PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

The shale gas wells were drilled and fracked between September 2011 and August 2012. In July 2021, Physicians for Social Responsibility reported PFAS chemicals were used by Chevron in fracking unconventional shale gas wells between 2012 and 2020. Read more here. Send comments to: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com.)

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 19, 2013

On October 25, 2012 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its corrected definition of “regulated NSR pollutant.” The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) adopted EPA’s revised definition of “regulated new source review (NSR) pollutant” at LAC 33:III.509.B 1280 (May 20, 2013). 1280 (May 20, 2013).

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Renewable + Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

It is not entirely clear as to the penalties that will be issued for noncompliance with the new regulations. The rule also requires affected entities to fix any known, acute issues that arose from winter weather conditions during the 2020-2021 winter weather season.

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Renewable + Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

It is not entirely clear as to the penalties that will be issued for noncompliance with the new regulations. The rule also requires affected entities to fix any known, acute issues that arose from winter weather conditions during the 2020-2021 winter weather season.

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Law of the Lands

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The new Canadian Energy Regulator Act , which replaces the National Energy Board Act , came into force on August 28, 2019. With that, the 60-year old National Energy Board (“NEB”) is no more; Canada’s energy regulator will now be known as the “Canadian Energy Regulator” or “CER”. The NEB approved both projects.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

The Borello Family was very familiar with this sound because from 2012, when the facility was first built, through mid-2019 the Pigging Station was doing deliberate blowdowns-- releases of natural gas, liquids and hazardous air pollutants-- three times a day, seven days a week. Yes, three times a day, seven days a week for nearly a decade.]

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

On September 13, 2011, I began the endeavor of writing Miller Starr Regalia’s CEQA Developments blog. County of Alameda (2012) 54 Cal.4th My June 18, 2012 post on the case can be found here. Ten years and 358 blog posts later, it continues to be a challenging and rewarding task. The Supreme Court, in Tomlinson v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Biodiesel and renewable diesel are mostly made from vegetable oil Biodiesel and renewable diesel are made from the same starting materials, are both blended into diesel fuel, and are supported by the same regulations. More than 80 percent of bio-based diesel is made from vegetable oil (the rest is mostly animal fats).

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2022

It was drilled by Atlas from 2011 to 2012. “An example of one of these wells-- Diversified gas and oil is identified as the current owner of well number 129-28129 which is a frack well on the banks of the Youghiogheny River just off of Route 70,” said Jain. “ It produced gas copiously for two years and then declined very quickly.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 6, 2015

But, an even bigger challenge remains—regulation of chicken litter dumped into the Bay by the Delmarva Peninsula’s poultry industry. The Bay’s grade is a “C,” unchanged since 2012 when the 2011 “D+” was upgraded to a “C.” In 2011, Maryland legislators passed the Fertilizer Use Act. Judith Needham. Researchers at the.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

For example, EPA projected a total of just 4,700 MW of coal capacity retirements under the 2012 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule. EPA MATS Regulatory Impact Analysis, 2011. The 2028 deadline proposed in the less stringent alternative is more realistic, and is consistent with timelines under other federal regulations.

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Environmental Europe

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Additionally, increasing the importance of ‘modernising’ existing legislation over producing new legislation, raised alarm among civil society , afraid that the better regulation/modernisation agenda was in fact a way to pursue policy dismantling. But by listing it as Vella’s first priority, Juncker dramatically increased its importance.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

In January 2012, at a hearing of the California Air Resources Board I attended, the board considered updates to the Zero Emission Vehicle standards through model year 2025. Today, sales in California not only far exceed these targets, but ahead of schedule, because regulators in part underestimated how fast technology would improve. ).

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Since the country began regulating abandoned mines in 1977 under the Abandoned Mine Land program, the country spent $5 billion, and about $400 million in the Illinois basin, to repair clogged and polluted streams, recontour steep highwalls, and reforest denuded landscapes. Entrance to a coal mine in Kentucky, 2011.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Innovative regulation and incentive programs can facilitate the development and implementation of many of these methods, and these will be explored in a future blog post. 2016 , Benchaar and Greathead, 2011 , Gutierrez et al., 2013 , Patra and Yu, 2012 , Kinley et al., 2012 , Bayat et al., 2018 , Petersen et al.,

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HumanNature

JANUARY 26, 2024

Credit: Rodale Institute My earlier example of soil ecology does not do justice to what functions soil organisms provide; a more comprehensive list includes improvement of soil fertility via nutrient transformation, soil aggregation, pathogen suppression, carbon storage, biofilm formation, water cycling, and temperature regulation 2.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 29, 2021

Chicago‘s Stormwater Management Ordinance, or SMO, governs new development and redevelopment in the city and regulates how rainfall is captured, stored, or released at each site. Emanuel set out to address the city’s aging infrastructure with a $7 billion infrastructure plan launched in 2012.

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Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Last Thursday, in a case filed in 2012 in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, a jury found that Rand Simberg and Mark Steyn defamed Michael Mann, awarding Mann $1 in compensatory damages from each and punitive damages of $1,000 from Simberg and $1 Million from Steyn.

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 20, 2012

Moreno On August 16, 2012, EPA published a new rule that revises the NESHAP Subpart HH standards for the oil and gas industry. The Final Rule wassigned on April 17, 2012, but publication in the Federal Register did not occur until August 16, 2012, making the rule effective on October 15, 2012. 16, 2012.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

4] Some energy experts and reporters have contended that Texas regulators did not expect to rely on wind to provide much electricity during the cold snap, and rather had relied on natural gas and other thermal power plants. This hour saw a difference of 28.9 GW between expected demand and delivered generation. [4]

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

III/IRPD/GA/2011 (2019).]] In 2012, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists found that more than 2,200 published Red Notices came from countries listed by Freedom House as significantly restricting political rights or civil liberties. 16, 2012).]] N:INTERPOL's Rules on the Processing of Data, Art.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Considering social commentary, we look at the FCA’s proposals to regulate diversity and inclusion within the financial services sector, and consider various proposals to address ethnic and racial bias within the criminal justice system.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 17, 2022

Since 2011, the Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee has resulted in total revenues of $2.258 billion. Extensive details regarding the impact fee distribution are available online, including specifics on funds collected and distributed for each year since 2011. Also, $25,189,477 will be distributed to state agencies, as specified by Act 13.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

No Environmental Compliance Requirement The PA Resource Manufacturing Tax Credit is awarded without regard to whether a facility receiving the tax credit is complying with the state’s environmental laws and regulations. The Shell Petrochemical Plant is the only facility that has qualified for this tax credit. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2022

Rick Krajewski (D-Philadelphia) and Dan Frankel (D-Allegheny)-- said in announcing the bill -- “The 2020 Attorney General [Grand Jury] Report called for the Department of Health (DOH) to have an active and defined role in regulating the fracking industry to protect the health and safety of Pennsylvanians above all else.” Read more here.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

In 2012, 2017, and 2021 the National Academies of Science and Engineering published three separate reports on threats to the grid, resilience, and the future of electricity. [1] The price of solar panels and wind turbines has declined 75 percent and 25 percent, respectively, since 2011. [5] 5] The U.S. That was rebuffed.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2021

As of 2011, after three years of review, the State Department had not approved TC’s application for a cross-border permit. Then, in December 2011, Congress passed an Act [4] requiring the President to issue the permit within 60 days, unless the President found that doing so would not serve the national interest.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 31, 2021

As of 2011, after three years of review, the State Department had not approved TC’s application for a cross-border permit. Then, in December 2011, Congress passed an Act [4] requiring the President to issue the permit within 60 days, unless the President found that doing so would not serve the national interest.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases, established in litigation in 2007, now seems beyond question. Bush EPA denies waiver to allow California to regulate CO2 emissions from new cars. EPA approves waiver for California to regulate CO2 from new cars. 2012 EPA adopts regulation limiting carbon emissions for new cars.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

It then discusses the potential to use a cap-and-invest approach to mitigate GHG emissions from transportation in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic and addresses two key policy considerations: the type of fuels to be covered and the point of regulation. Through independent regulations, each state’s CO. RGGI is composed of individual CO.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

2012) ; Cal. 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.” 2011) ; Regehr et al. See Karuk Tribe of California v. USFS (9th Cir.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

This includes emerging contaminants as well as substances identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for prioritization, risk evaluation, or regulation. PFAS Action Act of 2021 Would Amend Major Environmental Statutes to Regulate PFAS.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

By contrast, the Obama administration’s proposed carbon regulation of the power sector, the “Clean Power Plan,” proposed emissions reductions of 32 percent — by 2030. As a result, the cost of electricity went up, resulting in the deaths of a minimum of 1,280 people from the cold between 2011 and 2014.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

Released from a lot of federal oversight, it left this big, blank slate for states to regulate the industry in whatever manner suited them. Second, we saw this trend of regulations, which do generally provide a degree of safety for the public, but there's a common misconception that they are truly health-protective; they are not.

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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 2011, the industry has donated $78,450 to her campaigns for state treasurer and attorney general, according to OpenSecrets data , placing the sector among her top 10 industry contributors.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. FWS developed the interpretation in a 2011 “Polar Bear Memo” that addressed the determination of threatened status for polar bears.) DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Is your story being told? -- In Memoriam: Louise Dunlap A Leading Force Behind Coal Mine Reclamation, Regulation -- In Memoriam - Dr. Jim Finley, Fmr. Thank you to local news media for publishing these stories! Support Local Journalism! Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

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