Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2022

This is particularly true right now, with the rapid loss of soil moisture that we’ve been seeing over parts of southern Missouri, northern Arkansas, parts of Oklahoma and Texas recently, kind of what we call a flash drought where it’s actually pretty wet, even going late into the Spring this year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2023

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT): Unlike PJM and MISO, ERCOT—which is the grid operator for most of the Lone Star State—hasn’t yet published any preliminary reports on Winter Storm Elliott. Aside from that category, fuel supply was the most common reason that ERCOT reported for unplanned gas plant outages.

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E2 Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

The editors ranked individual members of the Environmental Practice in regions for Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Florida: South, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas. Bell Texas Environment S e an W. Barsh Florida Environment Christopher L. Bezark Illinois Environment: Mainly Transactional Thomas R.

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 18, 2022

A subcontractor’s mineral lien in Texas is invalid when, at the time the mineral owner receives notice of the lien affidavit, the mineral owner is not yet obligated to pay the contract price to its contractor. Category, you ask? Co-author Stephanie Snyder-Zuasnabar*. So says Pearl Resources Operating Co., Norma Waterson, RIP.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Last year, the Texas Department of State Health Services published the results of a cancer cluster study near a commercial sterilizer in Laredo, Texas. There are already documented cases of cancer around these facilities.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

APRIL 26, 2021

in 2015 and again in 2017 in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Harvey’s destruction in Texas and Hurricane Irma’s wrath in Florida, two Category 4 hurricanes that made continental landfall in the same year for the first time since records began in 1851. and India (2014), Brazil and Bangladesh (2015) and France (2016 and 2018).

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Permitting CO 2 Pipelines focuses on pipeline regulation at the federal level, as well as in ten states that have been identified as potential candidates for DAC Hubs: Alabama, Arizona, California, Illinois, Louisiana, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wyoming.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The Academy has graduated 824 high achieving youth from 62 counties across the state as well as students from Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Texas, North Carolina, New York, New Jersey, Indiana, and Vermont. To date, the students in the program have reached over 130,000 people across the Commonwealth with their outreach accomplishments.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

To dig into how the country got here, it’s helpful to split up the contributing factors into the three main “gas value chain” categories: the production of gas via drilling (“upstream”), the transportation of gas via pipelines (“midstream”), and the facilities that receive the gas, such as gas-fired power plants (“downstream”).

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In February, a blizzard in Texas knocked out power for over four million people. The PEER rating system assesses performance across four categories, including (1) reliability and resiliency, (2) energy efficiency and environment, (3) operations, management, and safety, and (4) grid services. grids are vulnerable to climate change.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The Call Area covered approximately 30 million acres including depths 400 meters and shallower just west of the Mississippi River to the Texas/Mexican Border. The first WEA is a 546,645-acre area located approximately 24 nautical miles off the coast of Galveston, Texas.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Smart Fabricators of Texas, LLC , 970 F.3d Smart Fabricators of Texas (“SmartFab”) fabricates steel and repairs oil and gas drilling equipment. An en banc decision could affirm the Fifth Circuit’s historical construction of the Jones Act, preserving seaman status to a wider category of maritime workers. In Sanchez v.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Smart Fabricators of Texas, LLC , 970 F.3d Smart Fabricators of Texas (“SmartFab”) fabricates steel and repairs oil and gas drilling equipment. An en banc decision could affirm the Fifth Circuit’s historical construction of the Jones Act, preserving seaman status to a wider category of maritime workers. In Sanchez v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The report charts continued progress in several important categories in 2021, including PV module efficiency, system costs, and the prevalence of batteries, which are a more and more important piece of the solar picture. And Texas was notable for its increase in interest in storage after its severe February 2021 winter storm.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The 10 counties that received the highest insurance payments for drought-related losses were all in Texas. Texas, especially its Panhandle, where these counties are clustered, is getting hotter and drier. Even with that record of risk nitrate pollution is in a category to itself. These patterns follow climate trends.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Texas Federal Court Ordered Jurisdictional Discovery in Exxon Case Against Massachusetts Attorney General, Citing Concern That State’s Investigation Was Undertaken in Bad Faith. The Texas federal court said that ExxonMobil’s allegations raised concerns that Healey had issued the CID in bad faith, which would preclude Younger abstention.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2023

On August 8, the PJM Interconnection joined the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Electric Reliability Council of Texas and the Southwest Power Pool in submitting joint comments in response to a proposed EPA rule on New Source Performance Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 2, 2023

Photo credit: USDA NRCS Texas In February 2022, the U.S. In breaking down some of the project categories, it is apparent that some account was taken for equity and racial justice factors in Round 1. Data labels above include university category, the number of projects in that category, and the total funding for that category.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Mazzant III of the United States District Court in the Eastern District of Texas denied a motion to dismiss the government’s first ever criminal indictment for alleged wage-fixing. On November 29, 2021, Judge Amos L. For example, in January 2021, the DOJ brought a case against Surgical Care Affiliates (SCA).

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Two other states—Texas and North Dakota—filed an amicus brief supporting EPA; the petitioners opposed their participation on procedural grounds. Clean Air Council v. Pruitt , No. 17-1145 (D.C. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017).

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Arnold Porter

JULY 22, 2021

Federal agencies could prepare programmatic environmental impact statements (EIS’s) for categories of CCS projects, for example, which would allow much shorter and faster environmental assessments on a project-specific basis. CEQ’s report suggests a number of policy measures that could help.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

6] But events in mid-February throughout the center of the country, including Texas, and last summer in California, suggest that attempting to replace nuclear plants with variable renewable energy sources could make electricity grids less resilient. In Texas, there was no mechanism to ensure that baseload plants were ready for the weather.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 28, 2024

million award to enable the use of hydrogen in place of natural gas for ethylene production in Baytown, Texas for the key chemical feedstock in textiles, synthetic rubbers, and plastic resins. Kraft Heinz will get up to $170.9 ExxonMobil won a $331.9 which is expected to eliminate 14 million metric tons of carbon pollution each year.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 14, 2023

Most of the rhetoric and activity has occurred in the first two categories in the US, so we focus there, in an effort to differentiate political narratives from legal reality. The financial institution climate alliances are, again, unlikely to fit these categories.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Cameron County; -- West Texas Operating Co.: .: Phoenix Well Pad, Duncan Twp., Tioga County; -- Frontier Natural Resources: Winner Well Pad, Keating Twp., Clinton County; -- M4 Energy LLC: Triana Young Well Pad, Hector Twp., Potter County; -- Penn View Exploration: Huff Well Pad, Franklin Twp., Butler County; -- Roulette Oil & Gas, Inc.:

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The 9th Compendium, published by the Concerned Health Professionals of NY and Physicians for Social Responsibility on October 19, summarizes resources that describe the health and other impacts of natural gas development and infrastructure organized by topic. It also offers a review of trends in research findings.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Before starting, here’s a little more background about the three cases: Texas v. Maybe we could start by having you say a bit about yourself and your role in the Texas case. In Texas v. Q: Let’s start with the Texas case then. Notably, the car industry itself is affirmatively supporting EPA in the case. Q: Hi, Sean.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Cameron County; -- West Texas Operating Co.: Click Here for a summary of 2022 shale gas and conventional violations. Winter Storm Elliot Causes Natural Gas Infrastructure Failure Natural gas infrastructure failures during Winter Storm Elliot resulted in the proposed imposition of an unprecedented $1.8 Phoenix Well Pad, Duncan Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2021

The proposed temporary Manual 13 changes state that PJM may request a generation owner to move steam units (generally coal fired) into the Maximum Emergency category if the resource’s remaining run time falls below 240 hours (10 days), meaning the units could be restricted from operating during the time unless required to meet reliability needs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2023

On August 27, 2020, strong winds from Hurricane Laura, a category 4 hurricane, damaged buildings at the facility which stored trichloroisocyanuric acid (TCCA), a chlorinating agent used to kill bacteria in bodies of water, such as swimming pools.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 24, 2021

The forecast is for three to five major hurricanes, those with wind speeds above 111 miles per hour that are rated category 3, 4, or 5. The bills address topics such as lead pipe removal, water debt relief, PFAS, and water systems in the colonias of Texas. The Atlantic hurricane season traditionally begins June 1.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

In 2022, Texas, along with several other states and industry groups representing fuel manufacturers (together, Petitioners), challenged EPA’s new emissions standards in court. On March 2, the Sabin Center filed a brief in Texas v. Although the Texas v. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

in comparison to 30,000 in Texas after Harvey, even though the island’s electric grid suffered a complete blackout for months. For instance, within Texas, minority communities may have been the most affected by Harvey. New Zealand’s Pacific Access Category Resident. In particular, immigrants. refugees.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

A few days after the California court issued its order, North Dakota and Texas asked the Wyoming federal court to lift a stay that the court had imposed in December 2017. The California federal court said the substantive legal issues in the District of Wyoming case were distinct from the procedural issues at issue in this action.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

The plaintiffs cited three reasons that the case was not moot: (1) President Biden’s revocation of the presidential permit could be vacated in the pending Texas v. The defendants also argued that the states failed to state a separation of powers claim or a non-delegation claim. Biden , No. 3:21-cv-00065 (S.D. July 12, 2021).

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A Greener Life

APRIL 5, 2023

Research from Redfin shows that between 2016 and 2020, the southeastern coast, Texas, Arizona, the interior of California, and the Mountain West all saw big population increases and skyrocketing home values. A Category 5 hurricane striking, say, the center of the Miami-Dade area would be a shock of a different magnitude.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Feds propose protection for a Texas border plant – E&E News. EPA – Notice of Availability of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Texas Trustee Implementation Group Draft Restoration Plan/Environmental Assessment #2: Restoration of Wetlands, Coastal, and Nearshore Habitats; Nutrient Reduction; Oysters; Sea Turtles; and Birds.

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