Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

It also wants to destroy environmental regulation, especially climate law. As one example , the successful populist leader in the Netherlands “said that climate action was an ‘unaffordable madness’ and that – once in office – the party would put the national climate law and the Paris Agreement ‘straight through the shredder.’”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

This decision , reached with a 6-3 majority led by Chief Justice John Roberts, marks a significant shift in administrative law and has profound implications for environmental regulations and climate accountability. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., This deference allowed agencies (e.g., Raimondo and Relentless, Inc.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Credit: ABA for Law Students. Supreme Court issued a radical constitutional decision that over the last century has proven enormously consequential in a host of environmental, natural resources and public health contexts. One hundred years ago this month, the U.S. In the December 1922 decision Pennsylvania Coal Company v.

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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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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The petition alleges the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Governor have failed to protect state forests used by ATVs on more than 300 miles of ATV trails built by DCNR and 2,000+ miles of illegal trails created by riders in Sproul , Susquehannock , Tiadaghton and Tioga State Forests.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2024

This critical legislation was originally expected to be signed into law by the fall of 2023, but a chaotic schedule—and an often dysfunctional Congress—got in the way. One of these was for Congress to codify, or permanently authorize in law, the national network of climate hubs, and to provide $50 million in annual funding for them.

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National Law Center

MARCH 29, 2022

The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: March 29, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. .

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National Law Center

MARCH 8, 2022

The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: March 8, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. .

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2021

When efforts by county officials to resolve the dispute informally with LADWP failed, the County sued, arguing that LADWP’s unilateral action violates California’s most iconic environmental law, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Earlier this year, a trial court agreed, ruling in the County’s favor. But it’s not.

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Legal Planet

MAY 30, 2022

From the contamination of land and the destruction of forests to the plunder of natural resources and the collapse of management systems, the environmental consequences of war are often widespread and devastating.”. General Secretary said in 2014: “The environment has long been a silent casualty of war and armed conflict.

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Endangered Species Law

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This January, the Department of the Interior and the Department of Commerce announced updated civil monetary penalties for violations of federal wildlife and natural resource protection laws including the Endangered Species Act (ESA), Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act (BGEPA), Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation (..)

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Legal Planet

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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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources is now accepting applications for members on the agency's Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council. Visit the Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council webpage for more information on the Council.

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National Law Center

MAY 17, 2022

The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: May 17, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. .

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National Law Center

JUNE 30, 2022

The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: June 30, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. .

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National Law Center

JULY 7, 2022

The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: July 7, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. .

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National Law Center

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: November 4, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center. A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. .

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Will there be enough water for Michigan’s thriving farm sector, and for every other use of a natural resource growing scarcer across much of the rest of the nation? Will there be enough water for the state’s thriving farm sector, and for every other use of a natural resource growing scarcer across much of the rest of the nation?

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

According to the Japanese Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, the countrys fossil fuel dependency was 83.2% 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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Circle of Blue

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.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2024

The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. House Floor. House Floor.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 9, 2023

2023), the Texas Supreme Court held that, as a matter of law, the operator of a joint operating agreement, Ovintiv, did not owe interest on production payments owed to the non-operator, 1776 Energy, that Ovintiv withheld until a separate lawsuit involving 1776 Energy was resolved by the Texas Supreme Court. 1776 Energy Partners, LLC , — S.W.3d

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

A new report was released from the Aquatic Invasive Species Commission calls on Congress to modernize laws, increase federal funding, and improve coordination at federal, state, local, and tribal levels to combat harmful aquatic invasive species. The American public has a role to play in this fight, too.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 7, 2025

DEP inspections include both scheduled and unscheduled on-site visits to permitted facilities, as well as document reviews to verify compliance with environmental laws and regulations. When there is an accident or an emergency that threatens the environment and safety of our residents, DEP staff are there to guide the response.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The Board’s motions also track recommendations made by UCLA Law’s Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic in two letters sent to Los Angeles County earlier this summer on behalf of clients. STAND-L.A., an environmental justice coalition whose organizing and advocacy to end neighborhood oil drilling in the City of L.A.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

A new report gives New York a failing grade for its flood risk disclosure laws. Some of the earliest memories I have are of protestors standing in the road, blocking semi-trucks hauling nuclear waste On average, previously flooded homes have an annual expected loss of $3,000, according to a new report by the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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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. She is now the Midwest campaign manager at the Natural Resources Defense Council. But thanks to H.B. Mike DeWine.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Iowa Department of Natural Resources considered over half of Iowas lakes, reservoirs, rivers and streams impaired. However, this federal scrutiny is clearer when considering Vermonts status as home to one of the nations leading environmental law schools, which trains attorneys to advocate for stronger environmental oversight.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2025

The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. House Floor. Click Here to watch online.

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Energy & the Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

COG sued for declaratory judgment that it has the sole right to the produced water by virtue of its leases and surface use agreements and common law. There is a clear distinction in the law between the two. Cactus Water counterclaimed that it had ownership of produced water under its own agreements. 16 TAC 3.8(a)(29)

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

As aquifers dry up, some Midwest communities are looking to the region’s greatest natural resources for a solution. A 2008 law governs access to it—with an exemption for Illinois.

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Law and Environment

MAY 25, 2022

Notwithstanding that the suit has been brought as a products liability case, the relief sought is right out of a standard CERCLA or state superfund law complaint. The post The Drumbeat of PFAS Litigation Is Getting Louder first appeared on Law and the Environment. I know how I’d answer that question.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 19, 2023

Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the last natural resources cases on its docket this Term: Arizona v. But the federal government and the intervening states may have the law on their side–that law being the “Law of the River,” a complex, century-old set of interstate compacts, U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. 1 Electricity Price Changes; Rates Will Vary From 8.4%

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

That’s not unique to Montana , even though this case focused on state laws. The decision builds off of the plaintiffs’ own proposed findings of fact and conclusions of law. It will help the non-profit law firm grow and fundraise as they secure new trial dates and file new cases. that justified the harm. .”

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Energy & the Law

JUNE 2, 2023

Ovintiv and its predecessor operator, Freeport-McMoRan, represented by Gray Reed partners Jim Ormiston and David Leonard , suspended proceeds it was contractually obligated to pay to non-operator 1776 in reliance on the safe harbor provisions of Section 91.402(b) Texas Natural Resources Code.

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Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2024

Proposition 4 would authorize the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10 billion pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a variety of projects combating climate change, increasing resiliency, and supporting climate solutions. Some of the notable investments include: $3.8 billion for wildfire and forest programs, and $1.2

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