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Climate Litigation in Japan: What to Expect in 2025

Law Columbia

According to the Japanese Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, the countrys fossil fuel dependency was 83.2% in 2021, which is 2% higher than the percentage before the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. Background Japan has heavily relied on the use of fossil fuels for its power generation.

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Environmental Hearing Board Denies EQT Shale Gas Motion To Exclude Evidence Of Medical Conditions, Toxicology Reports Related To A Landowner Appeal Of A DEP Water Supply Contamination Determination

PA Environment Daily

Chevron drilled two shale gas wells on the Latkanich property approximately 500 feet from the familys water supply starting in 2011. EHB Docket 2023043 The appeal was brought by Bryan Latkanich who, with his son, lives in Deemston Borough, Washington County and leased his mineral rights to Chevron who then sold the lease to EQT Chapp, LLC.

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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 26 to May 2: Contaminated Livestock Water Supply; Ruptured Gathering Pipeline; Failure To Comply With Shale Gas Well Plugging Order

PA Environment Daily

Well was drilled in 2011. Shale Gas Well Venting Gas LPR Energy LLC - Violation: Defective Casing/Cementing, Venting Gas April 23, 2025 inspection of the Snow Shoe 4 8HG shale gas well in Snow Shoe Township, Centre County found the well venting natural gas to the atmosphere. Well as drilled in 2011. Violation continued.

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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 22 to 28 - Failed To Comply With Well Plugging Order For 63 Months; Abandoned Conventional Well Violations Hit 113; Another Conventional Well Explosion, Same Owner

PA Environment Daily

On March 19, firefighters and DEP responded to another explosion and fire at a conventional well owned by Kriebel Natural Gas Co LLC in Manor Borough, Westmoreland County. Amer Natural Resources holds 49 permits. Well completed in 2011. Read more here. Read more here. No request made of well owner. Violations issued.

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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 12 to 25: Another Abandoned Shale Gas Water Impoundment; 18 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Exposed Gas Pipeline Crosses Stream

PA Environment Daily

146 Abandoned Conventional, 39 Abandoned Shale Gas Well Violations 2025 Abandoned Conventional: So far in 2025, DEP issued or continued 146 violations to 46 conventional oil and gas well owners for abandoning and not plugging their wells- [3D Resources LLC ; Amer Natural Resources LLC; WB Anderson; Apollo Resources LLC; Baird Oil Co.;

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New State Health Plan Identifies Health Issues Related To Natural Resource Extraction, Climate Change In Top 5 Threats To Health Outcomes; No Update On University Of Pittsburgh Oil & Gas Health Impacts Study

PA Environment Daily

The assessment further identified rising health issues related to natural resource extractions [defined by the Health Department as oil and gas development ] and the health impacts resulting from climate change as two of the top five threats affecting health outcomes of Pennsylvanians. Click Here for a copy of the Plan.

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Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 4.30.24

PA Environment Daily

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.