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Late 2018 — Bits and Pieces

Smith Enviorment

Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C. Reduce energy use per square foot in state-owned buildings by 40% from 2002-2003 levels. Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order on climate change and clean energy.

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Climate Change Threatens Already Poor Air Quality in California’s Central Valley

Union of Concerned Scientists

For years, state and local air quality districts have implemented polices and regulations aimed at curbing these different sources of pollution, like working to phase out burning as a method of disposing of agricultural waste, incentivizing transitions to gas-powered heat, and creating regulations to limit vehicle pollution.

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Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Pay Only $46,100 Of The $10,600,000 It Costs DEP To Regulate That Industry; Taxpayers May Be Asked To Pay The Difference

PA Environment Daily

On February 15, the Department of Environmental Protection told the Environmental Quality Board conventional oil and gas drilling companies only paid $46,100 of the $10,600,000 it cost for DEP to regulate that industry in FY 2020-21. percent of the cost of regulating their industry; the unconventional industry pays the remainder.

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DEP Issued 754 Notices Of Violation For Defective Oil & Gas Well Casing, Cementing, The Fundamental Protection Needed To Prevent Gas Migration, Groundwater & Air Contamination, Explosions

PA Environment Daily

The first shale gas well was drilled in Pennsylvania in 2003 and fracked in 2004, so we are now beginning the 20 year threshold discussed in research. Beirne Green Hills Farms Unit A1H (2018) -- Chief Oil & Gas LLC (now Chesapeake Appalachia LLC) - Asylum Twp. Jacobson Unit 1H (2018) -- Chesapeake Appalachia LLC - Franklin Twp.

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Wildfires, CEQA, Climate Change & the Courts

Legal Planet

Indeed, in the 2018 Camp Fire–the worst in California’s history–at least eight people burned to death in their cars while trying to escape from their homes, stuck in evacuation traffic on clogged country roads.

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DEP Outlines 2022 Priorities: Make Up Deficit In Oil & Gas Funding; Get Resources Needed To Invest New Federal Mine Reclamation, Oil & Gas Well Plugging Funds

PA Environment Daily

Since 2003, General Fund support for environmental programs in DEP have been cut about 40 percent and as a result staffing was reduced by nearly 30 percent, especially in water quality protection programs. The revenue projections done for the unconventional fee regulation were based on DEP receiving 2,000 permits a year. In 2010, Gov.

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded

Circle of Blue

They also attract criticism from environmental advocates for their roles as leaders of the county chapter of the Michigan Farm Bureau, which represents big commercial producers and routinely opposes environmental regulation. Regulation Begins. Regulators have the authority to stem nonpoint pollution in two categories. .