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The Year in Water, 2022

Circle of Blue

The Year in Water, 2022. Sharpening the Shark’s Teeth By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – December 13, 2022. Spend a few days at a water conference and you’ll hear a favored metaphor for the environmental changes that are unsettling the planet. If climate change is a shark, attendees will say, then water is the shark’s teeth.

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Energy & Climate CounselFoley Hoag LLP Amendments to Massachusetts’ Clean Energy Standard Finalized, Accelerating Progress Towards Decarbonization of the State’s Electricity Sector

Law and Environment

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) and Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) announced that proposed amendments to the state’s Clean Energy Standard (CES) were finalized earlier this month without substantive changes from draft language initially proposed by the agencies in April 2022.

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DEP Signs Consent Order Including $10 Million In Penalties, Local Payments With Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County To Resolve Air Quality Violations; Plant To Restart May 24

PA Environment Daily

Under the COA, Shell will pay a civil penalty of $4,935,023 – and as required by Act 57 of 2011, 25 percent of this penalty will be directed to local communities. Additionally, Shell will spend another $5 million for environmental projects to benefit the local communities. Josh Shapiro.

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Scott Perry No Longer DEP Deputy For Oil & Gas Management

PA Environment Daily

The Department of Environmental Protection confirmed as of February 11, Scott Perry, Deputy Secretary for Oil and Gas Management, is no longer an employee of the agency. Perry was named Deputy for Oil and Gas Management in September 2011 by Gov. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit as an Attorney and Counselor of Law.

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2019 Legislation: Environmental and Energy Laws

Smith Enviorment

A short list of environmental and energy law changes compared to recent years: Fisheries. For stormwater and other nutrient sources, the law continues to require nutrient offsets in the same hydrologic area. House Bill 329 (Renewable Energy Amendments) makes several relatively minor changes to energy laws.

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US oil company ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ climate proposals

Corp Watch

The case was still ongoing in 2022. Court Approves Exxon Mobil’s $25M Settlement for Pollution in Puerto Rico Drinking Water Emily Aschcraft | Law Street Media | July 22, 2021 Exxon Mobil Corporation and Esso Standard Oil Company have resolved claims filed against them by Puerto Rico after Judge Silvia L.

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Mercenary hackers stole data that Exxon later cited in climate lawsuits -US prosecutors

Corp Watch

The case was still ongoing in 2022. Court Approves Exxon Mobil’s $25M Settlement for Pollution in Puerto Rico Drinking Water Emily Aschcraft | Law Street Media | July 22, 2021 Exxon Mobil Corporation and Esso Standard Oil Company have resolved claims filed against them by Puerto Rico after Judge Silvia L.

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