (MGA).[1] 1] The amendments to the.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 28, 2018

July 28, 2018. In addition to the environmental policy changes in the budget, several bills amended environmental laws. 14 of House Bill 374 (2018 Regulatory Reform Act) directs the Environmental Management Commission to study delegated local stormwater programs to identify: 1. Among the more significant changes: Stormwater.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

EPA’s Class VI Regulations Section 1421 of the Safe Drinking Water Act mandates that EPA establish Underground Injection Control (UIC) program regulations to protect underground sources of drinking water (USDW) from risks associated with underground fluid injections.

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Law and Environment

JULY 10, 2023

Covered buildings will be required to gradually reduce emissions, relative to a 2018–2019 baseline, over compliance periods starting in 2026 and 2030. While other cities, including the City of Boston, have passed laws requiring net zero emissions for certain buildings, Cambridge is among the first to set any such target for 2035.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 16, 2022

In this blog post, we summarize our research on how some local governments in California are regulating development in high fire areas. These blog posts summarize our recent article in Ecology Law Quarterly , coauthored with my collaborator Moira O’Neill. The second blog post (summarizing the relevant law) is here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection reported their inspections found 4,386 violations of environmental regulations at conventional oil and gas operations during 2021 -- nearly two and a half times the violations reported just two years ago in 2019 and 337 more than in 2020. Read more here.]

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 16, 2019

Section 108(b) of CERCLA authorizes EPA [i] to develop regulations requiring owners or operators of certain “classes of facilities [to] establish and maintain evidence of financial responsibility consistent with the degree and duration of risk associated with the production, transportation, treatment, storage, or disposal of hazardous substances.”

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