Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

City of New York , a 2022 lawsuit brought by a group of cooperative apartment and other building owners seeking to invalidate Local Law 97 of 2019 , New York City’s building performance standard to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the City’s largest buildings. The court holds that the CLCPA does not preempt Local Law 97.

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Since 2019, the Department of Energy’s ReCell Center has been researching effective and affordable battery recycling technology. Because batteries can be hazardous if improperly handled, transporting them involves additional regulations and can constitute 40 to 60% of battery recycling costs. Source: Courtesy of Li-Cycle.

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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 in 2019 because it was bad for consumers, bad for the economy, and bad for the environment. 6 was signed into law by Ohio Gov. Ohio regulators need to act.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

EPA proposed changes to its MON rule in 2019, regulating toxic emissions for about 200 chemical plants that produce solvents, plastics, and pesticides across the country. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has also acknowledged that it has a role to play in identifying alternatives to EtO for sterilizing medical equipment.

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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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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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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.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Wells Clinic in Environmental Law, Cara Horowitz, Julia Stein, and I filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of seven law professors in the Ninth Circuit case California Restaurant Association v. Wells Clinic Faculty File Amicus Brief on Behalf of Law Professors in California Restaurant Association v. Download as PDF.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

While this recycling market is growing, there is still no federal or state law or policy that requires it – an obligation that could ensure higher recycling rates and increased efficiency. These are all policies that have been proposed by the European Commission and are expected to become law in the European Union.

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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. However, given the unprecedentedruling’s questionable logic, I doubt that it stand on appeal. Third is causation.

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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 In 2019, that same company was in the news for purchasing water rights throughout the state and attempting to sell and lease them, prompting an ongoing legislative review of water marketing.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

including the Mariner East Pipelines) and Laurel Pipe Line – and the new HVL regulations would apply to them, as well as any other future intrastate HVL public utilities. Additionally, there are no retroactive design or construction regulations for those pipeline facilities that exist when the rule is made effective by operation of law.

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2021

At a contentious board hearing on May 7, 2021, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) approved a first-in-the-nation rule to regulate trucking emissions from warehouses by a 9-4 vote. Bledsoe and Jennifer Garlock. Latham & Watkins will continue to monitor SCAQMD rulemaking efforts on additional ISRs.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) announced plans to introduce legislation to prohibit municipalities from receiving Act 13 drilling impact fees if they set more protective standards on the development of natural gas than required in state or federal law and while a challenge to local restrictions is being litigated. Read more here. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 1, 2023

Any serious news coverage that’s going to touch on possible regulations should distinguish between these various classes of e-bikes, as should policymakers. But the laws are treating it like any bicycle.” It would be a mistake to pass new laws that make this same error in logic. increase from 856 in 2019.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Billion Hydrogen, Natural Gas Tax Credit, Shapiro Wants To Rewrite The Law To Boost Electricity Production -- Ohio River Valley Institute: Is The Appalachian Hydrogen Hub Coming Apart? Million Settlement Over 2019 South Philly Refinery Explosion, Fire -- AP: EPA Reaches $4.2 Bartolotta, Sen.

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SPR Law

OCTOBER 1, 2024

On September 27, 2024, the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) issued its third proposed rulemaking package to implement Local Law 97 of 2019 (LL97). LL97 requires most large buildings in NYC to meet increasingly stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limits starting in 2024.

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SPR Law

OCTOBER 10, 2022

On October 6, 2022, the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) issued proposed regulations to implement Local Law 97 of 2019 (LL97). LL97 requires most large buildings in NYC to meet increasingly stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limits starting in 2024.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 22, 2022

On June 13, 2022, Chile published its Climate Change Framework Law (“the Climate Act”). In 2019, Chile became President of the 25th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP25). Additionally, and following international guidelines, the law mandates the creation of a project certification system. Conclusions.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In the United Kingdom, regulators have temporarily given water utilities permission to treat wastewater to a lower standard. Government regulators expect that the chemical distribution problem will be short-lived. Though the current irrigation season is nearly over, the emergency regulation extends for one year. Transcript.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

A new report gives New York a failing grade for its flood risk disclosure laws. Environmental health concerns compelled the tribe to expand the reservation inland in 2019, away from their home on the Mississippi River. The report issued New York an F for its risk disclosure law, saying that the law “stacks the deck against buyers.”

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SPR Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

On September 12, 2023, the New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) issued proposed regulations to implement Local Law 97 of 2019 (LL97). LL97 requires most large buildings in NYC to meet increasingly stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limits starting in 2024.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

“It really does come down to the fact that poor people, that have the least ability to pay, are the ones who are forced to come up with the dollars to upgrade their infrastructure, but the problem is coming from external forces,” says Nick Schroeck, the former director of the Great Lakes Environmental Law Center. The victory was short-lived.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Power companies will therefore have to pay more for the fuel, but utilities are generally allowed by state regulators to pass those cost increases onto their customers in the form of higher electricity rates. Solar was actually the leading capacity addition from 2019 through 2021 if you include smaller-scale systems such as rooftop solar.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

Indeed, this is where the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) sought to correct systemic funding imbalances by providing $13 billion in focused infrastructure funding to Tribal communities nationally. In Tribal communities, this manifests in many forms, from judicial authority to environmental regulation.

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E2 Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

The bill would also have changed the procedures employed by New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) for issuing permits under the Environmental Conservation Law. . The amended bill has now been introduced, and it is expected that the bill will pass both houses of the Legislature and be signed into law in the coming weeks.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 24, 2022

legal frameworks for regulating plastic pollution. Over the last six months, a team of international environmental lawyers analyzed the existing policies, regulations, and legislation in France and the U.S. Plastic Pollution Pro-Bono Project first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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Energy and Climate Law

MAY 19, 2020

The German energy regulator Bundesnetzagentur rejected an application of the Nord Stream 2 operating consortium to obtain an exemption from EU unbundling rules after the Gas Directive was amended in 2019. The argumentation of the regulator strikes at a crucial point - is a pipeline already built when 160 kilometres are still missing?

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Lawyers, bar associations, and law societies have an important but not fully recognized role to play in achieving the net zero goal in the Paris Agreement. Climate Change as an Increasingly Common Feature of Law Practice Climate change is no longer an issue of concern only to environmental and energy lawyers. John Kerry, then U.S.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2024

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) issued an advisory opinion on April 21, 2024 in response to a request submitted by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law (COSIS). 52-54) and acknowledged the critical role the ocean plays in regulating the climate system (para.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Environmental Quality Board is scheduled to meet on November 12 to consider a proposed regulation on notification of spills, corrections to Air Quality regulations on RACT requirements for nitrogen oxide and volatile organic compounds and final-omitted regulations on noncoal mine blasting.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

These penalties are in addition to a $670,000 civil penalty DEP accessed against Shell Falcon Pipeline and its contractor Minnesota Limited LLC for violations of its permit and other laws and regulations that occurred in 2019 and 2020 during pipeline construction. Read more here. Decrease To 31.2%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Transfers of highly enriched uranium happened in July 2004 , March 2014 , and July 2019. Russian export laws and bilateral agreements with China explicitly prohibit the use of supplied materials for military purposes. U-235) for China’s CEFR. The CEFR reached criticality in July 2010 and connected to the grid in July 2011.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 20, 2021

It is the latest development in China’s regulations of drug change management since the promulgation of the newly amended Drug Administration Law in 2019 and more than 20 regulations and technical guidelines. 2019?????????????20???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 15, 2024

Regulated Entities Under the Guidelines, the top 180 companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the top 50 companies on its Science and Technology Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange must publish SDRs annually, within four months of the end of their fiscal year.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2024

At issue in the case is whether New York Citys Local Law 97 of 2019 , the Citys building performance standards aimed at reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its largest buildings, is preempted by New York States Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). City of New York. As explained in DJL Rest.

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