PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Environmental Quality Board is scheduled to meet on November 12 to consider a proposed regulation on notification of spills, corrections to Air Quality regulations on RACT requirements for nitrogen oxide and volatile organic compounds and final-omitted regulations on noncoal mine blasting.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2025

In this instance, the governments of Chile and Colombia requested this AO in early 2023. In 2023, murders of environmental defenders in Latin America represented 85% of such killings globally. This legal recognition reinforces decades of scientific consensus that climate change threatens basic human rights.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Statement from Aly Hyder Ali, Oil and Gas Program Manager, Environmental Defence Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – We welcome the Government of Canada’s Oil and Gas Greenhouse Gas Pollution Cap draft regulation, which aims to curb pollution from the oil and gas industry.

2030

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 28, 2025

On January 28, the Department of Environmental Protection said compliance with a 2022 state Air Quality regulation to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas facilities was put on hold for the conventional oil and gas industry as a result of an agreement to stay a legal challenge to the regulations in Commonwealth Court.

Regulations

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 6, 2025

drinking water with toxic PFAS chemicals led to over $11 billion in settlements in 2023, with experts predicting that new federal regulations and a growing awareness of the breadth of the contamination will spur more litigation and settlements. In 2023, the three firms reached a settlement agreement with the U.S. billion.

2026

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Agencies need not consider impacts that are remote in space and time, if those impacts are regulated by someone else. First, it would be a difficult standard to apply on several dimensions: Some agency actions like new regulations arent limited to specific times and places. It has two major flaws.

Clean Air Act

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

While the Alberta Energy Regulator has the ability, and responsibility, to hold companies that break the law to account, it has repeatedly demonstrated an unwillingness to enforce its own laws when it comes to industry rulebreakers — leaving Albertans to bear the costs and clean up the mess. billion Q2 profits from 2024.

Regulations

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Second, any effects to be analyzed must be reasonably foreseeable – this is in the text of the 2023 NEPA amendments, which basically codified past practice. This first point was made years ago in a Supreme Court case (Metropolitan Edison Co. People Against Nuclear Energy) and should be taken as axiomatic.

Carbon Dioxide

Circle of Blue

JUNE 23, 2025

And the dam’s ability to be quickly turned on and off helps regulate the peaks and troughs of electricity demand. Power generation in 2023 was roughly half the output of 2000, the last year that Lake Mead was effectively full. The beauty of hydropower is that it’s great for helping to stabilize and regulate the grid,” Gerak said.

2027

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 27, 2025

Reversing California’s air quality and climate regulations would not address the immediate challenges and would compromise the health and welfare of California’s people. In light of these changes, some California regulations, adopted when the gasoline market was more competitive, are no longer working as designed.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 7, 2025

During those inspections, DEP identified 35,237 violations, and resolved 32,699 of them, including some from 2023. 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. Read more here.

2024

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 7, 2025

A recent report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that data centers used about 4% of total US electricity consumption in 2023, and that total is expected to grow as high as 12% within the next three years. Siddique opened by explaining Michigan’s climate law passed in 2023.

Clean Energy

Circle of Blue

JULY 25, 2025

For example, during droughts when California has enforced restrictions on delivery of surface water to its farmers — which the state regulates — the enormous agriculture enterprises that dominate the Central Valley have drilled deeper and pumped harder, depleting the aquifer — which the state regulates less precisely — even more.

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 25, 2025

One area where both groups agree on is the need for more control and regulation of AI. In 2023, it increased to 4.4% (176 TWh) of the total U.S. data centers consumed 66 billion liters of water directly at their facilities (also known as direct water) in 2023. electricity consumption and projections to 2028 fall within 6.7%

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The EPA is also conducting a risk assessment of pollutants in biosolids, which may lead to future regulations aimed at reducing the spread of these chemicals on agricultural lands. Tighter regulations for PFAS in food products could also become a reality. Maine’s actions may set a precedent to be followed by other states.

Regulations

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

Expect Much Less Community Support In June, the Ind ependent Fiscal Office issued a report on the latest projections of revenue from the Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fee showing a drop in calendar 2023 revenue to $179.1 In 2023, DEP received just over 663 shale gas permit applications. Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 3, 2024

below production in the third quarter of 2023-- 1,871 billion cubic feet. from 2023, but "Regional and national prices have been constrained in recent quarters due to unusually high storage levels." "The higher fee schedule implies an increase of $30 million in Impact Fee revenues." In 2023, impact fee revenue was $179.1

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2025

But to understand this incredibly complex system (like the web of regulations across regions, states, and utilities, or the ways that some systems can provide overlapping benefits), we’ve got to zoom out a bit first. What is “the grid”? Data source: U.S. Energy Information Agency. Make this plot yourself.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 15, 2025

The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) was caught hiding evidence of environmental degradation caused by toxic tailings spills, and misleading the public with false claims that it is closely monitoring the oil sands industry. For example, in 2023, a major spill occurred at Imperial Oils Kearl mine , releasing 5.3

Regulations

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

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

Earth 911

AUGUST 7, 2025

In 2024 alone, the world installed a record-breaking 597 gigawatts of solar capacity —a 33% increase over 2023, which brought global solar installations to over 1.6 Regulations Drive Responsible Disposal Policy makers are trying to get ahead of the waste curve. Solar power has become the driving force of the global energy transition.

Recycling

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

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

He graduated from Carleton University in 2023 with a degree in Sustainable and Renewable Energy Engineering. Ads by Canada Action promoting natural gas , which is a fossil fuel, were called out by Canadas advertising regulator for being inaccurate and misleading. billion pounds across 205 active sponsorship deals.

Fossil Fuels

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 2023, Sen. Cecil Township is in Sen.

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

In 2023, the Ontario government established a stakeholder working group to explore expanding deposit return to include non-alcoholic beverage containers. Background: Policy research by Environmental Defence estimates that upwards of 1.7

2026

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2025

A 2023 report from NREL organizes these barriers into three categories: cost-based, socioeconomic, and historical. IOUs generate profits by investing in their own infrastructure and putting pressure on regulators and legislators to maintain the status quo. As it turns out, significant barriers remain.

Electricity

A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2025

Graph showing the rapid increase in forest loss between 2023 and 2024. Wildfires leave their mark on the Spanish wine industry The GLAD data shows that tropical primary forests were lost at a rate of 18 football fields per minute, a doubling compared to 2023 data. In 2024, fires burned five times the amount of forest they did in 2023.

2024

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

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

These penalties are in addition to a $670,000 civil penalty DEP accessed against Shell Falcon Pipeline and its contractor Minnesota Limited LLC for violations of its permit and other laws and regulations that occurred in 2019 and 2020 during pipeline construction. A similar lawsuit preceded the May 2023 penalty settlement.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

In 2023, the Ninth Circuit Court denied the Citys petition for permit review holding that the EPA is authorized to impose any limitations to ensure safe water quality standards are met.

Clean Water Act

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

OTTAWA/TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE — Ecojustice and Environmental Defence have uncovered that greenhouse gas emissions from Canada’s exported oil, gas, and coal ballooned to record levels in 2023. Since 2012, Canada’s annual exported emissions have increased a whopping 378 million tonnes.

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

MARCH 27, 2025

Similar to other challenges against local natural gas bans, the plaintiffs in this 2023 lawsuit argued that the federal Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA) preempted Local Law 154. In other words, EPCAs text and structure clearly intended to avoid a patchwork of conflicting and unpredictable regulations.

Law

PA Environment Daily

JULY 14, 2025

The permit backlog has been reduced by 98% since November 2023, decreasing the backlog from over 2,400 permit applications to fewer than 50. DEP has also conducted more than 58,000 inspections of regulated facilities to ensure compliance with environmental laws. DEP reviews more than 45,000 permit applications every year.

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

On April 9, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has reviewed and acted on more than 9,000 permit applications and ensured those permits were enforced properly by conducting more than 28,000 inspections of regulated facilities.

Environmental Protection