PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

As of September 1, the DEP 2022-2023 Alternative Fuel Vehicle Rebate Program is offering Pennsylvanians a bigger rebate for the purchase of a new or used battery electric car or truck. The program was established by state law in 2004 and is funded by the utilities gross receipts tax.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The case was still ongoing in 2022. Court Approves Exxon Mobil’s $25M Settlement for Pollution in Puerto Rico Drinking Water Emily Aschcraft | Law Street Media | July 22, 2021 Exxon Mobil Corporation and Esso Standard Oil Company have resolved claims filed against them by Puerto Rico after Judge Silvia L.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

Yet the state law minimum “set-back” for well construction is only 500 feet. Natural gas processing facilities, like the Energy Transfer Revolution Cryogenic Plant in Washington County that suffered an explosion and burned for 11 hours on Christmas Day, 2022, should obviously be included. That is dangerously close. Read more here.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2022

Fred Tutman, the Only Black Riverkeeper in the United States, Discusses the Lack of Diversity in the Mainstream Environmental Movement By Cynthia Cane , Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23) and Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 9, 2022 Fred Tuman’s journey to the environmentalism movement was unorthodox, to say the least.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Confirming initial projections when the law was passed, models now predict that IRA will significantly cut emissions by 2030. A mid-August 2022 report from a Princeton research group, concluded that IRA would close two-thirds of the remaining emissions gap between current policy and the nation’s 2030 climate target (50% below 2005).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In an opinion in a much-publicized case, filed December 28, 2022, and later ordered published on January 26, 2023, the First District Court of Appeal (Div. 5th 460 ( “Citizens’ Committee” ), as summarized in a prior post dated February 8, 2022, which can be found here. Susan Brandt-Hawley (2022) 86 Cal.App.5th 2021) 74 Cal.App.5th

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2022

From 1982-2004, the Pennsylvania River Otter Reintroduction Project released 153 otters into eight water systems in central and western Pennsylvania. After the bill creating the Wild Resources Conservation Program was signed into law, he served on the original advisory board for the program for 22 years.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2022

million tons were recycled, which is roughly the same amount that was recycled in 2004-- 5.14 DEP’s paper says for years the 2010 law that requires manufacturer-sponsored recycling has left many Pennsylvanians “frustrated by their inability to conveniently and affordably recycle used electronic devices (covered devices).” million tons.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

No written update on these studies has been posted on the webpage since July 1, 2022. However, both the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health and the Department of Health pulled out of an October 2022 public meeting intended to provide an update on the studies. Read more here. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 17, 2021

The New SCCs—replacing the controller-to-controller and controller-to-processor SCCs (Prior SCCs), which were adopted in 2001, 2004 and 2010—are intended to address concerns set out in last year’s groundbreaking European Court of Justice (CJEU) Schrems II decision.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Finally, the Strategy considers how competition law enforcement can help address affordability concerns. The pilot will run until August 2022, and applicants are also offered the opportunity to make suggestions to address and improve any gaps identified. Feedback on the Roadmap was requested through April.

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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. A court ultimately revoked the company’s air permits in September 2022, in a major victory for environmental justice activists. billion complex in St. billion complex in St.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Join PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center, the Pennsylvania Resources Council and other waste experts for a September 21 webinar on their plan to reduce waste, improve recycling efforts and bring Pennsylvania’s antiquated recycling laws into the 21st Century. million tons. -- In 2019, the most recent year available, 5.25 million tons.

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HumanNature

MARCH 28, 2023

Guest Post by Sheela Turbek , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biology at Colorado State University Imagine your favorite crime drama, something along the lines of Law and Order or CSI. Suddenly, ten years later, skeletal remains are uncovered in a marshy drainage.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The Environmental Collaboratory will employ the two institutions’ expertise in environmental science, law, health, policy, humanities and engineering. Currently, there is an ongoing search for the inaugural executive director of The Environmental Collaboratory, who should be appointed in the fall and likely start in 2022. #6

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 8, 2023

Flush with Cash, State Lawmakers Consider Water Risks — Water is poised for prominence this year in state law and policy. The Coalition to prevent Chemical Disasters recorded 188 chemical accidents in 2022, and 177 in 2021. This number is even higher when accidents cataloged by nonprofit watchdogs are included.

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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

An estimated 1 in 4 Americans started the new year with the intention of improving their mental health in 2022.[[N: N: American Psychiatric Association , One in Four Americans Plans a Mental Health New Year's Resolution for 2022 (Dec. ABA Survey: Lawyers Are Stressed Out, Above the Law (Aug. 20, 2021) ( [link] ). ]].

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

DEP issued 605 NOVs against unconventional shale gas operators and 149 to conventional oil and gas drillers for defective casing or cementing from 2016 through 2022, according to DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database. Apollo B 6M (2022) Bradford County -- Chesapeake Appalachia LLC - Albany Twp. Jackson 9H (2022) -- EOG Resources Inc.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2023

She’s worked at the DEP for eight years, beginning in the construction of stormwater and wetlands programs and then serving as Director of the DEP Chesapeake Bay Office from 2019-2022. Our state Clean Streams Law has been in place since 1937. Check DEP’s 2022 Water Quality Report to find out how clean streams are near you.

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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. The report makes recommendations on how to improve enforcement of state laws, in particular to deal with the most frequent environmental violation-- routinely abandoning wells without plugging them.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Individual Records & Summaries Click here for violation data on Koch Industries Total Penalties $935,266,865 (September 30, 2022) Number of Records 436 Books Axis of Ideology: Conservative Foundations and Public Policy (National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, March 2004). The fine was $30 million.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

And if a company that has a disaster like the Norfolk Southern derailment, you can rest assured that we will hold them accountable to the fullest extent of the law. That law is providing hundreds of millions in funding for plugging orphaned and abandoned wells, which are the source of 8% of the methane emissions in Pennsylvania.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 1, 2023

This is our tenth version of the survey since 2004 and, to our surprise and delight, while challenges remain, the widespread consensus is that scientists in the federal government feel more positive about their workplaces now than they have at any other time we have administered the survey.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 7, 2023

By Elizabeth Beairsto , Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law August 7, 2023 Introduction From Flint Michigan’s contaminated water supply to Cancer Alley in southern Louisiana, communities of color and low-income communities are disproportionately affected by environmental pollution. 18, 2022), [link] See Robert D.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 15, 2021

ESG has become such a large component of my law practice that I am now collaborating with a fabulous group attorneys in ESG Legal Solutions, LLC, a new non-law consulting firm. Nancy Hudes and I are now publishing a new blog at www.ESGLegalSolutions.com (. yes, this blog will continue). This post originally appeared in that blog.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2022

This is a case study in how not to enact a law that’s in the interest of the people of Pennsylvania.” The first shale gas well was drilled in 2003 and that well was the first shale gas well fracked in 2004. Shale Gas + 20 The first commercial oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania in 1859.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The defendants argued that the Second Circuit’s decision confirmed that the plaintiff’s claims necessarily arise under federal law. and non-U.S. 21-8001 (D.C.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act of 2021 on February 4, 2021 in an effort to, in her words, comprehensively "overhaul[] and moderniz[e]" US antitrust laws. Law Offices of Curtis V. 398 (2004).]] Major Provisions of the Legislation. Trinko, LLP, 540 U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 2, 2022

-- TribLive: New COVID Cases Drop 15% In PA’s Latest Report; Deaths Nearly Double Over Last Week -- Spotlight PA: Medical Marijuana Card Company Draws Scrutiny For Using Unofficial PA Doctor Listing To Attract Patients -- WHYY: Wolf Invests $1.7

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 5, 2022

Senate Nominee Fetterman Understands ‘Real People’ -- May 2022 Primary Election -- MCall - Ford Turner: Lehigh Republican Chair - Sen. Daley -- Budget 2022 -- Gov. Senate Campaign Heats Up -- City & State PA: Casey Says Democratic U.S. Wolf: May State Revenues $402.4 Million Over Estimate; Year-To-Date Up $4.9

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