PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

On February 7, Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful announced the recipients of their recognition program for individuals, government, organizations and businesses whose efforts support and strengthen the mission of a clean and beautiful Pennsylvania. “We DeMichiel made a huge impact and stood out at their 2023 Tire War event.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This week, summer 2023 comes to a close on our calendars but will be remembered for its record-shattering extremes, notably, heat—until, that is, the next record-shattering summer supplants it, quite possibly in 2024. Farmworkers pick strawberries at Lewis Taylor Farms in Fort Valley, GA, on May 7, 2019. 1379 / H.R.

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Washington Nature

JANUARY 9, 2023

Today kicks off the 2023 state legislative session for our elected state leaders. As 2023 is the first year in which the state will be collecting revenue from the Climate Commitment Act, the stakes for these budget decisions are especially high. © Courtney Baxter/TNC.

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ESA

MARCH 6, 2023

In this issue: Comment Period for the National Nature Assessment Closes March 31, 2023 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy leaders appeal for input from ecologists in a Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment editorial. The comment period ends March 31, 2023. National Nature Assessment (NNA). Led by the U.S.

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ESA

MAY 4, 2023

In this issue: ESA Graduate Student Policy Award Recipients Visit Capitol Hill Fifteen ESA members and graduate students visit Congressional offices for the first in-person Graduate Student Policy Award event since 2019. Nominations must be received by June 15, 2023. Responses to the request for information are due July 27, 2023.

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ESA

JANUARY 26, 2024

By Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald (Editor-in-Chief, Earth Stewardship ) ESA Executive Director Catherine O’Riordan and Earth Stewardship Editor-in-Chief Elisabeth Huber-Sannwald man the ESA booth at the British Ecological Society’s 2023 Annual Meeting. The British Ecological Society’s 2023 Annual Meeting was held in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 7, 2023

But these governments are not interested in enforcing sanctions and intercepting shipments. In 2019, when Indonesia was last inundated with widespread fires, the country experienced economic losses of $5.2 Neither American nor NATO forces are able to police these waters without the support of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Tesla sues Swedish government after postal workers allegedly block license plate deliveries CNBC PaulaR Thu, 11/30/2023 - 13:12 Monday, November 27, 2023 Read more Ashley Capoot Tesla filed a lawsuit against the Swedish Transport Agency on Monday that claims it should be able to collect license plates directly instead of receiving them by mail.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

government announced $150 million to support climate adaptation in Africa. Under the proposed consent decree, Ohio would submit a draft pollution limit, or TMDL, for Lake Erie’s western basin by December 31, 2022, and a final TMDL by June 30, 2023. Public comments are being accepted on the draft through January 27, 2023.

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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

MARCH 2, 2023

Since January 2019, many changes have occurred in our local communities’ recycling services – not the least of which was the loss of glass recycling as a curbside residential recycling option. By PA Resources Council , Michael Brothers Hauling & Recycling , CAP Glass, Inc. Why Is This Change Happening Again?

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ESA

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Courts Republican-led state sue to block environmental, social and governance retirement investing rule. 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.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For France, the “Affaire du Siècle” case was filed in the Administrative Court of Paris in May 2019 by four NGOs against the government for its failure to act on climate change. Two months later, in January 2019, the claimants sued the state before the Conseil d’Etat for rejecting their demands.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 16, 2022

Under the voluntary agreement signed in 2019 that governs the cuts, no other basin state is required to limit its withdrawals. Camille Touton, commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, told the states in June that unless they acted the federal government would “protect the system” and apply its own remedy.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Unconventional shale gas operators were issued a total of 1,103 notices of violation so far in 2023, which means they are on track to exceed the 1,234 violations DEP issued them in 2022, according to DEP’s newly released 2022 Oil and Gas Program Annual Report. DEP arrived at the plant on January 3, 2023 to start its investigation.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2023

On Thursday, March 2, 2023, California’s principal energy agencies – the California Energy Commission (CEC) and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) – held a first-of-its-kind, joint en banc hearing at Cal Poly Humboldt with Tribal government leaders and all 10 commissioners of the CEC and CPUC.

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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 18, 2023

Both the number and total dollar amount of corporate FCPA settlements were higher in 2022 than in 2021, though remained lower than in 2019 or 2020. million in profits related to bribes paid to win lucrative train lavatory contracts with the Chinese government. Individual defendants also were in DOJ’s cross-hairs in 2022.

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Washington Nature

APRIL 18, 2023

TNC staff and trustees, from left to right: Kathleen Hebert, Maud Daudon, Emily Heber, Skippy Shaw, Mike Schaefer, Governor Inslee, Mike Stevens, Lilianna Ayalla, David Mendoza © Hannah Fitinich This year’s lobby day was especially energized by being back on the capitol campus in person for the first time since 2019.

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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Applicant) in 2019. © Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP 2023 All Rights Reserved. Later Alibaba assigned the application to Advanced New Technologies Co., This newsletter is intended to be a general summary of the law and does not constitute legal advice.

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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Applicant) in 2019. © Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP 2023 All Rights Reserved. Later Alibaba assigned the application to Advanced New Technologies Co., This newsletter is intended to be a general summary of the law and does not constitute legal advice.

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Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 12, 2023

Much action is expected over PFAS in 2023. Where in recent years climate change has sucked the air out of the room overtaking other devastating events that occur due to humanity’s impact on the environment, PFAS is now on the agenda of government, businesses, and consumers alike. This year began with the U.S.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

As of posting, Congress has one week – just 4 session days – until the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 on September 30. Amidst this focus on appropriations, both the House and Senate Agriculture Committees are continuing to draft the farm bill, but the looming government shutdown is slowing progress.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. The government proposes new measures to help meet the 2030 climate target, including 80% renewables by 2030. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption. Renewables are 42% of electricity.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In this issue: Call for Nominations for 2023 ESA Regional Policy Award ESA seeks nominations for its annual Regional Policy Award to recognize a local or regional policymaker who has integrated environmental science and policy in initiatives that foster more sustainable communities. International Tensions between Russia and the U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 27, 2024

2023 was a devastating year for so many people across Canada. Governments should be doing everything in their power to tackle both the climate and affordability crisis that is hitting so many of us. Governments should be doing everything in their power to tackle both the climate and affordability crisis that is hitting so many of us.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Unconventional shale gas operators were issued a total of 1,310 notices of violation in 2023, according to DEP’s December 29 Workload Report. Abandoning Wells Without Plugging DEP issued 10 unconventional shale gas operators 20 notices of violation at 11 well pads during 2023 for abandoning wells without plugging them. .:

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2024

Unable to reauthorize the 2018 farm bill by its September 30, 2023, expiration date, Congress enacted a one-year extension last November. OG: The agribusiness sector spent more than $793 million on lobbying on a range of issues between 2019 and 2023. Between 2019 and 2023, the agribusiness sector contributed $3.4

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 28, 2023

So it’s most satisfying to end 2023 with some good news regarding water in the Golden State. Westlands is a quasi-local government agency formed in 1952, and the largest agricultural water district in the United States. The federal government chose–wisely, as it turned out–not to participate in the case.)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

For more than a century, the United States has recognized this, and maintaining roads and bridges has been a core function of federal, state, and local governments. The federal government embraced a role in supporting transit in the 1970s, but this was cut back for the past 40 years and didn’t rebound until the pandemic.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 28, 2022

The so-called 24-month study — tentatively scheduled for August 15 — determines how much water Mead and Powell will release in 2023. The tiers were updated in 2019 in the DCP. Short for drought contingency plan, the DCP was approved by the basin states and the federal government in 2019. What’s that, you ask?

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The new wave of litigation also arose from the urgency of combating the rise in deforestation under the right-wing-oriented President Jair Bolsonaro, who left the government in January 2023 for the return of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula). The decision was made in a lawsuit filed by four political parties (PSB et al.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The Bureau released new projections that showed a one-in-three chance that Lake Powell, absent interventions, will be low enough in 2023 that it will not be able to generate hydropower. The modeling also found a 34 percent chance by 2023 that Powell is too low to generate hydropower. government water policy. By the Numbers.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 4, 2021

As E&E News reported today, the Biden administration is expected to announce tomorrow new fuel economy and tailpipe emissions standards for light-duty vehicles model years (MY) 2023 through 2026. mpg by 2025. A total of ten lawsuits ended up as a consolidated action in the D.C. Circuit, which has now been held in abeyance.

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Arnold Porter

APRIL 6, 2023

Davila rejected the FTC’s request for a preliminary injunction in January 2023.[[N: 3, 2023), FTC, available here. ]] FTC Chair Lina Khan also commented that “[i]f you’re not really pushing the courts to engage with how these statutes apply in the new economy, you get doctrine that is stale[.]”[[N:

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ESA

JANUARY 23, 2023

We strongly support strengthening our economy and protecting our national security, and we have always recognized that there are legitimate concerns with the actions of the government of the People’s Republic of China. The Trump administration amended the plans in 2019. What we say and how we say it matters.

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Law and Environment

JULY 10, 2023

On June 26, 2023, the Cambridge City Council voted to amend the city’s Building Energy Use Disclosure Ordinance (BEUDO) to require large non-residential buildings to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2035 and mid-size non-residential buildings to do so by 2050. It does not apply to any residential buildings.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

While 2023 was a low year in terms of total acreage burned in the United States, some 2.6 When PG&E proceeded with a 2-million-customer public safety power shutoff event in 2019, Robert Mardis Sr. In 2019, a fire in Maui came within 150 feet of an oil-fired power plant. With that, let’s get into the details.

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