Circle of Blue

JUNE 25, 2025

The most destructive hurricanes of the last two decades – Sandy (2012), Harvey (2017), Maria (2017), Ida (2021), Ian (2022), Helene (2024) – arrived on or after Katrina’s initial landfall date of August 25. State regulators will be in charge of setting standards. Katrina remains the most expensive weather disaster in U.S.

Rainforest

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Plants will also explore the growing role of carbon credit markets in incentivizing the plugging of orphaned and abandoned wells. DEP Conventional Oil & Gas Methane Reduction Well Plugging Grant Applications Due Dec.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 2, 2025

Driving away from state climate targets Transportation has been the biggest sector contributing to climate change in Massachusetts practically every year since the earliest emissions inventory for 1990 and most recently has contributed 38% of state greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2021. Fast forward to 2021.

2018

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 7, 2025

DEP inspections include both scheduled and unscheduled on-site visits to permitted facilities, as well as document reviews to verify compliance with environmental laws and regulations. DEP also issued 495 compliance orders, consent agreements and took other enforcement actions against conventional operators.

2024

Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

New regulations emphasized risk assessment, corporate social responsibility, and due diligence. This prompted it to more tightly regulate SOE activities abroad and further integrate national security considerations into hydropower policies. This blog post is adapted from the authors’ recent publication in The Pacific Review.

2011

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Gas plants failed at a scale that jeopardized grid reliability for large regions of the United States during severe winter storms in 2011 , 2014 , 2018 , 2021 , and 2022. Although the country’s federal energy regulator has had a disconcertingly nonchalant attitude towards these events.)

Fossil Fuels

National Law Center

JULY 29, 2025

Until recently, the contents of an EIS report were outlined in regulations issued by the Council on Environmental Quality (“CEQ”), the agency tasked with administering NEPA. However, following a series of court rulings from late 2024 and early 2025, CEQ has rescinded all of its NEPA-implementing regulations. Infrastructure Coal.

2013

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Even if the resolution is adopted, it would not be binding in the same way as a formal international agreement, but it could still impact how countries regulate marine CDR. Both the London Convention and London Protocol require parties to adopt domestic laws to regulate the “dumping” of “waste and other matter” at sea.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Since its launch in 2021, the grant program has awarded nearly $21 million to 64 projects. Related Articles - Watersheds: -- Environmental Quality Board To Consider Proposed Spill Notification Regulation; Blasting; NOx & VOC Corrections Nov. Click Here to sign up for SRBC’s newsletter.

Conservation

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

The groups, backed by several university scientists, sent a letter to Health Minister Mark Holland on Friday, asking him to put safeguards in place to ensure that impartial PMRA scientists can do their job in service of the public interest and prevent inappropriate industry influence in pesticide regulation.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2025

These efforts have reduced the number of unsafe dams from 210 to just 66, with no loss-of-life dam failures since modern dam safety regulations were passed in 1978. billion to date for reclamation efforts. Over the past 30 years, DEP has reviewed more than 1,700 dam rehabilitation projects and removed over 560 dams.

Environmental Protection

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 6, 2025

In 2021, The Government of Canada made a bold and necessary commitment to limit and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from the oil and gas industry – the largest source of GHG pollution in Canada. Even in Alberta, the majority of the population supports regulating oil and gas pollution. It is a test of political integrity.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

MARCH 27, 2025

City of New York , plumbing and building trade groups challenged New York Citys Local Law 154 of 2021 , a piece of legislation that prohibits fossil fuel combustion in most new buildings. In other words, EPCAs text and structure clearly intended to avoid a patchwork of conflicting and unpredictable regulations.

Law

A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2025

Additionally, tropical forests are especially important for biodiversity, carbon storage, and the regulation of regional and local climates. Today, 17 of the 20 countries with the most significant areas of tropical primary forests have higher forest losses than in 2021, the year the agreement was signed.

2024

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The US only exited the Paris Agreement days after Joe Biden won the 2020 US Presidential Election and swiftly joined it again once Biden was inaugurated in January 2021. Like he did in his first presidential term, he will exit the Paris Agreement, but this time around he will be able to execute it much faster.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2025

First, the “separate projects” at issue in this case were structured activities that are regulated by other agencies, and STB had no ability to prevent or influence those activities due to its limited statutory authority. 1984; Knobe & Shapiro (2021). [4] 1984; Knobe & Shapiro (2021). [4]

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

On November 21, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has determined , in response to a rulemaking petition, the state Environmental Quality Board has the statutory authority to adopt a regulation setting more protective setbacks from shale gas wells for homes, schools and streams in its initial petition review.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 6, 2025

As the year kicks off with a very cold January weather forecast, US power grid operators and the regulators who oversee them are paying close attention to ensure that the grid failures of several past extreme winter storms dont happen again. and would greatly facilitate transmission development on a reasonable timeline.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MAY 30, 2025

By the time the case reached the State Court of Appeals, the key issue to be resolved was whether New York States Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), preempts local regulation in the field of GHG emissions regulationand therefore Local Law 97. And, the language of CLCPA 10 and 11 does not require a different result.

Law

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

But what’s enabled things to get this bad is a lack of regulation. Some new regulations are meant to make the industry more accountable. is “regulating the heck [out] of the fashion industry,” says Rachel Van Metre Kibbe , founder and CEO of advisory firm Circular Services Group, things in the U.S. In the U.S.

Upcycling

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

These legal battles often aim to enforce stronger emissions regulations, push for the implementation of climate policies, and secure compensation for those affected by extreme heat events. Yet the idea of litigating heat wave impacts remains concentrated in the global north. Exxon Mobil Corp. ,

Climate Change

Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

A 2021 EPA report demonstrated that low income, minority, undereducated, and elderly people are disproportionately affected by climate change compared to people outside those groups. Despite the tremendous harm that CAFOs do, the federal government does not effectively regulate methane emissions from CAFOs. Then, the D.C.

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

Fishing is vital to the Cambodian economy, representing 7%-8% of the country’s GDP in 2021. In order to fuel the construction boom in Phnom Penh, sand mining operations on the Tonle Sap/Mekong River around the city have intensified, especially since mining regulations went unenforced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Government

Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2025

For mitigation, States must: regulate, monitor and control, and require and approve environmental impact studies. Regulation includes defining a mitigation target, developing and implementing a rights-based mitigation strategy, and regulating the behavior of businesses.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2024

By burying their heads in the sand, legislators and regulators arent supporting healthy women and families but putting them in much greater danger. Research published in JAMA Pediatrics found that after Texas passed its abortion ban in 2021, infant and neonatal mortality increased. Suppressing scientific investigation costs lives.

Politics

Circle of Blue

MAY 21, 2025

Map: Environment and Climate Change Canada In Thunder Bay, this focused effort helped usher in stricter environmental regulations in the mid-1990s that regulated industrial dumping into Lake Superior. Beach closures were lifted in 2021 after the water was cleared of E. coli bacteria and industrial contamination.

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I have written a lot about why the concept of cumulative impacts: its importance, how it is science-based policy , how it makes the Herculean task of regulating over 80,000 chemicals possible , and its potential to more effectively protect people and reduce disparities in environmental exposures. So what is it?

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

The MCWA applied for and received its first grant through the Lehigh Valley Greenways in 2021 to complete work in cooperation with Northampton County at Gertrude Fox Conservation Area in Hanover Township. This unique park follows the creek along Biery’s Bridge Road east of Center Street in north Bethlehem,” Cook explained.

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

The report provides renewed evidence of the consequences for our health of using fossil fuels In 1970 the Clean Air Act and the newly formed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were given authority by Congress to regulate pollution from passenger cars and other forms of transportation. From 2000 to 2020, national PM 2.5

Ozone

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

But it has passed laws regulating two powerful greenhouse gases, and some other climate laws stretching back over the past five decades. More than three decades later, the Clean Air Act was interpreted by the Supreme Court to authorize EPA regulation of greenhouse gases in the famous case Massachusetts v.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In 2021, a record-breaking heat dome enveloped Oregon , tragically claiming the lives of 72 people. Now, the case faces resistance, with apparent intimidation tactics aimed at discouraging academics and regulators from getting involved in the case. The case names ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute, McKinsey & Co.,

Fossil Fuels

National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

Under that process, NRCS will classify an area as being either a type of wetland, a converted wetland, or an area not subject to Swampbuster regulation. The Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution grants Congress the power “to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States.[]” U.S. 3822 (a)(5).

2013

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Read more here ] The Office of Attorney General also brought about a 2021 settlement with Chesapeake Energy for payment of royalties to landowners with shale gas leases that involved $5.3 million in restitution for Pennsylvania landowners. Read more here.]

2014

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Joshua Kail (R-Beaver) said he thought it was outrageous DEP has a process where any citizen can petition the agency for a change in its regulations. One deals with [ shale gas well plugging] bonding [accepted for evaluation in November 2021 ] in the natural gas industry. EQB regulations at 25 Pa.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

DEP has tried for decades to regulate this practice but failed because the conventional industry simply does not comply. Attempts To Regulate Road Dumping All Failed There have been several attempts by DEP to regulate the road dumping of conventional wastewater to reduce its environmental and health impacts. Forest Service.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

Kurt Klapkowski, DEP Deputy Secretary for Oil and Gas Management, added, I think we've got a lot of room to make administrative changes, things that wouldn't necessarily require regulations or statutory changes, although we would certainly be interested in those types of changes if it seemed like that was the best approach to get to those places.

2025

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

DEP has tried for decades to regulate this practice but failed because the conventional industry simply does not comply. Attempts To Regulate Road Dumping All Failed There have been several attempts by DEP to regulate the road dumping of conventional wastewater to reduce its environmental and health impacts. Forest Service.

Natural Gas