Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Shellenberger, Founder and President, Environmental Progress For the House Oversight Committee August 5, 2020 Good morning Chairwoman Maloney, Ranking Member Comer, and members of the committee. Carbon emissions are thus following the same trajectory as other air pollutants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Shapiro’s office supporting “key recommendations” in a 2020 Grand Jury Report that concluded DEP’s oil and gas regulatory program failed to protect public health and the environment. Our government has a duty to set, and enforce, ground rules that protect public health and safety. Read more here. Read more here. 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Shale gas development requires multiple facilities and infrastructure of varying size in order to access, transport, refine, separate, and convert the shale gas products—all of which emit air pollutants. Emissions are released into the ambient air and invisible to the naked eye. According the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

With all the subtlety of a jackhammer, he asserted, “Until the latter part of the 20th century, there was no support in American law for a constitutional right to obtain an abortion. In his draft ruling, Alito conferred credibility and salience to British anti-abortion laws of the 17 th and 13 th centuries. Broader implications.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2023

The framework is part of a process President Biden set in motion with the “ Restoring Trust in Government Through Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policymaking ” memorandum he signed during his first week in office (see the April 2022 roundup for more details on earlier steps in the process). Jennifer W.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2022

The hearing also featured testimony from staff at the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) which recently issued a report showing the deficiencies in policies and procedures for ensuring scientific integrity at public health agencies. But the role of science in decisionmaking goes far beyond vaccines and lifesaving treatments.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Divided Ninth Circuit Said Juliana Plaintiffs Lacked Standing to Press Constitutional Climate Claims Against Federal Government. 4, 2020); California v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

Thanks largely to the Clean Air Act, new passenger vehicles are 98 to 99 percent cleaner than they were 60 years ago when it comes to most tailpipe pollutants, including hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and fine particulate matter. Will the law help transit agencies deal with their looming budget crises?

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

In celebration of Environment Day 2020 on June 5, we publish here in full the speech given by Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme. Now is not the time to set aside environmental laws and norms in the name of recovery, as we have seen done in some places.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The hope is that a high-level statement from Chinese and American leaders like this one will unleash more activity among climate experts, private companies, and other governments when they meet in Dubai. My colleague Alex Wang, faculty co-director at the UCLA Emmett Institute, took part in events at APEC and will be in Dubai for COP28.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 In the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In 2019 and 2020, I served as a member of a committee involved in the implementation of California’s Assembly Bill 617. That law created the state’s Community Air Protection Program focused on reducing exposure in communities most impacted by air pollution.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

municipalities face from climate change, the special role that federal vehicle emissions regulations play in protecting municipal public health, and the threat that Petitioners’ radical interpretation of the major questions doctrine poses to the day-to-day operations of state and local governments. The brief emphasized the threat that U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

EPA’s AirToxScreen uses the National Air Toxics Assessment to offer a location-based screening tool that shows long-term cancer and health risks given air emissions of hazardous chemicals over a person’s lifetime. What is our government doing to keep us safe from harm?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Read more here ] “Upon the conclusion of the grand jury’s two-year investigation in 2020, several legislative recommendations were made that would strengthen protections for the environment and the citizens of our Commonwealth. Read more here. ] Read more here. Now, nine years later, there are almost 2,500 such studies.”

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 In the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Joseph Otis Minott - Lifetime Achievement Award PennFuture honored Joseph Otis Minott, an environmental law leader, with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades-long career fighting for the environment and public health in Pennsylvania. from Villanova University School of Law. Since assuming elected office in 2020, Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2022

Joe fought tirelessly to raise awareness on urban air pollution in the1980’s by establishing and distributing a daily regional air quality index report that is still used today. Working for the Council, Joe and his legal team have sued the federal government, the state government, local governments, and the fossil fuel industry.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 In the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

At every phase of oil and gas production, harmful air pollutants are deliberately released. These air pollutants include such things as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, formaldehyde, naphthalene. “I Read more here ] “Every day, Pennsylvania residents’ health and safety are at unnecessary risk due to outdated laws.” “To

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 In the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2023

National- $3.12 16 to 22 - 46% More Conventional NOVs; More Abandoned Wells; Conventional Well Fire; Venting Gas, Spills, Plugging Mess [PaEN] -- Conventional Oil Well Storage Tanks Burn In McKean County, 6 Local Fire Companies Respond [PaEN] -- Gas Explosions -- PUC Update On Investigation Of Dec.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 In the U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 15, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency announced it is accepting applications from school districts for Clean School Bus Rebates as part of a $500 million funding effort under the Biden Administration’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). The deadline to apply is August 19. Questions about applying may be directed to CleanSchoolBus@epa.gov.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 In the U.S.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 In the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Million From The Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law To Clean Up Abandoned Mine Lands [PaEN] -- PG - Laura Legere: PA To Get Surge Of Money For Abandoned Mine Cleanup -- TribLive: Federal Mine Cleanup Funding See As Game-Changer In PA -- Legislative Audit Commission: Senate/House Now Have Record Cash Operating Surplus Of $233.6

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2012, the company became infamous again when it unsuccessfully sued Ben-Jei Tsuang, a professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Chun Hsing University, who published a paper linking high cancer rates in Mailiao, Taiwan, to toxic dioxin and heavy metals air pollution from the Six Naphtha Cracking plant.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020. A 2020 study found that Native American households’ median energy burden was 45 percent higher than non-Hispanic White households, while Black households’ median energy burden was 43 percent higher and Hispanic households’ burden was 20 percent higher.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Our government has a duty to set, and enforce, ground rules that protect public health and safety. That is true but we can stop stupid legislation from becoming law. Read more here. It is often said that we cannot legislate against stupidity. Read more here. Photos : Gov. Josh Shapiro, CNX President Nick Deiuliis, Sen. 27 Released 1.1

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Vermont Law

APRIL 8, 2022

Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23) and Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 8, 2022 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) establishes air quality standards under the Clean Air Act. (1) 2020), [link] DOE, supra note 1. Do We Dare Continue to Flare? By Robert R. Turner, Jr. Turner, Jr.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2021

On September 30, 2021, the EPA once again signaled a policy change on what provisions a state can include in its Clean Air Act State Implementation Plan (“SIP”) for exemptions and affirmative defenses during periods of startup, shutdown, and malfunction (“SSM”). 2020 SSM SIP Policy Memorandum. 2015 SSM SIP Policy. LAC 33:III.507.J.1.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

The webinar provides a unique opportunity for advocacy groups, legislators, government regulators, oil and gas industry workers, and residents and community members across the country to learn about this issue, the health concerns and the latest science. Justin Nobel, science journalist, will moderate the panel discussion.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These actions, which address several recommendations of the 43rd Statewide Investigating Grand Jury released in 2020. 2020 Grand Jury Report Gov. Folks who dealt with contaminated water and air pollution and suffered severe health consequences that they believed were a result of fracking happening near their homes.” “Now,

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