Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

2006 AB 32. 2023 SB 253. California established first renewable portfolio standard (20% from renewables by 2010). AB 1493 (Pavley Act). Required the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to set standards for greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) new vehicles. Required CARB to create an inventory of GHG emissions.

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Brag

JULY 5, 2023

Hutton The July 2023 issue of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Chemical Safety and Biosafety Progress Report includes a summary of the April 2023 meeting of the Party on the Harmonization of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology (WP-HROB). Bergeson and Carla N.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2024

Asbury Woods raised our first batch of trout in 2023. The program has been in Pennsylvania since 2006, resulting in classrooms raising and releasing brown, rainbow, and brook trout. Timed slots are available for free online registration. Each participant will receive 1 -2 trout to release per registration.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Jessica Shirley Jessica Shirley was named Acting Executive Deputy Secretary at DEP in February 2023. She also held a Graduate Policy Intern position in the Governor’s Office of Policy and Planning in 2009 and an Undergraduate Policy Intern position in the Department of Public Welfare in 2006.

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ESA

JANUARY 9, 2023

Fiscal Year 2023 Spending Bill Increases Funding for Environmental and Scientific Programs. The formal deadline to submit comments about shaping the NNA to OSTP is March 31, 2023. Fiscal Year 2023 Spending Bill Increases Funding for Environmental and Scientific Programs. Register here. Biden Finalizes “Waters of US” Rule.

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Corp Watch

JULY 27, 2023

Democrats: Army pays bonus to Halliburton despite overcharges HalliburtonWatch PaulaR Thu, 07/27/2023 - 16:54 Thursday, April 20, 2006 Read more WASHINGTON, April 20 (HalliburtonWatch.org) -- Democratic senators criticized the Army Corps of Engineers for paying Halliburton over $250 million in costs in Iraq, plus profits and bonuses, despite conclusions (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2024

Loss Of Generation Resources The system is experiencing what PJM forecast in its 2023 Resource Retirements, Replacements and Risks (PDF) paper: The loss of generation resources is outpacing the addition of replacement resources amid accelerating growth in consumers’ demand for electricity. One megawatt can power about 800 homes.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 29, 2024

Asbury Woods raised our first batch of trout in 2023. The program has been in Pennsylvania since 2006, resulting in classrooms raising and releasing brown, rainbow, and brook trout. Trout in the Classroom has been providing classrooms with the unique experience of raising their own trout from egg to fingerling for over 30 years.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Dawes was instrumental in the reauthorization of the federal Abandoned Mine Lands Fund in 2006 and served as Chair of the campaign that led to Pennsylvania receiving $1 billion to address Pennsylvania’s mining legacy of more than 185,000 acres of unsafe, mine-scarred lands. Minott's work emphasizes the importance of public policy.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2023

On May 17, 2023, a DEP followup inspection at a Tatonka Oil Co. The May 17, 2023 DEP inspection noted the latest phone conversation in February of 2023 with Tatonka staff indicated plugging of the Nancy 13 well would commence in April or May 2023. Photos: top- Nancy 13 circa 2018, Nancy 13 2023; bottom- James R.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

She served as Executive Director of the Rachel Carson Homestead Association (2006-2011) and as Director of the Rachel Carson Institute at Chatham University where she holds an appointment as Senior Scholar and Adjunct Faculty.(2011-present). Posted: March 10, 2023] PA Environment Digest 2011-present). Doors open at 6:45 p.m.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2023

DEP said the significant changes from the previous 2006 Manual include-- -- New interpretive guidance on the post-construction Stormwater Management regulations (25 Pa. Code formal notice ) The deadline for comments is April 28. Code § 102.8

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

21-454 (May 25, 2023) is a landmark ruling in environmental law interpreting the scope of water bodies covered by the Clean Water Act (CWA) – an issue that has been debated by courts, presidential administrations, and federal agencies for decades. 715, 739 (2006). [3] Supreme Court decision in Sackett v. United States , 547 U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 9, 2024

A Taiwan contingency, Abe said, is a Japan contingency, reiterating a phrase he first coined in 2006. In early 2023, Prime Minister Kishida was asked, on two separate occasions, if there would be prior consultation and whether Japan could say no to a US request. In a recent poll (shown below), 47.1%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

In the first half of 2023, the combined share of renewable diesel and biodiesel rose to 59 percent of total diesel fuel use in California. The share of renewable diesel and biodiesel blending into diesel fuel sold in California has grown rapidly and in the first half of 2023 it reached 59 percent. farmdoc daily, March 29, 2023.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The latest contrarian crowd pleaser from Soon et al (2023) is just the latest repetition of the old “it was the sun wot done it” trope[1] that Willie Soon and his colleagues have been pushing for decades. Figure 5a from Chatzistergos (2023) showing the total lack of correlation of SCL to the modern warming. 4171-4176, 2013.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2022

My weary friends, may your miraculous hope hold you up and charge us forward in 2023 and always. Chichagof Island, Alaska, 2006. It was the reefs at first. I can see your face: kaleidoscopic dreamscapes of infinitesimal architects. This biologic blockbuster now breaking, now falling. Those fights, long and frantic, were over and lost.

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MGKF Law

MAY 29, 2023

EPA , 2023 WL 3632751 (U.S. 715, 754 (2006). In Sackett v. United States, 547 U.S. See 88 Fed. Read More » Tags: Clean Water Act , Decisions of Note , EPA , Major Questions Doctrine , Navigability , Ninth Circuit , Rapanos , Supreme Court , United States Supreme Court , Wetlands

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 22, 2023

Posted: August 22, 2023] PA Environment Digest The forecasted summer peak demand for electricity is approximately 156,000 MW, but PJM has performed reliability studies at even higher loads – in excess of 163,000 MW. PJM’s current peak demand for this summer occurred July 27 and was 148,000 MW. Click Here for a copy of the Hot Weather Alert.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 30, 2024

In November 2023, conservation and environmental protection leader Deborah Nardone was appointed as the Executive Director of the Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds. FPW is a grantmaking foundation that invests in local efforts to protect healthy streams, clean up pollution, and restore degraded wildlife habitat.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2023

Since 2006, the INSR Program has provided more than $133 million to 229 projects that have reduced 22 million pounds of nitrogen, 4 million pounds of phosphorus, and 971,740 tons of sediment across the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Click Here for the FY 2023 RFA. Posted: August 8, 2023] PA Environment Digest Deadline September 15.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 1, 2023

Tom joined WM in 2006 and has served in the Gas Group since 2009. Posted: March 1, 2023] PA Environment Digest As the Capitol Area Gas Operations Manager for WM, Tom Spears oversees 13 active gas collection systems across Pennsylvania and West Virginia, six of which have active renewable energy projects. Click Here to register.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

President & CEO of Cenovus Energy: 2017-2023 TC Energy: 1990-2017 Chief Operating Officer of TC Energy: 2015-2017 VP and President Development of TC Energy Corp: 2006-2014 Villain Career Profile Alex Pourbaix has always gone above and beyond to advocate for pipelines and the oil and gas industry. million in 2015.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Heine, 88, passed away on February 14, 2023. During his tenure on Council he has served as Chairman from June 2004 through September 2006 and before that as Vice Chair. Posted: February 25, 2023] PA Environment Digest He also served on DEP’s Citizens Advisory Council for 34 years. Heine Associates, Inc.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This is the first time the EPA has set biofuels targets under the program that began in 2006. The EPA plans a public hearing on its proposal on January 10, 2023. The EPA Office of the Inspector General identified the agency’s eight top management challenges for 2023. Before now, the targets were mandated by Congress.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

This led to an unfair distribution of funds until the FTA’s tribal transit program was implemented in 2006 with a direct funding and application route to the federal government. The Federal Highway Administration’s greenhouse gas performance measure, finalized in late 2023, is one example of this data-driven approach.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Según datos de 2023 de la Agencia de Protección Ambiental (EPA , por sus siglas en inglés), 104 esterilizadores comerciales que emiten óxido de etileno operan en Estados Unidos y Puerto Rico. Es utilizado para esterilizar equipo médico y plásticos sensibles al calor o la humedad.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. The company has yet to publish a report for its grantmaking in 2022, let alone 2023. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) Rose asked Tillerson open-ended questions on a range of subjects, including climate change and national energy policy. And Rose did, at times, ask follow-up questions.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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HumanNature

APRIL 17, 2023

Hydrol Process 20 , 183–196 (2006). Geomorphology 80 , 295–309 (2006). River Res Appl (2023) doi:10.1002/rra.4114. Ground Water 46 , 671–687 (2008). Siegel, D. & Bauer, R. Impact of debris dams on hyporheic interaction along a semi-arid stream. Sawyer, A. Bayani Cardenas, M. & & Buttles, J. Brummer, C. . &

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Baiton was at COP27 and is expected to return for COP28, which runs from November 30th until December 12th, 2023. Under Baiton’s leadership, CAPP has lobbied the federal government 74 times in the first 9 months of 2023 – that’s once every 2.5

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 3, 2022

And lastly, no deal between Texas and New Mexico over the Rio Grande means the lawsuit heads to trial in January 2023. In the Rapanos split decision from 2006, Scalia argued that only wetlands with a continuous surface connection to a river or lake should be covered by the statute. No Deal in Rio Grande Water Dispute.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2023

Much of this funding is from the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE), the Abandoned Mine Lands Economic Revitalization program (AMLER), and from the 2022 Bi-partisan Infrastructure Legislation (BIL) or Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which resulted in total funding of $297M in FY 2023. 23 to Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 2006 ) -- Sunoco Pipeline - Tinicum Release Site: DEP received a Remedial Investigation Report/ Cleanup Plan on remediation of soil and groundwater contaminated with unleaded gasoline in Tinicum Twp., Susquehanna County. ( Greene County. ( Greene County. ( Delaware County. ( PA Bulletin, page 2005 ) --Coterra Energy, Inc. -

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 28, 2022

The 179D commercial buildings energy efficiency tax deduction has since 2006 enabled building owners to claim a $1.80 HR 5376 makes clear that the existing provisions remain in effect through December 31, 2022 and the new text will be effective, permanently, from January 1, 2023 forward. per square foot tax deduction (i.e.,

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Casey Visits Warren County To Talk About Federal Funding To Plug Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Including 5,000 To 7,000 In Allegheny National Forest [Posted: September 3, 2023] PA Environment Digest Some at the Allegheny have really changed their tune on Tracy Ridge.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

3d , 2023 WL 526075, the Louisiana Supreme Court rejected a writ of mandamus that would have compelled the LDNR to satisfy a $4.7 In Crooks v. State of Louisiana through the Department of Natural Resources , 22-0625 (La. 1/1/23), So. million judgment for reimbursement of mineral royalties.

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