Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Economic growth has hovered around a healthy 5% annually, meaning that GDP doubles about every 15 years and that carbon emissions will also surge without vigorous climate action. In late 2022, Indonesia nudged its goals upward to 32% below BAU, and (41% to 43% below BAU with foreign assistance). It has about the same GDP as Spain.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 18, 2024

Timeline and Background The European Commission originally proposed the CSDDD in February 2022, which would require in-scope companies to conduct due diligence on a number of ESG-related issues throughout their supply chain, with failure to do so resulting in possible fines and civil liability. Davies , Michael D.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The Army Corps also releases a draft review of a massive water-diversion tunnel through California’s contentious delta region. And lastly, the EPA’s draft drinking water standards for PFOA and PFOS are due by the end of the year. The community has struggled for years with unreliable water. The Rundown. News Briefs.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

September 6, 2022. The Erie branch of the NAACP and the environmental group Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future allege that the project’s truncated environmental review was not sufficient, and did not allow for public input. Sign up for Fresh: A Great Lakes Policy Briefing , straight to your inbox, every other Tuesday.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2023

As we bid farewell to 2022 and look forward to 2023, I’ve been reflecting on progress made in the past year, particularly in the implementation of the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program. States are expected to update their plans every year over the five years of the program.).

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

To date, EPA has only approved two such permits and projects two-year review periods for the dozens still under review. EPA granted primacy to Louisiana on December 28, 2023, for Class VI wells, effective February 5, 2024. EPA maintains a tracker on the progress of these applications.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Adjudications legally determine groundwater rights but can take years and cost millions of dollars. So as students in UCLA Law’s California Environmental Legislation and Policy Clinic (Fall 2022-Spring 2023), we worked with Assemblymember Wilson’s office to help make the adjudication process more fair.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

To find out why, the BBC reviewed satellite images and photos posted on social media. Transcript. In Europe, new threats of pollution to waterways have compelled government officials to take action. The European Commission made several moves to protect ecosystems and human health from chemical and biological contaminants.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In its current form, the draft legislation would restore Greenbelt protection to the fifteen key areas of farmland and natural heritage the government stripped of protection in December 2022. Prohibit the Minister from recommending removal of Greenbelt land as a result of 10-year Greenbelt Plan reviews.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

This year has brought new evidence of what major fossil fuel companies knew and when about the role their products play in climate change, as well as what they did in spite of what they knew. It’s déjà vu all over again in 2023, with BP rolling back its climate pledges after record-breaking 2022 profits since Russia’s unjust war on Ukraine.

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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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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen An independent report commissioned by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, titled The London Climate Resilience Review and led by the former chair of the Environment Agency, Emma Howard Boyd, has warned that the UK’s capital is unprepared for climate-fuelled risks.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2023

In 2017, the 12-year-old was walking home when he slipped into a deep pit abandoned by Metallicon S.A Of the more than 700 identified abandoned mining pits in Cameroon, NGOs found that 139 in the last two years had filled with rain to become artificial lakes. Shanties in Portelinha, a favela in São Paulo, Brazil.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2022

Officials with the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy are doing a line-by-line review of Michigan’s Safe Drinking Water Act in hopes of preventing future crises like the revenue shortfall in Benton Harbor that coincided with high lead levels in drinking water. Throughout the Great Lakes region and across the U.S.,

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The working group issued a report in February 2022 identifying 11 specific proposals to revise and improve state water law. Indeed, California currently faces a 21st century water supply crisis; relies on a 20th century water infrastructure system; and is burdened by a 19th century water rights legal regime.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection reported in its Oil and Gas Workload Report for the week ending March 29 that it has only 1 shale gas well permit under review, which has huge implications for the revenue coming in to run its entire Oil and Gas Regulatory Program. So far this year DEP received 95 shale gas well permits.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

She also gave an update on DEP’s initiative to speed up its permit review programs. Greg Vitali (D-Delaware), Majority Chair of the House Committee, outlining staffing shortfalls in several DEP programs, he said, “Full complement [in the Oil and Gas Program] according to DEP, about a year or two ago is 226 positions.

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Physics World

MARCH 10, 2022

She explains how double-anonymous peer review can help eliminate gender and other biases in scholarly publishing. Eggleton also talks about how the double anonymous process can help physicists become better reviewers. The United Nations International Year of Glass 2022 kicked off earlier this year.

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HumanNature

MARCH 15, 2024

Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Colorado State University The 2023 was the warmest year on record of history (World Meteorological Organization 2023). As a result,transitioning away from carbon-intensive sources of energy is critical to address the climate crisis (Hernandez and Newell 2022).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2023

Jessica Shirley, DEP Acting Executive Deputy, said the misnamed Well Plugging Restricted Account which sets aside permit review fees, fines and penalties to fund the Oil and Gas Program, “Is in jeopardy. In calendar year 2022, DEP received 731 unconventional shale gas permits. In response to questions from Sen. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

Conventional oil and gas operators do not pay these fees or any fees other than minimal permit review fees. County and municipal governments directly affected by drilling will receive a total of $157,349,593 for the 2022 reporting year. 17,889,950 will be distributed to state agencies, as specified by Act 13.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2024

After review, the Department has determined these 19 wells have been abandoned, consistent with the definition of “Abandoned well” established in 58 Pa CS Section 3203….” DEP said 17 of the wells were used for injection/withdrawal of natural gas and two were observation wells. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

On January 2, the PJM Interconnection posted a 2023 In Review summary of key actions taken to deal with a variety of challenges facing the evolving electricity industry, all with the goal of maintaining the reliability of the bulk electric system as more renewable resources connect to the grid. Click Here to read PJM's 2023 In Review Report.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

According to Leatherstocking’s website , their cost of natural gas increased from $2.9365/MCF in November 1, 2020 to $3.5469/MCF in November 1, 2021 to $9.4244/MCF in July 1, 2022. On September 19, the Public Utility Commission is holding a hearing on a proposed 33.2 Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. percent to 19 percent.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

On November 29, the Environmental Hearing Board accepted a settlement agreement between the Department of Environmental Protection and EQT Production Company involving appeals of DEP actions related to a June 19, 2022 frack-out involving the Lumber and Spleen Splitter shale gas well pads in Springhill Township, Greene County. Read more here.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 11, 2024

The motion, asking staff to review the City’s Sponsorship and Advertising Policy of the city, now goes to Council for a vote on April 3. It even signed the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty in 2022. The 2022 derecho cost the City $50 million , and a family lost their father and husband. It’s possible.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 12, 2024

April 13 PA Bulletin, page 1993 ) -- The Department of Environmental Protection approved a 10-year renewal of the Solid Waste Permit for the Covanta Plymouth Municipal Waste Combustion Facility in Plymouth Twp., mile long gas pipelines in Bell, Loyalhanna and Salem Townships, Westmoreland County. Montgomery County. Montgomery County.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The review concluded that “the AER followed the existing policies, standards, procedures, and/or processes” even though it did not notify Indigenous nations of the incident for nine months, leaving them unaware of the risks of consuming water and game harvested in the area. million litres of toxic tailings spilling into the environment.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 1, 2023

By Rachael Marques, PCCD Watershed Specialist During the 2022 surface water sampling season, Pike County Conservation District (PCCD) staff sampled 17 sites for macroinvertebrates and 6 sites for fish throughout Pike County! This adds to over 20 years of data on Pike County streams. Geological Survey (USGS). Click Here to register.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2024

The Shell Plant began operations in November 2022 and has been operating under a construction permit DEP keeps renewing. Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community sent a letter to DEP on March 21, 2014 requesting that once they receive Shell’s application it should be posted on DEP’s website so that the community has ample time for review.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2024

Another example last year was when a spill of conventional wastewater contaminated a spring serving as the water supply for the Village Of Reno in Venango County. DEP has given the operator multiple opportunities over the last five and a half years to clean up the polluted well site and met with the operator so he understands what is needed.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 26, 2024

In North Carolina, adopting a new state rule involves many steps and multiple levels of review. January 26, 2024. But the rulemaking process has recently obstructed a water quality standard in ways not intended by the N.C. Administrative Procedure Act (APA). 1,4 dioxane. EPA published those findings in a 2020 health risk assessment of 1.4

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2024

This article by Lilly Riddle was first published by Spotlight PA on April 4, 2024 -- As part of its 2022 plea deal with the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, natural gas company Energy Transfer agreed to fund the testing and remediation of residential water supplies polluted by the construction of its Mariner East II pipeline.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 29, 2024

an infrastructure consulting firm operating in Pennsylvania and surrounding states with more than 60 years of experience in civil engineering and a reputation for innovative water quality solutions. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2023

The bills include-- -- Conventional Well Bonding: House Bill 962 (Vitali-D-Delaware), legislation that would restore DEP’s authority to review conventional oil and gas well plugging bonding amounts every two years. Background As part of the July 2022 budget settlement, the General Assembly passed and Gov. Read more here.

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CEQA Developments

DECEMBER 7, 2022

On December 5, 2022, the real party in interest (Arakelian Enterprises, Inc. dba Athens Services) and respondent City of Thousand Oaks both filed petitions for review in the California Supreme Court in G.I. City of Thousand Oaks (2022) Cal.App.5th. Industries v. County of Merced (2013) 216 Cal.App.4th Shatz, can be found here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2024

This list of 93 operators and 271 wells was compiled from the Right To Know information DEP provided and information from the weekly PA Oil & Gas Compliance Dashboard published by PA Environment Digest based on weekly reviews of DEP’s oil and gas inspection reports [ Read more here ]. Read more here.

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