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Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 10.27.23

PA Environment Daily

Pursue Your Constitutional Right To A Clean Environment In Pennsylvania Senate next voting day Nov. 13, 14, 15, Dec. 11, 12, 13 -- Committee Schedule House next voting day October 30, 31, Nov. 1, 13, 14, 15, Dec. 11, 12, 13 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- DEP Secretary Negrin Resigns Effective Dec.

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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5

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DEP: Widespread Presence Of PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Fresh Water May Have Led To ‘Inadvertently’ Using Contaminated Water For Fracking Gas Wells In Washington County

PA Environment Daily

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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Call for Nominations: ESA Regional Policy Award

ESA

2021 Virtual Annual Meeting (originally planned for Long Beach, California) Wade Crowfoot, California Secretary for Natural Resources, was recognized for his commitment to using science in creating nature-based solutions for building water and climate resilience across California. degrees Celsius. degrees Celsius.

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House Committee Reports Out Bill Requiring The Evaluation Of Cumulative Impacts Of Some New Pollution Sources On Communities Already Burdened By Pollution; And Other Bills

PA Environment Daily

Cumulative Impact Reports House Bill 652 (Bullock-D-Philadelphia) requiring environmental impact reports on certain major sources of pollution in communities already burdened by pollution was amended to more closely align with the new Environmental Justice Program of the Department of Environmental Protection.

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You Cannot Just Read the Regulations to Understand Stormwater Permitting for Oil and Gas Activities!

The Energy Law

See Natural Resources Defense Council v. United States Environmental Protection Agency , 526 F.3d Thus, under the 2006 regulations, stormwater from Oil &Gas sites that only contained sediment was always exempt from permitting. The 2006 regulations were judicially challenged and eventually vacated. 3d 591 (9th Cir.

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Fifth Circuit Vacates EPA’s Disapproval of the Texas Flexible Permits Program

The Energy Law

Moreno On August 13, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) disapproval of revisions to the Texas State Implementation Plan (“SIP”) dealing with the state’s Flexible Permits program. Environmental Protection Agency , No. State of Texas v.

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