PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2023

The casing on both wells was open to the atmosphere, but nothing was venting and there were holes in the casing near ground level. Three of the wells-- WT 2850 Lot 8 29, Lot 8 31 and Lot 10 24 were found to be newly drilled and venting gas to the atmosphere, a “normal” operation to clear out any small debris in the well left from drilling.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

Plants regulate their salt concentrations much like how our bodies regulate blood pressure. Naturally, plants have higher concentrations of salt in their cells than in the surrounding soil. A salt-affected corn plant on a field in Somerset County, MD. Browning, yellowing, and wilting leaves are a sign of high soil salinity.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Carbon dioxide is one of the primary greenhouse gases found in the Earth’s atmosphere, accounting for 76% of global greenhouse gas emissions according to published reports. Any effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will undoubtedly rely heavily on reducing the presence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. Ecological Conservation.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 18, 2023

Supreme decisions?), and the third branch of government, the courts, are the new frontier for driving global warming policy for the nation. This historic case is based on language added to Montana’s Constitution in 1972: Article II, Section 3 of Montana’s Constitution states: “All persons are born free and have certain inalienable rights.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 13, 2020

The environmental issue addressed here is that certain agricultural practices, like converting forests to ranchland, release large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere and severely disrupt ecosystems. In addition to carbon sequestration, tropical rainforests help to regulate the global temperature by. come from deforestation.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Invest in research for utilizations of captured carbon and life cycle analyses to understand their overall impact: The capture and use of carbon dioxide to create valuable products has potential to lower the net costs of reducing emissions and remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The National Aeronautics and Atmospheric Administration offered to fly an airplane equipped with the world’s most sophisticated air samplers over Houston to monitor air pollution. It wasn’t too long after the storm was gone that people started to feel sick.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As the atmosphere continues to warm, severe weather events have gone from occasionally urgent to relentless assault. . Healthy trout is indicative that the whole system is healthy,” said Randy Claramount, a biologist with Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources. On the Au Sable, the threat is a slow burn.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit concluded that EPA had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in determining that the four elements of the regulations that had been stayed met these requirements. Environmental Groups Challenged Delay in Enforcement of Landfill Methane Regulations. The magistrate judge’s order also set the trial to begin on February 5, 2018.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

We discuss the need for better water use regulation across the country to lessen the strain on EQIP. water resources. Farmers who wish to implement EQIP conservation practices on their land work with local Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) staff to determine which practice or practices make the most sense.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Climate models predict with near unanimity that more atmospheric warming will increase annual rainfall in Michigan and Ohio: a trend that is already making algae blooms worse. Climate change promises to raise all of these costs. If severe blooms repeat year after year, the price tag rises to $1 billion over a decade. .

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Vermont Law

MARCH 2, 2016

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. CITES sets out to preserve the endangered species on the planet by regulating the trade of their parts. Since the bill’s September 16 introduction, the bill has been referred to the House Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, and Natural Resources committees. FWS) and the.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

Maryland has been described as having more pages of environmental statutes and regulations on a per capita basis than any other state. A person who violates the prohibition against knowingly and intentionally releasing, or causing to be released, a balloon into the atmosphere must watch a re-educational video and/or perform community service.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

HB 1284 grants the Texas Railroad Commission (“RRC”), the governmental agency that regulates the state’s oil and gas industry, sole jurisdiction over Class VI Injection Wells and carbon capture, use, and sequestration (“CCUS”) activities in Texas.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

HB 1284 grants the Texas Railroad Commission (“RRC”), the governmental agency that regulates the state’s oil and gas industry, sole jurisdiction over Class VI Injection Wells and carbon capture, use, and sequestration (“CCUS”) activities in Texas.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

2773 ) is that the Senate bill funds the program through penalties paid for natural resources and environmental violations while the House bill does not specify a funding source. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE). The key difference between the Senate and House bill ( H.R.

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

HB 1284 grants the Texas Railroad Commission (“RRC”), the governmental agency that regulates the state’s oil and gas industry, sole jurisdiction over Class VI Injection Wells and carbon capture, use, and sequestration (“CCUS”) activities in Texas.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Note: In December, 2022, DEP finalized regulations reducing volatile organic compounds and methane from existing conventional and unconventional oil and gas facilities. The conventional regulations were challenged in Commonwealth Court by conventional oil and gas operators. Read more here. “The

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

The acid gas removal unit was installed by the owner of the methanol plant and placed in service on January 1, 2017, from which time the separated carbon dioxide was released into the atmosphere.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

It is also dedicated to restoring something to a natural state and maintaining equilibrium. It is a practice and a philosophy, utilizing scientific tools and methods with applied ethics, and, where necessary, regulation and environmental law to limit the use of certain materials. Conservation as Restoration.

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2020

Lawsuits against fossil fuel companies: Investor Fraud Lawsuits: The first category of climate change litigation alleges that oil and gas companies defrauded investors by falsely stating that the company had fully considered the risks of climate change regulation and had factored those risks into its business operations.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 8, 2022

Various Senate Republicans also challenged the publication of the regulation in other court action. Unless appealed, the preliminary injunction will remain in place until the full case against the RGGI regulation can be heard this Fall. Read more here. throughout the Commonwealth. throughout the Commonwealth.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

That’s why waste storage tanks have to be vented and why many have tank lids that are open all the time to let the fumes vent to the atmosphere. The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources bans road dumping oil and gas wastewater for any purpose on its over 6,500 miles of state forest roads. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

That is why we are grateful for the Committee’s hearing on the benefits of cutting methane pollution, including sealing methane leaks that waste our nation’s precious natural resources at a time when families cannot afford any wasted drop. Impacts On Unborn As pro-life evangelicals, we have a special concern for the unborn.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 10, 2023

The EPA agrees to a timeline for considering a petition to strengthen water pollution regulations for CAFOs. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Up The concentration of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere continued to rise in 2022. The Interior Department signs a drought funding agreement with the Gila River Indian Community.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 9, 2023

Pro-industry lawmakers long have perpetuated the myth that environmental regulators and industry can achieve compliance by working together, as if they share identical interests. “Unfortunately, enforcer has become the prevalent view of the department,” he said. Unfortunately? Administrations over the years — most recently that of Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2024

Every week, PA Environment Digest reviews DEP’s oil and gas inspections and reports on the violations DEP issues to conventional oil and gas operators whose permits show they are legally responsible for oil and gas wells abandoned and not plugged, threatening ground and surface water and leaking methane gas into the atmosphere.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). Federal Court Dismissed Challenge to Executive Order on Reducing Regulation. Public Citizen, Inc. Trump , No.

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ESA

MAY 4, 2023

Congress Bipartisan members of Congress introduce legislation to address harassment in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Sound ecological science data clearly shows the vital role of wetlands for nature and to also protect human health and property. Not Everyone Is on Board. – RSVP for the meeting here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 30, 2023

These resources should benefit priorities like education and infrastructure, not be released into the atmosphere to undermine our climate and health.” This new reporting further confirms that hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of natural gas is being lost each year,” said Taxpayers for Common Sense Vice President Autumn Hanna.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

As a threshold matter, the court found that Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and one of the state petitioners (New York) each had standing based on potential injuries from climate change which were caused in part by HFC emissions and which would be redressed by restrictions on such emissions. Wheeler , No. 18-1172 (D.C.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. Regulation Begins. Regulators have the authority to stem nonpoint pollution in two categories. . Carl Ganter/ Circle of Blue. Video: Lake Erie’s murky algae water.

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ESA

MARCH 20, 2023

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The request includes $231 million for NOAA’s climate research programs, a $7 million increase above FY 2023 levels. USDA NRCS – Proposed Revisions to the National Handbook of Conservation Practices for the Natural Resources Conservation Service. lands and waters by 2030.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and House progressives, led by House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) are opposing the permitting deal, citing concerns that the reforms would help fossil fuel projects and undermine the National Environmental Policy Act and the Clean Water Act. Joe Manchin (D-WV).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

The 2021 New Hampshire Climate Assessment states unequivocally: “Without significant reduction in atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHG), extreme precipitation events are projected to increase a minimum of 20%, leading to an increase in freshwater flooding regionally.”

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