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State Net Capitol Journal Legislative Updates: Connecticut Moves To Control Runaway Bamboo
Posted on 4 Jun 2013 by State Net

ENVIRONMENT: The CONNECTICUT Senate approves a bill that would impose a $100 fine on residents who fail to control the growth of bamboo on their property and require people who sell or install running bamboo to educate customers on the plant's growing... Read More

Columbia Law School Center for Climate Change Law: Green vs. Green: Litigation For and Against Solar Power in California
Posted on 23 Jun 2011 by LexisNexis Environmental Law Community Staff

By Laura Mulry, Fellow, Center for Climate Change, Columbia Law School April 2011 was an eventful month for massive solar projects in California and their unlikely opponent: the desert tortoise. As climate change, overpopulation, and development place... Read More

California Supreme Court upholds municipal ban on plastic bags
Posted on 10 Aug 2011 by Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.

In June 2008, the city manager of Manhattan Beach (a small, beach-front community in Southern California) issued a staff report recommending the adoption of an ordinance banning the use of "point-of-sale plastic carry-out bags" in the city.... Read More

New CCCL Paper- Reverse Environmental Assessment Analysis For The Adaptation Of Projects, Plans And Programs To The Effects Of Climate Change In The EU
Posted on 22 Apr 2014 by Columbia Law - Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

By Teresa Parejo Navajas, Associate Professor of Law. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain), Visiting Scholar at the Center for Climate Change Law (Columbia University) Columbia’s Center for Climate Change Law has published a new white... Read More

Reed Elsevier Participates In 2012 World Environment Day
Posted on 1 Jun 2012 by LexisNexis Environmental Law Community Staff

Mark Armour, Chief Financial Officer, Reed Elsevier Group plc, is delighted to herald United Nations World Environment Day which will take place on Tuesday, 5 June - the most widely celebrated global day for positive environmental action. The 2012 World... Read More

D.C. Circuit Ruling Has Potential Implications for Natural Gas Pipeline and LNG Projects Under FERC Environmental Review
Posted on 2 Jul 2014 by Duane Morris LLP

A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, [ enhanced version available to lexis.com subscribers ], rejected certain portions of an environmental analysis conducted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission... Read More

New York City Proposes Expansion of Actions Exempt from CEQR
Posted on 13 Nov 2013 by GreenbergTraurig

The New York State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) requires actions that may have a significant adverse environmental impact to undergo review. The City Environmental Quality Review (CEQR) contains the City of New York’s procedures for... Read More

Alaska District Court Considers “Reverse Environmental Impact” in Issuance of Section 404 Permit
Posted on 4 Aug 2014 by Columbia Law - Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

The National Environmental Policy Act of 1970 (NEPA) requires federal agencies to prepare environmental impact statements (EISs) for all “major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment.”[1] This includes... Read More

Sabin Center Files Comments on Alaska LNG Project
Posted on 11 Dec 2015 by Columbia Law - Sabin Center for Climate Change Law

By Justin Gundlach, Climate Law Fellow The Alaska Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project is enormous. It is designed to link natural gas drilling operations on the North Slope of Alaska to liquefaction facilities in Nikiski (south of Anchorage) via an... Read More

Demystifying CEQA's Cumulative Impact Analysis Requirements: Guidance for Defensible EIR Evaluation
Posted on 20 Sep 2011 by LexisNexis Environmental Law Community Staff

By Ms. Nicole Hoeksma Gordon and Mr. Albert Herson, Attorneys, The Sohagi Law Group Get the latest on issues agencies face when conducting a "cumulative impact analysis" in an Environmental Impact Report in California. The article identifies... Read More

The California Environmental Quality Act's Other 'E': The Often Important Role of Economic Data in the Environmental Review Process
Posted on 13 Jun 2011 by LexisNexis Environmental Law Community Staff

By Arthur Pugsley, Attorney, Chatten-Brown & Carstens This article highlights the potentially critical role that economic data can play in the environmental review process under the California Environmental Quality Act. It discusses regulations... Read More

Streamlining in the Name of Economic Improvement and Job Creation Dominates 2011 California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") Legislation
Posted on 19 Dec 2011 by LexisNexis Environmental Law Community Staff

By Mr. Ron Bass and Mr. Al Herson I. Introduction to 2011 CEQA Legislation In a last minute flurry of activity, three bills dominated the California Legislature's attention to CEQA during the final week of the session, and were signed into law... Read More

Montana Homeowners Battle Forest Health (Timber Removal) Delay Demand By Environmental Groups
Posted on 30 Nov 2011 by William Perry Pendley

By William Perry Pendley, President and Chief Operating Officer of Mountain States Legal Foundation DENVER, CO. - Two Montanans have urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to reject a motion to stay a July 2011 ruling by a Montana federal... Read More

Ninth Circuit Holds that Dry Cleaning Equipment Manufacturers Must Engage in Active, Not Merely Passive, Activities to be Liable Under RCRA
Posted on 19 Mar 2012 by Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.

In litigation involving soil and/or groundwater contamination from releases related to dry cleaning equipment and PCE, it has been common for injured property owners to sue the dry cleaning equipment manufacturers, among others. One of the primary legal... Read More

Recent California Decisions Favor Solar Developers Over Environment
Posted on 28 Jun 2011 by LexisNexis Emerging Issues Community Staff

By Laura Mulry, Fellow, Center for Climate Change, Columbia Law School April 2011 was an eventful month for massive solar projects in California and their unlikely opponent: the desert tortoise. As climate change, overpopulation, and development place... Read More