Gravel2Gavel

MARCH 29, 2022

The first quarter of 2022 has yielded a number of decisions, reversals and agency adjustments worth note. FEDERAL CIRCUIT. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. However, one of the Commissioners filed a partial dissent, arguing that the Commission’s treatment of the climate change impacts was inadequate.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JUNE 8, 2023

The final plan , which was released by the CAC in December 2022, serves as a “framework for how New York will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and achieve net-zero emissions, increase renewable energy use, and ensure all communities equitably benefit in the clean energy transition.”

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Customs & International Trade Law

JULY 28, 2023

recently that violated federal law regulating misbranded hazardous substances or banned hazardous substances. defense industrial base. The Department of Commerce is calling for nominations for the 2023 Sustainability, Energy, and Environmental (SEE) Ambassadors program.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 22, 2024

In other words, the United States will need to build significant amounts of renewable energy infrastructure. Department of Energy has stated that, in order to meet growing clean electricity demands, the United States must expand its transmission systems by 60% by 2030 and upwards of 300% by 2050. FERC Order No.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Last week the Sabin Center and the American Bar Association held an event on addressing landowner concerns in renewable energy siting. Wind and solar farms often spark siting battles between local residents who welcome renewable energy projects and their neighbors who are concerned about visual or other impacts.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Energy Policy & Conservation Act (EPCA), which sets nationwide energy conservation standards for many common appliances and preempts state and local standards, preempts Berkeley’s 2019 ban on natural gas connections to newly-constructed buildings. Each of these spheres is regulated at the federal, state, and local levels.

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Customs & International Trade Law

JANUARY 15, 2024

Here is a recap of the latest customs and international trade law news: 2024 Regulatory Agenda New regulation alert: the semiannual regulatory agendas of the departments of Homeland Security and Treasury list several regulations impacting international trade that are expected to be finalized this year.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 29, 2024

Now that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released its final climate disclosure rule , attention has turned to the rule’s implementation and impact. The third disclosure regime at play in the United States comes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and focuses solely on GHG emissions.

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Customs & International Trade Law

MAY 13, 2022

On May 4, 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA or Agency) proposed a tobacco product standard that would prohibit characterizing flavors (other than tobacco) in all cigars and their components and parts. International Trade Commission on March 30, 2022, under section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, on behalf of Maxell, Ltd.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century. Murray Energy Corp. Pritzker , Nos. opening brief Oct.

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OilandGasLawyer

JANUARY 24, 2021

In the oil patch, figuring out how to dispose of this water “is something that only gets worse,” said Rene Santos, an energy analyst for S&P Global Platts. Previously, operators had to obtain permission from both the Texas Railroad Commission, which regulates the state’s oil and gas industry, and the EPA before discharging the water.

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Customs & International Trade Law

MAY 19, 2023

A follow-up CSMS will be issued once a new date is established, the agency added. This regulatory amendment is currently available for public inspection with the Federal Register and will take effect upon publication in the Federal Register on May 18, 2023. Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) Chairman Daniel B.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 19, 2023

Further embracing this presidential agenda, on May 20, 2021, President Biden issued EO 14030 , entitled “Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk”, the Biden administration’s declaration of policy on the possible incorporation of climate-related financial risk considerations into federal government regulations. sea level rise).

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] This piece previously appeared in the CLS Blue Sky Blog.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)—i.e., will no longer be the sole factor the Commission considers.” By Jennifer Danis and Romany Webb. Image Source: Wikimedia Commons. FERC yesterday stated that “[p]recedent agreements.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Federal Court in Rhode Island Allowed Failure-to-Adapt Claims to Proceed. The federal district court for the District of Rhode Island for the most part denied a motion to dismiss a citizen suit asserting that Shell Oil Products US and other defendants (Shell) failed to prepare a terminal in Providence for the impacts of climate change.

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Customs & International Trade Law

OCTOBER 1, 2022

DOC is initiating changed circumstances reviews (CCR) based on a request from Shenzhen Hello Tech Energy Co., DOC is initiating changed circumstances reviews (CCR) based on a request from Shenzhen Hello Tech Energy Co., The period of investigation is January 1, 2020, through December 31, 2020. .

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MARCH 6, 2018

Federal Court Denied Oakland and San Francisco Motions to Return Climate Change Nuisance Cases to State Court; Found Federal Common Law of Nuisance Could Apply, Despite AEP v. applied federal common law. Plaintiffs’ claims therefore necessarily implicate an area quintessentially within the province of the federal courts.”

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit Court of Appeals found that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) failed to adequately analyze the climate change and environmental justice impacts of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals on the Brownsville Shipping Channel in Texas and two pipelines that would carry LNG to one of the terminals.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Circuit Vacated Trump EPA’s Affordable Clean Energy Rule. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Affordable Clean Energy Rule (ACE Rule) for greenhouse gas emissions from power plants rested on an erroneous interpretation of the Clean Air Act that barred EPA from considering measures beyond those that apply at and to an individual source.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Webb. President Trump meets with energy company executives in April 2020. Based on their statements and actions taken during President Trump’s first term, we have identified eight energy and environmental policy objectives we believe are likely to be pursued if Trump is re-elected: 1. By Daniel J. Metzger and Romany M.

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Customs & International Trade Law

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The webinar will cover the new procedure for the electronic payment of permit annual user fees and the changes to TSR filing information, and enhancements in the CBP electronic portal (eCBP) TSR screens to reflect the regulatory changes. The Commission also determined that there is a reasonable indication that a U.S. to March 27-29.

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Broadcast Law Blog

MAY 28, 2023

Here are some of the regulatory developments of significance to broadcasters from the past week, with links to where you can go to find more information as to how these actions may affect your operations. For a more detailed analysis of the issues that a full Commission could consider, see our Broadcast Law Blog article here.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit Decision Vacating Affordable Clean Energy Rule. The first petition was filed by West Virginia and 18 other states that had intervened to defend the repeal and replacement rule, known as the Affordable Clean Energy rule. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE # 145. FEATURED CASE. 20-1531 (U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 20, 2021

Additionally, the executive order articulated a new federal policy of listening to science , prioritizing environmental justice, improving public health, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and bolstering climate resilience. It also instructs federal agencies to promote climate policies.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JULY 2, 2021

Louisiana Federal Court Blocked Biden Administration “Pause” on New Oil and Gas Leases. The federal district court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring the Biden administration from implementing a “Pause” on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters.

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InHouseOps

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Thomas McCarthy, partner with Akin Gump, talks about the incredible advances that have been made in the field of space exploration, what the laws and regulatory landscape around the industry look like today, and where it’s all going in the future. On the military side, the U.S.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

A federal bankruptcy court in Missouri enjoined San Mateo and Marin Counties and the City of Imperial Beach (the plaintiffs) from pursuing their climate change lawsuits against Peabody Energy Corporation (Peabody). Reorganized Peabody Energy Corp. County of San Mateo (In re Peabody Energy Corp.) , No. 16-42529 (Bankr.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 9, 2021

The Second Circuit then held that the Clean Air Act, in turn, displaced federal common law claims related to domestic emissions. 410 (2011), as establishing “beyond cavil” that the Clean Air Act displaced federal common law nuisance suits to abate domestic transboundary greenhouse gas emissions, and found that Native Village of Kivalina v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Divided Ninth Circuit Said Juliana Plaintiffs Lacked Standing to Press Constitutional Climate Claims Against Federal Government. The Ninth Circuit therefore reversed the orders of the federal district court for the District of Oregon denying the government’s motions to dismiss and for summary judgment and judgment on the pleadings.

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SCOTUSBlog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Share Even before taking office, President Joe Biden pledged to reshape the federal judiciary. In a December 2020 letter, during his presidential transition, he asked Democratic senators to recommend public defenders and civil rights lawyers, who have generally been underrepresented on the federal bench, for judgeships.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

JANUARY 22, 2021

On Thursday, January 21, 2021, President Joe Biden appointed Richard Glick as the new chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). As he said in one recent decision : “The Commission once again refuses to consider the consequences its actions have for climate change.

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