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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. 1 Electricity Price Changes; Rates Will Vary From 8.4%

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JULY 25, 2022

I’ve linked to an early version of the paper that appeared online in 2020. The post Taking A Data-Driven Tour of Air Pollution Law appeared first on Legal Planet. Still, there’s a lot of meat in there worth chewing on, if you understand or are willing to ignore the technical aspects of the studies. *A Download as PDF.

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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.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Even so, in 2020, we saw the highest rate of voter turnout—66%—in a national election for more than a century. AAS : You and your team analyzed data from the 2020 presidential election from eleven counties in seven battleground states that are likely to be significant in the upcoming election. It’s not just election law.

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MAY 25, 2023

The post The Deal with Dicamba: Plaintiffs Ask Court to Vacate 2020 Registration Decision appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. On April 12, 2023, the plaintiffs in Ctr. for Biological Diversity v. Protection Agency, No. 4:20-cv-00555 (D.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

They are allowed by law and timid regulatory inertia to annually spread 400 millions of tons of solid manure, and 4 billion gallons of raw, untreated liquid animal feces and urine – 5,000 to 7,000 gallons per acre – on 600,000 acres across Michigan; . “If In 2020, according to state figures, 85.3 Confrontation on New Permit.

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APRIL 23, 2025

This year marks my 50 th year practicing environmental law. In NYC, I met my wife, Katy, a graduate student at Columbia, and we jointly decided to apply to law schools in NYC, DC, and Boston. UT Law was (and is) an exceptional law school; remarkably, tuition back then was even less than the cost of our textbooks.

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JULY 25, 2023

In Kansas, for example, a law passed in 2021 restricts who can register voters and how to process their forms. Tactic 2: Limit allowable forms of voter ID Voter identification laws vary from state to state. Expanding these options can encourage voter turnout; since 2020, these options have become more popular with voters as well.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

In 2020, Circle of Blue researched a dozen large cities and found 1.5 Since December 2020, the federal government has allocated over a billion dollars for water debt relief, but due to administrative hurdles that money has been slow to reach families in need. Chicago’s water debt struggles are part of a national problem.

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MARCH 31, 2022

Did the companies initiate plans to cut emissions or were they forced to do so by state law? thanks to Jetta Cook, Berkeley Law ’22). (1) Energy Mix (2020): [link]. Generated Energy Mix (2020): [link]. Energy Mix (2020): [link]. Energy Mix (2020): [link]. Energy Mix (2020-21): [link] (pdf).

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JULY 1, 2022

The law will affect just about every type of plastic packaging you see walking down the supermarket aisle in California, and it’s a major step in the fight to reduce plastic waste, over 90 percent of which does not get, and much of which cannot currently be, recycled.

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AUGUST 7, 2023

Here are my key takeaways: A dramatic increase in student voting Data from Democracy Counts 2020 , Tufts University’s national National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement report on student participation in the 2020 U.S. The national student voting rate increased by 14% between just 2016 and 2020.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Here are the basics: The Pledge aims to achieve a collective goal of reducing global methane emissions by at least 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030. California’s 2016 law, SB 1383 , requires a 40 percent reduction from 2013 levels, which is comparable to the 30 percent reduction from 2020 levels identified in the Global Methane Pledge.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

The two states engaged with Carson Consulting to review existing state litter laws and interview key stakeholders to evaluate the strength of the states’ current litter enforcement tools and systems. This study helps to support and identify what is most effective from a law enforcement and judicial perspective.”

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

Through October 27, Clean Energy Matters , Hydro-Québec Maine Partnership , Mainers for Fair Laws , and Vote No to Protect Maine have collectively spent about $80.9 According to the Bangor Daily News, the transmission line referendum is the second-most expensive election campaign in state history, behind the 2020 U.S. Senate race.

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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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JULY 13, 2022

We’re back to fighting this the way we’ve fought for decades here in Florida, using our existing environmental protection laws.”. Brownlee cited the omnibus bill, writing that the Florida state legislature holds the power to set environmental policy and preempt county and local laws. Florida environmentalist Chuck O’Neal.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

But people across the Colorado legal community, the broader Western water community, and a far-flung network that includes Berkeley Law staff, faculty, and alumni. Long-term connections with Berkeley Law. Justice Hobbs’ connections with Berkeley Law run deep. He got his JD here in 1971. I was lucky enough to be one of them. .

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DECEMBER 24, 2024

Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy in the Green Mountain State Written by Kathryn Keener and Diana Csank Cannabis laws are loosening, and recent legislative measures in some U.S. Both became classified Schedule I substances when President Nixon signed the Controlled Substance Act into law in 1970. Today, cannabis is poised for rescheduling.

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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. California imposes a number of statutory and common law disclosure requirements but does not mandate disclosure of sea level rise risk in real estate transactions.

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MARCH 25, 2025

Read more here ] In June 2020, Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced the findings and recommendations of Pennsylvanias 43rd Statewide Investigating Grand Jury report on the unconventional oil and gas industry. Million Civil Penalty To Equitrans For Violations Related To The Uncontrolled Venting Of 1.1

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

Supreme Court decide if the Pennsylvania state law requiring election officials to reject mail-in ballots that are undated or are incorrectly dated by voters violates the Civil Rights Act. In the 2020 election, nearly 22,000 absentee ballots were rejected. Originally, a county Common Pleas Judge ruled on behalf of the county.

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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. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest. Feed-in tariffs are replaced by auctions for renewables. Renewables are 42% of electricity.

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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. billion to $2.2 Starting with stakeholders.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

In the original nuclear phase out law of 2002 the Government allocated these residual electricity volumes to each nuclear power plant in Germany so that the total output of the respective plant corresponds to an average 32 year lifetime. There was no notification pursuant to Art.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Michigan counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. Michigan now counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. In 2020, farmers and livestock operations used 187 billion gallons of water, double the amount in 2009. Is the state prepared for more?

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JUNE 2, 2022

Scotland set a 2020 goal of 100% renewable energy electricity generation. In 2020, they just missed this goal, at 97.4% and is separate from their 2020 goal which centered just on electricity. This covers electricity, heating, transportation, etc.,

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JUNE 7, 2021

From 1980 to 2020, there were an average of 7 billion-dollar events per year. But from 2015-2020, the average was 16 per year. 2020 had a record-breaking 22 billion-dollar events. Similarly, in the summer of 2020, FEMA was hard pressed to deal with huge fires on the West Coast and hurricanes along the gulf at the same time.

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MARCH 16, 2022

But solar is the big winner here, with it’s share of total US capacity increasing from 7% in 2020 to 29% in 2050. Capacity factors for existing natural gas combined cycle plants are cut in half, from nearly 60% in 2020 to below 30% in 2050. EIA also recently reported that US coal exports increased 23% between 2020 and 2021.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Now the government is pushing ahead with settling compensation - but not via a law but via a public law contract. By the end of 2019 the country put an end-date to electricity production from coal in the Netherlands via the Law“ Prohibiting the Use of Coal in Electricity Production ”. Germany: Law or Contract?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In February 2023, the Tokyo District Court found that the Notice of Finalization, which had been issued through a simplified permitting procedure, was lawful. Since climate change affects people globally, distinguishing plaintiffs from the rest of the population will likely remain an issue for establishing standing under administrative law.

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APRIL 13, 2023

“Treaties on environmental law are a type of human rights treaty, and, for that reason, enjoy supranational status. This “supranational status” means that these treaties are above the “regular” laws in the legal hierarchy. Accordingly, any Brazilian law or decree contradicting the Paris Agreement may be invalidated.

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MARCH 13, 2023

And in some cases, entire groups of workers are prevented from accessing SNAP: workers born in the Marshall Islands , most of whom live in Arkansas, don’t qualify because of an old federal law ( a new bill to address this was introduced in 2021 according to a congressional database , but the status remains unchanged).

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Water rates more than doubled between 2010 and 2020, while income of the city’s poorest one-fifth of residents inched up only 12 percent. While previous efforts to give legal personhood to natural resources have sprung up around the world, from Bangladesh to Bolivia, so-called “rights of nature” laws are few and far between in the U.S.,

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MARCH 6, 2024

A California resident faces charges under a 2020 law that seeks to curb powerful planet-warming and ozone-depleting hydrofluorocarbons

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The law is clear and has been since 1991. Lawyers with Salmon and Trout Conservation lodged a complaint with the post-Brexit environmental watchdog in the United Kingdom, accusing the government and Ofwat of failing to enforce the law to stop water companies from discharging raw sewage into rivers. IN RECENT WATER NEWS.

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