Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Governments across the United States are for the first time regulating greenhouse gas emissions. This entirely new and emergent body of law in response to climate change is bursting onto the scene in 2024 and businesses are beginning to monetize it as a new revenue stream.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

EPA granted primacy to Louisiana on December 28, 2023, for Class VI wells, effective February 5, 2024. CO2 sequestration projects inject CO2 into the subsurface and are subject to these EPA regulations. EPA’s Class VI regulations for CCS projects cover the entire lifecycle, from planning to post-closure to safeguarding USDWs.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In November 2021, in response to these concerns, DEP suspended the enforcement of this provision and extended that suspension in 2023. King noted the General Assembly has been trying to pass legislation decoupling Pennsylvania’s standards from California since 2021 without success. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

DEP’s Water Resources Advisory Committee is scheduled to hear a presentation on DEP's new proposed regulation setting notification requirements for unauthorized discharges to waters of the Commonwealth at its meeting on September 21. Click Here for a copy of the draft regulation. 2015-011-L ).

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 6, 2024

Jun 6, 2024. Hypocritically, while CEOs like Mr. McKenzie acknowledged the benefits of Canada’s strong environmental regulations; he failed to include that his own company has continuously lobbied against those very same regulations – including 17 meetings this March alone.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

December 14, 2023. General Assembly returned to a very aggressive effort to influence environmental rules in 2023. Farm Act of 2023 (Senate Bill 582) and the Regulatory Reform Act of 2023 (House Bill 600) all contained provisions weakening existing environmental protections and in some cases preventing adoption of new standards.

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Nanotech

JULY 5, 2024

On June 14, 2024, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) issued a notice proposing additional changes to its Proposition 65 (Prop 65) Article 6 “clear and reasonable warnings” regulations for “short-form” warnings (Notice).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Surface water diversions by those who divert water from state waterways to use on adjacent (“riparian”) lands don’t need to obtain prior approval from state water regulators to do so. The political momentum for water law reform continued apace in 2023, as evidenced by the Legislature’s passage of SB 389.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

It was a sign of how much has changed since 2021 when the UK hosted the flagship COP26 UN climate summit with a promise “irrefutably to turn the tide and to begin the fightback against climate change”. Until April 2024, Farmer held shares in the fossil fuel giants Shell and BP, each worth more than £100,000.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane. California’s transportation fuel policy is knee deep in cow poop, and it’s not a good look.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 15, 2024

On August 14, 2024, the Department of Environmental Protection issued notices of violation to 16 owners of 5,374 conventional oil and gas wells for failing to submit annual production, waste generation/disposal and well integrity reports over multiple years, according to DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database. Read more here. Read more here.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

VJEL Newsroom Announcing VJEL's 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List By VJEL December 18, 2023 The Vermont Journal of Environmental Law (VJEL) is pleased to announce the publication of its 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List. Because of this backlog, FERC promulgated Order 2023 – RM22-14-000 to speed up this process.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 17, 2024

2023 was the hottest year on record The degree of devastation across Canada in 2023 was difficult to comprehend. July and August 2023 were the hottest months ever recorded globally. Lytton, BC was Canada’s hot spot in 2023 at 42.2°C The climate crisis is here. People lost their homes, communities and livelihoods.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Summer of Heat on Wall Street According to the 2024 Banking on Climate Chaos report, Citi is the second-largest financier of fossil fuels and the largest financier of fossil fuel expansion since the Paris climate agreement, having poured $396 billion into the industry since 2016. C above pre-industrial levels.

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Renewable + Law

OCTOBER 4, 2021

On September 24, 2021, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued an order (176 FERC ¶ 61,207) approving tariff revisions to amend the California ISO’s (CAISO) interconnection procedures for its current queue cluster (Cluster 14). January 13, 2023. April 15, 2023. November 24, 2023. March 23, 2024.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

DEP issued the original violation for abandonment on July 19, 2024 and the “operator has not responded to the violation” in the 54 days since that inspection. DEP’s inspection report continues the earlier violation and again asks the owner to submit a plan by September 30, 2024 on how the well will be brought into compliance.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A 2021 meta-analysis of over 40 peer-reviewed studies on the subject concluded that “there is no particular type of shopping that has an absolute environmental advantage and it is in no way possible to shop ourselves out of the environmental crisis.” How would that change if I hopped on the electric bus route at the end of my block?

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

President & CEO of Cenovus Energy: 2017-2023 TC Energy: 1990-2017 Chief Operating Officer of TC Energy: 2015-2017 VP and President Development of TC Energy Corp: 2006-2014 Villain Career Profile Alex Pourbaix has always gone above and beyond to advocate for pipelines and the oil and gas industry. million in 2015.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Here are the details-- On September 25 - 26, 2024 , DEP inspected three shale gas wells owned by Diversified Prod LLC in Fayette and Westmoreland counties in response to requests for well transfers to Big Dog Energy and found two wells continue to be abandoned and not plugged the third with other violations. DEP inspection report.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

DEP also issued fresh violations for failure of the operator to comply with a Commonwealth Court order issued on August 16, 2023 requiring remediation of the sites for releases of wastewater based on violations issued on October 24, 2022. LLC and found the wells to be abandoned and not plugged. No follow-up actions were requested.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), signed into law on November 15, 2021, amended Section 40307 of the Outer Continental Shelfs Act (OCSLA) to provide authority to the U.S. However, the DOI’s proposed implementing regulations authorized by the IIJA have yet to be issued for public comment.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 4537 ) 2024 Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups So far in 2024, DEP received or acted on 181 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. You’ll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations. Philadelphia. ( Wyoming County. ( Greene County. ( Adams County. (

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2024

The co-product category was questioned by the Coalition because DEP has not approved any request from conventional oil and gas well owners to use the industry's wastewater under the co-product provisions of the Residual Waste Regulations. regulation with Co-product determination. I know this is hard to believe because D.E.P.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Guest Post by Vedanshi Nevatia , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph. As per the World Investment Report 2023, much of the growth in international investment in renewable energy, which has nearly tripled since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, was concentrated in developed countries. ” (2021).

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 4, 2024

DEP inspection report ] DEP inspections documented repeated violations at Nancy 13, but finally on May 17, 2023 an inspection report noted Tatonka said the plugging of Nancy 13 would start in April or May. [ Onsite inspection December 12, 2023 found the contractors have not moved onto the location. [

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Law Columbia

JULY 30, 2024

The report estimates that New York’s sole operational offshore wind farm , South Fork Wind Farm, which began delivering power to the grid in December of 2023 , will annually deliver 464 GWh of power ( operating at 53 MW, below its full capacity). These petitions were denied, leading to the cancellation of all projects in October of 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Schreiner was also issued violations by DEP for abandoning and not plugging five other wells in McKean County in February 2023. On September 3, 2024 , DEP did a follow-up inspection of the AG Miller 963 conventional well in Luzerne Township, Fayette County owned by Fortress Energy Corp. The wells include-- Erie County -- Conneaut Twp.:

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Read more here. -- On February 7, 2024, the Environmental Hearing Board issued an opinion and order granting part of an Apex Energy (PA) LLC motion to dismiss parts of a Protect PT appeal of the renewal of shale gas well permits at the Drakulic well pad in Penn Township, Westmoreland County. EHB Docket 2023074. Read more here. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

As of February 2023, six states, including New York State, have passed California’s Advanced Clean Trucks rule , which requires manufacturers to sell an increasing percentage of zero-emission trucks and buses in those states. In 2021, 3.4 percent of new car sales in NYC were battery-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

On June 20, 2023, the Spanish Supreme Court handed down its final ruling in the case of Greenpeace v. The EU presents the NDC as one Party ( Regulation (EU) 2018/842 ). Under Annex 1 of the EU Regulation, by 2030, Spain must have reduced its GHG emissions by 37.7% compared to 2005.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 17, 2024

Background The Singaporean government introduced the ICC Framework in November 2022, in tandem with the progressive increase in carbon tax rate under the Carbon Pricing (Amendment) Act 2022 from the current S$5 per tonne of emissions to S$25 per tonne in 2024 and 2025, and S$45 per tonne in 2026 and beyond.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

20, 2021, the New York State Climate Action Council (Council) voted unanimously to approve the most recent draft of the scoping plan, a roadmap to achieve compliance with the state’s landmark climate law, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). The final plan must be sent to the Legislature by Jan.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 27, 2024

While a handful of cities have pursued approaches to lessening tailpipe emissions from freight vehicles, such as through electric vehicle and cargo e-bike pilot programs , there is a clear gap in regulating the emissions attributable to e-commerce warehouses and the vehicles that enter and exit them.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 5, 2024

Tophole water could still be land applied at the well drilling site, according to DEP’s regulations. Attempts To Regulate Disposal Before Failed There have been attempts to regulate the road dumping of conventional wastewater before to reduce its environmental and health impacts. Read more here. They just kept dumping.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In the first quarter of 2023, most of the state received rainfall exceeding historic averages, with some areas experiencing 200%, or even 300% of average levels. This blog post summarizes key actions taken by state and federal officials in 2023 with respect to California’s water supply and provides an outlook for 2024.

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HumanNature

MAY 22, 2024

Guest Post by Randall Bonnell , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. 7 Winter 2023–24 snow depth and snow water equivalent measured at the Joe Wright SNOTEL station ([link] near Cameron Pass, Colorado. Photographs from May 20, 2021. 1 Colorado’s economy is intrinsically linked to snow. link] Stiffler, C.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2024

In 2021, DRBC held its first Climate Change Forum. In 2022 and 2024, DRBC worked with the Pa. In 2023, the Commission released a report exploring the feasibility of additional freshwater storage to meet future water management and climate adaptation needs. Click Here to sign up for regulator updates.

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