PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2024

Conflict With Mining Operatio n As early as June 2013, Equitrans was made aware by CONSOL that the mine operator planned or had conducted coal extraction activities in the Pittsburgh Coal Seam within 2,000 feet of the Swarts Gas Storage Field. Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas In 2022 In November 2022, Equitrans Midstream Corp.

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Environmental Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Wed, 11/02/2022 - 11:42. An EPA administrative law judge ordered the owner/operator of several gas stations to pay $185,000 for violating Subtitle I of RCRA and Virginia's federally authorized UST management program with respect to certain USTs located at three facilities in Suffolk and Franklin, Virginia. RCRA-03-2013-0039.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2024

DEP issued conventional oil and gas operators a record total of 6,860 violations for all infractions of law and regulations in 2023, nearly 52% more than in 2021. Read more here (2022). DEP inspection report ] -- Dannic Energy Corp: Administrative Orders-- (2022 violations) -- Cupec 1 - Butler County, Fairview Twp. [

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

11, 2022), provides further guidance on what must be contained in correspondence from parties making demand on an operator under La. Many of these decisions involve whether a party complied with the strict notice requirements contained in the statutes. Kelly Land Company, L.L.C. Aethon Energy Operating, L.L.C. , 4th 369 (5th Cir.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

trillion annually but attracted foreign direct investment in clean energy worth only US$544 billion in 2022, all of which was exposed to overlapping crises of war in Ukraine, high food and energy prices and debt pressures. ” Available at SSRN 4198146 (2022). Developing countries need renewable energy investments of about US$1.7

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2022

For full disclosure, prior to joining the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law, I worked for CARB for more than a decade, although I did not have a role in writing the draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update. The views presented here are my own. ]. What is a Scoping Plan? at § 38561(h).

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 19, 2022

including for a real estate purchaser to avoid liability under CERCLA [the Superfund law]). In that post, we described the significant changes in the 2021 version from the 2013 version. EPA received adverse comments on that action and published a notification of withdrawal of the direct final rule on May 2, 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2022

The PA Association of Environmental Professionals is now accepting nominations for the 2022 Karl Mason and Walter Lyon Awards until September 12. From 1983 to 2013, Walter went on to teach and consult in the areas of environmental engineering and water policy. Posted: August 8, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 14, 2023

This decision would also open the door to allow all Commonwealth properties, not just in the Borough of West Chester, to be exempt from any stormwater utility fees, in contradiction to current case law. In 2013, then Gov. Check DEP’s 2022 Water Quality Report to find out how clean streams are near you. How Clean Is Your Stream?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

Grant Township has been fighting to keep out this frack-waste injection well since 2013. These laws have asserted rights for nature, the right of the community to local self-government, and the right to be free from the dumping of frack waste to protect those rights.”

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 26, 2022

“The defendant’s choice to cut corners in the treatment process to save money not only endangered a clean and safe environment in Pike County – it was against the law,” said AG Shapiro. If you violate our environmental laws, my office will hold you accountable.” Posted: March 26, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Acoel

DECEMBER 17, 2021

They will take effect on January 1, 2022, with publication and adoption by the U.S. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (“CERCLA”) and analogous state laws. . Since PFAS is listed, or is being actively considered for listing, as a regulated substance under certain state cleanup laws (e.g.,

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

I am excited to be presenting a fast paced and fun one hour virtual program, “Environmental Social Governance (ESG) an Emergent and Fast Growing Area of the Law” for the Maryland State Bar Association, and Not just for lawyers, on December 14, 2021 at noon. Register today for the live virtual program. 9601) and petroleum products.”.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Guest Post by Michelan Wilson , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. billion of the US$ 100 billion annual commitment, the highest since 2005, and have essentially gone back on their promises (OECD, 2022). billion of the US$ 100 billion (Akiwumi, 2022), despite being some of the countries hardest hit by climate change.

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MAY 30, 2023

2013) 215 Cal.App.4th 2021-2022) (SB 118) rendered the relief granted by the trial court unenforceable. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. Citing Parkford Owners for a Better Community v. County of Placer (2020) 54 Cal.App.5th East Bay Regional Park Dist.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 17, 2022

including for a real estate purchaser to avoid liability under the Superfund law). and effective May 2, 2022, it was withdrawn. It is hugely significant that the Phase l Environmental Site Assessment standard is in limbo because that assessment is conducted in the vast majority of the 5.6 much to anyone’s surprise?)

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In its Nationally Determined Contributions ( NDCs ), updated in 2022, India has made three major promises: a 45% reduction in its carbon emissions intensity (CO2 emissions per unit of electricity) based on 2005 levels, by 2030; 50% of installed electricity coming from non-fossil-fuel sources by 2030; and national carbon neutrality by 2070.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In an opinion in a much-publicized case, filed December 28, 2022, and later ordered published on January 26, 2023, the First District Court of Appeal (Div. City of Milpitas (2013) 217 Cal.App.4th 4th 1307 (see prior summary dated July 30, 2013, which can be found here ).) Susan Brandt-Hawley (2022) 86 Cal.App.5th

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E2 Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2022

Under Florida’s amended summary judgment rule a “court shall grant summary judgment if the movant shows that there is no genuine dispute as to any material fact and the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.” [1] Ervolino , 3D21-2037, 2022 WL 1560675, at *1 (Fla. 3d DCA May 18, 2022). [17] 3d DCA May 4, 2022). [20]

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

From 2016 through 2022, DEP issued NOVs for abandoning wells without plugging them to not just to a few companies, but to 256 separate conventional oil and gas companies. There are no proposals pending to deal with the taxpayer liability for plugging the pre-1985 wells because that exemption is in state law. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

The number of conventional violations is the largest on record-- at least since 2013. In contrast, DEP found 1,096 violations at unconventional (shale gas) wells during 2021. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported DEP has less than $15 per well available to plug the over 100,500 active conventional oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Repsol Sued in Class Action for $1 Billion Over Peru’s Worst Oil Spill BNN Bloomberg PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:45 Monday, January 15, 2024 Read more Marcelo Rochabrun (Bloomberg) -- Repsol SA is being sued for $1 billion by an English law firm representing around 35,000 alleged victims for its involvement in Peru’s largest oil spill in 2022.

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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In a published opinion filed October 26, 2022, the Second District Court of Appeal (Div. In a published opinion filed October 26, 2022, the Second District Court of Appeal (Div. Real Party In Interest) (2022) __ Cal.App.5th County of Merced (2013) 216 Cal.App.4th Industries v. citing CalBeach Advocates v.

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Trade Comm’n, Request for Information on Merger Enforcement (hereinafter RFI) (January 18, 2022) available here.]] Power’s Remarks to Fordham’s 48th Annual Conference on International Law and Policy (Oct. 7, 2022), available here.]]. In the last quarter of 2022, the antitrust agencies have continued apace.

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Ohio Environmental Law

JULY 11, 2021

Since the sunset of the Clean Ohio Program in 2013, there has been a strong push for dedicated funding to address brownfield sites in Ohio. The Ohio 2022-2023 budget just signed by Governor DeWine comes through in a very big way by allocating $500 million in new funding under various programs.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 2, 2022

The First District Court of Appeal filed on June 30, and later ordered published on July 26, 2022, its opinion in County of Mono v. The leases had a term running from 2009 through 2013, with a holdover provision. Because the material facts were undisputed, the Court treated this as a question of law. A162590) __ Cal.App.5th

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

In an opinion filed on December 29, 2021, and later ordered published on January 25, 2022, the First District Court of Appeal (Div. SI XVII, LLC, et al, Real Parties in Interest) (2022) Cal.App.5th. City of Dublin (2013) 214 Cal.App.4th 4th 1301, 1310-1311, my April 10, 2013 post on which can be found here. ).

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 17, 2023

student, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow, India August 17, 2023 I. Furthermore, India’s legislative frameworks afford limited protection because of fragmented state-wise tourism policies and the National Ecotourism Policy, 2022 plays a normative function at best. By Tejaswini Kaushal , B.A. In Union of India v.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2022

The Hollywood treatment facility that was built in 2013 at a cost of $14.6 trillion [federal] infrastructure bill signed into law on November 15, 2021, help is on the way. Check DEP’s 2022 Water Quality Report to find out how cleans streams are near you.] ( Photo: Little Conemaugh River before and after mine drainage treatment.)

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