PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

I’m Jessica Shirley, the Interim Acting Secretary for the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). Thank you for the opportunity to present Governor Shapiro’s proposed Fiscal Year 2024- 2025 budget for DEP. Closing The Governor’s 2024-2025 proposed budget for DEP is laying the groundwork to modernize our department.

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Clean Energy 2023 2024 Climate Change 68

Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Under an updated schedule, the government has mandated that from January 1, 2025, forward, buildings that are rated below F or 420 kWh per m² will no longer be allowed to rent flats. Instead, DPE is an extraction based on factors including a structure’s building materials, orientation, mechanical systems, etc.

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Greenhouse 2025 2030 Environmental Responsibility 52

Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 12, 2023

We blogged last year about EPA Proposing Designating PFAS as Hazardous under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, also known as the “Superfund” law and we expect a final rule in 2023. And back in 2019, Patagonia announced that it would phase out the use of PFAS in all of its products by 2025.

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2023 Government 2025 Environmental Responsibility 52

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. Table of Contents. Draft Contaminant Candidate List Included All PFAS.

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2021 2020 Regulations Law 52

Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 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. PFAS Action Act of 2021 Would Amend Major Environmental Statutes to Regulate PFAS.

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2021 Regulations 2020 Toxic Substances Control Act 52

Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

PFOA and PFOS Drinking Water Regulations Back On and Only the Beginning. In the final days of the Trump Administration, EPA issued final determinations to regulate PFOA and PFOS in drinking water under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), a process the Agency started in 2018.

Toxic Substances Control Act 52

Toxic Substances Control Act 2020 Clean Water Act Regulations 52