PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection has issued a record 5,653 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas operators in 2023, with two months left in the year, according to DEP’s November 3, 2023 Weekly Workload Report. The weekly reports posted during 2023 are below. That’s 25% more than in 2021. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest. Amendments to the Climate Action Law are adopted, setting a binding 2045 date for carbon neutrality, with a 2031 target of a 65% emissions reduction compared with 1990. Renewables are 42% of electricity.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection issued a record 6,860 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas operators in 2023, according to DEP’s December 29, 2023 Weekly Workload Report. more than in 2021 and 26.6% more than in 2022 and 569.9% more than in 2015. Read more here. Just one conventional operator-- John B.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The fifth international conference on regional climate ( ICRC 2023 ), organised by World Climate Research Programme’s ( WCRP ) coordinated downscaling experiment ( CORDEX ), has just completed. It worked impressively well, and the CORDEX ICRC 2023 streaming is available from the WCRP CORDEX YouTube channel.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2024

Braymer was appointed Chief Counsel to the Department of Environmental Protection effective December, 2023. He succeeds Carolina DGiorgio who served as Chief Counsel from March to December 2023 and was named vice president for Governmental and External Affairs at PECO this month. Click Here to see DEP’s entire Executive Staff.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2023

(Credit: Bet Hannon Business) While there’s a great deal that’s dysfunctional and downright wrong about water law and policy in California, occasionally there are positive developments to report. So it’s most satisfying to end 2023 with some good news regarding water in the Golden State. Download as PDF

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Working with the Initiative on Climate Risk and Resilience Law she will focus on federal and state regulatory efforts to address climate-related financial risks. from Harvard Law School in 2021 and an L.LM in Environmental and Energy Law from NYU Law in 2023. from the University of Chicago in 2016.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

Twenty-one school, business and community projects were honored with the 2023 Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence. Posted: May 1, 2023] PA Environment Digest Collectively, the award-winning projects engaged hundreds of partners and achieved the following results: -- Grew and donated nearly 10,000 lbs.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2023

On March 9, the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement announced the award of FY 2023 of $135 million in Abandoned Mine Land Revitalization (AMLER) grants to states. Pennsylvania was awarded $29.35

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The foundational document of international human rights law is the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In 2016, the Human Rights Council declared that damage to cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible, of any people, constitutes damage to the cultural heritage of humanity as a whole. In 2023, in the U.S.,

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Q: So, what happened with global temperatures in 2023? Measured by this longer-term trend, the most recent IPCC report, released in March 2023, projected that we would pass 1.5 Remember, 2023 was a shocker. C hotter than the second-hottest year to date, 2016. C hotter than the second-hottest year to date, 2016.

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Corp Watch

JULY 24, 2023

HGEA files lawsuit to stop privatization of airport security KHON 2 PaulaR Mon, 07/24/2023 - 13:06 Wednesday, July 13, 2016 Read more The state’s largest public workers union has filed a lawsuit against the Hawaii Department of Transportation to keep it from using private security to perform law enforcement and policing services at Honolulu International (..)

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Note: In 2023, DEP issued at least 512 notices of violation to 95 conventional oil and gas well operators for new or continuing well abandonment without plugging them. This well was listed as abandoned by DEP in an inspection report on April 21, 2016 - report not available.] [The Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

April 8 PA Bulletin, page 2016 ) Read more here. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the April 8 PA Bulletin that Chuwi Innovation and Technology is not in compliance with the state electronics waste recycling law and is prohibited from selling its products in Pennsylvania. (

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In addition to these requirements, DEP is also reviewing its policies for allowing the on-site disposal of radioactive and nonradioactive wastes where oil and gas well plugging will be done under the new federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law plugging program. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Houska is the 2023 recipient of The Sam Rose ’58 and Julie Walters Prize for Global Environmental Activism at Dickinson College. Bernie Sanders on Native affairs during his 2016 presidential campaign. 27 Webinar On Hydropower From The Three Rivers [PaEN] [Posted: September 20, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2023

The Court also held changing a regulation between proposed and final does not violate the Commonwealth Documents Law in this circumstance. Shapiro just provided fresh support for key recommendations for changing the regulations and law in a 2020 Grand Jury Report he issued as Attorney General on the Oil and Gas Program. In fact, Gov.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Ongoing Battle to Keep Toxic Chemicals at Bay Outdated federal water laws and chemicals that were approved for industry without assessing for risk leave Ann Arbor and other communities struggling to ward off water contaminants before they foul drinking supplies. It’s frustrating,” he said. For example, U.S.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 22, 2024

District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania issued a decision on December 6, 2023 in Transource Pa. PJM Interconnection had identified grid congestion across the Pennsylvania-Maryland border and concluded that such congestion had led to approximately $800 million in costs from 2012 to 2016. Transource Pa. Defrank The U.S.

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Acoel

JANUARY 4, 2023

Posted on January 4, 2023 by Robert L. Madison established that “[i]t is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.” At that time, the leading case on judicial review of agency interpretations of the law, Skidmore v. The familiar two-step deference doctrine in Chevron v.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2023

The Rose-Walters Prize honors Houska’s work as a tribal attorney, land defender, and founder of the Giniw Collective, an Indigenous women and two-spirit-led resistance committed to defending the Sacred and advocating for systemic change that respects Indigenous sovereignty and natural law. Posted: April 26, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2023

16, 2016, the Commission issued an initial Secretarial Letter seeking stakeholder input related to the scope of a proposed rulemaking to update the LIURP regulations. L-2016-2557886. L-2016-2557886. At the close of this comment period, interested parties have an opportunity to file written reply comments within 30 days.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nestlé, Mars among chocolate makers criticised in cocoa-sourcing report Just Food PaulaR Wed, 01/03/2024 - 15:20 Monday, December 4, 2023 Read more Simon Harvey Ferrero, Mondelez and Lindt also labelled as “inadequate” in Ethical Consumer’s assessment. USA: Nestlé’s Latest Exploits: The case against Nestlé hasn’t stopped growing.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Made From Natural Gas [PaEN] [Posted: February 6, 2023] PA Environment Digest 22 Webinar On How Green Is Blue Hydrogen? 22 Webinar On How Green Is Blue Hydrogen?

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Humanitarianism, Capitalism, and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott by Tehila Sasson (2016) Rigged: Supermarket Shelves for Sale by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) (2016) Nutrition Scientists on the Take from Big Food: Has the American Society for Nutrition lost all credibility?

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Acoel

MARCH 13, 2023

Posted on March 13, 2023 by David B. The Cuban participants in the symposium panels were drawn from the Environmental Law Faculty of the University of Havana, the Cuban Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, the Cuban Ministry of Agriculture, and FANJ. Cuba food market.

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Washington Nature

JULY 3, 2023

Over the past few years, Washington state has enacted a number of climate-focused laws to address both current and anticipated statewide needs and opportunities when it comes to climate change. Our journey began with 2016’s Initiative 732 and expanded with 2018’s Initiative 1631. 2023 priorities ).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2024

Just last year, in 2023, 64 projects requesting $26 million applied for the program. Signed into law in 2016, the DRBCA has successfully brought federal, state, and local governments together with regional partners to identify, prioritize, and implement restoration activities within the Delaware River Basin.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

On June 20, 2023, the Spanish Supreme Court handed down its final ruling in the case of Greenpeace v. Background of Spanish Climate Policy In 2016, the EU ratified the Paris Agreement, which calls on Parties to submit their National Determined Contributions (NDCs) every five years. For all climate laws related to Spain, see here.

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Vermont Law

MAY 17, 2023

Decolonizing Through Food Sovereignty By Callum LaFrance , Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law May 17, 2023 Food is the fulcrum point for many people to pry away the tentacles of colonization. 11) Citations USDI BIA, Why Food Sovereignty Matters , [link] (last visited May 4, 2023). 27, 2023); J.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

She was president of the SLC when the hellbender campaign began in 2016. Army and plans to apply to law school in the fall. In October of 2023, the Eastern hellbender was recognized with a special Pennsylvania license plate that supports the Wild Resource Conservation Fund.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2023

The following editorial first appeared in the Citizens Voice on May 17, 2023 -- Breathe easy. One such regulation, adopted in 2016, requires drillers and the DEP to consider “the impact of a well permit on public resources including parks, forests, game lands, scenic rivers, natural landmarks, habitats of rare and endangered species.

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 12, 2023

In an opinion filed May 12, and later certified for publication on June 8, 2023, the Second District Court of Appeal (Div. In an opinion filed May 12, and later certified for publication on June 8, 2023, the Second District Court of Appeal (Div. City of San Buenaventura (2023) __ Cal.App.5th. City of San Jose (2016) 2 Cal.App.5th

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2023

21-0146, 2023 WL 2053175 (Tex. 17, 2023), in which it re-affirmed the axiomatic principle that a text retains the same meaning in the present day as when it was drafted. The Texas Supreme Court recently released its opinion in Van Dyke v. Navigators Grp. , Dawkins , 483 S.W.3d

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Vermont Law

APRIL 4, 2023

The American Lawn and De-Colonizing the Permaculture Movement By Abigail Bailey , Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 4, 2023 Many Americans consider lawns synonymous with success, comfort, and community. (1) 9, 2023) [link] Schindler, supra note 1, at 394. 31, 2017, Updated Jan. 31, 2018) [link] Id.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2023

Last session, Carper, who introduced the original DRBCA legislation that passed in 2016, introduced a reauthorization bill into the Senate alongside Rep. The law is set to expire in September of this year, and the newly introduced reauthorization measure would extend program funding to 2030. Fitzpatrick and Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Strayer, who also works full-time in law enforcement, received 90 percent cost-share funds for the $111,000 storage area from ACAP through the Cumberland County Conservation District. When his grandfather passed away in 2016, Greg Strayer, now 48, took the farm over. The conservation district received a total of $3.5

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