Legal Planet
JUNE 27, 2024
In choosing the top environmental laws, I wanted to focus on those with the largest impacts on the environment, not just those that are most important to environmental lawyers or best known. I included all laws passed in the U.S., not just federal regulatory laws, and some of my selections may not be what you expected.
Law and Environment
DECEMBER 19, 2022
And the Department of Energy, which makes National Corridor designations, has said that it intends to provide a process to designate such corridors on a route-specific, applicant-driven basis to address roadblocks as they arise. Background. Comments on the notice will be due 90 days after publication in the Federal Register.
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Legal Planet
AUGUST 15, 2023
State of Montana, a Montana trial court ruled that the state Constitution’s guarantee of a healthy and clean environment prevails over Montana’s longstanding fossil-fuel-based state energy system. Critically, the Juliana case relied on federal law. The court’s 103-page decision in Held v. The August 14th Held v.
Union of Concerned Scientists
AUGUST 20, 2024
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean School Bus (CSB) Program was established by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to help communities reduce pollution from older, higher polluting school buses. Despite past investments, thousands of older polluting school buses remain on the road. Why not 100 percent?
The Energy Law Blog
DECEMBER 6, 2021
The Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act (the “Act”), which was passed into law on November 15, 2021, included key amendments to the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (“OCSLA”) that pave the way for carbon sequestration in offshore federal waters.
Acoel
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
In actuality, the Standard Time Act of 1918 was enacted during the first World War as an initiative to conserve fuel. Repealed and reinstated during World War II, it wasn’t until 1966 that DST was again enshrined in federal legislation, the Uniform Time Act.
The Energy Law Blog
OCTOBER 12, 2022
This is the first in a series of articles in which Liskow’s offshore team will discuss the regulatory framework for wind energy projects in federal waters and highlight legal issues pertinent to this dynamic area. Status of Wind Energy in the Gulf of Mexico. 585.107(f).
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