PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

oil and gas industry produced an estimated one trillion gallons of produced water in 2017. A new NRDC report describes these risks and how weak regulations fail to appropriately protect workers and communities. State regulations are also filled with gaps that allow unsafe practices for radioactive oil and gas waste.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 20, 2021

So it won’t come as a surprise that a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the benefits of on-road emissions reductions from 2008 to 2017 could be measured in the hundreds of billions of dollars and almost 10,000 fewer deaths. first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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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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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

UCLA Professor of Law William Boyd. William Boyd is Professor of Law and Michael J. Klein Chair in Law at UCLA Law, with a joint appointment as Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability ; Alex Wang is Professor of Law at UCLA Law. UCLA Professor of Law Alex Wang.

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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 Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. June 29, 2017). Pruitt , No.

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Energy and Climate Law

MAY 19, 2020

The German energy regulator Bundesnetzagentur rejected an application of the Nord Stream 2 operating consortium to obtain an exemption from EU unbundling rules after the Gas Directive was amended in 2019. The argumentation of the regulator strikes at a crucial point - is a pipeline already built when 160 kilometres are still missing?

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

RMS), a NYDFS-licensed mortgage banker and mortgage loan servicer, that fines RMS $1,500,000 for its violations of Cybersecurity Regulation, Part 500 of Title 23 of the New York Codes, Rules, and Regulations (Part 500). 23 NYCRR 500.01(d)).]]

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Regulators and policymakers began to reevaluate their approach to rate design. Despite California regulators’ stated interest in pricing based on marginal costs, however, fixed costs have often been bundled into volumetric rates. Regulators are acting on these redistributive concerns.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

It also ignored a court order from 2017 requiring EPA to prepare the required determination and redo cyantraniliprole’s registration. My friend Dan Esty has suggested what is essentially a market-based approach to environmental regulation. The post Our Environmental Statutes Are Broken first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

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% 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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Between 1992 and 2017, at least 815 farmworker deaths have been attributed to heat. Farmworkers deserve to work in dignity and safety, and the laws designed to protect them do not fulfill those requirements. In a country that relies on farmworker labor to feed us, we must ensure that we design laws that adequately protect them.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Municipal zoning laws, meanwhile, allowed companies to build power plants and other industrial facilities in those same neighborhoods. Meanwhile, on the West Coast, a 2017 PSE Healthy Energy study found that nearly half of California’s gas power plants are in communities that are among the state’s 25 percent most disadvantaged neighborhoods.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Under the Rule, certain banking organizations are obligated to notify their primary federal regulator promptly, and not later than 36 hours, after the discovery of a “computer-security incident” that rises to the level of a “notification incident.” as defined under the respective regulations of the Agencies.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 2, 2022

He also served as the manager of the program’s market monitoring section and as an attorney supporting the development and implementation of climate and air quality regulations at CARB. Jason Gray (far right) is presented with the GCF Task Force Everyday Hero award in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2017.

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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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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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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.” FERC approved this agreement in 2017, and Transource then filed siting applications with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC), as required by Pennsylvania law.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

laws governing the cross-border transport of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) for sequestration, and how such transportation fits into broader climate and environmental protection regimes, including the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, carbon markets and emissions trading. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Law.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

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. That provides an incentive for abandonment rather than obeying the law. Former Gov. His successor, Gov.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Prudential Regulators [1] and the European Supervisory Authorities (“ ESAs ”) [2] have offered limited relief from or guidance for relaxed enforcement of variation margin requirements for non-cleared swaps that take effect March 1, 2017. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“ CFTC ”), the U.S.

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Environmental Law Reporter

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

03/17/2017. 03/17/2017. In re University of Vermont State and Agricultural College. hjones@eli.org. Wed, 11/02/2022 - 12:25. Case Number. RCRA-01-2016-0077. 49 ELR 47905.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

So, instead of having to import grain as was the case before the Green Revolution, by 2017 India was the world’s largest producer of pulses and jute and the second-largest producer of wheat , rice and sugarcane. In September 2020, it passed three farm laws that were repealed in November 2021.

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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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AUGUST 23, 2021

As a matter of law, the Court also held the County improperly relied on the existing facilities exemption for the project. The County Board of Supervisors (“Board”) held a public hearing on August 15, 2017 to consider approval of the required resolutions of necessity. or if the public agency failed to give the notice required by law.”

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Civil law cases. Civil lawsuits were filed in Sendai in 2017 and Kobe in 2018 by citizens against corporations that planned to build new coal-fired power plants. In September 2017, in Sendai Citizens v. Both courts took the position that the regulation of GHG emissions was a policy issue. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

On April 29, 2021, the departments of Justice, Commerce and Treasury announced that they had reached a global resolution with SAP SE (SAP), a multinational software company based in Germany, resulting from the company’s disclosure of the fact that it had provided software to users in Iran in violation of export and sanctions regulations.[[N:

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CEQA Developments

DECEMBER 17, 2021

But at the Coastal Commission’s November 8, 2017 de novo hearing on the project, the Commission rejected staff’s recommendation and ultimately voted 7-5 to approve the CDP. Had the Commission followed its staff’s recommendation, the story would have ended there. The Writ Litigation and Trial Court Decision. The Court of Appeal’s Decision.

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Effective September 10, 2021 , the Federal Acquisition Regulation Council revised FAR 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting, and related FAR sections to address an inconsistency between that clause and the corresponding Small Business Administration (SBA) regulation at 13 C.F.R. § 125.6.[[N: N: SBA promulgated 13 C.F.R.

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 10, 2023

The American Chemistry Council case deals with the interplay of CEQA with another statutory scheme, the so-called “Green Chemistry” law (Health & Safety Code, § 25251 et seq.) and its implementing Safer Consumer Products regulations (Cal. 22, § 69501 et seq.), in the context of exhaustion of administrative remedies.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A short list of environmental and energy law changes compared to recent years: Fisheries. For stormwater and other nutrient sources, the law continues to require nutrient offsets in the same hydrologic area. House Bill 329 (Renewable Energy Amendments) makes several relatively minor changes to energy laws. The law, G.S.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

As I outlined here , Montana state law prohibits the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions or climate impacts–– inside and outside the state’s borders––when reviewing projects and approving permits. This now-infamous climate prohibition has been called a “limitation” on the Montana Environmental Policy Act, or MEPA.

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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. Why The Assessment? DEP’s assessment was promised by Gov.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 13, 2021

Fish and Wildlife Service announced a proposed rule to restore criminal penalties for accidental killing of migratory birds, revoking the January 7, 2021, final regulation that limited the enforcement of the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act. That has been the letter of the law for the past century.”.

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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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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Starting in 2017, cities, counties, and states across the United States have filed claims (see here and here ) in state courts against fossil fuel companies seeking redress for the climate harms their products have caused. Many of these cases asserted nuisance and other tort law claims. By Korey Silverman-Roati. Background.

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