PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

A new NRDC report describes these risks and how weak regulations fail to appropriately protect workers and communities. Despite the clear health risks, there are no dedicated federal regulations to ensure comprehensive and safer management of radioactive oil and gas materials. What does this mean for workers and communities?

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

In 2011, in AEP v. CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the Clean Air Act and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants. 410 (2011). Regulating power plant emissions is a complex undertaking. Post, at 20.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

President-elect Gabriel Boric’s new government must address issues of decarbonisation, water crisis and lithium nationalisation, all while rewriting the country’s constitution. In our government, it will be a priority to avoid this destruction and to have development that is compatible with the environment.”. By Francisco Parra Galaz

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The Food Safety Modernization Act, an umbrella law, was signed by President Obama in 2011. Much of the order is directed at the sources of energy used by the federal government. Drinking Water Contaminants for Potential Regulation. Shallow groundwater in the area was pumped into the canal. Studies and Reports.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

According to the nonpartisan National Association of Attorneys General, a state attorney general’s job is to represent the public interest—not private, special interests—by, among other things, “enforcing federal and state environmental laws.” How has Paxton responded?

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Circle of Blue

MAY 30, 2023

Comment deadline approaches for changes in White House guidelines for analyzing costs and benefits of federal regulations. Federally regulated wetlands, the court held, in an opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito, are those with a “continuous surface connection” with a water of the United States. Submit them via this link.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 4, 2021

A brief recap of the saga to date: – About a decade ago, the Obama administration brokered a deal between automakers, California, and the federal government to set fuel economy and tailpipe emissions standards that would be applicable nationwide. mpg by 2025. A total of ten lawsuits ended up as a consolidated action in the D.C.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 15, 2023

In response to new building energy performance standards and other laws requiring reporting of greenhouse gas emissions from buildings, tenants are beginning to monetize their GHG emission data, including their utility data. and an absence of well established jurisprudence or new laws, anywhere) about who owns that GHG emission data.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Harmful algal blooms are the biological consequence of a riptide of bloom-generating nutrients allowed by law and timid regulation to run off the land, particularly farm fields. Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law. The waivers in the law reduced farmer costs for managing polluted runoff.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

On April 29, 2021, the departments of Justice, Commerce and Treasury announced that they had reached a global resolution with SAP SE (SAP), a multinational software company based in Germany, resulting from the company’s disclosure of the fact that it had provided software to users in Iran in violation of export and sanctions regulations.[[N:

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

He was appointed as a mediator by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to work with the environmental community and industry to establish better regulations for water quality monitoring in areas impacted by coal ash. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In August, French regulators suspended thermal pollution standards for rivers, allowing nuclear plants to overheat streams. Legal scholars called the targeting of essential infrastructure a violation of international law. government ordered the seven states to correct a longstanding misalignment of water supply and demand.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Implementation of these new laws will be the true test of that statement, but they provide an exciting starting point. Prior to this new law, the state was required by law to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. Climate Change Mitigation.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2022

As the collaborative explored last week , regulators are now encouraging some water utilities to consolidate, a catch-all term that could mean small steps like sharing staff, or big changes like closing decrepit, oversized water plants in favor of buying water from a neighbor. All that excess infrastructure is expensive to maintain.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A short list of environmental and energy law changes compared to recent years: Fisheries. The statutes do not require direct notice to either the local government or to owners of property along the affected shoreline. House Bill 329 (Renewable Energy Amendments) makes several relatively minor changes to energy laws.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

As I outlined here , Montana state law prohibits the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions or climate impacts–– inside and outside the state’s borders––when reviewing projects and approving permits. This now-infamous climate prohibition has been called a “limitation” on the Montana Environmental Policy Act, or MEPA.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 8, 2023

46 days after publication allowing for a comment period, the Department will be free to adopt the 2021 IgCC by regulation. . A decade later, in 2011, Maryland was the first state to authorize the use of the IgCC for private and public construction. Live webinar “Does Your Lease Address New GHG Laws?” The backstory is important.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

In order to steer investment toward environmentally sustainable activities, the European Union launched the Taxonomy Regulation framework to define activities deemed sustainable. The following elements of the Regulation proposal are dealt with in this review. of the proposal) and for existing installation only until 2040 (see §4.28).

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act of 2021 on February 4, 2021 in an effort to, in her words, comprehensively "overhaul[] and moderniz[e]" US antitrust laws. It is not clear what impact the burden-shifting in government cases would have as a practical matter.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 11, 2021

EPA’s current policy on tribal consultation is set forth in the May 4, 2011 “EPA Policy on Consultation and Coordination with Indian Tribes.” Administrator Regan’s pledge to improve the consultation process suggests substantive changes to EPA’s 2011 Consultation Policy may be in the works.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2021

Last spring, we released a report – Paying Polluters: Federal Financial Support to Oil and Gas in 2020 – that revealed the federal government announced a minimum of nearly $18 billion to the oil and gas sector in 2020. Companies put their own remediation programs on hold while they waited for the government to pay to clean up their mess.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

He argues that the government should stop issuing mining licences in protected forests or conservation areas. “It It is important to note that once a mining permit is issued in a forested area, there must be deforestation, but the problem is that current mining regulations in Indonesia still allow such a thing to happen.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 17, 2022

County and municipal governments directly affected by drilling will receive a total of $123,217,163 for the 2021 reporting year. Since 2011, the Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee has resulted in total revenues of $2.258 billion. Also, $25,189,477 will be distributed to state agencies, as specified by Act 13.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

On November 16, 2011, at 6:12 p.m., This map shows nitrate concentrations in drinking water between 2016 and 2018 for federally regulated water systems. With fresh eyes, Coulter came to the issue after caring for Jacob and another pediatric cancer patient in 2011. Purging nitrate from groundwater will not be a quick fix.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

Time and again, the industry has proved the less regulators or the public know about this toxic by-product of fossil fuel production, the better off the industry is. Forbidden in 2011 from easy disposal of wastes into waterways, and with few other convenient disposal choices, all eyes turned to dirt roads.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2022

I still remember the 2008 report, CAFOs Uncovered , which looked at the “untold costs” of confined animal feeding operations, and the 2011 report, Raising the Steaks , which recommended ways to mitigate the climate impacts of beef production. KPS: Right. Everything in our food system is connected to everything else. Most corporations do that.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

The leadoff articles in the series included a commentary from Lisa Heinzerling , a Georgetown University environmental law professor, who crafted the victorious brief in the 2007 Massachusetts v. EPA decision where the Supreme Court said the EPA had the authority to regulate global warming gases.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2022

He served as vice chairman of the Commission from 2011 to 2015, and from October 2021 through September 2022. Coleman Jr. has been a member of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) leadership team since 2010, when he was first appointed Commissioner. Rendell, Tom Corbett and Tom Wolf. His new term expires April 1, 2027.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 11, 2022

A report from the University of Michigan and the Environmental Policy Innovation Center examined SRF distributions by state between 2011 and 2020. The department needs legislative approval for these changes because they are written in state law. Historically, Michigan has not spread its SRF loans widely. Find all the work here.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 28, 2021

According to the SEC’s order, Guggenheim’s compliance manual included language prohibiting employees from initiating contact with any regulator without prior approval from Guggenheim’s legal or compliance department, and the firm included similar language in its annual compliance training materials. ” 17 C.F.R.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

VJEL Newsroom Announcing VJEL's 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List By VJEL December 18, 2023 The Vermont Journal of Environmental Law (VJEL) is pleased to announce the publication of its 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List. Instead, the U.S.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2017

At the Fourth Annual Liskow & Lewis Energy Law Lecture, Professor Jim Rossi of Vanderbilt Law delivered a presentation entitled “Federalism Battles in Energy Transportation.” Natural gas pipelines have historically been governed by federal law since the passing of the Natural Gas Act of 1938.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 17, 2021

Formed in 2011, the OWB was established one year after the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) amended the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Exchange Act) by, among other things, adopting Section 21F. Background. The Commission has relatively straightforward procedures for claiming a whistleblower award.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Getting this right is important, both for California and to ensure the LCFS remains a workable model for other states and the federal government. Moreover, absent reform, the LCFS is not a replicable model for other states or the federal government.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

For every one degree Celsius that the temperature increases, the atmosphere can hold 7% more water, a thermodynamic law of physics called atmospheric holding capacity. Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011. Courtesy Philadelphia Water Department. Courtesy Philadelphia Water Department.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

on the ESA in 2017 and more than 235 since the Republican Party took control of the House of Representatives in 2011. This trend of undercutting the ESA goes directly against the law’s purpose, the Supreme Court’s decisions, and Congress’s intent “to halt and reverse the trend toward species extinction, whatever the cost.” government.

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