The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

By ratifying the 2015 Paris Agreement, [1] nations across the world made a commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by the year 2030. Carbon dioxide is one of the primary greenhouse gases found in the Earth’s atmosphere, accounting for 76% of global greenhouse gas emissions according to published reports.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

more than in 2015. DEP’s 2022 Oil and Gas Annual Report said 5,416 notices of violation were issued to conventional operators in 2022 and 4,514 violations in 2021 and in 2015, DEP issued just 1,024 violations to conventional operators. more than in 2021 and 26.6% more than in 2022 and 569.9% Read more here. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Power companies will therefore have to pay more for the fuel, but utilities are generally allowed by state regulators to pass those cost increases onto their customers in the form of higher electricity rates. Between 2015 and 2021, 274 North American oil and gas producers filed for bankruptcy with a debt load of $177 billion.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2023

Washington County Plan In 2015 Washington County adopted a Hazard Mitigation Plan (HMP) which included language identifying environmental hazards due to Marcellus gas drilling. Yet DEP regulators and inspectors are understaffed and unable to oversee the boom in natural gas development.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

By ratifying the 2015 Paris Agreement, [1] nations across the world made a commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by the year 2030. Carbon dioxide is one of the primary greenhouse gases found in the Earth’s atmosphere, accounting for 76% of global greenhouse gas emissions according to published reports.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

Her team collected Medicare claims data for tens of thousands of patients generated between 2002 and 2015 in both northern Pennsylvania, which experienced a fracking boom, and next-door New York state, where the practice was banned.

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Law Columbia

MAY 1, 2024

In KlimaSeniorinnen , the ECtHR noted the general acceptance, including by Swiss authorities, that ‘the GHG emissions attributable to Switzerland through the import of goods and their consumption form a significant part (an estimate of 70% for 2015) of the overall Swiss GHG footprint’ (para.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

Globally, the cumulative number of climate change related cases has more than doubled since 2015, bringing the total number of cases to over 2,000. Supreme decisions?), and the third branch of government, the courts, are the new frontier for driving global warming policy for the nation.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 18, 2016

. : Wastewater from hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is not well-regulated in the United States, even though regulations exist at federal and state/local levels. Federal agencies have failed to effectively regulate the clandestine fracking waste disposal industry. at a 2015 environmental law conference. “It

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Lawrence Beth Ann Adams 2 conventional gas well operated by STK Investments LLC in Washington Township, Lawrence County and found the well was still venting gas to the atmosphere and abandoned by the operator. On January 31, 2024 , DEP did a follow-up inspection of the J. operates 110 conventional wells. Read more here.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

At the end of the day, he is tired of the negotiations and discussions of improving the “words” (within the language of regulations and agreements) because “ it is ridiculous that we have to argue over adaptation/ mitigation” when the reality is that farmers and foresters know how to use natural cycles to help capture carbon in the atmosphere.

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

This blog post discusses these plans by (i) looking at the underlying challenges, (ii) reviewing the scope of the strategy, (iii) analyzing the current regulations, and (iv) assessing the proposed measures to spur the development of carbon management infrastructure within the EU.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The climate crisis cannot be solved unless we halt the transfer of carbon from its terrestrial tomb to the atmosphere. They also finalized the Paris Agreement Rulebook which means that carbon trading and carbon market aspirations outlined in the 2015 Paris Agreement are now operational and implementable. BOGA attacks the source.

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Environmental Progress

MAY 28, 2020

It gives us the food we eat, the water we drink, the materials with which we build our homes, and the mechanisms that regulate our weather patterns, our ocean currents, and much more. How the “earth’s systems” regulate our ability to exist and thrive on planet earth has been less understood. Absolutely.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Industry opposition to regulating plastics is out of step with science and public opinion. OTTAWA | Unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Environmental groups are jumping into the legal fray to support the federal government as it fends off an industry-led lawsuit challenging its efforts to regulate plastic pollution.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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Vermont Law

MARCH 2, 2016

A dentist from the United States, Dr. Walter Palmer, paid to go on a trophy hunt in July, 2015. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. CITES sets out to preserve the endangered species on the planet by regulating the trade of their parts. Ed Hetherington Photography. During the hunt, Dr. Palmer. shot and killed Cecil.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Because methane has 28 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide and a shorter atmospheric life of only 12 years, immediate action to reduce methane emissions —including from agriculture—is critical to slow our warming climate, especially in light of expanding global populations and food demand. 2015 , Williams et al.,

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit concluded that EPA had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in determining that the four elements of the regulations that had been stayed met these requirements. The court said the administrative record “makes clear that industry groups had ample opportunity to comment on all four issues on which EPA granted reconsideration.”

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The ESA regulations define the “effects” that must be considered in the BiOp: “Effects are all consequences to listed species or critical habitat that are caused by the proposed action, including the consequences of other activities that are caused by the proposed action. This includes both direct and indirect effects. 2017) ; Laidre et al.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

Lawsuits against fossil fuel companies: Investor Fraud Lawsuits: The first category of climate change litigation alleges that oil and gas companies defrauded investors by falsely stating that the company had fully considered the risks of climate change regulation and had factored those risks into its business operations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Most of these pieces were about the company’s support for a seemingly independent network of anti-regulation, “free-market” nonprofits that spread falsehoods about the reality and seriousness of climate change. And since 2015, they have claimed that their company supports the goals of the Paris climate agreement, which was brokered that year.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

On Friday, November 22, the Sabin Center submitted comments opposing an Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposal to rescind regulations limiting methane emissions from new oil and natural gas facilities (the “Methane New Source Performance Standards” or “Methane NSPS”). By Romany Webb.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

That’s why waste storage tanks have to be vented and why many have tank lids that are open all the time to let the fumes vent to the atmosphere. Attempts To Regulate Disposal Before Failed There have been attempts to regulate the road dumping of conventional wastewater before to reduce its environmental and health impacts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. They appear to have a sympathetic ear in Justice Alito. During February’s oral arguments in West Virginia v.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

It was granted inactive status on April 24, 2015 which expired on April 24, 2019 without a request for extension. The DEP inspection report noted the casing was open to the atmosphere, but no venting of natural gas was detected at the time of the inspection.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

It is a practice and a philosophy, utilizing scientific tools and methods with applied ethics, and, where necessary, regulation and environmental law to limit the use of certain materials. Working to maintain biodiversity is conservation (regulate), making it illegal to build in a designated wilderness zone is preservation (eliminate).

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

States Filed Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Changes to the Endangered Species Act Regulations. Seventeen states, the District of Columbia, and New York City filed a lawsuit in the federal district court for the Northern District of California challenging amendments to the regulations implementing the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

On December 12, 2023 , DEP did a follow up inspection of the Kennedy 4 conventional gas well in Georges Township, Fayette County operated by Diversified Prod LLC and found it was still venting gas to the atmosphere producing a hazard to public health and safety. The #26 well was plugged on June 17, 2015.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 23, 2022

The stick takes the form of a “methane emissions charge,” which EPA must collect from certain entities in the oil and natural gas sector, unless and until stringent regulations controlling the sector’s methane emissions are implemented. That sector is also affected by an important new “stick” created by the IRA.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 1, 2022

The federal agencies responsible for more than 200 hatchery programs — including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. But endangered species regulations and environmental lawsuits alleged that releases of hatchery fish were threatening wild salmon and compromising their recovery.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As previously reported on this blog, during the Obama administration, EPA relied on section 111 to adopt so-called “ New Source Performance Standards ” (NSPS) to control methane emissions from oil and natural gas production, processing, transmission, and storage facilities constructed or modified after September 18, 2015.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Brett Walton 2021-09-22 04:00:14 2021-11-29 20:37:05 Toxin Levels Spike, Prompting Drinking Water Emergency in Northern California ‘Eyes in the Sky’ Help Police California Water Use 0 Comments / September 9, 2021 Satellite data is one monitoring tool regulators turn to in this very dry year. Brett Walton. Brett Walton.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

The report describes SC-GHG as “the monetary value of the net harm to society from emitting one metric ton of that GHG into the atmosphere in a given year.” [1] 12] How the SC-GHG Estimates Will Be Used The higher SC-GHG estimates may pave the way for more aggressive regulation of GHGs. 2015), [link]. [16] 2015), [link]. [16]

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). Federal Court Dismissed Challenge to Executive Order on Reducing Regulation. Public Citizen, Inc. Trump , No.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Circuit vacated the 2015 rule to the extent that it prohibited continued use of HFCs by companies that previously switched to HFCs from an ozone-depleting substance. In Mexichem , the D.C.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Leaking methane is a powerful greenhouse gas 86 times more potent than CO2 in its first twenty years in the atmosphere. But more than the cost to clean up the oil and gas industry’s messes, what troubles us most is the price our kids and all of us pay for the damages to our health and lives.

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