PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2023

From April 15 to 21, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 465 inspection entries that resulted in reporting 50 violations of environmental regulations-- 46 violations by the conventional oil and gas industry and 4 violations by the unconventional shale natural gas industry. SWN Prod Co. Le Boeuf Twp.

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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. In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. In the U.S. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75

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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. In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. In the U.S. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75

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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. In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. In the U.S. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75

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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. In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. In the U.S. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 12, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), seeking to compel EPA to “fulfill long-delayed nondiscretionary duties” under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) by issuing revised regulations governing oil and gas wastes. See Appalachian Voices v. McCarthy , 989 F. 2d 30, 53-56 (D.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Space is infinite, but earth’s orbits are a finite natural resource that must be managed properly. [1]. Popularized in the 2013 film. The existing space law regime is not sufficient to address the growing issues presented by the increasing creation of orbital debris. [8]. by William Goldberg. Gravity. ,

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 29, 2014

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement’s (BSEE’s) Investigations and Review Unit (IRU) substantially enhances the civil and criminal enforcement of the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) and the regulations issued thereunder. The IRU staff includes a federal criminal prosecutor and experienced law enforcement agents.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 17, 2023

student, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow, India August 17, 2023 I. State of Karnataka , the Karnataka High Court ordered the handover of a restaurant building under forest conservation law violations. EcoPerspectives Blog The Fad of Ecotourism in India: Discovering Paradise to Creating Purgatory?

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

According to the US EPA, environmental justice is “ the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies ”. Current Issues in Tourism , 13 (5), 495-505.

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AUGUST 25, 2014

Summary: The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) highly controversial proposed rule would establish baseline environmental safeguards for the hydraulic fracturing of natural gas on federal and Indian mineral lands. While growing up in Pennsylvania, I saw natural gas wells appear all around me on what were once open fields and forests.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Dicharry On July 20, 2013, the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources amended its reporting and disclosure requirements for hydraulic fracturing stimulation operations. 1824 (July 20, 2013). Before the amendment, the regulation did not specify a reporting deadline. By Sarah Y.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

This marked the first restart of a nuclear power plant in Japan since the country’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) ceased all commercial nuclear operations in 2013 in response to the Fukushima Daiichi Disaster in March, 2011. graduate of Vermont Law School, from which he graduated in 2014 with a General Practice Certificate.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 18, 2020

2013), to find that Unocal had an implied obligation under the Louisiana Civil Code to restore the land to its previous condition minus “normal wear and tear.” The 1935 lease, as the Court recognized, did not contain any language with respect to remediation and/or restoration obligations. 3d 1038 (La.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

By Jillian Marullo Senate Bill 514, signed into law on June 14, 2013, authorizes saltwater pipeline operators in Texas “to install, maintain, and operate” saltwater pipelines “through, under, along, across, or over a public road” in order to transport the wastewater produced by hydraulic fracturing operations to disposal sites.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 21, 2016

A group of private landowners (“the Landowners”), who owned all of Unit 1, brought a lawsuit in 2013 for declaratory judgment and injunctive relief against the FWS, its director, the United States Department of the Interior, and the Secretary of the Interior. Tammany Parish (“Unit 1”).

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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FEBRUARY 17, 2014

To address the loss of migratory bird species, the Department of Justice brought the first criminal charges against a wind energy firm under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) in November 2013. Duke Energy arguably took one for the team, because after this new regulation the wind industry actually benefited. Crime and Punishment.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Even before the justices granted review in the Sheetz case last Friday, the Court’s 2023-24 Term was shaping up as one featuring sweeping constitutional challenges to government regulation generally and to environmental regulation in particular. Which brings us to a quick review of applicable regulatory takings law.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013). This case is unique because it is the first time a Dutch company has been sued in a Dutch court of law and held liable for the l damage it caused abroad. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 7, 2018

The court concluded that the fact that the screening methods developed by the industry trade group may arguably have been ineffective at detecting NORM did not equate to a finding that defendants intentionally adopted inadequate screening methods.

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MARCH 2, 2016

By adding the provision about species proposed to be listed, this law would increase the number of species being protected by the ESA’s importation and exportation provision. CITES sets out to preserve the endangered species on the planet by regulating the trade of their parts. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice They are expensive, in many cases experimental, and take a long time to work. But the Platte Lake advocates did not rely on federal law. You have to get the stakeholders to the table under the compulsion of law. Paul Stowe is its natural resources manager.

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APRIL 24, 2021

CBA, as an informational tool, can influence environmental policy directly when used determinatively by agencies to promulgate environmental and public health risk regulations, or indirectly by justifying regulatory decisions through non-determinative (but highly influential) regulatory impact analyses. . role of CBA and regulation.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2014

has prompted concerns that it will stifle the compensatory mitigation practices of environmental and natural resources permitting agencies. 2586 (2013). , has generated the same kind of agitated pushback by many land use and environmental law scholars—that is, all theory and little practical reality. The form of.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

His parents, Gary and Shari Peters, documented six more kids in Aurora diagnosed with cancer from 2005 to 2013. This map shows nitrate concentrations in drinking water between 2016 and 2018 for federally regulated water systems. Of the seven, including Jacob, Circle of Blue confirmed that five died and two survived. If the U.S.

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CEQA Developments

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Without other standards or regulations specifically governing such corridors, however, wildlife movement issues were decided through County’s discretionary permitting and environmental review process. City and County of San Francisco (2013) 222 Cal.App.4th County of Marin (2013) 218 Cal.App.4th Guidelines, Appen. G, § IV(d).)

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Circle of Blue

JULY 30, 2021

Activists pushing for stricter PFAS regulations, like those in Oscoda, Michigan, said they are unsurprised by the department’s actions. Since 2013, more than 12 billion gallons of water are estimated to have been stolen across the state. In Oscoda, high levels of PFAS chemicals were found in drinking water supplies in 2010.

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E2 Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It may give the polluted-upon person a right to insist that the government consider the pollution before allowing the polluting facility to operate or before funding the polluting facility, and it may even create an obligation on the part of the government to regulate the existing polluting facility.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 25, 2021

Obviously industry is regulated in terms of dust levels, but I’ve never heard of DEP going after townships,” said Eric Chase. Lab” vs. The Task Force achieved its goal in 1997 when a law (Section 9106 of the PA Vehicle Code) was enacted establishing the Pennsylvania Dirt and Gravel Road Maintenance Program. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

EPA is an effort by conservative states and fuel suppliers to block EPA regulations of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. Ohio and some other states argue that the waiver unconstitutionally gives California more power to regulate than it gives them. EPA to overturn Obama’s Clean Power Plan.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2022

Seth Grove (R-York) introduced House Bill 2444 that contains a natural gas industry wish list of measures they want to expand natural gas drilling, subsidize pipeline expansion using DCNR Oil and Gas Fund revenue, automatically approve of well permits and preempting local government regulation of all facilities regulated by DEP.

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