Acoel

MAY 4, 2023

Posted on May 4, 2023 by Adam Kahn On April 13, 2023, the Commissioners of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) voted to approve a proposal that will accelerate the commercialization of fusion energy in the United States. The NRC’s April 13, 2023 decision chose the second option.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection has issued a record 5,653 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas operators in 2023, with two months left in the year, according to DEP’s November 3, 2023 Weekly Workload Report. The weekly reports posted during 2023 are below. That’s 25% more than in 2021. Read more here.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Background The Blueprint aims to reduce domestic aviation emissions [i] from airport operations by 20% from 2019 levels (404ktCO2) in 2030 and achieve net zero domestic and international aviation emissions by 2050. This facility would turn waste into feedstock to generate electricity or biofuel for use within the airport.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 26, 2024

Pennsylvania joined RGGI pursuant to a 2019 executive order and a subsequent rulemaking promulgated by the state’s Department of Environmental Protection (“DEP”) and Environmental Quality Board (“EQB”). 1, 2023, declaring the RGGI rulemaking void. The Commonwealth Court issued an Order on Nov.

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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2023

New York State Office of Renewable Energy Siting , a lawsuit challenging the state’s March 2021 regulations for siting and permitting major renewable energy facilities. Lawsuit Challenging ORES’s Regulations In March 2021, ORES promulgated regulations to implement the new siting process, as required by statute.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection issued a record 6,860 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas operators in 2023, according to DEP’s December 29, 2023 Weekly Workload Report. more than in 2021 and 26.6% more than in 2022 and 569.9% more than in 2015. Read more here. Just one conventional operator-- John B.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Recently General Motors made headlines in saying they are looking at restarting production of PHEVs after moving to only BEVs in 2019. For example, the 2023 Jeep Wrangler 4xe PHEV requires 68 kWh of electricity to go 100 miles. BEV or PHEV? Does this mean they are moving backwards on electrification? Not necessarily.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane. California’s transportation fuel policy is knee deep in cow poop, and it’s not a good look.

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Montrose

MAY 23, 2023

May 23, 2023 — Montrose Environmental Group, Inc. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations. Due to its toxicity, federal, state and local regulators require monitoring for very low levels of EtO in and around commercial sterilizers and chemical plants. LITTLE ROCK, Ark.,

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

formal notice ) PA Bulletin - November 18, 2023 Note: The Department of Environmental Protection published 66 pages of public notices related to proposed and final permit and approval/ disapproval actions in the November 18 PA Bulletin - pages 7182 to 7248. Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations?

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019. Germany agrees on EU regulation to make cars carbon neutral by 2035 (either zero emissions or net-zero). Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. Feed-in tariffs are replaced by auctions for renewables. Renewables are 42% of electricity.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The EPA Administrator discusses farm issues with state agricultural regulators. The Bureau released new projections that showed a one-in-three chance that Lake Powell, absent interventions, will be low enough in 2023 that it will not be able to generate hydropower. The Rundown. By the Numbers. commercial power reactors.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

On February 16, 2023, Senators John Kennedy, Ted Cruz, Shelley Moore Capito, and Kevin Cramer filed Senate Bill (SB) 438, which is the reintroduction of the Natural Gas Export Expansion Act. Bill 1497 on March 9, 2023. The bill aims to amend the Natural Gas Act to provide for expanded natural gas exports in the United States.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

The agenda for the December 1 DEP Oil & Gas Technical Advisory Board meeting includes updates on Chapter 78 regulation changes, the new federal abandoned well plugging program and more. The last draft of the waste handling regulation update was posted by DEP in September, 2021. Read more here. Read more here.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For France, the “Affaire du Siècle” case was filed in the Administrative Court of Paris in May 2019 by four NGOs against the government for its failure to act on climate change. Two months later, in January 2019, the claimants sued the state before the Conseil d’Etat for rejecting their demands.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2023

The DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council is scheduled to meet on May 25 to discuss a variety of issues including well plugging, proposed waste management regulations, methane emission court challenge, road dumping drilling wastewater and more.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 1, 2023

The e-bike industry is booming, but the summer of 2023 has brought sharp questions about how safe e-bikes are, especially for teenagers,” writes Matt Richtel in a long feature titled “ A Dangerous Combination’: Teenagers’ Accidents Expose E-Bike Risks. ” increase from 856 in 2019. How are other countries regulating e-bikes?

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

And, of course, the work of environmental and energy lawyers is increased and made more challenging by the growing number and stringency of climate-related regulations, statutes, and directives. The ABA House of Delegates, the ABA’s policy making body, adopted resolutions urging action on climate change in 2008 and 2019.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA transformed the state’s earlier clean energy standard efforts from administrative fiat to law and sets more aggressive goals to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to 60% from a 1990 baseline by 2030, and 15% from a 1990 baseline by 2050.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Given the exponential growth of utility distribution grid investments, regulators and stakeholders also will require an open distribution grid planning process. Utilities must submit their plans by January 2023 and will have to provide details about how they will invest in the distribution grid infrastructure for the next five years.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

On June 20, 2023, the Spanish Supreme Court handed down its final ruling in the case of Greenpeace v. The EU presents the NDC as one Party ( Regulation (EU) 2018/842 ). Under Annex 1 of the EU Regulation, by 2030, Spain must have reduced its GHG emissions by 37.7% compared to 2005. The Case Filing of Greenpeace v.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2024

Two years after Prime Minister Trudeau first promised to limit and reduce Canada’s oil and gas emissions, the federal government finally released a regulatory framework at COP 28, in December 2023. The next step is the release of the draft regulations, by April 2024. The emissions cap regulation has already been delayed repeatedly.

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Law and Environment

JULY 10, 2023

On June 26, 2023, the Cambridge City Council voted to amend the city’s Building Energy Use Disclosure Ordinance (BEUDO) to require large non-residential buildings to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2035 and mid-size non-residential buildings to do so by 2050. It does not apply to any residential buildings.

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Endangered Species Law

JUNE 28, 2023

On June 22, 2023, the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Biodiesel and renewable diesel are mostly made from vegetable oil Biodiesel and renewable diesel are made from the same starting materials, are both blended into diesel fuel, and are supported by the same regulations. farmdoc daily, March 29, 2023. California Air Resources Board , US Energy Information Administration. percent in 2022.

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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. In December 2019, Gov. Read more here on USGS/DEP study.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Guest Post by Vedanshi Nevatia , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph. As per the World Investment Report 2023, much of the growth in international investment in renewable energy, which has nearly tripled since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, was concentrated in developed countries. Zerbib, Olivier David.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 4, 2024

On February 8, 2019, a DEP inspection report said Commonwealth Court had issued an order to Tatonka Oil Co. DEP inspection report ] DEP inspections documented repeated violations at Nancy 13, but finally on May 17, 2023 an inspection report noted Tatonka said the plugging of Nancy 13 would start in April or May. [

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 27, 2023

PFOA/PFOS MCL Jill Anderson and Dawn Hissner, from DEP’s Bureau of Safe Drinking Water, will provide an update on the PFOA/PFOS maximum contaminant level published on January 13, 2023. Posted: December 27, 2023] PA Environment Digest Read more here. Read more here. Geological Survey study results. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2023

The following editorial first appeared in the Citizens Voice on May 17, 2023 -- Breathe easy. That intentionally is a broad mandate, so it makes sense that Department of Environmental Protection regulations protecting the environment also must be broad.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In 2019, the state convened a group of experts and stakeholders – thanks to Assembly Bill 2832 – to develop policy recommendations that would increase EV battery recycling. They will be back in session in January of 2023, and it is still unknown what the next steps will be. California is taking steps to change that.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2024

In 2019, the DRBC established the Advisory Committee on Climate Change to provide the Commission with scientifically based information and recommendations. In 2023, the Commission released a report exploring the feasibility of additional freshwater storage to meet future water management and climate adaptation needs.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2023

He said as a result of the appeal, he could not brief the Advisory Board on the Equitrans uncontrolled release or where DEP stands on reviewing the program to regulate underground natural gas storage areas. Klapkowski said he expects there will be an agreement to resolve the appeal in the near future.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

From January 28 through February 3, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 640 inspection reports that resulted in reporting 23 violations of environmental regulations-- 7 violations by the conventional oil and gas industry and 15 violations by the unconventional shale natural gas industry.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

The EHB opinion says Olympus Energy drilled, fracked and completed the wells between August 22, 2023 and October 13, 2023. On October 20, 2023, Olympus Energy filed a motion to dismiss the appeal as moot. One of the Environmental Hearing Board’s new judges-- MaryAnne Wesdock-- wrote the opinion and signed the order. 30 to Jan.

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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. In December 2019, Gov. Read more here on USGS/DEP study.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2023

The state has until December 31, 2023 to apply for these funds. The Environmental Quality Board, which adopts DEP’s regulations, is set to meet Tuesday, July 11 on a rulemaking petition environmental groups submitted before the new law was passed to increase bonding amounts. Read more here. Read more here.

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