Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 27, 2023

It’s likely our neighborhood was most exposed from the time the neighborhood was developed in 2007 until 2014, when the plants installed scrubbers in their smokestacks. Agency officials told us that EtO is one of the most dangerous chemicals the agency regulates. The EPA comment period for EtO regulations closes today.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

Today, the Supreme Court decided its most important environmental case since 2007. In order to regulate existing power plants—especially existing coal-fired plants—EPA turned to section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act. The Obama Administration’s section 111(d) regulation was known as the Clean Power Plan. Background .

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 9, 2023

The EPA updated its anticipated timetable for drafting and finalizing new rules and regulations, indicating that draft rules for two PFAS chemicals in drinking water will be delayed until March 2023. The agency said in February 2022 that it would regulate PFOA and PFOS in drinking water and issued the draft by the end of the year.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2021

On August 28, the Environmental Quality Board published the final regulation in the PA Bulletin increasing Chapters 91 and 92 Water Quality Permit fee increases which were made necessary by cuts in funding by the General Assembly. Documents related to this draft final regulation are posted on the EQB webpage.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 26, 2021

Here, the 9 th Circuit had ruled in 2007 that the Kennedy concurrence was the controlling rule of law. The history of the case is tortuous, entertaining, and altogether too long even to summarize adequately in a blog post. I will confess that I used to find the multiple opinions in Sackett entertaining; now I just want it to go away.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

That’s because the case, which was about the nature and scope of EPA authority in regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants, turned on a rule that does not exist. Because while this decision does still recognize EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, it simultaneously sharply curtails the agency’s ability to do so.

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Effective September 10, 2021 , the Federal Acquisition Regulation Council revised FAR 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting, and related FAR sections to address an inconsistency between that clause and the corresponding Small Business Administration (SBA) regulation at 13 C.F.R. § 125.6.[[N: N: SBA promulgated 13 C.F.R.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

MECP claims that these changes will improve implementation of the legislation, however, this is only true if you think better implementation of species protection legislation involves making it weaker.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

In the face of disappointing legislation and regulation, activists have increasingly turned to courts in the last fifteen years. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. However, given the unprecedentedruling’s questionable logic, I doubt that it stand on appeal.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2023

Additionally, the agency exceeded their workload capacity long ago and has not been able to enforce regulations in a manner that is protective of the environment. There are detailed inspection reports on file with the department for wells that were never drilled. Clara 20 is currently an active gas well with storage tanks nearby.

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Renewable + Law

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The ANPR is the first step in the Service’s rulemaking process to codify the interpretation that the MBTA prohibits incidental take and develop an approach to regulate or permit such take. This ANPR is reminiscent of the 2007 ANPR that initiated the incidental take program under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

On September 17, the Susquehanna River Basin Commission took action to adopt changes to its groundwater withdrawal regulations and policies covering pre-drilling natural water well reviews, hydro geologic evaluations and aquifer testing. Click Here for a copy. Click Here for a copy.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

Following the 2007 landmark Supreme Court case Massachusetts v. EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. These emissions standards were significantly loosened in the last year of the Trump Administration.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 24, 2020

The successes and failures of international regulation of ocean waste provide a basis for developing a model for effective regulation of orbital debris. MARPOL is particularly important for the regulation of marine pollution from ships spilling oil and other harmful substances. [14]. 2007, ([link]. [21]. link]. ). [2].

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 2, 2021

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Inspector General identified a decline in enforcement activity within the agency from fiscal 2007 through fiscal 2018 in a report released Thursday. Read the full story in The Hill.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2023

In 2007, he initiated the Center for Environmental Policy, spearheading the Academy’s involvement in policy and sustainability issues. Ruth Patrick’s staff, writing and producing the Know Your Environment publication. 7 -- Erie Times: Will Proposed Gannon University Great Lakes Research & Education Center Be Housed In Blasco Library?

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2023

The study included test results for 17 different dust suppressants for dirt roads and winter road treatments, including five different sources of brine water pumped from conventional oil and gas wells-- three conventional well brine waters regulated by DEP and two sources of brine water pumped from played-out conventional wells.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

The coal industry and conservative states want the high court to limit EPA’s powers solely to the regulation of individual power plants. EPA , the landmark 2007 decision that said the EPA has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emitted from new motor vehicles. They appear to have a sympathetic ear in Justice Alito.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 25, 2024

Historically, Canada’s financial sector has a reputation for being well regulated. Although the 2007-8 financial crash caused a global recession, Canada was far less impacted than the United States because the Canadian government had strong financial sector regulations that prevented financial collapse.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

EPA US Supreme Court decision in 2007 and the EPA’s follow-on Endangerment Finding and Cause or Contribute Finding in 2009, which ultimately set the stage for the agency to not only have the authority—but also the obligation—to regulate power plant carbon emissions. EPA Supreme Court decision in 2022. EPA’s 6-3 majority opinion.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In response, Congress put in place regulations to cut oil use from new passenger vehicles, known as the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) program. Shortly thereafter, the Supreme Court ruled that EPA had the authority to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from passenger cars and trucks under Massachusetts v.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

That the state official who oversees the permitting and regulation of all major energy projects in Montana could be ignorant of the UN body that has been issuing increasingly urgent assessments about global warming and climate data for 30 years is unbelievable and distressing. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

would apply to the Louisiana Environmental Quality Act public notification regulation. [2]. 3] The public notification regulation, 33 LA. 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] 1] D & J Invs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

The ExxonMobil report shows the company continues to expand oil and gas exploration, bragging that refinery output is at its highest level since 2007 and that plastics production increased by an estimated 10% since the last report, thanks in part to a new recycling plant in Texas. 2023 will be a crucial juncture in a long, bumpy trip.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

UCS has been watchdogging the issue since 2007, when we called out the Bush administration for blatantly ignoring CASAC’s recommendations to set the ozone standard to between 60 to 70 ppb.

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E2 Law Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Under the WPA, a person wishing to do any work in or near a regulated waterbody must first submit a notice of intent to do the work to the local conservation commission. 859, 865-66 (2007). Boston Clear Water Co. Town of Lynnfield , No. 21-P-166 (Mass. See, e.g., Oyster Creek Preservation, Inc. Comm’n of Harwich , 449 Mass.

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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2024

Marine geoengineering first came to the attention of the international community in 2007, when a U.S.-based The Planktos proposal never went ahead, but it did prompt the international community to consider whether and how ocean fertilization should be regulated. But that term continues to be widely used in international discussions.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Agenda Posted. DEP Air Quality Technical Advisory Committee meeting. Contact: Kirit Dalal, kdalai@pa.gov.

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Brag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

EPA notes that because the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA) does not include volumes after 2022, this is the first time that EPA is setting these proposed biofuel volume targets without using those outlined in statute.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

First issued by the EIB (European Investment Bank) in 2007 in Sweden, green bonds have grown from $11 billion USD in 2013 to $1 Trillion USD in December 2020 globally. Transparent country-specific regulations need to be put in place. But it matters how these funds are being mobilized.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

The leadoff articles in the series included a commentary from Lisa Heinzerling , a Georgetown University environmental law professor, who crafted the victorious brief in the 2007 Massachusetts v. EPA decision where the Supreme Court said the EPA had the authority to regulate global warming gases.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 28, 2022

2007 published by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers and the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, or “(B) the most recent”. There will be regulations issued to implement the amendments and it can be anticipated they will be extensive.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 7, 2010

By Stephen Wiegand EPA recently announced its position regarding the timing of the regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act’s Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) Program. However, pollutants such as carbon dioxide, for which EPA regulations only require monitoring and reporting, are not subject to PSD permitting.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine New Gas Plant Threatens Indigenous Livelihoods in Russia’s Far North Total oil project hurts 'tens of thousands' in rural Uganda: watchdog NGOs Brazil environment regulator denies Total permit to drill Foz do Amazonas basin Total settles U.S. million in 2013.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 29, 2007

The Commissioner of Conservation will conduct a hearing on the proposed regulations on Wednesday February 28, 2007. Comments may be submitted at the hearing, or may be submitted in writing up to March 7, 2007. To view the proposed regulations, click here.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

We need governments to regulate industry. Baiton expects high performance teams, and CAPP has successfully achieved many of their goals: delaying and weakening of provincial and federal government climate regulations, massive subsidies and new project approvals. She also believes in getting the job done outside of the office.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 31, 2022

A short history: In 2007, before building a house on the property, the Sacketts filled in land that the agency says should not have been altered because it was a regulated wetland. This will be the second time the Sackett case will come before the Supreme Court.

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