Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The first step in regulating agricultural methane emissions (and emissions in general) is to develop an accurate inventory of emissions, which can be used to set a baseline for future targets. Agricultural Methane Regulation. Emissions Inventorying and Baselining. million metric ton reduction in CO 2 equivalent over ten years.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

In the face of disappointing legislation and regulation, activists have increasingly turned to courts in the last fifteen years. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. To determine what this requires, the court turns to the 2018 Special Report on 1.5°C Third is causation.

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Environment, Law, and History

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Pittsburgh Press, 2018). The Santa Barbara spill is often pointed to as one of the foundational moments of modern American environmentalism and environmental regulation, but Spezio seems to flesh out the picture. Her argument is broken into three sections. Part 1 describes environmental science and policy before 1969. Read more ».

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 5, 2023

billion over the next five years to support the development of four regional direct air capture (DAC) hubs, designed to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and permanently store or utilize it in long-life products (e.g., The IPCC, in the 2018 Glossary to their Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5º

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Click Here to read the 2022 compliance report summary. .” -- “Routine” Venting Of Conventional Gas Wells: DEP’s inspection reports document the fact venting natural gas to the atmosphere is a “routine” part of conventional well drilling, in spite of recently passed Air Quality regulations that limit methane emissions from conventional wells.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 30, 2023

At least nine atmospheric rivers blasted California between December 20th and January 15th, causing flooding and extensive damage, while also delivering much needed precipitation to our parched state. In 2018, Los Angeles County voters approved Measure W , a special parcel tax funding the Safe Clean Water Program.

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Law Columbia

MAY 29, 2024

This applies to any source of pollution, whether land-based, vessel-based, and atmospheric. ITLOS refers to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 2018 1.5 4) of UNCLOS. o C Warming Report which stated that “[l]imiting warming to 1.5°C C … or less than 2°C … by the end of century (high confidence). 2023 Synthesis Report, p.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 30, 2021

These rare storms are expected to become more frequent with climate change as a warmer atmosphere can hold (and during storms release!) For every one degree Celsius that the temperature increases, the atmosphere can hold 7% more water, a thermodynamic law of physics called atmospheric holding capacity. more moisture.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2023

This is the same company that in 2018 blew up a house near its Revolution pipeline in Beaver County. Yet DEP regulators and inspectors are understaffed and unable to oversee the boom in natural gas development. Yet DEP regulators and inspectors are understaffed and unable to oversee the boom in natural gas development.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

To date in 2023, the United States has already suffered nine climate and weather disasters resulting in at least a billion dollars of damage, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Smoke from California’s 2018 Camp Fire contained high levels of lead and metals from burning buildings.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2023

This will be a game changer,” said Daniel Zavala-Araiza, Senior Scientist at Environmental Defense Fund, which created the MethaneSAT mission in 2018.

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HumanNature

MAY 22, 2024

Groups such as Protect our Winters 12 and The Sierra Club 13 advocate for environmental regulations that could help reduce climate impacts from industry. Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science , 1 (1), 2. You can make simple adjustments to your everyday life that can go a long way towards reducing your water use and carbon footprint.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

As air sunk through the atmosphere, it got squeezed and heated. That was the provocative question posed by David Coley, a physicist at the University of Bath , UK, to an audience at the headquarters of the Institute of Physics (IOP) shortly before it relocated to its environmentally sound premises at King’s Cross, London, in 2018.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

Because the Pigging Station was built prior to 2018 it is not covered by an Air Quality Program permit from DEP. The gathering pipeline is not regulated by the state Public Utility Commission, according to the PUC. However, they only apply to facilities constructed or modified after August 8, 2018. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

Oil & Gas Citizens Hotline When Attorney General Shapiro announced the results of the Grand Jury report, he also announced a new hotline citizens can use to report environmental issues with oil and gas drilling in Pennsylvania-- 507-904-2643 or send an email to: fracking@attorneygeneral.gov.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Lawrence Beth Ann Adams 2 conventional gas well operated by STK Investments LLC in Washington Township, Lawrence County and found the well was still venting gas to the atmosphere and abandoned by the operator. The well was found to be leaking brine and gas since at least December 20, 2018 as a result of a citizen complaint.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 3, 2022

At the December 16 meeting of the PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council the conventional oil and gas drilling industry pressed DEP to reduce environmental safeguards for drilling and regulate their industry the same as solar or wind energy facilities. of the draft regulation. of the draft regulation. “In

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Environmental Progress

MAY 28, 2020

million in 2018. It gives us the food we eat, the water we drink, the materials with which we build our homes, and the mechanisms that regulate our weather patterns, our ocean currents, and much more. How the “earth’s systems” regulate our ability to exist and thrive on planet earth has been less understood. Absolutely.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Several new regulations controlling methane emissions have been adopted recently, including two new rules for the US oil and gas sector announced last week. Atmospheric concentrations. That small concentration of methane in the atmosphere makes an outsized contribution to global heating. Climate impact. W/m 2 from elevated CO 2.

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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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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Because methane has 28 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide and a shorter atmospheric life of only 12 years, immediate action to reduce methane emissions —including from agriculture—is critical to slow our warming climate, especially in light of expanding global populations and food demand. 2018 , Petersen et al.,

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Physics World

JUNE 5, 2021

That all changed in 2017 when Brown University’s Marston, together with Pierre Delplace and Antoine Venaille at the University of Lyon in France, studied the fluids that make up the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans from a topological perspective. First of all, the slim layers of the Earth’s atmosphere and oceans can be approximated as 2D.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 16, 2022

Both temperature and moisture levels are expected to increase with climate change, the latter because a warmer atmosphere can essentially hold more water vapor,” my colleague Dr. Brenda Ekwurzel, Director of Climate Science at UCS, wrote in her blog post following the tornado outbreak. Crisis on top of a crisis.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The ESA regulations define the “effects” that must be considered in the BiOp: “Effects are all consequences to listed species or critical habitat that are caused by the proposed action, including the consequences of other activities that are caused by the proposed action. 2018) ; Tartu et al. 2018) ; Aars et al.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

Lawsuits against fossil fuel companies: Investor Fraud Lawsuits: The first category of climate change litigation alleges that oil and gas companies defrauded investors by falsely stating that the company had fully considered the risks of climate change regulation and had factored those risks into its business operations.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit concluded that EPA had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in determining that the four elements of the regulations that had been stayed met these requirements. The magistrate judge’s order also set the trial to begin on February 5, 2018. Environmental Groups Challenged Delay in Enforcement of Landfill Methane Regulations.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

We discuss the need for better water use regulation across the country to lessen the strain on EQIP. As the 2018 Farm Bill is set to expire on September 30, 2023, we believe this report is timely. water resources. EQIP is a program that is funded through the once-every-five-years Farm Bill. 6 How does EQIP work?

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

The acid gas removal unit was installed by the owner of the methanol plant and placed in service on January 1, 2017, from which time the separated carbon dioxide was released into the atmosphere.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Note: In December, 2022, DEP finalized regulations reducing volatile organic compounds and methane from existing conventional and unconventional oil and gas facilities. The conventional regulations were challenged in Commonwealth Court by conventional oil and gas operators. Read more here. Read more here. [In Read more here.]

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Law and Environment

JUNE 24, 2022

This week, the Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration issued a rule rescinding the rule issued in 2020 defining “habitat” for the purposes of determining what constitutes “critical habitat” under the Endangered Species Act. This came to a head in 2018 in Weyerhaeuser v.

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E2 Law Blog

JULY 6, 2021

9, 2018, and disposed, injected, or otherwise utilized in a manner constitute with the rules. Historically, the facility released the CO2 separated by the AGR unit into the atmosphere. The credit is available over a 12-year period from the date such equipment is placed in service.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

This editorial first appeared in the Scranton Times on March 10, 2023 -- As regulators investigate and lawmakers lament the Feb. Methane is a powerful contributor to atmospheric warming. In addition to harming the atmosphere, the massive leak also caused short-term health problems for nearby residents. “It

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Most of these pieces were about the company’s support for a seemingly independent network of anti-regulation, “free-market” nonprofits that spread falsehoods about the reality and seriousness of climate change. See no evil I wrote more columns about ExxonMobil and its top executives than any other major source of climate lies.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). 1, 2018; order denying remand and notice re tutorial Feb. 27, 2018; request for supplemental briefing Feb.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In 2018, we will set a. Energy Information Administration, 2018 will also see. In September 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to loosen methane regulations over the oil and gas industry that would have otherwise harnessed $30 million dollars of wasted energy. clean energy industry is humming.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

That’s why waste storage tanks have to be vented and why many have tank lids that are open all the time to let the fumes vent to the atmosphere. 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.

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