Law Columbia

AUGUST 23, 2022

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for instance, has been allocated over $1.5 Methane is a much more potent warming agent than carbon dioxide, trapping 87 times more heat in the earth’s atmosphere in the first twenty years after it is released (on a pound-for-pound basis). To put that in perspective, on average, U.S.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Rex Tillerson, ExxonMobil CEO from 2006 to 2016. They included Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short, and … Vice President Mike Pence, who led Trump’s transition team.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 8, 2022

Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23) and Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 8, 2022 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) establishes air quality standards under the Clean Air Act. (1) 11) Global warming, in part, is a result of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. By Robert R.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

Roughly half of the survey respondents at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) now say they have a more effective workplace than they did two years before, for example. It lost 12 percent of its workforce between 2016 and 2020. Only 5 percent said so in our 2018 survey.

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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.]

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection issued a record 6,860 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas operators in 2023, according to DEP’s December 29, 2023 Weekly Workload Report. Environmental Protection Agency Underground Injection Well Program. more than in 2021 and 26.6% more than in 2022 and 569.9%

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

Written Testimony The Department of Environmental Protection provided written testimony only. 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. A video of the hearing will be posted on Sen. Muth’s website.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

million of their product not leaking into the atmosphere, at current natural gas prices. Environmental Protection Agency to adopt controls on methane emissions from oil and gas operations by December 16 or face the potential loss of $500 million or more in federal highway funds. Environmental Protection Agency.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 8, 2022

We expect the Department of Environmental Protection to appeal today’s ruling, which means the Supreme Court will have the opportunity to reinstate the RGGI rule. Section 5(a)(1) of the APCA specifically empowers EQB to “[a]dopt rules and regulations, for the prevention, control, reduction and abatement of air pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The report released in late December by the state Department of Environmental Protection, which regulates the industry, also found that about 56% of well owners failed to report the amount of waste they generated, as required by law, as well as where it was taken for disposal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

That’s why, since the price spike, the industry has doubled down on lobbying for weaker environmental protections to clear the way for more oil and gas production and the further lock-in of gas pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

In China, cadmium in soil mainly comes from atmospheric deposition of the metal after it has been emitted from coal-burning, metallurgical facilities and animal-source fertilisers. A farmer in Changsha, Hunan takes part in a 2016 “soil restoration project” to treat arable land contaminated with heavy metals.

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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. Over time, natural gas transmission pipelines degrade and eventually leak, releasing methane into the atmosphere.

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Science Blogs

AUGUST 21, 2017

The data, available for free online, can help track air quality indicators, heavy metals in air, dust, and other atmospheric components which can affect human health. Associate Professor of Data Assimilation and Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of Arizona’s Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences. lborkowski.

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

billion increase for the Environmental Protection Agency over FY 2022. . Senators confirmed Richard Spinrad to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration by a voice vote. The Senate confirmed Radhika Fox to be the Environmental Protection Agency’s assistant administrator for water. This includes a $2.11

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2021

In contrast, the state Department of Environmental Protection is lining up a batch of 500 wells to plug with just the first $25 million infusion of federal money from the U.S. In 2016, Stanford University researcher Mary Kang studied 88 abandoned wells in the state and found that 90% were leaking methane.

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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

JULY 18, 2022

It cements a legacy of pollution that includes not only leaking methane — a greenhouse gas 86 times more powerful than CO2 in its first 20 years in the atmosphere — but also fouled streams, polluted air, and harmed our children’s health. The oil/gas industry places the cost for plugging wells as starting at $33,000 per well.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Administered by the two-year-old Environmental Protection Agency, the statute limited how much nutrient pollution could be discharged by wastewater treatment plants, factories, and other so-called “point source” pollution. . In the last decade, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

According to its Oil and Gas Program Compliance Database , the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) issued 315 Notices of Violation (NOV) just for the first three-quarters of 2022. Leaking methane is a powerful greenhouse gas 86 times more potent than CO2 in its first twenty years in the atmosphere.

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

The Ecological Society of America, representing 8,000 research ecologists and environmental scientists, is greatly concerned about the recent United States Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v. US Environmental Protection Agency case. billion for the Environmental Protection Agency, a 20% increase.

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Environmental Progress

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

My name is Michael Shellenberger, and I am Founder and President of Environmental Progress, an independent and nonprofit research organization. [1] American farmers are world leaders in innovation, productivity, and environmental protection. This is due to both rising agricultural productivity and environmental conservation. [32]

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

As CEO of Exxon Mobil, the world’s largest publicly-traded oil business, Tillerson’s 2016 compensation was $24.3 Trump, the fact that each month is warmer than the same month the previous year has nothing to do with the adverse consequences associated with spewing obscene amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.

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ESA

MAY 6, 2021

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently announced the expansion of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, nearly tripling the size of the sanctuary. The full Senate narrowly voted to confirm Janet McCabe as the deputy administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

From 2011 to 2016, DEP’s Air Quality Program only required oil and gas operators to maintain records of how frequently they conducted pigging operations. Written by David Hess, former Secretary, PA Department of Environmental Protection. Read more here. The Council noted they and other groups also recommended the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency announced it is strengthening its proposed standards to cut methane and other harmful air pollution. If finalized, these critical, commonsense standards will protect workers and communities, maintain and create high-quality, union-friendly jobs, and promote U.S.

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ESA

APRIL 3, 2023

The state of Texas and industry groups sued the federal government, arguing that the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Lawmakers have introduced different versions of this bill since 2016 but have struggled to agree on a funding source for the bill. EPA case before implementing the rule. This bill provides $1.4

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ESA

APRIL 19, 2021

Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Request for the Environmental Protection Agency – House Appropriations Committee – April 21. Estenoz led Everglades restoration initiatives in the Interior Department during the Obama administration and received ESA’s 2016 Regional Policy Award. US emissions dropped 1.7 1, 2022.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lacked authority to administratively stay portions of new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector for which it had granted requests for reconsideration. New Jersey Appellate Court Affirmed State Authority to Take Easements for Coastal Protection Projects. 451962/2016 (N.Y.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other governmental entities to allow continued enforcement of environmental laws related to ongoing mining operations. Foster , No.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The subcommittee funds the Interior Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Forest Service. The Obama administration previously recommended a mining withdrawal in this area in 2016, but the Trump administration stopped that process. 668 ) to permanently protect the area from mining. Meanwhile, Rep.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule repealing the Clean Power Plan and finalizing the final Affordable Clean Energy rule in its place. On July 26, 2019, a Massachusetts state court upheld a Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) decision authorizing expansion of a landfill in the Town of Saugus.

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. President Obama recommended a mining withdrawal in this area in 2016, but the Trump administration stopped that process. EPA – Draft FY 2022-2026 Environmental Protection Agency Strategic Plan. The National Park Service receives $3.463 billion, a 9.3% 15, 2021.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

The Washington Supreme Court ruled that a climate activist should be permitted to present a necessity defense to charges of criminal trespass and unlawful obstruction of a train in connection with a 2016 protest on railroad tracks used by trains carrying coal and oil products. The cases were filed in 2016 , 2020 , and 2021.

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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). Foster , 34-2016-CR-00187 (N.D. The federal district court for the Northern District of California ordered the U.S.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The developing science of climatology with its understanding of the need for chemistry made scientists concerned for the future on seeing masses amounts of carbon released into the atmosphere (8) , but also (as it was previously) regarding trees as a resource and the potential for depletion. American Bison.

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