PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2024

Meuser Voted ‘Present’ On Aid To Ukraine; His District Is Full Of Ukrainian Americans -- AP: Debates To Play A Major Role In PA’s 2024 US Senate Election -- Primary Election -- PA Unofficial Primary Election Results: PA Dept. National- $3.66 National- $3.66 National- $3.66

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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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Endangered Species Law

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

On February 1, 2024, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) filed an amended complaint (Complaint) in the U.S. District Court of Arizona, alleging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) failed to timely analyze the harmful effects of six pesticides on species listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and their habitats.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 2, 2024

This year promises to be the ‘Year of Climate’ in international courts and tribunals with opinions slated to be coming down from the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, and the International Court of Justice.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

He retired in January 2024. Joseph Otis Minott - Lifetime Achievement Award PennFuture honored Joseph Otis Minott, an environmental law leader, with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades-long career fighting for the environment and public health in Pennsylvania. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

This spring, Environmental Defence Canada submitted a motion to Enbridge shareholders for their 2024 Annual General Meeting on May 8th. This spring, Environmental Defence Canada submitted a motion to Enbridge shareholders for their 2024 Annual General Meeting on May 8th. Can you help us fight back against the climate villains?

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Whole Foods did not break the law by banning Black Lives Matter apparel, judge rules CNN PaulaR Tue, 01/02/2024 - 13:37 Thursday, December 21, 2023 Read more Ramishah Maruf New YorkCNN — Whole Foods did not act unlawfully by banning employees from wearing items with Black Lives Matter messaging, a judge ruled Thursday.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

million in tax subsidies from the PA Resource Manufacturing Tax Credit , according to the Governor’s FY 2024-25 Budget proposal. million; and in FY 2024-25 Shell will get another $65 million-- the maximum amount available by law. barrel) for the period from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2042. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 26, 2024

Joining staff from the Conservancy, Ortiz viewed several conservation sites in the Halfmoon Creek Watershed, discussing how the Conservancy works to identify opportunities, is leveraging increased federal funds available through the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and how even small projects can change water quality.

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Conservation 2017 Natural Resources Environmental Protection 79

PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2024

Non-Compliance A Norm Non-compliance with regulations and the law is not an isolated event with conventional well owners. So far in 2024, conventional well owners received 420 violations for abandoning and not plugging wells. But, DEP said the industry didn’t meet those requirements either. Read more here. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The last time the UN declared a famine was in South Sudan in 2017. The American Rescue Plan Act is the relief bill that President Joe Biden signed into law on March 11 last year. Since the act became law nearly a year ago, government agencies have been determining how to divide their share of the pie.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Add to that the steady drumbeat of stories about states instituting voter suppression laws , the recent US Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. The Justice Department would then either “preclear” that law and allow the state to enact it, or reject it and direct the state to either revise it or simply not enact.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

On Tuesday, February 6, 2024, DEP’s contractor will begin plugging two leaking abandoned wells-- [-- Nixon 501-1 (003-00960): The well is operated by Economy Natural Gas Inc. The well was inspected by DEP on October 1, 2017 and violations were issued, but the inspection report is not available. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

The outcome of the 2017-18 Environmental Hearing Board lawsuit is hard to bear. Some operators did not wait even a month to resume spreading and manipulating the law. “By Its immediate success was rapidly clouded by its shortcomings. Outsiders dubbed our victory merely a moratorium on road spreading and as it turns out, not even that.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2024

DEP issued conventional oil and gas operators a record total of 6,860 violations for all infractions of law and regulations in 2023, nearly 52% more than in 2021. Read more here (2017-2021). Click Here for list of all major enforcement actions listed by conventional oil and gas operator. Read more here. Read more here (2022).

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 4, 2023

Between 2017 and 2022, Canada spent just $33 million US dollars on Great Lakes cleanup efforts, compared to U.S. Congress has authorized $425 million for fiscal year 2024. annual spending of between $300 million and $400 million. That discrepancy prompted the U.S. is generated. spending will continue at a high rate over the next year.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2024

These laws have reduced extreme cases of pollution, such as rivers catching on fire or streams changing color due to industrial waste. David Kline, a watershed education specialist at Stroud Water Research Center, was then a teacher at the school and facilitated its installation. Click Here to learn how they did it.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2024

DEP data shows over 8 million gallons of conventional wastewater was road dumped in 2017, but that’s only what well owners reported. The same DEP data showed from 1991 to 2017, over 240.4 Non-Compliance The Norm Non-compliance with regulations and the law is not an isolated event with conventional well owners. Read more here.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 22, 2024

FERC approved this agreement in 2017, and Transource then filed siting applications with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC), as required by Pennsylvania law. The Supremacy Clause serves to “ invalidate[] state law that interferes with or is contrary to federal law.”

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Electricity Law Renewable Energy 2016 76

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

DEP data shows over 8 million gallons of conventional wastewater was road dumped in 2017, but that’s only what well owners reported. The same DEP data showed from 1991 to 2017, over 240.4 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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Waste Regulations 2017 2023 121

Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

EPA arrived at these estimates after implementing methodological updates recommended by a 2017 report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies). 2017), [link]. [7] 14] See EPA, Final 2024 Report, at 5. [15] 2017), [link]. [7] 14] See EPA, Final 2024 Report, at 5. [15]

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Legal Planet

MAY 2, 2022

If they win control of the government in 2024, they’ll undoubtedly do the same thing to Biden regulations. In 2017, Congress overturned the “Refuges Rule” under the Congressional Review Act. Soon after Trump took office, Republicans used the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to overturn sixteen Obama-era regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2024

This article by Lilly Riddle was first published by Spotlight PA on April 4, 2024 -- As part of its 2022 plea deal with the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, natural gas company Energy Transfer agreed to fund the testing and remediation of residential water supplies polluted by the construction of its Mariner East II pipeline.

Natural Gas 66

Natural Gas Environmental Protection 2024 2022 66

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2024

So far in 2024, conventional well owners received 420 violations for abandoning and not plugging wells. DEP issued a record 6,860 notices of violations to conventional well owners for breaking all kinds of regulations and laws in 2023. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. more than in 2021 and 569.9% more than in 2015.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2024

By Kara Holsopple, The Allegheny Front This article was first posted on The Allegheny Front website May 3, 2024 -- Waste from the oil and gas industry plays a central role in science journalist Justin Nobel‘s new book Petroleum-238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Harvard law students ramp up protest against ExxonMobil climate firm Emily Holden | The Guardian | January 15, 2020 Harvard law students have disrupted a recruiting event for Paul Weiss, the law firm representing ExxonMobil in climate lawsuits, in an escalation the protesters hope will open a new front in climate activism in the legal world.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

A 2017 survey of 37 utilities found that about half of the surveyed utilities collected fixed charges to cover only customer-related costs (including “the costs of the meter, service drop, a portion of the transformer, billing, and customer service”) while others also included “elements of distribution facilities or minimum system costs.”

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Electricity Regulations 2017 Technology 179

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

I n 2017, electricity generation was 35% coal, 35% nuclear, 23% natural gas, 6% renewable, biomass and other. It expects to clear another 26 GW of capacity in 2024 and 46 GW of new generation in 2025. PA Utility Law Project Webinar On Impacts Of LNG Gas Exports On Energy Costs For Pennsylvania Families. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 20, 2024

Non-Compliance A Norm Non-compliance with regulations and the law is not an isolated event with conventional well owners. So far in 2024, conventional well owners received 420 violations for abandoning and not plugging wells. But, DEP said the industry didn’t meet those requirements either. Read more here. Read more here.

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Waste Regulations 2023 2024 90

PA Environment Daily

MAY 7, 2024

DEP's Oil and Gas Program settled an Environmental Hearing Board appeal in 2017-18 by agreeing not to approve any road dumping plans by conventional operators. Road dumping of wastewater from unconventional shale gas wells is already banned under regulations DEP adopted in 2016. [ 25 Pa Code Chapter 78a.70 Read more here. Read more here.

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Regulations Waste 2016 2017 104

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Million To Preserve 18 Farms, 1,336 Acres In 13 Counties 2024 River Of The Year Nominations Now Being Accepted Through Nov. 18 Webinar Launching 9th Compendium Of Scientific, Medical Findings Demonstrating Risks, Harms Of Natural Gas Development, Infrastructure Sierra Club's Delaware County Team Hosts Oct. Of Agriculture Invests $3.5

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Natural Gas Nuclear Power Waste Conservation 94

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

So far in 2024, conventional well owners received 420 violations for abandoning and not plugging wells. DEP issued a record 6,860 notices of violations to conventional well owners for breaking all kinds of regulations and laws in 2023. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. more than in 2021 and 569.9% more than in 2015.

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Regulations Law 2023 2024 92

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2024

1, 2017, and October 2023, at least 1,080 oil and gas wells were abandoned and possibly as many as 741 more. For conventional wells drilled after April 15, 1985, Pennsylvania law requires drillers to post a bond which could be forfeited to cover the cost of plugging should the well be abandoned.

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Natural Gas 2023 Carbon Dioxide 2022 87

Physics World

JUNE 27, 2022

I volunteered to create a new working group on astroparticle physics and was chair of it from 2014 to 2017. In 2017 I was approached by Bruce McKellar who at the time was IUPAP president. In 2017 I was approached by Bruce McKellar who at the time was IUPAP president. How did you become president of IUPAP? .

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Following the EU’s lead with the approval of the European Green Deal , Spain has produced a new framework to address climate change, including strategies, plans, and laws. The PNIEC and the Law on Climate Change include a target of GHG emission reduction of 23% by 2030 compared to 1990. For all climate laws related to Spain, see here.

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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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Waste Air Pollution 2017 Natural Resources 48

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.

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