PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

2013), claims under the ERA had very little teeth without a supporting claim of a violation of some other statutory or regulatory provision, and an ERA claim often served as strongly worded bluster without any substance. 2013)) (citing Pa. By Paul Bruder, Jr., Commonwealth, 83 A.3d 3d 901 (Pa. Further, the Commonwealth (i.e.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2023

Federal Infrastructure Louie Krak, DEP Federal Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator, will provide the update on mine reclamation, well plugging and other projects in the agency funded by the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Visit DEP’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law webpage for more background. Read more here. Read more here.

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Law of the Lands

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

AS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN THE RURAL VOICE : Section 156(1) of Ontario’s Environmental Protection Act (“EPA”) authorizes a provincial officer, without a warrant or court order, to inspect any location in which or from which a contaminant “is being, has been or may be discharged in to the natural environment.”

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

Today’s the day for the long-awaited release of Environmental Protection Agency regulations to tackle planet-warming pollution by the nation’s power plants. Back in 2013, the first Zero Emission Vehicle Action Plan (ZEV) was released as a roadmap for how to get 1.5 In the year 2023, the U.S. million electric cars in use by 2025.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In New York state, voters have a chance to enshrine environmental protections in their state constitution, which could revive a legal movement that flourished in the United States a half-century ago. How many words protect freedom of speech? Dernbach told Circle of Blue. It doesn’t need to be long. Senate race.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As previously reported on this blog, ocean CDR research could implicate various international and domestic laws that might affect whether, when, where, and how projects take place. Both the LC and LP require parties to adopt domestic laws to regulate the “dumping” of “waste and other matter” at sea. Many haven’t yet done so.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

One year ago, Ohio passed a law giving county commissioners the ability to veto large renewable energy projects. district court judge ruled that the Line 5 oil pipeline has been trespassing on certain tribal lands since 2013, when easements for those areas expired, the Wisconsin Examiner reports.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2023

Road Salt, A Stealthy Pollutant, Is Damaging Michigan Waters Rivers and lakes are becoming saltier while law and practice limit effective responses. The law, part of a package of national environmental reforms in the early 1970s, was transformative. The law exempts most sources of such pollution from regulation and oversight.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 23, 2023

The Petitioners argued that the City’s 2013 and 2015 rate methodology for the SFR class violated the requirement of Proposition 218 that rates charged to any parcel be proportional to the cost of providing service to that parcel.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

I first wrote about ExxonMobil in March 2013 after I saw the company’s then-CEO, Rex Tillerson, on the Charlie Rose talk show, who provided me with fodder for perhaps my favorite of two dozen ExxonMobil-related columns. In fact, such standards have had a negligible effect on electricity prices and often save ratepayers money.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2022

The awards are presented to Pennsylvanians who made a unique and creative contribution to the field of environmental management in Pennsylvania with preference given to the fields of administration, law, regulation and community organization. Karl Mason served as Pennsylvania’s first State Environmental Administrator from 1952 to 1966.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2024

Information provided by the Department of Environmental Protection in response to a Right To Know request shows DEP took enforcement action against 14 conventional oil and gas well operators that resulted in collecting $422,365 in penalties and bond forfeitures in 2023. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2024

On January 26, 2024, the Department of Environmental Protection issued a notice of violation to Equitrans Midstream for abandoning and not plugging 19 conventional gas wells at the Swarts Natural Gas Storage Field in Greene County. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

On May 10, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund announced PA General Energy, LLC notified the Department of Environmental Protection that it intends to plug its proposed toxic frack-waste injection well in Grant Township after this Memorial Day. The community’s concerns have been vindicated.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 25, 2021

The Phase l Environmental Site Assessment Standard E1527-13 will sunset in late 2021, eight years from its approval on November 6, 2013. This is hugely significant because a Phase l Environmental Site Assessment is conducted in the vast majority of the 5.6 Importantly, the ASTM E1527 is recognized by the U.S.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate new national ballast water treatment standards to address the threat of invasives by December 2020. 2013 EPA Vessel General Permit. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that struck down parts of the 2013 VGP as being arbitrary and capricious. requires U.S. by the U.S.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 26, 2021

The awards are presented to Pennsylvanians who made a unique and creative contribution to the field of environmental management in Pennsylvania with preference given to the fields of administration, law, regulation and community organization. Karl Mason served as Pennsylvania’s first State Environmental Administrator from 1952 to 1966.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

In the ongoing legal battle, Enbridge has been found guilty of trespass on tribal territory since 2013. Article IV of the Pipeline Treaty clearly allows governmental authorities to make decisions about pipelines, and enforce laws that don’t unfairly impede the flow of oil. Canada wants to influence U.S.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin.

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Acoel

DECEMBER 17, 2021

ASTM announced revisions to its standard practice for Phase I environmental site assessments (E1527-21) on November 1, 2021 (the “Standard”). Environmental Protection Agency (“U.S. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (“CERCLA”) and analogous state laws. . Looking Ahead.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Here in Pennsylvania, a landfill applying for a permit with the state’s Department of Environmental Protection to evaporate liquid landfill runoff — called leachate — could create airborne radioactive material over people downwind. I’m a science journalist and four years ago, I fell down the oil-field radioactivity rabbit hole.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Meaningful Air Monitoring Results Difficult DEP’s Bureau of Air Quality did regional air quality sampling around shale gas facilities between 2010 and 2013 in Southwest, Northcentral and Northeast parts of the state. That is true but we can stop stupid legislation from becoming law. CNX installed two Particulate Matter 2.5

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

I am excited to be presenting a fast paced and fun one hour virtual program, “Environmental Social Governance (ESG) an Emergent and Fast Growing Area of the Law” for the Maryland State Bar Association, and Not just for lawyers, on December 14, 2021 at noon. Register today for the live virtual program. 9601) and petroleum products.”.

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Acoel

MAY 17, 2022

My mind went back to law school and Marbury v. A brief discussion of the underlying 2013 case, Iowa League of Cities v. 3d 844, is in order [ 2013 Iowa League of Cities Case ]. In its own right this 2013 case was an eye opener. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals had issued a mandamus order against the U.S. Mandamus order?

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2023

First Conventional Industry Compliance Review Another possible agenda item is the first-ever assessment of how well conventional oil and gas drillers comply with state environmental laws DEP released on December 29. Read more here. All three reports support our findings.”

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Other violations like failure to manage drilling wastewater safely, not notifying DEP of spills, failure to submit annual well integrity and waste disposal reports, failure to operate the wells to meet environmental protection standards and many more go along with NOVs for failure to plug wells. The law would have to be changed.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2018

3L Student, Vermont Law School. President Obama selected Gina McCarthy as EPA administrator in 2013. [2]. Prior to working for the EPA, McCarthy worked as the Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. [4]. Pruitt specialized in constitutional law and federalism issues. [12].

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Law Columbia

APRIL 12, 2024

On Thursday April 4th, the Environmental Protection Agency announced $20 billion of awards from the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) created under the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). Photo by Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images Last week was big for green bank champions. The idea has come a long way fast.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 17, 2022

It is hugely significant that the Phase l Environmental Site Assessment standard is in limbo because that assessment is conducted in the vast majority of the 5.6 including for a real estate purchaser to avoid liability under the Superfund law). million commercial real estate transactions each year in the United States (i.e.,

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Vermont Law

APRIL 19, 2019

In June 2013, the University of Hawaii prepared the Lahaina Groundwater Tracer Study for the State of Hawai‘i Department of Health, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. LAHAINA GROUNDWATER TRACER STUDY (2013), [link]. After graduation, Savannah hopes to practice environmental law in Seattle, Washington.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection reported their inspections found 4,386 violations of environmental regulations at conventional oil and gas operations during 2021 -- nearly two and a half times the violations reported just two years ago in 2019 and 337 more than in 2020.

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