PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

DEP Penalties From 2009 to this year, the Department of Environmental Protection was involved in penalty settlements totaling over $129.7 56,650 For Susquehanna County Spills [October 2009] -- DEP Fines Company Handling Gas Drilling Frack Water $3,000 For Unpermitted Transfer Station [August 2009] -- DEP Agrees To Allow U.S.

2014

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

So far in 2025, DEP issued 39 violations to 10 shale gas drilling companies for abandoning and not plugging their well, most drilled in the early days of shale gas development in Pennsylvania-- 2009 to 2013. Read more here. Read more here. In response, the General Assembly passed and Gov. Read more here. Read more here.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Over 1st Quarter 2024; Price Of Natural Gas Increased 218% Over 1st Quarter 2024 [PaEN] -- Erie Times Guest Essay: Understaffed DEP Can’t Uphold Law And Protect Public Health - By Rep.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JULY 24, 2025

The 51st Statewide Investigating Grand Jury recommended charges under the Air Pollution Control Act and Clean Streams Law regarding negligent maintenance and upkeep of the well. From 2009 to this year, the Department of Environmental Protection was involved in penalty settlements totaling over $129.7 Read more here.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

In a blitz of destructive actions announced by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin last month, he specifically called for a reconsideration of the 2009 Endangerment Finding. In an earlier post , I laid out some of the history and context for the 2009 science-backed Endangerment Finding and the Cause or Contribute Finding.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Wells drilled in 2009 and 2008. Smith 1 shale gas well in Henry Clay Township, Fayette County [ DEP inspection report ] and the Keslar 9 shale gas well in Redstone Township, Fayette County [ DEP inspection report ] found the wells abandoned, one leaking gas and with no emergency plan onsite. Original violations 9.26.24. Decrease To 31.2%

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2025

On March 12, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced plans to reconsider EPAs 2009 endangerment finding for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, along with all regulations and actions that rely on the finding. EPA , that required EPA to make a science-based determination on the effects of GHG emissions.

2009

Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

In late 2009, EPA made a formal finding often called the Endangerment Finding that greenhouse gases may endanger human health and welfare. In this post, Ill explain the 2009 finding, its significance, the specific arguments EPA is making, and why they are likely to fail. First, it has to qualify as an air pollutant.

Clean Air Act

A Greener Life

JANUARY 30, 2025

China issues energy law To achieve Mission 300, we estimate that we will need around $30 billion in public funding and at least $10 billion in private investment. Take Rwanda , which has increased its electricity access to 75% from 6% in 2009, one of the fastest electrification expansions in the world.

2030

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

At a recent Columbia Law School colloquium, jointly sponsored by the Sabin Center and the Millstein Center, participants posed a foundational question: How do corporate law standards of fiduciary duty relate to what scientists call the climate emergency? [1] 5] Approximately two-thirds of U.S. 5] Approximately two-thirds of U.S.

Law

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

It does not seek to discuss every aspect of Trumps EOs, nor to answer every question about the lawfulness of various provisions, nor to set out the exact mechanics for whats to come. However, aspects of Justice40 and the Biden administration’s focus on disadvantaged communities are embedded in federal laws and programs.

Paris Agreement

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Among the many attacks in President Trumps Day 1 Executive Order on unleashing American (fossil) energy , is a directive to EPA administrator Zeldin to reevaluate the agencys bedrock 2009 scientific determination of the harms caused by heat-trapping emissions and submit recommendations within 30 days (i.e. this week).

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The last time DEP inspected the wells on the Warrant 566 tract was on February 11, 2009 when violations were found, but immediately corrected, according to DEP’s Oil & Gas Compliance Database [inspection reports not online]. DEP’s inspection report set a deadline of December 2, 2024 for that response. Decrease To 31.2% Decrease To 31.2%

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Greg Vitali (D-Delaware), Chair House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee -- PennLive Guest Essay: Pennsylvania Failing To Properly Regulate Its Oil & Gas Industry - By Rep.

Conservation

Law Columbia

APRIL 28, 2025

This post is the first of a new Climate Law Blog series, 100 Days of Trump 2.0 , in which the Sabin Center offers reflections on the first hundred days of President Trumps second term across a variety of climate-related topics. On January 20, 2025, Inauguration Day, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law launched the Climate Backtracker.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Additionally, they propose ending a multitude of protections under Title IX, a federal statute (signed into law by Richard Nixon) that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools and educational programs that receive federal funds. Indeed, the U.S.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2025

Well was drilled in 2009. This violation was originally issued October 28, 2024. Violations related to well abandonment were issued on October 27, 2023 and photos show the well is not plugged and not classified as inactive. DEP inspection report. Expired Conventional Permits, Failure To Restore Well Sites First Amer Energy Inc.

2025

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2025

Pursuant to this statutory authority, EPA has been regulating power plants’ GHG emissions since 2009. EPA proposes that its interpretation of “contributes significantly” should be “based on the impact of the existing regulation,” which is inconsistent with the text of the Clean Air Act and the case law that interprets it.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Subsequently, in 2009, EPA determined that greenhouse gas pollution threatens Americans’ health and welfare by leading to long-lasting changes in our climate that can have a range of negative effects on human health and the environment. In 2007, the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v. Circuit unanimously denied in July.

2024

Law Columbia

APRIL 30, 2025

This post offers a high-level state of play for local law and policymakers, community groups, and others working at the subnational level. The Endangerment Finding was EPAs 2009 determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health and endanger public welfare. Of particular note is EPAs plan to review the Endangerment Finding.

Government

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2025

Drilled in 2009 but not produced. [ EQT ARO LLC - Violations: 3 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells March 4-6, 2025 inspections of three shale gas wells in Centre and Lycoming counties found them abandoned and not plugged. Response requested by April 11. -- Centre County, Snow Shoe Twp.: DCNR COP Tract 231 A-1000H. Clearview Hunting Club Pad A 4H.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

The law is going to reduce economic growth, and in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia combined, it will wipe out about 45,000 jobs by 2030 and over 57,000 jobs by 2035, according to one analysis. Chart: Patrick Cicero, Former PA Consumer Advocate and Counsel to the Pennsylvania Utility Law Project. Read more here.

Natural Gas

Nature

AUGUST 12, 2025

Article Google Scholar Why Natural Rubber Must be Kept in the EU’s Anti-Deforestation Law (Mighty Earth, 2021). 23 , 1406–1417 (2009). 37 , 347–360 (2009). 16 , 22–29 (2009). Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Sheil, D., Descals, A., Meijaard, E. & Gabeau, D. Rubber planting and deforestation.

Deforestation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

DEP is inspecting shale gas wells drilled in the early days of shale development-- 2009 to 2013-- to determine their status which is resulting in most of the violations. .] -- Record Number Of Abandoned Shale Gas Well Violations 2024: Record number of violations for abandoning shale gas wells in 2024-- 47. 27 Released 1.1 26 to Sept.

Air Pollution

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2025

Building on States’ due diligence obligations under international environmental law, the DRC underscored the incompatibility of military activities and armed conflicts with the objectives of mitigating GHG emissions that States have set (para. Hence, it is “due in times of peace and in times of war” (para.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

This post is part of a new Climate Law Blog series, 100 Days of Trump 2.0 , in which the Sabin Center offers reflections on the first 100 days of President Trumps second term across a variety of climate-related topics. To read other posts from the series, which will roll out over the course of this week, click here.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Subsequently, in 2009, EPA determined that greenhouse gas pollution threatens Americans’ health and welfare by leading to long-lasting changes in our climate that can have a range of negative effects on human health and the environment. In so doing, they rely on strong leadership from EPA to reduce emissions from vehicles themselves.

Clean Air Act

Nature

JUNE 17, 2025

Slip instability and state variable friction laws. Laboratory-derived friction laws and their application to seismic faulting. Solid Earth 114 , B01402 (2009). Fault-network geometry influences earthquake frictional behaviour. Nature 631 , 106–110 (2024). Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Ruina, A. & Kaneko, Y.

2011

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 7, 2025

Bush respectively signed into law the Clean Water Act and the North American Wetlands Conservation Act in 1989. A joint report in December by USFWS and NOAA found that the rate of wetland loss in coastal watersheds from 2009 to 2019 was less than the rate of loss from 1998 to 2009, indicating “progress towards reducing net wetland loss.”

Endangered Species Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

proclaimed Swedish public health professor Hans Rosling in 2009. Harvard Law Schools Data.gov Archive currently hosts more than 300,000 datasets harvested from federal sources in 2024 and 2025, along with open-source tools to help others preserve data. But the Trump administration has upended this longstanding tradition.

Government

Legal Planet

AUGUST 11, 2025

This is thanks to SB 1221 , a law passed last year that creates a pathway to pay for customers in some select communities to get new zero-emission alternatives to gas infrastructure. Please keep in mind that the EPA administrator Lee Zeldin is working to eliminate the 2009 endangerment finding”… (So specific, Monica!)

Climate Change

Scientific American

JUNE 12, 2025

Jason Schwartz, legal director for the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University Law School, said the statutory language was “pretty clear that you dont need pollutant-specific findings.” ” Jeff Holmstead, who served as EPA air chief during the George W.

Regulations

Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

Consider the story of Emma Rose Shore, a UCLA Law student and summer law fellow at the Emmett Institute. Which is why Dan McCarthy at Canary Media calls it “a law not of creation but of destruction.” “I think this reduction in staff is going to have echoes for years to come,” Dreyfus said. It’s future ones too.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

JANUARY 21, 2025

International Climate Finance Plan DECLARING A NATIONAL ENERGY EMERGENCY [link] Declares national energy emergency, primarily based on high energy prices Use any lawful emergency authorities to facilitate the identification, leasing, siting, production, transportation, refining, and generation of domestic energy resources.

Endangered Species Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

My work began when my daughter was born in 2009. We have approximately 34 well pads, a compressor station, numerous pipelines, one that is 75 feet on our property, a staging and housing facility, and in addition constant truck traffic. My children began to experience negative health impacts from the oil and gas industry.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

AUGUST 13, 2025

Dessler calls the Energy Department report a “law brief from attorneys defending their client, carbon dioxide.” Please keep in mind that the EPA administrator Lee Zeldin is working to eliminate the 2009 endangerment finding.” Meanwhile “the enforcement of environmental laws has fallen off a cliff.” They still are.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 30, 2025

EPA subsequently determined — to no one’s surprise — that greenhouse gases emitted from automobiles endanger public health and welfare, a determination President Obama issued in 2009. Their basis in law, science, and economics was weak, to say the least.

Clean Air Act