Brag

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency announced on August 4, 2023, that it is providing resources to help biotechnology developers exercise the full benefits of the exemptions available under the Plant Incorporated Protectants (PIP) exemption rule. The PIPs Exemption Final Rule went into effect on July 31, 2023. Hutton The U.S.

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Capaccio

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The EPA’s PFAS Roadmap includes developing regulations to protect and preserve drinking water, as well as treating PFAS-contaminated water sources. Companiesin these categories discharging to surface water or to a publicly-owned WWTP may be requiredto sample industrial effluent and report results of PFAS. Moving Forward.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

In late April, California air regulators are poised to pass one of the most meaningful regulations to reduce pollution from commercial trucks, vans, and buses. This change gives options to public fleets to meet their individual needs while still ensuring that their trucks transition to ZEVs on a feasible timeline.

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MAY 24, 2022

On May 10, 2022, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update for public review and comment. AB 32 authorized CARB to adopt a market-based compliance mechanism with “declining annual aggregate emission limits for sources or categories of sources that emit greenhouse gas emissions” through 2020.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Power companies will therefore have to pay more for the fuel, but utilities are generally allowed by state regulators to pass those cost increases onto their customers in the form of higher electricity rates. Henry Hub is the national benchmark for wholesale gas prices (Source: US Energy Information Administration ).

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JULY 25, 2023

By Ieva Blazauskaite (Marketing Lead, Ivy Protocol ) Over the years, the Voluntary Carbon Market has increasingly attracted public scrutiny. 2023) stress the necessity of a defined carbon claims taxonomy, emphasizing that its absence might impede critical actions for greenhouse gas reduction. Mitigation Hierarchy.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 29, 2023

There are some uncertainties, like undefined terms and that this statute has no temporal limitation arguably applying to a business’s current marketing claims about past offsets and GHG emission reductions, but such is to be anticipated in this first ever regulation of this space.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It has only been since 1984, when the first more comprehensive Oil and Gas Act was signed into law, that conventional operators began to be regulated in any meaningful way to prevent pollution. PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. Red is bad.)

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Legal Planet

JUNE 26, 2023

Prior to the 2023 amendments, NEPA § 102(2)(D) provided for preparation of environmental impact statements by state agencies for federally funded projects. The 2023 amendments retained this provision but renumbered is as subsection (G). Coverage of agency regulations. Public input. Below I discuss some of the main issues.

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Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

As discussed below, EPA is basing its designation on a finding that the compounds pose a “substantial danger to public health or welfare or the environment” pursuant to its authority under CERCLA Section 102. The categories include: PFOA and/or PFOS manufacturers (including importers and importers of articles).

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

In 2022, tech firms’ payrolls fell by 164,000 employees, with a further 166,000 jobs cut in the first quarter of 2023, according to tracking platform Layoffs.fyi. The market heats up: ESG and green finance take off As policy and regulation improved, the green job market heated up and ESG became a hot topic within businesses.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Interior’s authority to regulate offshore wind comes from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which amended the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to expressly authorize Interior to issue leases for renewable energy projects in federal waters. It is anticipated that BOEM will seek to hold the first GOM wind lease sale in 2023. 585.106.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 2, 2022

But even with the oversized flow of dollars into this category, this is not the key driver of ESG (. Still with almost no regulation, funds that elect to focus on companies’ ESG practices may have broad discretion in how they apply ESG factors to their investments. may see more pandemic and germ theory related issues into 2023.

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Acoel

MAY 24, 2023

Posted May 24, 2023 by Tracy Hester In a jurisprudential pile-up, the Fifth Circuit has become the arena for two simultaneous legal battles that may shape the law of standing and realign federal environmental law. The Texas Supreme Court said no , and the case faded from public view soon afterward when the U.S. Wade in 2022.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The VCDPA will not take effect until January 1, 2023, but businesses should begin now to assess their potential coverage and to map out a plan for compliance. De-identified data" is data that "cannot reasonably be linked to an identified or identifiable natural person, or a device linked to such person."

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Brag

DECEMBER 20, 2022

In the first one, OSTP, on behalf of the primary agencies that regulate the products of biotechnology -- the U.S. Describe any specific issues the agencies should consider in developing a plan to implement regulatory reform, including any updated or new regulations or guidance documents. EST) February 3, 2023.

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Law Columbia

MAY 19, 2023

Further embracing this presidential agenda, on May 20, 2021, President Biden issued EO 14030 , entitled “Executive Order on Climate-Related Financial Risk”, the Biden administration’s declaration of policy on the possible incorporation of climate-related financial risk considerations into federal government regulations.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 11, 2022

As the administrator since 2018 of EGLE’s water infrastructure financing section, the unit that oversees the SRFs in Michigan, Green is in a position to guide decisions that will influence the quality of the state’s water systems as communities look to reverse the decades-long decline in fundamental public works. . Absolutely.”.

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Brag

JANUARY 11, 2022

EPA intends to publish a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) in July 2022 and a final rule in March 2023. EPA proposed to add three new fee categories: a Bona Fide Intent to Manufacture or Import Notice, a Notice of Commencement of Manufacture or Import, and an additional fee associated with test orders. Section 721.72).

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Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

France has more than 35 million dwellings and more than a quarter of those residences fall into the country’s worst greenhouse gas emission categories, with an Environmental Performance Certificate (EPC) rating of F or G. Buildings that consume more than 450 kWh per m² fall into category G+ (. worse than G).

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Unconventional shale gas operators were issued a total of 1,310 notices of violation in 2023, according to DEP’s December 29 Workload Report. Abandoning Wells Without Plugging DEP issued 10 unconventional shale gas operators 20 notices of violation at 11 well pads during 2023 for abandoning wells without plugging them. .:

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Unconventional shale gas operators were issued a total of 1,103 notices of violation so far in 2023, which means they are on track to exceed the 1,234 violations DEP issued them in 2022, according to DEP’s newly released 2022 Oil and Gas Program Annual Report. Click Here for a summary of 2022 shale gas and conventional violations.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Farms collectively are the largest source of nitrate pollution in rivers and groundwater, and the penalty for contaminated water — meaning stricter and more costly standards in order to protect public health — is paid by the people who drink it. Even with that record of risk nitrate pollution is in a category to itself.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 2, 2023

As part of this action, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has proposed updates to Circular A-4 , a bedrock guidance document, which will greatly improve how federal agencies account for the benefits and costs of their actions and therefore better serve the public interest. What is Circular A-4?

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Arnold Porter

JULY 13, 2021

Most provisions of the Act will take effect on July 1, 2023; others not until July 1, 2024. And, like the VCDPA, the Act contains terms and reflects concepts used in the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Here is the text from the presentation by Dr. Steingraber -- Public Health Crisis The summary conclusion of the 9th Compendium on natural gas development research is-- “The rapidly expanding body of evidence compiled here is massive, troubling and cries out for decisive action. “So It also offers a review of trends in research findings.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2023

However, the grand jury concluded that the current setbacks do not provide adequate protection for the environment or for public health and safety and, therefore, should be increased to 2,500 feet. “My This legislation also follows the grand jury’s recommendation to further increase setbacks for schools and hospitals, to 5,000 feet. “As

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Capaccio

JUNE 14, 2022

In order to limit PFAS in drinking water, the EPA has begun developing a national primary drinking water regulation and taking actions to stop the discharge of PFAS in waterways and wastewater systems. The Clean Air Act requires EPA to regulate hazardous air pollutant (HAPs) emissions. Designate certain PFAS as CERCLA hazardous waste

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 20, 2022

We also report on recent updates in relation to sanctions and the growth of cryptoasset-related regulation. Regulators concluding the HBOS investigation with no further action against senior managers. million for misleading its regulator, the FRC. Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill 2022. KPMG fined £18.4

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

A discussion of ESG disclosures, and what the industry may expect from these other financial regulators on ESG matters under the Biden-Harris Administration, will be the subject of an upcoming Advisory. * * * * *. Financial Regulators."[[N: N: Addressing Climate as a Systemic Risk: A call to action for U.S. emphasis added).]].

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ESA

MAY 4, 2023

Federal Register ESA Graduate Student Policy Award Recipients Visit Capitol Hill The 2023 Graduate Student Policy Award (GSPA) Cohort of 15 students flew in from around the country to learn about science policy and meet with lawmakers. Nominations must be received by June 15, 2023. The request for information closes June 16, 2023.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

EPA is an effort by conservative states and fuel suppliers to block EPA regulations of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. Ohio and some other states argue that the waiver unconstitutionally gives California more power to regulate than it gives them. EPA to overturn Obama’s Clean Power Plan.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

While the financial world is still waiting for key climate-related rules from several financial regulators, including the Security Exchange Commission (SEC), there has been some forward progress in recent weeks. The Act’s regulations were last updated in 2005.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 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 Sought Information to Inform Regulation of 1-Bromopropane as Hazardous Air Pollutant.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

15 -- PA Utility Law Project, Public Citizen Host Feb. Million Available For Service Providers, Graduate Students To Advance Sustainable Agriculture In Northeast [PaEN] -- DCNR Grants Newsletter: Project Spotlights; Upcoming Grant Events; Much More ! WHYY, Drexel To Host Discussion On Endangered Species Feb. 27 to Feb. 27 to Feb.

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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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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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