PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The determination involved a water well owned by Bryan Latkanich near Fredericktown, Washington County that was approximately 500 feet away and down-gradient from two shale gas wells on a pad originally developed by Chevron Appalachia, but now owned by EQT CHAP, LLC, a subsidiary of EQT Corporation. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

Bedrock federal environmental, health, and safety laws have gaping loopholes and exemptions that allow radioactive oil and gas materials to go virtually unregulated, including the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act that governs waste management, the Atomic Energy Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Clean Air Act.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 6, 2015

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science recently released the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Report Card. The Bay’s grade is a “C,” unchanged since 2012 when the 2011 “D+” was upgraded to a “C.” EPA established an accountability framework and state water pollution limits (TMDLs) for nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

15 Million : Criminal fine that Summit Midstream Partners LLC will pay after being found guilty of violating the Clean Water Act for spilling 29 million gallons of oilfield wastewater. The incident began in 2014 in North Dakota and continued for five months. Waters of the United States. By the Numbers. $15

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The court said that having remanded to the Corps for consultation under the Endangered Species Act, it was not necessary to determine whether the Corps “made a fully informed and well-considered decision” under NEPA and the Clean Water Act. Friends of the Santa Clara River v. County of Los Angeles , No. B296547 (Cal.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

In the second complaint, the Center alleged that a chemical importer, also headquartered in Akron, failed to report at least seven chemical substances that it imported during 2013–2014. In the third complaint, the Center alleged a chemical manufacturer and importer headquartered Philadelphia had failed to report 43.4

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In August 2017, NYSDEC conditionally denied the developer’s joint application for state law stream disturbance and freshwater wetlands permits, as well as for a water quality certificate pursuant to Section 401 of the Clean Water Act, asserting that a recent D.C. Army Corps of Engineers had violated the Clean Water Act.

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