PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2025

On June 4, Marcellus Drilling News reported an oil and gas industry group said DEP’s proposed plan to reduce methane pollution from oil and gas facilities to comply with a federal regulation is an ‘existential threat’ to the oil and gas industry in Pennsylvania. Every operator, every service company – everyone is affected. Read more here.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2025

Drives US Electricity Demand International/National Impacts On PA Natural Gas [ Energy Independence Means Renewables ] -- Utility Dive: Electric, Gas Utilities Urge FERC To Launch Inquiry To Consider Natural Gas Pipeline Reliability Measures To Cope With Extreme Weather, Increased Demand -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Electricity Realism Isnt Climate (..)

Air Pollution

Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

A 2021 North Carolina law requires the N.C. More below on the requirements of Session Law 2021-165 (also referred to as House Bill 951) and NCUC action in response. The law limits offsets to 5%. regulated by the Utilities Commission; and 2. regulated by the Utilities Commission; and 2. The Reduction Goal.

2021

Law Columbia

MARCH 11, 2024

Part Two will contextualize the SEC’s final climate disclosure rule alongside California’s recent climate-disclosure laws and the EPA’s GHG emissions reporting regime. Further, the impact of severe weather events, which was originally required as a footnote disclosure in a firm’s Regulation S-X reporting, has been shifted to Regulation S-K.

Regulations

Renewable + Law

JULY 5, 2022

The bill allows a person proposing to construct any of those facilities to file an application for certification (“AFC”) with the CEC on or before June 30, 2029.

2029

Renewable + Law

JULY 5, 2022

The bill allows a person proposing to construct any of those facilities to file an application for certification (“AFC”) with the CEC on or before June 30, 2029.

2029

CEQA Developments

APRIL 11, 2023

The EIR’s analysis of emissions from 50 hours of annual running time – the maximum permitted by California regulations for testing and maintenance – and adoption of a mitigation measure allowing only 20 hours of such use was a reasonable analysis that left a 30-hour “cushion” for emergency operation. Coon of Miller Starr Regalia.

2018

Law Columbia

AUGUST 3, 2018

EPA and DOT estimate that “upstream” carbon dioxide emissions from oil production, transportation, refining, and distribution would increase by 159 MMT (over the lifetime of the vehicles produced from MY1979 through MY 2029). The safety benefits of the rule may have been overestimated. California’s Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate).

Carbon Dioxide

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

billion tonnes by 2029-2030. Furthermore, in July 2023, India passed a new law that has made it easier to clear forests, including for coal mines. According to India’s 2023 National Electricity Plan, the country’s 2026-2027 domestic coal requirement will be an estimated 866.4 million tonnes, rising to 1.025 billion tonnes by 2031-2032.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2023

Several cities in California, including Los Angeles and in the Bay Area, have outlawed new gas hookups, but these are the first regulations that would effectively ban the sale of gas appliances. Such a Request for Information could be a potential first step toward implementing safety standards or other regulations governing their use.

Nitrogen Oxides

Capaccio

MAY 21, 2024

In April 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) introduced a new regulation to limit the amount of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in drinking water. PFAS National Primary Drinking Water Regulation On April 10, 2024, the EPA finalized the first-ever national regulation to reduce PFAS in drinking water.

Regulations

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Environmental groups are generally opposed , as are some environmental law professors ; a list of climate researchers signed a letter in opposition ; but clean energy groups support. The basis of debate is the Energy Permitting Reform Act (EPRA) co-sponsored by Senators Manchin and Barrasso. Is the deal on the table worth taking?

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Each of those permits also represents a facility that requires regular inspection to ensure permittees are complying with permit conditions and regulations and are not impermissibly contributing to pollution in Pennsylvania. Since the law was passed in 2022, DEP has received $734.6 million, including nearly $245 million in 2024.

2024

Legal Planet

JUNE 3, 2025

Do these climate lawsuits seeking to make polluters pay for the costs of climate destruction also seek to regulate energy? It mentions New Yorks and Vermonts climate superfund laws by name; as well as Californias cap-and-trade policy. Theres a 70% chance that the 2025-2029 period will be more than 1.5C Not likely.

Climate Change