PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2025

PJMs record summer peak load was set at 165,563 MW in 2006. Yaw Senate Bill 349 To Encourage Responsible Solar Development, Protect Landowners Approved By Senate 49 to 1 [Sen. The National Weather Service predicts hotter-than-normal summer conditions, especially in the Atlantic seaboard states.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection invites comments on a new State Only Minor Air Quality Operating Permit for the continued operation of the ETC Northeast Pipeline LLC [Energy Transfer] Revolution Natural Gas Cryogenic Processing Plant in Smith Township, Washington County. (

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

Carrow participates in a wide variety of conservation and environmental programs and activities in Pennsylvania. Since 1997, Cynthia has been appointed by the Pennsylvania Senate Pro Tempore to serve on the Citizens Advisory Council to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. In 2006, Ms.

2025

Acoel

JANUARY 29, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was to implement the vision lawmakers outlined in TSCA but neglected to elaborate legislatively. It is perplexing why such a consequential law is so lacking clear congressional direction and specificity. The irony is not lost on practitioners versed in TSCA 1.0. For TSCA 1.0,

Toxic Substances Control Act

PA Environment Daily

JULY 24, 2025

PJM’s record summer peak is 165,563 MW, set in 2006. As of noon on July 24, PJM expects to serve a peak load of over 151,000 MW on July 24 and a peak load of over 152,000 MW on July 25. On June 24 this summer, PJM served a preliminary peak of over 162,000 MW, the third-highest peak load in its history.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has known for years that emissions of ethylene oxide —a colorless, odorless gas used to sterilize medical equipment and some food products—pose a long-term cancer risk to communities near commercial sterilizing facilities.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection invites comments on a new Post-Construction Stormwater Management Manual providing guidance on the construction, maintenance and operation of stormwater control measures. formal notice ) The deadline for comments is April 28.

2006

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 30, 2024

In November 2023, conservation and environmental protection leader Deborah Nardone was appointed as the Executive Director of the Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds. Dawes served as the inaugural Executive Director, dedicating more than 30 years to building the FPW into a well-organized, strategic philanthropy.

2006

PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Dawes was instrumental in the reauthorization of the federal Abandoned Mine Lands Fund in 2006 and served as Chair of the campaign that led to Pennsylvania receiving $1 billion to address Pennsylvania’s mining legacy of more than 185,000 acres of unsafe, mine-scarred lands. Since assuming elected office in 2020, Rep.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

For example, PBDE neurotoxic flame retardants used in consumer products were assessed as toxic in 2006 but the draft regulations restricting PBDEs in products were only published last year, a delay of 16 years. These delays have real life consequences for the health of people in Canada and the environment.

2006

Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

2030

Law and Environment

MAY 31, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency , which significantly narrowed the Clean Water Act’s (“CWA”) test for determining whether wetlands are protected “waters of the United States” and the federal permitting requirements for development projects in covered wetlands areas. United States , 547 U.S.

Law

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

She held this position through the 2005-2006 Legislative Session. Although part of every piece of environmental legislation passed in more than a decade, Sen. Seif, former Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection. Hess, former Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection.

2002

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The Department of Environmental Protection and Friends of the ‘Sock recently documented continuing sediment pollution plumes from a natural gas pipeline stream crossing and water withdrawal construction site on the Loyalsock Creek at the Pennsylvania General Energy Loyalsock/Shawnee site in Gamble Township, Lycoming County.

Natural Gas

HumanNature

APRIL 9, 2025

Debt-for-nature swaps reduce a country’s debt burden while ensuring that foregone debt service payments are directed toward environmental protection efforts. 2021, Culas 2006). Culas, R J (2006). And one tool that has gained attention in this debate is the debt-for-nature swap. 2011, Essers et al.

Deforestation

The Energy Law

JULY 25, 2013

Thus, under the 2006 regulations, stormwater from Oil &Gas sites that only contained sediment was always exempt from permitting. The 2006 regulations were judicially challenged and eventually vacated. United States Environmental Protection Agency , 526 F.3d See Natural Resources Defense Council v. 3d 591 (9th Cir.

Regulations

MGKF Law

MAY 29, 2023

715, 754 (2006). In Sackett v. EPA , 2023 WL 3632751 (U.S. United States, 547 U.S.

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Environmental Protection will hold an event and tour on September 17 in Philadelphia to announce the recipients of this year’s Schuylkill River Restoration Fund grants. The garden will feature a subterranean stormwater storage system and Pennsylvania native plants.

2006

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5

2010

The Energy Law

JULY 6, 2007

Holden and Monica Derbes Gibson The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. 2208 (2006). In 2006, the Supreme Court decided two consolidated cases involving the Corps’ authority to require dredge and fill permits under CWA § 404 for discharge into wetlands having only indirect connections to navigable waters.

2006

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

Duran said she also contacted the Department of Environmental Protection about the incident and was told they planned to send inspectors to tour the plant Tuesday (January 3). Written by David Hess, Former Secretary, PA Department of Environmental Protection. on December 25 and ceased as of 4:59 p.m. the same day.

Natural Gas

Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

On August 29, 2023, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. 2006)- Plurality decision which includes test adopted by Justice Kennedy known as the “significant nexus test” which extended federal jurisdiction to non-adjacent wetlands. EPA issued the rule to conform its regulations to the ruling of the U.S.

Clean Water Act

Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

On August 29, 2023, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. 2006)- Plurality decision which includes test adopted by Justice Kennedy known as the “significant nexus test” which extended federal jurisdiction to non-adjacent wetlands. EPA issued the rule to conform its regulations to the ruling of the U.S.

Clean Water Act

Vermont Law

JULY 28, 2014

They include forbidding practices that might “disturb the ecological balance,” making natural sites accessible to all citizens, developing local sources of energy, outlining state’s authority to punish those who violate flora and fauna protection laws, and protect against waste originating from “foreign sources.”

2010

Vermont Law

MARCH 23, 2015

According to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA). States are primarily responsible for regulating fracking activities, as fracking is exempt from most federal laws targeted toward environmental protection, such as the Clean Water Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

Part Three, below, explores preemption questions in the context of other domestic frameworks: California’s climate-disclosure laws and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s GHG emissions reporting regime. the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Solutions Act).

Law

E2 Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

A few months later, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) notified the Sacketts that their property contained wetlands and ordered the couple to restore the site or face penalties of up to $40,000 a day. 715 (2006), and embraced ever since in a series of rulemakings and jurisdictional determinations by the EPA and the U.S.

Clean Water Act

Brag

JANUARY 4, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of a draft document entitled Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (External Review Draft) for public comment. Bergeson and Carla N. On January 3, 2023, the U.S.

Biofuels

The Energy Law

APRIL 1, 2014

On March 25, 2014, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and the Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) jointly released a proposed rule purporting to clarify the scope of the “waters of the United States” protected under the Clean Water Act. The agencies claim that, as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision in Rapanos v.

Clean Water Act

Greenbuilding Law

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Environmental Benefits : The primary goal of London’s LEZ, the world’s largest low emission zone, covering all London boroughs and much of the greater area, is to reduce GHG emissions from vehicles as part of a larger kingdom wide effort to fight climate change.

Greenhouse

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In 2006, Tamaqua Borough of Pennsylvania. The modern movement in the United States began when residents of towns in Pennsylvania passed ordinances banning extractive activities harming water supplies and the natural environment. passed local law. preventing a waste company from depositing toxic sewage. Pittsburgh followed in 2010, declaring.

Law

The Energy Law

MAY 17, 2011

By Lesley Foxhall Pietras On April 27, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) released new proposed guidance on how the agencies will identify waters protected by the Clean Water Act (CWA) in light of Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. 715 (2006).

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency announced $9.6 Since 2006, the INSR Program has provided more than $115 million to 210 projects that reduce the amount of nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. On June 3, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the U.S.

Conservation

Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The 2022 Act sets the big, hairy, audacious goal of dramatically reducing statewide GHG emissions by 60% below 2006 levels by 2031, arguably the strictest state standard in the nation (i.e., Michigan, Connecticut, New York, and Oregon all have GHG mandates but nothing like Maryland) and achieve net zero emissions by 2045.

Greenhouse

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2021

On October 14, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the award of over $4.1 Erosion has resulted in over 1,500 tons of sediment entering the creek since 2006 and is shifting the creek close to Interstate 81. A section of the creek is severely eroded on both sides, with banks over eight feet high.

Conservation

Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lacked authority to administratively stay portions of new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector for which it had granted requests for reconsideration. New Jersey Appellate Court Affirmed State Authority to Take Easements for Coastal Protection Projects. FEATURED CASE.

2017

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would regulate two forms of PFAS contamination under Superfund laws reserved for “the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites.” But companies had a leisurely decade to meet commitments.

Regulations