Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In southwest Africa, an ongoing investigation by National Geographic found that a Canadian oil and gas exploration company has consistently violated environmental laws. Lake Mead reached a record low in 2021. The post What’s Up With Water – December 20, 2021 appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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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. appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

On 29 January 2021 Nigerian farmers succeeded with their claims against Royal Dutch Shell in two cases concerning oil spills in the Niger Delta from Shell`s pipelines in the villages Oruma and Goi. Friday`s two judgements are final and consider the facts under Nigerian law. 5.4 - 5.9 ).

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Four months later, in March 2021, federal lawmakers doubled down on the approach. The law requires that these support structures account for no more than 15 percent of the LIHWAP funds. In July, a budget act signed into law allocated $985 million for water bill relief from the federal American Rescue Plan Act.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

To avoid claims of ignorance of the laws, she told Circle of Blue, “the first step is to make sure everyone understands what their obligations are and how the curtailment process works.”. The post What’s Up With Water – September 13, 2021 appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 27, 2025

City of New York , plumbing and building trade groups challenged New York Citys Local Law 154 of 2021 , a piece of legislation that prohibits fossil fuel combustion in most new buildings. This blog post discusses Local Law 154, unpacks Judge Abrams decision, and ends with a refresher on California Restaurant Association v.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 22, 2021

What’s Up With Water—December 20, 2021 – This week’s episode covers ongoing drought in Iraq, an investigation into an oil and gas exploration company in southwest Africa, and the annual meeting of Colorado River Basin leaders. “Third Pole” Glaciers Melting At An Alarming Rate, Study Finds. ON THE RADAR.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 23, 2021

In a recent post , I analyzed the California Legislature’s recent passage and Governor Gavin Newsom’s signing into law of two important bills–SB 9 and SB 10–designed to confront California’s well-documented housing crisis. Davis School of Law faculty colleagues Chris Elmendorf and Darien Shanske.).

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 10, 2025

Is federal and California law preventing the amount of prescribed burns or vegetation management we need from occurring? More broadly, the state treated over one million acres of land for fire risk in 2023, an increase of 25% in terms of total treatment acreage from 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the March 1 PA Bulletin announcing that Impecca is prohibited from selling its products in Pennsylvania as a result of its violation of the state electronics waste recycling law. ( Read more here. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

I had the good fortune to meet Ryan back in 2012, when UC Berkeley Law and UCLA Law convened a group of experts (including Ryan) on ways that California could dramatically scale up the sale of battery electric vehicles by 2025, now just a few short years away. Ryan was a major contributor to that report. Rest in peace, Ryan.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 31, 2023

That means a lot of energy law profs to teach them — many more than we have today. Law schools are waking up to the need to hire in the area. So if you’re thinking of law teaching, it could be worthwhile to dive into this field. John Erwin did a study of the entry-level professors hired in 2021, a very active hiring year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2021

In early June 2021, following a year of extensive use of chemical weapons (such as tear gas) by law enforcement against racial justice protesters, the U.S. Despite the well-documented human health impacts of […].

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 27, 2022

Throughout 2021 Latham lawyers reviewed each of the 51 California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) appellate cases, whether published or unpublished. In 2021, the California Courts of Appeal issued 51 opinions that substantially considered CEQA while the US District Court for the Northern District of California issued one opinion.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Implementation of these new laws will be the true test of that statement, but they provide an exciting starting point. Prior to this new law, the state was required by law to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. Climate Change Mitigation.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

By late 2021, after a decade of conservatives control of the executive branch, Australia was ranked last of sixty countries in terms of climate policy, below countries such as Saudia Arabia and Kazakhstan. This March, Australia adopted a follow-up law to implement these targets. The law built on the Safeguard Mechanisms.

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PA Environment Daily

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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Legal Planet

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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Legal Planet

AUGUST 6, 2023

Last week, the California Supreme Court unanimously ruled that an initiative measure that would have imposed severe restrictions on oil and gas development in Monterey County is preempted by state law and therefore invalid. The California Court of Appeal agreed in a 2021 decision. The decision came in the case of Chevron U.S.A.,

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

These laws ban new fossil fuel plants and set aggressive targets for the state’s two major utilities, requiring emission cuts of 80% by 2030, 90% by 2035 and 100% by 2040. Here are a few details about the four bills: House Bill 2021 creates the emission reduction mandate. These bills move Oregon to the forefront of climate action.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 16, 2024

Texas went first in 2005, with a law called SB 20. The law authorized the creation of new transmission to serve “renewable energy zones” and a process to identify and select such zones. Nevada adopted a law called SB 448 in 2021, directing utilities to build transmission that meets state goals.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Robert Barbour, who performed law enforcement in the Tiadaghton and Loyalsock State Forests for 24 years, was quoted in the petition saying one ATV rider "dragged [him] down a road for approximately 40 yards before stopping" when caught for violations.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 1, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the March 2 PA Bulletin that MTM Trading LLC (Tagital) is prohibited from selling its products in Pennsylvania as a result of its violation of the state electronics waste recycling law. ( Read more here. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 11, 2023

Water systems are already required by federal law to send an annual Consumer Confidence Report to customers with details about drinking water contaminants. In the 2021 report card, drinking water systems received a C- and wastewater systems a D+. Photo courtesy of Patrick under Creative Commons license BY-NC-SA 2.0

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 18, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the August 19 PA Bulletin has banned the sale of electronic products by Proexpress Distribution, LLC in Pennsylvania as a result of non-compliance with the electronic waste recycling law. ( Read more here. Read more here.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The 1957 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee “for their penetrating investigation of the so-called parity laws which has led to important discoveries regarding the elementary particles”. The post The 10 quirkiest stories from the world of physics in 2021 appeared first on Physics World.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Blue-Green Systems (2021) 3 (1): 62–80 [link]. Wheeler Institute for Water Law & Policy, University of California at Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA, p. Figure 1: Mechanisms, strategies, and key dynamics of LSGI governance. Cano Pecharroman et al. Williams C., Green Nylen N. & & Kiparsky M. & Kiparsky M.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2025

in 2021, which is 2% higher than the percentage before the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. In February 2023, the Tokyo District Court found that the Notice of Finalization, which had been issued through a simplified permitting procedure, was lawful. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Illinois utilities Ameren and Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) are preparing distribution grid plans for the first time under new requirements established by the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA) , which the Illinois Legislature passed in September 2021. The ICC will review the plans and issue a decision by end of 2023.

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AUGUST 17, 2022

With the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) on Tuesday Aug 16, the most significant climate legislation in US federal history (so far) became law. Despite the odd name (and greatly overused TLA ), the IRA contains a huge number of elements, totalling roughly $350 billion of investment, in climate solutions over the next ten years.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2022

I first wrote a version of this post way back in July 2021, when Ezra Klein dropped a couple of lines knocking the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) into one of the op-eds The New York Times loves to perennially run about how California is actually the worst (I’m sorry it can’t be 80 degrees in March everywhere, guys).

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – November 10, 2021. Four months later, in March 2021, federal lawmakers doubled down on the approach. The law allows no more than 15 percent of LIHWAP funds to be spent on these support structures. Lawmakers provided $638 million to set up the program and assist households with their water debt.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 13, 2021

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – August 13, 2021. Circumscribed in a body of law and policy known as the Law of the River, the math is complex and arcane, setting water deliveries across seven states and Mexico. Carl Ganter/Circle of Blue. New numbers will soon be added, altering the equation.

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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. Even if you don’t live in Ohio, you may have heard about H.B. But thanks to H.B. The subsidies were codified and extended to 2030 when H.B. Mike DeWine.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The Illinois energy landscape Illinois passed the landmark Climate and Energy Jobs Act (CEJA) in September 2021. CEJA also expanded incentives for wind and solar power; however, the law did not include significant provisions for energy storage deployment. 2025 is also a pivotal year for CEJA implementation in Illinois.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

In 2021—the second year of a statewide drought—the SWRCB had to wait for the Governor to declare a drought emergency for a particular watershed before it undertook a months-long process to develop and implement emergency curtailment regulations for that watershed. This is not just a theoretical problem.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

US ratepayers very likely will pay even more for electricity and heating this winter compared to the already-expensive winter of 2021-2022. Between 2015 and 2021, 274 North American oil and gas producers filed for bankruptcy with a debt load of $177 billion. The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020.

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