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Climate Litigation Chart Updates – November 2016

Law Columbia

24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had failed to fulfill its non-discretionary obligation under Section 321(a) of the Clean Air Act to conduct evaluations of loss or shifts in employment that might result from implementation of the Clean Air Act. Pritzker , Nos. opinion Oct.

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Nebraska Agrochemical Contamination Throws Families, Communities, Water Providers into Turmoil

Circle of Blue

Madalyn “Maddy” Spellman lived in Aurora and died from cancer in September 2016, at age 13. The evening of January 14, 2011, Jacob, then a 16-year-old sophomore at Aurora High School, entered a basketball game against Central City. Environmental Protection Agency. A different antibiotic didn’t either. .

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DEP Consent Agreement Allowing Shale Gas Drilling To Resume Under Dimock, Susquehanna County Sets New Drilling, Water Supply Protection Standards, Imposes $444,000 Penalty

PA Environment Daily

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 [November 29] Coterra Energy (formerly Cabot Oil & Gas) pleaded no contest to criminal charges by the Office of Attorney General for polluting their water supply.

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Millions Of Gallons Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Spread Illegally On Dirt Roads, Companies Fail To Comply With DEP Waste Regulations

PA Environment Daily

Hess, Former Secretary Department of Environmental Protection The information submitted to DEP’s Bureau of Waste Management from eight conventional oil and gas companies to justify allowing them to dispose of millions of gallons of wastewater by spreading it on dirt roads fails to meet the requirements of DEP’s 25 Pa Code Chapter 287.8

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DEP: Widespread Presence Of PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Fresh Water May Have Led To ‘Inadvertently’ Using Contaminated Water For Fracking Gas Wells In Washington County

PA Environment Daily

The shale gas wells were drilled and fracked between September 2011 and August 2012. Johnson said DEP’s letter of determination does not say whether DEP directly asked if Chevron used PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ at the drilling site in 2011-2012, but the Department instead stated it relied on a “review of documents related to the well site.”

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DEP Federal ‘Orphan’ Well Plugging List Includes 7,300 Active Conventional Wells With Identified Owners; DEP Says Cost Recovery A Priority

PA Environment Daily

“There are [also] 445 wells in this list of wells submitted DEP says are eligible for federal well plugging funding that were drilled in the last 20 years, with some drilled as recently as 2016,” said Jain. “An It was drilled by Atlas from 2011 to 2012. It produced gas copiously for two years and then declined very quickly.

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2019 Legislation: Environmental and Energy Laws

Smith Enviorment

The amendments allow nutrient offsets for permitted NPDES discharges to be provided EITHER in the same hydrologic area (the current requirement) OR at a location downstream of the discharge, but upstream of the water body subject to regulations to address excess nutrient loading. On-Site Wastewater. Supreme Court decision in McCrory v.

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