Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2022

But if Justice declined to act, the two intrepid canoers were positioned to make a political statement as well. Some history: Congress passed annual Rivers and Harbors Acts in the late 19th century, to make appropriations to the Corps of Engineers, to regulate construction in navigable waters, and to protect navigable channels.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex.,

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

James successfully sued to subject Formosa to an environmental review over the 800 tons of toxic air pollutants as well as the 13.6 A court ultimately revoked the company’s air permits in September 2022, in a major victory for environmental justice activists. billion complex in St. billion complex in St. James, Louisiana.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

This is part of an occasional series of posts about the evolution of pollution standards. Today’s subject is pollution control for new vehicles, which have been known to cause smog since the 1960s. The history of these pollution standards is quite distinctive. trillion miles in 2022. (If compliance option.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Remove Coca-Cola as sponsors of COP27 Georgia Elliott-Smith | Change.org | September 30, 2022 Coca-Cola spends millions of dollars greenwashing their brand, making us believe that they are solving the problem.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

July 12, 2022 — On June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision striking down an Obama era rule regulating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing power plants. The decision in West Virginia v. EPA held the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan Rule exceeded EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2022

-- AG Shapiro: Coterra Energy, Formerly Cabot Oil & Gas, Pleads No Contest To 15 Criminal Charges Related To Polluting Water Supplies In Dimock, Susquehanna County [PaEN] -- DEP Has Ordered A ‘Top To Bottom Review’ Of How It Regulates Underground Natural Gas Storage Areas As A Result Of The Equitrans Gas Leak In Cambria County In Nov.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. In 2022, Texas, along with several other states and industry groups representing fuel manufacturers (together, Petitioners), challenged EPA’s new emissions standards in court.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2022

What it will really do is deregulate the oil and gas industry, attempt to prevent federal regulation of the coal industry and power plants, deny critical funding to DEP to regulate oil and gas drilling, withdraw Pennsylvania from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and reopen state forest land for oil and gas leasing.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

Republican Senators Doug Mastriano (R-Adams) [also a candidate for Governor] and Scott Hutchinson (R-Venango) announced Friday they plan to introduce legislation to “stabilize energy costs” for Pennsylvanians and do away with “cumbersome taxes, regulations and restrictions” handicapping the state’s energy sector. Right now DEP has a $10.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

Meanwhile, between 2012 and 2022, installed wind and solar power more than tripled , according to American Clean Power. percent the three renewables generated in 2022 exceeded coal’s output— 19.5 EPA Supreme Court decision in 2022. First, the court did not question the EPA’s authority to regulate power plant carbon emissions.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In this issue: Apply for the 2022 Katherine S. Apply for the 2022 Katherine S. ESA invites you to apply for the virtual 2022 Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA). Several 1-2 hour training and prep sessions will occur in late January and February 2022 over Zoom. McCarter Graduate Student Policy Award. or WOTUS. “In

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Fee On Greenhouse Gases -- WPost: Cost Of Climate Change Impacts Far Surpass Government Estimates, Study Says PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- AP: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano Sues U.S. Other States/National/International -- Financial Times: Oil & Gas Industry Condemns First U.S.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Opposition to CAFOs Mounts Across the Nation Toxic manure discharges from large livestock operations is major source of water pollution. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue – December 1, 2022. It’s now being raised as a political issue. That may be changing. As a legal issue. As a legislative issue.”.

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