Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

There arecurrently carbon standards in place for new power plants , which were set back in 2015; however, there are no standards for existing plants as neither the 2015 Clean Power Plan nor the 2019 Affordable Clean Energy Rule —both of which targeted existing facilities—remain in place.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2022

The original air quality permit for a proposed LNG plant in Wyalusing Township, Bradford County was issued by DEP on July 24, 2019. Click Here for a copy of the settlement. This settlement is a win for the local community and all Pennsylvanians,” said PennFuture President and CEO Jacquelyn Bonomo.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 10, 2022

The rule would also require pollution controls for existing operations within the setback area. In the last several years, VISIÓN sponsored legislation to create a statewide setback, including AB 345 (2019) , which did not pass, but helped generate public awareness of this issue.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee is scheduled to hold a meeting on November 15 to consider these bills and resolutions-- -- Abrigating California Heavy-Duty Truck Air Reg.:

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

In 2019, EPA issued the Affordable Clean Energy rule , repealing the Clean Power Plan on the basis that EPA only had the narrow authority to base standards on technologies that could be applied directly “to or at” individual power plants, rather than strategies that involve broader shifts in power sources (so-called “beyond the fenceline” measures).

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2023

The state issued its first water quality standards for chloride in 2019. The Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy finalized water quality values for chloride only in 2019, three decades after the federal EPA published guidelines. As with sun on skin, excess salt accelerates infrastructure aging.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 12, 2022

The Ohio EPA spars with federal agencies over pollution control in Lake Erie. Unusually wet conditions lifted the lake to record levels in 2017 and 2019, damaging property and critical infrastructure across the St. A Michigan agency announces a new program to monitor mercury contamination. Lawrence River basin.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 3, 2022

After the state submitted a plan in 2019 that failed to meet 2025 cleanup goals, Maryland, Virginia and Delaware, along with the District of Columbia, Chesapeake Bay Foundation and others filed suit against the EPA for failing to press the state to make greater progress. The dispute has found its way into court.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 23, 2022

Steel is no stranger to electrical issues: Less than six months after that catastrophic fire, Clairton Coke Works’ pollution-control systems were again knocked offline thanks to an electrical fire that caused the closure of the same control rooms damaged on Dec. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works Facility U.S. If so, had U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2022

This regulation, which is a key part of DEP’s strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Commonwealth, has been in development since early 2019. This regulation adopts reasonably available control technology requirements and RACT emission limits for oil and natural gas sources of volatile organic compounds.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2021

On October 26, the federal Chesapeake Bay Program announced an estimated 33 percent of the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries met water quality standards attainment during the 2017—2019 assessment period. Experts mainly attribute this decline to unusually wet weather in 2018 and 2019.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

million to support county conservation districts; $873,000 in costs for the Delaware and Susquehanna River Basin Commission, Interstate Commission on the Potomac River, Interstate Chesapeake Bay Commission, Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission, Delaware River Master; $2.25

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

13, 14, 15 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY 11:00: House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets to consider House Bill 2075 (Knowles-R- Schuylkill) abrogating DEP’s air pollution control regulations covering heavy-duty trucks [Note: DEP already suspended enforcement of these regulations November 6 - Read more here.];

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Exxon agrees to $1 million fine over 2011 Yellowstone River oil spill Reuters | June 5, 2019 Exxon Mobil Corp has agreed to pay a $1 million civil penalty to settle U.S. A LOOK BACK: 30 years since Exxon explosion in Baton Rouge Graham Ulkins | WAFB9 | December 24, 2019 Christmas Eve 1989 is a night many in Baton Rouge will never forget.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2022

After inspecting the in-stream and bank work in August and September, DEP cited the company for the failure of a coffer dam, inadequate pollution controls on streambanks, illegally blocking the entire stream, failure to report sediment pollution and not following approved sediment control measures.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Exxon agrees to $1 million fine over 2011 Yellowstone River oil spill Reuters | June 5, 2019 Exxon Mobil Corp has agreed to pay a $1 million civil penalty to settle U.S. A LOOK BACK: 30 years since Exxon explosion in Baton Rouge Graham Ulkins | WAFB9 | December 24, 2019 Christmas Eve 1989 is a night many in Baton Rouge will never forget.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., Photo Gallery Image Total Oil has played a significant role in keeping the brutal Burma junta in power photo totaloutnow Read More Image Total out now photo totaloutnow Read More Image Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9 agreed to pay $2.9

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2022

Final Form Regulation 7-559 authorizes Pennsylvania’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) under the authority of the Air Pollution Control Act. In 2019, the governor set Pennsylvania’s first statewide climate goals , aiming to reduce greenhouse gases by 80 percent by 2050.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 12, 2019

December 12, 2019. The report excluded the capital spending because it varies year to year depending on grant cycles and does not support basic pollution control activities such as permitting, inspections and compliance actions. environmental programs experienced a 34% reduction in operating funds between 2008 and 2018.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The following year, the legislature capped things off by passing legislation that enshrined Iowa’s voluntary nutrient reduction strategy as the state’s official policy for addressing nutrient pollution.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., Photo Gallery Image Total Oil has played a significant role in keeping the brutal Burma junta in power photo totaloutnow Read More Image Total out now photo totaloutnow Read More Image Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9 agreed to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., Photo Gallery Image Total Oil has played a significant role in keeping the brutal Burma junta in power photo totaloutnow Read More Image Total out now photo totaloutnow Read More Image Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9 agreed to pay $2.9

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Law Columbia

MAY 28, 2021

Brookline, Massachusetts : Ten months after Brookline’s 2019 bylaw prohibiting gas connections to new buildings was struck down by the state’s attorney general, members of the local legislative body, Town Meeting, introduced Warrant Articles 25 and 26 , two zoning bylaws that provide strong incentives for electrification in new buildings.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., Photo Gallery Image Total Oil has played a significant role in keeping the brutal Burma junta in power photo totaloutnow Read More Image Total out now photo totaloutnow Read More Image Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9 agreed to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., Photo Gallery Image Total Oil has played a significant role in keeping the brutal Burma junta in power photo totaloutnow Read More Image Total out now photo totaloutnow Read More Image Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9 agreed to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., Photo Gallery Image Total Oil has played a significant role in keeping the brutal Burma junta in power photo totaloutnow Read More Image Total out now photo totaloutnow Read More Image Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9 agreed to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., Photo Gallery Image Total Oil has played a significant role in keeping the brutal Burma junta in power photo totaloutnow Read More Image Total out now photo totaloutnow Read More Image Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9 agreed to pay $2.9

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Vermont Law

MAY 20, 2021

In an attempt to create a cohesive and synergistic pool, the patents were limited to a few specific areas of technology: energy conservation, pollution control, environmentally friendly materials, water or materials use, and reduction and recyclability. inventions. . WIPO’s website. , WIPO GREEN Strategic Plan.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

But the fact that the facility exists, Corrigan said, is an indictment of the state’s pollution-control measures. “It’s billion in farm sales in 2019. It is turned on only when nitrate levels spike in the Raccoon River, one of its water sources. It’s a cost that we shouldn’t have,” Corrigan said. “It’s

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

USA: Formosa Plastics’ Pollution of Texas Waterways Hit by Civil Trial, Protests Center for Biological Diversity | March 25, 2019 Fishermen, community leaders and activists spoke out against Formosa Plastics’ pollution of Texas waterways today as a federal civil trial of the company began here. USA: Formosa Plastics Corp.,

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

However, most of the world’s recycling is exported to lower-income countries, where recycling is cheaper to process due to weak law enforcement and informal sector recycling with no pollution controls. In 2019, the Chinese government will review. Eighty-six percent of China’s e-waste goes to. informal sector recycling.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 19, 2019

To make meaningful progress in lowering water pollution, the federal government should begin incentivizing agroecological practices that both allow farmers to keep their land in production and actively work to reduce excess nutrients, pesticide waste, and erosion. However, the CWA does not address agricultural pollution in a meaningful way.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

By Karl Blankenship, Chesapeake Bay Journal It has taken more than four years, but leaders in the Chesapeake Bay restoration effort say they’ve found a path forward for dealing with the added pollution stemming from Conowingo Dam.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Thousands of workers at US factories in Mexico are striking for higher wages Alexia Fernández Campbell | Vox | March 28, 2019 Dozens of workers at one of Coca-Cola’s largest bottling and distribution plants have refused to go to work for almost two months, demanding the same 20 percent increase with a $32,000 peso bonus.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In 2019 the company applied its product to end a harmful bloom on Chippewa Lake in Ohio. Farmers who don’t agree to adopt the new pollution-control measures would lose the insurance subsidy. . Peroxide is the active ingredient. The granules are spread on the surface of lakes, killing cyanobacteria within 24 to 48 hours.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

In 2019, the Trump administration disbanded the ISAC and cut funding for the National Invasive Species Council (NISC) secretariat by 50 percent. This body will review the EPA’s scientific review of current ozone pollution standards. In 2019, the Trump administration opted to keep ozone pollution standards the same.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Michael Bennet in 2019 ( S. NOAA and EPA – Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Program: Proposal To Find That Ohio Has Satisfied Conditions on Earlier Approval. The bill also establishes a new U.S. Bureau of Reclamation grant program for inspection stations at federally managed reservoirs. 3, 2021.

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