PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

This condition was originally discovered by DEP on October 4, 2018 and the operator has been trying to correct the problem since then. DEP’s inspection reports for both wells indicate the violations issued on May 27, 2021 continue. SPLP estimates around five days for the cleanup.” “DEP Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Back in 2018, California legislators were considering a bill that would have created an independent governance structure for California’s grid operator , the California Independent System Operator (CAISO). The 2018 bill did not pass, but the idea never faded. The list goes on, but you get the point.

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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. Read more here (2017-2021). Bond Forfeiture - $25,000 (2018 violations) -- Buck 2 - Jefferson County, Rose Twp. [ Read more here. Read more here (2022).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Illinois utilities Ameren and Commonwealth Edison (ComEd) are preparing distribution grid plans for the first time under new requirements established by the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA) , which the Illinois Legislature passed in September 2021. Illinois utilities contributed to that trend. Starting with stakeholders.

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Law and Environment

JULY 10, 2023

Covered buildings will be required to gradually reduce emissions, relative to a 2018–2019 baseline, over compliance periods starting in 2026 and 2030. While other cities, including the City of Boston, have passed laws requiring net zero emissions for certain buildings, Cambridge is among the first to set any such target for 2035.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 , the notorious law the Legislature passed in 2019 that slapped Ohio ratepayers with a monthly surcharge to bail out two struggling nuclear plants. 6 was signed into law by Ohio Gov. Ohio regulators need to act. Even if you don’t live in Ohio, you may have heard about H.B. But thanks to H.B. Mike DeWine.

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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 A 2018 deal showed the tremendous speculative value of land/water deals in the Columbia River Basin. World of scarcity’.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

EPA’s Class VI Regulations Section 1421 of the Safe Drinking Water Act mandates that EPA establish Underground Injection Control (UIC) program regulations to protect underground sources of drinking water (USDW) from risks associated with underground fluid injections.

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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. In September 2018, in Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

She contends the federal Natural Gas Act mandates the federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has “exclusive jurisdiction over an appeal which challenges any state agency’s action in either approving or denying a permit when the state agency acts on the basis of federal law.” 2018)) Sen. of Bordentown v. of Bordentown v.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 20, 2024

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. Non-Compliance A Norm Non-compliance with regulations and the law is not an isolated event with conventional well owners. Read more here.

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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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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 13, 2021

Fish and Wildlife Service announced a proposed rule to restore criminal penalties for accidental killing of migratory birds, revoking the January 7, 2021, final regulation that limited the enforcement of the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Public comments must be received or postmarked on or before June 7, 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In March, a PUC Administrative Law Judge Joel H. On December 8, the Public Utility Commission voted unanimously to approve a $48,000 refund of a $51,000 penalty paid to the PUC by Sunoco Pipeline for Mariner East Pipeline construction violations. C-2020-3023129. Click Here to conduct a docket search. C-2020-3023129.

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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. (see

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2023

Milloy’s resolution seeks to rescind a successful 2021 resolution from the Dutch activist shareholder Follow This that called on Chevron to substantially reduce its so-called Scope 3 global warming emissions which come from burning the oil and gas the company extracts and which account for 90 percent of its total emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2024

The suit, in which the Allegheny County Health Department intervened as a co-plaintiff, was filed in response to 102 consecutive days of massive, illegal emissions of sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide after a catastrophic fire at the Clairton Coke Works on Christmas Eve in 2018. million pounds of toxics to the county’s air in 2021.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 20, 2021

FDA’s decision to issue this investigator-specific guidance follows publication of a draft sponsor-specific safety reporting guidance in June 2021, and is part of an effort to ultimately replace the older guidance documents with role-specific guidance. 2021) (RWE Draft Guidance). A summary of these documents follows below.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Conventional oil and gas operators racked up 4,386 violations of environmental regulations in calendar year 2021 alone. In an October 2020 presentation to the Climate Change Advisory Committee, DEP said in 2018 two conventional oil and gas well operators abandoned approximately 2,750 oil and gas wells between them.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2022

The year the violations were issued are noted as are the well pad names-- Apex Energy (2021) -- PF Eisaman 3 - Hempfield Twp., McKean County EQT Prod (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021) -- ASHBAUGH 1H - Ashland Twp., McKean County EQT Prod (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021) -- ASHBAUGH 1H - Ashland Twp., Read more here.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 16, 2022

Countries around the world have increasingly adopted climate change laws over the last two decades. This is partially attributable to the dynamism in international climate negotiations but also a growing appreciation of the crucial role that national laws and policy measures play. Overview of the Climate Change Act 2021.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 17, 2021

After fiscal year (FY) 2020, when the Office of the Whistleblower (OWB) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC or Commission) awarded a record-breaking $175 million to 39 individuals, FY 2021 has proven to be even more active. The OWB’s activity in the first half of 2021 continues the uptick in awards seen in 2020.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

15, 2021, incident that harmed Mikaila and another farmer is just one in a larger pattern of growing hostilities between herders and farmers in this region. At least 3,641 lives were lost to the crisis between 2016 and 2018, according to Amnesty International , with over half of the fatalities recorded in 2018 alone.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

That’s 25% more than in 2021. DEP reported it had issued conventional oil and gas operators 4,514 notices of violation in 2021 in the 2021 Oil and Gas Annual Report. Read more here. Read more here. Click Here to read the 2022 compliance report summary. Culture Of Non-Compliance’ On December 29, 2022.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

In 2018, Toyota was ordered to pay out $21.9 Healey Individual Records & Summaries Click here for violation data on Toyota Total Penalties $1,577,928,188 (June 10, 2021) Number of Records 42 Photo Gallery Image Toyota protest for dismissed workers photo Lennon Ying-Dah Wong Read More Image Toyota no.1 China fines Toyota 87.6

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

The LCFS Program was most recently, and most significantly, amended in 2018 in response to the 2017 Scoping Plan, which “made it clear that developing a more ambitious LCFS is a critical part of the state’s efforts to achieve the SB 32 goal.” [2] 2018), available at : [link]. [3] Endnotes. [1] 1] Draft Scoping Plan at 225. [2]

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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. In 2021, conventional oil and gas operators reported road dumping over 580,000 gallons of drilling wastewater. Read more here.

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

On August 27, 2021, the US Department of the Treasury (Treasury) announced that it had reached a settlement agreement (the Settlement Agreement) with Romanian bank First Bank SA (First Bank) and its US parent company, JC Flowers & Co. (JC What Were First Bank’s Violations?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2023

The Commission voted 5-0 to initiate a proceeding that will result in the issuance of a policy statement on EV charging rate design , directing the PUC’s Law Bureau and Bureau of Technical Utility Services to prepare a proposed policy statement for consideration. DeFrank and Commissioner Kathryn L.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

According to Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI), Combined labelled issuance of Green, Social and Sustainability (GSS), Sustainability linked and Transition debt reached nearly half a trillion (USD496.1bn) in first half of 2021. Transparent country-specific regulations need to be put in place. ” (2021). Egli, Florian.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2023

On May 18, the Public Utility Commission adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Order proposing amendments to current regulations for the Low-Income Usage Reduction Program (LIURP) and requesting public comment. The PUC’s existing LIURP regulations apply to natural gas distribution companies and electric distribution companies.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As noted at the end of last year, 2021 was significant for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. The Ministry of the Environment appealed on points of law to the Supreme Administrative Court. By Maria Antonia Tigre. Photo by Matt Palmer on Unsplash.

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CEQA Developments

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Real Parties in Interest) (2021) Cal.App.5th. Friends, Artists and Neighbors of Elkhorn Slough v. California Coastal Commission (Heritage/Western Communities, Ltd., While the dispositive rule is a simple one, the case’s more complex facts and procedural history make it interesting – and somewhat disturbing – on a number of levels.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2023

That intentionally is a broad mandate, so it makes sense that Department of Environmental Protection regulations protecting the environment also must be broad. Josh Shapiro should implement recommendations by a state grand jury that he empaneled as attorney general in 2018. With the administration’s regulatory authority affirmed, Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The groups noted on the permit application Olympus Energy checked the box saying-- “Was/Is the facility owner or operator in violation of any DEP regulation, permit, order, or schedule of compliance at this or any other facility or project site within the past 5 years?” DEP Inspection Record No. 3363279 (IR) is included as Exhibit 2.

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Environmental Protection Law 2018 2022 52

CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

County of Inyo (2021) __ Cal.App.5th__. As a matter of law, the Court also held the County improperly relied on the existing facilities exemption for the project. or if the public agency failed to give the notice required by law.” City of Los Angeles etc. Factual/Procedural Background. Applying the holding of Tomlinson v.

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