PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The revisions proposed today are a positive step forward as the Commission must carefully review each of these cases and determine whether the applicable law has been met.” M-2016-2543193. M-2016-2543193. Zerfuss said, “The Commission is taking concerns raised by all parties related to water acquisitions very seriously.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 15, 2022

Little did I know how prescient I was, because later on Friday, Judge Brian Morris – the same judge who invalidated the RMPs – went farther and reinstated the moratorium on leasing of public lands for coal mining that had been implemented by then-Secretary Jewell in 2016. . Once more, Judge Morris found DOI’s NEPA analysis inadequate.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The revisions proposed today are a positive step forward as the Commission must carefully review each of these cases and determine whether the applicable law has been met.” M-2016-2543193. M-2016-2543193. Zerfuss said, “The Commission is taking concerns raised by all parties related to water acquisitions very seriously.

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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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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

The last coal plant in Scotland closed in 2016. In 2019, the city declared a climate emergency. This covers electricity, heating, transportation, etc., and is separate from their 2020 goal which centered just on electricity. There is an interim target of 75% reduction of 1990 levels by 2030. Northern Ireland. Other UK Cities.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2022

This funding is in addition to the federal well plugging program established in the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which is expected to bring Pennsylvania up to $395 million for conventional oil and gas well plugging over the next 15 years. Wolf let House Bill 2644 (Causer-R-Cameron) become law without his signature.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2021

Under existing law, municipalities are authorized to negotiate agreements for a host fee to be paid to the municipality. DEP also hosted a public hearing in July 2016 to take questions from residents about the application. In January 2018, all three agencies held a public meeting to share the results of the study with residents.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The hybrid set-up, with video links between the two hubs and digital attendence through zoom, was a change from previous ICRCs held in ICTP (2011) , Brussels (2013) , Stockholm (2016) , and Beijing (2019). The “law of small numbers ” implies a minimum number of independent simulations in an ensemble (Rabin, 2002).

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Energy & the Law

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The parties amended the MSA in January and July 2016, adding Gulfport Buckeye (now Gulfport Appalachia) as a party in the July amendment. In December 2019, Gulfport Energy sued Stingray in Delaware state court for breach of contract. The MSA was amended for the third time in 2018 to extend the term until the end of 2021.

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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. Some go back to 2016, but the actual enforcement action took place in 2023. 2016 violations) [reports not available] -- ETUX 662-2 - Washington County, Nottingham Twp.

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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. “To Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) in 2018.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2022

The Department of Environmental Protection has issued 12 unconventional shale gas drillers notices of violation for abandoning gas wells without plugging them at 35 wells pads (each with multiple wells) in 17 counties between 2016 and 2022, according to DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Reporting system. Read more here. Jordan 6 - Hempfield Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This well was listed as abandoned by DEP in an inspection report on April 21, 2016 - report not available.] [The This well was listed as abandoned by DEP in an inspection report on April 21, 2016 - report not available.] DEP previously performed an emergency mitigation project in 2019 to address stray soil gas in the area.

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 7, 2023

Lots of cash was flown by private jets to Cameroon and South Sudan from 2011 through 2016. How he did it: From 2019 through 2021 in managing different oil and gas mineral rights investment funds he allegedly inflated the value of the rights to be sold to investment funds and used their money to obtain a loan of $6.5

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Humanitarianism, Capitalism, and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott by Tehila Sasson (2016) Rigged: Supermarket Shelves for Sale by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) (2016) Nutrition Scientists on the Take from Big Food: Has the American Society for Nutrition lost all credibility?

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Humanitarianism, Capitalism, and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott by Tehila Sasson (2016) Rigged: Supermarket Shelves for Sale by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) (2016) Nutrition Scientists on the Take from Big Food: Has the American Society for Nutrition lost all credibility?

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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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2023

The Rose-Walters Prize honors Houska’s work as a tribal attorney, land defender, and founder of the Giniw Collective, an Indigenous women and two-spirit-led resistance committed to defending the Sacred and advocating for systemic change that respects Indigenous sovereignty and natural law. After earning a B.A., and a magna cum laude J.D.

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Acoel

MARCH 13, 2023

The Cuban participants in the symposium panels were drawn from the Environmental Law Faculty of the University of Havana, the Cuban Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, the Cuban Ministry of Agriculture, and FANJ. The topic and title was: USA-Cuba Key Environmental Issues: Lessons Learned – Lessons Shared. Cuba food market.

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E2 Law Blog

JUNE 7, 2022

2016), and to medium MS4 permits as too onerous on the same grounds as the small MS4 challenge, Md. 2019), cert. We hold that this case is governed by this Court’s prior case law and presents neither a material difference nor a change in circumstance that would justify reconsideration of this Court’s Carroll County decision.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Background of Spanish Climate Policy In 2016, the EU ratified the Paris Agreement, which calls on Parties to submit their National Determined Contributions (NDCs) every five years. The PNIEC and the Law on Climate Change include a target of GHG emission reduction of 23% by 2030 compared to 1990.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

For example in 2009 and 2010, Toyota recalled over 10 million vehicles over unintended acceleration problems and in 2016, Toyota recalled 1.4 million yuan in 2019 over price-fixing on Lexus cars in eastern Jiangsu province. The company has been forced to recall millions of vehicles each year to fix manufacturing defects.

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Washington Nature

JULY 3, 2023

Over the past few years, Washington state has enacted a number of climate-focused laws to address both current and anticipated statewide needs and opportunities when it comes to climate change. Our journey began with 2016’s Initiative 732 and expanded with 2018’s Initiative 1631.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2023

Between 2000 and 2019, Indonesia lost more forest to mining than any other tropical country, with coal extraction the main driver, the first ever biome-wide assessment has found. of total tropical deforestation between 2000 and 2019. A coal mine in Tenggarong, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Photo credit: Afriadi Hikmal / Alamy.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 2, 2021

Judge Larisa Alwin ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 from 2019 levels. “The court orders Royal Dutch Shell, by means of its corporate policy, to reduce its CO2 emissions by 45% by 2030 with respect to the level of 2019 for the Shell group, and the suppliers and customers of the group.”

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Presumably Dagsvik and Moen are used to this kind of model, but they seem to be inexperienced with the models used for weather and climate, which on the other hand are based on the laws of physics. See for instance Benestad (2016). 679-688, 2016. References R.E.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Harvard law students ramp up protest against ExxonMobil climate firm Emily Holden | The Guardian | January 15, 2020 Harvard law students have disrupted a recruiting event for Paul Weiss, the law firm representing ExxonMobil in climate lawsuits, in an escalation the protesters hope will open a new front in climate activism in the legal world.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

From 2019 through 2021 , additions of large-scale generating capacity have been led by wind—not gas—and the US Energy Information Administration says solar power is on track to lead this year. Solar was actually the leading capacity addition from 2019 through 2021 if you include smaller-scale systems such as rooftop solar.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

(This post was authored by Eric Peshkin, a JD candidate at NYU School of Law and CLEE summer research assistant). Internationally, New Zealand passed the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Act of 2019 which targets a 24-47% reduction in biogenic methane emissions by 2050, and a 10% reduction by 2030.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2022

DEP reported in its Right To Know response just 76 conventional companies were assessed penalties for their violations over the last six years by the agency totalling $2,524,973-- between 2016 and 2021. Read more here. In 2021, conventional oil and gas operators reported road dumping over 580,000 gallons of drilling wastewater.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

From 2016 through 2022, DEP issued NOVs for abandoning wells without plugging them to not just to a few companies, but to 256 separate conventional oil and gas companies. Read more here. -- CNX agreed to plug 141 conventional coalbed methane and gas wells and 5 unconventional wells in October 2019. The law would have to be changed.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In 2016, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service launched an investigation into Shell for suspected bribery surrounding its exploration of the Etosha oil field in Nigeria. In October 2019, the examining magistrate ruled that neither the foreign in-house lawyers who worked in the Netherlands nor those working abroad could benefit from LPP.[[N:

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels. References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2023

One such regulation, adopted in 2016, requires drillers and the DEP to consider “the impact of a well permit on public resources including parks, forests, game lands, scenic rivers, natural landmarks, habitats of rare and endangered species. and other critical communities, historical and archaeological sites and drinking water sources.”

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Harvard law students ramp up protest against ExxonMobil climate firm Emily Holden | The Guardian | January 15, 2020 Harvard law students have disrupted a recruiting event for Paul Weiss, the law firm representing ExxonMobil in climate lawsuits, in an escalation the protesters hope will open a new front in climate activism in the legal world.

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