Legal Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

The state’s Chamber of Commerce said regulators are “asking industry to jump out of a plane with a needle, thread and cloth, with the hopes that a parachute can be stitched.” State agencies must develop and implement a climate action plan to meet these targets every five years, the first of which is due by November 15, 2025.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2022

On March 30, the House voted 126 to 72 to pass House Bill 637 (Struzzi-R-Indiana) designed to block the final DEP regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants that’s consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Read more here. Veto Override There has not yet been an attempt to override Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- Transition - Governor -- AP: Shapiro Taps Longtime Aides For Top Jobs In Governor’s Office -- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Gov.-Elect Increase In Natural Gas Rates By Valley Energy, Bradford County [PA’s #3 County In Natural Gas Production] -- PUC To Investigate Proposed 9.2%

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

Today’s the day for the long-awaited release of Environmental Protection Agency regulations to tackle planet-warming pollution by the nation’s power plants. For weeks, we’ve seen headlines about “Biden going big on regulating power plants” and “Biden’s aggressive new rule for power plants” as if it were simply a White House strategy. (And

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- New Voting Districts - Senate, House, Congressional -- Spotlight PA: How Redistricting Could Alter Control Of The Legislature And Other Changes To Watch Nov. Increase In Base Delivery Charge; Separate Cost Of Gas Up 127.8%

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Post-Gazette: Thornburgh Memorial Service Set For Oct. Oz, Fetterman Have Big Debate Oct.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2024

This agenda was facilitated by the Heritage Foundation—the conservative think tank that also has a dark money-fueled activist wing called Heritage Action —under the name Project 2025: Presidential Transition Project. This latest document is dripping with disdain for federal bureaucracies, especially environmental regulators.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

Consumers Energy will close its remaining coal-fired power plants by 2025 and add 8,000 megawatts of solar by 2040. Reform utility political contribution and lobbying regulations. In 2022, the MPSC similarly approved a revised version of utility Consumers Energy’s long-range energy plan following settlement negotiations.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2024

-- Guest Essay: Oil & Gas Industry Waste And Radioactive Drinking Water In Pennsylvania - By Justin Nobel, Author of Petroleum-238: Big Oil's Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It [PaEN] -- Pennsylvanians Realized $500+ Billion In Public Health Benefits By Eliminating Coal-Fired Power Plants, Switching To Natural Gas [PaEN] -- The (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Gas prices: Without a cap, the flood of bio-based diesel into California will continue, requiring a rapid increase in stringency to stabilize LCFS credit markets, sending 2030 stringency from the 30 percent proposed in the regulation to 34.5 The lower stringency results in lower costs and reduced economic impact of the regulation.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Emissions trading systems are often launched with relatively lenient design features, typically justified as giving the system a chance to “learn-by-doing” and to gain political buy-in for approval of a program. . – Continual reform to improve ambition, integrity, and buy-in. Most ETS have fallen on the prices-too-low side.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2024

And in recent years the Supreme Court has moved steadily to the right when it comes to the inevitable tension between constitutionally-protected private property rights and traditional government land use regulation. 22-859 The Jarkesy case directly involves federal regulation of securities markets–not environmental law.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

On September 1, the Independent Regulatory Review Commission is considering whether to approve the final Environmental Quality Board regulation reducing carbon pollution from power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. How did we get here? On October 3, 2019, Gov. Read more here. Carolyn Comitta (D-Chester).

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In September 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to loosen methane regulations over the oil and gas industry that would have otherwise harnessed $30 million dollars of wasted energy. Going Backwards: Rollback of Carbon Pollution Regulations. Rollback of the Methane Rule. appeared first on.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee meets to consider Senate Bill 1058 (Yaw-R-Lycoming) abrogating the final regulation reducing carbon pollution from power plants [RGGI]. Off the Floor. [No No video coverage] February 5-- NEW. Rules Room. Off the Floor. [No No video coverage] February 8-- NEW. National- $3.15

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

Allegheny County; Private Gas Well, Propane Found And Secured -- Post-Gazette: 2 Killed In An ‘Absolutely Extreme’ Home Explosion In Crescent Twp.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesota’s current goal is to reduce statewide carbon emissions 30 percent by 2025 compared to 2005 levels and 80 percent by 2050. In addition to political barriers like the Minnesota Senate , the current grid poses a physical, technological barrier to reaching the levels of renewable energy needed to address the climate crisis.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2023

6, 2025 -- DEP Took Action On 812 Permits, 94% Within Permit Decision Guarantee Deadlines; Conducted 1,733 Inspections; Responded To 1 Environmental Emergency Week Ending Aug. Could Be Reactivated -- Schuylkill Action Network Oct. 20 Stormwater Operation & Maintenance Workshop, Montgomery County [PaEN] -- Delaware RiverKeeper Aug.

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 1, 2023

A little more than a month ago, the DOD, GSA, and NASA proposed to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation to require certain Federal contractors disclose their GHG emissions and set science based targets to reduce their GHG emissions. And that was in advance of proposed future mandates of government even going into effect.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 23, 2022

The stick takes the form of a “methane emissions charge,” which EPA must collect from certain entities in the oil and natural gas sector, unless and until stringent regulations controlling the sector’s methane emissions are implemented. Starting with methane was likely more politically feasible than carbon dioxide for several reasons. (To

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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. This blog post summarizes the history of federal vehicle emissions regulations, the arguments made by Petitioners in Texas v. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2023

In the interim, state regulators this year are directly asking municipalities with storm sewer systems to outline steps for controlling salt runoff from roads. But regulators say that municipalities do not have the staff or budgets to oversee salt application on private property. Developing those pollution diets takes years.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

A first draft shows that more than two billion Euros in total shall be invested into hydrogen development until 2025. The backdrop for these ambitions at EU level is the current work that is being conducted at the European Commission to complete a set of gas-related laws and regulations (so called gas package).

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The package consists of a revised Gas Directive (COM(2021) 803 final) (hereafter: rGD), a revised Gas Regulation (COM(2021) 804 final) (hereafter: rGR) and a Regulation on the Reduction of Methane Emissions in the Energy Sector (COM(2021) 805 final) (hereafter: MER). However, it is crucial in setting the tone and the main pillars.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

The EPA’s Social Cost of Carbon was adjusted to 2025 to align with the emissions year of the NO x and SO 2 estimates.) (Note: this is adjusted for inflation to 2022 dollars and is based on the amount those plants emitted in 2021, the EIA’s most recent year of finalized data.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

You’ll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations. DEP eNotice: The Only Way You’ll Know When Applications Come In To DEP Did you know DEP can send you email notices when permit applications are submitted to DEP in your community? Click Here to sign up for DEP’s eNOTICE today ! Westmoreland County?

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] This piece previously appeared in the CLS Blue Sky Blog.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

trillion American food and fiber production sector that counts powerful allies in marketing, equipment, chemical, energy industries, and politics. . Regulation Begins. Regulators have the authority to stem nonpoint pollution in two categories. . are the frontline of an immense $1.1 The productivity of U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Shale Gas Fracking Wastewater Regulations on the agenda. Senate returns to voting session January 3, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31 -- Committee Schedule House returns to voting session January 3 [Democrats, Republicans Fighting Over Schedule] -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events WEDNESDAY 10:30: Virtual.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

Map of California’s Unratified Indian Reservations 1851-52, on display in Washington, DC, as part of the Nation to Nation: Treaties Between the United States and American Indian Nations exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian, open until January 2025. Photo by Amanda Fencl.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 21, 2022

Unsafe Yield Severe drought, dead wells, political division push Arizona steadily closer to water supply peril. Nobody who knows Peggy Judd would mistake her for a political progressive. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue – March 21, 2022. The Biggest Dry: Arizona, second of three reports. Read the first report here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2022

PA Unemployment Rate Falls To Record Low, Labor Market Will Remain Extraordinarily Tight Thru 2025 Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: October 26, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 21, 2024

This body was tasked with conducting research and formulating strategies to refine electoral regulations, with a specific emphasis on the influences of the internet and social media in elections. Covid-19 Pandemic The emergence of Covid-19 in Brazil in early 2020 profoundly altered the political landscape. 510/2021.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

Exploring this further might reveal a division in Republican ranks and help reveal that many American corporations that donate to political campaigns are excited by the tax incentives of Bidenomics, which make it unlikely to be repealed even by Republicans. These ideas require real scrutiny, not just a raise of hands.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2022

12 EQB Agenda [PaEN] -- Bay Journal: With 2025 Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Goal Out Of Reach, Region Plans For What's Next At Oct. Limiting Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities To Oct. What’s Your Community Doing?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Note: Conventional Oil & Gas Methane, PFOS MCL Regulations.] PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- PA Capital-Star: Dept. Senate Candidates Aren’t Saying About Crime -- PennLive: Biden To Hold Fundraiser For Fetterman In PA -- Politics PA: PA Senate Preview - Southeast -- TribLive: Fmr Rep. What’s Your Community Doing?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Small, Chesapeake Bay Foundation-PA When the federal Clean Water Act was established 50 years ago to regulate pollution to the country's rivers and streams and set quality standards for surface waters, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania already had a Clean Streams Law and an Environmental Rights Amendment (ERA) to its Constitution on the books.

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