PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the April 8 PA Bulletin that Chuwi Innovation and Technology is not in compliance with the state electronics waste recycling law and is prohibited from selling its products in Pennsylvania. ( Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2024

DEP said 1,230 wells (approximately 49%) appear to have been abandoned after January 1, 2017; 518 wells (approximately 21%) appear to have been abandoned prior to January 1, 2017; and 746 wells (approximately 30%) were identified after January 1, 2017 as having been abandoned, but the precise date of abandonment is unknown.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The CES, first enacted in 2017, requires retail sellers of electricity in Massachusetts to provide increasing quantities of clean electricity over time. The regulations were amended in 2020 to include a program for existing generation units, CES-E, which has several distinct requirements.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 20, 2024

Attempts To Regulate Disposal Before Failed There have been attempts to regulate the road dumping of conventional wastewater before to reduce its environmental and health impacts. Non-Compliance A Norm Non-compliance with regulations and the law is not an isolated event with conventional well owners. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This editorial first appeared in the Scranton Times on February 24, 2023 -- Many state lawmakers long ago abandoned their constitutional duty to preserve the environment by instead representing the natural gas industry. That provides an incentive for abandonment rather than obeying the law. Former Gov. His successor, Gov.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

On June 20, 2023, the Spanish Supreme Court handed down its final ruling in the case of Greenpeace v. The EU presents the NDC as one Party ( Regulation (EU) 2018/842 ). Under Annex 1 of the EU Regulation, by 2030, Spain must have reduced its GHG emissions by 37.7% For all climate laws related to Spain, see here.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), signed into law on November 15, 2021, amended Section 40307 of the Outer Continental Shelfs Act (OCSLA) to provide authority to the U.S. However, the DOI’s proposed implementing regulations authorized by the IIJA have yet to be issued for public comment.

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Law Columbia

MAY 30, 2024

Upon the initiative of the United Nations Human Rights Council (the UNHRC), a new legally binding agreement regulating transnational business enterprises’ human rights violations is likely on its way. The future legal value of the Draft Treaty will be that of enforceable regulation, provided of course that it is adopted in its current form.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 22, 2024

Under the Federal Power Act (FPA), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has authority to regulate “ the transmission of electric energy in interstate commerce.” District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania issued a decision on December 6, 2023 in Transource Pa. FERC Order No. Transource Pa. Defrank The U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

He was appointed as a mediator by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to work with the environmental community and industry to establish better regulations for water quality monitoring in areas impacted by coal ash. from Villanova University School of Law.

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 8, 2023

In response to that case, BAAQMD put out new guidelines in 2017, but quickly determined those guidelines were out of date. In BAAQMD’s own words: “The 2017 revision did not address outdated references, analytical methodologies, or technical information improvements. of Supervisors (2017) 17 Cal.App.5th (2015) 62 Cal.4th

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

In 2017, AB 398 authorized the extension of the Program through 2030, instituted certain design changes, and set a new GHG reduction goal of 40 percent by 2030. Today, the Program regulates roughly 450 entities responsible for roughly 85% of the state’s GHG emissions. Participants are subject to holding limits.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 5, 2023

However, the deployment of MRE technologies can also have impacts on the environment in ABNJ which require to be considered and regulated in advance in order to guarantee that they are developed in a sustainable way. The BBNJ negotiations started in April 2018 and the new instrument was agreed on 4 March 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2023

to resolve numerous violations of the Clean Streams Law, and the Dam Safety and Encroachments Act, that arose during Sunoco's construction of the Pennsylvania Pipeline Project – Mariner East II. On July 26, the Department of Environmental Protection and Sunoco Pipeline L.P. Sunoco agreed to pay $660,000.00

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

DEP’s Water Resources Advisory Committee is scheduled to hear a presentation on DEP's new proposed regulation setting notification requirements for unauthorized discharges to waters of the Commonwealth at its meeting on September 21. Read more here.] 2015-011-L ). 2015-011-L ).

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2023

Well Plugging Program Pennsylvania is due to receive up to nearly $400 million in federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding for its new conventional Abandoned Well Plugging Program. The December report issued on conventional wells found between 2017 and 2021 conventional operators abandoned 2,246 wells without plugging them.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 17, 2023

From June 10 to 16, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 651 inspection entries that resulted in reporting 67 violations of environmental regulations-- 61 violations by the conventional oil and gas industry and 6 violations by the unconventional shale natural gas industry.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2023

DEP issued notices of violation and gave the operator until November 12, 2023 to submit a written report on how they will bring the well back into compliance. [ Notices of violation were issued related to the spill and failing to contain regulated substances. and found they were both abandoned. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

Philadelphia The proposed regulation does not include the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County, according to Moms Clean Air Force. The Pennsylvania plants include-- -- Croda Inc., Mill Hall, Clinton County -- Montgomery Chem Ltd, Conshocken, Montgomery County -- AdvanSix, Inc.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

These laws have asserted rights for nature, the right of the community to local self-government, and the right to be free from the dumping of frack waste to protect those rights.” We passed a law that protected Grant Township from this injection well, and have been taken to court repeatedly for doing so.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 16, 2023

The wind is blowing in Texas and the courts are making laws about the movement of air. Of import, that wind lease had a 7 year development term, which provided unless electrical energy was being generated and sold by August 24, 2017, the lease terminated. With apologies to Bob Dylan given the recent $1.4

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

On September 21, Water Resources Advisory Committee members gave DEP their initial reaction to a proposed regulation setting notification requirements for unauthorized discharges to waters of the Commonwealth and many of their comments pointed out concerns with the draft. We don’t need a vote at this time,” said Moses. 2015-011-L ).

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

27 Released 1.1 Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health? 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Mather South, LLC, et al, Real Parties ) (2023) Cal.App.5 The issues on appeal were limited to the adequacy of certain aspects of the project EIR’s analyses of GHGs and criteria air pollutants. Tsakopoulos Investments, LLC v. County of Sacramento, et al.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 12, 2022

Unusually wet conditions lifted the lake to record levels in 2017 and 2019, damaging property and critical infrastructure across the St. Leaders expect funds to be disbursed starting in early 2023. New laws make it easier for communities to access state financing for water infrastructure — Michigan Radio. Lawrence River basin.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Storage Tank Containment Permeability Variance: DEP issued a variance to replace one issued on August 19, 2023 related to excluding 13 aboveground storage tanks from certain emergency containment structure permeability requirements for the facility located in Bradford, McKean County. ( Fayette County. ( Bradford County. ( Allegheny County. (

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

To put the environmental impact of noncompliance with waste reporting into perspective, in 2017, approximately 44 percent of conventional operators reported generating 93,416,526 gallons of wastewater for disposal or treatment. It covered violations from 2017 through 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2024

Before April 4, Lawson said she did not have wastewater dumped on her road for more than six years after the Environmental Hearing Board case she brought a successful challenge to the DEP road dumping approval process in 2017-18. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 16, 2023

DEP’s Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Compliance Report issued in December reported between 2017 through 2021, the agency issued 3,123 notices of violation for abandoning wells without plugging them. 17 Webinar On Exploring Oil & Gas Industrialization Impacts On Watersheds [Posted: January 16, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2023

In response, Potter Township passed a resolution in 2017 requiring Shell to perform an exterior lighting study. Photos: Top- What Shell said the lighting would look like in 2017; Light scattering today at the Shell plan; Bottom: Orange glow from emergency flaring and close up of flaring glow.)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

I n 2017, electricity generation was 35% coal, 35% nuclear, 23% natural gas, 6% renewable, biomass and other. On January 22, the PJM Interconnection reported 40 Gigawatts of new electric generating capacity had cleared its review process in 2023. Read more here. In 2010, the mix was 48% coal, 34% nuclear, 15% gas and 2% renewables.

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 27, 2023

On February 27, 2023, the Second District Court of Appeal (Division One) filed its published decision in Los Angeles Waterkeeper v. State Water Resources Control Board (2023) Cal.App.5th 5th , a case mainly focused on water law but which also has some significant CEQA implications. Coon of Miller Starr Regalia.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nestlé, Mars among chocolate makers criticised in cocoa-sourcing report Just Food PaulaR Wed, 01/03/2024 - 15:20 Monday, December 4, 2023 Read more Simon Harvey Ferrero, Mondelez and Lindt also labelled as “inadequate” in Ethical Consumer’s assessment. USA: Nestlé’s Latest Exploits: The case against Nestlé hasn’t stopped growing.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products. According to AB Chile, a food industry association, more than 1,500 items, or 20 percent of all products sold in Chile, have been reformulated in response to the law.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] This piece previously appeared in the CLS Blue Sky Blog.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

Yet the state law minimum “set-back” for well construction is only 500 feet. The recommendation said-- “Everything we’ve seen confirms that all the impacts of fracking activity are magnified by proximity. The closer you live to a gas well, compressor station or pipeline the more likely you are to suffer ill effects. That is dangerously close.

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