PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2023

Although DEP regulates natural gas development, the agency’s response time to environmentally hazardous incidents have been criticized over the years in part because risk is being seen more and more as development occurs within the zone of vulnerability. Comments are due by January 7, 2023.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Rhodium found that “the full suite of current policies on the books as of June 2023 drives US emissions to 32-51% below 2005 levels in 2035. By 2035, those emissions reductions will be 43-45% below 2004 levels. Subsidies indirectly promote stronger regulation. These numbers may be a little confusing.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Protest Toyota Campaign vs. Toyota Protest Toyota Campaign vs. Toyota | March 4, 2004 TMPCWA filed a complaint against Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation (TMP) for labour rights violations. million yuan over Lexus price-fixing Reuters | December 27, 2019 China's market regulator on Friday has fined Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor 7203.T

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

Oil & Gas Citizens Hotline When Attorney General Shapiro announced the results of the Grand Jury report, he also announced a new hotline citizens can use to report environmental issues with oil and gas drilling in Pennsylvania-- 507-904-2643 or send an email to: fracking@attorneygeneral.gov.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

The 2023-2028 SHIP was developed in collaboration with the Healthy Pennsylvania Partnership (HPP), with support from Harrisburg University. The other threats include transportation issues leading to social health disparities, escalating costs of medicines necessary to treat chronic diseases. Of Health Awards $2.5 27 Released 1.1

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Enterprise in Oil: A History of Shell in the United States by Kendall Beaton (1957). million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Enterprise in Oil: A History of Shell in the United States by Kendall Beaton (1957). million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). Enterprise in Oil: A History of Shell in the United States by Kendall Beaton (1957). million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 8, 2023

According to EPA data gathered between 2004 and 2020, Texas, Louisiana, California, and Illinois lead the nation in “accidents at facilities handling hazardous chemicals.” The decision to heavily regulate such an integral part of Alaskan life comes after 15 years of dwindling chinook salmon populations.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Baiton was at COP27 and is expected to return for COP28, which runs from November 30th until December 12th, 2023. We need governments to regulate industry. Under Baiton’s leadership, CAPP has lobbied the federal government 74 times in the first 9 months of 2023 – that’s once every 2.5

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Even before the justices granted review in the Sheetz case last Friday, the Court’s 2023-24 Term was shaping up as one featuring sweeping constitutional challenges to government regulation generally and to environmental regulation in particular. For example, in Loper Bright Enterprises v.

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CEQA Developments

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

County of Monterey (California-American Water Company, Real Party in Interest) (2023) Cal.App.5th. City of Los Angeles (2004) 126 Cal.App.4th Marina Coast Water District v. Exposition Metro Line Construction Authority (2013) 57 Cal.4th 4th 439, 463; Banning Ranch Conservancy v. City of Newport Beach (2017) 57 Cal.5th 4th 1180, 1207.)

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Several workers have also been injured and others killed in explosions at the Point Comfort plant in 2005 and at a PVC plant in Illiopolis , Illinois in 2004. On October 31, 2023 at 2:00 pm (CT) Diane will lead a global hunger strike against Formosa Plastics, her fourth hunger strike. billion complex in St.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2023

Pennsylvania has had laws and regulations in place since the 1960s to ensure that mining sites are reclaimed and restored. We put regulations in place in the 1970s-1980s for stormwater and manure management, and to reduce agricultural erosion and sedimentation. JILL: Pennsylvania has a long history of environmental protection.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

More recently, a trio of studies in Pennsylvania released in August 2023 show that children living near fracking wells have much worse asthma and five to seven times the risk of lymphoma, which is a type of cancer. million infants born in Pennsylvania between 2004 and 2013. And of course, regulations cannot stop air pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

This editorial first appeared in the Scranton Times August 27, 2023 -- Environmental degradation sometimes flows from natural circumstances. And as Lackawanna County especially demonstrates, bearing a disproportionate pollution burden does not dissuade state regulators from allowing developers to degrade the environment even further.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

For the first 20 years of federal regulation, Congress set the NOx standards for new cars itself. Apparently Congress did not relish the task of periodically resetting the standards itself The 1990 Amendments authorized EPA to set standards for 2004 and beyond. These are called Tier 1 standards. fleetwide ceiling of 0.07

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

California regulators police water use with an open-source program from OpenET. Pavelsky started even earlier, attending his first SWOT development meeting in 2004, when he was in graduate school. But it won’t be usable until late summer 2023 at the earliest. Satellites, like traffic cameras, can catch people breaking the rules.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2023

2023 is the 20th anniversary of the drilling of the first shale gas well in Pennsylvania that was also the first shale gas well fracked in 2004. Spreading wastewater on roads from conventional oil and gas wells is illegal because it does not meet the requirements of DEP’s Residual Waste Regulations, but it’s still going on.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

USA: “The Coke Side of Life”—More Sugar, Less Science Union of Concerned Scientists PaulaR Thu, 06/08/2023 - 03:44 Friday, August 14, 2015 Read more Deborah Bailin Almost 130 years ago, Coca-Cola first quenched Americans’ thirst and splashed its irresistible blend of sugar and, yes, cocaine , across our taste buds and brains.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Total Penalties $241,580,318 (July 7, 2023) Number of Records 118 Books Agrifood Atlas: Facts and figures about the corporations that control what we eat by Heinrich Böll Foundation, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation & Friends of the Earth Europe (2017) Citizen Coke by Bartow J. Yet Coca-Cola's activities around the world tell a different story.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

in bribes BBC PaulaR Wed, 06/07/2023 - 10:06 Thursday, April 14, 2022 Read more Prosecutors say Noel Corry created a "corrupt procurement culture" A former Coca-Cola Enterprises manager has admitted taking more than £1.5m The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance Hays (2004).

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Environment, Law, and History

AUGUST 27, 2023

Dan Farber at Legal Planet recently posted on "Cars, Smog, and EPA" An excerpt: For the first 20 years of federal regulation, Congress set the NOx [nitrogen oxides] standards for new cars itself. The Biden proposed standard [of 2023] allow less than 1% of the pollution levels that Congress mandated in 1970. Read more »

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

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. Ingraffea , Professor Of Engineering at Cornell University, and others suggest that from 5 to 6.2 We now have 13,952 active unconventional shale gas wells drilled in Pennsylvania.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 25, 2024

Prior to 2023, NEPA contained only one short subsection about environmental impact statements. But a sleeper provision of the 2023 debt ceiling law added pages of detail about environmental impact statements. But a sleeper provision of the 2023 debt ceiling law added pages of detail about environmental impact statements.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 7, 2023

The Beacon Blog: Consider It Briefed Environmental Justice in 2023: Equal Funding for All? Spurred by the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to inclusivity, economic security, and climate resilience, 2023 brings historic federal funding in the fight against climate inequities. Designed to expedite investments through the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Background Both Republicans and Democrats introduced very similar legislation on this topic on the same day-- June 21, 2023. SLAPPs are lawsuits filed against a person or organization for statements made, or positions taken, in connection with a matter of public interest or regulation. The bill now goes to the Senate for action.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Background Both Republicans and Democrats introduced very similar legislation on this topic on the same day-- June 21, 2023. SLAPPs are lawsuits filed against a person or organization for statements made, or positions taken, in connection with a matter of public interest or regulation. Click Here to watch a video of the meeting.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Both Republicans and Democrats introduced very similar legislation on this topic on the same day-- June 21, 2023. SLAPPs are lawsuits filed against a person or organization for statements made, or positions taken, in connection with a matter of public interest or regulation. Republican Bill Rep. When he announced the legislation , Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 14, 2024

Billion Since 2004 -- PA House/Senate -- Spotlight PA: School Funding, Permitting Top Of PA Legislature’s 2024 Agenda -- PennLive - John Baer: Will PA’s Lawmakers Be Better In 2024 Or The Mediocre Same? Billion To Close Gap Between Rich And Poor Schools, Report Advanced By Dems Says -- WESA: State Commission Recommends Lawmakers Adopt A $5.4

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

This proposed rule contrasts the Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2004 and 2009 determinations that the species did not warrant protections. The Supreme Court may not issue its ruling until 2023. ESC – Recommendation to the White House Office of Management and Budget for FY 2023 Budget (Nov. This butterfly is native to New Mexico.

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