PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In January of this year, the Clinton County Zoning Hearing Board held a special exception hearing for a 1,500-2,000-acre utility grade solar power installation in West Keating Township proposed by Apex Clean Energy of Virginia. Considerations for watershed management/agreements also need to be addressed. -- Definitions.

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Frontiers

MARCH 18, 2022

Definitions of happiness now expand beyond positive emotions, encompassing individual happiness, wellbeing of others, and sustainability of the planet. The primary purpose of this special collection is to answer whether these definitions are sufficient for achieving happiness and wellbeing in an era of climate catastrophe.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 5, 2023

Yet, key issues around definitions, guidance, and climate governance remain. They include the lack of a proper definition of CDR and related absence of detailed rules on inclusion of CDR in the Paris Agreement’s market mechanisms, and guidance on how to incorporate CDR in long-term policies.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2023

In an updated Frequently Asked Questions about the rulemaking, it says this about conventional wastewater-- "The final rule prohibits the discharge of wastewater meeting the definition of “wastewater from HVHF and HVHF-related activities,” as set forth in 18 C.F.R. As stated in FAQ 3 above, road spreading of HVHF wastewater is prohibited.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Discharge Ban The draft regulations say, “No person may discharge wastewater from high volume hydraulic fracturing or HVHF- related activities to waters or land within the Basin.” This language would include banning the road dumping of high volume fracking wastewater or products or co-products made from that wastewater. to no later than 4:30 p.m.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The basic reason is that relatively few lawyers work on this topic, so learning about it isn’t a priority for law students in career terms. If any of those cases succeed, they’ll definitely require coverage in torts classes. There are a slew of damage cases against oil companies for their emissions. Download as PDF.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Measuring the relative abundances of one element with respect to another was the key to estimating how much of these elements are locked up in the dust,” De Cia tells Physics World. De Cia’s team measured the abundances of different metals in the gaseous part of the ISM, and then compared these data to the expected relative abundances.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2022

Participants can enjoy the many unique trails and wildlife found at the JEEC, with a special focus on the awesome relict prairie habitat. It’s definitely an excellent time of year to make a visit to the Jennings Environmental Education Center. Music is presented by Lonesome No More Productions/ Dennis McCurdy. What To Be A Vendor?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Discharge Ban The draft regulations say, “No person may discharge wastewater from high volume hydraulic fracturing or HVHF- related activities to waters or land within the Basin.” This language would include banning the road dumping of high volume fracking wastewater or products or co-products made from that wastewater. to no later than 4:30 p.m.

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Smith Enviorment

JUNE 7, 2023

” definition has now raged for decades — in large part because of the convergence of two factors: 1. The EPA/Corps definition of “waters of the U.S.” Given the definition of “waters of the U.S.”, Legal warfare over the “waters of the U.S.” ” included many wetlands; and 2.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2023

Stinson is a cultural anthropologist who studies digitalization, datafication, and automation within conservation, with a special focus on digital surveillance and smart technologies. While this makes conservation within Belize special and unique, some view it as counterproductive.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Though definitions vary widely, emotions may be understood as social and cultural expressions of personal, subjective “sociolinguistic fixing of the quality of an experience” (Mazzarella, 2020, p.292). Guest Post by Julia Branstrator , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Doomscrolling” Illustration by Madeline McMahon.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JUNE 15, 2022

So, we reached out to Dane Ward, PhD, assistant teaching professor in Drexel’s Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science (BEES) department who specializes in urban wildlife ecology, to learn more. . The Academy wanted to know these answers, too. Are these wild canine populations rising, and if so, why? DW : Absolutely!

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2023

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal In the summer of 2021, a twin-engine special research aircraft took off from State College, PA. Their tools include satellites, airplanes with specially equipped air monitors and ground-based remote-sensing cameras like those used by government regulators and gas operators to find leaks.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The resolution is a landmark moment in a years-long evolution – at the HRC , within the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights , in the work of the Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment, elsewhere around the United Nations, and in advocacy and legal scholarship.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

There's no definition or standard as to what certified gas means. Read more here ] Project Canary Overview Michelle Moorman Applegate, Senior Director of Policy at Project Canary , provided an overview of the kinds of assessments, monitoring and analysis the company does for operators of natural gas infrastructure. So that is a concern.”

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

While there are serious flaws in the claims brought in these recent lawsuits, and there is hope that the application of the 1940 Act to SPACs will be rejected, these types of actions will continue to be filed until courts definitively rule on the issues and a judicial consensus is established. Statement by More Than 55 Law Firms.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

But their definition of proof is impossible.” For the UK, for example, we see overheating in homes in summer because we are not adapted to the heat, even though we tend to get a period of relatively high temperatures almost every summer now. Just because we don’t know everything doesn’t mean we know nothing.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JANUARY 4, 2022

The Academy is celebrating Water Year in 2022 with a series of special exhibitions aimed at helping people better understand the critical role of rivers and oceans and how everyone’s actions on land affect the watershed system. . Permian Monsters: Life Before the Dinosaurs ?blends

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

The following article is part of an Eco-Perspective special in which the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law is collaborating with the VLS COP21 Observer Delegation. By Madhavi Venkatesan, PhD. As noted by Jesse Vogel, specific to the UNFCCC and the Convention, consensus “does not mean complete unanimity.

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

A plain reading of SBA’s definition of similarly situated entity indicates that the subcontractor must meet the size and socioeconomic program statuses that qualified the prime contractor for award. While the text of the FAR final rule is consistent with this definition,[[N:86 Fed. § 125.6.[[N: N: SBA promulgated 13 C.F.R.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

Trustworthy sources of information are among the most important things a person looking to buy or lease a car or pick-up truck needs to inform a good decision, whatever their concerns and special circumstances are. The results showed that 11 percent in rural areas and 18 percent in urban areas would definitely consider an EV.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 21, 2023

To arrive at the conclusion that it is preempted anyway requires two steps: First, you have replace “energy use” in EPCA’s preemption language with “natural gas use,” which, the argument goes, is justified because natural gas is a type of fossil fuel and EPCA’s definition of “energy” includes “fossil fuels.”

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 8, 2021

2995, An Act Creating a Next-Generation Roadmap for Massachusetts Climate Policy (the “Act”), which sets sweeping climate policy for the state, including greenhouse gas reduction targets of 50 percent by 2030, 75 percent by 2040 (both relative to 1990 levels), and net-zero by 2050, along with a process for setting more sector-specific targets.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

The following article is part of an Eco-Perspective special in which the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law is collaborating with the VLS COP22 Observer Delegation. By Beth Bootz. In the face of these threats, the COP has taken action. At the end of COP21, decision. At the end of COP21, decision. 2016 Report.

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 6, 2023

Accordingly, the Court concluded the statute does “not authorize local authorities to close streets to vehicular traffic for whatever non-permanent duration of time they desire[,]” and did not authorize the City’s “temporary” three-year closure here.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

State stormwater standards already provided special consideration for airport facilities particularly with respect to mandatory stream buffers. In any case, the provision creates a special advantage for two named local governments that was not based on any evaluation of the impact on drinking water quality. See: House Bill 600, Sec.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 27, 2019

H 206 directs the EMC to revise and broaden the definition of “airport facility” in the rules to allow the riparian buffer exemption to apply to development of those airport-associated commercial facilities. House Bill 329 (Renewable Energy Amendments) makes several relatively minor changes to energy laws. Vetoed Bills.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2022

Even more important to BlocPower — which specializes in clean energy retrofits — is Local Law 97. “But I feel that I’m doing something relevant, that the job I’m learning is definitely going to be relevant in the future,” Clark continues. Robert Clark falls into this latter category. Here you go.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2023

And one of the things we're doing that we're in the middle of right now is being driven by our Environmental Justice Team with Fernando Trevino in his new role of Special Deputy Secretary of Environmental Justice,” said Secretary Negrin. Read more here. Read more here. You need to see what you inherited from the last [Administration].”

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Permanent, on-going collection sites should reduce costs in the long term as compared to special one-day events. This will ensure availability for drop-offs is consistent and convenient to the public. It will also be available virtually via WebEx and by conference call.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2022

We definitely do a cumulative assessment of withdrawals when there's a couple within the same stream length or reach,” said Gavin. “If “Further, the natural gas industry’s water demands have been concentrated in a small number of watersheds, potentially creating conflicts over water availability on a local scale. “In Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Permanent, on-going collection sites should reduce costs in the long term as compared to special one-day events. This will ensure availability for drop-offs is consistent and convenient to the public. For more information and available handouts, visit the DEP Citizens Advisory Council webpage.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 11, 2022

In March 2022, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the Office of the Special Rapporteur on Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights (REDESCA) jointly published Resolution No. Finally, this resolution contributes to a more precise definition of climate obligations of OAS governments.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

My “top ten” list is definitely subjective, is limited to Supreme Court decisions, and (by its very nature) fails to include many important judicial developments. Nonetheless, here it is (with the decisions listed in no particular order): CEQA requires analysis of a project’s impacts on the existing environment, not vice-versa.

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Law Columbia

JULY 12, 2022

FossielVrij NL argues that CO 2 ZERO labels are misleading because reforestation projects funded with such offsets cannot effectively, definitely, and absolutely guarantee that the entire or even a substantial part of the footprint of a flight is “neutralized.” The new Dutch case , FossielVrij NL v.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The fact that the interference concerned the rights of a relatively indeterminate set of other persons (the population of the Czech Republic) did not in itself preclude the claim, as the adverse effects of climate change in the Czech Republic and Europe are so significant that the applicants were directly affected by them.

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