Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

Conservation easements can facilitate a transition of cropland to salt marsh, providing numerous ecosystem services and up to 90% of the market value for farms. in September 2016. Plants regulate their salt concentrations much like how our bodies regulate blood pressure. Thousands of acres are already unable to be farmed.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2023

Eleven riparian conservation projects in Michigan will receive $1.7 million homes over the next decade in Ontario, also changes environmental protections and regulations required for development plans. million in state funding for 11 conservation projects devoted to fish passage and riparian habitat, The Detroit News reports.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The CLCPA requires the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation to enforce emissions targets through the adoption of regulations consistent with the final scoping plan, which must be promulgated by Jan. The final plan must be sent to the Legislature by Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2024

Since 2016, DEP has required shale gas operators to submit an Area of Review analysis as part of the permitting process for unconventional wells to help identify abandoned wells, water wells and conflicts with other shale gas wells and laterals before they happen. Frack-out” is also a term used for “communication” incidents.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2024

Conservative groups have claimed since then that virtually every government regulation raises a major question. None of these apply to the new car rule: The new rule is based on a legal provision that EPA has applied for decades to regulate cars, rather than an obscure and rarely used legal provision.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

DEP prohibited the road dumping of shale gas drilling wastewater in 2016 regulations. DEP Updating Conventional Regulations In spite of the fact it is illegal to dump conventional oil and gas wastewater on roads, it is still happening unabated in conventional oil and gas drilling areas of the state, according to local citizen reports.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 28, 2022

Authorities are responding by encouraging conservation and by looking to new sources of water, such as more wells and a fourth reservoir. The previous advisory level, set in 2016, was 70 parts per trillion for the two chemicals combined — that’s more than 10,000 times higher than the new level just for PFOA.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

On November 17, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources honored Boy Scout Troop 120 for completing its impressive goal of visiting 120 state parks while with Troop 120. “We 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.

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Columbia Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

The rationale for this proposed amendment is that designating critical habitat in this context “could create a regulatory burden without providing any conservation value to the species concerned.”. This provision seems reasonable at first blush.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 12, 2016

On May 4, 2016, environmental groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), seeking to compel EPA to “fulfill long-delayed nondiscretionary duties” under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) by issuing revised regulations governing oil and gas wastes. See Appalachian Voices v. McCarthy , 989 F.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2023

The study included test results for 17 different dust suppressants for dirt roads and winter road treatments, including five different sources of brine water pumped from conventional oil and gas wells-- three conventional well brine waters regulated by DEP and two sources of brine water pumped from played-out conventional wells.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 28, 2022

The Environmental Quality Board is scheduled to meet July 12 on a final regulation establishing a municipal waste rural transfer facility permit-by-rule and to hear a presentation on DEP’s permit fee report on the Chapter 102 Erosion and Sedimentation Program. Click Here for a summary of the final regulation.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In 2016 Taylor was awarded the Michigan Environmental Council’s Petoskey Prize, the state’s top honor for grassroots activists, for her meticulous research on CAFOs, and for managing ECCSCM’s water quality monitoring program, which has 56 sampling sites across the county. Conservation practices have potential tradeoffs,” Osmond said. “We

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

These species are the most vulnerable and require species-specific conservation efforts to survive. Unfortunately, changes to regulations in recent years clearly highlight Ontario’s lack of effort to protect these species. In Ontario, there are currently over 200 species of plants and animals at risk of extinction.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Background As recently as September 20, DEP told the Citizens Advisory Council road dumping conventional oil and gas drilling wastewater still does not meet the state’s residual waste regulations and remains illegal. Read more here. Read more here.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 13, 2020

As discussed in previous posts , regulated entities must either: (1) ensure that fuels supplied in California meet annual, decreasing carbon intensity (CI) targets ( e.g. , by blending biofuels into gasoline and diesel); or (2) procure and surrender credits to CARB. 95487, 95491, and 95495 of Title 17, California Code of Regulations.

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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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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 18, 2023

Mourners hold a vigil outside the Organization of American States for Berta Cáceres, who was murdered in Honduras on March 3, 2016 for opposing a dam project. A lack of consensus over what qualifies as an aquifer has made regulating these transboundary waters nearly impossible. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. 15 percent.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

He suggests that demographic trends of big-game hunters will dictate that wildlife agencies consider modified, or completely new, regulations to manage white-tailed deer populations. population was more than 45 years old, which had increased to 52% by 2016. In the general U.S. In 1991, 41% of the U.S.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 6, 2016

In New York and Pennsylvania, anti-fracking groups have obtained a statewide ban on fracking and the allowance of local authority to regulate fracking, respectively. In March 2016, the Louisiana First Circuit recognized the preemptive authority of state law to regulate and permit fracking. City of Longmont v. In 2014, St.

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Acoel

JULY 2, 2021

On June 28, 2021, the Environmental Protection Agency published the approval of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s partial State Coal Combustion Residuals Permit Program pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. CCR include fly ash, bottom ash, boiler slag, and flue gas desulfurization materials.

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Acoel

MAY 11, 2022

As explained in a November 2021 publication issued by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and information provided by its Commission on Ecosystem Management, peatlands contain about 30% of all soil carbon – more than is stored in all other vegetation types, including the world’s forests. appeared first on ACOEL.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2022

On July 12, Environmental Quality Board approved a final regulation establishing a municipal waste rural transfer facility permit-by-rule and heard a presentation on DEP’s permit fee report on the Chapter 102 Erosion and Sedimentation Program recommending a fee increase. Click Here for a summary of the final regulation. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2023

In a presentation to North Carolina regulators, Duke named several specific resources it lost during the storm—all fossil fuel generators—but didn’t provide a detailed breakdown of what types of failures prompted it to begin rolling blackouts on Christmas Eve.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 8, 2022

DEP records show conventional oil and gas companies were issued over 4,270 notices of violation for attempting to abandon oil and gas wells without plugging them between 2016 and 2021. Conventional operators, several of whom are large companies active in multiple states, own anywhere from dozens to thousands of these wells. Read more here.]

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Acoel

JULY 22, 2021

That rezoning was the purview of Maine’s Land Use Regulation Commission (LURC), the planning and zoning authority for 10,000,000 acres of the State without municipal government, known as Maine’s “unorganized territory.”. The approval of a concept plan merely rezones land, but does not act as a development permit or the equivalent.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

RBC has contributed over $340B (CAD) in fossil fuel financing since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed in 2016, making it one of the world’s largest funders of the companies and industries driving climate change. “If RBC doesn’t, and that’s why I’m calling on Minister Freeland to kill the deal.”

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Two steps forward, one step back: In February 2016, the Supreme Court issued a. Equally exciting, in August 2016, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld agencies’ ability under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to include the. stay on implementation. of the Plan, pending judicial review. social cost of carbon.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Environment and Climate Change Canada is currently consulting on a 2016 recommendation to formally list monarchs as endangered under the federal Species at Risk Act. It’s unacceptable to have those who profit from pesticides undermining negotiations. ” – Silke Nebel, PhD, Vice-President Science and Conservation, Birds Canada.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

Major public landowners like the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Allegheny National Forest and experts like the Penn State Center for Dirt and Gravel Road Studies all have policies opposing the disposal of this harmful waste on roads or believe other, safer alternatives exist. Read more here. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In 2016, a natural gas pipeline exploded in Westmoreland County injuring one person, searing about 40 acres of farmland and causing property damage. A report on pipelines by The Nature Conservancy projected the miles of pipelines in Pennsylvania will at least quadruple by 2030. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Humanitarianism, Capitalism, and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott by Tehila Sasson (2016) Rigged: Supermarket Shelves for Sale by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) (2016) Nutrition Scientists on the Take from Big Food: Has the American Society for Nutrition lost all credibility? C being promised.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Humanitarianism, Capitalism, and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott by Tehila Sasson (2016) Rigged: Supermarket Shelves for Sale by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) (2016) Nutrition Scientists on the Take from Big Food: Has the American Society for Nutrition lost all credibility? C being promised.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

He argues that the government should stop issuing mining licences in protected forests or conservation areas. “It It is important to note that once a mining permit is issued in a forested area, there must be deforestation, but the problem is that current mining regulations in Indonesia still allow such a thing to happen.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

FERC also says that it is not the “legally relevant cause” of upstream or downstream environmental impacts because FERC does not regulate gas production or its combustion at power plants unless federal lands are involved. Northern Access 2016 Project. to FERC’s order approving the Northern Access 2016 Project. Following the D.C.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 21, 2016

2016 WL 3568093, at *1-2 (5th Cir. June 30, 2016). Subsequently, on June 30, 2016, in a 2-1 decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed Judge Feldman’s ruling, upholding the FWS’s designation of Unit 1 as a “critical habitat” under the ESA. Markle Interests, 2016 WL 3568093, at *10-12.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

The amount that the Senate has proposed diverting from the RGGI fund for FY 2017 is more than 80% of the total value of RGGI auction proceeds earned by New York in FY 2016 (which totaled approximately $166 million ). If the Senate proposal is approved, the diversions will total $269 million—nearly 30% of the $925.8

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