Enviromental Defense

JULY 2, 2025

E-waste generation increased 82 per cent between 2010 and 2022, reaching 62 million tonnes annually. What’s clear is that without proper policies and safeguards, the environmental costs of AI could easily outweigh its benefits. The post Beyond the Cloud: What’s AI’s True Environmental Cost?

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

The report provides renewed evidence of the consequences for our health of using fossil fuels In 1970 the Clean Air Act and the newly formed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were given authority by Congress to regulate pollution from passenger cars and other forms of transportation. The report compares PM 2.5

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2025

On June 20, Protect PT announced it will appeal a June 3 Environmental Hearing Board decision to allow CNX Resources (formerly Apex Energy LLC) to drill two shale gas wells just hundreds of feet from homes in Penn Township, Westmoreland County. [ The conditions come from a Consent Judgment between Penn Township and CNX Resources. [The

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Over the last two weeks, the Department of Environmental Protection issued Bialy Gas Production LLC 36 violations for abandoning conventional oil and gas wells they own, bringing the total of violations for conventional well abandonment to 96 for this year covering 36 different well owners. Drilled in 2010 but not produced. [

2011

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2025

However, since 2010 its fleet fuel economy in the U.S. This lack of environmental leadership in product sales has been paired with a behind-the-scenes lobbying effort to undermine environmental protections. has improved less than half the rate of the industry overall (from 25.4 mpg, compared to 22.6

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

After the dumping incidents on dirt and paved roads around her home and throughout the region, Lawson provided photos and reports on the dumping to the Department of Environmental Protection to document the problems. Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water." [ Read more here.] Read more here - page 39.

Natural Gas

Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Then there is the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), both created by splitting the Minerals Management Agency in the wake of the 2010 BP oil spill. Lastly, the Maritime Administration (MA) regulates and promotes the development of the U.S.

Ocean

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2025

DEP Orders Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline To Provide Clean Water On March 6, the Department of Environmental Protection issued an order to Energy Transfer/Sunoco to provide water to residents in Upper Makefield Township, Bucks County affected by a leak in Energy Transfers 14-inch jet fuel/petroleum products pipeline. .

2025

PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

Because of these findings, oil and gas produced waters fail to meet the EPA's [US Environmental Protection Agencys] criteria for beneficial reuse of industrial waste. Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water." [ Read more here.] Click Here for a copy of Dr. Burgos testimony. Read more here - page 39.

Natural Gas

National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

The plaintiff in the case was a limited liability company that owned 1,075 acres of farmland in Iowa, including nine acres that were designated as “wetland” by USDA in 2010 prior to the plaintiff’s purchase of the land. Iowa, May 29, 2025) was initially filed by a landowner in Iowa on April 16, 2024.

2013

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The concentrated pollution around ports demands concentrated solutions, such as: Targeted grants: The Inflation Reduction Act, passed by Congress in 2022, included $3 billion for a Clean Ports Program run by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

However, it turned out this was not a roundtable discussion about environmental issues at all, but a rally to promote the economic benefits of natural gas drilling within the Delaware River watershed. That, it werent for the ban, there is enough natural gas in the Marcellus Shale under their feet to make landowners a lot of money.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2025

The Department of Environmental Protection invites comments at a June 17 hearing on the Warren Area sulfur dioxide air quality maintenance plan and attainment redesignation request.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2025

Well drilled in 2005 (or so) and waste disposed of onsite in 2010. Owner did not respond to 2023 notices of violations. This well had a string of violations since it was first drilled. Violations from previous inspections continued. No response requested. DEP inspection report. Big Dog Energy holds 26 permits.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2025

Between 2010 and 2021, not only did the frequency of new warehouse construction rise, but the size of these new warehouses increased by nearly 150 percent compared to the norm. These facilities are largely concentrated around areas with existing logistics infrastructureports, railyards, and the like.

Ground-Level Ozone

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2025

Drilled in 2010 but not produced. [ Inactive status expired on February 21, 2020. Drilled in 2011 but not produced. [ DEP inspection report ] -- Ridgebury Twp.: Inactive status expired on February 21, 2020. DEP inspection report ] Blackhill Energy holds 90 permits. Read more here.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2025

Since 2010, the Department of Environmental Protection has issued shale gas drillers in Pennsylvania 396 violations for abandoning 171 wells, according to the report. The best estimates available show Pennsylvania now only has 0.2% of the funds needed to plug shale gas and conventional wells to cover the estimated $20.1

2025

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Kentucky v. Since 2010, EPA has been regulating GHG emissions and other air pollutants from new motor vehicles. 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

National Law Center

JULY 21, 2025

For example, reconciliation was used to pass the Affordable Care Act in 2010, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017, and the Inflation Reduction Act in 2021. Because of this, reconciliation is most often used to pass partisan policy priorities when one party has a majority in both chambers of Congress and the White House.

2013

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2025

A permanent ban prohibiting high volume hydraulic fracturing in the Delaware River Watershed was adopted by the DRBC in February 2021 following a moratorium on gas drilling instituted in 2010 and after more than ten years of comprehensive research and public deliberation.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JULY 23, 2025

In 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency set a 2025 deadline for Bay states to get serious about cutting pollution. The deadline is passing and the goal is unmet. Similarly, the “dead zone” at the mouth of the Mississippi River in the Gulf of Mexico is immense.

2016

PA Environment Daily

JULY 3, 2025

From 2008 to 2010, Jeri played a key role in collecting and documented first-hand reports from local citizens in the Dillsburg area during the unusual “Earth-Quake Swarm” and became a trusted source of information. Jeri has traveled the East Coast of the U. and to Arizona.

Conservation

National Law Center

JULY 17, 2025

In 2010, the California legislature followed with AB 1437 , a law that imposes those Prop 2 living conditions on egg producers in any other state or country that intended to sell their products in the state of California. land on C-SPAN The Feed: Vol.

Law

Frontiers

AUGUST 8, 2022

Small amounts of highly weathered oil residues from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster were still present in the surroundings ten years later, shows a new report. The oil spilled during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010 was largely transformed by the end of that summer, reports a new study in Frontiers in Marine Science.

2010

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Cabot was banned from Dimock in 2010 after regulators accused the company of failing to keep its promise to restore or replace the water supply. A state investigation concluded that faulty gas wells drilled by Coterra’s corporate predecessor, Cabot Oil & Gas, had allowed methane to leak uncontrolled into the community’s aquifer.

2010

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 1, 2022

The Bureau of Reclamation published the draft environmental impact statement for a drinking water supply project for the White Mountain Apache Tribe, in Arizona. Environmental Protection Agency is offering a $2.5 On the Radar. Fireworks and Drinking Water Contamination.

Technology

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Another of the group’s members is Lynn Henning, an earlier Petoskey Prize winner who also was awarded the 2010 Goldman Prize, the world’s leading honor for environmental activists. Environmental Protection Agency. Environmental Protection Agency. Henning is a farmer, too.

2020

Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. This reports that a net 45% reduction in 2030, relative to 2010, would be consistent with a 50% chance of keeping warming within 1.5°C In the US, for instance, Massachusetts v. These lawsuits face three key barriers.

Carbon Dioxide

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Michigan counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. Michigan now counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. Michigan farmers irrigate with 187 billion gallons of groundwater a year. Is the state prepared for more? Carl Ganter / Circle of Blue.

2009

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

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2022

On December 12, the Associated Press reported the Department of Environmental Protection lifted a 12-year old ban on shale gas drilling under Dimock, Susquehanna County the same day Coterra Energy pleaded no contest to criminal charges by the Office of Attorney General for polluting their water supply.

2010

Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) and Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) announced that proposed amendments to the state’s Clean Energy Standard (CES) were finalized earlier this month without substantive changes from draft language initially proposed by the agencies in April 2022.

Clean Energy

Vermont Law

JULY 28, 2014

Summary: The country of Haiti does not have a history of effective environmental regulation and this has continued after the devastating 2010 earthquake due to a lack of political and economic infrastructure. After graduating she hopes to enter the field of environmental law and policy. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.

2010

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

In its early years, between 2005 and 2010, the RFS helped launch the massive scaleup of corn ethanol that established 10 percent ethanol as the de facto standard for US gasoline. After 2010, bio-based diesel fuels (biodiesel and renewable diesel) have been the main beneficiary of the RFS. Bio-based diesel fuels are expensive.

Biofuels

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The researchers also said they were surprised to discover that while microplastic accumulation increased each decade through 2010, it decreased from 2010 to 2020. Environmental Protection Agency, recycling efforts for plastic increased significantly between 1980 and 2010. in 1980 to nearly 8% in 2010.

2010

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

million square kilometers below the 1981-2010 average. Environmental Protection Agency, the summer melt season in the Arctic is now 38 days longer than it was in 1979. In fact, it’s nearly 1.5 That’s equivalent to the combined size of Texas, California and Montana. © NASA Scientific Visualization Studio.

2021

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 9, 2023

Recently, the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) made headlines when it found bisphenol A (BPA) in athletic clothing from a number of well-known brands. But how is BPA, best known as the toxic plastic additive found in pre-circa-2010 baby bottles, ending up in clothing? And should we be alarmed?

2010