PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Hydrogen (H2) can play a critical role as an energy carrier in reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from difficult-to-decarbonize industries like manufacturing and transportation. CCUS is already in use at over 30 facilities around the world, including in the United States.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2023

As of June 20, 2023, the amount of CO2 [carbon dioxide] in the atmosphere has now risen to 421 parts per million, way past the level of 350 ppm considered safe. Because fossil fuels are used both to produce blue hydrogen and to operate its carbon capture technology, its carbon emissions are quite high.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 12, 2023

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR), or the range of technologies and processes for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and oceans, promises to be a major part of US and global climate strategy in the coming decades. Background: Carbon Dioxide Removal.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency is in the middle of adopting rulemakings under the federal Clean Air Act that will require natural gas infrastructure operators to more carefully monitor methane emissions and develop plans to meet new emission limits. Applegate noted the U.S. Read more here - supplemental EPA rule.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 10, 2021

To the extent those sectors continue emitting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, those gases will need to be captured prior to release into the atmosphere. This necessarily raises the question: what should be done with all of the carbon dioxide? to 2 o C target set in the Paris Agreement.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

The US Supreme Court seems to have appointed itself as a rogue Environmental Protection Agency, seeking to protect polluters rather than the public. National Resources Defense Council) compels judges to defer to federal agency scientists and experts in disputes over how ambiguously written laws should be implemented.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

3] California has long led the nation in adoption of environmental rules, including the first motor vehicle emission standards in 1966, energy efficiency standards for appliances in the 1970s, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, and many others. [4] 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Class VI Injection Wells, which we have discussed previously , are used to inject carbon dioxide (“CO 2 “) into deep rock formations, also known as geologic sequestration. This technology is utilized in order to reduce CO 2 emissions to the atmosphere and mitigate climate change.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Class VI Injection Wells, which we have discussed previously , are used to inject carbon dioxide (“CO 2 “) into deep rock formations, also known as geologic sequestration. This technology is utilized in order to reduce CO 2 emissions to the atmosphere and mitigate climate change.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Class VI Injection Wells, which we have discussed previously , are used to inject carbon dioxide (“CO 2 “) into deep rock formations, also known as geologic sequestration. This technology is utilized in order to reduce CO 2 emissions to the atmosphere and mitigate climate change.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 18, 2023

The law provides $140 billion in tax incentives, direct loans, and grants to replace fossil fuels with cleaner renewable energy that lowers emissions of carbon dioxide. Gevo asserts its “farm-to-flight” project will release 80 percent less carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than ethanol produced by a conventional plant.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2023

Federal Rescue Funding The expanded proposed Budget In Brief includes allocations from the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law programs on page A2-3, A2-4 (page 87, 88). As we speak, the Department of Environmental Protection is conducting independent water sampling. Click Here for Senate Testimony/Summaries.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2023

million for the Department of Environmental Protection to speed up permit reviews and expand the agency’s oversight inspections, conduct more responsive air sampling, increase the number of dam safety inspections and implement the CO2 Budget Trading Program. On March 7, Gov. I’ve seen some of those wells myself.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2021

5 and signed into law by President Joe Biden on Nov. In contrast, the state Department of Environmental Protection is lining up a batch of 500 wells to plug with just the first $25 million infusion of federal money from the U.S. He was referring to the $1.2 Department of the Interior.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

With all the subtlety of a jackhammer, he asserted, “Until the latter part of the 20th century, there was no support in American law for a constitutional right to obtain an abortion. In his draft ruling, Alito conferred credibility and salience to British anti-abortion laws of the 17 th and 13 th centuries. Broader implications.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 8, 2022

In-Person Public Hearings “Finally, Petitioners contend that the Rulemaking was void ab initio because the proper procedural requirements for developing regulations under the Commonwealth Documents Law and the APCA were not followed.” throughout the Commonwealth. Click Here for a copy of the opinion.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule repealing the Clean Power Plan and finalizing the final Affordable Clean Energy rule in its place. and non-U.S.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

On Friday, November 22, the Sabin Center submitted comments opposing an Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposal to rescind regulations limiting methane emissions from new oil and natural gas facilities (the “Methane New Source Performance Standards” or “Methane NSPS”). By Romany Webb.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 23, 2022

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for instance, has been allocated over $1.5 Starting with methane was likely more politically feasible than carbon dioxide for several reasons. Controlling methane emissions should, at least in theory, also be somewhat easier than reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 8, 2022

Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23) and Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 8, 2022 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) establishes air quality standards under the Clean Air Act. (1) 11) Global warming, in part, is a result of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

New report raises social cost of carbon estimates, surpassing previous estimates by more than 250%. The report describes SC-GHG as “the monetary value of the net harm to society from emitting one metric ton of that GHG into the atmosphere in a given year.” [1] National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. [2] 3d 1172 (9th Cir.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. applied federal common law. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Key among those measures are new emissions controls proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under section 111 of the Clean Air Act. Many oil wells lack systems to capture natural gas, which is instead vented to the atmosphere. It will, however, result in additional carbon dioxide emissions.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2018 rule in which EPA decided to expand the D.C. By Margaret Barry and Hillary Aidun. and non-U.S. 120,436 (Kan.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), stripping federal protections from countless wetlands and leaving these critical ecosystems exposed to devastating pollution and other damage from agriculture and other industries. For example, some state laws protect wetlands within their borders.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a decision on Exxon’s application to renew the NPDES permit, which had expired in 2014. and non-U.S.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The defendants argued that the Second Circuit’s decision confirmed that the plaintiff’s claims necessarily arise under federal law. and non-U.S. 21-8001 (D.C.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 23, 2021

On April 1, 2021, a unanimous Second Circuit panel dismissed a lawsuit filed by New York City against a handful of fossil fuel companies seeking damages for climate change harms under state public nuisance and trespass law. Connecticut ( AEP ), the Clean Air Act has displaced federal common law related to domestic GHG emissions.

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Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2023

Derailing Environmental Protection: Concerns Over Air and Water After the East Palestine, OH Derailment By Jacob Baverso The Department of Transportation recognizes rail shipment for hazardous materials as the safest method to move such materials over long distances.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal A governor-ordered inquiry into how well conventional oil and gas drillers in Pennsylvania are obeying environmental laws has found a “culture of noncompliance”, with drillers routinely abandoning wells without plugging them as required to prevent the release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

According to the nonpartisan National Association of Attorneys General, a state attorney general’s job is to represent the public interest—not private, special interests—by, among other things, “enforcing federal and state environmental laws.” Landry’s deep ties to the oil and gas industry predate his time as Louisiana’s AG.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

He's a professor of energy policy and economics and the director of energy law and policy. And in summary, his testimony says, one, joining RGGI will reduce emissions of carbon dioxide from Pennsylvania's power generation sector and will also contribute to improved air quality. That was in 1969. So that was in 1971.

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Ahead of COP, ESA issued a statement calling on world leaders attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP26) in Glasgow to pledge immediate action to reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gas emissions that limits rising temperatures to 1.5? National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

Climate: The Environmental Protection Agency does not list a timetable to act on a new carbon dioxide rule for existing power plants. The agenda notes DOE is preparing a major rulemaking to reduce the use of fossil fuels in federal buildings — an implementation of a 2007 law. 1816 & H.R. International.

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