Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This finding comes as environmental and food safety groups take Canada’s pesticide regulator to court to challenge the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA)’s decisions on glyphosate product renewals, and at a time of accusations of regulatory capture of the regulator. Kids are the most exposed to this pesticide.

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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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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

In the year 2023, the U.S. 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. So, EPA and the states have a shared responsibility to regulate “existing sources” — primarily power plants— under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

According to an October 2023 report by the Climate Investigations Center (CIC), a nonprofit watchdog organization, the industry has been gaslighting us by promoting the idea that “cooking with gas” is a good thing, despite knowing as far back as 1970 that gas stoves pose a threat to public health and the environment.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

. -- 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. ( Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations?

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] This piece previously appeared in the CLS Blue Sky Blog.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2024

Attempts To Regulate Disposal Before Failed There have been attempts to regulate the road dumping of conventional wastewater before to reduce its environmental and health impacts. Non-Compliance A Norm Non-compliance with regulations and the law is not an isolated event with conventional well owners. Read more here.

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Law Columbia

MAY 19, 2023

Further embracing this presidential agenda, on May 20, 2021, President Biden issued EO 14030 , entitled “Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk”, the Biden administration’s declaration of policy on the possible incorporation of climate-related financial risk considerations into federal government regulations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This blog post was co-authored by Martha Kinsella, former senior counsel in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law. It was originally published in the blog STAT on November 10, 2023. By Jacob Carter and Martha Kinsella In late August 2017, Hurricane Harvey brought Texas rain that just wouldn’t stop.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The PA Environment Digest included 4,258 new stories in 2023 about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Thank you for your leadership! 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2024

DEP said 1,230 wells (approximately 49%) appear to have been abandoned after January 1, 2017; 518 wells (approximately 21%) appear to have been abandoned prior to January 1, 2017; and 746 wells (approximately 30%) were identified after January 1, 2017 as having been abandoned, but the precise date of abandonment is unknown.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The CES, first enacted in 2017, requires retail sellers of electricity in Massachusetts to provide increasing quantities of clean electricity over time. The regulations were amended in 2020 to include a program for existing generation units, CES-E, which has several distinct requirements.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 29, 2023

By Natasha Gilbert This article was first published in Public Health Watch and the Grist on August 29, 2023 and documents how manganese in drinking water could harm infants and children and how industries are downplaying the risks in their fight against tighter controls. Click Here to read the entire article. Read more here. Read more here.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The $425 million amount would represent a $57 million increase over FY 2023 levels. The United Arab Emirates is set to host the United Nations Framework on Climate Change Conference of Parties 28 (COP 28) in November 2023. Nominations are due March 2, 2023. climate talks. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2024

The agenda for the April 25 meeting of DCED’s PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council features a discussion dumping conventional oil and gas well wastewater on public roads for disposal, an update on taxpayer funded well plugging grant programs and DEP regulations limiting methane emissions from conventional wells. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

DEP has also taken the step of advising municipalities in writing that road dumping conventional oil and gas drilling wastewater is illegal and considered waste disposal-- since it doesn’t meet Residual Waste Regulation requirements. The same DEP data showed from 1991 to 2017, over 240.4 Read more here. Is It Useful? Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 20, 2024

Attempts To Regulate Disposal Before Failed There have been attempts to regulate the road dumping of conventional wastewater before to reduce its environmental and health impacts. Non-Compliance A Norm Non-compliance with regulations and the law is not an isolated event with conventional well owners. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2024

DEP has also taken the step of advising municipalities in writing that road dumping conventional oil and gas drilling wastewater is illegal and considered waste disposal-- since it doesn’t meet Residual Waste Regulation requirements. The same DEP data showed from 1991 to 2017, over 240.4 Read more here. Is it Useful? Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This editorial first appeared in the Scranton Times on February 24, 2023 -- Many state lawmakers long ago abandoned their constitutional duty to preserve the environment by instead representing the natural gas industry. That provides an incentive for abandonment rather than obeying the law. Former Gov. His successor, Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

page D-6 ] The Budget Book says in FY 2022-23 Shell received $5 million in tax subsidies; in FY 2023-24 Shell will get $60.9 million; and in FY 2024-25 Shell will get another $65 million-- the maximum amount available by law. The law authorized the tax credit for the next 16 years through December 31, 2042 when the tax credit expires.

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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. The EU presents the NDC as one Party ( Regulation (EU) 2018/842 ). Under Annex 1 of the EU Regulation, by 2030, Spain must have reduced its GHG emissions by 37.7% For all climate laws related to Spain, see here.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), signed into law on November 15, 2021, amended Section 40307 of the Outer Continental Shelfs Act (OCSLA) to provide authority to the U.S. However, the DOI’s proposed implementing regulations authorized by the IIJA have yet to be issued for public comment.

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Law Columbia

MAY 30, 2024

Upon the initiative of the United Nations Human Rights Council (the UNHRC), a new legally binding agreement regulating transnational business enterprises’ human rights violations is likely on its way. The future legal value of the Draft Treaty will be that of enforceable regulation, provided of course that it is adopted in its current form.

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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 18, 2023

On January 17, 2023, DOJ’s Criminal Division released an updated Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy that comes on the heels of other revisions i n late 2022 to the department’s corporate criminal enforcement policies. Mr. Reagan is not admitted to the practice of law in the District of Columbia.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

The agenda for the April 25 meeting of DCED’s PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council features a discussion dumping conventional oil and gas well wastewater on public roads for disposal, an update on taxpayer funded well plugging grant programs and DEP regulations limiting methane emissions from conventional wells. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The agenda includes -- -- Discussion of the first-ever assessment of how well conventional oil and gas drillers comply with state environmental laws DEP released on December 29 that concluded the industry accepts non-compliance as a norm. The report looked at environmental compliance in the industry between 2017 through 2021.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The department plans to complete assessments at the remaining sites by September 30, 2023. The Food Safety Modernization Act, an umbrella law, was signed by President Obama in 2011. Drinking Water Contaminants for Potential Regulation. As of September 30, the department had completed assessments at only 190 of the installations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Most of these pieces were about the company’s support for a seemingly independent network of anti-regulation, “free-market” nonprofits that spread falsehoods about the reality and seriousness of climate change. Darren Woods, ExxonMobil CEO from 2017 to the present. We do not support climate denial,” he replied. “We

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2023

On January 20, the natural gas industry and Senate Republicans launched an effort to unleash the industry by reducing regulations, requiring automatic approval of permits and limiting opportunities for public review of permits at a hearing of the Senate Republican Policy Committee in Pittsburgh. Dan Laughlin (R-Erie) said. Read more here.

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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.” District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania issued a decision on December 6, 2023 in Transource Pa. FERC Order No. Transource Pa. Defrank The U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

He was appointed as a mediator by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to work with the environmental community and industry to establish better regulations for water quality monitoring in areas impacted by coal ash. from Villanova University School of Law.

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 8, 2023

In response to that case, BAAQMD put out new guidelines in 2017, but quickly determined those guidelines were out of date. In BAAQMD’s own words: “The 2017 revision did not address outdated references, analytical methodologies, or technical information improvements. of Supervisors (2017) 17 Cal.App.5th (2015) 62 Cal.4th

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

In 2017, AB 398 authorized the extension of the Program through 2030, instituted certain design changes, and set a new GHG reduction goal of 40 percent by 2030. Today, the Program regulates roughly 450 entities responsible for roughly 85% of the state’s GHG emissions. Participants are subject to holding limits.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 5, 2023

However, the deployment of MRE technologies can also have impacts on the environment in ABNJ which require to be considered and regulated in advance in order to guarantee that they are developed in a sustainable way. The BBNJ negotiations started in April 2018 and the new instrument was agreed on 4 March 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2023

The report concluded, “(the) conventional oil and gas industry’s recent record of compliance with Pennsylvania law is simply not good, particularly with regard to improper abandonment of wells.” “A The report looked at environmental compliance in the industry between 2017 through 2021. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2023

By Michael Rubinkam, Associated Press [On December 20, 2023, the Associated Press published this update on the resumption of shale gas drilling in the Dimock area of Susquehanna County after criminal charges against Coterra Energy, Inc. Coterra Energy Inc. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1 Why Does It Matter?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

California seeks to create a fund to pay for recovery from extreme events and for mitigation and adaptation efforts (without supplanting the climate damage lawsuits filed by eight California communities against the fossil fuel industry since 2017). Newsom just announced that he plans to sign the legislation.

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