PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

On November 21, the US Environmental Protection Agency, US Department of Justice and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced two settlements with oil and gas operators in Pennsylvania involving operations in Butler, Lawrence and Mercer Counties. In separate agreements, XTO Energy Inc.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In addition, California’s ability to set its 100% zero-emissions target (and the ability of other states to adopt that target) relies on EPA’s issuance of a Clean Air Act preemption waiver.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MAY 30, 2025

The City Council is also considering a bill that would require the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a rule to regulate indirect sources of air pollution. The City cannot directly regulate vehicle emissions due to Clean Air Act preemption, but it can regulate indirect sources like e-commerce warehouses.

Law

National Law Center

JULY 29, 2025

3, Issue 14 One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Resource Roundup One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Nutrition Title Challenge to California’s Hen Housing Laws Administrative Law Ag & Food Law Update Agencies Agricultural Marketing Service Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Bureau of Land Management Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S.

2013

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

The report provides renewed evidence of the consequences for our health of using fossil fuels In 1970 the Clean Air Act and the newly formed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were given authority by Congress to regulate pollution from passenger cars and other forms of transportation.

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 26, 2025

On June 25, Appalachian Voices and a coalition of nonprofits, Tribes and local governments sued the Trump administration for unlawfully terminating the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental and Climate Justice Block Grant programs despite a congressional directive to fund them.

Government

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

On March 14, the Attorney General opened another investigation into Energy Transfer/Sunoco into potential environmental crimes related to the Energy Transfer/Sunoco pipeline that leaked petroleum into household wells in Upper Makefield Township, Bucks County. Environmental Protection Agency. Read more here.]

2014

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2025

This would ensure that manufacturers are only compliant with the least protective regulation in any given year, including a provision that would actually allow manufacturers to simply buy their way out of compliance with the Clean Air Act, something that is explicitly disallowed under current law. mpg, compared to 22.6

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

JANUARY 22, 2025

Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) 2024 greenhouse gas emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles (the HDV Rule) that went into effect on June 21, 2024. Yesterday, January 21, 2025, the Sabin Center filed an amicus brief on behalf of the National League of Cities (NLC) and the U.S. Our involvement in this case, Nebraska v.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Kentucky v. The case involves EPAs 2024 Vehicle Standards that set new air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for model year 2027 through 2032 Light- and Medium-Duty Vehicles, which have been challenged by states and industry groups.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 1599 ) Read more here. -- DEP published notice in the February 15 PA Bulletin inviting comments on an analysis designating an Exceptional Event under the federal Clean Air Act related to Canadian wildfires in June and July 2023 and their impact on air quality in Pennsylvania.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

After the dumping incidents on dirt and paved roads around her home and throughout the region, Lawson provided photos and reports on the dumping to the Department of Environmental Protection to document the problems. Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water." [ Read more here.]

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

APRIL 11, 2025

Federal environmental laws follow this structure, generally setting a floor (not a ceiling) for environmental protection, and only restricting local authority to go further in limited and explicit circumstances. The order attempts to read these bedrock principles in reverse.

Law

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2025

On March 12, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced plans to reconsider EPAs 2009 endangerment finding for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, along with all regulations and actions that rely on the finding. It also rests on Supreme Court precedent, Massachusetts v. 7521(a)(1).

2009

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

On June 16, 2025, the Department of Environmental Protection signed a Consent Order and Agreement with Pin Oak Energy Partners LLC to address the failure of the company and its predecessor to restore 16 shale gas well sites and an impoundment in Beaver County since 2023. So Far This Year [PaEN] -- PJM Electricity Auction: PJM Lost 2.8

2023

Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This framework allows state environmental laws passed pursuant to a federal environmental law, like the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) or Clean Air Act (“CAA”), to have the force and effect of federal law if the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) approves the state implementation plans.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 17, 2025

We can rebuild it—we have the technology (and lax regulations) Under the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency sets emissions standards for engines in new locomotives. Unfortunately, the Biden administration did not grant such a waiver before leaving office.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

On March 18, a bipartisan group of 51 former US Environmental Protection Agency officials sent a letter to Congress highlighting the risks associated with deep cuts to the agency. The letter emphasizes that reducing EPA's capabilities jeopardizes decades of progress in maintaining air and water quality.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

Our health, some of the largest climate actions in US history, and more Transportation is the largest source of US climate emissions, so its not surprising that undermining recent Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) actions targeting climate emissions from cars and trucks will be a major setback in meeting climate targets.

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2025

The Department of Environmental Protection invites comments at a June 17 hearing on the Warren Area sulfur dioxide air quality maintenance plan and attainment redesignation request. Click Here for a copy of the documents. The hearing will be held on June 17 starting at 10:30 a.m.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

MARCH 12, 2025

Getty Images) In what is one of the most mind boggling press releases ever to come out of the Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator Lee Zeldin today declared that he wants to make America’s air and water dirty again and to make the planet still warmer. Today is a shameful day for environmental protection.

Air Pollution

Circle of Blue

APRIL 21, 2025

The agencies and institutions that sustained Americas program of environmental protection are being pulled into the government-wide purge of people and policies viewed as a threat to Trumps authoritarian impulses, and what his aides call the woke and weaponized bureaucracy. Humpback whales returned to the North Atlantic.

Earth Day

Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2025

It can be hard to keep track amid all the hair-raising developments in Congress and at the Supreme Court , but last week, a group of House Republicans led by Roger Williams of Texas introduced the Fuel Emissions Freedom Act, hot on the heels of the purported (illegal) termination of California’s vehicle emissions standard waiver.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The concentrated pollution around ports demands concentrated solutions, such as: Targeted grants: The Inflation Reduction Act, passed by Congress in 2022, included $3 billion for a Clean Ports Program run by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Electricity

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) developed the Solar for All and Clean Communities Investment Accelerator programs to direct GGRF funding as required by statute. The EPA and NHTSA rulemakings are completed, as is Californias Section 209 waiver for Advanced Clean Cars II.

Paris Agreement

National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

Share: Recent Posts Federal Court Finds Swampbuster Constitutional NALC news release: National Ag Law Center webinar to examine U.S.

2013

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency, agreeing to decide whether fossil fuel manufacturers have legal standing to challenge an EPA decision under the federal Clean Air Act. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Last Friday, the justices granted review in Diamond Alternative Energy v.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency et al. establishing that heat-trapping emissions (or greenhouse gas emissions) are air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. Back in 2007, the Supreme Court reached a landmark judgment in Massachusetts et al. What is Zeldin being directed to do?

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JULY 8, 2025

Led by new public concern about the consequences of industrialization, landmark environmental legislation in the 1970s steadily assured protections for air, water, and wildlands. California’s stringent air quality rules are being challenged. Trump intends to end President Biden’s extensive clean energy program.

Endangered Species Act

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

Trump and Zeldin should be careful what they wish for: if the Clean Air Act can’t be used to regulate greenhouse gases, then states may be free to do so on their own without any risk of preemption,” Carlson says. My colleagues Ann Carlson, Mary Nichols, and Cara Horowitz have been talking with media about what this means.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

On November 14, the Department of Environmental Protection discovered evidence of a continuous wastewater release at the Parsons and Warrant 566 conventional oil well sites in Eldred Township, McKean County owned by Charles T. Wandover, Sr. and produced by Charles A. Wandover, Jr., according to DEP. Decrease To 31.2%

Natural Gas

National Law Center

JULY 8, 2025

Share: Recent Posts A New Era in Texas Real Estate: Foreign Investment Restriction Under New State Law NALC news release: Legal experts to explore Western water markets during NALC webinar Cottage Food Laws: Recent Trends and Major State Changes June Monthly Roundup The Feed: Vol.

2013

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

As of November 15, the Department of Environmental Protection issued owners of conventional oil and gas wells 6,907 violations for violating state laws and regulations, exceeding the 6,860 violations issued in all of 2023. And, there are five+ weeks left in 2024. DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4

2023

Circle of Blue

MARCH 19, 2025

One of the signature moments in contemporary American environmentalism occurred on October 6, 1967, in Suffolk County, New York, when nine scientists and a lawyer formally launched the Environmental Defense Fund. The statutes that form the foundation of the program, like the 1972 Clean Water Act, dont seek to close polluting plants.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

Pennsylvania has the chance to create good-paying jobs , clean up its aging oil and gas infrastructure, and help fight the climate crisis — all by implementing a strong methane plan that withstands potential changes on the federal level. So Far This Year [PaEN] -- PJM Electricity Auction: PJM Lost 2.8

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Staff have been threatened and fired , with targeted cuts to the agencys environmental justice office, federal spending was frozen , and EPA Administrator Zeldin announced a massive deregulatory plan to undertake 31 actions to weaken key environmental protections. 1415 and S.

Toxic Substances Control Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

However, the “actions”—given euphemistic titles like “protect consumer choice”—actually aim to roll back science-based environmental protections in order to maximize already massive profits. The rule required a waiver because it’s stronger than the federal Clean Air Act, and 13 states have already approved similar standards.

Fossil Fuels