E2 Law Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

There have been a series of recent high-profile legislative actions and media articles concerning attempts to ban natural gas appliances or natural gas service to consumers over alleged safety and air pollution issues. On April 17, 2023, in California Restaurant Association v. Berkeley , a three-judge panel of the U.S.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 7, 2023

The Beacon Blog: Consider It Briefed Environmental Justice in 2023: Equal Funding for All? Spurred by the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to inclusivity, economic security, and climate resilience, 2023 brings historic federal funding in the fight against climate inequities. Designed to expedite investments through the U.S.

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Law Columbia

MAY 25, 2023

Still, some gaps in implementation remain, and advances like the release of programmatic details from federal agencies, the proliferation of IRA guidebooks and other reference materials, and the increasing state and local resources aimed at tapping the new law’s funding have not fully positioned local governments to take maximal advantage.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule has the potential to significantly reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as well as harmful air pollutants like fine particulates (PM2.5) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the numerous commercial and government fleets of MHD vehicles in the state.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Even when accounting for pollution from electricity generation, electric trucks can significantly reduce air pollution and get us on a better track to addressing climate change. Some of the same researchers are currently working on a comparable study for the United States and their preliminary results are similar.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Unconventional shale gas operators were issued a total of 1,310 notices of violation in 2023, according to DEP’s December 29 Workload Report. Abandoning Wells Without Plugging DEP issued 10 unconventional shale gas operators 20 notices of violation at 11 well pads during 2023 for abandoning wells without plugging them. .:

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 24, 2023

And lastly, the EPA establishes that water and wastewater are eligible categories for billions in federal funding to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. “We Water and wastewater improvements that reduce greenhouse gas emissions or air pollution are eligible for funding. government water policy.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In 2023, Canada experienced its worst ever wildfire season , with 167,000 people forced to evacuate their homes under 211 federal evacuation orders. Whether we experience an affordable and safe future, or one of spiralling costs and climate impacts, depends most on one thing: government action.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Although the country has said it will go all renewable from 2023, its current construction of lignite power plants will generate emissions for decades. Despite green rhetoric from the government, the situation is not likely to improve soon. Air pollution and emissions from coal are problems across Indonesia.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2023

The closure in January 2016 of one of Pittsburgh’s biggest coal-processing plants led to immediate and lasting declines in emissions of fossil fuel–related air pollutants. Before closing under community pressure, the plant had incurred millions of dollars in government fines for air and water pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Shale gas development requires multiple facilities and infrastructure of varying size in order to access, transport, refine, separate, and convert the shale gas products—all of which emit air pollutants. Emissions are released into the ambient air and invisible to the naked eye. According the U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 16, 2024

Paying taxes helps governments to fund the services we all depend on, like education, healthcare and funding programs to tackle the climate crisis. Taxes also allow the federal government to provide subsidies to support a specific industry, like sports or culture, or to achieve a desired social outcome.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

Coal-Fired power plants targeted at the case, taken by Attorney Shunsuke Sugit In March 2023, two important decisions regarding the operation of newly built coal-fired power plants were handed down by courts in Japan. The Plaintiffs argued that the coal-fired power plants would emit large amounts of pollutants such as NOx, SOx, and PM2.5,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

A 2023 report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that “the number of political appointees in an agency may make the agency more vulnerable to political pressure.” As a result, scientists who are expert in their fields and who view the same literature may reach different conclusions about the scientific consensus.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

These reductions are greater than what was projected for the 2022 and 2021 proposals, thanks to changes that strengthen provisions to limit wasteful, polluting flaring of natural gas and analytical updates that better capture the impacts of this rulemaking. Methane pollution, however, is a global problem. On December 2, the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Thanks largely to federal tax incentives, lower sticker prices, and more available models, EV sales have continued to surge in 2023. DR: California hit a new milestone for EV sales midway through 2023: One in four new passenger vehicles sold in in the state from April through June was a plug-in car, truck, or SUV. percent in 2021.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

A November report by the United Nations and several other climate science groups found that government plans add up to increases in coal production through 2030 and in oil and gas production through 2050—a date by which we’re supposed to be at net zero. All of that is on top of reports earlier in 2023 by consortiums of environmental groups.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 21, 2023

On July 21, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the Environmental Mitigation Community Fund steering committee has finalized the protocol to allocate $5 million in penalty funding for community projects in Beaver County as a result of Shell Petrochemical Plant air pollution violations. Read more here.]

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2023

O n Monday, April 17, 2023, the U.S. Electrification is a critical component of building decarbonization, and local governments are taking a leading role in this policy space. Berkeley decision does and does not say, local governments can better understand that many of them have options for electrifying new buildings.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2023

In the first quarter of 2023, the Biden administration released a framework to help agencies strengthen their scientific integrity policies; several organizations praised it while also noting areas for improvement. Other Biden-Harris administration processes are shaping government science at the same time.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Getting more zero- and low-emission vehicles on the road in Pennsylvania helps reduce harmful air pollutants, including nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, and volatile organic compounds. It also helps lower the level of carbon dioxide, helping to address climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

“This guidebook allows for everyone to better understand the different local entities that are responsible for making land use decisions, the types of decisions that they make, and the processes and legal requirements that govern those decisions." The project included input from over 30 local municipal officials across the state.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 5, 2024

The surveys were conducted between October 2023 and February 2024, so just as this car culture war was revving up. Not surprisingly, the report finds that Democrats are more likely to support government EV programs than Republicans (68% of Democrats support programs that increase access and affordability compared to 33% of Republicans do.)

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Senate next voting day October 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, Nov. 13, 14, 15, Dec. 11, 12, 13 -- Committee Schedule House next voting day October 16, 17, 18, 30, 31, Nov. 1, 13, 14, 15, Dec.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2023, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), held the state’s first offshore wind auction, auctioning off five leases in Central and Northern California. [1] This would give tribal governments a fuller voice in development processes that affect tribal communities and resources.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2023

Residents demanded an end to the harmful pollution. The participants said the facility spent months malfunctioning and dumping illegal and excess air pollution on the local community. Since it began operations six months ago, the facility has already blown through 3 air pollution limits and received 11 notice of violations. “I

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This funding to Pennsylvania is another example of how the Biden-Harris Administration is investing in our most vulnerable places and the governments that serve them,” said EPA Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator Adam Ortiz. To learn more, visit EPA’s Environmental Justice webpage.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2023

New Tools To Detect Air Pollution In Pennsylvania, the use of this and other technology has energized a new breed of environmental activism aimed at detecting air pollution from the sky and from the ground. Citizen Science Support The increased use of citizen science is getting support from the federal government.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2023

National- $3.12 16 to 22 - 46% More Conventional NOVs; More Abandoned Wells; Conventional Well Fire; Venting Gas, Spills, Plugging Mess [PaEN] -- Conventional Oil Well Storage Tanks Burn In McKean County, 6 Local Fire Companies Respond [PaEN] -- Gas Explosions -- PUC Update On Investigation Of Dec.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Improving the communication networks between science, government, and the public needs creative and effective strategies at multiple levels, and engagement from all participants. We organized a workshop on how to host such an event at the 2023 AAAS annual meeting , and are open to helping other groups strategize and plan similar events.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

When scientific integrity is violated or science sidelined at agencies such as the EPA, it can have enormous consequences for the public such as diminishing or undermining safeguards against environmental hazards such as air pollution, toxic chemicals, and hazardous waste.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

municipalities face from climate change, the special role that federal vehicle emissions regulations play in protecting municipal public health, and the threat that Petitioners’ radical interpretation of the major questions doctrine poses to the day-to-day operations of state and local governments. The brief emphasized the threat that U.S.

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The Energy Law Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In doing so, the court found itself “in accord with the other courts of appeals, which have unanimously found there is no federal jurisdiction where state or local governments have brought state-law actions against energy companies for conduct relating to climate change.” 19, 2023) (“ D.C. District of Columbia v. 22-7163 (Dec.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 4, 2023

This is the last in our series of posts previewing the Emmett Institute’s 2023 Symposium , coming up on April 12. The Reconnecting Communities Pilot, under IIJA, and Neighborhood Access and Equity Grant Program, under IRA, also provide opportunities for local governments to push projects forward.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2023

The theme for the 2023 workshop is “Environmental and Policy Challenges and Opportunities” and will focus on fostering data-driven and multi-stakeholder discussions on the environmental and social impacts of unconventional energy development. Penn State is not making the Workshop available online.] Negrin, who was appointed by Gov.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The hydrogen for the buses is currently being produced at Air Liquide’s plant in Runcorn, harnessing waste hydrogen as a by-product from an industrial chlor-alkali plant. By 2023, the hydrogen will be even greener as it will be produced by electrolysis powered by a direct connection to an offshore wind farm.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

Here are 94 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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