Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce For a hearing on “Power Struggle: Examining the 2021 Texas Grid Failure” Written statement submitted by: Michael D. Texas regulators appeared to be controlling the cost of electricity until they could no longer do so during the February crisis.

2021

Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 8, 2023

Maryland is on the cusp of being the first state in the country to authorize use of the new 2021 edition of the International Green Construction Code for public and private building. 46 days after publication allowing for a comment period, the Department will be free to adopt the 2021 IgCC by regulation. .

2021

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

We need governments to regulate industry. Baiton expects high performance teams, and CAPP has successfully achieved many of their goals: delaying and weakening of provincial and federal government climate regulations, massive subsidies and new project approvals. As always, the format is satirical but the information is real.

Fossil Fuels

Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

At RePlanet Nederland, we are delighted that the European Commission has proposed, on December 31, 2021, to include nuclear energy in the sustainable finance taxonomy. The following elements of the Regulation proposal are dealt with in this review. of the proposal) and for existing installation only until 2040 (see §4.28).

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

11, 2001- DEP’s Betsy Mallison, One Of Thousands To Respond [PaEN] -- Groups Gathering Support For Letter Urging DEP, Gov. Posted: September 5, 2021] PA Environment Digest Thank you for your leadership! -- We Remember Sept. Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

Conservation

Legal Planet

JUNE 29, 2021

The MS4 permit is an important document that regulates how municipalities can allow stormwater to flow through the MS4 system and out into natural (or modified) waterways. After the case was sent back to the trial court, in March 2021, the Superior Court found in favor of NRDC and LAW on the anti-degradation claim.

2012

Enviromental Defense

MAY 24, 2023

Other tools we have to reduce production emissions include ensuring EV batteries are recycled, creating efficiency regulations for electric vehicles that address size and weight , and ensuring that we protect natural carbon sinks when mining critical minerals. The average range of battery-powered EVs tripled from 2010 to 2021.

Electricity

Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Even with its Director, Kenneth Blanco, departing this week, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has been active in taking steps to implement the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (AML Act), which was enacted into law on January 1, 2021 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA).

2021

Acoel

AUGUST 4, 2021

Posted on August 4, 2021 by Dan Miller. Even when remedies relied on institutional controls, regulators often failed to ensure they were implemented. In 2001, the Colorado legislature took these issues head on. Certainly, there have been no new Love Canals or Spring Valleys in Colorado since 2001.

2001

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

18 In Greene County Register Now For 2021 Virtual Watershed Congress Sept. Email: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com [Posted: September 6, 2021] PA Environment Digest The September 6 PA Environment Digest is now available. Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

Carbon Emissions

Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 9, 2021

On December 8, 2021, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) took a key step toward implementing the highly anticipated beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). © Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP 2021 All Rights Reserved.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Mette, Evans & Woodside In a 2021 Opinion and Order on a Motion for Summary Judgment, the Environmental Hearing Board (EHB or Board) clarified the limits of its de novo review powers in light of an argument that a deficiency in a permit application could be cured at trial under the Board’s de novo review powers. 6] 2021 EHB at 171.

Waste

Arnold Porter

JUNE 17, 2021

On June 4, 2021, the European Commission (EC) published the long-awaited final version of the new Standard Contractual Clauses (New SCCs) for personal data transfers outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), annexed to Implementing Decision 2021/914 (Implementing Decision). provide appropriate safeguards.

Law

A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

It was a sign of how much has changed since 2021 when the UK hosted the flagship COP26 UN climate summit with a promise “irrefutably to turn the tide and to begin the fightback against climate change”. million to the party since 2001, including £38,000 to Rishi Sunak’s 2022 Conservative leadership bid.

Fossil Fuels

Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

Based on EPA’s emissions trends data, fossil-based electric generation sources have achieved more than their fair share of “good neighbor” emission reductions: From 1995-2021 … annual emissions of NOX from power plants fell by 87 percent. million tons, a reduction of 5.1 million tons, or 87 percent, from 1995 levels.

Ozone

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 9, 2024

In a 2023 national poll , 60% of respondents across party lines said that Big Tech has too much power, and nearly half said government should do more to regulate these companies. In the foreword to Barons , Eric Schlosser (author of the 2001 bestseller, Fast Food Nation ) calls unchecked market power “the central driving force of inequality.”

2018

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

November 23, 2021. In 2001, the Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), a federal agency that manages the agricultural water supply within the basin, began paying farmers to pump large amounts of groundwater out of the aquifers below. Then came new conservation regulations and litigation that complicated USBR’s water obligations.

2001

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2024

More Specifics DEP regulations now require well operators to prepare and develop a site-specific Preparedness, Prevention and Contingency (PPC) plan prior to storing, using, or generating regulated substances on a well site. The PPC plan generally requires disclosure of “regulated substances,” as defined in 25 Pa. Code § 78a.1.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2021

of DEP’s regulations. Unconventional (shale) oil and gas drilling companies are prohibited by DEP’s regulations from disposing of their drilling wastewater on dirt and gravel roads, even though conventional wastewater is very similar and comes from the same source-- deep underground rock formations. From 1991 to 2017 over 240.4

Radiation

A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

In 2021, the country produced 610 million tons of coal, half of which was exported, at a value of US$29.6 It is important to note that once a mining permit is issued in a forested area, there must be deforestation, but the problem is that current mining regulations in Indonesia still allow such a thing to happen.

Deforestation

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

Grid failures start fires From 2001 to 2023, roughly 92 million acres in the United States have been burned by lightning-caused fires , and about 68 million acres have been burned by fires caused by human activity , electrical operations being just one example. So how extensive is this problem and how does it happen?

Fossil Fuels

Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Strategy puts forward numerous proposals for legislative reforms that are likely to affect the regulation of the entire life cycle of a medicinal product. Some of these revisions also affect the regulation of medical devices. securing supply and controlling shortages of medicinal products. Implementation of the Strategy.

2021

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Here are 1,198 articles published in local news media and in the PA Environment Digest during 2021 that tell the stories of thousands of individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

Conservation

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] This piece previously appeared in the CLS Blue Sky Blog.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Shouldn’t someone regulate that? Co-Product Determinations On a completely separate track, DEP began the process of amending its Residual Waste Regulations in January 1998 to, among other things, incorporate a Co-Product Determination process [Chapter 287.8] The regulation was finalized and put into place in 2001.

Regulations

Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

The 442nd session of the Maryland legislature adjourned on April 12, 2021. Maryland has been described as having more pages of environmental statutes and regulations on a per capita basis than any other state. The bill applies prospectively to new construction for which a building permit is issued on or after October 1, 2021.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2024

By the beginning of 2001, according to a 2004 report by the National Bureau of Economic Research, 600,000 people had filed lawsuits over asbestos-related illnesses that had already cost companies $54 billion in legal costs, with an eventual projected total cost of between $200 billion and $265 billion.

2001

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

EU fines Volkswagen, BMW $1 bln for emissions cartel Reuters PaulaR Thu, 01/04/2024 - 17:27 Thursday, July 8, 2021 Read more Marine Strauss & Alexander Hübner [1/6] A Volkswagen logo is seen as it launches its ID.6 6 CROZZ SUV at a world premiere ahead of the Shanghai Auto Show, in Shanghai, China April 18, 2021.

2015

Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

USA: Police break up three-month protest outside VW dealership using Covid-19 regulations James Baggot | Car Dealer Magazine | February 15, 2021 Two protesters who set up camp outside a VW dealership in London have been moved on by police using Covid-19 restrictions. District Court for the District of Columbia, Volkswagen will pay $1.1

2015

Corp Watch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

USA: Police break up three-month protest outside VW dealership using Covid-19 regulations James Baggot | Car Dealer Magazine | February 15, 2021 Two protesters who set up camp outside a VW dealership in London have been moved on by police using Covid-19 restrictions. District Court for the District of Columbia, Volkswagen will pay $1.1

2015

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

USA: Police break up three-month protest outside VW dealership using Covid-19 regulations James Baggot | Car Dealer Magazine | February 15, 2021 Two protesters who set up camp outside a VW dealership in London have been moved on by police using Covid-19 restrictions. District Court for the District of Columbia, Volkswagen will pay $1.1

2015

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

USA: Police break up three-month protest outside VW dealership using Covid-19 regulations James Baggot | Car Dealer Magazine | February 15, 2021 Two protesters who set up camp outside a VW dealership in London have been moved on by police using Covid-19 restrictions. District Court for the District of Columbia, Volkswagen will pay $1.1

2015

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

USA: Police break up three-month protest outside VW dealership using Covid-19 regulations James Baggot | Car Dealer Magazine | February 15, 2021 Two protesters who set up camp outside a VW dealership in London have been moved on by police using Covid-19 restrictions. District Court for the District of Columbia, Volkswagen will pay $1.1

2015

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

USA: Police break up three-month protest outside VW dealership using Covid-19 regulations James Baggot | Car Dealer Magazine | February 15, 2021 Two protesters who set up camp outside a VW dealership in London have been moved on by police using Covid-19 restrictions. District Court for the District of Columbia, Volkswagen will pay $1.1

2015

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

USA: Police break up three-month protest outside VW dealership using Covid-19 regulations James Baggot | Car Dealer Magazine | February 15, 2021 Two protesters who set up camp outside a VW dealership in London have been moved on by police using Covid-19 restrictions. District Court for the District of Columbia, Volkswagen will pay $1.1

2015

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

USA: Police break up three-month protest outside VW dealership using Covid-19 regulations James Baggot | Car Dealer Magazine | February 15, 2021 Two protesters who set up camp outside a VW dealership in London have been moved on by police using Covid-19 restrictions. District Court for the District of Columbia, Volkswagen will pay $1.1

2015

ESA

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The measure, known as a continuing resolution, generally keeps funding at fiscal year 2021 levels. 2750 ) in June 2021. The Biden administration withdrew this rule in November 2021. 3277 ) to codify a Trump administration regulation that limited states’ ability to block fossil fuel projects under the Clean Water Act.

2021