Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In 2022 I visited Glacier National Park for the first time with two close friends. In Montana and around the world, glaciers support ecosystems, serve as year-round water sources, and regulate the climate, among other important ecological functions.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

While municipalities may have some flexibility in how they zone or regulate oil and gas operations – provided they do not exceed limitations in state or federal law – doing so in an unreasonable manner which prevents future natural gas development should render the municipality ineligible for state collected and distributed impact fees.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The IFO projects another $100 million drop in revenue in calendar year 2024 fee revenue from 2022 to $170 million. So, in calendar year 2024, DEP will again have a 75% shortfall in the revenue needed to support its Oil and Gas Regulation Program. million to ensure compliance with state environmental laws and regulations.

Natural Gas

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

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Republican History Of Preventing Local Regulation Of Oil/Gas The original announcement of this legislation references Act 13 of 2012 which originally contained a provision preempting any local regulation of drilling operations included at the insistence of Republicans. In October 2022, Sen. Cecil Township is in Sen.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

DEP has told a series of agency advisory committees they do not plan to adopt new regulations incorporating the EPA rule because state regulations automatically adopt federal requirements. In addition to the model rule requirements, the GP requirements will also contain standard conditions regarding state specific regulations.

Regulations

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

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

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. Embassy in Beijing, where she covered China’s relations with Belt and Road Initiative countries.

2011

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 3, 2024

million, down over $100 million from the record revenue in 2022 of $278.9 So in calendar year 2024, DEP will again have a 75% shortfall in the revenue needed to support its Oil and Gas Regulation Program. million to ensure compliance with state environmental laws and regulations. Read more here.

Natural Gas

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2025

Industry structure is a barrier to accessibility A final barrier to DERs in BIPOC and low income communities is baked into the structure of the utility industry itself, as explained in a 2022 article in Stanford Technology Law Review. But achieving this requires more than just technological innovation.

Electricity

Law Columbia

JULY 21, 2025

On April 14, 2022, the New York State Department of Public Service (DPS) had set a new goal of 10 GW of distributed solar by 2030. It’s not all bad news, though. The CLCPA had also set a target of installing 6 gigawatts (GW) of distributed solar by 2025, which the state achieved ahead of schedule at the end of 2024.

Renewable Energy

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

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

This proposed regulation is narrowly drafted. The [state] Oil and Gas Act, Clean Streams Law and Air Pollution Control Act give EQB the authority and mandate to promulgate regulations to protect health and the environment. The petition for rulemaking meets all the requirements under the board's regulations for moving forward.

Natural Gas

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

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

The Pathways Alliance’s multi-million dollar “Let’s Clear the Air” ad campaign, which began in 2022, is currently being investigated by the Competition Bureau for greenwashing. Today, we released a new video that corrects misinformation presented in one of the Pathways Alliance’s original greenwashing video ads.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

Due to the increasing availability of electricity, Cambodia’s power consumption per capita more than tripled between 2012 and 2022. In 2022, almost 30% of Cambodia’s electricity , about 1,331 megawatts, came from hydropower. By 2030, the Tonle Sap Lake region is expected to lose 40-57 percent of its production.

Government

PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2025

According to our partners at Fractracker, as of 2022, over 100,000 children under the age of 18 live near a fracked well in Pennsylvania. Oil and gas air pollution isn't a theoretical threat to my family. It is a daily reality of our lives. 4 [PaEN] -- Upper Makefield Twp. 4 [PaEN] -- Upper Makefield Twp.

Air Pollution

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. Case History: 2022-2024 Glen Oaks Village Owners v.

Law

PA Environment Daily

JULY 24, 2025

billion cubic feet of natural gas in 2022 across southern Pennsylvania and into several states, while also contaminating nearby ground and waters. Bloomberg News called the Rager Mountain gas leak the worst US climate disaster in 2022. Read more here.] Equitrans was purchased by EQT Corporation in July 2024.]

Natural Gas

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The lax state regulations allow CAFOs to dump phosphorus into waterways, resulting in water quality issues such as cyanobacteria blooms in Lake Champlain. The EPAs focus on Vermonts regulation of CAFOs may surprise others in states like Iowa where confinement barns dot the landscape, and there is 1 Iowan for every 7.3

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

DEP has told a series of agency advisory committees they do not plan to adopt new regulations incorporating the EPA rule because state regulations automatically adopt federal requirements. Click Here for DEPs presentation slides on the federal regulation. Click Here to register to attend via Microsoft Teams. Read more here.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

AUGUST 6, 2025

This due diligence requirement is stringent and includes the procedural obligation to regulate and assess the environmental impacts of private high-emitting projects on the supply side (para 254, 296). C target, high-emitting private sectors must be subject to robust legal regulation. 4 of the Paris Agreement. To reach the 1.5˚C

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.

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

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

That’s 99% of an enormous industry—retail sales of beef alone represented 143 billion dollars in 2022. Despite the tremendous harm that CAFOs do, the federal government does not effectively regulate methane emissions from CAFOs. Citizens can pressure state legislatures to regulate CAFOs more strictly. billion dollars in 2023.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

In 2022, ninety of Texas beaches tested positive for unsafe levels of fecal bacteria (poop!), It also shows the same lack of deference to federal and state scientists and agencies as last summers Chevron case , which another colleague, Dr. Merner , explains has critical ramifications for environmental regulations.

Clean Water Act

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

For example, a 2022 Johns Hopkins study revealed that psilocybin-assisted treatment produced substantial antidepressant effects for participants with major depressive disorder. For example, in 2022 Coloradans voted in favor of Proposition 122, which decriminalizes psilocybin, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ibogaine, and mescaline.

Law

PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2025

Washington County [January 2025] -- Cecil Township Supervisors Direct Solicitor To Prepare Ordinance Increasing Setbacks From Shale Gas Well Pads By At Least 2,500 Feet; Another Hearing, Vote Expected Nov.

Ozone

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 23, 2025

Canada has begun to make some early attempts at AI regulation. The federal government began to study Bill C-27 in 2022, which included the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act, but it did not pass before Parliament was prorogued in early 2025.

Government

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Million In Grants To Support 307 Recreation, Land Conservation, Tree Planting Projects Across Pennsylvania; Next Grant Round Opens Jan. 23 Workshop On Holiday Greens Creations - Bring Home The Cheer In Wayne County -- North Branch Land Trust: Dec.

Conservation

Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2025

As the Supreme Court of Brazil (Supremo Tribunal Federal) warned in 2022 (see here ), “there are no human rights on a dead or sick planet.” For mitigation, States must: regulate, monitor and control, and require and approve environmental impact studies.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 27, 2025

EPA Reconsidering This Regulation On March 12, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced it is reconsidering this entire regulation-- “Reducing Emissions of Methane and Other Pollution from Oil and Natural Gas Operations” (40 CFR Part 60, Subparts OOOOb and OOOOc). “EPA Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

Natural Gas

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

Circle of Blue

MAY 20, 2025

The website of the Argonne National Labs stated in October 2022 that Because Aurora is a liquid-cooled system, Argonne had to upgrade its cooling capacity to pump 44,000 gallons of water through a complex loop of pipes that connects to cooling towers, chillers, heat exchangers, a filtration system and other components.

Cooling