Legal Planet

JULY 1, 2022

That initiative would have authorized CalRecycle to adopt and enforce regulations requiring that 80 percent of single-use plastic packaging and food service ware, as compared to 2020 levels, be recyclable, compostable, or source reduced by 2030, with an additional requirement that 25 percent of the waste be source reduced.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

By incentivizing the occupation of land, ownership by force, and exploitation of natural resources, the state and federal governments promoted the violent dispossession and genocide of Native Americans from the land. They can, however, once they have enacted an emergency regulation that sets a minimum flow in the river.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

And political power with it. We ask for these regulations, and protections of the water, because we know that having these blooms in the lake will cause downstream harm on these already-suffering and already-disinvested communities,” said the younger Smith. Just lack of political capital. Carl Ganter/ Circle of Blue.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 14, 2024

water rights administration is primarily the responsibility of state regulators, applying and enforcing state laws. The Bee reporters wrote that in fact, “farmers and other water users [across California] frequently ignore state drought regulations.” That’s because across the U.S., Download as PDF

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 1, 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.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 4, 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. Off the Floor. [No No video coverage] February 5-- NEW.

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Environment, Law, and History

OCTOBER 6, 2020

A recurring theme in scholarship on environmental regulation is the roots of the American approach to environmental regulation , and to what extent this approach is exceptional. American colonies ensured broad private rights to use land and natural resources for profit.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2022

As the collaborative explored last week , regulators are now encouraging some water utilities to consolidate, a catch-all term that could mean small steps like sharing staff, or big changes like closing decrepit, oversized water plants in favor of buying water from a neighbor. All that excess infrastructure is expensive to maintain.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 27, 2023

“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.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 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.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 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. Increase In Cost Of Gas Starting June 1, Another 7.3%

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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile are all in complex political, social, and economic situations. However, extreme inflation numbers, among other political problems in Argentina, still make it a highly risky place for western companies to make serious investments.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

THURSDAY 10:00: Independent Regulatory Review Commission meets to consider Final Emergency Regulation Setting VOC/Methane Limits On Conventional Oil and Gas Operations. WEDNESDAY 6:30: Ohio River Valley Institute Hosts Webinar On Policy Action In Response To The Norfolk Southern Train Derailment & Beyond. 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

On September 12, former DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell was appointed President & CEO of PennFuture , a statewide advocacy organization dedicated to protecting public health, restoring and protecting natural resources, and moving Pennsylvania toward a clean energy future.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 2, 2022

He also served as the manager of the program’s market monitoring section and as an attorney supporting the development and implementation of climate and air quality regulations at CARB. from Lewis & Clark Law School, with a certificate in environmental and natural resources law, and a B.A. Jason received his J.D.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2023

Natural Gas Drops 7% To 3-Week Low On Milder Weather Forecasts PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Scranton Times Editorial: PA Lawmakers Prove Bigger Isn’t Better -- PA Gaming Control Board Reports February Gaming Revenue Up 22% Over Feb. Of Last Year -- MCall: 3 Years Of COVID In PA: 50,500 Deaths, 3.5 Million Infections, 9.4

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 15, 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.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2024

You’ll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations. DEP eNotice: The Only Way You’ll Know When Applications Come In To DEP Did you know DEP can send you email notices when permit applications are submitted to DEP in your community? Click Here to sign up for DEP’s eNOTICE today !

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The couple left the state, and PGE subsequently demolished their home and turned the land over to the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) to be annexed to the Loyalsock State Forest. The DEP employee was polite and respectful, thanked me for my incident report and told me, “I thought you deserved a phone call”.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Indeed, on the same day that Governor Wolf resurrected the PhillyPort proposal, he signed into law Act 108 of 2022 , giving massive and irresponsible 20-year tax breaks and other benefits for hydrogen production, saddling us and future generations with the fiscal and environmental burdens of a last-minute political decision.

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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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Environment, Law, and History

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

A recent issue of Perspectives on Politics has a review by Richard Andrews of Kimberly K. Smith's The Conservation Constitution: The Conservation Movement and Constitutional Change, 1870–1930 (University Press of Kansas, 2020).

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Interior’s authority to regulate offshore wind comes from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which amended the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to expressly authorize Interior to issue leases for renewable energy projects in federal waters. Qualification information must be updated in accordance with BOEM regulations. 556.400; 30 C.F.R.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The law mandates availability of protective equipment during poor air quality events, and directs Cal/OSHA, the state’s labor regulator, to consider additional high heat protections. SB 1205 protects water access by requiring the state to develop regulations considering climate change effects on water availability for water rights permits.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

The Climate Superfund bills have already attracted vicious opposition from the fossil fuel industry and its political allies and, if passed, will inevitably face vigorous legal challenges. Chevron relied on the existing scope of federal GHG regulations. Moreover, the Second Circuit’s reasoning in New York v.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Though with the boom and bust nature of coal mining—where a significant drop in demand or political shifts towards clean energy can eliminate a mine’s buyers—hundreds of coal mines would close across the Pennsylvania and in Cambria County, stripping entire towns of their main livelihood. October Is Buffer Month!

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Instead, it has been to stem and confuse the flow of information about climate change to the public and political leaders. The plaintiffs in Juliana have sued the federal government, arguing that the public trust doctrine vests it with an obligation to protect natural resources that are owned in common and necessary for collective well being.

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The Energy Law

MAY 6, 2016

In New York and Pennsylvania, anti-fracking groups have obtained a statewide ban on fracking and the allowance of local authority to regulate fracking, respectively. In March 2016, the Louisiana First Circuit recognized the preemptive authority of state law to regulate and permit fracking. City of Fort Collins v.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 12, 2021

While the resolution is not legally binding, it represents a significant political statement that could shape global standards. In particular, the recognition can embolden stakeholders and courts, to adopt a rights-based approach to climate litigation. On October 12, 2021, the CRC published its decision in Sacchi et al. In Shrestha v.

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Acoel

JANUARY 4, 2023

Chevron compelled judicial restraint in an era of political friction over judicial activism, and at a time when Congress was enacting prodigious, bipartisan, nearly unanimous, regulatory legislation (including most of modern federal environmental law). Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. ,

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 10, 2019

There can be no political freedom without there also being economic freedom. As a country struggling with population growth and the need to develop into a ‘modern’ state, Brazil faces the same challenges as other developing nations: management of its natural resources and balancing this with economic and development goals.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 13, 2020

In addition to carbon sequestration, tropical rainforests help to regulate the global temperature by. A labeling program would encourage the economic market to help solve an environmental crisis, instead of increased regulation directly limiting carbon-intensive production methods and land use changes which could severely impact producers.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Indiana regulates the underground storage of carbon dioxide. Navigator responds that it has complied with state regulations, which require the company to notify landowners in the pipeline’s path and consider citizen safety when routing the project. The company is seeking powers of eminent domain from state regulators.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 2, 2016

CITES sets out to preserve the endangered species on the planet by regulating the trade of their parts. Without political support, despite the possible good the CECIL Act could create, the amendment will not be successful. An interesting political circumstance surrounding CECIL (H.R.3448) that voluntarily. However, govtrack.us.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

However, this prosecution was likely motivated by a desire to quiet political rumblings rather than a genuine desire to protect the more than 33,000 birds killed by wind turbines each year. A new regulation, issued a mere two weeks after the Duke Energy case, allows wind farms to secure thirty-year exemptions from the prohibitions of MBTA.

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Manning Law

APRIL 4, 2021

Climate change has proved to be a political “hot potato” in large part because of those who would deny that climate change is real. They also argued that they have constitutional jurisdiction over natural resources. Those decisions were appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”).

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This map shows nitrate concentrations in drinking water between 2016 and 2018 for federally regulated water systems. Politically powerful farm lobbies, preferring voluntary measures to curb nutrient pollution, have held off oversight under the Clean Water Act and other statutes. Coulter has a particularly keen interest. If the U.S.

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