Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The regulations were amended in 2020 to include a program for existing generation units, CES-E, which has several distinct requirements. Clarifying language related to banking of Clean Generation Attributes by aligning the regulation with language that has been included in the CES Frequently Asked Questions document since 2018.

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Environment Next

JULY 22, 2021

House of Representatives passed the PFAS Action Act of 2011 , requiring EPA to establish nationwide drinking water standards for PFOA and PFOS, two of the thousands of PFAS compounds. On July 21, 2021, the U.S. EPA has previously established non-enforceable drinking water health advisories for PFOA and PFOS of 70 ppt.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

She joined the DEP Policy Office in 2011 and worked as the Policy Director and most recently served as the Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator for programs related to the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Act. Jessica Shirley Jessica Shirley was named Acting Executive Deputy Secretary at DEP in February 2023. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

For years, state and local air quality districts have implemented polices and regulations aimed at curbing these different sources of pollution, like working to phase out burning as a method of disposing of agricultural waste, incentivizing transitions to gas-powered heat, and creating regulations to limit vehicle pollution.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 7, 2010

By Stephen Wiegand EPA recently announced its position regarding the timing of the regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act’s Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) Program. However, pollutants such as carbon dioxide, for which EPA regulations only require monitoring and reporting, are not subject to PSD permitting.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Winter is once again here, bringing great festivities and respite via holidays, but also great worries to energy regulators, grid operators, and communities about dangerous winter storms that can spread across large parts of the United States and negatively affect electric grid reliability.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

On April 7, 2023 , DEP posted an inspection report to document that it had requested Greylock to provide the pre-drill survey it had conducted prior to drilling the wells in 2011, along with all the water sample results associated with the site. [ Background There were six shale gas wells on Mohr A drilled in May, June and July of 2011.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 22, 2024

"Having lived for more than six years with LCT's Rustic Ridge mine behind my farm, I have seen first-hand the inadequacies of the current underground mining regulations," says Barbara McMillan, who owns a farm near the mining boundary. The DEP has 30 days to determine if the petition is merited.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The rule takes effect quickly and states that “Any entities, including small entities, that have manufactured (including imported) PFAS in any year since 2011 will have 18 months following the effective date of this rule to report PFAS data to EPA.” It requires reporting of information back to January 1, 2011.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 29, 2022

In 2011, a raccoon found its way into some electrical equipment at the Delaware City Refinery, taking a number of units offline. It is the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) responsibility to regulate chemical facilities appropriately. This event was hardly unique. Outdated protections put communities at risk.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

which outlines the evaluations needed for a waste to qualify as a product-- or “coproduct” as defined in DEP’s Residual Waste regulations. DEP’s Oil and Gas Program banned the practice of disposing of unconventional (shale) drilling wastewater by road spreading in regulations adopted in 2016. DEP regulations at 25 Pa Code Chapter 287.8

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Nanotech

JUNE 4, 2021

In 2011, the European Commission (EC) adopted a definition that describes a nanomaterial as a material at the nanoscale. In 2020, the EC amended Annex II of the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation and introduced the use of the term “nanoform” in safety data sheets (SDS).

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Last week, regulators in the local assembly of Tokyo , the capital of Japan , ruled that all new homes constructed by large-scale homebuilders after April 2025 must install solar panels to cut emissions. But the country switched off most of its nuclear generators following the 2011 Fukushima disaster. By Anders Lorenzen.

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Nanotech

JULY 29, 2021

As reported in our May 7, 2021, blog item , the European Commission (EC) recently held a targeted stakeholder consultation to update, test, and verify the preliminary findings of its review of the 2011 Recommendation on the definition of a nanomaterial.

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Arnold Porter

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The Raiders case poses the question of “whether a sports league can regulate the number of teams it governs and who has standing to challenge its decisions,” he told Daily Journal.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Perry was named Deputy for Oil and Gas Management in September 2011 by Gov. Corbett when that Deputate was formed to focus more attention on regulating unconventional (shale) gas drilling in Pennsylvania. No other comments on personnel actions were made. No replacement has yet been named. Read more here.] Read more here.

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Energy and Climate Law

APRIL 29, 2020

The latter regulates so called ´essential public services´. The Netherlands is currently in the midst of a transition, during which its renewable energy subsidy scheme SDE+, that has been running since 2011, will be switched to the so called SDE++ (Stimuleringsregeling Duurzame Energietransitie) scheme in 2020.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 17, 2023

From June 10 to 16, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 651 inspection entries that resulted in reporting 67 violations of environmental regulations-- 61 violations by the conventional oil and gas industry and 6 violations by the unconventional shale natural gas industry.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Except in this case, it appears she helped tie the department’s hands: According to the Daily Montanan , Nowakowski herself drafted the original 2011 MEPA limitation for a state senator. “This is not supposed to be a town hall or a popularity contest,” he said. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

According to the Santa Fe New Mexican , state regulators and environmentalists oppose the push for less stringent testing of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in up to 140 miles of streams in and around the site. 70,000 HOMES. ON THE RADAR. Researchers in Canada are searching for underwater aquifers off the coast of Prince Edward island.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 27, 2022

A year after state regulators closed an ethanol plant after toxic waste was “accidentally spilled and intentionally spread” across farm fields and contaminated water supplies in Mead, Nebraska, residents are torn on the best path to remediation. We don’t have water to drink and we wonder if we have a government,” he said. 500 PEOPLE.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

One group of researchers found that from 2011 to 2018 there were “11,452 lobbying contacts with government officials. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) lobbied the federal government a whopping 118 times between January and July of this year, according to The Hill Times. How the lobbying bot works.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 18, 2023

Although a 2011 U.S. Read the full story from the University of Illinois. Tackling nutrient pollution in the Gulf of Mexico is a big job, requiring coordination between dozens of states whose waters flow into the Mississippi.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The evening of January 14, 2011, Jacob, then a 16-year-old sophomore at Aurora High School, entered a basketball game against Central City. At a January 31, 2011, appointment the doctor ordered blood tests and chest X-rays, to check for infection. Everything is going according to plan,” Gary wrote in his journal on February 25, 2011.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 19, 2013

On October 25, 2012 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its corrected definition of “regulated NSR pollutant.” The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) adopted EPA’s revised definition of “regulated new source review (NSR) pollutant” at LAC 33:III.509.B B in a May 20, 2013 Louisiana Register Notice.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The 2011 General Plan EIR ultimately established three thresholds of significance—one for residential, one for commercial and industrial, and one for transportation activities—based on the strategy and assumptions underlying AB 32’s year 2020 GHG emissions reduction goal, estimated in the 2008 Scoping Plan as 15% below 2005 levels.

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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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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 15, 2017

The record in Abbott included a 2011 report by the Department of the Interior which concluded, following a Congressionally-mandated investigation, that “Mr. United States ex rel. Escobar , 136 S.Ct. 1989 (2016). Abbott’s allegations about false submissions by BP to [DOI] are unfounded.”

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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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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. The backstory is important. the Department [ may ] SHALL: . (1)

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Baka explained the study is based on 28,500 water sampling results submitted to the Department of Environmental Protection as part of pre-shale gas well development by shale gas operators since about 2011. When [shale] oil and gas companies drill, they are going to be liable if they contaminate somebody's drinking water.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 14, 2021

California began regulating the chemical in 2017, setting the allowable limit for its presence in drinking water at the tiniest, detectable amount, or 5 parts per trillion — a testament to its toxicity. McGhee blamed state regulators for the slow progress. His oldest daughter also got cancer, at age 11, he said.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

Flooding on the Schuylkill River from Hurricane Irene, 2011. The goals of the Flood Management Program include providing public information, mapping and regulations, flood damage reduction, and flood preparedness for Philadelphia. Courtesy Philadelphia Water Department. Courtesy Philadelphia Water Department.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Actions Since 2011 The order describes the steps taken since 2011 to inspect and evaluate 43 shale gas wells within the Dimock/Carter Road Area and identify the issues that lead to widespread contamination of local water supplies. Only the horizontal portion of the well may traverse under the Area to produce the natural gas.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

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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