Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

AB 32 authorized CARB to adopt a market-based compliance mechanism with “declining annual aggregate emission limits for sources or categories of sources that emit greenhouse gas emissions” through 2020. The market-based compliance mechanism deigned by CARB went into effect in 2012 in the form of the California Cap-and-Trade Program.

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Capaccio

APRIL 19, 2022

The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (NHDES) recently updated the Administrative Rule Env-A 1400: Regulated Toxic Air Pollutants (RTAPs). Applicable facilities will need to show compliance within 90 days of the revision to the list (by May 3, 2022). . The most recent changes were adopted on February 3, 2022.

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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. Read more here.] barrels or 0.41

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Capaccio

AUGUST 23, 2023

There are many types of AI with capabilities often classified under two main categories: Strong AI, which is still theoretical but aims to match or even go beyond human intelligence, and Narrow AI, which performs specific tasks, such as voice assistants and search engines. While generative AI is very useful, it also has its limitations.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 27, 2022

The National Steering Committee of Small Business Environmental Assistance Programs and Small Business Ombudsmen has recognized the Pennsylvania Environmental Management Assistance Program (EMAP) of Widener University with the 2022 Small Business Environmental Assistance Program Excellence Award.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

This record of non-compliance will require DEP to further develop and refine its techniques for deterring violations and encouraging compliance with relevant statutory and regulatory provisions. The report looked at environmental compliance in the industry between 2017 through 2021. Why The Assessment?

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Conventional oil and gas companies were issued over 4,270 notices of violation for abandoning oil and gas wells without plugging them in the last six years, according to DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Reporting system. Conventional oil and gas operators racked up 4,386 violations of environmental regulations in calendar year 2021 alone.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

Many communities and citizens are not aware that a state law passed in 1984 gives them the first chance to comment on Department of Environmental Protection permit applications even before they are submitted to the agency. The Environmental Integrity Project is trying to change that. Don't ignore them. It means something new each time.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Pre-Shale Gas Drilling Data Dr. Baka explained the study is based on 28,500 water sampling results submitted to the Department of Environmental Protection as part of pre-shale gas well development by shale gas operators since about 2011. The research began in 2022 and is ongoing. Read more here. [In Read more here.]

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Ohio Environmental Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The breadth of the state regulations related to PFAS in consumer products shows that the focus on exposures to such chemicals is not just limited environmental exposures. This certification can often take the form of a “certificate of compliance” that must be maintained by the manufacturer. 1817 and does not contain any regulated PFAS.

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Capaccio

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA) and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection’s (MassDEP’s) Toxics Use Reduction Act (TURA) regulations have reports due in March and July of 2022.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This post was co-authored by the Sabin Center’s Romany Webb and Stephanie Jones and Michael Panfil of Environmental Defense Fund. Second, since the changing weather and environmental conditions brought by climate change might impact an action and alter its environmental effects, they too must be considered.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 13, 2023

The September 5 incident resulted in a heavy sediment plume in the Loyalsock Creek that ran for several miles downstream impacting aquatic life and the habitat of the rare Eastern Hellbender salamander in what DEP classifies as an Exceptional Value stream, the highest stream classification category. Read more here. Read more here. 31 to Jan.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

General Assembly returned to a very aggressive effort to influence environmental rules in 2023. Farm Act of 2023 (Senate Bill 582) and the Regulatory Reform Act of 2023 (House Bill 600) all contained provisions weakening existing environmental protections and in some cases preventing adoption of new standards. Under the N.C.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 29, 2023

And some question if one state, California, despite its street cred as having enacted the nation’s first air pollution law in 1947, should control environmental policy in the other 49 states? We anticipate that we will be providing the law’s required third party verification for businesses in a host of sectors.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2022

DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance System reports conventional oil and gas drillers were issued 77 notices of violation for attempting to abandon wells without plugging them in the first three months of 2022. Unconventional shale gas drillers were issued 8 NOVs for attempting to abandon wells without plugging them during the same time period.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2021

You can find the complete list of federal supports announced in 2020 in the report, but here are the major categories we were able to track. In addition, we already have regulations in place to achieve methane reductions, so we are essentially subsidizing compliance with existing rules. How did we get to ~$18 billion?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2022

Klapkowski said DEP will be reviewing its regulations and requirements in the first two categories to strengthen them and do a financial evaluation for the third program in an attempt to qualify for these grants, however, DEP is still waiting for U.S. Department of Interior details on how to qualify. Read More Here. Read More Here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 2, 2022

The rule also bases its emissions disclosure standards on the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, which classifies emissions in three categories. Since the GHG Protocol is also used around the world, using its definitions will help minimize compliance costs while enabling investors to evaluate whether companies are living up to their promises.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

On February 7, the Department of Environmental Protection announced conventional oil and gas drillers with unresolved environmental violations will not be awarded contracts to plug conventional wells under the new federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law oil and gas well plugging program. Read more here.]]

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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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Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The categories include: PFOA and/or PFOS manufacturers (including importers and importers of articles). Environmental Prevalence – EPA discusses how widespread the contamination can be found. The Chamber commented: Private party compliance costs for this rulemaking are estimated to be between $11 billion and $22 billion.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

Part Three, below, explores preemption questions in the context of other domestic frameworks: California’s climate-disclosure laws and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s GHG emissions reporting regime. Part Two considered the future of the climate disclosure rule in the context of the SEC’s rulemaking process.

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Ivy Protocol

JUNE 21, 2023

Kita buckets these risks into four categories: Risk Assessment While assessing risks, Kita takes into account the different risk categories and evaluates them through the lens of an insurance policy. The Carbon Project Risk Landscape The risks faced by early-stage carbon projects are vast and varied.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Factual and Procedural Background The General Plan Update and Certified Program EIR The County designated the project property for industrial use in its 2011 General Plan Update (GPU), the environmental impacts of which were reviewed under CEQA pursuant to a certified program environmental impact report (PEIR).

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

Meanwhile, regulatory changes since the last decade have prompted companies and institutional investors to set up sustainability or ESG (environmental, social and corporate governance) departments, which require staff. Previously, the environmental sector was focused on air and water pollution, and wildlife conservation.

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 2, 2023

The Court rejected plaintiffs’ challenges to the EIR’s analysis of impacts on trees and birds, and in the course of doing so offered helpful guidance on CEQA compliance with respect to some frequently litigated issues. San Diego Assn. of Governments (2017) 3 Cal.5th 5th 497, 516-517.).

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CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2023

It was also undertaking environmental review under CEQA by preparing an EIR for the project. FERC was preparing its own environmental impact statement under NEPA at the same time.) DWR’s activities weren’t limited to the relicensing. Finally, in 2008, DWR approved the settlement agreement and certified the EIR. 1991) 235 Cal.App.3d

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The failure to disclose one or more categories will of course hinder comparisons between companies and may result in an incomplete picture of a firm’s emissions and transition risk. The commission first found that environmental disclosure could promote investor protection in 1973. federal level begs consideration.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 9, 2019

Governor Cooper immediately vetoed the budget bill for reasons unrelated to environmental provisions. This blogpost looks at some of the environmental provisions in the budget. The general permits set operating conditions for different categories of farms to protect surface water and groundwater from contamination by animal waste.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2019

On December 28, 2018, California adopted comprehensive amendments to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines , which include a suite of provisions aimed at improving the analysis of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change impacts in state environmental reviews.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Moreno On October 1st, 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) released the final NPDES general permit for discharges from oil and gas facilities in the western and central portion of the Outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico (the “final permit”). By Robert E. Holden and Carlos J.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 19, 2022

According to the Department of Water and Sanitation (DWS) Green Drop Report for 2022 – an audit of all wastewater treatment works in the country for the period July 2020 to June 2021 – Standerton wastewater treatment works is 164% over capacity, achieving an overall score of just 17%, which puts it into the ‘critical risk category.’

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MARCH 5, 2024

Notably, USDA chose to forgo protections for “ market vulnerable individuals ,” a novel and expansive category included in the proposed rule that may have protected growers whose ability to compete fairly was impeded in a highly concentrated marketplace on those grounds.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 20, 2024

I wrote previously about the general categories of where zero-emission electric trucks charge —home base and, for some, public and shared private chargers. Together, we advocate for policies to achieve 100 percent zero emission truck sales by 2035. The strategy is yet another piece of the federal electric vehicle vision coming to fruition.

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Brag

MARCH 24, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has posted the justification for its fiscal year (FY) 2024 appropriation estimates for the Committee on Appropriations (Congressional Justification (CJ)). EPA certifies and allows use of the Safer Choice label on products containing ingredients that meet stringent health and environmental criteria.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lacked authority to administratively stay portions of new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector for which it had granted requests for reconsideration. The Fourth Circuit also dismissed as moot an environmental group’s appeal of the district court’s denial of its motion to intervene.

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