ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The bill repeals section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. Canada and other countries pledged to stop public financing of fossil fuel projects abroad by 2023. United States.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

[The four wells that are part of this announcement were list as abandoned by DEP since April 14, 2015.] Note: In 2023, DEP issued at least 512 notices of violation to 95 conventional oil and gas well operators for new or continuing well abandonment without plugging them. Obviously, it wasn’t. [On Obviously, it wasn’t. [On

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 11, 2024

.” For eight years in a row, The Economist’s “Democracy Index”, which analyzes democracies in 167 countries, has categorized the United States as having a “flawed democracy,” ranking it 29 th in 2023 according to its new report released last month.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2023

So far in the first 10 weeks of 2023, DEP received 135 unconventional shale gas drilling applications , and if that pace continues, will receive revenue from between 700 and 800 permit applications in 2023. In 2015, the Oil and Gas Program had an authorized complement of 226 positions. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Unconventional shale gas operators were issued a total of 1,310 notices of violation in 2023, according to DEP’s December 29 Workload Report. DEP issued 1,360 NOVs to unconventional shale gas well operators in 2022 and 1,323 NOVs in 2021, according to DEP’s 2022 Oil and Gas Program Annual Report. Hall Well Pad, Springfield Twp.,

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

President & CEO of Cenovus Energy: 2017-2023 TC Energy: 1990-2017 Chief Operating Officer of TC Energy: 2015-2017 VP and President Development of TC Energy Corp: 2006-2014 Villain Career Profile Alex Pourbaix has always gone above and beyond to advocate for pipelines and the oil and gas industry. million in 2015.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

New rates are large enough to spark expansion of renewable industry. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption. Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Guest Post by Vedanshi Nevatia , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph. The Sustainable Development Goals outlined by the UN Foundation in 2015 not only provide a guideline for an ideal future, but also illustrate the multi-pronged dilemma of emerging economies. ” (2021). Citations: Ameli, Nadia, et al.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 2, 2023

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released a new report on the projected cost of US nuclear weapons over the next ten years, from 2023 to 2032. This is 19% ($122 billion) higher than its previous estimate of $634 billion for the period from 2021-2030. This resulted in the first such report, covering the years 2014 to 2023.

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ESA

JANUARY 9, 2023

Fiscal Year 2023 Spending Bill Increases Funding for Environmental and Scientific Programs. The formal deadline to submit comments about shaping the NNA to OSTP is March 31, 2023. Fiscal Year 2023 Spending Bill Increases Funding for Environmental and Scientific Programs. The rule largely restores the pre-2015 status quo.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

Three More PFAS Added to Toxics Release Inventory List for 2021 Reporting Year; EPA Announced Plans for More Additions to List. EPA’s Spring 2021 Regulatory Agenda Contained Multiple TSCA Rulemaking Actions. 6, 2021).]] July 23, 2021).]] Draft Contaminant Candidate List Included All PFAS. Regan, No. Regan, No.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

16, 2021 ). White House: Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget Shalanda Young and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy Eric Lander issued a memo to federal agencies outlining the White House’s priorities for research and development spending in fiscal year (FY) 2023.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 3, 2021

EPA and plaintiffs challenging the January 2021 TSCA risk management rule for the flame retardant decabromodiphenyl ether (decide) filed a joint motion in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to set a briefing schedule for the challenge.[[N:Alaska 21-70168 (9th Cir.)]] The proceedings had been stayed since April 2021 at EPA’s request.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

2023 was a milestone year for electric car sales in the US. Sales figure from Atlas EV Hub In California, nearly half a million EVs were purchased in 2023 reaching a whopping one in four new vehicles. Billions of dollars have been invested as a result of the VW settlement in 2015 which established Electrify America.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 27, 2024

billion to the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries in 2023 alone – a substantial amount of taxpayer money that went towards making it cheaper to find, extract, process, transport, and export fossil fuels and their derivatives. “In It is ten times what the government has invested in climate change adaptation since 2015.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2023

decline in production from 2021 and a 5.1% decrease from the fourth quarter of 2021. The IFO said this was the fourth consecutive quarter in which production did not increase year-over-year and represents the strongest year-over-year decline in quarterly production since monthly production data have been published (2015).

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

PFAS Accountability Act of 2021 Would Create Federal Cause of Action for PFAS Exposure. PFAS Action Act of 2021 Would Amend Major Environmental Statutes to Regulate PFAS. 22, 2021).]] 23, 2021).]] 22, 2021); Int’l Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agric. 10, 2021); see also Envtl. 22, 2021).]]

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 27, 2024

2023 was a devastating year for so many people across Canada. In fact, new analysis we released today finds that in 2023, the federal government provided the fossil fuel Industry with at least $18.6 It is ten times what the government has invested in helping communities adapt to the impacts of the climate crisis since 2015.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2023

From July 2021 through June 2022, PROP (with funding from DEP) coordinated the study. In the 2020-2021 fiscal year, the survey was sent to 2,713 schools with 199 responding. In the 2020-2021 fiscal year, 81.4% percent between 2015 and 2021-- from 14.3 million tons in 2015 to 8.59 million tons in 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The IFO reported Pennsylvania’s share of national gas production peaked in the first quarter of 2021 at 18.9% Data for July and August 2023 show that new wells spud declined 47.6% This metric was flat from the first quarter after reaching the lowest level since monthly production data became available (2015). from prior year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Though these heavily polluting plants are being kept online to ensure reliability, ironically most of them have underperformed or experienced outages at various points during heat waves in 2020, 2021 , and 2022. From 2010 to 2015, Texas experienced its second-worst drought in the state’s history.

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Arnold Porter

APRIL 6, 2023

Davila rejected the FTC’s request for a preliminary injunction in January 2023.[[N: 3, 2023), FTC, available here. ]] FTC Chair Lina Khan also commented that “[i]f you’re not really pushing the courts to engage with how these statutes apply in the new economy, you get doctrine that is stale[.]”[[N:

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Legal Planet

MAY 24, 2023

2021) Our first set of results from these surveys focused on utility managers’ responses. 2021 – Survey as diagnostic We then compared utility managers’ perspectives to those of regulators, finding that “ regulators and utility managers agree about barriers and opportunities for innovation in the municipal wastewater sector.”

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

At the beginning of the year Spain, Germany and the Netherlands announced that they generated 50 % of their electricity from renewables in 2023. More solar capacity than France, despite being much less populous, (18 Million people vs 68 million) Italy counted 11,6 GW of wind power capacity in 2022 and 28,6 GW of solar PV in september 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2023

Funded both through federal grants and private dollars, 1,325 sites participated in 2021 and supported 763,962 people across the country, contributing more than $56.7 The federal government has the power to give people more and better choices about what we eat, and this year presents an excellent opportunity for positive change.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The department plans to complete assessments at the remaining sites by September 30, 2023. The produce safety rules, which apply to irrigation water contaminants, were finalized in 2015. Submit them at www.regulations.gov using docket number FDA-2021-N-0471. Seventy-five of the sites were cleared. By the Numbers. $15

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ESA

JULY 19, 2023

In 2022-2023, SEEDS organized 10 in-person events and 7 virtual meetings reaching more than 300 students and another 857 students in 33 active chapters.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In December 2021, nearly 700 scientists and engineers, including 21 Nobel laureates, sent a letter to President Biden urging him to consider eliminating the ICBMs because they create “the risk of a mistaken launch in response to a false warning” and “provide no military capability that is not provided by SLBMs at sea….”

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 21, 2022

percent in 2015. Related Article: -- PUC Distributes $234 Million In 2021 Revenue From Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee; Represents Lowest Effective Tax Rate On Natural Gas Companies On Record - IFO Related Article This Week: -- Who’s Protecting Taxpayers? percent-- down from 1.3 percent this year and a high of 6.4

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2024

DEP just said 86% of conventional oil and gas well owners continue to fail to report how much waste they produce and where they dispose of for 33,505 wells in 2023. In 2023, DEP issued notices of violation to 271 conventional oil and gas wells for abandoning and not plugging those wells. more than in 2021 and 569.9%

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Legal Planet

JULY 5, 2023

According to the Center for International Environmental Law as of April 2023, the World Bank “has financed and incentivized up to $165 billion in fossil fuel investments since the Paris Agreement was signed [in 2015].” Right now, in 2023, that does not exist. trillion or 6.8

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Gas Rate Hikes -- Peoples Gas: Seeks Base Rate Changes To Support Pipeline Modernization Program -- Times Leader Guest Essay: Powering Up Consumer Savings With Natural Gas - By Gas & Oil Association Of West Virginia [Forgot About 2021-22 Price Spikes Already ? Posted: December 31, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Real Climate

JANUARY 13, 2023

and La Niña events (2011, 2018, 2021, 2022 etc.) Back in 2013/2014, the differences between the surface indices (HadCRUT3, NOAA v3 and GISTEMP v3) contributed to the initial confusion related to the ‘pause’, which was seemingly evident in HadCRUT3, but not so much in the other records (see this discussion from 2015).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

However, during half that time, from 2015-2021, the direct costs to federal government for disasters was $315 billion. 3531 would have an insignificant effect on direct spending and no effect on revenues over the 2023-2032 period. ”. First, let’s take stock of how the financial risks and costs of disasters are increasing.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Many More Conventional NOVs This Year DEP issued conventional oil and gas operators 6,586 notices of violation with two weeks left in 2023-- just short of 46% more than in 2021. In 2022, DEP issued conventional operators 5,416 and 4,514 in 2021. The original notice of abandonment was issued on November 17, 2023.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 25, 2023

By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue – May 25, 2023 IOWA CITY, IOWA – Here in the heart of US farm country, the wretched quality of Iowa waterways is a well-known lament. In Iowa, a Tale of Politics, Power, and Contaminated Water Lawmakers silence Chris Jones, a prominent University of Iowa water quality researcher.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

On September 18, 2023 , DEP did a follow up inspection of the DR02 shale gas well pad and impoundment operated by Nucomer Energy LLC in Hickory Township, Forest County and found it in the same condition it was on July 8, 2022. It was granted inactive status on April 24, 2015 which expired on April 24, 2019 without a request for extension.

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