National Law Center

JULY 29, 2025

Until recently, the contents of an EIS report were outlined in regulations issued by the Council on Environmental Quality (“CEQ”), the agency tasked with administering NEPA. However, following a series of court rulings from late 2024 and early 2025, CEQ has rescinded all of its NEPA-implementing regulations. Infrastructure Coal.

2013

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

In 2017 Marsh co-founded the Hudson Valley Textile Project (HVTP), a natural-textile supply chain that aims to break free from the global fashion industry. But what’s enabled things to get this bad is a lack of regulation. Some new regulations are meant to make the industry more accountable. Despite being worth some $1.7

Upcycling

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The lax state regulations allow CAFOs to dump phosphorus into waterways, resulting in water quality issues such as cyanobacteria blooms in Lake Champlain. The agencies have attempted to manage the division of jurisdiction through Memoranda of Understandings (MOUs), dating back to the 1990s, updated in 2009, and again in 2017.

Clean Water Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 17, 2025

In Northern California, the Tubbs Fires effects on Santa Rosa in 2017 and the Camp Fire, which burned the entire town of Paradise only a year later, were among the first wildfires known to cause widespread drinking water contamination in cities.

Fossil Fuels

Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

CAFOs dominate agriculture in the United States: in 2017, an estimated 99% of all meat sold in the U.S. Despite the tremendous harm that CAFOs do, the federal government does not effectively regulate methane emissions from CAFOs. EPA in 2017. Citizens can pressure state legislatures to regulate CAFOs more strictly.

Climate Change

National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

Under that process, NRCS will classify an area as being either a type of wetland, a converted wetland, or an area not subject to Swampbuster regulation. The Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution grants Congress the power “to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States.[]” U.S. 3822 (a)(5).

2013

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Violations: Failed To Cleanup Spill (2017) October 31, 2024 follow-up inspection from October 17, 2017 and October 3, 2024 violations at the Garmer 3 conventional well in Porter Township, Clarion County found no progress in cleaning up wastewater releases and collapsed bridge leading to the site. Violations were issued.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2025

DEP said Laurel Mountain Production also never complied with the basic requirement to register the impoundment with the agency since it was constructed in 2017 as required by state regulations. It was completed by August 2017, according to DEP eFACTs records. DEP classified the facility as abandoned. Read more here.

2017

Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In 2017, the investment value for AI technologies totaled nearly 520 million dollars; it is expected to be 2.6 By managing sophisticated lighting and climate regulation systems to be as efficient as possible, it cuts at the carbon footprint and makes indoor farms more sustainable and viable. billion by 2025.

Technology

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 23, 2024

When Trump first took office in 2017, coal use was just under 60 million tons a year. Increased deployment of renewables has undoubtedly contributed to the problem, and coal plants have had to contend with tougher pollution regulations over the years. Theres a reason for that: coal plants arent burning as much coal as they used to.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Million For Drilling Violations In Greene, Clearfield Counties [January 2018] -- DEP Assesses CNX Gas Drilling $433,500 For Violations In Greene County [January 2018] -- DEP Issues Cabot Oil & Gas $99,000 Penalty For Numerous Well Site Air Quality Violations In Susquehanna County [December 2017] -- EHB Issues $1.1

2014

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

The report provides renewed evidence of the consequences for our health of using fossil fuels In 1970 the Clean Air Act and the newly formed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were given authority by Congress to regulate pollution from passenger cars and other forms of transportation. These emissions, which in 2022 were 37.4

Ozone

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

But it has passed laws regulating two powerful greenhouse gases, and some other climate laws stretching back over the past five decades. More than three decades later, the Clean Air Act was interpreted by the Supreme Court to authorize EPA regulation of greenhouse gases in the famous case Massachusetts v.

Law

PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

DEP has tried for decades to regulate this practice but failed because the conventional industry simply does not comply. Attempts To Regulate Road Dumping All Failed There have been several attempts by DEP to regulate the road dumping of conventional wastewater to reduce its environmental and health impacts. Forest Service.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2025

EHB Decision In her decision, Judge Wesdock of the Environmental Hearing Board explains, “The Department of Environmental Protection … has a duty to ensure that gas well permits are issued in accordance with the Oil and Gas Act and underlying regulations and in accordance with its constitutional duties under Article I, Section 27.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Million To Settle Lawsuit By Investors Who Claimed EQT Overstated The Benefits Of Its Rice Energy Merger In 2017 -- Marcellus Drilling News: Integrated Lithium Production Plant Coming To PA In 2026 Using Oil & Gas Production Wastewater [PaEN] -- Marcellus Drilling News: Avonlea Lithium Corp. Million In Sen.

Conservation

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Climate Alliance was responsible for extensive climate legislation and regulations. After the first withdrawal, the U.S.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

DEP has tried for decades to regulate this practice but failed because the conventional industry simply does not comply. Attempts To Regulate Road Dumping All Failed There have been several attempts by DEP to regulate the road dumping of conventional wastewater to reduce its environmental and health impacts. Forest Service.

Natural Gas

Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2025

This case highlights the fundamental tension between a nations sovereign right to regulate environmental matters and the economic interests of corporate investors. Specifically, demand for lithium tripled, cobalt increased by 70%, and nickel increased by 40% from 2017 to 2022. billion, nearly ten times Greenland’s annual budget.

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

3,108+ Abandoned Conventional Wells DEP reported 3,108 conventional wells were cited for abandonment in the eight years between January 2017 and December 2024-- only 17% appeared to be abandoned prior to January 2017. 2,070 conventional wells-- 66% of those abandoned wells were not required to have a well plugging bond by law.

Waste

National Law Center

JULY 8, 2025

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2013

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Guardian Pad B 6H shale gas well was drilled in February 2011 and then granted inactive status on September 7, 2012 that expired on September 7, 2017, according to the order. On January 21, the Department of Environmental Protection and Roulette Oil & Gas Co.,

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 17, 2025

California has proposed repealing its recent regulation on in-use emissions from locomotives, another major step backwards in the fight against freight pollution. We can rebuild it—we have the technology (and lax regulations) Under the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency sets emissions standards for engines in new locomotives.

Regulations

Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2025

All that said, I would watch to see what happens this summer with a new tax bill to extend the existing 2017 cuts to corporate and high-income tax rates, which are set to expire this year. Depending on how budget scoring is done, tax credits could be vulnerable.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

In other words, if a regulation mentions electric vehicles, its probably on the target list. The two most significant rules under threat are the Advanced Clean Cars II (ACCII) regulation and the Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) rule. The ACCII rule gradually ramps up new vehicle sales requirements to 100% by 2035.

Nitrogen Oxides

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 8, 2025

Trump reignites overt climate denial During his campaign, Trump sought $1 billion from oil and gas CEOs in exchange for a pledge to reverse environmental regulations and prevent new policies from being enacted. In 2017, Tillerson said he disagreed with President Trumps decision to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 11, 2024

For example, after the Trump administration took office in 2017, there were stark changes in how federal agencies talked about climate change. One-fifth of these changes were made to webpages related to regulations, and half of these involved removing information from agency websites, like fact sheets and guidance documents.

Government

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

28] Consider also the decades-long failure of international governance regimes to regulate the climate problem effectively. 29] Government regulation alone wont get a handle on the super wicked and notoriously complex climate problem. [30] Step back a bit, though, and what looks like a marvel begins to seem monstrous. [34] Strine, Jr.,

Law

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The article explored the frameworks established by the Bamako, Basel, and Stockholm Conventions to regulate transboundary hazardous waste movement and highlighted case studies from Nigeria, Cte dIvoire, and Haiti. 6] The majority of environmental regulations were formulated through the twentieth century.[7] million people.[3]

Waste

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2025

DEP issued the original violations for failure to restore the well pad and the water impoundment on July 14, 2017. Read more here. Nearly 7 Year Struggle Continues To Cleanup Conventional Well Spills Among the DEP Oil and Gas inspection reports this week was an April 3 inspection of the Buhl Farm 1 conventional oil well owned by Edward W.

2025

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2025

The Environmental Quality Board published notice in the April 5 PA Bulletin inviting comments on proposed regulation changes relating to spill notification and setting a May 15 virtual hearing starting at 1:00 p.m. This regulation applies to any person responsible for unauthorized discharges to waters of the Commonwealth.

Regulations

National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

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Endangered Species Act

Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2025

Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions Attorney General Actions Tracker Maintained by the State Energy and Environmental Impact Center at NYU School of Law, this tool tracks actions by Attorney Generals since 2017. Harvard Regulatory Tracker tracks regulatory and litigation action on energy and environmental regulation.

2017

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2025

Original violation for abandonment issued March 8, 2017. Million Gallons Of Water Daily From Big Sewickley Creek In Beaver County -- PennLive Guest Essay: Pennsylvania Failing To Properly Regulate Its Oil & Gas Industry - By Rep. Violations continued. Response requested by July 1. DEP inspection report. Penta holds 28 permits.

2025

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2025

ECO and its partner, the Borough of Etna, have been working to establish a public library in the community since 2017, when the idea began gaining traction among residents.

2004

National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

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2013

Legal Planet

MARCH 27, 2025

Trumps opening round of executive orders called for rollbacks of many environmental regulations, including almost everything relating to climate. But 2025 isnt 2017. In some ways, the idea of repealing regulation you dont like seems quaint if not charmingly innocent. Going out on a limb, I would offer two predictions.

Regulations