Legal Planet

APRIL 25, 2022

We made a similar recommendation in our 2020 California Roadmap report, which recommended TCFD disclosure across a number of sectors in California including insurance. The post Insurance Regulators Commit to TCFD-Aligned Risk Disclosure Survey appeared first on Legal Planet. Download as PDF.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Congress accuses Modi government of ‘favouring’ Adani group in ₹45,000 crore submarine project The Hindu PaulaR Thu, 02/15/2024 - 23:45 Wednesday, January 15, 2020 Read more The party alleged that the government was promoting 'crony capitalists' by violating laid down rules and regulations January 15, 2020 10:24 pm | Updated January 16, 2020 10:33 (..)

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Carolyn Comitta (D-Chester), Minority Chair Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, announced new regulations enhancing pipeline safety and governing hazardous liquids pipelines owned by public utilities in Pennsylvania are expected to be published as final this month and take effect in November.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This ongoing PUCO proceeding is specific to the costs of operating the two coal plants in 2020. These pre-2020 subsidies were approved by the PUCO as hedges, so that customers would get a credit when market electricity prices exceeded OVEC’s costs. The post-2020 subsidies tell a very similar story. million loss.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Shapiro’s office supporting “key recommendations” in a 2020 Grand Jury Report that concluded DEP’s oil and gas regulatory program failed to protect public health and the environment. Our government has a duty to set, and enforce, ground rules that protect public health and safety. Read more here. Read more here. 27 Released 1.1

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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2023

New York State Office of Renewable Energy Siting , a lawsuit challenging the state’s March 2021 regulations for siting and permitting major renewable energy facilities. Lawsuit Challenging ORES’s Regulations In March 2021, ORES promulgated regulations to implement the new siting process, as required by statute.

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Law and Environment

JULY 2, 2021

On June 29, 2021, a cohort of New York local governments (including many where large-scale solar projects are currently proposed), community organizations, and avian interest groups filed a lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court (the State’s trial-level court) against the Office of Renewable Energy Siting (“ORES”).

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

The Alberta government has allowed 1.4 Any credible solution to the toxic tailings problem starts with replacing the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) with an effective and fair regulator that works in the public interest, not for the industry it is intended to regulate. times the size of the city of Vancouver. Less than 0.1

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 10, 2021

While we know tailings are currently leaking toxic water into groundwater, the government has done no study on the health impact this has had – despite high rates of rare cancers in the First Nations communities downstream. Government is failing to enforce existing laws meant to protect people and the environment in the oil sands .

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The argument is that the Board shouldn’t have to consider that because EPA has authority to regulate air pollution, not the Board. Yet would anyone say that the government should therefore ignore the risk of a lab accident. Other agencies may have jurisdiction over disease control.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

Since the initiation of climate change litigation several years ago, various state governments and interest groups have filed lawsuits against fossil fuel companies and governing authorities. On January 10, 2020, the New York Attorney General’s Office stated that it will not appeal the trial court’s decision.

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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. Latest Developments in China’s Drug Change Management Regulations. ???????????????.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

While over 150 countries have agreed to collectively reduce global methane emissions by at least 30% below 2020 levels by 2030 through the Global Methane Pledge, meeting this target will require significant efforts from all levels of government. SB 1383 establishes California methane emissions reduction targets.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

In this instance, 16 young people from across Montana, who were between 2 and 18 years old when the case was filed in 2020, brought their constitutional climate lawsuit, Held v. State of Montana , against their state government. What would the impact be when the conservative Montana legislative branch sides with the executive branch?

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

These risks aren’t hypothetical: A leak from a carbon dioxide pipeline already caused serious health harms in Satartia, Mississippi, where 45 people were hospitalized following a pipeline rupture in early 2020. There are some federal regulations, but they leave much to be desired.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency announced the federal government has settled its final federal Clean Air Act (CAA) claim against Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining and Marketing, LLC pertaining to the June 21, 2019 fire and explosion at its former South Philadelphia refinery. On October 8, the U.S. The proposed $4.2

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

On Friday, EPA announced that it was reconsidering its 2020 decision to leave the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone unchanged. The notice does not identify any specific perceived flaws in the 2020 decision. The reconsideration will be based on the existing record. Still whistling in the wind , I fear.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 17, 2020

ADV Amendments The annual amendment for ADV Parts 1A (and 1B for state-registered advisers) and the Brochure (ADV Part 2A) is due March 30, 2020 (for firms with year-end fiscal years). A new area, the SEC will be reviewing implementation of Regulation BI and Form CRS. Available at [link]. Available at [link].

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. Germany agrees on EU regulation to make cars carbon neutral by 2035 (either zero emissions or net-zero). The government proposes new measures to help meet the 2030 climate target, including 80% renewables by 2030. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Strategic acquirors and private equity firms often pursue acquisitions of small-business government contractors with an attractive niche or technology but also understand that, following the acquisition, the small business affiliation rules[[N:13 C.F.R. 66146 (October 16, 2020) (effective November 16, 2020).]] § 121.103.]]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2022

Titled “ExxonMobil Report on Lobbying Activities,” the February report posted to the company’s website detailed all of the company’s political activity in 2020. The second largest beneficiary of ExxonMobil’s largesse in 2020 was the US Chamber of Commerce. ExxonMobil Names Names. The organization received between $2.5

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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 13, 2022

This new regulation would apply to delivery vans, big rigs, box trucks, and buses. and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the numerous commercial and government fleets of MHD vehicles in the state. Regulate more tractor trucks, including the smaller fleets.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

In 2020, another trial is set to be held in St. Federal protections are greatly lacking for workers in these conditions; the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) does not have any articulated standards regulating heat exposure, drinking water, and rest breaks. Currently, about 18,000 U.S. Louis County Court, with.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 30, 2023

coastline is projected to see an average of 10 to 12 inches of sea level rise between 2020 and 2050, which is equal to the amount measured over the last 100 years. Include more specific references to coastal regulations (e.g. In fact, the U.S. local land use planning that implements sea level rise adaptation strategies).

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

What is missing is the strength of will within government to get this sorted.” – Guy Linley-Adams, a solicitor for Salmon and Trout Conservation. According to Environmental Agency data, water companies discharged raw sewage into coastal waters in England more than 400,000 times in 2020, The Guardian reports. IN RECENT WATER NEWS.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Since 1999, after the Chinese government approved the reactor plans, TVEL, Russia’s nuclear fuel company and a Rosatom subsidiary, worked with the China Institute of Atomic Energy to supply highly enriched uranium fuel (64.4% U-235) for China’s CEFR. Chinese imports of enriched uranium and plutonium, all sources.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2020

In support, UNOCAL cites to a BOEM regulation referring to decommissioning as a “non-monetary obligation,” see 30 C.F.R. UNOCAL also cites to OCSLA and BSEE’s regulations at 30 C.F.R. § Oral argument has been tentatively set for the week of April 27, 2020. Parker Drilling Co. , 3d 558, 563 (5th Cir. 3d 515, 530 (S.D.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Still, given the potential for even more serious damage in the future, government at all levels is taking action to address the issue. Going into 2020, anticipated federal regulation will significantly affect the nation’s response to the Emerald Ash Borer and aquatic invasives in ballast water. As of October 1, 2019, a.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2022

According to the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries put out by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), a worker died every 111 minutes from a work-related injury in 2020. And the 2020 BLS fatality statistics numbers don’t include the thousands of workers who died that year from COVID-19 acquired on the job. In the United States alone!

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Ohio Environmental Law

MARCH 29, 2020

Both the federal government and state governments have been moving forward with significant new regulation of the PFAS compounds. Summarized below are actions taken at both the federal and state levels to regulate PFAS substances. Federal Regulation of PFOS and PFOA. On February 20, 2020, U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

ExxonMobil cited IPAA’s lack of support for policies related to climate change or reducing carbon emissions, as well as its opposition to strong methane regulations, as reasons for ending its membership (IPAA was also classified as “misaligned” two years ago in the company’s inaugural lobbying report, but the company maintained its membership).

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

On April 29, 2021, the departments of Justice, Commerce and Treasury announced that they had reached a global resolution with SAP SE (SAP), a multinational software company based in Germany, resulting from the company’s disclosure of the fact that it had provided software to users in Iran in violation of export and sanctions regulations.[[N:

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 1, 2023

While the agency has failed to update the rule as required under the Clean Air Act, last year, EPA identified 23 “elevated cancer risk” commercial sterilizers and is currently working to inform communities and work with state regulators and the facilities to decrease emissions. But much more is needed. And what about cumulative impacts?

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In 2020, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation surveyed all publicly available peer-reviewed studies and concluded there is scientifically valid evidence of oil sands process water (tailings) seepage into the groundwater around tailings ponds. Internal reports reveal that seepage from this tailings pond has been ongoing since 2020.

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Energy and Climate Law

APRIL 29, 2020

The latter regulates so called ´essential public services´. It stipulates that customers who are not able to pay their electricity and gas instalments due to the corona-crisis shall be protected against termination of their electricity and/or gas contracts for three months (1 April 2020 until 30 June 2020).

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

In order to steer investment toward environmentally sustainable activities, the European Union launched the Taxonomy Regulation framework to define activities deemed sustainable. The following elements of the Regulation proposal are dealt with in this review. of the proposal) and for existing installation only until 2040 (see §4.28).

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