The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

On October 18, 2023, the EPA published a Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“SNPR”) regarding incidental discharges from vessels, proposing national performance standards under the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act (“VIDA”). It also requires the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

By Reid Frazier The following article was first published by The Allegheny Front on October 3, 2023 -- Captain Evan Clark of Three Rivers Waterkeeper started trawling the shores of the Ohio River in Beaver County in September 2022 to monitor Shell’s newly opened ethane cracker for water pollution.

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E2 Law Blog

APRIL 7, 2022

On April 6, the Supreme Court used the “Shadow Docket” to reinstate a Trump administration regulation governing state water quality certifications under section 401 of the Clean Water Act. 42,210 (July 13, 2020) , codified at 40 C.F.R. Note that EPA has expressed its intention to revise the regulation in 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2023

EPA saying the decision significantly narrows the definition of which wetlands and other waters are protected by the federal Clean Water Act which could damage the decades-long effort to restore the Chesapeake Bay and its waterways. Check DEP’s 2022 Water Quality Report to find out how clean streams are near you.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Our new fellows join Beth Kent, Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy for 2020-22. Her publication addressing tribal cultural resource protection under the California Environmental Quality Act is forthcoming in the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy. Among other projects, Daniel will co-teach the Frank G.

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Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

On August 29, 2023, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) issued a direct final rule without public comment amending the definition of the “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) which governs the scope of federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act (CWA).

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2023

For Pipeline Development [PaEN] -- CNN: Consumer Product Safety Commission Is Researching Gas Stove Emissions To Address Health Risks, But Has No Proceeding To Ban Stoves -- Pittsburgh Business Times: PNC Increases Environmental Finance Commitment For Transition To Low-Carbon Economy 50% To $30 Billion -- Republican Herald: Pottsville City Council (..)

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In an April 2023 DEP determination of whether natural gas drilling contaminated a Washington County family’s water well, DEP said the “widespread presence of PFAS” forever chemicals in fresh water may have led to “inadvertently” using contaminated water to frack a shale gas well. Read more here.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

On October 31, 2023 at 2:00 pm (CT) Diane will lead a global hunger strike against Formosa Plastics, her fourth hunger strike. On October 31, 2023 at 2:00 pm (CT) Diane will lead a global hunger strike against Formosa Plastics, her fourth hunger strike. billion complex in St. She hopes to bring justice to the Vietnamese fisherman.

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Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

On August 29, 2023, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) issued a direct final rule without public comment amending the definition of the “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) which governs the scope of federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act (CWA).

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

I nvestigative website O Joio e O Trigo calculated that JBS slaughterhouses in Brazil averaged seven work accidents a day between 2018 and 2020 with regular reports of severe injuries and horrific deaths. JBS also has a history of poor safety practices in the workplace.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 20, 2023

On April 20, a proposed settlement was announced in the 2020 lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its failure to require Pennsylvania to develop and implement a plan to meet its commitments to reduce pollution under the Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint. This is a welcome change.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The federal Clean Water Act includes specific provisions to limit pollution from such “point sources” of contamination. The cost share could be the same as the early Clean Water Act support to curb point source pollution from municipal wastewater treatment plants. Stabenow said. . South central Pennsylvania.

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ESA

JULY 26, 2021

Senators reintroduce Recovering America’s Wildlife Act. Judge rules Maui County, Hawaii must receive a Clean Water Act permit in a case that reached the Supreme Court. The bill also requires the EPA to determine whether PFAS should be designated as a toxic pollutant under the Clean Water Act.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In the months since our 2020 update on federal actions affecting per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has continued to take action on its PFAS Action Plan. 535 – 116 th ) that passed the US House in January 2020. EPA Will Continue Work on PFAS Disposal and Destruction.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This bill reauthorizes the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000 through 2024, directs NOAA to provide block grants to states to support state coral reef management and restoration and establishes a National Coral Reef Management Fellowship Program, among other provisions. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) introduced a bill ( H.R. Comments are due Jan.

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ESA

MARCH 14, 2022

The government has been operating under a series of stop-gap measures since October 2021 and Congress has not passed a full-year budget since December 2020. In December 2020, the Trump administration unexpectedly denied an Army Corps of Engineers permit to the mining project. under the Clean Water Act to the pre-2015 standard.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The guidance was put out for two public comment periods in August of 2020 and October 2021. DEP is required by the federal Clean Water Act to submit a report to the U.S. PaEN] [Posted: September 18, 2023] PA Environment Digest The most recent public comment period closed on December 15, 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency released its evaluations of how the seven jurisdictions in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed did in meeting the 2020-21 and 2022-2023 cleanup milestones. This critical plan is expected to be put into place in time for the 40th anniversary of the Chesapeake Bay Program in 2023. climate change).

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ESA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In this issue: Apply for the 2023 Katherine S. ESA and other scientific societies file brief arguing that the interpretation of the Clean Water Act is inherently founded on science. Apply for the 2023 Katherine S. ESA invites you to apply for the 2023 Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA). 1, 2023, 12PM EDT.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 13, 2022

Other States/National/International -- AP: Pouring It On: Climate Change Made 2020 Hurricanes Rainer PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Inquirer: Republican Sen. 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. -- TODAY 9:30 a.m. What’s Your Community Doing?

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In the United States, excess nutrients build up in waterways from Lake Erie to the Gulf of Mexico, precipitating algae outbreaks that kill fish, close public drinking water utilities, and pollute water. Collectively they produced 294 million bushels of soybeans in 2020, ranking fifth nationally. billion bushels.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

PFAS: EPA stuck with its statutory deadlines for proposing and finalizing a drinking water regulation for the chemicals PFOA and PFOS — March 2023 and September 2024, respectively. Odds and ends: EPA says it will reconsider a 2020 Trump regulation known as the Major MACT to Area, or MM2A, rule. 21, 2020 ).

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 17, 2023

In 2020, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the states of Maryland, Virginia and Delaware, the District of Columbia and others filed suit against the EPA for not taking more aggressive action to force Pennsylvania to do more. They are often reluctant to participate in government farm programs. It’s going to just take time.”

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

However, diplomats failed to agree about how to fulfill a decade-old pledge that was set to begin in 2020 to provide $100 billion in climate finance to help developing counties with climate adaptation and mitigation each year. Almost 90 countries joined an agreement to cut their methane emissions by 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

As such, the bill retroactively allows qualified conservation that was completed in a forest mitigation bank on or before December 31, 2020, to be used, under both State and local forest conservation programs. House Bill 44 reestablishes through fiscal 2023 the Electric Vehicle Recharging Equipment Rebate Program and increases to $1.8

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and House progressives, led by House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) are opposing the permitting deal, citing concerns that the reforms would help fossil fuel projects and undermine the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

Preliminary 2020 TRI Dataset Shows “Seemingly Limited” Scope for PFAS Reporting. The district court complaint alleges that TSCA required EPA to complete the asbestos risk evaluation by June 19, 2020 and asks the court to issue an order setting a schedule for completion of the risk evaluation. The House bill ( H.R.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Sanders and progressive Democrats in the House are opposing Manchin’s permitting proposal, citing concerns that the reforms would helps fossil fuel projects and undermine the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act. universities from 2011 to 2020 Sept. 23, 2023 through April 14, 2023.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The plaintiffs argued that there was “no longer a viable dispute” that the organization lacked standing because the individual member had become pregnant in or around December 2020 and feared “the very sort of neurodevelopmental harm that was the focus of Plaintiffs’ trial evidence.” Wheeler, 2020 U.S.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

World leaders have made several major commitments at the meeting to date: Almost 90 countries joined an agreement to cut their methane emissions by 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels. Canada and other countries pledged to stop public financing of fossil fuel projects abroad by the end of 2023. In ‘chilling’ decision, U.F.

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MAY 6, 2021

should seek to build upon the myriad examples where collaboration and consensus-building have led to significant conservation outcomes,” continues the report, alluding to the Great American Outdoors Act, the largest conservation legislation in decades that passed Congress last year with broad bipartisan support. House in September 2020.

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