Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

Despite being one of the first states to enact a renewable portfolio standard (RPS) requiring 10% of the states energy to come from renewables, the requirement expired in 2015 with no meaningful updates since.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Indeed, utilities and regulators often cite the possibility that the customer requesting the clean energy product could instead use less electricity than planned or cease operations altogether, leaving the utility with a long-term obligation to purchase premium clean energy products, the costs of which would be spread across all customers.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Schuylkill County; Possible Abandoned Mine Subsidence -- WNEP: DEP Crews Working To Fill Mine Subsidence Sinkhole In Schuylkill County That Swallowed Swimming Pool -- Republican Herald: Sinkhole In Mahanoy Twp., Get Your Passport To 2025 PA Farm Show, Enhance Your Conservation Skills Starting Jan.

Conservation

National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

Under that process, NRCS will classify an area as being either a type of wetland, a converted wetland, or an area not subject to Swampbuster regulation. The Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution grants Congress the power “to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States.[]” U.S. 3822 (a)(5).

2013

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Million For Drill Pad Landslide In Greene County [November 2015] -- Sunoco Pipeline Fined $59,000 For Pipeline Wetlands Violations By DEP [November 2015] -- DEP Assesses $374,000 In Penalties For Methane Gas Migration Violations [August 2015] -- DEP Assesses $8.9

2014

A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

However, recent efforts have focused on reversing this trend, with the government implementing stricter enforcement of environmental regulations and bolstering sustainable initiatives, such as promoting conservation efforts and enforcing land-use restrictions. The 2015 Mariana dam collapse spilled 43.7

2025

PA Environment Daily

MAY 7, 2025

The amount of renewable energy brought online in the state since 2015 would power fewer than 4% of the homes in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvanias rate of growth in clean energy adoption has fallen well behind the national pace, with only Washington State and Alaska ranking lower. GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

DEP has tried for decades to regulate this practice but failed because the conventional industry simply does not comply. Attempts To Regulate Road Dumping All Failed There have been several attempts by DEP to regulate the road dumping of conventional wastewater to reduce its environmental and health impacts. Forest Service.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

DEP has tried for decades to regulate this practice but failed because the conventional industry simply does not comply. Attempts To Regulate Road Dumping All Failed There have been several attempts by DEP to regulate the road dumping of conventional wastewater to reduce its environmental and health impacts. Forest Service.

Natural Gas

National Law Center

JULY 8, 2025

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2013

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

As of August 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is investigating regulating TENORM, but no regulations have been made. It was conveyed to Resolution Copper as a land swap under the National Defense Authorization Act of 2015.

2011

Legal Planet

MAY 1, 2025

Are environmental regulations destroying jobs and crippling the economy? Do regulation and deregulation really have that much effect on the economy? The National Association of Manufacturers claims that federal regulations cost the economy over three trillion dollars a year, or 12% of GDP. Instead, firms seem to have been blas.

Regulations

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

18, 2015, pent-up gases at ExxonMobils refinery in Torrance triggered an explosion so powerful it registered as a magnitude 1.7 Im curious as to whether Goldsmith thought in 2015 that hed still be fighting this battle a decade later. On the morning of Feb. earthquake and sent industrial ash over entire neighborhoods.

2015

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2025

Three days later, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), one of the three independent agencies responsible for regulating banks, withdrew from a collaboration among the agencies to create guidelines on climate-related financial risk. Industry representatives such as the American Petroleum Institute and U.S.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Regulations, and enforcement by organizations, have played a crucial role as a policy lever to protect BCEs from various threats such as aquaculture. For example, Sri Lanka was the first country in the world to legally protect its remaining mangrove forests in 2015.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 17, 2025

California has proposed repealing its recent regulation on in-use emissions from locomotives, another major step backwards in the fight against freight pollution. We can rebuild it—we have the technology (and lax regulations) Under the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency sets emissions standards for engines in new locomotives.

Regulations

Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

These trends converged in Paris in 2015 when 195 countries signed a legally binding international treaty on climate change to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and attempt to keep global temperatures from rising to more dangerous levels. In the United States, coal production actually did peak in 2008 at 1.2

Clean Energy

Circle of Blue

APRIL 21, 2025

Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, committed last month to dissolve the agencys scientific research office, reduce the agencys staff by 65 percent, and take 31 actions to kill regulations or programs affecting toxic air emissions and water discharges, climate change, and waste management.

Earth Day

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

28] Consider also the decades-long failure of international governance regimes to regulate the climate problem effectively. 29] Government regulation alone wont get a handle on the super wicked and notoriously complex climate problem. [30] Step back a bit, though, and what looks like a marvel begins to seem monstrous. [34] 1; Lucian A.

Law

Circle of Blue

JULY 10, 2025

Due to Environmental Protection Agency regulations set by the Obama administration in 2015, and by the Biden administration in 2024, the coal ash disposal site at the Cayuga station was closed, and the ash removed. Yet across Indiana several other ash disposal sites remain operational, including F.B.

2015

Circle of Blue

MAY 19, 2025

Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is supporting a new regulation that would stabilize glyphosates continued use by immunizing it from any claims of injury. might follow the trend in Europe and severely regulate glyphosate. Germany and Portugal banned it in public spaces.

Biotechnology

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2025

The Environmental Quality Board published notice in the April 5 PA Bulletin inviting comments on proposed regulation changes relating to spill notification and setting a May 15 virtual hearing starting at 1:00 p.m. This regulation applies to any person responsible for unauthorized discharges to waters of the Commonwealth.

Regulations

National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

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Endangered Species Act

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

They [DEP] have 337 positions less now than in 2002, and since 2002, you've had an enormous increase in responsibility, such as the advent of the shale gas industry, more federal air and water regulations, you have to implement the emergence of PFAS and so forth. Illegally dumping brine on roadways is a continual problem.

2002

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

As of November 15, the Department of Environmental Protection issued owners of conventional oil and gas wells 6,907 violations for violating state laws and regulations, exceeding the 6,860 violations issued in all of 2023. And, there are five+ weeks left in 2024. And these trends are not encouraging. Read more here.

2023

Circle of Blue

APRIL 2, 2025

The Arizona Commerce Authority, the regulating agency, says that 64 data centers have received the exemption that covers purchases of hardware and software. Chandler was the first municipality in the state to regulate data centers. Arizona encourages the growth of data centers through a sales tax exemption that was approved in 2013.

Cooling

National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

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2013

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Circuit’s recent decision holding that CEQ lacks authority to promulgate regulations and, therefore, that the regulations governing implementation of NEPA across the government for decades are ultra vires. Circuit’s lead and vacate the regulations in their entirety on the theory that CEQ lacks authority to issue them.

Regulations

A Greener Life

APRIL 28, 2025

The Liberal Party vs the Conservatives – the climate perspective When the now former prime minister Justin Trudeau came into power in 2015 , he broke with the policies of the Conservatives, who under prime minister Stephen Harper had adopted a climate denial approach.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2025

In forests of western North America, climate change nearly doubled burned area between 1984 and 2015 by increasing the dryness of vegetation (or fuel aridity for the wonks among us). The consequences of wildfire on groundwater are more complicated, reflecting the limited number of studies that address this intersection.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

Read more here ] -- 9-Year Effort Continues To Recover From Damage Caused By Mariner East Pipeline Construction: Since 2015 Navy veterans Patrick and Helen Robinson of East Wheatfield Township, Indiana County have been working for 9 years to cover from water supply, flooding and other impacts from the construction of the Mariner East Pipeline.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2025

carbon budget set forth in the 2015 Paris Agreement, countries must reduce CO2 emissions by 50-65% by 2030 and achieve zero CO2 emissions by 2040. Buildings account for approximately 37% of global CO2 emissions and 40% of all U.S. primary energy use.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2025

DEP said Laurel Mountain Production also never complied with the basic requirement to register the impoundment with the agency since it was constructed in 2017 as required by state regulations. feet above a stream rather than buried 3 feet below the stream channel as regulations require. Original violation issued October 23, 2015.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 17, 2025

Greater oversight of insurance companies needed Regulators must also pay greater attention to examining the underlying reasons for the rate increases and not simply take insurance companies’ rationale at face value. of the market in 2023 from 1.7% In the top ten counties with homes at high wildfire risk, that figure reached 32.6%

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JANUARY 21, 2025

Still, he might have called it a fossil fuel emergency as he will use all his resources to remove regulations and streamline permitting to build what he says is critical infrastructure and lift Biden restrictions on specific areas for fossil fuel projects such as in the Arctic. In a resurgent speech, he said, We will drill, baby, drill.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Neuman said it is undisputed that in 2013 the Mariner East pipeline was an interstate pipeline that provided no service in Pennsylvania and was regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Authority as common carriers under federal law with no eminent domain authority. Read more here.

2013

PA Environment Daily

JULY 24, 2025

Quest Well Pad Experience Due to residents’ previous experience with Apex’s operations at the Quest well site in 2015 which caused silica dust, noise, light and air pollution to harm residents for months during operation, the Zoning Hearing Board denied Apex’s permits.

Environmental Protection