Law and Environment

JULY 2, 2021

On June 29, 2021, a cohort of New York local governments (including many where large-scale solar projects are currently proposed), community organizations, and avian interest groups filed a lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court (the State’s trial-level court) against the Office of Renewable Energy Siting (“ORES”).

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Water regulators investigate nearly 1000 reports of violations to the Water Management Act in New South Wales. Despite unprecedented and ongoing decline of freshwater resources, research and conservation related to freshwater ecosystems receive far less attention than those of terrestrial and marine realms. IN RECENT WATER NEWS.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

By Amy Mall, Natural Resources Defense Council This article first appeared on the NRDC Blog July 21, 2021 -- The U.S. A new NRDC report describes these risks and how weak regulations fail to appropriately protect workers and communities. oil and gas industry produced an estimated one trillion gallons of produced water in 2017.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The Allegheny County Conservation District accomplished its goal of planting its 3,000th tree during its 75th anniversary year. ACCD celebrates 75 years of contributions to the county, including preserving farmland, restoring local land and waterways and protecting natural resources through the enforcement of state regulations.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Recent research reveals California’s failure to regulate groundwater contamination from the oil and gas industry. The post The Stream, October 26, 2021: Oil and Gas Developers in California Have Been Contaminating Groundwater With Little Oversight, Study Finds appeared first on Circle of Blue. IN RECENT WATER NEWS. 288 GALLONS.

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Endangered Species Law

JULY 28, 2022

Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) seeking comment on species conservation banking. Species conservation banking gives developers and other entities the opportunity to mitigate potential harm to wildlife by allowing them to purchase habitat or species credits from bank owners.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Central American nation has won praise for its conservation efforts, including in reforestation, and continues to attract international finance to support its initiatives. The Central American nation has secured more than US$135 million in finance for nature in recent years, another leaf in its conservation success story.

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SPR Law

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

On December 22, 2021, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to amend the Environmental Remediation Program regulations at 6 NYCRR Part 375.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2021

On October 28, the Delaware River Basin Commission posted draft changes to its Water Code regulating wastewater from high volume hydraulic fracking oil and gas drilling operations. Visit DRBC’s Natural Gas Drilling webpage for more information on its regulations covering this activity. Click Here to sign up for regulator updates.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

By Eli Francovich, Columbia Insight — December 7, 2021. And while state laws across the region regulate how, when and why water rights are sold, some worry it won’t be enough to hold back the tide. “I If climate change forecasts prove accurate, the summer of 2021 was a dress rehearsal for the future. World of scarcity’.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

As a result of the spill, the PA American Water Company shut down its water supply intake at its Silver Spring Water Treatment Plan and immediately issued an advisory for its 42,000 customers to conserve water. Background On Storage Tanks There are 21,251 underground storage tanks now registered and regulated by DEP, as of September 30, 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Wolf Proposes $450 Million Growing Greener III Initiative Funded By Federal American Rescue Plan; Bipartisan Support Building For Conservation Allocation [PaEN] -- Guest Essay: Commonwealth Budget Should Fully Fund Environmental Protection - By Rep. 18-21 -- CitizensV: Great Backyard Bird Count Begins Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On November 16, the Delaware River Basin Commission announced it has extended the public comment period on draft changes to its Water Code regulating wastewater from high volume hydraulic fracking oil and gas drilling operations to February 28. Click Here to sign up for regulator updates. Read more here. to no later than 4:30 p.m.

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Ohio Environmental Law

MARCH 29, 2020

Both the federal government and state governments have been moving forward with significant new regulation of the PFAS compounds. Summarized below are actions taken at both the federal and state levels to regulate PFAS substances. Federal Regulation of PFOS and PFOA. On February 20, 2020, U.S.

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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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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

In 2021 the Arizona Department of Water Resources halted new residential home construction in Pinal County, south of Phoenix, because groundwater pumping exceeded the supply. . Until there’s scarcity most developers aren’t incentivized to conserve water,” said Brock Smethills. The consequences are being felt across the arid West.

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E2 Law Blog

AUGUST 31, 2021

Conservation Comm’n of Norton v. In Massachusetts, conservation commissions have generally regulated work in wetlands since the 1960s under the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act, Mass. Pesa , SJC-13058 (Mass. That holding not only enlarges liability, but perhaps complicates the diligence that prudent buyers will undertake.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 30, 2023

In Minnesota , stricter penalties for water overuse are signed into state law. “We But instances of noncompliance have cropped up over the past few years, as have accidents that strained the state’s groundwater reserves — including Enbridge Line 3’s puncturing of aquifers in 2021, or farmers overdrawing water during drought that same year.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 8, 2021

The area at Duffins Creek now returns to zoning laws applied by the City of Pickering and its status as an “urban reserve” with environmentally protective zoning is restored. In March 2021, the groups secured a halt on any development on the wetlands until the lawsuit was resolved.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

On February 15, the Department of Environmental Protection told the Environmental Quality Board conventional oil and gas drilling companies only paid $46,100 of the $10,600,000 it cost for DEP to regulate that industry in FY 2020-21. percent of the cost of regulating their industry; the unconventional industry pays the remainder.

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Washington Nature

JANUARY 10, 2022

Conservancy forester Kyle Smith takes measurements in the old-growth forest at TNC’s Ellsworth Creek Preserve in southwest Washington. Washington’s Conservation Futures program has allowed counties to permanently protect open space, farmland and forests, and to build and maintain parks and trails. But there’s still a lot happening!

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Circle of Blue

MAY 3, 2023

Vending machine selling water on Maui, 2021. The Supreme Court will decide which wetland ecosystems are included in the Clean Water Act, the law that regulates the dumping of pollutants into American waters. Many of the water conservation plans that have been created still depend on the drought ending, which hasn’t yet happened.

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Acoel

APRIL 24, 2023

Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Economic Sector in 2021. Source: EPA) As Seth Jaffe posted last week, the 9th Circuit recently struck down the City of Berkeley’s first-in-the-nation electrification ordinance that prohibited the installation of gas infrastructure in new buildings, finding the ordinance preempted by federal law.

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Law Columbia

MAY 29, 2024

The Advisory Opinion handed down by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) on 21 May 2024 is truly remarkable. Under the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea ( UNCLOS ), States must now take all necessary measures to prevent, reduce and control GHG emissions. under Arts.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Further, the Act on Promotion of Global Warming Countermeasures (national legislation providing the general framework concerning the adoption and implementation of measures to combat global warming) was revised in May 2021. Civil law cases. The revised Act explicitly included the pledge for net zero by 2050. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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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. 2015-011-L ).

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Energy Policy & Conservation Act (EPCA), which sets nationwide energy conservation standards for many common appliances and preempts state and local standards, preempts Berkeley’s 2019 ban on natural gas connections to newly-constructed buildings. Each of these spheres is regulated at the federal, state, and local levels.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

because they are not complying with the state’s electronics recycling law. ( PA Bulletin, page 6008 ) -- Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Formal Notice Of Special Fall Round Of Community Conservation Partnership Grants. Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations? PA Bulletin, page 6009 ).

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) preempts a local ordinance in Berkeley, California that prohibits most natural gas hook-ups to newly-constructed buildings. . The California Restaurant Association, an industry group, challenged Berkeley’s ordinance, arguing that it was preempted by both state and federal law.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2022

Groups defend federal government’s authority to regulate single-use plastics. More than two dozen plastic manufacturers have filed a lawsuit in Federal Court challenging the new regulations. Government action to regulate plastics is an essential step to stop plastic pollution at the source.”.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 20, 2022

That uncertainty is one reason some states are hesitant to include tribes in river negotiations, said Becky Mitchell, the director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board. State laws prevent some tribes from taking water from the river if they can’t prove how much is theirs. (Jeremy Wade Shockley for CPR News).

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Washington Nature

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Congresswoman Kim Schrier, MD, an original sponsor of the bipartisan National Prescribed Fire Act of 2021 , visited Cascadia TREX this week to see good fire in action. It was an incredible experience to join firefighters and The Nature Conservancy yesterday for their prescribed burn,” said Rep. It’s one thing to see photos.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It’s an expert, hours-long guided excursion across Lenawee County during which Taylor explains the cross-cutting complexities, underperforming government programs, ineffective conservation investments, and cascading ecological and health threats from liquid manure that aren’t visible but exist everywhere across her region’s bucolic landscape.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2023

to resolve numerous violations of the Clean Streams Law, and the Dam Safety and Encroachments Act, that arose during Sunoco's construction of the Pennsylvania Pipeline Project – Mariner East II. The violations occurred between 2018 and 2021 in Chester, Berks, Blair, Cambria, Chester, Cumberland, Delaware, Perry, and York Counties.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Between March 14, 2019, and April 9, 2021, DEP and the Allegheny, Beaver, and Washington County conservation districts, on DEP’s behalf, conducted at least 67 inspections of the pipeline construction sites to determine compliance by Shell Pipeline Company and Minnesota Limited with permits as well as state laws and regulations.

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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. Instead, the U.S.

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