Legal Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

State governments began cutting emissions at a time when the federal government was essentially doing nothing about climate change. The Commission also issued new rules governing the state’s 18 most polluting facilities, including the world’s largest maker of mozzarella cheese. State climate policy is a big deal.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2022

Environmental Protection 3 Adam Ortiz reaffirmed the agency’s commitment to meeting the 2025 goals of the Chesapeake Bay Clean Water Blueprint at Tuesday night’s Maryland Environmental Legislative Summit. The last administration said that the 2025 Bay goals were aspirational. On January 25, U.S.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 8, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency agreed to a timeline for updating water pollution standards for meat and poultry factories. The agency must complete its rulemaking by August 31, 2025. It is a centerpiece of agency authority to interpret broad directives from Congress, especially environmental laws.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

Speaker Rivas has authored numerous pieces of legislation on key environmental protection and environmental justice issues over the years. Having an environmental champion in the speaker’s office is a good sign for 2024’s prospects. In the coming weeks legislative priorities will become much clearer.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2021

On October 14, the Department of Environmental Protection presented a proposed regulation that would adopt California’s existing Zero Emission Vehicle Program that requires 22 percent of the new passenger and light duty vehicle fleets offered for sale in the state be zero emission vehicles starting in model year 2025.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 24, 2023

We definitely recognize that we’re not going to meet that 2025 deadline…We need to recalibrate.” — Michael Regan, the EPA administrator, addressing the House Agriculture Committee about how the Chesapeake Bay watershed will not meet water-pollution targets that were set for two years from now. government water policy.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Wes Moore called for the federal government and states in the Bay region to dramatically redefine the focus and goals of the 40-year-old partnership. The Executive Council sets the top-line agenda for the Bay Program, a partnership between the federal government and the six states in the estuary’s drainage basin.

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Acoel

APRIL 30, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) program authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act. Numerous local government groups and tribes also submitted PCAPs.) These plans had been submitted to the U.S. And therein lies the rub.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 6, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency ordered water utilities to report on their plans to prevent hackers from disrupting their operations. House Committee Targets Permitting The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee passed two items that would reduce federal government oversight over water resources.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2023

The framework is part of a process President Biden set in motion with the “ Restoring Trust in Government Through Scientific Integrity and Evidence-Based Policymaking ” memorandum he signed during his first week in office (see the April 2022 roundup for more details on earlier steps in the process).

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The Department of Environmental Protection will begin accepting applications for abandoned mine reclamation and mine drainage treatment project grants on October 24. The deadline for applications is January 13. DEP's Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation has a total of $103.4

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The IRA’s funding opportunities lie in a web of agencies and programs Historically, few programs from the federal government have allowed for entities to holistically solve multiple complicated, technical, and social problems. And, while the hubs have government funding, there’s no limit to who could be considered a spoke. Source: U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 24, 2022

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE AND TOXIC-FREE FUTURE’S MIND THE STORE PROGRAM. Restaurant Brands International commits to eliminating PFAS in food packaging by 2025 in all stores worldwide, including Burger King, Tim Hortons, and Popeyes. Congress should pass this common-sense legislation and take PFAS off the menu.”.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 27, 2021

For smaller communities, a representative sample of utilities will be required to take part in the monitoring program, which runs from 2023 to 2025. Environmental Protection Agency announced they would independently investigate the water contamination incident at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, on Oahu. government water policy.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The EPA proposes increasing the amount of biofuels in the nation’s energy supply through 2025. Environmental Protection Agency will set water quality standards, a requirement under the federal Clean Water Act. In recent years, the EPA has ordered states to revise their pollution limits to protect tribal uses.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Getting this right is important, both for California and to ensure the LCFS remains a workable model for other states and the federal government. Moreover, absent reform, the LCFS is not a replicable model for other states or the federal government. Bio-based diesel fuels are expensive. billion gallons.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 18, 2023

None of it would be possible without government support. When the plant begins production, scheduled for 2025, it qualifies for a $1.75 farms, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, are “the single greatest challenge to our nation’s water quality.” That’s not all. Phosphorus and nitrogen discharges from U.S.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2024

While it’s unclear to this observer whether and how regulatory takings rules can effectively be applied in the quasi-legislative context, the facts of the Sheetz case are not particularly favorable to the government defendants. Why is the J arkesy case important to environmental law and lawyers? Court of Appeals.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal In a major shift in strategy as the Chesapeake region nears its 2025 Bay cleanup deadline, Pennsylvania has switched to an approach that gives the reins and money to counties as they try to reduce large amounts of pollution from agriculture and stormwater runoff.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2024

18-20 In WV Registration Open For Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council Level 1 Certification Training Beginning July 30 Join Master Watershed Stewards In Lancaster County For June 13 Waterways On Wheels Bike Tour A Dozen Nonprofit, Agency, Municipal Environmental Experts Team Up To Tackle Stormwater Runoff In The Lake Erie Watershed Dept.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2023

On December 1, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has awarded $19.3 Environmental Protection Agency to lower its nutrient and sediment pollution levels by 2025. Like the other jurisdictions in the watershed, Pennsylvania is mandated by the U.S. Pennsylvania is required to reduce nitrogen by 34.13

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 3, 2023

This post is adapted from a Client Alert to commercial real estate owners and tenants in those buildings in Maryland about the new regulations requiring that beginning January 1, 2024 greenhouse gas emission data be collected for reporting to the state government.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

Health and environmental damages avoided Using Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates, the United States could avoid more than $18 billion in annual damages from CO 2 , NO x , and SO 2 if all the coal and gas plants scheduled for retirement in 2023 permanently shut down as planned. What can be done?

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Last fall brought a whirlwind onslaught of legal, regulatory and policy attacks on the Greenbelt, wetlands, forests Conservation Authorities, renters, property taxpayers and good planning by the Ontario government. You won’t be surprised that our answer is a resounding “no!”

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

They based their campaign on state law, the powerful Michigan Environmental Protection Act (MEPA), which gives citizens the right to protect all natural resources from “conduct” that is “likely to result in pollution, impairment, or destruction” from any source. Environmental Protection Agency approved $1.7

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 7, 2024

Over one-third of Pennsylvania's 86,000 stream miles are degraded and considered "impaired" by the Department of Environmental Protection. . -- Legislators need to identify and advocate for a sustainable, annual source of future funding. Read more here.]

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 4, 2023

Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 brought a whirlwind onslaught of legal, regulatory and policy attacks on the Greenbelt, wetlands, forests, Conservation Authorities, renters, property taxpayers and good planning by the Ontario government. You won’t be surprised that our answer is a resounding “no!”

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

How is it possible that legislation billed as an environmental protection statute ends up as a primary threat to clean water and communities? Environmental Protection Agency identified phosphorus and nitrogen discharges from U.S. These are pathogens and contaminants that can cause serious issues for people.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency recommends water quality standards for rivers and lakes to prevent death and damage to fish, mussels, insects, and other aquatic species. Mobility, cost, and environmental protection. The five-year pilot project is underway in three counties, and a final report is expected in 2025. “We’re

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 14, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency on Dec. 31 that state officials say will meet its 2025 pollution reduction goals. The states are to have all necessary practices in place by 2025 to meet those goals. million pounds short of meeting its 2025 nitrogen goals and identified an annual $324 million funding shortfall.

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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. The petitioners, joined by intervenor States and local governments, appealed this determination, and in Massachusetts v. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2022

On December 14, the Department of Environmental Protection awarded $12.2 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to lower its nutrient (nitrogen and phosphorus) and sediment pollution levels by 2025. Pennsylvania is required to reduce nitrogen by 32.5 million pounds and phosphorus by 850,000 pounds.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2022

Southeastern states are seeing saltwater intrusion the fastest, with the Maryland Geological Survey estimating an increase of 15 percent in state salinity by 2025. The process can be thought of like a seesaw, explained Holly Michael, director of the Delaware Environmental Institute. It’s a balance between the land and the sea.

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Acoel

JULY 1, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may be received by the regulated community as an announcement that the environmental justice principles will serve as the foundation for an enforcement initiative targeting them rather than initiating a collective effort with the goal of stakeholders focusing to solve unanswered and persistent problems.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 18, 2023

Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 brought a whirlwind onslaught of legal, regulatory and policy attacks on the Greenbelt, wetlands, forests, Conservation Authorities, renters, property taxpayers and good planning by the Ontario government. You won’t be surprised that our answer is a resounding “no!”

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

In China, government plans to peak and neutralise national carbon emissions, and for a wholesale green transition , have caused a boom in “green employment”. The sector is expected to employ 1 million people by 2025. By 2025, that figure is expected to be somewhere between 500,000 and 1 million. in 2015 to 13.3%

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

These agreements come on the heels of a similar agreement between the federal government and the Imperial Irrigation District to conserve approximately 100,000 acre-feet of water in 2023.

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