Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This data, which was not previously publicly available, shows that despite Canada’s commitments to reducing emissions at home, exported emissions have risen a shocking 58 per cent from 2012 to 2023. The data show a stark contrast between Canada’s rhetoric as a climate leader and its record.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Here are 153 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Million In Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fees; $25.1 Million In Sen.

Conservation

National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

The term “final agency action” comes from the Administrative Procedure Act, the federal law that governs agency procedure, and is defined as an agency action that is “made reviewable by statute” or “for which there is no other adequate remedy” other than in a court of law. 5 U.S.C. § The plaintiff in CTM Holdings, LLC v. Hatch Ave.

2013

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Of Environmental Professionals Annual Conference Sept. Million In Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fees; $25.1 Million In Sen.

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Read more here ] The Grand Jurys two-year investigation uncovered systematic failure by government agencies in overseeing the fracking industry and fulfilling their responsibility to protect Pennsylvanians from the inherent risks of industry operations. million in restitution for Pennsylvania landowners. Read more here.]

2014

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 26, 2025

Contact: Ian Irvin, Executive Director, iirvin@pa.gov or (717) 787-8171 -- Senate Confirms Jessica Shirley To Lead The Department Of Environmental Protection; Committee Questions On Environmental Justice, RESET Energy Board [PaEN] -- PA Resources Council Receives 2025 Governor's Award For Environmental Excellence For Hard-To-Recycling Collection Events (..)

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

We also know we cant do it alone, said Pennsylvania American Water Vice President of Business Development, Government and External Affairs Thom Chiomento. We understand that as a company, we play an important role in protecting, restoring and enhancing these shared resources.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 27, 2025

Landowners who help locate undocumented wells on their properties may receive $100 per well from the Oil Region Alliance. Read more here ] This session is essential for landowners, officials, and anyone interested in the hidden infrastructure beneath our feet. Upcoming Event -- Penn State Extension Hosts Aug. Million In Sen.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Emerging Contaminants Amy Willliams, Water Program Specialist with DEP’s Bureau of Clean Water, provided an update on DEP’s emerging contaminants sampling initiative that began in 2012 as part of an effort to identify why smallmouth bass were dying off in the Lower Susquehanna River Watershed.

Conservation

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

3] Best interests of the corporation is further defined to include the following factors: (a) the interests of shareholders, employees, retirees and pensioners, creditors, consumers, and governments; (b) the environment ; and (c) the long-term interests of the corporation. [4] 5] Approximately two-thirds of U.S.

Law

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

The government’s real mission was to build Arctic capabilities so it could both operate and listen from somewhere much closer to the Soviet Union. One day in 2012 she was on the ice—and it rained. Everything that we want to and can measure must be measured on the ground.”

Sea Level

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2025

Defective Casing/Cement Chesapeake Appalachia LLC (Shale Gas) May 29, 2025 inspection of the Schlapfer 2H shale gas well in Albany Township, Bradford County is part of a regular gas pressure monitoring program put in place since defective casing/cement violations were issued on August 31, 2012. DEP inspection report.

2025

A Greener Life

MARCH 5, 2025

As the most important part of our organisation, our identity, and our name, we felt we could not, in good faith, continue to register with a company headquartered in a country where the government goes against everything we stand for.

2012

National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

The new law includes several provisions typically associated with the Farm Bill, the omnibus spending bill that governs various agricultural and food programs in the United States. The OBBBA includes provisions related to agricultural commodity programs, nutrition programs, tax policies, and conservation programs. Hatch Ave.

2013

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2025

The well was originally drilled on July 6, 2012, but never completed. On February 20, 2025 , DEP approved an alternative method of plugging the well-- In lieu of venting requirements related to wells located in coal areas, EQT will cement the well from total depth of attainable bottom to the surface.

Waste

Circle of Blue

MAY 29, 2025

reactors that have closed since 2012. State and federal governments approved over $3 billion in public funding to support the restart, which could come this October, just three years after the plant was shut down. government from opening a long-term storage facility at Yucca Mountain for decades. and globally.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 23, 2025

This funding benefits counties, municipalities, and state programs under Act 13 of 2012, which established the unconventional gas well fee. This year’s distribution brings the cumulative total of impact fees collected and distributed since 2012 to more than $2.88 The fees are paid only by unconventional shale gas well owners.

2024

PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2025

This marks the first year that 2030 District Partners have hit the target goal of achieving a 50-65% reduction in carbon emissions by the year 2030 since the Pittsburgh District was founded in 2012. Property partners in the Pittsburgh 2030 District also achieved a 25.6% reduction in energy usage, saved $44.2

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

DEP was notified Wise passed away on May 16, 2012. Ronald Wise - Violations: 4 Abandoned Conventional Wells March 12, 2025 notices of violation sent to the owner of record for the Vanderzer 2, 3, 5 and Ron Wise 1 conventional wells in Summit Township, Butler County were returned in the mail. DEP inspection report example.

Natural Gas

A Greener Life

MARCH 10, 2025

Mark Carney speaking at the World Economic Forum in 2012. His governing will likely be based on a market approach, favouring financial incentives and corporate responsibility rather than outright bans or government intervention. Photo credit: World Economic Forum via Flickr.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 1, 2025

All of which comes on top of a staffing gap that FEMA and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) agreed was at 35% in 2022 and the Congressional Research Service suggested is likely much higher. The cancellation of these grants will disrupt projects already underway or planned by emergency managers and local and Tribal governments.

2006

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

Any call for more studies should not preclude swift and meaningful action on the part of our government. And I certainly believe that this is not an either/or circumstance that we can do both, but it does require that government be far more involved than we have been in the past, and that includes funding for regulators.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2025

They are payments collected under Act 13 of 2012 , Pennsylvania’s response to mounting public pressure to make natural gas companies pay for the consequences of fracking. So yes, it’s good that our local governments are finally getting some of that money back. But let’s be honest about what this money really is. They aren’t bonuses.

Natural Gas

National Law Center

JULY 21, 2025

Currently, the federal government pays fully for the cost of SNAP benefits, and the USDA and states split the costs of administering the program. Beginning in fiscal year 2028, if a state’s payment error rate is less than 6 percent, then the state will pay 0 percent, and the Federal government will pay 100 percent of the costs of benefits.

2013

A Greener Life

APRIL 8, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen In the wake of Donald Trump’s handing an ever-increasing role to Elon Musk in his government, people are right to be angry about the responsibilities and freedoms the worlds richest man can wield.

Fossil Fuels

National Law Center

AUGUST 5, 2025

Further, the FDA may conduct inspections on its own, it also has a program for contracting with state and territorial government regulatory agencies. Currently, the FDA has 48 contracts with state and territorial government regulatory agencies. Specifically, 43 states and Puerto Rico have been awarded contracts. food supply.

2013

National Law Center

JULY 17, 2025

It prohibits standards or requirements that are “in addition to” or “different from” those imposed by the federal government. There are no federal requirements governing the living space required for laying hens. This section has two express preemptions, one focusing on federal standards, and the other on labeling. Hatch Ave.

Law

National Law Center

JULY 1, 2025

Nevertheless, many states are influenced by the federal government. The new change allows the Oklahoma government to continue keeping records of cottage foods sold in case of food safety issues while also protecting cottage food operations’ personal information from the general public. Particularly, the U.S. Hatch Ave.

Law

Scientific American

JUNE 6, 2025

“Right now, with the budgets that are proposed, we can’t afford to send people to Mars,” says John Grunsfeld, an astrophysicist and former NASA astronaut who led the agency’s science programmes from 2012 to 2016. A tough environment Others are more excited about the prospect of landing people on the red planet.

Radiation

National Law Center

JULY 31, 2025

While there are approximately twenty-eight states that specifically prohibit or limit foreign ownership of agricultural land within the boundaries of their state, the federal government only monitors certain foreign acquisitions and landholdings in agricultural land through the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act (“AFIDA”) of 1978.

2013

National Law Center

JULY 8, 2025

SB 17 prohibits governments and individuals who are citizens of or domiciled in a “designated country” from purchasing or acquiring any interest – including leasehold interests of less than one year – in real property located in Texas. SB 17 is set to go into effect on September 1, 2025. Hatch Ave.

Law

New Scientist

JULY 25, 2025

In 2012, researchers at the University of Utah found that “frenemies” – ambivalent relationships that blow hot and cold – seem to accelerate the shortening of our telomeres , the protective caps at the end of chromosomes. “The

2012

Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

As usual, most of the headlines will also focus on the Summary For Policy Makers (SPM) which was approved word by word by the governments over the last two weeks (full disclosure, I was advising the US delegation), but the full report will be worth dipping into over the next few months (there is a lot there to digest!). 1, SPM AR5.

Sea Level

Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2021

Government agencies and nonprofit groups are preparing for difficult months ahead. 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.

2012

Enviromental Defense

JULY 15, 2024

Last month, the federal government amended the IAA – and the changes mean that major projects can no longer be rejected based on their climate impacts. A strong project review process is the only way governments can assess the environmental and social impacts of major projects like pipelines, mines, transmission lines and dams.

Government

Legal Planet

MAY 6, 2024

Is it unconstitutional for the government to build a levee that reduces the risk of urban flooding but diverts the water to nearby farmlands? The answer could be yes, unless the government pays for flood easements on the rural lands. But if the government doesn’t build the levee, it faces no liability from the urban landowners.

Government

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 22, 2023

Since local and state governments are on the frontlines of paying for worsening wildfires, they should also be on the leading edge of holding fossil fuel companies accountable. Perhaps less obvious is the importance of state and local governments in holding the fossil fuel industry accountable. Source: CCST 2020.

Fossil Fuels