PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2021

More than five and a half years ago, Governor Tom Wolf promised regulations to reduce methane emissions from existing oil and gas industry operations. It’s time to finalize these regulations. Regulations which require state-of-the-art equipment and frequent leak inspections will reduce this leakage. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

DEP issued 605 NOVs against unconventional shale gas operators and 149 to conventional oil and gas drillers for defective casing or cementing from 2016 through 2022, according to DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database. Taylor S 1H (2019) -- Chesapeake Appalachia LLC - Orwell Twp. Miccio 1H (2019) -- EOG Resources Inc.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. Germany agrees on EU regulation to make cars carbon neutral by 2035 (either zero emissions or net-zero). Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Back in 2016 I wrote a long post about biodiesel , explaining what it is made from (mostly vegetable oil) and arguing that EPA should show restraint in setting targets for biodiesel because of the limited availability oils and fats and the harmful consequences of drawing too heavily from these limited sources.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

That percentage was actually the same for wildfires between 2016-2020 in California – a high-risk wildfire state. When PG&E proceeded with a 2-million-customer public safety power shutoff event in 2019, Robert Mardis Sr. In 2019, a fire in Maui came within 150 feet of an oil-fired power plant.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 27, 2019

December 27, 2019. The amendments allow nutrient offsets for permitted NPDES discharges to be provided EITHER in the same hydrologic area (the current requirement) OR at a location downstream of the discharge, but upstream of the water body subject to regulations to address excess nutrient loading. On-Site Wastewater.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

On October 1, 2019, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied fossil fuel companies’ motion for a stay pending their appeal of the district court order remanding Baltimore’s climate change lawsuit against the companies to state court. Pursuant to a consent order, the remand order will not be entered until October 10, 2019.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

On April 21, the European Commission (Commission) proposed legislation (EC Proposal) that would comprehensively regulate artificial intelligence systems in the European Union, including externally located systems with output used inside the EU.[[N: 21, 2021).]] The amended acts are Regulation 300/2008, 2008 O.J. (L L 325) 1 (EU).]]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

In 2016, it concluded that the gas is 60 times more toxic than its previous estimate. DM: The EPA’s 2016 risk assessment determined that chronic inhalation of ethylene oxide—meaning over a long period of time—is associated with white blood cell cancers, such as non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, myeloma, and lymphocytic leukemia.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

The agenda for the December 1 DEP Oil & Gas Technical Advisory Board meeting includes updates on Chapter 78 regulation changes, the new federal abandoned well plugging program and more. The last draft of the waste handling regulation update was posted by DEP in September, 2021. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane. California’s transportation fuel policy is knee deep in cow poop, and it’s not a good look.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

EPA decision , upheld the EPA’s authority to regulate such emissions under the Clean Air Act but significantly constrained its ability to do so. Nevertheless, Jeff Landry—Louisiana’s AG since January 2016—seems more interested in defending the fossil fuel industry than his constituents. That “aggressive pursuit” goes both ways.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In September 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to loosen methane regulations over the oil and gas industry that would have otherwise harnessed $30 million dollars of wasted energy. Going Backwards: Rollback of Carbon Pollution Regulations. CO2 has a GWP of 1). Rollback of the Clean Power Plan. appeared first on.

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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.] .: Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2024

Erosion & Sedimentation BMP Failure (2019) [ DEP Inspection Report ] -- Civil Penalty - $26,725 - Mor42 well site - Washington County, East Finley Twp. Industrial Waste Discharge, Erosion & Sedimentation BMP Failure (2019) [ DEP Inspection Report ] -- Civil Penalty - $15,263 - Mor29 Gathering Pipeline - Greene County, Morris Twp.

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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. million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2019. households currently pay $17.55

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012. Proposed Warehouse ISR.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA transformed the state’s earlier clean energy standard efforts from administrative fiat to law and sets more aggressive goals to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to 60% from a 1990 baseline by 2030, and 15% from a 1990 baseline by 2050.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2023

That intentionally is a broad mandate, so it makes sense that Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) regulations protecting the environment also must be broad. The Commonwealth Court ruled partially in favor of the drillers in 2019, leading to the state government’s appeal that the Supreme Court ruled on April 19.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2022

On December 6, Marcellus Drilling News reported three industry groups representing the conventional oil and gas industry filed a lawsuit in Commonwealth Court December 5 in an attempt to block implementation of DEP’s emergency final VOC/methane limits regulation on conventional oil and gas facilities. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2023

On January 20, the natural gas industry and Senate Republicans launched an effort to unleash the industry by reducing regulations, requiring automatic approval of permits and limiting opportunities for public review of permits at a hearing of the Senate Republican Policy Committee in Pittsburgh. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2023

That intentionally is a broad mandate, so it makes sense that Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) regulations protecting the environment also must be broad. The Commonwealth Court ruled partially in favor of the drillers in 2019, leading to the state government’s appeal that the Supreme Court ruled on April 19.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

which outlines the evaluations needed for a waste to qualify as a product-- or “coproduct” as defined in DEP’s Residual Waste regulations. DEP’s Oil and Gas Program banned the practice of disposing of unconventional (shale) drilling wastewater by road spreading in regulations adopted in 2016. Enervest OPR LLC, G&G Gas, Inc.,

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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. Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. And Rose did, at times, ask follow-up questions.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2022

One of the two permits was issued as a result of Clean Air Council’s successful April 29, 2016 appeal of an earlier version of the permit. By breaking the project into pieces, Energy Transfer had tried to avoid having to comply with more stringent air pollution regulations. Posted: May 24, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2022

On October 6, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has assessed and collected a $147,250 civil penalty from Rice Drilling B LLC for erosion and sedimentation violations that were documented in 2019 and 2020 at Rice’s Mac well site in Whitely Township, Greene County.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

That time period includes unusually high crop losses in the Midwest due to drought in 2012 and flooding in 2019. There is similar lack of regulation on the nitrogen-rich manure produced by contemporary animal agriculture. The most recent review came in December 2016. The nitrate standard was not one of them.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

EPA in defense of EPA’s authority to effectively regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. The case involves a group of challenges to EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing stationary sources under the 1970 Clean Air Act, a monumental piece of environmental and public health legislation.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2022

The Department of Environmental Protection has issued 12 unconventional shale gas drillers notices of violation for abandoning gas wells without plugging them at 35 wells pads (each with multiple wells) in 17 counties between 2016 and 2022, according to DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Reporting system. Read more here. Jordan 6 - Hempfield Twp.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

Since the death of Charles Koch’s brother David in 2019, the Charles Koch Foundation has continued to finance this disinformation campaign, giving more than $17 million to 23 groups in 2019 and 2020 , pushing the Koch grand total north of $162 million. million on some 70 denier groups from 1998 through 2020. Yeah,” Koch replied. “If

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This map shows nitrate concentrations in drinking water between 2016 and 2018 for federally regulated water systems. Fertilizer runoff from farm fields is not federally regulated, so the EPA’s announcement on January 26 that it would step up enforcement of polluting facilities has little resonance for nitrate contamination.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 27, 2023

The explosion at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) refinery in June of 2019 and subsequent bankruptcy and decommissioning marked the end of a refinery whose history goes back 150 years and predates the automobile era. What happens when a refinery closes? Risks increase as finances dwindle.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Led by its scoutmaster, Robert Gizinski, the Philadelphia-based troop began visiting state parks in 2016 following a camping trip at Fort Washington State Park. The troop subsequently planned routes during meetings, made reservations to camp and visited 26 parks in 2016.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Background of Spanish Climate Policy In 2016, the EU ratified the Paris Agreement, which calls on Parties to submit their National Determined Contributions (NDCs) every five years. The EU presents the NDC as one Party ( Regulation (EU) 2018/842 ). compared to 2005. compared to 2005. The Case Filing of Greenpeace v.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Innovative regulation and incentive programs can facilitate the development and implementation of many of these methods, and these will be explored in a future blog post. Searchinger, 2019 , Islam and Lee, 2019 , Adhya et al., 2016 , Benchaar and Greathead, 2011 , Gutierrez et al., 2016 , LaHue et al.,

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

second honors, from Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines) in 2016. She is an experienced securities litigator whose work focuses on addressing climate risk and financial regulation. Martin graduated from Columbia Law School in 2019, where he was a James Kent Scholar (2017-2019) and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar (2016-2017).

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