PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

On February 15, the Department of Environmental Protection told the Environmental Quality Board conventional oil and gas drilling companies only paid $46,100 of the $10,600,000 it cost for DEP to regulate that industry in FY 2020-21. Overall, DEP expects an annual revenue deficit of at least $10.5

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

The market-based compliance mechanism deigned by CARB went into effect in 2012 in the form of the California Cap-and-Trade Program. The AB 398 changes to Cap-and-Trade Program started to phase-in on January 1, 2021. Today, the Program regulates roughly 450 entities responsible for roughly 85% of the state’s GHG emissions.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

County of Inyo (2021) __ Cal.App.5th__. As a matter of law, the Court also held the County improperly relied on the existing facilities exemption for the project. The proposed amendments relied on the 1999 MNDs and 2012 addendum, with no additional CEQA review or mitigation deemed necessary by the County.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 20, 2021

FDA’s decision to issue this investigator-specific guidance follows publication of a draft sponsor-specific safety reporting guidance in June 2021, and is part of an effort to ultimately replace the older guidance documents with role-specific guidance. 2021) (RWE Draft Guidance). A summary of these documents follows below.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

By Eli Francovich, Columbia Insight — December 7, 2021. And while state laws across the region regulate how, when and why water rights are sold, some worry it won’t be enough to hold back the tide. “I If climate change forecasts prove accurate, the summer of 2021 was a dress rehearsal for the future. World of scarcity’.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2023

Pollution of a water well like this is presumed by law to be caused by a natural gas well located within 2,500 feet of the well. The DEP inspector found significant natural gas readings around the well head of the water well which has been disconnected from the house and is no longer in use. Both violations are still outstanding.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 22, 2024

Under the Federal Power Act (FPA), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has authority to regulate “ the transmission of electric energy in interstate commerce.” FERC approved this agreement in 2017, and Transource then filed siting applications with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC), as required by Pennsylvania law.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 16, 2022

Countries around the world have increasingly adopted climate change laws over the last two decades. This is partially attributable to the dynamism in international climate negotiations but also a growing appreciation of the crucial role that national laws and policy measures play. Overview of the Climate Change Act 2021.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 3, 2023

Vending machine selling water on Maui, 2021. The Supreme Court will decide which wetland ecosystems are included in the Clean Water Act, the law that regulates the dumping of pollutants into American waters.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The Coalition said Section 3225(a)(1) Act 13 of 2012 set bond amounts for oil and gas wells, but did not differentiate between conventional and unconventional wells. The operative language links these Fiscal Code provisions to Section 3225(a)(1) of Act 13 of 2012 and says-- “Section 1606-E. Conventional oil and gas well bonding. (a)

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2022

DEP reported in its Right To Know response just 76 conventional companies were assessed penalties for their violations over the last six years by the agency totalling $2,524,973-- between 2016 and 2021. In 2021, conventional oil and gas operators reported road dumping over 580,000 gallons of drilling wastewater. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The report looked at environmental compliance in the industry between 2017 through 2021. Overview Of Non-Compliance DEP reports between 2017 through 2021, the agency did 63,026 inspections of wells belonging to 1,512 conventional oil and gas well owners operating 34,812 wells. Why The Assessment? DEP’s assessment was promised by Gov.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 20, 2022

State laws prevent some tribes from taking water from the river if they can’t prove how much is theirs. At an October law conference at the University of Colorado Boulder, Cloud shared her family’s experience of filling up water tanks at her uncle’s home with his garden hose. government marginalizing native voices. .

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Vermont Law

APRIL 10, 2022

Tackling Food Insecurity in Urban Food Deserts: A Legal Toolkit By Colleen McGrath , Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23) and Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 10, 2022 Despite their crowded streets, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Newark, Chicago, and other large urban communities are often considered food deserts.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 25, 2021

Photographs by Ryan Christopher Jones – May 25, 2021. The foundations of Mexico City churches have famously tilted, and one 2012 study found that Venice was subsiding at a rate of.07 All of the company’s surface water transfers and exchanges have been approved by state water regulators. By Lois Henry. Nemeth said.

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Renewable + Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

On October 21, 2021, the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) approved a rule that creates requirements for power companies to better prepare for winter weather. 3, effective June 8, 2021, is a multi-pronged law that attempts to make the Texas energy system more resilient to the effects of extreme winter weather events.

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Renewable + Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

On October 21, 2021, the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) approved a rule that creates requirements for power companies to better prepare for winter weather. 3, effective June 8, 2021, is a multi-pronged law that attempts to make the Texas energy system more resilient to the effects of extreme winter weather events.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Yet in 2021, it was the second largest emitter of benzene, releasing 15.82 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.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles.  Who's to blame?

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles.  Who's to blame?

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Yet in 2021, it was the second largest emitter of benzene, releasing 15.82 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.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Yet in 2021, it was the second largest emitter of benzene, releasing 15.82 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.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Yet in 2021, it was the second largest emitter of benzene, releasing 15.82 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.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Yet in 2021, it was the second largest emitter of benzene, releasing 15.82 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.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Yet in 2021, it was the second largest emitter of benzene, releasing 15.82 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.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Yet in 2021, it was the second largest emitter of benzene, releasing 15.82 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.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2022

Department of Interior in December for the well plugging funds authorized under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. It was drilled by Atlas from 2011 to 2012. Jain made these comments at the May 18 DEP Citizens Advisory Council meeting and in a subsequent interview. It produced gas copiously for two years and then declined very quickly.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

WASHINGTON, DC, May 24, 2021 — Arnold & Porter announced today that Jane Norberg has joined the firm’s Securities Enforcement and Litigation practice as a partner, resident in Washington, DC. She joined the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2012 as Deputy Chief of the Office and was appointed to her position in 2016.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

On October 26, 2021, Observatório do Clima (OC), a network of 71 civil society organizations, filed a class action at the federal court of Amazonas against the Environmental Ministry and Brazilian government ( Laboratório do Observatório do Clima v. By Maria Antonia Tigre. Environmental Ministry and Brazil ). by 2020 against a 2010 baseline.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Since the country began regulating abandoned mines in 1977 under the Abandoned Mine Land program, the country spent $5 billion, and about $400 million in the Illinois basin, to repair clogged and polluted streams, recontour steep highwalls, and reforest denuded landscapes. In 2021, the fee was lowered by an additional 20 percent.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

For example, EPA projected a total of just 4,700 MW of coal capacity retirements under the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule. In comparison, onroad and offroad mobile sources – the primary cause of urban ozone nonattainment – reduced their NOx emissions by 68% from 1995 to 2021, to a level of 4.1 million tons.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

The Public Utility Commission imposed its own penalties for violations under its laws. Million Cubic Feet Of Gas The CNX Oak Springs Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Station was built in 2012 approximately 1,500 feet away from the Borello Family-- Jodi, her husband and three children-- in South Franklin Township, Washington County.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

In 2021 and 2022, if you wanted to buy an EV you might be on a waiting list for many months or even years which in turn drove aggressive projections by automakers for future years sales. The bipartisan infrastructure law provided up to $7.5 I don’t feel like I’m sticking my neck out here. Just look at the past 10+ years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Last week, the Federal Highway Administration finalized an important regulation–the greenhouse gas performance measure. Currently, only 24 states and the District of Columbia have laws requiring them to set targets and track their greenhouse gas emissions from transportation.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Cal-Am’s Multi-Component, Cross-Jurisdictional Water Supply Project Cal-Am is a CPUC-regulated investor-owned water utility that supplies water to much of the Monterey Peninsula, a semi-arid area prone to frequent drought conditions that is heavily reliant on historically over drafted groundwater aquifers for its water supply.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

(This post was authored by Eric Peshkin, a JD candidate at NYU School of Law and CLEE summer research assistant). Innovative regulation and incentive programs can facilitate the development and implementation of many of these methods, and these will be explored in a future blog post. 2013 , Patra and Yu, 2012 , Kinley et al.,

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