Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Implementation of these new laws will be the true test of that statement, but they provide an exciting starting point. Prior to this new law, the state was required by law to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. Climate Change Mitigation.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2022

Wolf directed the Department of Environmental Protection to conduct an evaluation of how it regulates conventional oil and gas wells to prevent new abandoned wells, tighten review of permit transfers, review compliance with environmental safeguards and make recommendations for changes and actions, including criminal sanctions. Read more here.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

trillion litres of toxic industrial waste to accumulate for over five decades, but now wants us to believe a steering committee with no decision-making power can resolve the issue. Environmental protection laws must be enforced in response to incidents like last year’s major spill and leak from Imperial Oil’s Kearl mine. Less than 0.1

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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. In calendar year 2022, DEP received 731 unconventional shale gas permits. Read more here.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 28, 2022

Both categories are regulated by the Office of Conservation within the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources. The pertinent regulations are in Statewide Order No. It is currently anticipated that primacy for Louisiana will be granted in late 2022 or early 2023. Regulatory approval for CCUS falls under two broad categories.

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E2 Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

The bill would also have changed the procedures employed by New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) for issuing permits under the Environmental Conservation Law. . The amended bill has now been introduced, and it is expected that the bill will pass both houses of the Legislature and be signed into law in the coming weeks.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2022

Randomly selected individual on-site drill cutting and wastewater disposal plans submitted by conventional oil and gas drillers call for drilling wastes to be “dispersed directly to the environment,” according to a review by PA Environment Digest. Ph and conductivity will be tested and reported according to regulations.”

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2022

On September 30, DEP told the Low-Level Waste Advisory Committee shale gas fracking operations in Pennsylvania sent nearly 236,00 cubic feet of radioactive TENORM waste to out-of-state low-level radioactive waste facilities for disposal, more volume than all the industries combined in the four-state Appalachian Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 4, 2022

Michigan’s Lack of Septic System Regulations is Causing Problems for Some of its Most Pristine Lakes Failing systems can allow contaminated water to seep through the earth into nearby bodies of water. Lester Graham, Michigan Radio – May 4, 2022. . The idea of how to deal with human waste has evolved over the decades. .

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2022

Klapkowski said the waste issue was being discussed, because of, “the scale and scope of the program, things that weren't really talked about much because maybe you can deal with it as a one-off because we were plugging 10 or 20 wells a year. There are some options for waste management that involve on-site disposal. said Klapkowski.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

for air quality, waste, and oil and gas violations related to the uncontrolled gas release from Equitrans’ Rager Mountain natural gas storage field and George L Reade 1 storage well in November 2022. The well was brought under control on November 19, and a cement plug was installed on November 20, 2022. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2022

Klapkowski said DEP will be reviewing its regulations and requirements in the first two categories to strengthen them and do a financial evaluation for the third program in an attempt to qualify for these grants, however, DEP is still waiting for U.S. “It Read More Here. Read More Here. Read More Here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 12, 2022

July 12, 2022. New laws make it easier for communities to access state financing for water infrastructure — Michigan Radio. The state agency moved to renew the plant’s permit, allowing 1 milligram per liter of effluent waste per month. Laura Gersony, Fresh Editor. This Week’s Watersheds.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Five other violations involved illegal disposal or handling of liquid or solid waste. Clearly, there is significant non-compliance with relevant laws in the conventional oil and gas industry in Pennsylvania. Why The Assessment? DEP’s assessment was promised by Gov. Read more here. “The Read more here. 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.] barrels or 0.41 barrels or 0.41

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In the 1970s, as concerns about hazardous waste management were growing, several responsible companies asked what is now the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection what they should do with their waste. They also got “certificates of thermal destruction” from Cannons, confirming that their wastes had been incinerated.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 24, 2022

June 30, 2022, 1 pm CDTRegister here. Join us on June 30th to learn why developing tribal law is one of the purest and truest expressions of tribal sovereignty. Abandoned … Continue reading Webinar: Strengthening Tribal Sovereignty through Waste Management Codes and Ordinances?.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2024

The penalties were typically assessed for violations that occurred between 2018 and 2022. Industrial Waste Discharge, Erosion & Sedimentation BMP Failure (2019) [ DEP Inspection Report ] -- Civil Penalty - $15,263 - Mor29 Gathering Pipeline - Greene County, Morris Twp.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2022

On April 25, Kurt Klapkowski, Acting DEP Deputy Secretary for Oil and Gas Management, told the DEP Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board he hopes to have a draft rulemaking covering conventional oil and gas waste processing and disposal ready for public review by the Board’s meeting on July 18. said Dr. Brantley. Absolutely.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The Imperial Oil disaster highlights the ongoing failure of oil companies to responsibly manage their waste and the danger it poses to ecosystems and human health. This was the first time local Indigenous nations, the federal government, the Northwest Territories government and the public were informed about the ongoing leak and the spill.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

On May 10, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund announced PA General Energy, LLC notified the Department of Environmental Protection that it intends to plug its proposed toxic frack-waste injection well in Grant Township after this Memorial Day. Grant Township has been fighting to keep out this frack-waste injection well since 2013.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2024

DEP took higher level enforcement actions against 15 other conventional operators for violations, including issuing Field Orders, Administrative Orders and Compliance Orders and obtaining Court Orders, for spills, illegal disposal of waste, creating a health and safety hazards by venting gas and erosion and sedimentation BMP failures.

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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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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 26, 2023

The Food Donation Improvement Act (FDIA), signed into law December 2022, amends the Bill Emerson Good Samaritan … Continue reading New federal food donation law seen as welcome and overdue

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 7, 2024

The 250 mg/l limit of chlorides in groundwater contamination limit DEP established for the Moody study is significant because a Penn State study released in May 2022 found water runoff from conventional oil and gas wastewater dumping on dirt and gravel roads contained from 7,550 to 10,000 mg/l of chlorides. Read more here - page 50.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Governments across the United States are for the first time regulating greenhouse gas emissions. This entirely new and emergent body of law in response to climate change is bursting onto the scene in 2024 and businesses are beginning to monetize it as a new revenue stream. As such the more than 90% of businesses in the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Stronger State Laws Needed In response to a question from the media, Gov. Shapiro said this on the need for stronger state environmental laws-- “I'd like to see our state laws be much stronger when it comes to being able to tackle pollution and contamination left behind by greedy executives.

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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 second draft of the second package-- dealing primarily with waste disposal, handling and similar requirements-- also was not completed.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 22, 2023

The Rundown The EPA wants to expand the number of coal ash facilities regulated to protect water bodies from contaminants. Lawmakers in Congress introduce bills on hydropower reform , mining law reform , and water technology adoption. The EPA orders Baltimore to protect its drinking water reservoirs from animal waste.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

They have refused to apply the same set of regulations to the Marcellus and conventional drillers, and then have declined to provide the DEP with the necessary resources to aggressively enforce separate sets of regulations. That provides an incentive for abandonment rather than obeying the law. Former Gov. His successor, Gov.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Bernalillo County required the developer to install expensive wastewater treatment and recycling infrastructure to reduce water use and waste. Hughes water supply options for Teravalis, some available now, others that will require a change in state law and regulation, include tapping another aquifer and delivering water by pipeline.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

On November 13, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it collected $62,475 from Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill, LLC to address violations of Pennsylvania’s Solid Waste Management Act and Clean Streams Law.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

To put these numbers in context, DEP just issued its 2022 Oil and Gas Annual Report that said 5,416 notices of violation were issued to conventional operators during all of 2022. Click Here to read the 2022 compliance report summary. Culture Of Non-Compliance’ On December 29, 2022. Read more here. Read more here.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

In order to steer investment toward environmentally sustainable activities, the European Union launched the Taxonomy Regulation framework to define activities deemed sustainable. The following elements of the Regulation proposal are dealt with in this review. of the proposal) and for existing installation only until 2040 (see §4.28).

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2022

Penalties For Waste Disposal Violations The Department of Environmental Protection’s Waste Management Program was also asked as part of the Right To Know request for information on monetary penalties for unlawful waste disposal and management practices by conventional oil and gas operators. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 25, 2022

Department of the Interior announced it has formally awarded an initial $560 million from the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to 24 states to begin work to plug, cap and reclaim orphaned oil and gas wells. On August 25, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

more than in 2022 and 569.9% DEP’s 2022 Oil and Gas Annual Report said 5,416 notices of violation were issued to conventional operators in 2022 and 4,514 violations in 2021 and in 2015, DEP issued just 1,024 violations to conventional operators. Click Here to read the 2022 compliance report summary. more than in 2015.

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