Legal Planet

MARCH 8, 2024

As in 2019, when the Swiss brought forward a similar draft, the proposals this year were dramatically watered down over a series of negotiations. From this perspective, knowledge generated by the humanities and law, let alone from indigenous ways of knowing, is not even on the radar. In 2024 the US argued something remarkably similar.

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Renewable + Law

AUGUST 31, 2020

On August 19, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued a proposed decision accepting the 2019 Renewables Portfolio Standard Procurement Plans submitted by four new Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs): Butte Choice Energy Authority; Clean Energy Alliance; the City of Santa Barbara; and San Diego Community Power.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2024

On April 19, Attorney General Michelle Henry announced the filing of charges against Shell Falcon Pipeline LP for violations of Pennsylvania’s Clean Streams Law regarding construction of a 45-mile pipeline in western Pennsylvania. Read more here.] The case will be prosecuted by the Office of Attorney General’s Environmental Crimes Section.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 26, 2024

Pennsylvania joined RGGI pursuant to a 2019 executive order and a subsequent rulemaking promulgated by the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (“DEP”) and Environmental Quality Board (“EQB”). On March 13, 2024, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro unveiled a proposal to adopt an RGGI-like carbon-pricing program in the state.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Also on the agenda is a presentation on the proposed regulation setting aquatic life criteria for copper and a presentation on the draft 2024 PA Integrated Water Quality Report. Read more here.] DEP said it will “likely be re-revising” the technical guidance as this regulation moves through the rulemaking process.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 5, 2022

While the first Gulf of Maine offshore wind lease sale is not expected until 2024, this post explores recent actions BOEM has taken to advance offshore wind in the Gulf of Maine and the agency activity we’re likely to see in the year ahead. Josh is a regular contributor to the Law & The Environment and Energy Climate Counsel blogs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2023

These scientific integrity policies would have the force of law behind them and would establish and clarify a series of protocols to ensure that these policies are properly implemented, periodically updated, and publicly available. The Scientific Integrity Act is important, commonsense legislation that transcends partisan politics.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2024

Every five years or so, Congress reauthorizes a comprehensive, multibillion-dollar law that has a major impact not only on farmers and ranchers—who make up less than 2 percent of the US population—but also on the environment, public health, and the economy. Between 2019 and 2023, the agribusiness sector contributed $3.4 million to Rep.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Whole Foods did not break the law by banning Black Lives Matter apparel, judge rules CNN PaulaR Tue, 01/02/2024 - 13:37 Thursday, December 21, 2023 Read more Ramishah Maruf New YorkCNN — Whole Foods did not act unlawfully by banning employees from wearing items with Black Lives Matter messaging, a judge ruled Thursday.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 20, 2024

Construction of the pipeline, which spanned through Washington, Allegheny and Beaver Counties, began in January 2019 and brings ethane feedstock from natural gas to the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County. [In Read more here.] Read more here on criminal charges. and found it to be abandoned and not plugged.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2024

Erosion & Sedimentation BMP Failure (2019) [ DEP Inspection Report ] -- Civil Penalty - $26,725 - Mor42 well site - Washington County, East Finley Twp. Industrial Waste Discharge, Erosion & Sedimentation BMP Failure (2019) [ DEP Inspection Report ] -- Civil Penalty - $15,263 - Mor29 Gathering Pipeline - Greene County, Morris Twp.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2024

On January 26, 2024, the Department of Environmental Protection issued a notice of violation to Equitrans Midstream for abandoning and not plugging 19 conventional gas wells at the Swarts Natural Gas Storage Field in Greene County. DEP requested a written report by February 24, 2024 on how Equitrans will bring the wells into compliance.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2024

DEP’s inspection reports [Corse 6 - example] requested the operator to submit a written report by April 12, 2024 on how the wells will be brought into compliance. DEP’s March 20 inspection report [Armstrong 774 - example] notes the original violations for abandonment were issued on August 5, 2019 and were reconfirmed on September 7, 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Ohio- $2.89 -- PennLive: PA Motorists May See Savings At Pump As State Oil Franchise Tax Falls -- Independent Fiscal Office: Gasoline Consumption In PA Remains Well Below 2019 Levels (Pre-COVID) -- TribLive Letter: More Natural Gas Production, More Consumer Savings - By Marcellus Shale Gas Industry [Forgot About 2021-22 Price Spikes Already ?

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Legal Planet

APRIL 2, 2024

This year promises to be the ‘Year of Climate’ in international courts and tribunals with opinions slated to be coming down from the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, and the International Court of Justice.

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Energy & the Law

JULY 18, 2023

Failure to comply to the new law will be a crime. The industry has raised millions of dollars in support of a referendum to veto the Bill that will be voted on in the general election ballot in 2024. Those numbers in 2019 were 29.7% Indemnity bonds, in addition to the current blanket bond, will be required.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 7, 2024

Shapiro -- AP: In 2024, Shapiro Faces Calls For Billions For Schools, A Presidential Election And Wary Lawmakers -- Politics PA: Shapiro Talks Property Tax Rebates, Divided Legislature, Ex-President And The Eagles -- PA Capital-Star: Shapiro Signed Nearly 3 Dozen New Laws You May Have Missed -- PennLive - John Baer: About Gov.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In 2019, the Utah State Legislature passed the Community Renewable Energy Act (HB 411). gigawatts of wind and 3 gigawatts of solar by 2024. In North Carolina, the bitterly partisan Republican legislature joined the Democratic governor in passing a law setting targets of 70% emissions reduction by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2050.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By Dr Romain Mauger, Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability (GCELS) On 19 November 2020, the Conseil d’Etat (the French supreme administrative court) issued a historic ruling in the Commune de Grande Synthe case , potentially the first step towards a landmark climate litigation outcome in France.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2022

let’s say, a bit different: a 2019 law school graduate who had spent a couple of years in the commission’s legal office. But surely, you must be thinking, there must have been something to distinguish her from the other 33,000 people just out of law school. Prior to that he had been a deputy secretary in the state EPA.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

million in tax subsidies from the PA Resource Manufacturing Tax Credit , according to the Governor’s FY 2024-25 Budget proposal. million; and in FY 2024-25 Shell will get another $65 million-- the maximum amount available by law. So far, the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County is scheduled to receive a total of $130.9

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 , the notorious law the Legislature passed in 2019 that slapped Ohio ratepayers with a monthly surcharge to bail out two struggling nuclear plants. 6 in 2019 because it was bad for consumers, bad for the economy, and bad for the environment. 6 was signed into law by Ohio Gov. Despite the partial repeal, H.B.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 15, 2024

The Guidelines require the largest Chinese public companies to publish high-quality and standardized SDRs, and are open for public comment until February 29, 2024. The guidelines aim to transform China’s approach to ESG by introducing sustainability disclosure rules for large listed companies. By Hui Xu , Paul A.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Big Tobacco’s Big Profits #ActOnTobacco Action on Smoking and Health | April 14, 2019 Today marks the start of a campaign by ASH and our partners, highlighting how Big Tobacco’s big profits continue to be built on a lethal trade and shady dealings.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

She contends the federal Natural Gas Act mandates the federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has “exclusive jurisdiction over an appeal which challenges any state agency’s action in either approving or denying a permit when the state agency acts on the basis of federal law.” of Bordentown v. F.E.R.C. , 3d 234, 268 (3d Cir. 2018)) Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

The signing of Senate Bill 9 on April 23, 2019, was the crescendo of a three-year campaign by the students who had set out three years earlier to recognize the largest salamander in North America and create greater awareness of the critical need to reduce pollution in the Commonwealth’s rivers and streams. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) in 2018.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The Dutch court agreed, ruling in 2019 in favor of Urgenda and requiring the government to reduce global warming emissions. It seeks to elucidate existing state obligations under international law to safeguard the environment from anthropogenic global warming emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Additionally, there are no retroactive design or construction regulations for those pipeline facilities that exist when the rule is made effective by operation of law. L-2019-3010267. However, the operations and maintenance, accident reporting, and public awareness regulations do apply to existing hazardous liquid pipeline facilities.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

When the company decided to temporarily block the sharing of news on its platform in Australia in 2020 to protest a law that would require it to pay news publishers for content, it also blocked government health-department and emergency services pages.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

However, methane reduction efforts have not received the same financial support as CO 2 actions; in 2019 and 2020, only 2% of climate finance was devoted to methane mitigation. Jurisdictions announced new methane regulations COPs are usually the place where governments announce their recent environmental laws and regulations.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 11, 2024

When the company decided to temporarily block the sharing of news on its platform in Australia in 2020 to protest a law that would require it to pay news publishers for content, it also blocked government health-department and emergency services pages.

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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 (2023) So far in 2024, DEP has issued 121 violations to conventional operators for well abandonment without plugging-- after just two months into the new year.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Studies and Reports Cybersecurity The Government Accountability Office looked at how federal agencies can better implement a 2021 law that expanded their cybersecurity responsibilities. A draft assessment is expected in late summer 2024. The EPA is the support agency for the water and wastewater sectors.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 5, 2024

of Agriculture Unveils 2024 PA Farm Show Butter Sculpture -- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Residents Urged To Check Homes For Radon In January -- January 6 Pennsylvania Bulletin Now Available -- Executive Board: Reorganization Of Dept.

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Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 21, 2023

US methane emissions from oil and gas production declined from 2005 to 2019 while production increased, says Energy in Depth. California’s Advanced Green Fleet Act regulations , beginning in 2024, will require that truck operators buy only Zero Emissions Vehicle trucks for medium-duty and heavy-duty trucking operations.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Unions fight back against Kochs and allies since supreme court 'disaster' Mike Elk | The Guardian | February 8, 2019 After decades of trying, the Koch brothers and their allies won a major battle last year when the US supreme court stripped public sector unions of their ability to collect “fair-share fees” from non-union members.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 11, 2024

Brazil: Uber Driver Accused of Anti-Candomblé Religious Intolerance Bitter Winter PaulaR Thu, 01/11/2024 - 14:09 Saturday, May 13, 2023 Read more Massimo Introvigne He refused to take to a terreiro a family dressed according to their religion, and is now under police investigation. They blame Prop 22.

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