Enviromental Defense
MAY 7, 2024
Any credible solution to the toxic tailings problem starts with replacing the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) with an effective and fair regulator that works in the public interest, not for the industry it is intended to regulate. Since 2014, the AER has only collected 71 cents from oil sands companies to pay for cleanup.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 13, 2023
who owns the Ambler Asbestos Piles Superfund Site , to pay $500,000 in stipulated penalties to resolve its liability for outstanding violations of a 2014 Consent Order and Agreement (COA). DC Ambler purchased the property in 2005 and imported a large quantity of regulated and non-regulated fill material in 2012.
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Circle of Blue
JUNE 17, 2021
In this blistering year in California drinking water wells are going dry in increasing numbers, rekindling memories of the historic drought of 2012 to 2016, when more than 2,600 wells across the state stopped producing water. So many wells went dry in 2014 in the town of East Porterville that Tulare County supplied portable public showers.
Union of Concerned Scientists
JUNE 12, 2023
Three decades of deregulation allowed private companies, as opposed to public regulators, to make critical decisions about reliability. In many places state and federal utility regulators delegated decisions about energy supplies to the market. That can prove disastrous. Market forces are moving private investment to renewables.
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
On February 15, the Department of Environmental Protection told the Environmental Quality Board conventional oil and gas drilling companies only paid $46,100 of the $10,600,000 it cost for DEP to regulate that industry in FY 2020-21. The fees were last updated before that in 2014. It was in development for over two and a half years.
Legal Planet
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
The first step in regulating agricultural methane emissions (and emissions in general) is to develop an accurate inventory of emissions, which can be used to set a baseline for future targets. Agricultural Methane Regulation. Emissions Inventorying and Baselining. million metric ton reduction in CO 2 equivalent over ten years.
Clean Energy Law
MAY 24, 2022
The market-based compliance mechanism deigned by CARB went into effect in 2012 in the form of the California Cap-and-Trade Program. Today, the Program regulates roughly 450 entities responsible for roughly 85% of the state’s GHG emissions. The Program has been linked with the Cap-and-Trade System of Québec since 2014.
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