PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2024

" The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Earthquake Shakes New Jersey, Felt Across Eastern PA; 4.0

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2022

On March 28, Republicans on the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee voted to report out bills containing a laundry list of things the natural gas industry has wanted for years and to kill the final regulations reducing carbon pollution from Pennsylvania’s power plants. Note: The U.S.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Under the MBTA regulations, “take” means “to pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or attempt to pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect.” Neither the regulations nor the statute directly address whether “takes” include “incidental takes,” and courts that have addressed the issue are split on it.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

We need governments to regulate industry. Take action: Tweet at the Minister of Natural Resources Canada, Jonathan Wilkinson, to tell him not to buy CAPP’s greenwashing and take urgent action on climate change by limiting emissions from Canada’s biggest source of pollution – the fossil fuel industry.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

One of Nashville’s two treatment plants, he recalled, was knocked out in a 2010 flood. In context: Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators. On September 30, the House Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on Puerto Rico’s electric grid. By the Numbers. On the Radar.

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JULY 30, 2021

Activists pushing for stricter PFAS regulations, like those in Oscoda, Michigan, said they are unsurprised by the department’s actions. In Oscoda, high levels of PFAS chemicals were found in drinking water supplies in 2010. Since then, clean up efforts have been marked by disputes between the Air Force and the state of Michigan.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

They based their campaign on state law, the powerful Michigan Environmental Protection Act (MEPA), which gives citizens the right to protect all natural resources from “conduct” that is “likely to result in pollution, impairment, or destruction” from any source. Paul Stowe is its natural resources manager. Circle Blue.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Under the MBTA regulations, “take” means “to pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or attempt to pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect.” Neither the regulations nor the statute directly address whether “takes” include “incidental takes,” and courts that have addressed the issue are split on it.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

These annual marine heatwaves (MHWs) have increased by 54% during the last century, and eight of the ten worst MHWs have occurred since 2010. In the oceans, prolonged periods of unusually high sea surface temperatures are having a major impact. Now we are dealing with rapid climate change too.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Shouldn’t someone regulate that? Note: DEP has prohibited the road “spreading” of unconventional drilling wastewater on roads by regulation since 2016.] “In The options range from banning the practice to tightly regulating it. Read more here. Read more here. “At Here’s the recent science, and there’s more saying the same things.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This map shows nitrate concentrations in drinking water between 2016 and 2018 for federally regulated water systems. Fertilizer runoff from farm fields is not federally regulated, so the EPA’s announcement on January 26 that it would step up enforcement of polluting facilities has little resonance for nitrate contamination.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

of the Dutch Legal Profession Regulations.]]. N: Akzo Nobel Chemicals Ltd and Akcros Chemicals Ltd v European Commission (Case 550/07 P) European Court of Justice (Grand Chamber) Judgment {2010} ECLI:EU:C:2010:512.]] N:Article 5.12 In this case, no professional charter had been signed by Shell's foreign in-house lawyers.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Before joining Cascadia Law Group and TNC, Maia first joined the Ecology Division of the Washington Attorney General’s Office in 1994, and eventually landing the position as the head of Ecology’s Water Resources Program in 2010. She thwarted the construction of a massive coal export terminal.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

Plants regulate their salt concentrations much like how our bodies regulate blood pressure. Naturally, plants have higher concentrations of salt in their cells than in the surrounding soil. mile dike has protected 11,000 acres and $64 million of property from salt since its completion in 2010. Photo © Manan Sarupria / UD.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

The debate over benefits and drawbacks won’t end soon, especially as a new state bill aims to lift a moratorium on additional leases in forests managed by the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Meanwhile, about half of the existing leases haven’t become active yet. DCNR State Forests About 1.5 27 Released 1.1

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Vermont Law

MARCH 23, 2015

Summary: A brief look at the fracking industry in Northern Michigan, the laws and regulations, and how fracking is impacting the Grand Traverse Bay Watershed and the Great Lakes. since the late 1980s throughout the northern lower peninsula’s Atrim shale and Collingwood/Utica shale, which contain vast sources of natural gas.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 17, 2023

The regulations accompanying many recent changes included in Bill 23 have yet to take effect. Changes in wetland cover for counties and municipalities are described in the Southern Ontario Wetland Conversion Analysis report (2010). Source: TRCA Regulation Mapping. Image Source: Ontario’s wetland conservation strategy (archived).

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

According to the US EPA, environmental justice is “ the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies ”. The impact of climate change on Caribbean tourism demand.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 1, 2022

million annual funding deficit, nearly half of the approximately $25 million it costs to regulate conventional and unconventional drilling. Do you agree with that or do you think we need to continue to get more out of what we have here in our natural resources? Read more here. Read more here. We also have 15.7

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2014

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement’s (BSEE’s) Investigations and Review Unit (IRU) substantially enhances the civil and criminal enforcement of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) and the regulations issued thereunder. 3304, issued June 29, 2010. Richard Hastings (R-Wash.), Richard Hastings (R-Wash.),

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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. While previous efforts to give legal personhood to natural resources have sprung up around the world, from Bangladesh to Bolivia, so-called “rights of nature” laws are few and far between in the U.S.,

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As domestic wells dried up this year, the emergency reignited passionate debates among residents over how to best protect the region’s limited natural resources. As domestic wells dried up this year, the emergency reignited passionate debates among residents over how to best protect the region’s limited natural resources.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 29, 2021

The MS4 permit is an important document that regulates how municipalities can allow stormwater to flow through the MS4 system and out into natural (or modified) waterways. See Natural Resources Defense Council v. State Water Resources Control Board , No. Taking the 2012 MS4 Permit to Court.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Earlier this week, the Fifth Circuit ruled against the government finding that contractors cannot criminally violate these OCSLA regulations. In 2010, Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations, LLC (“Black Elk”) owned and operated a production facility on the West Delta 32 Lease Block located in the Gulf of Mexico. United States v.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Interior’s authority to regulate offshore wind comes from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which amended the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to expressly authorize Interior to issue leases for renewable energy projects in federal waters. The regulatory process leading to the Vineyard Wind Project offshore Massachusetts began in 2010.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

For example in 2009 and 2010, Toyota recalled over 10 million vehicles over unintended acceleration problems and in 2016, Toyota recalled 1.4 million yuan over Lexus price-fixing Reuters | December 27, 2019 China's market regulator on Friday has fined Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor 7203.T China fines Toyota 87.6 million yuan ($12.5

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 30, 2010

In early 2010, the Louisiana Office of Conservation published in the Louisiana Register a Notice of Intent to amend Statewide Order 29-B, the regulation governing the storage, treatment, and disposal of exploration and production waste at oilfield sites. on April 12, 2010. in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

It’s Up To The Feds - By Mark Szybist , Natural Resources Defense Council [PaEN] -- DEP Declares Air Quality Action Day Wednesday, Nov. It’s Up To The Feds - By Mark Szybist , Natural Resources Defense Council [PaEN] -- DEP Declares Air Quality Action Day Wednesday, Nov. Williams, Esq.,

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2017

First, new research has traced to just 90 fossil fuel firms the following percentages of anthropogenic carbon dioxide and methane emissions, global mean surface temperature (GMST), and global sea level rise (GSL): From 1880 to 2010: GHGs: 57% GMST: 42–50% GSL: 26–32%. From 1980 to 2010: GHGs: 43% GMST: 29–35% GSL: 11–14%.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

2773 ) is that the Senate bill funds the program through penalties paid for natural resources and environmental violations while the House bill does not specify a funding source. In 2010, 11,319 people earned a doctorate in the life sciences. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE).

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 9, 2022

In 2010, the real parties applied for a design permit, planned development permit (PDP), tentative map, general plan amendment, and rezoning to build 40 residential units on the parcel. The question was whether the PDP approval process itself could allow for the variation, or if it also required action “pursuant to” the slope regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Shapiro’s Work Group Concludes A Cap-And-Invest Carbon Pollution Regulation Program Would Be Optimal Approach To Reducing Greenhouse Emissions From Power Plants; Scale Up Solar Energy [PaEN] -- Inside Climate News - Kiley Bense: Gov. . -- Penn State College Of Agricultural Sciences Hosts Nov. Of Environmental Educators Oct.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

USA: Police break up three-month protest outside VW dealership using Covid-19 regulations James Baggot | Car Dealer Magazine | February 15, 2021 Two protesters who set up camp outside a VW dealership in London have been moved on by police using Covid-19 restrictions.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

USA: Police break up three-month protest outside VW dealership using Covid-19 regulations James Baggot | Car Dealer Magazine | February 15, 2021 Two protesters who set up camp outside a VW dealership in London have been moved on by police using Covid-19 restrictions.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

USA: Police break up three-month protest outside VW dealership using Covid-19 regulations James Baggot | Car Dealer Magazine | February 15, 2021 Two protesters who set up camp outside a VW dealership in London have been moved on by police using Covid-19 restrictions.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

USA: Police break up three-month protest outside VW dealership using Covid-19 regulations James Baggot | Car Dealer Magazine | February 15, 2021 Two protesters who set up camp outside a VW dealership in London have been moved on by police using Covid-19 restrictions.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

USA: Police break up three-month protest outside VW dealership using Covid-19 regulations James Baggot | Car Dealer Magazine | February 15, 2021 Two protesters who set up camp outside a VW dealership in London have been moved on by police using Covid-19 restrictions. By Jilil Kashgary for RFA Uyghur 2023.12.07

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