Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Photo © Illinois Department of Natural Resources. If the operator fails to perform adequate cleanup, state regulators confiscate the bond and use it to hire contractors to finish the job. This is completely out of control,” wrote one Kentucky Department of Natural Resources official in an email to another earlier this year.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Fish & Boat and Game Commissions; 1:00 p.m. of Agriculture.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Water samples from Benton Harbor homes since 2018 consistently revealed elevated levels of lead, a potent neurotoxin that damages the brain and nervous system and is particularly dangerous to young children. Months ahead of the ominous test results, state regulators had flagged the city’s water system for a range of deficiencies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 originally bailed out—reported in a 2018 bankruptcy filing that it lost $12 million annually due to its stake in OVEC, and Ohio legislative analysts discovered that Ohio utilities paid $94 million over market prices for OVEC’s electricity in 2018. Ohio regulators need to act. 6 coal subsidies shield them from those costs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 29, 2022

The Sunday after Thanksgiving is usually quiet, but for those who live along Route 9 in New Castle, Delaware, it’s hard to forget the harrowing events that unfolded in November 2018. A review of the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control enforcement orders shows that these types of events are far too frequent.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2022

Because the last farm bill was passed in 2018, it is due for an update in 2023. Research in one of these areas might help the federal government implement effective food safety regulations that will keep people from getting sick, for example, or maximize efficiency in agricultural production systems to reduce resource use.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

The costs of increased risks from natural hazards—wildfires, floods and sea level rise— are driving insurers away. Regulations inhibiting premium increases are blamed as well, though wouldn’t unleashing the free market in this case force thousands of people to abandon and leave their homes?)

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Beirne Green Hills Farms Unit A1H (2018) -- Chief Oil & Gas LLC (now Chesapeake Appalachia LLC) - Asylum Twp. Beirne Green Hills Farms Unit A2H (2018) -- Chief Oil & Gas LLC (now Chesapeake Appalachia LLC) - Asylum Twp. Beirne Green Hills Farms Unit A4H (2018) -- Chesapeake Appalachia LLC - Albany Twp. Ridgebury Twp.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The VIDA, enacted in December 2018, will standardize incidental discharge permits and regulations, replacing the 2013 Vessel General Permit (“VGP”) that commercial vessels are currently required to follow. Coast Guard (“USCG”) to develop corresponding regulations to enforce compliance with the EPA’s standards.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2024

Despite a moratorium implemented in 2018 on DEP approvals for road dumping, reports indicate continued use of conventional drilling waste on roads, raising significant concerns over the potential release of harmful substances such as salts, metals, and radioactive materials into the environment. Read more here. Is it Useful? Read more here.

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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. Penalties For Abandoning Wells The six operators penalized $215,690 in 2023 for well abandonment were-- -- Allegheny Natural Resources Inc.: Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 25, 2023

Eight years ago, a Des Moines-area regional utility filed a federal lawsuit seeking to regulate nitrogen discharges from farms upstream of its Raccoon River water treatment plant. High concentrations of nitrates, which form when nitrogen unites with oxygen, were contaminating drinking water for 500,000 residents, the utility said.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2022

Seth Grove (R-York) introduced House Bill 2444 that contains a natural gas industry wish list of measures they want to expand natural gas drilling, subsidize pipeline expansion using DCNR Oil and Gas Fund revenue, automatically approve of well permits and preempting local government regulation of all facilities regulated by DEP.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 3, 2022

And because the state largely lacks the ability to force such spending, regulators could do little to ensure the upkeep of local systems. “As The city is now in the fourth year of a water crisis following the 2018 discovery of elevated lead levels at some residents’ taps. Experts say lack of regulation plays a role.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2023

The study included test results for 17 different dust suppressants for dirt roads and winter road treatments, including five different sources of brine water pumped from conventional oil and gas wells-- three conventional well brine waters regulated by DEP and two sources of brine water pumped from played-out conventional wells.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. Regulation Begins. Regulators have the authority to stem nonpoint pollution in two categories. . Carl Ganter/ Circle of Blue. Video: Lake Erie’s murky algae water.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Background As recently as September 20, DEP told the Citizens Advisory Council road dumping conventional oil and gas drilling wastewater still does not meet the state’s residual waste regulations and remains illegal. Operators reported road dumping a total of 3,259,405 gallons of their wastewater from 2018 through 2021. Read more here.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

Each bill addresses emissions over roughly the same period—2000 to 2018 in Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York, and 2000 to 2019 in Vermont. Chevron relied on the existing scope of federal GHG regulations. As EPA authority over GHG regulation is weakened, so too is the Second Circuit’s reasoning.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

On November 17, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources honored Boy Scout Troop 120 for completing its impressive goal of visiting 120 state parks while with Troop 120. “We In 2017, the troop went to a Boy Scout Summer Camp and was unable to resume the quest until 2018 when they visited 46 parks.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The Creek was also named by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources as the 2018 Pennsylvania River of the Year and called a “timeless treasure.” The Creek was also named by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources as the 2018 Pennsylvania River of the Year and called a “timeless treasure.”

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

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. Read more here. Is It Useful? Read more here. In my view, all the numbers are suspect-- and low.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counts 1,921 pediatric cancer cases in the state between 1999 and 2018, about 100 per year. This map shows nitrate concentrations in drinking water between 2016 and 2018 for federally regulated water systems. There are others across Nebraska. If the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A natural gas gathering pipeline system and freshwater supply pipelines is being built on both banks of the Loyalsock Creek to connect the development of three shale gas tracts leased from the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in Loyalsock State Forest that are expected to serve an additional 80 shale gas wells.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

They based their campaign on state law, the powerful Michigan Environmental Protection Act (MEPA), which gives citizens the right to protect all natural resources from “conduct” that is “likely to result in pollution, impairment, or destruction” from any source. Paul Stowe is its natural resources manager.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

27 Online Lunch & Learn With Laurie Barr About Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells [PaEN] -- February 28-- House Appropriations Committee budget hearing - Departments Of Conservation & Natural Resources and Environmental Protection. Room 140 Main Capitol. Click Here to watch online. -- Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 23, 2022

formal notice ) The Public Utility Commission published notice in the July 23 PA Bulletin of a Final Rulemaking Order implementing Act 120 of 2018 related to recovering costs of replacing lead drinking water lines and damaged wastewater service laterals. Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations? 2021-115-B ]. (

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Today, as the Senior Policy Director of Land Use, Water, and Natural Resources for the Washington State Association of Counties, he undertakes the crucial task of protecting the environment—the collective home for millions of people.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Here’s a summary of that paper-- It started with a simple question: Are natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines required to have insurance to cover property damage, bodily harm or environmental cleanup and natural resource damage costs? Spoiler-- the answer is-- no. Now, we simply don’t know. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Shouldn’t someone regulate that? Note: DEP has prohibited the road “spreading” of unconventional drilling wastewater on roads by regulation since 2016.] “In The options range from banning the practice to tightly regulating it. Read more here. “At Here’s the recent science, and there’s more saying the same things.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 30, 2021

Activists pushing for stricter PFAS regulations, like those in Oscoda, Michigan, said they are unsurprised by the department’s actions. They wonder if their ailments are connected to the relatively unstudied toxic residues in soil and water, Circle of Blue reported in 2018. Drought in the American West.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2022

McKean County EQT Prod (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021) -- ASHBAUGH 1H - Ashland Twp., McKean County EQT Prod (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021) -- ASHBAUGH 1H - Ashland Twp., Elk County Frontier Natural Resources (2021, 2022) -- Winner 4H Well Pad - West Keating Twp., Jordan 6 - Hempfield Twp., Jefferson County -- James H.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

In 2018, Toyota was ordered to pay out $21.9 million yuan over Lexus price-fixing Reuters | December 27, 2019 China's market regulator on Friday has fined Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor 7203.T lawsuit over vehicle metal quality Tina Bellon, Yuka Obayashi | Reuters | March 6, 2018 U.S. China fines Toyota 87.6 million yuan ($12.5

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 9, 2023

Pro-industry lawmakers long have perpetuated the myth that environmental regulators and industry can achieve compliance by working together, as if they share identical interests. “Unfortunately, enforcer has become the prevalent view of the department,” he said. Unfortunately? Administrations over the years — most recently that of Gov.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 20, 2024

From the beginning, NSAC and its more than 150 members nationwide have called for a farm bill that incorporates lessons learned since 2018 by advancing programs and policies that build resilience and equity, restore competition, invest in science, and renew our environment for current and future generations.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

11] Part of the reason for inadequate in-state electricity supply in California last August was that state regulators had closed in-state baseload power plants. It was mostly replaced by electricity from natural gas, which raised the costs of generating electricity by $350 million. [13] That was rebuffed. And here we are.” [14]

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