PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Shapiro’s office supporting “key recommendations” in a 2020 Grand Jury Report that concluded DEP’s oil and gas regulatory program failed to protect public health and the environment. On April 26 Inside Climate News published a comprehensive article by Stacey Burling on issues surrounding the disposal of 2.6 Read more here. 27 Released 1.1

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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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Circle of Blue

MAY 3, 2023

The Supreme Court will decide which wetland ecosystems are included in the Clean Water Act, the law that regulates the dumping of pollutants into American waters. The post The Stream, May 3, 2023: Native Hawai’i Farmers Advocate For Land Back While Restoring Historic Water Systems appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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MGKF Law

MARCH 27, 2023

EPA’s latest rulemaking regulating Hazardous Air Pollutant (“HAP”) emissions from coal- and oil-fired electric utility steam generating units (“EGUs”) is unlikely to be an exception. 13956 (Mar. EPA, 576 U.S. 743 (2015). at 13957; see also 85 Fed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 3, 2023

Sales of new zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) in California hit new highs in the first quarter of 2023. Sales of zero-emission vehicles in California have grown considerably since 2020. In the first three months of 2023, more than 30% of all new car sales were ZEVs in Alameda, Santa Clara, Marin, and San Mateo counties.

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Electricity Regulations 2026 Air Pollution 237

Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

December 14, 2023. General Assembly returned to a very aggressive effort to influence environmental rules in 2023. Farm Act of 2023 (Senate Bill 582) and the Regulatory Reform Act of 2023 (House Bill 600) all contained provisions weakening existing environmental protections and in some cases preventing adoption of new standards.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

On October 18, 2023, the EPA published a Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“SNPR”) regarding incidental discharges from vessels, proposing national performance standards under the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act (“VIDA”). Coast Guard (“USCG”) to develop corresponding regulations to enforce compliance with the EPA’s standards.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

EPA granted primacy to Louisiana on December 28, 2023, for Class VI wells, effective February 5, 2024. CO2 sequestration projects inject CO2 into the subsurface and are subject to these EPA regulations. EPA’s Class VI regulations for CCS projects cover the entire lifecycle, from planning to post-closure to safeguarding USDWs.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

While SB 449 was held in the Appropriations Committee in 2022, Senator Stern re-introduced the bill with amendments as SB 261 in 2023. We convened legislative leaders, agency leaders and financial experts to share the recommendation and further refine it.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

While 2023 was by no means the blockbuster year 2022 was, in many respects it came out better for climate progress than some expected. Although the Governor proposed slashing $6 billion from the climate package, in the end, the cuts totaled less than half that.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, an environmentalist, who has introduced a string of environmental initiatives, laws and regulations under her reign said: “We’re proud of having posed an eminently environmental question at a time the environment is presented as the source of all evil.

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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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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In 2020, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation surveyed all publicly available peer-reviewed studies and concluded there is scientifically valid evidence of oil sands process water (tailings) seepage into the groundwater around tailings ponds. Internal reports reveal that seepage from this tailings pond has been ongoing since 2020.

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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. ” The number of preventable nonfatal injuries to cyclists was 325,173 in 2020.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Germany agrees on EU regulation to make cars carbon neutral by 2035 (either zero emissions or net-zero). Renewables are 42% of electricity. Carbon emissions are 707 billion tons, a 30% cut below 1990 emissions. Climate Action Act is adopted, with a 2050 net-zero target and 55% cuts by 2030 compared with 1990.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2024

The incident, which occurred on April 29, 2020, damaged both customer and utility-owned equipment. These include failure to follow company procedures by technicians, insufficiently detailed training materials provided by Peoples Natural Gas, and possible design flaws in the regulator station. M-2023-3024990.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The regulations were amended in 2020 to include a program for existing generation units, CES-E, which has several distinct requirements. Increasing the CES-E stringency from 20% to 25% of 2018 retail sales starting in 2023. These changes will set the CES standard at 60% in 2030 and 80% in 2050.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The Alberta Energy Regulator has shown us over and over that it is willfully neglecting to keep us safe from toxic waste and pollution. Indigenous and environmental groups sent a letter to the federal and Alberta governments , urging action on the Imperial Oil leak, such as bringing federal charges under the Fisheries Act.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This new regulation would apply to delivery vans, big rigs, box trucks, and buses. California’s Advanced Clean Trucks (ACT) rule passed in 2020, which required manufacturers to sell an increasing percentage of zero-emissions MHD vehicles, was an excellent start. Regulate more tractor trucks, including the smaller fleets.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Adani pleads guilty to giving 'false or misleading documents to an administering authority', fined $20k ABC News PaulaR Thu, 11/16/2023 - 18:48 Wednesday, February 5, 2020 Read more Josh Robertson & Jessica Rendall Mining giant Adani has been fined $20,000 after pleading guilty to providing false or misleading information to Queensland's environmental (..)

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In August, the California Air Resources Board finalized regulations that will phase out the sale of new internal combustion engine automobiles by 2035. The regulations (known as Advanced Clean Cars II) deliver on a commitment Governor Newsom made in a 2020 executive order and build on decades of emissions reduction programs from CARB.

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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. Egli, Florian.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 6, 2024

Despite having made commitments to reduce the emissions from their investments and reach net-zero by 2050, Canada’s banks have instead increased their funding in risky oil and gas assets every year since 2020. Our banks are promoting themselves as climate champions while lobbying against regulations that would accelerate climate action.

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change Government Regulations 96

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Highlights of the environmental and energy notices in the October 7 PA Bulletin -- -- The Environmental Quality Board invites comments on a proposed regulation adding 17 new or updated Water Quality Standards. Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations? All through its eNotice system. Click Here to sign up.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2023

The Marcellus Shale Coalition challenged DEP’s 2016 regulations setting environmental and safety standards for unconventional shale gas drilling saying the Oil and Gas Act (Act 13) did not authorize DEP to further define public resource agencies and public resources and the regulations contained a potentially overly broad definition of playgrounds.

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Natural Gas Regulations 2016 2020 98

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In August 2020, California experienced an extreme heat wave that prompted electricity demand to soar to a level that exceeded available supply, leading to the first rolling blackouts of this kind since the state’s energy crisis in the early 2000s. The rolling blackouts took place two nights in a row on August 14 and August 15, 2020.

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Renewable + Law

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The CAISO had requested changes to its interconnection procedures due to the massive increase in the number of interconnection requests it received this year—373 interconnection requests representing 150,000 megawatts of generating capacity, as compared to the 155 requests in 2020. January 13, 2023. April 15, 2023. Mav 19, 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The Working Group evaluated potential energy policy using that test, and reached consensus that a form of cap-and-invest carbon regulation for the power sector that generates revenue to support the Commonwealth’s energy transition is the optimal approach moving forward. NewsClip: -- AP: Gov.

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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.

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Regulations Natural Gas Environmental Protection 2016 52

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 1, 2024

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- January 1 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec.

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Natural Gas Politics 2024 Natural Resources 98

The Energy Law Blog

MAY 4, 2023

What started in 2020 as a proposed joint rulemaking between the DOI’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (“BSEE”) and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) was recently finalized as a stand-alone BSEE rule addressing decommissioning. BSEE’s final rule also formally adds a new regulation at 30 C.F.R.

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Regulations Ocean 2023 Law 98

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Over-Pressurization Incident and Proposed Settlement The case concerns an event that occurred on April 29, 2020, involving the over-pressurization of the Peoples Natural Gas distribution system serving Robinson, which occurred as technicians from the utility were conducting an annual inspection on the regulator for that system.

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Natural Gas Regulations 2023 2020 67

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 15, 2022

The application process opens at the end of September, and all submissions are due by January 27, 2023. The roughly 4-mile tunnel will house Enbridge’s Line 5 oil pipeline, and the Army Corps permit will be for damage to wetlands and other federally regulated waterways. News Briefs. Inflation Reduction Act.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

These species, and many others, are shade intolerant and depend on full sun for growth and regulating body temperatures. Natalie Lamagna [Nonprofit] Stream Restoration Incorporated hired their newest environmental scientist, Natalie Lamagna, who started working for SRI this past August 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Robinson Over-Pressurization Incident, Proposed Settlement The case concerns an event that occurred on April 29, 2020, involving the over-pressurization of the Peoples Natural Gas distribution system serving Robinson, which occurred as technicians from the utility were conducting an annual inspection on the regulator for that system.

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Natural Gas Regulations 2024 2020 80

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Following a review of its handling, the Alberta Energy Regulator absolved itself of any responsibility , stating it had followed all internal processes. Internal reports reveal that seepage from this tailings pond has been ongoing since 2020. In February 2023, 5.3 The seepage from Kearl is ongoing.

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