Energy and Climate Law

APRIL 29, 2020

The coronavirus (COVID-19) keeps affecting all areas of life and also impacts upon energy law. This blog entry provides a first overview of energy law measures that selected European countries (Germany and the Netherlands) have taken to tackle the energy-related repercussions of the corona-crisis. Germany The legislator in Germany reacted in early March and established three so called ´moratoria´ for the duraction of three months: one safeguarding tenants who cannot pay their rent anymore, one a

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New Scientist

APRIL 28, 2020

The question of how the brain gives rise to subjective experience is the hardest of all.

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JANZEN AG

APRIL 27, 2020

As someone who is immersed in legal issues related to data privacy and ownership, it should come as no surprise that I have a Google alert set up so that I get notified when a company uses the words “transparency” and “ag data” in a sentence. I get 2-5 emails per week, so there is still a lot of buzz in the industry surrounding ag data. What I observe from the email traffic is interesting.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 30, 2020

While the long-term fallout from the recent decline in oil prices and the COVID-19 pandemic remains unclear, it is clear that drilling activity has already started to decline. During this downturn in activity, mineral rights owners must remain cognizant of the maintenance activities necessary to preserve their mineral rights. Cannisnia Plantation, LLC v.

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Environmental Law Prof Blog

APRIL 30, 2020

Imagine, for a moment, that our current discussions about coronavirus shelter-in-place orders were happening in a somewhat different political reality. In that alternative reality, the President and state governors agree that states need to be key players in decisions, but.

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ENVIRONMENTAL LEGAL BLOGS

APRIL 28, 2020

    As a result of Proposition 67 passing in 2016, grocery stores in California have been banned from providing customers with plastic bags for their purchases.  opponents of the ban have argued that reusable grocery bags themselves posed a risk of environmental damage, claiming that diseases resulting from unwashed/inadequately cleaned bags are as dangerous as polluting the oven's with used plastic.     Because of the corona virus, Governor Ne

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 28, 2020

On April 23, the Supreme Court of the United States issued an opinion in County of Maui, Hawaii v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, et al. , where the Court held that, in limited circumstances, a party discharging pollutants into groundwater that ultimately end up in navigable waters will need a permit under the Clean Water Act. By way of background, the Clean Water Act forbids the “addition” of any pollutant “from any point source” to “navigable waters” without a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination S

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