Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

By Nikki Buffa , Joshua Bledsoe , Jennifer Roy , Michael Dreibelbis , Brian McCall , Austin Wruble , and Sam Wong Louisiana has become the third state in the United States to receive primacy from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), allowing it to assume permitting authority for carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

On February 22, the Department of Environmental Protection reported the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County paid an additional $7,606,067.75 on January 18, 2024” These penalties totaled $7,606,067.75. on January 18, 2024” These penalties totaled $7,606,067.75. However, in Paragraph 14.b

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2024

Not For Long As LNG Gas Demand Grows [Watch For Price Spikes] PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Inquirer: Gov.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 23, 2022

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for instance, has been allocated over $1.5 Starting with methane was likely more politically feasible than carbon dioxide for several reasons. Controlling methane emissions should, at least in theory, also be somewhat easier than reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

On April 9, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has assessed significant civil penalties totaling $1,114,000 from Equitrans, L.P. billion cubic feet of gas was released at the facility in uncontrolled venting.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Oil and natural gas operations are the nation’s largest industrial source of methane, a climate “super pollutant” that is many times more potent than carbon dioxide and is responsible for approximately one third of the warming from greenhouse gases occurring today. On December 2, the U.S. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2024

Why They Will Take Decades To Complete -- Republican Herald: Union Twp.,

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 12, 2024

” Process Safety and Environmental Protection, 185, 614–631. Gollakota, A. K., & Shu, C.-M. “Cultivating eco-advantages: Unleashing the distinctive potential of biochar in microbial fuel cells.”

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 20, 2024

The Office of Attorney General’s investigation revealed that Shell allegedly failed to notify the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) about multiple issues that the company encountered during some of the horizontal directional drills (HDD) that were utilized to construct some portions of the pipeline.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2024

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 7664 ) -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the December 9 PA Bulletin that it had disapproved an Act 2 Land Recycling Final Report for the Penneco Oil Company Kenneth D. 28, 2024 for the facility located in South Huntingdon Twp., Indiana County. ( Susquehanna County. (

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal Pennsylvania is ideally suited to help the nation fight global warming by becoming a leader in the effort to capture and store emissions of carbon dioxide, state officials say. In the battle to slow global warming, carbon dioxide is the chief target. Studies by the U.S. from 1990–2019.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2024

in Somerset County -- WHYY: My Climate Story: Philly Students Take Science From Abstract To Personal -- Reading Eagle: Berks Nature Nonprofit Has Evolved Over Its 50-Year History -- MCall: C.F.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Compiling this list has made me even more hopeful for what we can achieve together in 2024. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the California Air Resources Board (CARB) waiver request for the Ocean-Going Vessel At-Berth Regulation. Let’s do it again in 2024. Fortunately, we have much to celebrate in 2023.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Since then, BOEM has created three national CCS Environmental Studies Programs covering the regions it regulates (the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific, and Alaska), all slated for performance in 2023-2025.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2024

Unless the DEP’s Oil and Gas Program is given adequate staffing to properly police conventional drillers and the ability to increase bonding amounts to ensure drillers fulfill their well plugging obligations, taxpayer money — both federal and state — will continue to be wasted on DEP ‘s well plugging efforts.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2023

Methane emissions are the second-largest cause of global warming after carbon dioxide, and controlling them is increasingly considered a key to arresting climate change. Methane is invisible to the naked eye. But spectrometers, and devices like them, detect and measure the infrared energy of objects.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The willingness of the two potential rivals for the 2024 White House to cooperate in meeting the immediate threat of Ian is admirable. In its strategic plan, “Working Together,” EPA even explains that environmental protection is a shared responsibility among the states, tribes, and the federal government.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 14, 2024

Of Agriculture Honors 300-Year-Old Chester County Farm -- DCNR Blog: Message From The Secretary On New Beginnings In 2023 - By DCNR Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn [PaEN] -- The Allegheny Front: Meet The Nominees For PA’s 2024 River Of The Year -- Public News Service: Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership Has Tracked The Planting Of More Than 5.9

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Billion Thru 2042; No Regard For Environmental Compliance Record [PaEN] -- DEP Approves PennEnergy Resources 1.5 Billion Thru 2042; No Regard For Environmental Compliance Record [PaEN] -- DEP Approves PennEnergy Resources 1.5 Click Here for a copy of the letter and a list of signatories. Resource Link: -- DCED: Gov.

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Greenbuilding Law

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The LEZ promotes the shift from fossil fuel to the use of greener modes of transportation such as electric vehicles and all electric public transportation to reduce carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane from motor vehicle exhausts. using 1,175 cameras to monitor which cars enter and exit the zone. Disadvantages: 4.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The Environmental Protection Agency receives $100 million for air quality and climate research. The White House Council on Environmental Quality receives $65 million for environmental and climate data collection. Ocean CDR is a set of strategies to sequester carbon dioxide in ocean waters.

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ESA

MARCH 20, 2023

This request marks the start of the appropriations process for fiscal year 2024 (FY24), which starts Oct. billion for the agency authorized in FY 2024 the CHIPS Act and Science Act. billion for NSF in FY 2024. The agency sets a goal of 1,100 peer-reviewed scientific publications during FY 2024.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

Department of Environmental Protection Acting Secretary Richard Negrin prepared this written testimony to submit to the Senate and House Appropriations Committees outlining Gov. Thank you for the opportunity to present Governor Shapiro’s proposed Fiscal Year 2023-2024 budget for the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

DEP is requesting a written response by January 15, 2024 from the operator on how they plan to correct the violations and bring the site into compliance. DEP arrived at the facility January 3, 2023 to start its investigation. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

At stake was the ability to reduce carbon emissions as written in the ‘Clean Power Plan’ regulation under the auspices of the Clean Air Act that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power to regulate “the best system of reducing emissions.” US Environmental Protection Agency case.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Nominations: President Biden nominated Christopher Frey to be the Environmental Protection Agency’s assistant adminstrator for research and development. EPA to cut greenhouse gases thousands of times more powerful than carbon dioxide – Washington Post. billion by 2024 from its current $2 billion contribution.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Biden administration laid out its timeline for rolling back major Trump environmental rules, but acknowledged that the process of enacting more protective regulations on climate and air pollution and drinking water will take years — if they can estimate the timeline at all.

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