PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2023

Shell will also pay additional monthly civil penalties for the rest of 2023 for any further exceedances. Following the COA, Shell plans to restart operations at the facility on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. On March 25, 2023 Shell suspended ethylene and polyethylene production to make repairs and perform maintenance.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As part of the delegation agreement, YCCD successfully passed an Erosion and Sediment Pollution Control (E&S) Program evaluation conducted by DEP and employed a full-time licensed Professional Engineer. Projects disturbing one acre or more of land are required by statewide regulations to develop and implement a PCSM plan.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 12, 2022

The Ohio EPA spars with federal agencies over pollution control in Lake Erie. Leaders expect funds to be disbursed starting in early 2023. A Michigan agency announces a new program to monitor mercury contamination. Millions of Great Lakes residents eat more fish than public health officials recommend, a study finds.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Citing that shortfall, the EPA in April announced it would ramp up inspections and enforcement of clean water regulations across the state. The agency said the state failed to provide adequate details about actions and timelines that would demonstrate ramped-up implementation of pollution control practices.

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Smith Enviorment

JUNE 7, 2023

June 7, 2023 — In an unfortunate sequence of events, the U.S. Supreme Court has issued a decision significantly limiting federal Clean Water Act regulation of wetlands just as the N.C. Historically, states had the primary responsibility for protecting state waters from pollution. EPA , 598 U.S. __ (2023) p.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

By Russell Zerbo, Clean Air Council This guest essay first appeared on the TribLive.com website September 22, 2023 -- Pennsylvania has an opportunity to receive $33,695,097 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DOE) to plug small, conventionally drilled oil and gas wells with known owners.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 30, 2024

FPW is a grantmaking foundation that invests in local efforts to protect healthy streams, clean up pollution, and restore degraded wildlife habitat. In November 2023, conservation and environmental protection leader Deborah Nardone was appointed as the Executive Director of the Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds.

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Renewable + Law

DECEMBER 22, 2020

On December 21, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) set forth its plans to amend the state’s clean air rules to adopt Low-Emission Vehicles (LEV) and Zero-Emission Vehicles (ZEV) standards, known as the Clean Cars Minnesota rule.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 22, 2022

The Boston Air Pollution Control Commission has formally adopted its “Building Emissions Reduction and Disclosure Ordinance Phase 1 Regulations.” The Phase 1 regulations are really all about the “disclosure” side of BERDO. The final Phase 1 regulations largely track the draft released late last year.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Million Penalty On PA Company For Selling Auto Parts That Avoid Vehicle Pollution Controls Public Participation Opportunities/Calendar Of Events Grants & Awards PA Bulletin - Public Notices Stories Invited - About PA Environment Digest Supporting Member PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers; PA Outdoor Writers Assn.;

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 19, 2023

December 19, 2023. The previous post covered significant water quality legislation enacted by the North Carolina General Assembly in 2023. This post briefly summarizes other 2023 environmental legislation. AIR QUALITY. The provision targeted proposed state rules that would have required N.C. A new statute section, G.S.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Posted: September 3, 2023] PA Environment Digest Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources. Visit the PA Environment Digest Calendar Of Events for more opportunities.

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Natural Gas Climate Change Fossil Fuels Air Pollution 76

Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Issued on: 02/10/2023 - 14:20Modified: 02/10/2023 - 14:19 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. *in 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

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

Units with existing advanced NOx controls must optimize their utilization by 2023. The proposed rule would provide de minimus air quality benefits in downwind areas with extremely high costs – estimated by EPA at $22 billion discounted 2016 dollars for the 2023-2042 period. ppb in 2023, with typical reductions of 0.1

Ozone 40

Ozone Clean Air Act 2026 2015 40

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Issued on: 17/11/2023 - 12:13 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. *in 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 Total to pay $2.9

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

-- We Remember Sept. Gifford Pinchot's Grey Towers Historic Site Hosting Festival Of Wood Sept. 28 [PaEN] -- Penn State Behrend Campus In Erie Earns Silver STARS Rating For Sustainability Achievements -- DEP Expands Environmental Justice Protections With Updated Policy, Improved Mapping Tool; Enhanced Permit Reviews Start Sept.

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Conservation Natural Gas Electricity Climate Change 109

Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Climate of fear: TotalEnergies implicated in repression of land and environmental defenders in East Africa Global Witness PaulaR Thu, 12/14/2023 - 13:39 Monday, December 4, 2023 Read more Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., Total to pay $2.9

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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

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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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

Maryland has been described as having more pages of environmental statutes and regulations on a per capita basis than any other state. To help achieve these goals, the bill alters and directs additional resources to a number of existing programs and initiatives, including by way of example, in fiscal 2023, $2.5 Stormwater Management.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

On October 31, 2023 at 2:00 pm (CT) Diane will lead a global hunger strike against Formosa Plastics, her fourth hunger strike. On October 31, 2023 at 2:00 pm (CT) Diane will lead a global hunger strike against Formosa Plastics, her fourth hunger strike. billion complex in St. She hopes to bring justice to the Vietnamese fisherman.

2016 52

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Note: In December, 2022, DEP finalized regulations reducing volatile organic compounds and methane from existing conventional and unconventional oil and gas facilities. The conventional regulations were challenged in Commonwealth Court by conventional oil and gas operators. Read more here. Click Here for EPA announcement.

Regulations 98

Regulations Air Pollution Natural Gas Carbon Dioxide 98

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. Congress adjusted the standards twice.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Josh Shapiro and CNX Resources Corporation President and CEO Nick Deiuliis announced a first-of-its-kind statement of mutual interests that will further heighten the company’s operational disclosures in collaboration with state environmental regulators and the public. DEP Pursue Regulation, Policy Changes Immediately Gov.

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Environment, Law, and History

AUGUST 27, 2023

Dan Farber at Legal Planet recently posted on "Cars, Smog, and EPA" An excerpt: For the first 20 years of federal regulation, Congress set the NOx [nitrogen oxides] standards for new cars itself. That’s quite different from the standards for industrial pollution sources, which Congress has always delegated to EPA.

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Nitrogen Oxides Clean Air Act Pollution Control 2004 52

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Section 303(d) requires states to list all impaired surface waters not supporting uses even after appropriate and required water pollution control strategies have been applied. Pennsylvania's integrated water quality monitoring and assessment report satisfies the requirements of sections 305(b) and 303(d) of the Clean Water Act (CWA).

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2024 Clean Water Act Conservation Pollution Control 98

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The state and the county, with farmer endorsement, approved new regulations that require nutrient management plans for farms that produce more than 100,000 gallons of liquid manure, or 350 tons of solid manure annually. Farmers who don’t agree to adopt the new pollution-control measures would lose the insurance subsidy. .

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Law Waste Clean Water Act 2022 290

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.

Conservation 63

Conservation Regulations Natural Gas 2023 63

Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

USA: “The Coke Side of Life”—More Sugar, Less Science Union of Concerned Scientists PaulaR Thu, 06/08/2023 - 03:44 Friday, August 14, 2015 Read more Deborah Bailin Almost 130 years ago, Coca-Cola first quenched Americans’ thirst and splashed its irresistible blend of sugar and, yes, cocaine , across our taste buds and brains.

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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. This blog post summarizes the history of federal vehicle emissions regulations, the arguments made by Petitioners in Texas v. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

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Clean Air Act Air Pollution Climate Change Regulations 55

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

According to an October 2023 report by the Climate Investigations Center (CIC), a nonprofit watchdog organization, the industry has been gaslighting us by promoting the idea that “cooking with gas” is a good thing, despite knowing as far back as 1970 that gas stoves pose a threat to public health and the environment.

2013 358

2013 Electricity Natural Gas Fossil Fuels 358

Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2023

Road Salt, A Stealthy Pollutant, Is Damaging Michigan Waters Rivers and lakes are becoming saltier while law and practice limit effective responses. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – January 26, 2023 In a dim hangar outside of Traverse City, towering piles of white crystals cast a glow in the twilight. A new truck might cause $250,000.

Clean Water Act 363

Clean Water Act Law Regulations 2019 363

Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 3, 2021

This includes emerging contaminants as well as substances identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for prioritization, risk evaluation, or regulation. EPA Denied Petitions Seeking TSCA Regulation of Chemicals in Cigarettes and Cosmetics.

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ESA

MAY 31, 2023

In this issue: Supreme Court dramatically shrinks Clean Water Act’s reach Biden administration must now rework recent Clean Water Act regulations. Courts Supreme Court decision about California’s pork regulations could impact state climate regulations. That regulation must now be reworked in light of the Supreme Court ruling.

2023 98

2023 Natural Resources Clean Water Act 2024 98

PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

Public Roads In 84 Municipalities In PA, One County In NY Are Being Used As Disposal Areas For Wastewater [PaEN] -- TribLive: Many West Deer Residents Calling For More Stringent Regulations On Shale Gas Drilling In Allegheny County -- The Energy Age Blog: Federal Radioactive Oil & Gas Waste Exemption History -- PennLive: 2 Men Charged With Stealing (..)

Waste 82

Waste 2024 Natural Gas Pollution Control 82

ESA

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The policy should remain in place, the resolution says, until the Forest Service drafts and completes new regulations that would establish a revised wildfire strategy. Any rulemaking would require analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act, the resolution says, suggesting a time frame that would extend well into 2023 or beyond.

2022 98

2022 Climate Change Natural Resources Conservation 98

ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Canada and other countries pledged to stop public financing of fossil fuel projects abroad by 2023. The backstory: The question of which streams and wetlands are federally regulated under the Clean Water Act has been in limbo for the past decade and a half, since the Supreme Court issued a muddled decision in the 2006 case Rapanos v.

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