Energy & the Law

JANUARY 13, 2022

Like wild mushrooms after a warm summer rain, and undaunted by the COVIDs, the fraudsters, the grifters, and the “the spawn of the Devil’s own strumpet”* were prolific before meeting the wrath of the courts and the regulators in 2021. million from 2015 to 2017 and spending nearly $400,000 for personal use or improper business expenses.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2022

On March 2, Trout Unlimited released the 2021 Annual Report for the Pennsylvania Coldwater Habitat Program highlighting the estimated 360,062 pounds of sediment were reduced through the completion of 23 projects on nearly 13 miles of trout streams by the Coldwater Habitat Program crew.

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Acoel

AUGUST 16, 2021

Posted on August 16, 2021 by John Dernbach. As discussed in an earlier blog , it was not until 2017 that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court used Section 27 to hold a statute unconstitutional. On July 21, 2021, the state’s Supreme Court reaffirmed and extended its 2017 holding.

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Senate Appropriations Committee Releases Remaining Spending Bills for FY 2021. by Jean Chemnick, E&E News, 10/21/2021. Senate Appropriations Committee Releases Remaining Spending Bills for FY 2021. The Senate released spending bills for the Departments of Agriculture and Energy in August 2021. Bill includes $9.49

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Circle of Blue

MAY 28, 2021

Gulf States Newsroom reports that Black Bayou took over Reynolds’ former water provider in 2017. The post The Stream, May 28, 2021: Australian Coal Mine’s Water Withdrawals Need Deeper Analysis, Court Says appeared first on Circle of Blue. The utility was founded in 1988 with 350 customers and now has about 2,700.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

HotSpots H2O: ‘Global Indigenous Agenda’ Calls for Water, Land, and Resource Governance at 2021 IUCN World Conference — Indigenous activists and organizations from around the world met virtually this week for the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Zoom-based World Conservation Congress. ON THE RADAR.

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Frontiers

JULY 15, 2021

We are honored to announce that Dr. Alexandra (Sasha) Turchyn, Co-Chief Editor of the Biogeoscience section of Frontiers in Earth Science is a recipient of the 2021 R. Alexandra Turchyn. Berner Lectureship for her important contributions in the field of global geochemical cycles. Check out the Biogeoscience section.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The bill repeals section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. By Annie Snider, PoliticoPro, 11/18/2021. 273 ) passed the full Senate in September 2021. 3326 ), from Rep.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The final bill includes just eight additional amendments, each of which added language to the bill but did not modify any of the initial provisions of the bill introduced by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in mid-May 2021. by Annie Snider, Alex Gullien, Kelsey Tamborrino and Anthony Adragna, PoliticoPro, 6/11/2021.

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

Congress funded the DOE Office of Science at $7 billion in FY 2021. The Senate voted to overturn this rule in April 2021. Responses to this request for information are due July 28, 2021. Former President Donald Trump shrank the size of both of monuments in 2017. Nominations for this panel are due July 16, 2021.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 2, 2021

Residents of Houston are outraged that Texas officials will not provide the city with federal funds that are meant as compensation for flood damages from Hurricane Harvey in 2017. The post The Stream, June 2, 2021: More Than Six Dozen Dams In U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 13, 2021

The FSO Safer, a tanker in the Red Sea, was abandoned in 2017. The post The Stream, October 13, 2021: A Quarter of U.S. In Case You Missed It: HotSpots H2O: New Report Urges Policymakers to ‘Wake Up to the Looming Water Crisis’ – Current rates of progress on water, sanitation, and hygiene would need to quadruple to meet UN targets.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We are proud to announce that Professor Themis Prodromakis , Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Nanotechnology and Specialty Chief Editor for Nanodevices section , has been awarded the 2021 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the United Kingdom in the Physical Sciences and Engineering Category. 2017 Industry Fellowship, Royal Society.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 4, 2021

The study analyzed dissolved oxygen and temperature profiles for 393 lakes between 1941 and 2017. The post The Stream, June 4, 2021: Oxygen Levels In Global Lakes Are Declining Due to Rising Temperatures appeared first on Circle of Blue. ON THE RADAR.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In 2017, only nine percent of San Francisco’s population was Black. The post The Stream, September 29, 2021: Water Rights Battle Continues As Bodies of Missing Yaqui Men Found in Mexico appeared first on Circle of Blue. The problem is most severe in San Francisco, California, where 0.9 IN RECENT WATER NEWS.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The bill retains a provision from the House bill repealing section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. Offshore royalties would increase to a minimum of 14% from 12.5%.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

These violations are the most frequent committed by unconventional shale gas operators, according to DEP’s 2021 Oil and Gas Program Annual report , which reported 196 NOVs for failing to report or correct casing and cementing violations in 2021 alone. Manahan 103HC (2021) -- Chesapeake Appalachia LLC - Albany Twp. Ridgebury Twp.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Over a quarter of apartment blocks in Sydney Australia built between 2007 and 2017 likely have defects, according to a new report. The post The Stream, October 14, 2021: More Than 40 Percent of Apartment Buildings In Sydney Experience Water Issues, Report Says appeared first on Circle of Blue. 42 PERCENT. 8,500 PEOPLE.

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ESA

AUGUST 30, 2021

UN plans virtual Biodiversity Conference in October 2021 and in-person meeting in April and May 2022. 16, 2021 ). 16, 2021 ). In 2015, the Obama administration announced that it would ban chlorpyrifos, but former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt reversed that decision in 2017. International. Scientific Community.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

From 2000 to 2021, the average was more than 350 fires per year. Two years, 2020 and 2021, stand out as having an average wildfire size of more than 20,000 acres, an average that likely reflects California’s August Complex and Dixie Fires that burned during those years, as each exceeded one million acres in size.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The bill repels section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. The survey was conducted in May 2021 and asked about employees’ experiences over the last two years.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 14, 2021

What’s Up With Water – July 12, 2021 – This week’s episode covers a call in China for greater protections along the Yellow River and a controversial pipeline that will not be built in Tennessee. The post The Stream, July 14, 2021: Water Levels On Lake Ontario Are Dropping Amid Great Lakes Drought appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

The Intergovernmental Panel on Panel on Climate Change released its sixth assessment report , ahead of the UN Conference of Parties Climate Meeting in Glasglow, Scotland in October and November 2021. by George Cahlink, E&E Daily, 8/12/2021 . degree Celsius of warming earlier than previously predicted.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

percent during calendar year 2021. There were 10,762 total producing wells in the fourth quarter of 2021, an increase of 4.2 There were 154 new horizontal wells spud (drilled) in the fourth quarter of 2021. There were 518 new wells spud in 2021, an increase of 42 wells (8.8 percent from the prior year.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 23, 2021

2021 has not been without its challenges. Despite former President Trump withdrawing from the Paris Agreement in 2017, Americans continued to demand climate action, with almost 70% of U.S. The post 5 Ocean Victories of 2021 appeared first on Ocean Conservancy. C above pre-industrial temperatures.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2022

Until 2017, winter wildfires in California didn’t burn much area. In 2017, however, a record number of fires burned during the winter months. A cycle of climate impacts throughout the year can compound to create dangerous conditions, like we saw ahead of 2017’s unprecedented winter wildfires (Fig. Winter wildfires.

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Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Nearly 2,000 manatees died in Florida in 2021 and 2022 as water pollution killed the seagrass they feed on. The manatee was downlisted in 2017 from endangered to threatened, over the objections of scientists, environmentalists and citizens. By Amy Green ORLANDO, Fla.—The

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

This is a list of companies issued ten or move NOVs for abandoning conventional oil and gas wells without plugging them in any one year-- Advanced Petro Corp (2016) Aiello Bros Oil & Gas (2016; 2017) Allegheny Enterprises (2018) ARG Resources (2018) Bobcat Well & Pipeline (2017) Boyd G. 2016; 2017) IA Const Corp (2020) John H.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JANUARY 14, 2022

In 2017, Mr. Dolan — with support from his daughter Margo and his sons Tom and Brooke — established and endowed the Dolan Fund for Innovative Watershed Research at the Academy to address much-needed watershed issues, encourage innovative research and provide support for a post-doctoral fellow position.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 28, 2020

Those provisions include the following four significant changes to the business tax provisions contained in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Taxpayers intending to take advantage of the expanded use of NOLs per the CARES Act should consider the impact on other changes in the tax law brought about by TCJA 2017.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

HotSpots H2O: ‘Global Indigenous Agenda’ Calls for Water, Land, and Resource Governance at 2021 IUCN World Conference — Indigenous activists and organizations from around the world met virtually this week for the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Zoom-based World Conservation Congress.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

2021) also reported on a two decade estimate of Earthshine measurements which appear to confirm a small decrease in albedo (and decrease in reflected short wave (SW) radiation). 2021) show that the trends in the EEI derived from CERES match what you get from the changes in ocean heat content. 1297, 2021. Similarly, Loeb et al.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

PFAS Accountability Act of 2021 Would Create Federal Cause of Action for PFAS Exposure. PFAS Action Act of 2021 Would Amend Major Environmental Statutes to Regulate PFAS. 22, 2021).]] 23, 2021).]] 22, 2021); Int’l Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agric. 10, 2021); see also Envtl. 22, 2021).]]

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E2 Law Blog

JULY 1, 2021

On June 29, 2021, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Notice 2021-41 (the “Notice”) granting additional relief for certain renewable energy projects planning to claim the U.S. federal production tax credit (PTC) or investment tax credit (ITC).

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ESA

JULY 26, 2021

billion, a nearly 20% increase over FY 2021 levels. Still, Congressional leaders say that it is likely that Congress will pass a temporary stop-gap measure to buy more time for funding negotiations and avert a government shutdown when the new fiscal year starts on October 1, 2021. 2773 ) in April 2021. NOAA receives $6.46

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

As for hurricanes, Texas suffered no fewer than 81 tropical or subtropical cyclones from 1980 through 2021. In 2017, Hurricane Harvey —one of the worst—drenched Houston with more than 4 feet of rain, killed at least 88 people, and caused $125 billion in damage. How has Paxton responded?

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

On January 6, 2021, EPA published its final rule on "Strengthening Transparency in Pivotal Science Underlying Significant Regulatory Actions and Influential Scientific Information Rule."[[N: 6, 2021).]] 20, 2021).]] 19, 2021).]] 11, 2021).]] 4:21-cv-00003, 2021 U.S. 27, 2021).]] 17-cv-02162, 2021 U.S.

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