PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

45,000 for Environmental Drilling Violations [May 2010] -- DEP Fines Company $6,500 For Illegally Transferring Fracking Water In Lycoming County [April 2010] -- DEP Fines Fortuna Energy Inc. Million In Penalties Against Shale Gas Drilling, Pipeline Companies In 2023 For Violations Dating Back To 2018 [May 2024] -- DEP Issues $1.1

2014

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2025

The partners filing this appeal believe that, in granting a preliminary permit, FERC acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner, did not exercise reasoned decision making, and acted contrary to proper interpretations of FERCs own regulations and applicable legal precedent, the Federal Power Act.

Conservation

Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

In order to fuel the construction boom in Phnom Penh, sand mining operations on the Tonle Sap/Mekong River around the city have intensified, especially since mining regulations went unenforced during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, Cambodia extracted 59 million tons of sand from its portion of the Lower Mekong region. “If

Government

A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

However, recent efforts have focused on reversing this trend, with the government implementing stricter enforcement of environmental regulations and bolstering sustainable initiatives, such as promoting conservation efforts and enforcing land-use restrictions. This decline marks a notable shift after years of rising deforestation rates.

2025

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. From 2000 to 2020, national PM 2.5

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2025

EHB Decision In her decision, Judge Wesdock of the Environmental Hearing Board explains, “The Department of Environmental Protection … has a duty to ensure that gas well permits are issued in accordance with the Oil and Gas Act and underlying regulations and in accordance with its constitutional duties under Article I, Section 27.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2025

Because, as early as 2010, and I know that the onset of shale gas activities in Pennsylvania started before that, but really, my involvement started in 2010. In summary, the research landscape has changed a lot since 2010 when you [could] count on one hand the number of studies in relation to fracking at that time.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

DEP has tried for decades to regulate this practice but failed because the conventional industry simply does not comply. The 2010 DCNR study also found "radium values are high enough that a possible radiation hazard exists, especially where radium could be adsorbed on iron oxides and accumulate in brine tanks." [ Read more here.]

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2025

With all of the attacks on regulatory safeguards coming from the regulators themselves , you may have missed a new bill coming from Congress that would not only codify the mayhem of the current administration but neuter any future administrations attempt to protect consumers and the environment from the auto industry.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

DEP has tried for decades to regulate this practice but failed because the conventional industry simply does not comply. The 2010 DCNR study also found "radium values are high enough that a possible radiation hazard exists, especially where radium could be adsorbed on iron oxides and accumulate in brine tanks." [ Read more here.]

Natural Gas

HumanNature

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The role of resources and risks in regulating wild bee populations. W., & Waser, N. Endangered mutualisms: the conservation of plant-pollinator interactions. Annual review of ecology and systematics, 29(1), 83-112. Meixner, M. Journal of invertebrate pathology, 103, S80-S95. Current biology, 19(11), 915-918. Roulston, T. Williams, N.

2002

National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

Under that process, NRCS will classify an area as being either a type of wetland, a converted wetland, or an area not subject to Swampbuster regulation. The Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution grants Congress the power “to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States.[]” U.S. 3822 (a)(5).

2013

Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

From the territorial waters and up to 200 nautical miles is the exclusive economic zone where only a limited form of jurisdiction exists, primarily regulation of economic activities. Lastly, the Maritime Administration (MA) regulates and promotes the development of the U.S. merchant marine and shipping industry. Navy or Coast Guard.

Ocean

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

28] Consider also the decades-long failure of international governance regimes to regulate the climate problem effectively. 29] Government regulation alone wont get a handle on the super wicked and notoriously complex climate problem. [30] Step back a bit, though, and what looks like a marvel begins to seem monstrous. [34] Strine, Jr.,

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The freight rail industry has stymied attempts to clean up locomotives, abusing loopholes in federal regulations. California had also sought to go beyond weak federal regulations, passing an in-use locomotive rule that would require trains to operate in zero-emissions configurations within the state.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2025

In March 2024, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finalized a regulation that would compel publicly traded companies to assess and report on how climate change will affect their bottom lines and, by extension, investors and the public.

Fossil Fuels

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The article explored the frameworks established by the Bamako, Basel, and Stockholm Conventions to regulate transboundary hazardous waste movement and highlighted case studies from Nigeria, Cte dIvoire, and Haiti. 6] The majority of environmental regulations were formulated through the twentieth century.[7] million people.[3]

Waste

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

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

The Delaware River Basin Commission placed a moratorium on fracking in 2010 before banning it permanently in 2021 in places like Wayne and Pike counties locally, saying it posed signicant, immediate and long-term risks to the development, conservation, utilization, management and preservation of the rivers water resources.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2025

In 2010, he bought a $1,500 long lens camera and began to record gas industry activities in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. Aerial shale gas photography-- Marcellus Air-- began at the same time with volunteer pilot Steve White, resulting in 57 flights and thousands of photos.

Natural Gas

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

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 9, 2024

EPA as part of our ongoing amicus efforts to support strong federal climate regulations. EPAs 2024 Vehicle Standards EPA derives its authority and mandate to promulgate rules regulating mobile sources like light- and medium-duty vehicles from Section 202 of the Clean Air Act. Conference of Mayors in support of the U.S. Thomas (1986).

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Since these rules and guidelines had widespread effects on all land use and development in the Commonwealth, he knew that effective communications among the regulators and the regulated community were essential. Maurice Goddard resonated with him and are still fresh in his mind: Youve got the power, now use it!

Conservation

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

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

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This order replaces a Firewood Quarantine Order issued in 2010. Very few regulations are in place to restrict movement of firewood, and yet firewood has been proven to be a major factor in the dissemination and spread of both ALB and EAB.

2010

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

The annual forecasts, largely funded with $20 million annually from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, provided water quality regulators and public health authorities in the U.S. In 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency set a 2025 deadline for Bay states to get serious about cutting pollution.

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 is perpetually dealing with property owners to gain access to their lands for field trips and scientific investigations.

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. NALC Explainer here ). Preemption based on “condition” and “quality”: According to 21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.] 1451 et seq.],

Law

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators Cause of Michigan’s worst water pollution is too much waste spread on too little land. A TMDL also is supposed to give regulators the authority to compel point-source polluters to reduce their foul wastes. . By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue. Photographs by J.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

I’ve written previously about how the truck industry is fighting regulations at the state and federal level with everything they’ve got. One of the scare tactics truck manufacturers have been pushing is the old industry canard of job-killing regulations. Why would truck regulations impact jobs?

2007

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The decline probably wasn’t due to environmental regulation. Regulation may have made a difference, since coal requires more extensive pollution controls than competing fuels. In 2010, U.S. For better or worse, national environmental regulation doesn’t seem to have played the leading role. Download as PDF

2012

Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

The earliest government estimate of the social cost of carbon was for 2010: $21/ton with a 3% discount rate and $35 at a 2.5% Given the roughness of this entire exercise, I’ll just use the average of the 2010 figures, $28 per ton. billion in 2010 dollars. discount rate. billion tons, or $78.4

2010

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2023

has won permission from state environmental regulators to drill 11 gas wells underneath Dimock Township, in the state’s northeastern corner — the sweet spot of the largest natural gas field in the United States, according to well permit records reviewed by The Associated Press. Coterra Energy Inc. PaEN] Click Here to read the entire article.

2010

Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

In the face of disappointing legislation and regulation, activists have increasingly turned to courts in the last fifteen years. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. However, given the unprecedentedruling’s questionable logic, I doubt that it stand on appeal. Third is causation.

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. Until the early years of this century, Michigan regulators and lawmakers paid scant attention to the supply of groundwater.

2009