National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 22, 2023

As the House and Senate Agriculture Committees are busy working on their respective first drafts of the 2023 Farm Bill, farmers and advocates took an important opportunity to speak to Members of Congress about improved agriculture policy needs. Participants flew in from Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Why it matters: With rainfall totals less than half of normal at best and just 10 percent of normal in the worst areas, Circle of Blue reported in 2014 that farmers were leaning on water from the Ogallala aquifer more than ever before. Those caught without a permit can be fined $2,000 and have their boat confiscated.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2023

The results of the study-- Toxicity And Chemical Composition Of Commercial Road Palliatives Versus Oil and Gas Produced Waters -- were published in the Journal Environmental Pollution on July 13, 2023. The chemical contaminant levels generally exceeded the conventional well brine waters regulated by DEP, according to the study.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In an April 2023 DEP determination of whether natural gas drilling contaminated a Washington County family’s water well, DEP said the “widespread presence of PFAS” forever chemicals in fresh water may have led to “inadvertently” using contaminated water to frack a shale gas well. Read more here. Impoundments have since been removed.)

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2024

This well was issued violations for methane leaks on August 23, 2023. The violation was originally issued on November 15, 2023 and there was still evidence of staining and conductivity readings indicating contamination remains. DEP’s inspection report had no follow-up for the well owner.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

“Grant’s efforts have included the passage of multiple ordinances and a Home Rule Charter (local constitution) that we at the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) have worked to draft with them, and defend in court, since 2014. In the first case, brought in 2014, the judge – who owned stock in the oil company KBR, Inc.,

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

In an April 2023 DEP determination of whether natural gas drilling contaminated a Washington County family’s water well, DEP said the “widespread presence of PFAS” forever chemicals in fresh water may have led to “inadvertently” using contaminated water to frack a shale gas well. Read more here. Send comments to: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com.)

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Law 1715 of 2014 on non-conventional renewable energy sources. In February 2023, the Tribunal of Cundinamarca decided the case. In April 2023, the Council of State, the highest court on administrative law matters, affirmed the decision. The Tribunal of Cundinamarca decided the case in July 2023. 29 Subsections 3 and 4).

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2023

Woodwell has been associated with PEC since 1991, including roles as staff attorney, director of the western PA office, and as a vice president, before becoming president in 2014. Posted: July 25, 2023] PA Environment Digest Visit PEC’s Audio Room for the latest podcasts. Click Here to receive regular updates from PEC.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

billion in 2014 to the U.S. million yuan over Lexus price-fixing Reuters | December 27, 2019 China's market regulator on Friday has fined Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor 7203.T Toyota workers urged to reject union Grace Macaluso | Windsor Star | February 19, 2014 The head of a U.S. It paid out a fine of $1.2 million yuan ($12.5

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In a written reply to parliament in August 2023, the coal minister stated that a “major leap in coal production over the years has been witnessed”. From 2013 to 2014, Indian coal production was 565 million tonnes; from 2022 to 2023, that had increased by 58% to 893 million. tCO2/tcs.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

January 5, 2023. Similar concerns are buffeting Santolina, a 13,700-acre planned development proposed in 2014 by Western Albuquerque Land Holdings. 20 Years of Severe Drought Impede Huge Developments in Southwest Uncertain path forward for largest development ever proposed in Arizona. By Keith Schneider. Circle of Blue. BUCKEYE, AZ.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 15, 2023

It implicates any other application that any other natural gas operator might have, and it implicates basically any zoning applicant who may also be regulated by the Department of Environmental Protection.” So far in 2023, DEP has issued 557 notices of violation to unconventional operators. There's no firsthand testimony.”

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

In addition, the US Energy Information Administration reported increasing electricity generation from renewable sources contributed to lower power prices so far in 2023. Mechanical failures at thermal generators—especially gas plants—were the chief driver of outages during Winter Storm Elliott and the 2014 Polar Vortex. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Violations were issued on December 28, 2023 for well abandonment and failure to plug the well and the venting of gas and requested a plan to bring the well into compliance by January 11, 2024. DEP continued violations issued on June 8, 2023 for abandoning the well without plugging and failure to stop the movement of gas from the well bore.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 14, 2023

Our country continues to experience an increase in significant weather events- the 2014 Polar Vortex, successive hurricanes, fires, and Winter Storm Uri in 2021, which brought down Texas' grid,” said Chairman Dutrieuille. Natural Gas Is An Intermittent Generator Rep.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] This piece previously appeared in the CLS Blue Sky Blog.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

The gathering pipeline is not regulated by the state Public Utility Commission, according to the PUC. In fact, the Oak Springs Pigging Station did not have a record in DEP’s eFACTS database as a regulated Air Quality facility until after the Attorney General began investigating the facility in 2019, according to Jodi. “So

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 6, 2023

In a published opinion filed on February 23, 2023, the Fourth District Court of Appeal reversed a judgment of dismissal after the sustaining of a demurrer and held that an amended writ petition challenging a city’s street closure project sufficiently stated claims against the city for Vehicle Code, local ordinance, and CEQA violations.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

The second area that is currently and prospectively adversely impacting the timing of Key Con plant closures are final and pending new environmental regulations.” Natural gas had the same problems during a cold weather event in 2014 and the polar vortex in 2018. PJM is projecting it to grow at much more significant rates than that.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 26, 2024

Guest Post by Alex Siggers , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Biology and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University “We could learn from digging down, but no one ever seems to be digging.” Had enough yet? Biology and Fertility of Soils 48 :489-499. Moreno‐Jiménez, E.,

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Baiton was at COP27 and is expected to return for COP28, which runs from November 30th until December 12th, 2023. We need governments to regulate industry. Under Baiton’s leadership, CAPP has lobbied the federal government 74 times in the first 9 months of 2023 – that’s once every 2.5

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Shell Oil Loses Arctic Drilling Lawsuit Anastasia Pantsios | EcoWatch | November 13, 2014 In early October it was announced that the Greenpeace Campaign to get Danish toy company LEGO to sever its nearly 50-year partnership with the oil giant was successful. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Shell Oil Loses Arctic Drilling Lawsuit Anastasia Pantsios | EcoWatch | November 13, 2014 In early October it was announced that the Greenpeace Campaign to get Danish toy company LEGO to sever its nearly 50-year partnership with the oil giant was successful. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Shell Oil Loses Arctic Drilling Lawsuit Anastasia Pantsios | EcoWatch | November 13, 2014 In early October it was announced that the Greenpeace Campaign to get Danish toy company LEGO to sever its nearly 50-year partnership with the oil giant was successful. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Uber and Lyft agree to pay $328m to New York drivers BBC PaulaR Mon, 11/06/2023 - 13:50 Friday, November 3, 2023 Read more Sam Gruet Ride-sharing firms Uber and Lyft will pay $328m (£269m) to settle claims they "systematically cheated" New York drivers out of pay and benefits.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 27, 2023

Imperial Oil Ltd: 2019-Present Exxon Mobil Corp: 1983-2009 & 2014-2019 Esso Petroleum Co Ltd: 2009-2014 Villain Career Profile Corson has spent his entire career extracting and marketing oil and gas, working mostly for Imperial Oil and its parent company ExxonMobil. Leaks and Spills 2022 / 2023 (ongoing) — Kearl Lake, AB 5.3

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2023

COG owned the minerals under four leases in Reeves County, Texas executed between 2005 and 2014. 08-22-00037-CV, 2023 WL 4846861 (Tex. El Paso July 28, 2023, no pet. Finally, Justice Palafox disagreed with the majority’s usage of Texas statutes and regulations and industry custom to inform the meaning of COG’s leases.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 11, 2024

Brazil: Uber Driver Accused of Anti-Candomblé Religious Intolerance Bitter Winter PaulaR Thu, 01/11/2024 - 14:09 Saturday, May 13, 2023 Read more Massimo Introvigne He refused to take to a terreiro a family dressed according to their religion, and is now under police investigation.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In a published opinion filed February 6, 2023, the Fourth District Court of Appeal (Div. City of Irvine (Gemdale 2400 Barranca Holdings, LLC, Real Party in Interest ) (2023) Cal.App.5th. City and County of San Francisco (2014) 226 Cal.App.4th IBC Business Owners for Sensible Development v.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Image OpenSecrets.org Profile of JBS Politicians in São José dos Campos received funding from JBS Sindicato dos Metalúrgicos | M ay 29, 2017 A JBS, empresa pivô do escândalo que abala o país, doou mais de R$ 550 mil a 19 candidatos da região, ligados a nove partidos, nas eleições de 2014.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

These decisions help implement and operationalize the text of the Paris Agreement, much like regulations clarify statutory law. In 2014, leaders made a similar pledge in the New York Declaration on Forests , but since then, tropical primary forest loss has increased and tree cover gains have been insufficient.

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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Over the last several years, many investors, regulators and other stakeholders have increasingly sought environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures from public companies. N:Ceres, SEC Climate Guidance & S&P 500 Reporting —2010 to 2013 (February 2014).]]. iii) the physical impacts of climate change.

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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.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

UAW files unfair labor practice charges against Hyundai, Honda and Volkswagen CBC News PaulaR Thu, 12/14/2023 - 13:38 Monday, December 11, 2023 Read more Michael Wayland The UAW has filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board against Honda, Hyundai and Volkswagen, the union said.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Inspired by Strike Wins, 1,000 Volkswagen Workers Sign Union Cards Labor Notes PaulaR Tue, 12/12/2023 - 17:01 Thursday, December 7, 2023 Read more Luis Feliz Leon Today workers at Volkswagen's Chattanooga, Tennessee, assembly plant announced their third bid to unionize plant-wide with the Auto Workers (UAW).

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Atlantic Coast—but spread out over two years, not to be completed until October 30, 2023. Atlantic Offshore Wind Transmission Study. to evaluate coordinated transmission solutions to enable offshore wind energy deployment along the U.S. Too slow. . Why is OSW, especially with floating platforms, so critical to meeting urgent climate goals.

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