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Climate Action Plan
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Fashion & Apparel Law Blog
Climate Change Gets Fashionable: The Fashion Industry Embraces The President’s Climate Change Initiative
The fashion industry has recently been using its clout and cachet to combat climate change. Who else has a heavy hand in the fight against climate change? The answer, while…
Retail Trend Spotter
Climate Change Gets Fashionable: The Fashion Industry Embraces The President’s Climate Change Initiative
The fashion industry has recently been using its clout and cachet to combat climate change. Who else has a heavy hand in the fight against climate change? The answer, while…
Mineral Law
U.S. EPA Proposes New Rules to Curb Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Sector
On August 18, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released proposed regulations aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from oil and gas facilities. These first-ever…
Renewable Energy Insights
Interior Department Approves First Solar Energy Zone Projects
An Interior Department press release reports that: "As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to cut carbon pollution and create clean energy jobs, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced…
PipelineLaw
New Research Indicates Decreased Methane Emissions from Distribution Pipelines
Regulators and researchers alike have long been trying to accurately estimate leakage rates from natural gas infrastructure, in order to understand the potential effects of such emissions on climate and…
Environmental and Climate
Non-parallel Tracks: The Divergence Of Trade Remedies From Climate Control 不平行的轨道：贸易补偿和控制气候变化分道扬镳
Editor's Note: The following article was published in the January 2015 issue of Financier Worldwide Magazine. For its Chinese translation, please click here (中文翻译请点击这里)。 The U.S. is a leading proponent of…
Energy & Environmental Law Adviser
Obama Administration Announces Plan to Cut Methane Emissions
By Jane E. Montgomery, Joshua R. More, Amy Antoniolli, Raghav Murali
The Obama Administration (Administration) on January 14, 2015 unveiled new plans to regulate methane emissions from the nation’s oil and natural gas sector. Specifically, it announced a new goal to…
Workplace Safety and Environmental Law Alert Blog
EPA Plan for Methane Controls In Oil and Gas Industry
By Philip L. Comella and Craig B. Simonsen In another move to implement the President’s Climate Action Plan, the Obama Administration today announced a new goal to cut methane emissions…
Administrative and Regulatory
Fourth Appellate District Publishes Opinion Requiring Supplemental EIR for San Diego County’s Climate Action Plan
On November 24, 2014, the Court of Appeal for the Fourth District granted a request to publish the recent case Sierra Club v. County of San Diego, 2014 Cal. App.…
Land Use Law Blog
Make No Grand (General) Plans
By William W. Abbott Sierra Club v. County of San Diego (2014) 231 Cal.App.4th 1152. As with many cities and counties updating their general plans, the County of San Diego…