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

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. Under that law, conservation programs received around $18 billion in federal funding. Share: Recent Posts The Feed: Vol.

2013

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. They’re not economic development grants. It’s right there in the statute.

Natural Gas

National Law Center

JULY 21, 2025

Specifically, the instructions direct the committee to amend current budget-related laws to achieve the goals of the budget resolution. As the Congressional Research Service states , it “reconcile[s] current law with the fiscal objectives of the budget resolution.”

2013

National Law Center

JULY 1, 2025

There is good news though for small business owners – almost every state in the country has passed laws or regulations allowing entrepreneurs in similar situations to produce and sell certain food products made in private homes with very little or no regulation or oversight. What Are Cottage Foods? Stat § 587.693.

Law

National Law Center

AUGUST 5, 2025

While the FDA does conduct routine inspections to ensure compliance with laws, it also utilizes inspections to follow up on specific instances such as a foodborne illness outbreak. Further, the FDA may conduct inspections on its own, it also has a program for contracting with state and territorial government regulatory agencies.

2013

National Law Center

JULY 17, 2025

While numerous other states had previously passed similar farm animal confinement laws affecting sows and calves, this was the first state to also include laying hens. The Court ruled that the California law was constitutional and allowed it to go into effect. Ross , a case that made its way to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Law

National Law Center

JULY 31, 2025

Background Currently, no federal law exists that restricts foreign persons from acquiring or holding U.S. Investments and acquisitions that could give a foreign person—whether that be an individual, business, or government—control over a U.S. 1713 ) which seeks to increase governmental oversight of certain foreign acquisitions in U.S.

2013

National Law Center

JULY 8, 2025

Prior to this measure, Texas law did not contain any restriction on foreign ownership of land. Texas is one of nine states to enact or amend a foreign ownership law during the 2025 legislative session and now becomes the twenty-eighth state to adopt legislation prohibiting certain foreign investments in land.

Law

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Coal mine cleanup law is still built for the industry’s roaring ’70s. So in August of 1977, when the nation’s coal mine cleanup law went into effect, it reflected the market’s optimism. To enforce cleanup, the law allowed states to revoke mining permits, a prized commodity. . In the eastern U.S., Photo © U.S.

Law

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

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

UCLA Professor of Law William Boyd. William Boyd is Professor of Law and Michael J. Klein Chair in Law at UCLA Law, with a joint appointment as Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability ; Alex Wang is Professor of Law at UCLA Law. UCLA Professor of Law Alex Wang.

Law

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

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

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

AUGUST 13, 2024

Despite laws intended to make our elections accessible and open to every eligible voter, persistent inequalities and inaccessibility mean that LEP voters and voters with disabilities are systematically excluded from fully participating in our elections. Even if jurisdictions do fully comply, the law only extends coverage to certain languages.

2004

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2023

This week, on March 21 and 22, the federal government is defending its Impact Assessment Act (IAA) (formerly Bill C-69) at the Supreme Court of Canada. We spent years fighting for much-needed legislation to strengthen Canada’s environmental laws and fix the broken project review process. That’s why we’re in court defending this law.

Government

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The process requires the government to assess past progress, project future emissions, and come up with a strategy to meet its climate goals. The 2012 scoping plan was challenged in court but upheld because of the painstaking process that the Board had followed.

Greenhouse

Real Climate

APRIL 6, 2023

Governments are clearly failing when it comes to stopping global warming so perhaps this summary for policymakers should aim for business leaders. 3, which is from small samples of global climate models (sample size of 5-15) prone to “the law of small samples”. 775-779, 2012. Another detail is the data behind Figure SPM.3,

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

For more than a century, the United States has recognized this, and maintaining roads and bridges has been a core function of federal, state, and local governments. The federal government embraced a role in supporting transit in the 1970s, but this was cut back for the past 40 years and didn’t rebound until the pandemic.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JANUARY 20, 2022

State water managers and the federal government say they will include tribes in upcoming Colorado River policymaking negotiations for the first time. Like any government in the southwest, tribal nations see water as a cornerstone of growing their communities and local economies while supporting the livelihoods and well-being of their members.

Government

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 28, 2023

A study using longitudinal data from 2002 to 2012 confirms that courses in the social sciences and humanities have the strongest impact on promoting student voting, along with service learning opportunities and being mentored while in college. Another shared attribute was the occurrence of more political action on campus.

Politics

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

So far, the country has adopted several laws to strengthen the legal framework towards achieving these goals. Colombia ’s Legal Climate Framework Colombia’s climate change laws are extensive and align with its open commitment to fight climate change and its devastating effects. Law 629 of 2000 on the Kyoto Protocol.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 2, 2023

Following the wide coverage of a suspected Chinese spy balloon in US airspace earlier in February, Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) and others have proposed legislation that would seek to limit foreign ownership of US farmland, targeting China, Russia, and other “adversaries” of the US government.

2017

Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

And while state laws across the region regulate how, when and why water rights are sold, some worry it won’t be enough to hold back the tide. “I This summer in Oregon the federal government shut off access to water in the Klamath River due to a historic drought, prompting some farmers and activists to threaten to take the water by force.

2019

Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

The Alberta government has allowed 1.4 The Alberta government has allowed 1.4 Environmental protection laws must be enforced in response to incidents like last year’s major spill and leak from Imperial Oil’s Kearl mine. The Alberta government must be cautious not to overreach its jurisdiction.

Regulations

Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Especially the allocation of responsibilities in German energy law ( Energiewirtschaftsgesetz EnWG ) is not in line with the envisaged responsibilities reserved exclusively for national regulatory authorities. Will German Energy Law now have to undergo fundamental revision? But what does this mean in detail? need to be interpreted.

2009

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

Utility companies, as well as state and federal government regulatory agencies, made a series of questionable decisions that together created the situation we find ourselves in today. Consider what happened in New York City and northern New Jersey when Hurricane Sandy struck in 2012. That can prove disastrous.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

Applicable Law to the ITLOS Advisory Opinion The applicable law for the ITLOS advisory proceedings is determined by Article 293 of UNCLOS. Similarly, several authors have argued that this obligation predates the Convention, with UNCLOS simply codifying an existing customary law rule ( e.g. , Corfu Channel Case , p.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 18, 2024

County and municipal governments directly affected by drilling will receive a total of $100,302,825 for the 2023 reporting year. On June 18, the Public Utility Commission reported calendar year 2023 revenue from the Act 13 drilling impact fee dropped $99.2 The more numerous conventional oil and gas well owners pay no fee.

2023

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

(This post was authored by Eric Peshkin, a JD candidate at NYU School of Law and CLEE summer research assistant). Agricultural methane policies, where they exist, tend to take predominantly three forms: regulation , cap – and – trade programs , and government incentive programs. Agricultural Methane Regulation.

Renewable Energy

Enviromental Defense

MARCH 21, 2023

Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – This week, the federal government is defending its Impact Assessment Act (IAA) (formerly Bill C-69) at the Supreme Court of Canada. Provincial and federal governments share the legal authority to protect the environment and conserve nature.

Law

CEQA Developments

JULY 6, 2021

38; and (3) due process, all as a matter of law. County of Marin (2012) 205 Cal.App.4th In SPAWN (my April 27, 2012 post on which can be found here ), plaintiff SPAWN challenged the County’s EIR for a general plan update for the San Geronimo Valley watershed. Factual/Procedural Background. 4th 195, 204, fn.

2017

Physics World

APRIL 4, 2022

Confronting the second law. All laws of physics are invariant with respect to forward or backward flow of time, or the choice of the origin of time for a given equation. The only exception is the second law of thermodynamics, which establishes the concept of entropy. A decade old quest. 109 160401 ).

Law

Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 13, 2022

UNEA was created in 2012 to foster and create a system of international environmental governance. UNEA sets priorities for global environmental policies and develops international environmental law. What is the United Nations Environmental Assembly? A legally binding instrument is an enforceable agreement between countries.

Ocean