Circle of Blue

MAY 30, 2023

May 30, 2023 Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today. In Minnesota , stricter penalties for water overuse are signed into state law. “We I’m begging the band to just act.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2023

Elder Vogel (R-Beaver) at the March 22 Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on DEP’s budget request , the Department of Environmental Protection said it is projecting a $1,581,000 deficit in funding for the Oil and Gas Regulation Program. The claims that Pennsylvania has the toughest oil and gas regulations in the U.S.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

So far, the country has adopted several laws to strengthen the legal framework towards achieving these goals. Colombia ’s Legal Climate Framework Colombia’s climate change laws are extensive and align with its open commitment to fight climate change and its devastating effects. Law 629 of 2000 on the Kyoto Protocol.

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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2023

New York State Office of Renewable Energy Siting , a lawsuit challenging the state’s March 2021 regulations for siting and permitting major renewable energy facilities. Lawsuit Challenging ORES’s Regulations In March 2021, ORES promulgated regulations to implement the new siting process, as required by statute.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the December 16 PA Bulletin prohibiting the sale of electronic devices by Wiltronic Corp (IVIEW) as a result of violations of the Covered Device Recycling Act-- Pennsylvania’s electronics waste recycling law. ( Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection has issued a record 5,653 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas operators in 2023, with two months left in the year, according to DEP’s November 3, 2023 Weekly Workload Report. That’s 25% more than in 2021. Read more here. Read more here. Click Here to read more.

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Lawyers, bar associations, and law societies have an important but not fully recognized role to play in achieving the net zero goal in the Paris Agreement. Climate Change as an Increasingly Common Feature of Law Practice Climate change is no longer an issue of concern only to environmental and energy lawyers. John Kerry, then U.S.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 8, 2023

Maryland is on the cusp of being the first state in the country to authorize use of the new 2021 edition of the International Green Construction Code for public and private building. The Maryland Department of Labor is expected to publish the Notice of Proposed Action on January 13, 2023. The backstory is important.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A district court has ruled that federal law does not preempt an indirect source rule that targets emissions associated with warehouses in Southern California. A hearing on the motions for summary judgment was held on April 17, 2023.

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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. More than 150 landholders in New South Wales were penalized last quarter by the National Resources Access Regulator (NRAR) for breaching state water laws. IN RECENT WATER NEWS. ON THE RADAR.

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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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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.

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Endangered Species Law

JUNE 28, 2021

On June 29, 2021, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) will publish an interim final rule (IFR) extending by two years the deadline by which federal agencies are required to adopt updated National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations by two years. There will be no public.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. German parliament adopts a law to end coal use by 2038 at the latest. Amendments to the Climate Action Law are adopted, setting a binding 2045 date for carbon neutrality, with a 2031 target of a 65% emissions reduction compared with 1990. Renewables are 42% of electricity.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 29, 2023

This blog post is a compilation of responses to the top 10 questions from our webinar last week, “ Does Your Lease Address New GHG Laws? ” The top 10 questions we received were: How does a building owner count its greenhouse gas emissions to report to the government under this new Maryland law ? That Alternative Compliance Fee (i.e.,

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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% For all climate laws related to Spain, see here.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We then drafted state legislation to require disclosure of climate change-related financial risks, which was introduced by California State Senator Henry Stern as SB 449 (Stern) in the 2021-2022 session. While SB 449 was held in the Appropriations Committee in 2022, Senator Stern re-introduced the bill with amendments as SB 261 in 2023.

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Acoel

MAY 24, 2023

Posted May 24, 2023 by Tracy Hester In a jurisprudential pile-up, the Fifth Circuit has become the arena for two simultaneous legal battles that may shape the law of standing and realign federal environmental law. While all eyes are on the U.S. 8, the Texas abortion bounty statute. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade in 2022.

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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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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. The ICC will review the plans and issue a decision by end of 2023. billion to $2.2

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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

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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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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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 16, 2023

The 2021 Oil and Gas Program Annual Report issued by DEP in December shows conventional oil and gas operators received a record 610 notices of violation for abandoning wells without plugging them and unconventional shale gas operators received 27 NOVs. Click Here for DEP’s summary of violations for 2021. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This editorial first appeared in the Scranton Times on February 24, 2023 -- Many state lawmakers long ago abandoned their constitutional duty to preserve the environment by instead representing the natural gas industry. That provides an incentive for abandonment rather than obeying the law. Former Gov. His successor, Gov.

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Law and Environment

JULY 10, 2023

On June 26, 2023, the Cambridge City Council voted to amend the city’s Building Energy Use Disclosure Ordinance (BEUDO) to require large non-residential buildings to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2035 and mid-size non-residential buildings to do so by 2050.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 9, 2023

That amount is down from the 236,150 cubic feet of TENORM (Technically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material) sent in 2021. From 2017 to 2022, shale gas operators sent a total of 911,006 cubic feet of radioactive TENORM waste to low-level radioactive waste facilities for disposal. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Customer Use Heating Oil Tanks Exempt The 1989 state Storage Tank and Spill Prevention Act does not regulate tanks used for storing heating oil for consumptive use on the premises, unless they are specifically regulated by Federal law. Click Here for information on aboveground storage tanks regulated by DEP.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

The agenda for the December 1 DEP Oil & Gas Technical Advisory Board meeting includes updates on Chapter 78 regulation changes, the new federal abandoned well plugging program and more. The last draft of the waste handling regulation update was posted by DEP in September, 2021. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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E2 Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Mandelbaum , a shareholder in global law firm Greenberg Traurig , LLP’s Philadelphia office , is among the professionals recognized on the 2023 City & State Pennsylvania Fifty Over 50 list. Greenberg Traurig received a first-tier ranking in the “Environmental Law” and “Litigation — Environmental” categories in the U.S.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

The AB 398 changes to Cap-and-Trade Program started to phase-in on January 1, 2021. Today, the Program regulates roughly 450 entities responsible for roughly 85% of the state’s GHG emissions. These design features include: Doubling the annual cap decline from 2 to 4 percent from 2021 to 2030.

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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.

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

On October 23, 2023, EPA announced a new rulemaking effort to improve the management of end of life solar panels. This change in the RCRA regulations could provide one system for handling all discarded solar panels, without regard to hazardous or not. nothing that 900 degrees F will not thermally separate?

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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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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 14, 2023.

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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.” of Bordentown v. of Bordentown v. F.E.R.C. , 2018)) Sen.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2023

O n Monday, April 17, 2023, the U.S. In 2021, the District Court ruled that the Berkeley ordinance was not preempted by EPCA , rejecting the notion that EPCA preempts local ordinances that do “not facially address any of those [energy conservation or energy use] standards.” City of Berkeley.

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