The Energy Law

MAY 24, 2023

The plaintiffs’ arguments centered mostly on the project’s impact on an endangered species, the North Atlantic right whale. BOEM approved the Construction and Operations Plan for the Vineyard Wind Project in July 2021, approximately 12 years after BOEM began evaluating the site for wind energy development.

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Washington Nature

JANUARY 10, 2022

Several of our priorities this year seek to stem the loss of irreplaceable natural and working lands and ensure our state is empowered to plan more thoughtfully for the years to come. Salmon Recovery Despite the best efforts of many across our state, salmon species continue to be threatened and on the brink of extinction.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Sponsored Content.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

These phenomena are driving changes in species distribution, phenology, and population dynamics, as well as changes in the structure and function of ecosystems and the timing of ecological processes. The paper is a working draft of a law review article to be published in the Yale Journal on Regulation. Read the full paper here.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As domestic wells dried up this year, the emergency reignited passionate debates among residents over how to best protect the region’s limited natural resources. As domestic wells dried up this year, the emergency reignited passionate debates among residents over how to best protect the region’s limited natural resources.

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The Energy Law

JULY 21, 2016

In 2010, under the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”), the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“the FWS”) designated 6,477 acres in Mississippi and Louisiana as “critical habitat” for the Rana sevosa or the dusky gopher frog. Tammany Parish.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The management of natural lakes is controlled by state agencies acting pursuant to state law. Other states grant the authority to control the use of water to a state agency like a natural resource department. The KID sued in state court to enforce its members’ contractual water rights under state law.

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Montrose

JULY 6, 2021

Founded in 1994 and based in Laguna Beach, California, EI’s team of biologists, wetland scientists, archeologists and GIS specialists provide comprehensive natural resource consulting and regulatory compliance services and comprehensive environmental management programs for large-scale projects.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Constitution, the legislature adopts the laws under which state agencies operate, but responsibility for implementing those laws rests with executive branch agencies like DEQ. This session, the legislature amended the animal waste system permitting law, G.S. Under the N.C. See: House Bill 600, Sec. 9) STORMWATER. Amends G.S.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 2, 2016

the CECIL Act. which includes an amendment to the Endangered Species Act and a government-funded study on the pros and cons of trophy hunting. Candidate Species. The purpose of the amendment is to change which species the importation and exportation provision of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) protects.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. and non-U.S. United States , No.

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Legal Planet

JULY 27, 2024

Last week, Senator Manchin unveiled his latest permitting bill , negotiated with Senator Barrasso and set to be marked up by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Wednesday. A comparison with Title 41 of the FAST Act, often called FAST-41 , underscores the radical nature of the Manchin-Barrasso statute of limitation.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

has prompted concerns that it will stifle the compensatory mitigation practices of environmental and natural resources permitting agencies. has generated the same kind of agitated pushback by many land use and environmental law scholars—that is, all theory and little practical reality. would “work a revolution in land-use law.”

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 30, 2023

In the previous three years, Congress had passed NEPA, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act. Continuing the legislative wave, 1973 saw the passage of the Endangered Species Act (ESA. One subject stood outside the political turmoil: environmental law. The first EPA Administrator took office in 1971.

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Endangered Species Law

JUNE 2, 2021

On May 14, 2021, the Department of Justice filed a brief with the Supreme Court arguing that the Court should not hear the case of Kansas Natural Resource Coalition v. Department of Interior (“ KNRC ”).

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

For the past four years, Ontarians have witnessed an unremitting attack on the many of the laws which protect the province’s natural heritage. . Will your party strengthen Ontario’s Endangered Species Act and restore a science-base approach to species recovery, including mandatory habitat protection?

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2025

Agencies are directed to use, to the maximum extent permissible under applicable law, the ESA regulation on consultations in emergencies, to facilitate the Nations energy supply. Click Here for the entire executive order.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 10, 2025

For instance, the legislation takes an important step towards recognizing fire as an issue on an equal level of importance with other natural resource management issues such as forests, range, and wildlife. Fire (like many other natural resources) does not necessarily track human jurisdictional or property boundaries.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Partly, this decision illustrates the limits of our environmental laws. The goal of those laws is substantive: to protect the environment. But often those laws impose procedural requirements, not substantive bans on harmful activities. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) provides a good example.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The court found that, as pled, the complaint was “premised solely on state law” and that City of New York v. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati.

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Environment, Law, and History

MAY 6, 2022

Melosi, Carolyn Merchant, Roderick Nash, Adam Rome, and Paul Sutter, among many others—Coodley and Sarasohn offer here an exhaustive play-by-play account of the legislative battles between 1964 and 1976 that led to the passage of some of the most important environmental laws in the United States.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 11, 2017

A central question occupying environmental lawyers of all stripes is the degree to which the current federal administration, under the leadership of President Trump, his cabinet and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, will disrupt federal environmental and natural resources policies constructed over the past five decades.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. applied federal common law. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Natural Resources Defense Council v. By Margaret Barry and Hillary Aidun. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. Wheeler , No. 18-1172 (D.C.

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ESA

AUGUST 30, 2021

An internal House Natural Resources Committee document obtained by E&E News shows that the committee intends to spend $3 billion on the Civilian Climate Corps, $120 million for the NOAA Civilian Conservation Corps and $500 million for the Tribal Civilian Conservation Corps. Innovation and Competition Act ( S. 16, 2021 ).

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ESA

MAY 4, 2023

The Clean Water Act is a federal law that gives authority to states to protect the nation’s waters. An ongoing Supreme Court case (Sackett vs. EPA) has the potential to shape the scope of this law. Gardner, JD – Professor of Law and Co-Director, Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy, Stetson University College of Law.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 21, 2025

International Climate Finance Plan DECLARING A NATIONAL ENERGY EMERGENCY [link] Declares national energy emergency, primarily based on high energy prices Use any lawful emergency authorities to facilitate the identification, leasing, siting, production, transportation, refining, and generation of domestic energy resources.

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ESA

APRIL 25, 2022

The next day, the House Science Committee will hold a hearing about climate change with Ko Barrett of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and NOAA; Dr. Dominique David-Chavez, an assistant professor of indigenous natural resource stewardship at Colorado State University; and Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava.

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ESA

MAY 9, 2022

Mining: House Natural Resources Committee Chair Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) and Sen. 4083 ) to overhaul the country’s hardrock mining law. House Natural Resources Committee: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing about wildlife disease surveillance and preventing future pandemics.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

Even mentions in the report of “speculative technologies that prolong the use of fossil fuels” indicate it had been “water[ed] down” by governments in the final approval process, said Nikki Reisch, director of the climate and energy program at the Center for International Environmental Law. Failure to act means tough choices in the future.

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ESA

MAY 31, 2023

Congress House Natural Resources Committee passes Save Our Sequoias Act and legislation to allow mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. EPA creates a far narrower test than what has been used for more than half a century to determine when bogs and marshes fall under the scope of the 1972 law.

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Acoel

JANUARY 21, 2025

International Climate Finance Plan DECLARING A NATIONAL ENERGY EMERGENCY [link] Declares national energy emergency, primarily based on high energy prices Use any lawful emergency authorities to facilitate the identification, leasing, siting, production, transportation, refining, and generation of domestic energy resources.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Senate Energy and Natural Resource Committee leaders introduce legislation to reauthorize the Department of Energy Office of Science. Wisconsin Natural Resources Board approves new PFAS standards. President Biden signed the Further Additional Extending Government Funding Act ( H.R. In this issue: Congress.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Fish and Wildlife Service receives $180 million for developing and carrying out Endangered Species Act recovery plans and a combined $19.4 But, many legal experts say the legal tug of war over the foundational water law is likely to continue until the Supreme Court weighs in again. Lawmakers also allocate $9.7

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate@gmail.com.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The defendants argued that the Second Circuit’s decision confirmed that the plaintiff’s claims necessarily arise under federal law. and non-U.S. 21-8001 (D.C.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Glenn Youngkin (R)’s nomination of former EPA administrator to natural resources post. Department of Agriculture undersecretary for natural resources and the environment. Wilkes is a career USDA employee who previously led the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem Restoration Team.

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