Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 6, 2023

One side wanted the jury to be instructed on the legal definitions of those terms. Wild Willy’s Welding LLC , a Texas case governed by Oklahoma law, Tite Water was Devon’s contractor under a Master Service and Supply Agreement. The outcome of a multimillion-dollar suit was in the hands of a jury of 12 good and honorable citizens.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

SC: Our analysis shows that effective implementation of the IRA, the infrastructure act, and state policies would enable the United States to make significant progress toward achieving its near-term climate goals and yield substantial economic and public health benefits at the same time. How is that going to happen?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The facility in question, Sterilization Services of Tennessee, is one of roughly 90 facilities in the United States and Puerto Rico that use EtO, a toxic colorless gas, to sterilize products such as medical devices and dried food products.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2024

The SBA offers long-term repayment options to keep payments affordable, with terms up to a maximum of 30 years. Terms are determined on a case-by-case basis, based upon each borrower’s ability to repay. Read more here. to provide in-person assistance for those wishing to apply. until 6:00 p.m. -- Saturday from 10:00 a.m.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 18, 2024

Endnotes 1 These CNI sectors are defined as the critical elements of infrastructure which could have potential detrimental impact on essential services, the economy, or national security. This covers chemicals, civil nuclear, communications, defence, emergency services, energy, finance, food, government, health, space, transport, and water.

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Energy & the Law

APRIL 18, 2023

As you negotiate your master service agreements are you confident that you know how insurance choices might affect indemnity obligations? National Union Fire Insurance Company was whether an insurance policy incorporated payout limits in an underlying service agreement. Me neither. The question in Exxon Mobil v. It did not.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

Josh Shapiro joined Department of General Services Secretary Reggie McNeil, Constellation President & CEO Joseph Dominguez, and Lightsource bp Senior Vice President Alyssa Edwards to unveil the Commonwealth’s renewable energy initiative, the Pennsylvania Project to Utilize Light and Solar Energy (PA PULSE). Josh Shapiro.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Salt marshes are migrating to take the place of wetland forests, causing a transition of ecosystem services. Dr. Chris Asaro has spent the last eight years tracking forest health for the United States Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service. By Hannah Richter, Circle of Blue – September 14, 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2023

According to a recent sampling of supplier offers posted on the PUC’s electric shopping website – PAPowerSwitch.com – there are substantial #SaveInPA benefits for consumer energy costs, depending on their utility service territory. Read more here. That figure is in addition to the 1.2 Click Here for related videos.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The Michigan Public Service Commission is best known as the government body that decides whether gas and electric utilities can raise their rates. Typically, the Public Service Commission would look at the impacts of moving the line. But, environmental groups had to make a convincing argument to the Public Service Commission.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The US Energy Information Administration is forecasting the wholesale price of gas to reach its highest level since the winter of 2009-2010 in inflation-adjusted terms. The US Energy Information Administration is forecasting the wholesale price of gas to reach its highest level since the winter of 2009-2010 in inflation-adjusted terms.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The report highlights that public transit systems across Canada are currently not allowed to use federal public transit funding to add service hours or increase service frequency, despite these measures being the most important drivers of ridership growth and emissions reductions.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The rising cost of water and sewer service in Michigan is consuming a larger share of household income, leading to mounting financial burdens for both families and communities, particularly those with high poverty rates, a new report finds. Transcript. Uganda, however, has lost a large portion of this natural defense.

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The Applied Ecologist

JANUARY 13, 2022

Few ecosystems can equate to coastal wetlands in terms of connections with humans. They provide many ecosystem services that are vital to current societies, … In their latest research, Hao Huang and colleagues conducted transplanting experiments to search for the optimal spatial design of coastal restoration.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2024

The Public Utility Commission published notice in the March 30 PA Bulletin inviting comments on an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANOPR) about the use of Distributed En ergy Resources (DERs) as a mechanism to help increase energy efficiency, enhance service, and potentially lower costs.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 10, 2023

An article in the San Francisco Chronicle highlights an apparent pattern of delays on the part of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) in providing energy service to new homes. But in the short-term, it gets complicated. But this isn’t how it’s supposed to work.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

When campaigning for prime minister in 2015, Justin Trudeau pledged to eliminate all long-term boil-water advisories by March 31 of this year. As of mid-October, 43 Indigenous communities still faced long-term boil-water advisories. A boil water advisory sign issued by the Tl’azl’en Nation in British Colombia.©

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 26, 2024

In the fourth quarter of 2023, the Biden administration finalized updated procedures for conducting cost-benefit analysis and encouraging public participation in meetings about regulations. Advocates for scientific integrity commented on new draft scientific integrity policies. At the end of the year, they released final versions.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

DeFrank and Vice Chair Kimberly Barrow to initiate an investigation and rulemaking related to Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) as a mechanism to help increase energy efficiency, enhance service and potentially lower costs. 28, 2024, detailing any changes or additions needed to PUC regulations or policy statements. L-3044115. .:

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Legal Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

It’s fair to ask: if all vehicles are “zero emission,” do we really need to care any more about how much driving we do, in terms of the climate impact? California and other jurisdictions have been moving to reduce vehicle miles traveled (VMT) as a climate solution. Clean electricity generation still has a carbon cost.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 21, 2021

Over 7,000 rural districts will require the delivery of potable water via tanker trucks and other services. Since late 2020, Iran has received only four inches of rain, 40 percent less than the nation’s long-term average. Photo © Mostafa Farzan. Christian Thorsberg, Circle of Blue. Recent months have been uncommonly dry.

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E2 Law Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It would centralize these efforts within the Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES) at the Department of Public Service (DPS). One of the major proposals of the RAPID Act is the transfer of jurisdiction over the siting of electric transmission facilities, currently overseen by the Public Service Commission (PSC), to ORES.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 11, 2022

Energy efficiency means using less energy to produce the same goods or services (such as driving your car or heating your house). In terms of transportation, reducing vehicle weight will reduce the power draw for electric vehicles. The idea of energy conservation is simple: reduce the total amount of energy you’re using.

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Energy & the Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

An agreement pertains to a well under the LOIA if the services provided under the agreement are necessary to sustain the manpower or equipment needed to produce oil and gas from wells. QBE argued that the term “minerals” covers all minerals, not just oil, gas or water. The issue in QBE Syndicate 1036 v.

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Electricity 130

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Title 34 of the Pennsylvania Code provides that commissioners are appointed for four-year terms with the opportunity to be reappointed for two additional four-year terms and can serve for six months after their term expires, or until their replacement is named, whichever occurs first.

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Energy & the Law

JULY 21, 2022

AmeriFlow Energy Services LLC and Crescent Services, LLC. were two Master Service Agreements. The court defined a phrase common to Master Service Agreements: “ arising in connection herewith”. At issue in RKI Exploration and Production LLC v. Grammar lessons. No, it doesn’t.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services, which is in charge of the program, told Circle of Blue it has disbursed $855 million to states. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, for instance, notes $252 million in residential water debt in the state. A new federal assistance program is slow to launch.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 19, 2024

Many public transit systems are struggling financially and if they haven’t already, they may soon cut service and hike fares. Without funding for service, this could lead to the decline of public transit in Canada, just when we need it most as a clean and affordable climate solution. Canada has an alternative.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 10, 2022

Data compiled by the Institute for Public Utilities at Michigan State University shows that water prices are climbing quickly — more quickly, until recent price spikes, than most other goods and services. High Cost of Water Hits Home Rising rates hurt the state’s poorest residents. Throughout the Great Lakes region and across the U.S.,

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Circle of Blue

JULY 14, 2022

Water cuts that were once nearly unthinkable even in the long term in the Colorado River basin are now being implemented in a matter of months, not years or decades. A new climate is re-writing the story of America’s drylands. Photo © Brett Walton/Circle of Blue. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – July 14, 2022. Harsh and unrelenting.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The EDCs continue to accelerate infrastructure improvement and to work on improving reliability and resilience through their Long-Term Infrastructure Improvement Plans (LTIIPs). Ongoing Concerns with Trees Trees continue to be a key factor for service reliability – especially trees that are located outside the utility right-of-way.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 19, 2024

DeFrank and Vice Chair Kimberly Barrow to initiate an investigation and rulemaking related to Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) as a mechanism to help increase energy efficiency, enhance service and potentially lower costs. To participate in this meeting, contact Kayla Cobaugh, kacobaugh@pa.gov by January 31, 2024. L-3044115.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 16, 2021

He has lost non-market services that Mother Nature used to supply. On his own terms, John Cochrane is right but he abstracts away from the key issue of non-market local public goods (beautiful weather near Stanford) and global public goods (a calm weather system) and how heterogeneous individuals value them.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2023

On October 16, the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service in Pennsylvania announced funding for landowners interested in restoring, enhancing, and protecting agricultural land and wetlands through the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program (ACEP). Click Here for the complete announcement.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 25, 2024

Finance is a term that describes the management, creation and movement of money. Finance is a term that describes the management, creation and movement of money. However, the short-term pursuit of profit should not come at the expense of the long-term good. Profit need not come at the expense of public good.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

Did you know that Canada’s federal government doesn’t fund public transit service? Funding for day-to-day service, like hiring new bus drivers to drive those new buses – is called operations funding. This also works in reverse: if public transit service is cut, it drives riders away. This is called capital funding.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 14, 2024

28 that would mandate solar panel installations on public buildings in an effort to reduce the city’s carbon footprint and long-term energy costs. New York City council members introduced a bill on Feb.

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