Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Back in 2007, the Supreme Court reached a landmark judgment in Massachusetts et al. Environmental Protection Agency et al. The court further mandated that, under the Clean Air Act, the EPA must set protective standards for global warming pollutants if the agency found them to be harmful to human health and welfare.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

She steered the relocation of WPCs headquarters, not once but twice, most recently to Washingtons Landing in Pittsburgh in 2007. Carrow participates in a wide variety of conservation and environmental programs and activities in Pennsylvania.

2025

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In 2007, the Water Program had 778 filled positions. This is not the Department of Business Development, it's the Department of Environmental Protection. We don't need to deliver permits at the speed of business, we need to deliver permits at the speed necessary to protect the environment. Once every 30 years.

2002

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

2007 ) -- Terreva Renewable Energy, LLC - Landfill Gas Facility: DEP issued an Air Quality Plan Approval extension to allow for compliance testing at the facility located in Wayne Twp., Montour County. ( PA Bulletin, page.1965 Washington County. Received Feb. 6, Issued Feb. PA Bulletin, page.2007 Clinton County. Read more here.

2006

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in West Virginia v. In 2007, the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v. Today, the Sabin Center filed two amicus briefs—one on behalf of the National League of Cities and the U.S.

2024

Law Columbia

APRIL 30, 2025

Pursuant to the Clean Air Act and the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. Of particular note is EPAs plan to review the Endangerment Finding. The Endangerment Finding was EPAs 2009 determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health and endanger public welfare.

Government

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

So far this week, the Department of Environmental Protection issued violations to Anegada Energy LLC and Taft Operating LLC for abandoning and not plugging shale gas wells in Butler and Greene counties. The wells were drilled in the first waves of shale gas development in 2007 and 2012. Violations were issued -- Dunkard Twp.:

2012

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

Josh Shapiro and Department of Environmental Protection officials joined Penn Mechanical Group and local leaders in Washington County to plug the 300th orphaned or abandoned well under the Shapiro Administration. Drilled in 2007. Read more here. Governor Marks Plugging 300th Abandoned Conventional Well On March 12, Gov.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 1, 2025

Susquehanna County The Department of Environmental Protection posted a February 20 inspection report this week saying there was a spill of an estimated 12,600 gallons of wastewater at the Diaz Family Shale Gas Drilling Well Pad 2 owned by Coterra Energy, Inc. Miller 48 - Drilled In 2007 - DEP inspection report -- Cumberland Twp.:

2012

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Kentucky v. In 2007, the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v. On Friday, December 6, the Sabin Center filed an amicus brief on behalf of the National League of Cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors in support of the U.S.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

Read more here ] [ Read more here ] DEP field inspectors are historically understaffed, and though the DEP cited conventional and unconventional operators 102,652 times for violations between 2007 and 2023, these citations have not deterred operators from continuing to pollute, often at will.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2025

[However, in some programs like air quality, hazardous waste, safe drinking water, radiation protection, storage tanks and others, Pennsylvania chose to adopt many federal regulations by reference. [So So if the federal regulations disappear, so could Pennsylvanias regulations.]

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency. While this authority—itself rooted in a prior Supreme Court decision , the 2007 Massachusetts v. This term, alongside a number of cases with the potential for seismic implications, the Supreme Court also took up West Virginia v.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

MECP claims that these changes will improve implementation of the legislation, however, this is only true if you think better implementation of species protection legislation involves making it weaker. Once again, the government is unraveling environmental protections to serve the interests of developers.

Government

Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. In the face of disappointing legislation and regulation, activists have increasingly turned to courts in the last fifteen years. In the US, for instance, Massachusetts v. These lawsuits face three key barriers.

Carbon Dioxide

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 2, 2021

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Inspector General identified a decline in enforcement activity within the agency from fiscal 2007 through fiscal 2018 in a report released Thursday. Read the full story in The Hill.

2007

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Regrettably, this annual budget has shortchanged the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for many years. Environmental Protection Agency issued a “Finding of Failure” to DEP’s Air Quality Program for not submitting a required plan to reduce VOC emissions from oil and gas operations.

Environmental Protection

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Since 2007, only 2009, 2013 and 2014 had more ice at the end of the melt season. Environmental Protection Agency, the summer melt season in the Arctic is now 38 days longer than it was in 1979. This past summer was relatively cool and stormy, which limited the loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic. According to the U.S.

2021

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 6, 2024

On December 20, 2023, Ontario’s Ministry of Environment Conservation and Parks (MECP) proposed more changes that will weaken the Endangered Species Act, 2007 (ESA). One of the targets of Ontario’s latest environmental rollback? The Redside Dace – a small, colourful and endangered minnow.

Endangered Species Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2023

By Laurie Barr, Save Our Streams PA Residents of Clara Township in Potter County and environmental advocates are calling on the Department of Environmental Protection to provide them with an opportunity to weigh in on an injection well planned for their community.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

And there at Geisinger, I am the founding director of the Environmental Health Institute, which we founded in 2007. We founded the Environmental Health Institute in 2007. Fully fund and staff government agencies that protect public health. And over the last 15 years, I've spent regular time in Danville.

Natural Gas

Water Research & Technology

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Changseok Han is currently an Assistant Professor in Department of Environmental Engineering at the INHA University, Korea. in Department of Environmental Engineering at Yeungnam University, Korea, in 2005 and 2007, respectively. He earned his B.S. Dr. Han achieved his Ph.D Han achieved his Ph.D

Environmental Science

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency’s issued a report celebrating the GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership’s 15th Anniversary that highlights Partner achievements in supermarket refrigerant management. On September 21, the U.S. supermarkets, or over 13,000 stores.

Ozone

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 25, 2022

After a nearly 30-year absence, they returned to Ontario in 2007, including to Sauble Beach. In the court’s decision, Justice Pardu wrote, “The Act should be given a generous interpretation in light of its remedial nature and its objective of environmental protection”.

Endangered Species Act

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

E2 Law Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The Massachusetts Appeals Court (the intermediate appellate court) has decided two cases this month addressing when a local conservation commission can impose conditions on development that affects wetlands in addition to conditions imposed by the Commonwealth’s Department of Environmental Protection. 859, 865-66 (2007).

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

After a prestigious 27-year career with the Environmental Hearing Board , Chief Judge and Chairman, Thomas W. He was the longest-serving Chairman in the Board’s history, having been named by Governor Rendell as Acting Chairman in April 2007 and appointed Chairman and Chief Judge in 2009. Renwand retired on February 3, 2023.

Law

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Plans for a third runway at the Vienna-Schwechat airport (pictured at right) were first submitted for review by the government of Lower Austria (one of Austria’s 9 regions) in March 2007. The legal bases for the court’s decision included domestic and international law.

Paris Agreement

The Energy Law

AUGUST 16, 2012

In 2007, in guidance specifically addressing oil and gas activities, EPA stated that “proximity is the most informative factor in making source determinations.” Environmental Protection Agency, No. By Lesley Foxhall Pietras On August 7, 2012, in a 2-1 decision in Summit Petroleum Corp. See Memorandum from William L.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2021

Since 2007, DEP’s Clean Water Program staff has been reduced by 25 percent due to cuts in state General Fund appropriations. The final fee package for most categories of permits has fees that continue to be significantly less than those of most neighboring states.

Regulations

Brag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a multi-part proposal that will build on the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program and seek to advance the priorities of energy security, less pollution, and consumer protection. Bergeson and Carla N. On December 1, 2022, the U.S.

2023

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Hydrogeologic Evaluation The purpose of this policy is to provide guidance to project sponsors and their consultants for the preparation of an Alternative Hydrogeologic Evaluation Policy, which has replaced the Aquifer Testing Plan Waiver process described in the Aquifer Testing Plan Guidance (formerly Policy 2007-01). Click Here for a copy.

2007

The Energy Law

JULY 6, 2007

Holden and Monica Derbes Gibson The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. The agencies will take public comments on implementation of the guidance until December 5, 2007. EPA-HQ-OW-2007-0282, or by email to OW-Docket@epa.gov , with the docket number in the “subject” line. United States, June 8, 2007.

2006

The Energy Law

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Moreno On October 1st, 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) released the final NPDES general permit for discharges from oil and gas facilities in the western and central portion of the Outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico (the “final permit”). By Robert E. Holden and Carlos J.

2012

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

She also chairs the church’s Creation Care group which she helped form in 2007. In 2017, they received a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to provide environmental education to students in Lancaster, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh to connect them with their watersheds.

Conservation

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. The draft report is responsive to Section 204 of the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA). Bergeson and Carla N.

Biofuels

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. United States, 547 U.S.

Clean Water Act