PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2023

The water used for hydraulic fracturing is composed of 87 chemicals, some of which have the potential to cause a danger to health of life (PA DEP, 2010). Yet DEP regulators and inspectors are understaffed and unable to oversee the boom in natural gas development. Keep in mind, 1,000 yards is much more protective than 1,000 feet.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] This piece previously appeared in the CLS Blue Sky Blog.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Water rates more than doubled between 2010 and 2020, while income of the city’s poorest one-fifth of residents inched up only 12 percent. Climate models predict with near unanimity that more atmospheric warming will increase annual rainfall in Michigan and Ohio: a trend that is already making algae blooms worse.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

Maryland has been described as having more pages of environmental statutes and regulations on a per capita basis than any other state. A person who violates the prohibition against knowingly and intentionally releasing, or causing to be released, a balloon into the atmosphere must watch a re-educational video and/or perform community service.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The ESA regulations define the “effects” that must be considered in the BiOp: “Effects are all consequences to listed species or critical habitat that are caused by the proposed action, including the consequences of other activities that are caused by the proposed action. This includes both direct and indirect effects. 3 ; Laidre et al.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In 2010, 11,319 people earned a doctorate in the life sciences. The number of earned doctorates awarded is increased in the geosciences, atmospheric sciences and ocean sciences from 862 degrees in 2010 to 1,243 degrees in 2020. However, longer term trends show that number of doctorates awarded in the life sciences is increasing.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

We discuss the need for better water use regulation across the country to lessen the strain on EQIP. So far, in 2023, unusually high amount of rain and snow from “atmospheric rivers” has helped bust a years-long drought and ensure the water supply is largely secure this year. water resources. Accessed April 13, 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In addition, the same practices that turn farm soils into sponges also pull more carbon from the atmosphere into the soil, making farmers part of the solution to worsening climate change. This, in turn, can help lessen the price shocks that can result when crop and livestock losses occur. This is good for all of us, of course.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Most of these pieces were about the company’s support for a seemingly independent network of anti-regulation, “free-market” nonprofits that spread falsehoods about the reality and seriousness of climate change. billion (in 2010 dollars) in federal tax breaks and subsidies for nearly 100 years. Is the day of reckoning coming?

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

On December 12, 2023 , DEP did a follow up inspection of the Kennedy 4 conventional gas well in Georges Township, Fayette County operated by Diversified Prod LLC and found it was still venting gas to the atmosphere producing a hazard to public health and safety. DEP originally issued a violation for the venting on October 25, 2023.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 8, 2022

1) The EPA permits states to draft and execute regulations to satisfy national standards in most circumstances. (2) 11) Global warming, in part, is a result of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. 23) Since 2010, natural gas flaring and venting have increased 1.52 Turner, Jr. see also Karine Lacroix et al.,

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

The report describes SC-GHG as “the monetary value of the net harm to society from emitting one metric ton of that GHG into the atmosphere in a given year.” [1] 12] How the SC-GHG Estimates Will Be Used The higher SC-GHG estimates may pave the way for more aggressive regulation of GHGs. 3d 1172 (9th Cir. 2016), [link]. [6] 11] Ibid. [12]

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Law Columbia

APRIL 25, 2024

This blog post provides a brief history of BLM’s Fossil Fuel Waste Rule, and explains why and how the ancillary climate benefits vanished from the final regulation. Despite these efforts, since 2010, reported flaring and venting from federal leases have massively increased. 25378, 25380 (Apr. The Biden Administration’s U.S.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The federal district court for the Northern District of Texas dismissed for lack of standing a lawsuit against the EPA in which an individual pro se plaintiff asserted that EPA restrictions since 1990 on aerosols in the atmosphere had caused global warming. Association of Irritated Residents v. F078460 (Cal.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

The opinion, known as the Bernhardt Memorandum , states that project-specific GHG emissions could not pass the “may affect” test and thus GHG emissions were “not subject to consultation under the ESA and its implementing regulations.” Less sea ice also means that bears must swim longer distances, which poses a drowning risk to young cubs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

The 2021 New Hampshire Climate Assessment states unequivocally: “Without significant reduction in atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHG), extreme precipitation events are projected to increase a minimum of 20%, leading to an increase in freshwater flooding regionally.”

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

By 2010, two years after Rendell opened the gates for fracking on state land, 35 leases were in place for about 139,000 of those acres. We need to protect our unleased public lands from this rush because they are the most significant tracts of undisturbed forest remaining in the state,” he said in 2010. DCNR State Forests About 1.5

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A Greener Life

APRIL 5, 2023

Several rivers meander through the flat, swampy county and overflow after intense downpours, the kind that are occurring much more frequently as a warmer atmosphere leads to more intense rain events. Horry County gained almost 100,000 people between 2010 and 2021. It’s the very nature of the low-lying landscape.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court said the trade group had satisfied the stringent requirements for a stay pending judicial review and stayed the rule “insofar as it purports to regulate trailers.” National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , No. Both sets of intervenors also said the court should limit any abeyance period to 120 days. filed Oct.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

EPA decision , upheld the EPA’s authority to regulate such emissions under the Clean Air Act but significantly constrained its ability to do so. Since 2010, when he first ran for AG, Wilson has received more than $143,000 from electric utilities and fossil fuel companies combined, according to OpenSecrets data.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 The pact recognizes that world’s countries would need to reduce global carbon emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 levels to limit warming to 1.5 Council on Environmental on Environmental Quality – National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations Revisions.

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ESA

JANUARY 9, 2023

Biden administration releases fall 2022 Unified Agenda, previewing regulations to come. Appropriators increase the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s budget $6.2 The Congressional Review Act allows Congress to challenge regulations within 60 legislative days of the executive branch finalizing the regulation.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Biden administration laid out its timeline for rolling back major Trump environmental rules, but acknowledged that the process of enacting more protective regulations on climate and air pollution and drinking water will take years — if they can estimate the timeline at all.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Trump, the fact that each month is warmer than the same month the previous year has nothing to do with the adverse consequences associated with spewing obscene amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. into the atmosphere each year, with no end in sight. manufacturing non-competitive.” Good Bye to the EPA as We Know It?

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ESA

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The US Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Interior and the heads of the US Forest Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the US Agency for International Development would serve as ex-oficio members of the foundation’s board. The Senate bill has six co-sponsors, including three Democrats and three Republicans.

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