PA Environment Daily

JULY 18, 2022

The Environmental Health Project and HealthFirstPA will host a July 21 webinar -- Pennsylvania’s Shale Gas Boom: How Policy Decisions Failed to Protect Public Health and What We Can Do to Correct It -- from Noon to 1:00 p.m. Read more here. Mitchell C. Hescox , President and CEO of The Evangelical Environmental Network.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

The LCFS is the leading example of a Clean Fuel Standard , an approach to transportation fuel policy that holds oil refiners accountable to reduce the carbon intensity (CI) of transportation fuels. I have long been a supporter of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). What broke the LCFS?

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Legal Planet

APRIL 19, 2023

Federal policies like redlining––the Federal Housing Administration’s use of lending guidelines to favor White neighborhoods with lower pollution burdens in grading mortgage risk–– co-located Black and Brown communities near unsafe, toxic, and noxious land uses.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

On February 14, 2024, Marcellus Drilling News reported National Fuel Gas Company , parent to Seneca Resources drilling and NFG Midstream pipeline companies, is suing a former employee and several vendors for buying and installing counterfeit parts at several compressor stations.” “One Related Articles The Week - Energy: -- PA Taxpayers To Give $130.9

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 12, 2023

Please contact Arthur F. Coon of Miller Starr Regalia. Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for more than fifty years.

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HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. This also means that policies that work for the advanced world might not produce the same results in their counterpart. What is more, these policies might not even work for the former if they aim for a different, greener world.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Frontiers has today published a new author policy designed to help prevent cases of “authorship-for-sale” among its research publications, a term used throughout the industry which refers to the unethical practice of buying or selling authorship on research papers. “We

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 22, 2024

Despite being a good and necessary policy, Bill C-50 faced fierce opposition from the oil and gas industry and the politicians who defend big polluters. Bill C-50 ensures a more certain, consistent and reliable approach to energy transition policies The Sustainable Jobs Act is a law that mandates future government action.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Between 1992 and 2017, at least 815 farmworker deaths have been attributed to heat. This number is likely undercounted and misattributed because heat-induced illnesses and conditions are often not traced correctly to their source. Poor working conditions make farmworkers extra vulnerable to heat exposure and illness.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 10, 2023

Privacy Policy : By subscribing to Liskow & Lewis’ E-Communications, you will receive articles and blogs with insight and analysis of legal issues that may impact your industry. Traditionally, these tasks are handled internally by the Mineral Board’s own staff and counsel. A copy of the Mineral Board’s agenda can be found here.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

This now-infamous climate prohibition has been called a “limitation” on the Montana Environmental Policy Act, or MEPA. We know that because plaintiffs sought to challenge the entirety of Montana’s state energy system––its de facto energy policy––even after the Legislature repealed its de jure energy policy ahead of the trial.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

GOM communities, not fossil fuel interests, should determine policies that affect GOM people. He was on to something And the lobsterman was correct: we can blame carbon emissions for ocean acidification and warming in the Gulf of Maine. They should be held accountable for their actions.”

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel of the Louisiana Third Circuit Court of Appeal affirmed the authority of the Louisiana Tax Commission to correct property tax assessments of pipelines when a local assessor uses values that are too high or do not reflect fair market value. In Enerfin Field Services v. 22-740 (La.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 29, 2023

SJC-13352 (2023), addressing the so-called “cat’s paw” theory of liability and concluding that an employer can still be found liable for violating Massachusetts’ employment discrimination statute where there is evidence that a mid-level manager, directed to lay off employees, furthered a discriminatory corporate policy without knowingly doing so.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

. -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - November 4 [PaEN] -- The Department of Environmental Protection published a notice in the November 4 PA Bulletin correcting the notice on additional public hearings on the Interim Final Environmental Justice Permit Review Policy. -- The Department of Environmental (..)

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Energy & the Law

MAY 25, 2021

Severe overspending, breaching company policy, and failing to timely notify the other party DO (THIS IS THE CORRECTION) meet the standard. Co-author Ashley Atwood*. Apache Corporation v. Castex Offshore Inc. et al, answers the question, What constitutes willful misconduct in oil field operations?

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Legal Planet

JULY 21, 2023

Last month’s report on solar geoengineering research from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) consolidated a shift in the discourse on this controversial technology. The risk-risk framing perhaps helpfully emphasizes climate change risks, which have long seemed under-estimated in policy responses.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The court’s conclusions would be correct, however, even setting aside the matter of deferring to the legislature’s conclusions here. Both outcomes would be wrong as a matter of theory and of policy. Download as PDF. The post What power does the state have over land-use regulation in California? appeared first on Legal Planet.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JUNE 1, 2022

So, they set out to better understand how historical housing policies and flood hazard zones have unequally effected various communities within our city. These shapefiles include FEMA Flood Hazard Zones, city-funded affordable housing projects built between 1994 and 2019, correctional facilities, and redlined neighborhoods.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

What’s more, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault even committed to have this policy in place by the end of 2023. The Government of Canada’s credibility on climate change depends both on if this policy is ambitious and robust, and on whether the government is able to implement this policy within the next year.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 12, 2021

from Rogelj et al (2018) – note how the red dot marked 2010 moves to the purple dot marked 2010, once historical modelling uncertainties are corrected for. This estimate already included corrections for the incomplete global coverage of observations and the different ways in which global surface temperature can be estimated.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Course correction: 2023 is ‘Global Stocktake’ year. COP28 offers an opportunity for dramatic course-correction. Just as tobacco companies are not allowed to influence health policy and arms dealers are kept out of peace talks, fossil fuel lobbyists should not be allowed at climate negotiations.

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Physics World

MAY 19, 2021

In March Elsevier introduced a name-change policy that covers its more than 2500 journals, while similar initiatives were recently announced by IOP Publishing, which publishes Phys­ics World , as well as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Chemi­cal Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, PLOS and Wiley.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2023

Last week, MIT’s “Technology Review” reported that a small startup firm is proposing to spray reflective aerosols in the stratosphere commercially as a climate corrective. Stratospheric Aerosol Injection or SAI.) The firm is small and new, operating with a claimed total of $750K of venture financing.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2023

With separate targets we can hold policy makers accountable for any substitution. Emerging policy The EU has established separate targets for 2030, but faces industry pressure to allow substitution and trading in the post 2030 regime. They are correct that neither gets to the real root of the problem.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 30, 2023

May 30, 2023 Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today. Sign up for Fresh: A Great Lakes Policy Briefing , straight to your inbox, every other Tuesday.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 25, 2022

The four upper Colorado River basin states told the Bureau of Reclamation in a letter that most of the conservation needed to correct the basin’s demand imbalance should come from the three lower basin states. government water policy. Six percent of sites had three or more chemicals present in the water sample. On the Radar.

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Law Columbia

MAY 4, 2023

Climate risks like abrupt responses to policy and consumer demands – or the now-inevitable early shockwaves of physical climate impacts – are far more relevant to the economics of business decisions today than what happens in 2050. They are not tied to any particular policies, even existing and predictable ones.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 4, 2023

However, to ensure that workers and communities across Canada benefit from the move to a sustainable economy, governments need to develop policies and programs that support them and help them be prepared.

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Fossil Fuels Government Renewable Energy Carbon Emissions 114

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Research projects that include agroecology, measurement and modeling of soil carbon storage , climate change mitigation, ecosystem services, soil health, and impacts of policy on food system resilience need to be expanded and supported. They should actively inform the Farm Bill process in 2023 as well.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 24, 2023

This is a crucial step, as the findings in the Energy Futures reports are used by Canadian governments and businesses to make decisions around their operations: governments use the scenarios put forward by the CER to make public policy decisions, and businesses use it to guide their investments and justify their current and new projects.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 4, 2019

Under the program, EPA will not impose any civil penalties on new owners of these facilities (which include well sites and associated tanks and vapor control systems) who find, self-disclose, and correct Clean Air Act violations pursuant to an audit program agreement with EPA. 44991 (Aug. 44991 (Aug.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

From situations that may not seem worth correcting (like mispronunciation, misspelling or complete omission of our names from major projects and acknowledgements) to discrimination in award and fellowship selections, Black scientists have a unique and often negative experience.

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A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2023

Scientists and experts were quick to pick up on this urging the newspaper to correct it, which they did not respond to and prompted accusations of the Guardian misleading on this issue. The @Guardian needs to issue a correction here, as quickly as possible, for this sloppy reporting.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 13, 2021

On November 24, Queen’s Park Today reported that in response to the Ontario Liberal Party’s campaign proposal to offer electric vehicle incentives, Minister Piccini claimed the Progressive Conservative government policies have already led to “a 210 per cent increase in EV (electric vehicle) sales year over year from Q2 2020 to Q2 2021.”.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

Highlights of the environmental and energy notices in the May 6 PA Bulletin -- -- The Environmental Quality Board published notice in the May 6 PA Bulletin making a correction to final VOC RACT regulations covering shipbuilding and other operations. -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 29 to May 5 [PaEN]] -- PA Oil & (..)

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Statements of urgency for strong climate action are correct and important, but are so numerous that they increasingly seem to get lost in the noise. C temperature target, and one that more than 130 countries have adopted, albeit mostly as squishy political declarations, not yet legally binding or implemented.

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