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Frack is Whack: Why Hydraulic Fracturing is Bad for People and the Planet

Vermont Law

Some of these impacts include contaminated drinking water, increased air pollution, and environmental. West Texas is home to the Permian Basin which supplies forty percent of the United States’ oil and fifteen percent of its natural. wells that were fractured between 1940 and 2014, about one-third of those were fractured after.

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Ohioans Stuck Burning Coal, Burning Cash

Union of Concerned Scientists

The subsidies insulate the utilities from the costs of expensive, uneconomic coal and provide a disincentive for them to invest in cheaper clean energy resources. The OVEC coal bailouts, which the PUCO approved in 2014, were set to expire in 2024 and only applied to utility customers who had a stake in OVEC. But thanks to H.B.

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New Analysis Shows Truck Manufacturers’ Scare Tactic Just a Bunch of Hot Air

Union of Concerned Scientists

To tackle this topic head-on, UCS, together with the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Sierra Club, commissioned a study of the impacts of truck regulations on employment from Environmental Resources Management (ERM), an independent consultant. <mic drop> So, is industry just full of it?

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Guest Essay: Investments In Clean Pennsylvania Air, Land And Water Will Pay Off For Decades

PA Environment Daily

Through the Clean Streams Law, which will assist farmers with best management practices, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources will receive $8.8 This year's budget investments are just the latest result of the Wolf administration's commitment to protect and preserve our precious natural resources.

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DEP: Widespread Presence Of PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Fresh Water May Have Led To ‘Inadvertently’ Using Contaminated Water For Fracking Gas Wells In Washington County

PA Environment Daily

An October 2014 DEP memo still in use today by the Oil and Gas Program and by the Act 2 Land Recycling Program spells out the chemicals and other constituents oil and gas operators and DEP test for during investigations and cleanups of spills and releases. Read more here. Impoundments have since been removed.)

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Alaska’s Atmospheric Public Trust: A Right Without a Remedy?

Vermont Law

Alaska statutes expressly declare a state policy to manage water, land, and air. “as as trustee of the environment for the present and future generations”; and to “conserve, improve, and protect its natural resources and environment and control water, land, and. air pollution. , of Natural Resources. ,

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CEQA Mixed-Use “Mix and Match” Upheld: Second District Holds Stable Project Description Requirement Does Not Mean Ultimately Approved Version of Revised Mixed Use Project Must Match An Alternative Analyzed In EIR, And New Project Alternative Added to FEIR Does Not Require Recirculation

CEQA Developments

While the project would create needed new housing and eliminate blight, it would result in significant unavoidable environmental impacts including air pollution emissions from increased traffic. City and County of San Francisco (2014) 227 Cal.App.4th City and County of San Francisco (2019) 33 Cal.App.5th

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