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EQB Adopts Final-Omitted Reg. Limiting Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities; And A First-Ever State MCL For PFOS/PFOA

PA Environment Daily

DEP estimates it will cost the conventional natural gas industry approximately $9.8 million of their product not leaking into the atmosphere, at current natural gas prices. The regulation would affect 4,719 conventional well owners of approximately 27,260 facilities. The alternative for Rep.

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September 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Circuit Court of Appeals found that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) failed to adequately analyze the climate change and environmental justice impacts of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals on the Brownsville Shipping Channel in Texas and two pipelines that would carry LNG to one of the terminals.

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November 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) authorization of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from three facilities in Louisiana, Maryland, and Texas. Second, it found that DOE had not acted arbitrarily and capriciously by not conducting more localized analysis of where exports would result in increased production. Sierra Club v.

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July 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

Law Columbia

The federal district court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring the Biden administration from implementing a “Pause” on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters. Circuit Vacated Approval for Natural Gas Pipeline in St. 20-472 (U.S.

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Policy News: November 22, 2021

ESA

The agreement also allows countries to continue to export liquefied natural gas. The Biden administration moved Thursday to formally repeal the Trump administration’s controversial rule that vastly restricted the scope of Clean Water Act protections. By Annie Snider, PoliticoPro, 11/18/2021. or WOTUS. “In

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ESA Policy News: November 8, 2021

ESA

The agreement also allows countries to continue to export liquefied natural gas. Interior to weigh greenhouse gas emissions of proposed 2022 oil lease sales – Reuters. New court ruling clears path for Bristol Bay Clean Water Act protections – National Fisherman. In ‘chilling’ decision, U.F. 3, 2021.

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