PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2025

The subsequent 2023-2024 El Nio event proved even deadlier, with 5 fatalities out of 127 reported cases of heat-related illnesses. Climate litigation follows a similar path of accountability objectives, urging governments to fulfill their international climate law pledges, among other commitments.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. 1 Electricity Price Changes; Rates Will Vary From 8.4%

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Related Articles: -- SolarBank's First 2 Community Solar Projects In PA: 13.8-Megawatt Megawatt And 7 Megawatt Projects In Lancaster County Contingent On PA Passing Community Solar Legislation [PaEN] -- USDA Announces Investment Of $24 Million In 112 Clean Energy Projects In PA; $20.5

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2025

Working across the globe, EDF links science, economics, law and innovative private-sector partnerships to turn solutions into action. In 2024, EDF launched MethaneSAT, a satellite to measure and map methane pollution and help usher in a new era of climate accountability. With more than 3.5

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2025

The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Ohio- $2.99 Ohio- $2.99

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

filed in 2024 and 2018, respectively. According to the Japanese Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, the countrys fossil fuel dependency was 83.2% In February 2023, the Tokyo District Court found that the Notice of Finalization, which had been issued through a simplified permitting procedure, was lawful.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2025

The average cost to plug a well, per the DEP, was about $110,000 in 2024. The federal government’s $76 million of help is appreciated, but at the state’s current average cost of $110,000 to plug an abandoned well in 2024, Pennsylvania has a $61.6 Obviously, money alone isn’t the only issue the state faces dealing with uncapped wells.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 4, 2025

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. 20, Crawford County; Annual Dinner Sept.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2025

4 [September 2024] [Hearing Summary] -- House Committee Hearing On Increasing Safety Setbacks Zones Around Natural Gas Facilities Heard About First-Hand Citizen Experiences On Health Impacts, From Physicians On Health Studies And The Gas Industry On Job Impacts [October 2023] -- Sen.

Ozone

National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

The decision, issued on May 29, 2025, stemmed from a lawsuit filed by a landowner in 2024 who claimed that Swampbuster was both an unconstitutional violation of the Commerce Clause and served as an unconstitutional taking of private land. Swampbuster is implemented by the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (“NRCS”).

2013

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

Industries claim that this Board lacks the authority to act on this petition is not supported by these laws. The [state] Oil and Gas Act, Clean Streams Law and Air Pollution Control Act give EQB the authority and mandate to promulgate regulations to protect health and the environment.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Over 1st Quarter 2024; Price Of Natural Gas Increased 218% Over 1st Quarter 2024 [PaEN] -- Erie Times Guest Essay: Understaffed DEP Can’t Uphold Law And Protect Public Health - By Rep. Responds To Rep.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

Where We Are With The Issue At a June 10, 2024 hearing on House Bill 2384 (Vitali-D-Delaware) that would ban road dumping by the House Environmental Committee, DEP said, The Administration is supportive of this clear ban on the practice and views the Solid Waste Management Act as a sound vehicle for such statutory language. Read more here.

Natural Gas

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

In 2024 activists, designers and NGOs organized Atacama Fashion Week—with a fashion show atop the garment graveyard—to draw attention to this growing problem. The pull on the planet’s natural resources is immense: Annual textile production uses up enough water to fill at least 37 million Olympic-size swimming pools.

Upcycling

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

Continuing Conventional Well Abandonment Problem In 2024, DEP issued 860 new or continued violations to conventional oil and gas well owners for abandoning and not plugging their wells. Growing Shale Gas Well Abandonments In 2024, 47 violations were issued or continued to 12 shale gas well owners for abandoning and not plugging their wells.

2025

Law Columbia

APRIL 11, 2025

In New York, a lawsuit challenging regulations that were promulgated by a state agency to implement the siting law was finally defeated in November 2024, after multiple appeals. The PSCs October 2024 Order Interpreting PA 233 On October 10, 2024, the PSC issued an order to implement the new siting process.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

From 2018 through 2024, she served as a Research Forester Emerita. She is passionate about finding ways to transfer research results to potential users so that both research and practice are improved and including natural resource practitioners and landowners throughout the research process. -- Thomas C.

2018

Law Columbia

MAY 6, 2025

These pressures are further compounded by social tensions , as Indigenous communities are frequently excluded from decision-making processes, raising concerns about environmental justice and the equitable governance of natural resources. Since 1979, Decree Law No. At the regulatory level, oversight has also intensified.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 9, 2025

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

Conservation

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 29, 2024

EPA Could Be Dangerous for Environmental Federal Agencies By Christina Karem & Laurie Beyranevand The 2024 term of the United States Supreme Court resulted in historic rulings affecting a variety of hot-press issues. Notably, this term reshaped administrative law and regulatory agencies in unprecedented ways.

Law

National Law Center

JULY 8, 2025

Water markets are transforming how Western states manage one of their most vital — and limited — resources, and an upcoming webinar will examine the legal and policy framework behind these systems. Registration is available at no cost on the NALC website at nationalaglawcenter.org/webinars/western-water-markets.

2013

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 13, 2025

Under current law , SARE is funded at $48 million. For example, a recent impact report from North Central SARE showed that from 2014 to 2024, 8,329 farmers reported meaningful changes , like adopting new practices or reducing inputs, after participating in a NCR-SARE project.

2026

PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2025

The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Noon to 1:00 p.m. May 22-- Agenda Posted. May 22-- Virtual.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

“These actions are the result of our continuing efforts to ensure that oil and gas operators comply with the Clean Air Act,” said Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. Attorney Eric G. Olshan for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

Greenhouse

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2025

On April 7, the House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee amended and reported out House Bill 109 (Vitali-D-Delaware) establishing an environmental justice permit review program in DEP to consider cumulative impacts of pollutants on communities already burdened by pollution by a vote of 14 to 12-- Republicans opposing.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Degnan Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, will give the talk, “Repurposed Energy,” at 4:00 p.m. Klass teaches and writes primarily in the areas of energy law, environmental law and natural resources law. For more information about the fall 2024 series, visit the EarthTalks website.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

The Natural Resources Defense Council said the PJM Interconnection lost 2.8 gigawatts of power due to the reduced reliability rating of natural gas power plants during the most recent PJM electricity capacity auction. So the major de-rating of the gas fleet came during the last auction in July 2024. Read more here.] "And

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

Dumping on paved roads dramatically up-ticked in early 2024, and I observed some paved roads near me becoming repeat casualties several times a week, said Lawson. Read more here. The bill was reported out of Committee by a party-line vote, but went no further. Republicans in the Senate also opposed the bill. Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2024

The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. House Floor. House Floor.

Natural Resources

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is expected to hold a hearing on Wrights nomination tomorrow. Should Mr. Wright engage in such tactics during his confirmation hearing, Senators on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee must not allow him to get away with this ploy. Here are the facts.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

This past Saturday, Congresswoman Maxine Waters announced that she would re-introduce and seek additional co-sponsors for her 2024 bill, HR 10441 , banning the use of hydrofluoric acid (HF) at new oil refineries and requiring existing refineries to stop using HF within 5 years of the bills passage.

2015

National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

The Ag & Food Law Update > Search Site Navigation About the Center Professional Staff Partners Research by Topic Center Publications Webinar Series State Compilations Farm Bill Resources Ag Law Bibliography Ag Law Glossary Ag Law Reporter General Resources 24 Jul The Feed: Vol.

Endangered Species Act

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

APRIL 14, 2025

The USDA announcement , which reframes PCSC as the Advancing Markets for Producers initiative, indicates that USDA will review existing grant agreements for the amount of project funds that go to producers, and whether grant recipients have enrolled and paid at least one producer as of December 31, 2024.

Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2025

The webinar is being hosted by Moms Clean Air Force , the Ohio River Valley Institute , Center for Coalfield Justice, Philly Thrive , Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community and the Pennsylvania Utility Law Project. Click Here to register and for more information. Customer Charge Increase By Wellsboro Electric; 18% Gas Increase + 13.4%

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 15, 2024

HF 1900 would continue the use of state lottery funds “for the public purpose of protection, conservation, preservation, and enhancement of the state’s air, water, land, fish, wildlife, and other natural resources.” SB 201 is an effort to overturn a state law regulating carbon dioxide pipelines. Rhode Island.

Carbon Dioxide