PA Environment Daily

MARCH 1, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the March 2 PA Bulletin that MTM Trading LLC (Tagital) is prohibited from selling its products in Pennsylvania as a result of its violation of the state electronics waste recycling law. ( Posted: March 1, 2024] PA Environment Digest Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 12, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the April 13 PA Bulletin that Eyoyo is prohibited from selling its products in Pennsylvania as a result of its violation of the state electronics waste recycling law. ( Manufacturers must also pay an annual registration fee and submit a recycling plan and annual report.

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Posted on February 13, 2024 by Peter Lehner The Farm Bill is the most significant environmental law Congress will address this year. Congress passed the last Farm Bill in 2018 and Congressional leaders aim for a new Farm Bill by mid-2024. The predominant modern government support is the federal crop insurance program. 

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2024

will receive the WeConservePA 2024 Lifetime Conservation Leadership Award at the Pennsylvania Land Conservation Conference at the Thursday night dinner on April 4. In 1977, he graduated from Capital University School of Law with a Juris Doctorate magna cum laude. This research began his keen interest in real estate law.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Governments across the United States are for the first time regulating greenhouse gas emissions. This entirely new and emergent body of law in response to climate change is bursting onto the scene in 2024 and businesses are beginning to monetize it as a new revenue stream. As such the more than 90% of businesses in the U.S.

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E2 Law Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Addressing these issues will be at the forefront for various government entities in 2024. In 2024, we expect continuing regulatory action and enforcement from the state in the form of building code changes and structural inspections for aging residential and other buildings.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2024

In 2024 alone, DEP issued 392 violations. Information obtained in a Right To Know request shows in 2023, 95 conventional operators were found to be in violation of state law prohibiting well abandonment without plugging for 271 individual conventional oil and gas wells. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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E2 Law Blog

AUGUST 23, 2023

lawyers in the firm’s Environmental Practice in their 2024 edition. Eid – Native American Law, Denver Julie P. Andras – Litigation – Environmental, Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Chicago Giuliano Apadula – Environmental Law, Philadelphia Ryan T.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Taken together, the need for governments to meaningfully regulate these super polluters has never been clearer. This guidance has been solicited from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), Interamerican Court of Human Rights (IACtHR), and International Court of Justice (ICJ).

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Washington Nature

MARCH 18, 2024

The 2024 session of the Washington State Legislature has wrapped up, and at The Nature Conservancy in Washington we are celebrating new investments in the transition to a clean energy economy and a climate-resilient future for all Washingtonians. Yet persistent efforts to undermine the CCA made this session complex and unique.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In a much-anticipated decision, the United States Supreme Court held that choice-of-law provisions in marine insurance contracts are presumptively enforceable under federal maritime law with a few narrow exceptions. The policy selected New York law to govern all future disputes arising under the contract. LLC , 601 U.S.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

So far, the country has adopted several laws to strengthen the legal framework towards achieving these goals. Colombia ’s Legal Climate Framework Colombia’s climate change laws are extensive and align with its open commitment to fight climate change and its devastating effects. Law 629 of 2000 on the Kyoto Protocol.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 6, 2024

Green , James Bee , and Kevin Mak On February 15, 2024, Bursa Malaysia Berhad (Bursa Malaysia), Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX), The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), and Singapore Exchange (SGX Group) released a joint statement announcing their collaboration on the development of the ASEAN-Interconnected Sustainability Ecosystem (ASEAN-ISE).

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 21, 2023

The city’s Department of Sanitation, which was already ramping up a voluntary curbside organics program, must now enforce participation in 2024 after Mayor Eric Adams allowed a bill to become law. Read the full story at Waste Dive.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

VJEL Newsroom Announcing VJEL's 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List By VJEL December 18, 2023 The Vermont Journal of Environmental Law (VJEL) is pleased to announce the publication of its 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List. Instead, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

Many communities and citizens are not aware that a state law passed in 1984 gives them the first chance to comment on Department of Environmental Protection permit applications even before they are submitted to the agency. Click Here for DEP guidance on considering local land use in its permit decisions and the Act 14 notices.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 8, 2024

For in scope companies, disclosures may be required as early as the reporting period for the 2024 financial year. 1] The ESRS apply from 1 January 2024, for financial years beginning on or after that date. These documents were published in December 2023, and stakeholders have until 2 February 2024 to provide feedback.

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MGKF Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

2024), the Ninth Circuit was tasked with determining whether the City of Berkeley’s attempt to prohibit the use of natural gas pipelines in new buildings through a local ordinance conflicted with the federal Energy Policy and Conservation Act (“EPCA”), 42 U.S.C. § In California Restaurant Association v. § 6297(c).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In 2015, the Dutch environmental organization Urgenda Foundation with nearly 900 co-plaintiffs took the Dutch government to court. They argued that the government was failing to take sufficient action to combat climate change, which was, in their view, a violation of its duty to protect its citizens’ well-being. In the Leghari v.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 15, 2024

The Guidelines require the largest Chinese public companies to publish high-quality and standardized SDRs, and are open for public comment until February 29, 2024. The Regulated Entities shall build up internal governance system, identify and assess risks and opportunities, evaluate the climate resilience, and disclose relevant information.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 17, 2022

With legislation that became law last week, without the Governor’s signature, Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. only days from now). only days from now).

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 11, 2024

Oklahoma Law Review, 76(2), 441. PFAS, Planes, and Problems: PFAS Regulation in the Aerospace and Aviation Industries.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 18, 2024

Green , and James Bee On 15 March 2024, EU Member States endorsed the Belgian Presidency’s political deal on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), despite Germany abstaining from the vote. Next Steps A vote is scheduled in the European Parliament’s JURI Committee on 19 March 2024. Davies , Michael D.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2024

As we begin 2024, it’s useful to identify and assess the many environmental issues that the U.S. It seems likely that the conservative majority of the justices will erode or, perhaps, dramatically jettison longstanding principles of environmental law and policy in the coming months. (I’ve Over the past four decades, U.S.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

On appeal of a strike out decision, the Court gives the plaintiff “his day in court” to argue that corporates owe a common law duty of care in tort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Lamb KC and Stephanie Forrest On 7 February 2024, the Supreme Court of New Zealand decided to allow a novel climate change claim to proceed to trial.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 1, 2022

Unfortunately, the Ontario government has completely lost the plot on pollution. . But the new regulations under this “extended producer responsibility” (EPR) law are inadequate and it’s more and more doubtful that the companies that generate the waste that ends up in our bins will become fully responsible for dealing with it. .

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Nanotech

MARCH 15, 2024

s (B&C®) March 12, 2024, webinar, “FIFRA Hot Topics,” is now available for on-demand viewing. Aidala, Senior Government Affairs Consultant, Lisa R. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) and what companies should know to stay on top of new developments in the law and regulation of pesticides.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2024

R2; Washington Township, Wyoming County , PA; Consumptive Use of Up to 5.0000 mgd; Approval Date: January 16, 2024. -- RENEWAL— Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC ; Pad ID: Elwell; ABR-201201009.R2; R2; Liberty Township, Tioga County , PA; Consumptive Use of Up to 6.0000 mgd; Approval Date: January 31, 2024. . ;

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

On April 22, the Clean Air Council and Sierra Club noted the federal government finalized a significant rule that increases minimum bonding amounts from $10,000 to $150,000 per oil and gas lease on federal land. But while the rest of the country moves forward, Pennsylvania has regressed.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

“This guidebook allows for everyone to better understand the different local entities that are responsible for making land use decisions, the types of decisions that they make, and the processes and legal requirements that govern those decisions." The project included input from over 30 local municipal officials across the state.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 5, 2024

Photo by Gary Cole on Unsplash Building codes have a major influence on how local governments respond to climate change. But the decision to include these sections in the latest draft of the IECC has generated sharp disagreement among trade associations, local governments, and energy efficiency advocates.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 20, 2023

On December 15, 2023, IRS published Notice 2024-06 , a brief but important guidance on Section 40B, the Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”) tax credit for sustainable aviation fuel (“SAF”). The guidance establishes a safe harbor for SAF that generates RINs under the federal Renewable Fuel Standard program (“RFS”).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 29, 2024

Redwing Mine Accident: Investigate, hold to account those responsible for gross negligence – ZELA tells govt New Zimbabwe PaulaR Mon, 01/29/2024 - 14:16 Monday, January 15, 2024 Read more Alois Vinga THE Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) has implored the government to hold the forces behind the Redwing Mine accident to account.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 16, 2023

history during which entities that do not have federal tax liability – including local and state governments and agencies, nonprofit organizations, tribes and municipal utilities – can reap the benefit of these incentives. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is chock-full of tax incentives for climate and clean energy projects.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2024

DEP’s inspection reports [Corse 6 - example] requested the operator to submit a written report by April 12, 2024 on how the wells will be brought into compliance. The inspector said, “It has been tentatively agreed upon that more information regarding the plugging plan will be provided to the Department by the end of March, 2024.”

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Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2024

The three much-awaited judgments issued by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on April 9, 2024 are truly historic and unprecedented. The UK government , for example, noted critically that the applicants are “asking the Court to act as legislator.” In Verein Klimaseniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. 410-414 and 449-451).

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Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

It is suggested other countries should emulate Germany, but there appears to be little political will by governments to do the right thing in this age when the lowest first price wins out above all and at a time when global supply chains transect a flat earth.

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