Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 7, 2023

Tribal land holds more that 5% of the solar photovoltaic potential in the United States, according to a 2013 report by NREL. Read the full story from NREL. However, this resource remains underutilized, and tribes often cite regulatory hurdles to achieving their solar deployment goals. In a three-year project funded by the U.S.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The VIDA, enacted in December 2018, will standardize incidental discharge permits and regulations, replacing the 2013 Vessel General Permit (“VGP”) that commercial vessels are currently required to follow. Coast Guard (“USCG”) to develop corresponding regulations to enforce compliance with the EPA’s standards.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

On February 15, the Department of Environmental Protection told the Environmental Quality Board conventional oil and gas drilling companies only paid $46,100 of the $10,600,000 it cost for DEP to regulate that industry in FY 2020-21. percent of the cost of regulating their industry; the unconventional industry pays the remainder.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The share of online transactions among total US sales grew from just under six percent in 2013 to around 15 percent in 2021, according to the Census Bureau’s Annual Retail Trade Survey. Some of the same researchers are currently working on a comparable study for the United States and their preliminary results are similar.

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Effective September 10, 2021 , the Federal Acquisition Regulation Council revised FAR 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting, and related FAR sections to address an inconsistency between that clause and the corresponding Small Business Administration (SBA) regulation at 13 C.F.R. § 125.6.[[N: N: SBA promulgated 13 C.F.R.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Regulators and policymakers began to reevaluate their approach to rate design. Despite California regulators’ stated interest in pricing based on marginal costs, however, fixed costs have often been bundled into volumetric rates. Regulators are acting on these redistributive concerns.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Read more here ; -- Status of updating conventional drilling regulations; and -- Natural gas industry effort to reform permitting, limit public comments. The Council will be discussing their comments on the 2013-2018 report at this meeting. Read more here ; -- Conventional Oil & Gas Compliance Report issued in December.

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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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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Joseph – individually and doing business as Joseph Contracting, John Joseph Contracting, and Perry Stone Supply LLC – to settle violations of the Solid Waste Management Act and Pennsylvania regulations that occurred between 2012 and 2015 in Dunbar, Perry, and South Union Townships, Fayette County.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 25, 2021

The Phase l Environmental Site Assessment Standard E1527-13 will sunset in late 2021, eight years from its approval on November 6, 2013. CRECs arise from a past release of a hazardous substance that has been address to the satisfaction of regulators, but carry some implementation of controls, like a drinking water restriction.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 21, 2013

On August 21, CCCL released a new white paper that evaluates the legal workability and constitutionality of regulating imports into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or “RGGI” (for background on RGGI, the Northeastern states’ cap-and-trade program for carbon dioxide, see prior posts ).

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. million fine Emily Pickrell | Houston Chronicle | September 20, 2013 Total Petrochemical will pay an $8.8 In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. In the U.S.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 14, 2024

Supreme Court first declared a century ago that government regulation of private property, if “excessive,” can constitute a compensable “regulatory taking” of private property under the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Finally, in the 2013 case of Koontz v. Constitution.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

Ontario Power Generation, a Crown corporation that generates a chunk of the province’s electricity, has been secretly selling clean energy credits since about 2013 and has made billions in profit from the sales. Tell the Feds to strengthen these regulations so Ontario can’t build new gas plants!

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 19, 2013

On October 25, 2012 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its corrected definition of “regulated NSR pollutant.” The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) adopted EPA’s revised definition of “regulated new source review (NSR) pollutant” at LAC 33:III.509.B B in a May 20, 2013 Louisiana Register Notice.

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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. Beech Creek Twp. -

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 24, 2023

Hatfield’s Ferry Power Station, a Pennsylvania coal-fired power plant, stopped producing electricity in 2013. Read the full story from Reuters. Its closure came in a wave of coal-plant shutdowns triggered by competition from cheaper, cleaner natural gas and incentives in the U.S. Clean Air Act.

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 27, 2023

In 2018 and 2019, the City adopted ordinances to tax and impose licensing procedures and regulations on commercial cannabis businesses, but it was also required to designate certain parcels in the City where cannabis-related land uses would be permitted before it could accept permit applications. City of Dublin (2013) 214 Cal.App.4th

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Dernbach told Circle of Blue that these amendments act as a steadying force in state politics, because constitutions are more stable than policies and regulations, which can change from administration to administration. Rhode Island followed in 1987, and was the last state to do so.

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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. million fine Emily Pickrell | Houston Chronicle | September 20, 2013 Total Petrochemical will pay an $8.8 In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. In the U.S.

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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. million fine Emily Pickrell | Houston Chronicle | September 20, 2013 Total Petrochemical will pay an $8.8 In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. In the U.S.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 23, 2023

The new “cap-and-invest” program is designed to follow in the footsteps of California, where a cap-and-trade system began in 2013, while trying to learn from its missteps. Washington state rang in the New Year with the launch of its most ambitious plan to slash carbon pollution. Here’s how it works.

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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. million fine Emily Pickrell | Houston Chronicle | September 20, 2013 Total Petrochemical will pay an $8.8 In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. In the U.S.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

As a result, Japan’s CO 2 emissions increased, peaking in 2013. In its Nationally Determined Contribution , Japan has committed to reducing GHG emissions by 46% in 2030 from 2013 levels and achieving net zero emissions by 2050. Both courts took the position that the regulation of GHG emissions was a policy issue.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 28, 2022

The Environmental Quality Board is scheduled to meet July 12 on a final regulation establishing a municipal waste rural transfer facility permit-by-rule and to hear a presentation on DEP’s permit fee report on the Chapter 102 Erosion and Sedimentation Program. Click Here for a summary of the final regulation.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection reported their inspections found 4,386 violations of environmental regulations at conventional oil and gas operations during 2021 -- nearly two and a half times the violations reported just two years ago in 2019 and 337 more than in 2020. Read more here.]

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JANUARY 4, 2022

In the absence of government regulation, insurance prices for real estate will rise there. Since the government regulates insurance and effectively subsidizes risk taking (by putting limits on insurer "price gouging"), building codes are needed to raise the average quality of the housing stock in risky places.

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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. million fine Emily Pickrell | Houston Chronicle | September 20, 2013 Total Petrochemical will pay an $8.8 In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. In the U.S.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The Freedom Industries chemical spill in Charleston, West Virginia exposed holes in state and federal regulations for chemical storage tanks. Almost immediately, politicians and community groups cried for new regulations to prevent something like the Elk River spill from happening again. Summary: . A new Senate bill – S.

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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. million fine Emily Pickrell | Houston Chronicle | September 20, 2013 Total Petrochemical will pay an $8.8 In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. In the U.S.

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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. million fine Emily Pickrell | Houston Chronicle | September 20, 2013 Total Petrochemical will pay an $8.8 In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. In the U.S.

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Nanotech

JULY 7, 2021

2010, 2013).” The proposed entry in Annex VI of the Classification, Labeling and Packaging (CLP) Regulation is: Carc. The proposal is based on the observation that fibers of high-diameter MWCTs (? STOT RE 1, H372. The hazard classes open for comment are carcinogenicity and specific target organ toxicity — repeated exposure.

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Manning Law

JUNE 11, 2020

This action is contrary to subparagraph 29(b)(i) of the Storage Tank Systems for Petroleum Products and Allied Petroleum Products Regulations , made pursuant to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999. In January 2013, Scamp Industries Ltd. The penalty will be directed to the Government of Canada’s Environmental Damages Fund.

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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. Failed To Operate Well To Meet Regulations (2023 violations) [ DEP inspection report ] -- Civil Penalty - $7,700 - Mikalik 2 - Greene County, Dunkard Twp. Read more here.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

First issued by the EIB (European Investment Bank) in 2007 in Sweden, green bonds have grown from $11 billion USD in 2013 to $1 Trillion USD in December 2020 globally. Transparent country-specific regulations need to be put in place. But it matters how these funds are being mobilized.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

On September 17, the Susquehanna River Basin Commission took action to adopt changes to its groundwater withdrawal regulations and policies covering pre-drilling natural water well reviews, hydro geologic evaluations and aquifer testing. Click Here for a copy. Click Here for a copy.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2022

The awards are presented to Pennsylvanians who made a unique and creative contribution to the field of environmental management in Pennsylvania with preference given to the fields of administration, law, regulation and community organization. Karl Mason served as Pennsylvania’s first State Environmental Administrator from 1952 to 1966.

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