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10 May 2024, 6:45 am by Evangelina Cantu
Potential land use plan amendments may also involve updating design features and environmental evaluation processes and incorporating new information and additional environmental analysis. [read post]
On December 20, 2023, the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) issued regulations implementing the state’s first-ever voluntary environmental self-audit program. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 8:04 pm by Yosi Yahoudai
But California has battled air quality issues for decades. [read post]
5 Oct 2023, 9:06 pm by News Desk
Editor’s Note: With permission, Food Safety News today posts the 2023 Update on State Food Safety Legislature by Doug Farquhar, JD, Government Affairs Director for the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA). [read post]
29 Sep 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
Conservative think tanks and other policy groups drafted model legislation for Republican lawmakers to cut taxes, expand gun rights, and loosen environmental regulations. [read post]
21 Sep 2023, 7:20 am by Robin E. Kobayashi
Mahon examines a study conducted by researchers in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a researcher from Michigan’s Department of Health and Human Services and published online in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine on September 24, 2022. [read post]
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), for example, has focused on ESG by investigating and taking action against companies that tout business practices such as consideration of environmental sustainability, but fail, in practice, to live up to their claims. [read post]
On June 27, 2023, the EPA administratively closed its Title VI investigations into whether the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) and the Louisiana Department of Health’s (“LDH”) permits and other approvals regarding two facilities resulted in racial discrimination. [read post]
29 Jun 2023, 9:15 pm by Sri Medicherla
Louisiana and Texas argued that the guidelines contradicted the federal government’s mandate to arrest and detain noncitizens with state criminal convictions. [read post]
In Louisiana, the Department of Natural Resources’ Office of Coastal Management (OCM) regulates activities that occur in wetlands when they would have a significant impact on coastal resources and coastal waters of the state. [read post]
20 Mar 2023, 9:05 pm by Madeline Bruning
Two complaints filed in 2022 allege that the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) and the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) have caused Black residents to suffer disproportionately from those negative health impacts of chloroprene. [read post]
28 Jan 2023, 7:32 am
The move to metrics has produced additional challenges.Regarding ESG metrics, there is a strong argument that the quality and reliability of ESG metrics need to improve. [read post]
§ 9:2798.1 would apply to the Louisiana Environmental Quality Act public notification regulation.[2] Discretionary immunity requires that liability shall not be imposed on a state department, such as LDEQ, based on the failure to exercise or perform discretionary acts.[3] The public notification regulation, 33 LA. [read post]
21 Oct 2022, 12:30 pm by John Ross
Here's one for the civil procedure nerds: Louisiana property owners allege that Halliburton (among others) polluted their groundwater and that the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) knew about it and didn't tell them. [read post]
10 Oct 2022, 2:24 pm by Jim Salzman
What dollar amount should the accounts show to reflect a loss of thousands of coastal acres in low-lying Louisiana? [read post]
27 Sep 2022, 1:25 pm by Nena Eddy
On September 14, 2022, the 19th Judicial District Court revoked air permits issued by the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) under Louisiana’s Prevention and Significant Deterioration (“PSD”) regulations[1] for a Formosa Plastics facility (“FG LA”) planned to be built in St. [read post]
21 Sep 2022, 8:10 am by Lauren Rucinski
The 19th Judicial District Court in Baton Rouge, Louisiana issued a decision on September 14, 2022, vacating a proposed industrial facility’s permit issued by the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) and finding that LDEQ violated the federal Clean Air Act and its duty under the Public Trust Doctrine.[1] Although the decision concerns permitting for a specific facility in St. [read post]
4 May 2022, 1:50 am by Kevin Kaufman
In these adjustments, and in our broader methodology and approach, we continue the work of the late Professor John Mikesell, the former Chancellor’s Professor of Public and Environmental Affairs Emeritus at Indiana University, who developed this methodology and maintained these datasets for many years.[4] Table 1 presents data on total state tax revenues, adjusted sales tax revenues, per capita sales tax burdens overall and per percentage point of the state sales tax… [read post]