Vermont Law

APRIL 5, 2023

The potential contribution of the BBNJ agreement to strengthen environmental protection in the development of marine renewable energy technologies in areas beyond national jurisdiction. Nearly two-thirds of the global ocean and almost half of the planet are marine areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ).

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A wave of frontline resistance is now breaking across the Upper Midwest and around the country as organized campaigns aimed at regulating concentrated animal feeding operations, known as CAFOs, are being felt at every level of government, and in state and federal courts. That may be changing. Milking parlor in Lenawee County.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Some gathering pipelines were added to the PA One Call program in 2017 to help avoid accidental strikes during construction, but not to regulate safety of the pipelines themselves. 16 [PaEN] -- Scranton Times Editorial: Give Teeth To DEP Environmental Justice Policy [PaEN] -- DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets Sept.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision the US Supreme Court handed down in June curtailed strategies EPA can use to slow climate change, but its problematic implications stretch far beyond greenhouse gas reduction. The West Virginia v. Congress shares power with federal agencies. West Virginia v. EPA upends this arrangement.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 28, 2022

OTTAWA | TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE – Environmental and health groups are urging senators to strengthen Bill S-5 in order to modernize the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) without delay. Consideration of these recommendations has now spanned three sessions of Parliament.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) and Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) announced that proposed amendments to the state’s Clean Energy Standard (CES) were finalized earlier this month without substantive changes from draft language initially proposed by the agencies in April 2022.

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Environment, Law, and History

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Drawing on a new dataset of policy reports, we show how economic ideas influenced climate policy advice by major international organizations, including the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Bank, from 1990 to 2017.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Since then, however, the gas industry—much like the oil industry—has cribbed heavily from the tobacco industry’s playbook to block government regulation by manufacturing doubt about the reality and seriousness of its “NOx problem.” There is no EPA standard for indoor air.)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

Written Testimony The Department of Environmental Protection provided written testimony only. DEP has also taken the step of advising municipalities in writing that road dumping conventional oil and gas drilling wastewater is illegal and considered waste disposal-- since it doesn’t meet Residual Waste Regulation requirements.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2022

On December 1, Kurt Klapkowski, Acting Deputy Secretary for Oil and Gas Management, said he has ordered a “top to bottom review” of how DEP regulates underground natural gas storage areas as a result of the leak of 1 billion cubic feet of gas from the Equitrans Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area in Cambria County November 6 to 20.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Furthermore, despite an explicit request from Ohio Senators, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not yet tested for dioxins , a class of chemicals that are formed when chemicals like vinyl chloride are burned. And many of these facilities—but not all of them—are regulated under the RMP. They should be.

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Fossil Fuels Regulations Sea Level 2014 251

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. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). June 29, 2017). FEATURED CASE.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Harmful algal blooms are the biological consequence of a riptide of bloom-generating nutrients allowed by law and timid regulation to run off the land, particularly farm fields. After five months of investigation, and in interviews with more than 40 farmers, state regulators, advocates, and scientists in five states and Washington, D.C.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2023

Last year, hundreds of community members, regulatory agencies, and advocates ( including UCS ) weighed in on the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed standards to strengthen the Risk Management Program (RMP). CSB has since completed six other investigations of incidents involving reactive chemicals between 2002 and 2020.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2024

In a bit of rhetorical ecstasy, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan proclaimed that the federal government “is finally slamming the door on a chemical so dangerous that it has been banned in over 50 countries.” She emphasized, “This does not ban what you can find on a store shelf.”

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The agenda includes -- -- Discussion of the first-ever assessment of how well conventional oil and gas drillers comply with state environmental laws DEP released on December 29 that concluded the industry accepts non-compliance as a norm. The report looked at environmental compliance in the industry between 2017 through 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Yesterday evening, I provided testimony to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at a public hearing on the proposed rule on the Risk Management Program (RMP). Furthermore, limiting the STAA is in direct opposition with EPA’s own rationale. Thank you.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Now, a report by the state Department of Environmental Protection reflects that legislative malpractice. The DEP found that, from 2017 through 2021, more than half of owners of “conventional” gas wells failed to report how much gas they extracted and that operators abandoned, without plugging, more than 3,000 methane-spewing wells.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2023

On January 20, the natural gas industry and Senate Republicans launched an effort to unleash the industry by reducing regulations, requiring automatic approval of permits and limiting opportunities for public review of permits at a hearing of the Senate Republican Policy Committee in Pittsburgh. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

The Grand Jury Report was released by then Attorney General Shapiro in June 2020 after what he said then was a two-year investigation uncovered systematic failure by government agencies in overseeing the fracking industry and fulfilling their responsibility to protect Pennsylvanians from the inherent risks of industry operations.

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Natural Gas 2020 Regulations Air Pollution 94

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

Feridun explained the settlement of a 2017 appeal before the Environmental Hearing Board resulted in DEP’s Oil and Gas Program putting in place a ‘moratorium’ on approvals for road dumping.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2023

On July 26, the Department of Environmental Protection and Sunoco Pipeline L.P. see list below) [The Public Utility Commission and the Susquehanna River Basin Commission have imposed millions more in penalties of their own laws and regulations for this project. Sunoco agreed to pay $660,000.00

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee is scheduled to meet on September 7 to consider a letter to the Independent Regulatory Review Commission expressing disapproval of a final EQB regulation setting a water quality standard for manganese protective of public health and aquatic life. Read More here.

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Regulations 2017 Law Environmental Protection 96

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2024

The agenda for the April 25 meeting of DCED’s PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council features a discussion dumping conventional oil and gas well wastewater on public roads for disposal, an update on taxpayer funded well plugging grant programs and DEP regulations limiting methane emissions from conventional wells. Read more here.

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Brag

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In the first one, OSTP, on behalf of the primary agencies that regulate the products of biotechnology -- the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Comments are due on or before 5 p.m. EST) February 3, 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2022

On October 11, the Independent Regulatory Review Commission formally sent DEP its order laying out the reasons for its September 15 disapproval of the final Environmental Quality Board regulation setting a water q uality standard for manganese DEP said would protect public health and aquatic life. Read more here.

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Regulations 2017 Law Environmental Protection 68

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Between 1992 and 2017, at least 815 farmworker deaths have been attributed to heat. In the absence of a federal heat standard, hundreds of thousands of farmworkers remain without protection. Data have shown that farmworkers die of heat-related causes at a rate 20 times greater than other professions.

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Law Air Pollution Climate Scientist 2017 270

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the December 16 PA Bulletin prohibiting the sale of electronic devices by Wiltronic Corp (IVIEW) as a result of violations of the Covered Device Recycling Act-- Pennsylvania’s electronics waste recycling law. ( Read more here.

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Recycling Waste Law 2017 105

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2023

Those that could stop the brine dumping, the Department of Environmental Protection and township officials, turned a deaf ear to residents. In 2018, road spreading was halted in many areas of Pennsylvania as a result of a settlement of an Environmental Hearing Board appeal with DEP’s Oil and Gas Program. Read more here.]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

The case involved an Idaho couple who wanted to develop over a wetland on their property near a lake; all nine justices on the high court concurred that the EPA went too far in regulating the particular wetland on the couple’s property. percent of land in the contiguous 48 states.

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Clean Water Act Fossil Fuels Carbon Emissions 2015 248

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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2030 Carbon Dioxide Natural Gas Regulations 130

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

Carolyn Comitta (D-Chester), Minority Chair of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, to examine the environmental and public health impacts associated with disposing of conventional oil and gas wastewater on public roads. The outcome of the 2017-18 Environmental Hearing Board lawsuit is hard to bear.

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Fossil Fuels Waste 2017 2024 104

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2023

courts have also recently criticized the approach that North American regulators took in determining whether glyphosate is a human carcinogen and in October 2022 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency withdrew its risk assessment.

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Regulations 2017 2030 Government 128

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

OCTOBER 12, 2022

On October 12, the Environmental Quality Board vot ed 15 to 3 to approve Part II of the final-omitted regulation limiting volatile organic compounds and methane from conventional oil and gas facilities. The regulation would affect 4,719 conventional well owners of approximately 27,260 facilities. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The report looked at environmental compliance in the industry between 2017 through 2021. Overview Of Non-Compliance DEP reports between 2017 through 2021, the agency did 63,026 inspections of wells belonging to 1,512 conventional oil and gas well owners operating 34,812 wells.

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Waste 2017 Regulations Environmental Protection 98