PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2024

EPA has specific guidance on declaration of Exceptional Events for events caused by natural or uncontrollable events, like wildfires and the handling of air quality data from those events. State Of The Air Report Indicates Air Quality Is Lightly Improving In Pittsburgh Region -- Pittsburgh Business Times: American Lung Assn.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

Despite the fact that female drivers make up more than half of all licensed drivers in the US, female-headed households in the census report not having access to a vehicle 42% more often than male-headed households. With these added dimensions, there is a glaring data gap in accounting for these diverse experiences.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This provides a safeguard to ensure the needs of historically marginalized groundwater users are considered, even if they lack the resources other users may have to engage with the adjudication proceedings.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 8, 2024

For in scope companies, disclosures may be required as early as the reporting period for the 2024 financial year. Green , and James Bee On 22 December 2023, the Commission Delegated Regulation specifying the first set of European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union (EU). [1]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 7, 2023

To explore this, I examined the Tufts University data along with recent studies on voter trends and motivations, identifying areas of growth and opportunities for campus community members to organize their students. Colleges have historically engaged with students on voting, but the historic turnout stunned the authors of the Tufts report.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 25, 2023

Tom Shipley, chair of the Senate Ethics Committee, reportedly told a lobbyist for the University of Iowa that they wanted to silence the researcher’s widely read, university-sponsored blog because of its aggressive reporting on farm-related water contamination. Dan Zumbach, the chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and Sen.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 23, 2022

A GAO report recommends better federal agency coordination to help Alaska Native villages address environmental change. The Water Data Act would force cabinet agencies to align their data collection standards and processes and share data. Studies and Reports. Water Bills in Congress, Mega Action Edition.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Satellite data is one monitoring tool regulators turn to in this very dry year. The California Department of Water Resources constructed a rock barrier in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta at the beginning of the summer to prevent salt water from pushing too far inland. Andrew Innerarity / California Department of Water Resources.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2024

Their findings related to blackstarts have not been widely reported because NERC and FERC released their report in late December, obscured the identities of the responsible parties, and made a very serious problem seem dull and esoteric. This report is different. This report is astonishing. What’s New?

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2022

Researchers find that federal data does not capture local variations in Ohio ’s air pollution. The state of Michigan is investigating the legacy of industrial pollution in and around the rural town of Walkerville, MLive reports. Sign up for Fresh: A Great Lakes Policy Briefing , straight to your inbox, every other Tuesday. In the News.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 1, 2023

Defense spending tends to get a lot of attention but we cannot forget that our rivers and our waterways are some of the most critical resources we have. The Office of Science, Technology, and Policy will organize a subcommittee to advance data, research, and science on environmental justice. government water policy.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2023

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is the state’s lead agency on zero-emission vehicle policy, from its first-in-the-nation mandate on automakers to produce zero-emission models to its wide-ranging incentive programs, among other policy approaches.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2024

Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. “The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Click Here to check online availability. Room 205 Ryan Building.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2023

California reports about a 9% reduction in carbon intensity. Did the figures reported for out-of-state power represent new renewable sources or rearrangement of power contracts between existing sources? A recent CLEE report discusses similar factors in analyzing the impact of California’s zero-emission vehicle program.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Greg Vitali (D-Delaware), Majority Chair of the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, requiring registration of cryptocurrency mining operations and an impact study of their operations by the Department of Environmental Protection and the Public Utility Commission. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

On April 17, the Department of Environmental Protection submitted written testimony to the Senate Democratic Policy Committee saying-- “The Department intends to evaluate this data and any additional information brought to our attention for use in decision making about brine-spreading on Pennsylvania roadways.” Read more here. Muth’s website.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 24, 2022

Lost amid the more high profile items in Massachusetts’ recently enacted Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind is a requirement that the Department of Energy Resources establish a program requiring large buildings across the Commonwealth to report energy usage on an annual basis.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Proper climate adaptation of course needs meteorological and climatological data for mapping weather-related risks to prepare us for future extreme weather. We already have useful information based on past trends, current status and future projections, all of which require good data and models.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2024

Carolyn Comitta (D-Chester), Minority Chair of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee. 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. The same DEP data showed from 1991 to 2017, over 240.4 We don’t know.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 22, 2024

We are also working with GreenLati n os to determine community needs and questions around Solar for All and planning to offer additional resources to those community members once the awardees are announced (expected sometime in April 2024). It is made up of $4.75 billion for implementation grants and $250,000 for planning grants.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2024

According to the charging documents, Shell contractors did not report to the DEP all of these “losses of circulation” or the resulting returns to areas beyond the drill path, including surface waters and wetlands. The case will be prosecuted by the Office of Attorney General’s Environmental Crimes Section. All charges are accusations.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2021

That day, the homeowners in northern Glenn County submitted an anonymous report to a state database indicating that their drinking water well was on the verge of sputtering out. Another incident report from Orland this month estimated the cost of drilling a new well at $20,000. Most of the reports are for dry wells.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

That has not been the case, but change may be afoot thanks to the recent report from the White House, National Strategy to Develop Statistics for Economic Decisions. Despite the decidedly unsexy title, the report is a big deal for those who care about conservation. Part of the challenge lies in collecting data.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 3, 2022

On January 20, President Biden issued Executive Order 13985 which requires agencies to produce “Equity Action Plans” that are agency sponsored reports to assess whether underserved communities face systemic barriers in accessing benefits and opportunities available based on an agency’s policies and programs. Data Collection.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2024

DEP’s inspection report [Fiske 2 - example] included violations for abandonment and requested the owner to file a written report by April 10, 2024 on how the wells will be brought into compliance. DEP requested a written report by April 19, 2024 on how the well will be brought into compliance.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 27, 2021

In the American West , lawmakers ask the Biden administration for additional resources to fight drought and wildfires, while scientists launch a new observatory to collect water data. Western lawmakers are pleading with the Biden administration to declare a drought disaster, NBC News reports. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

What the data does and doesn’t tell us According to the U.S. In addition to fatalities, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), private industry employers reported 2.6 Resources abound for employers and for workers. And then redouble their efforts to make sure that workplaces are safe for the living.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

What are the physical limitations of this fossil fuel resource that make it vulnerable during, say, summer droughts , or the types of extreme heat waves the world has been experiencing for months now? Gas plants were the main resource at risk of drought-related outages in ERCOT’s last drought risk report for August 2023.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Ensuring the integrity of corporate climate pledges is critical to achieving necessary emissions reductions, as a group of high-level experts including our own Distinguished Counsel, Mary Nichols, explained in a report to the UN at COP27 last year. These laws are an important step in the right direction.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

According to Environmental Agency data, water companies discharged raw sewage into coastal waters in England more than 400,000 times in 2020, The Guardian reports. As Mexico City’s water supply is drained from an underground aquifer, the city is sinking rapidly at 20 inches per year, according to Latin America Reports.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

Data centers are seen as major drivers of that increase, but there are rapid advances in chip design that will reduce energy consumption. On the supply side, as much as 30% of the current “thermal resource” capacity in PJM “could” retire by 2030. PJM expects electricity demand to grow 2.3% per year over the next ten years.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2024

Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. State Of The Air Report Indicates Air Quality Is Lightly Improving In Pittsburgh Region -- Pittsburgh Business Times: American Lung Assn. Of State Webpage -- DEP Awards $2.9

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 30, 2023

Palmer is the chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee that released a report on the public health value of wastewater surveillance during the Covid-19 pandemic. The report was sponsored by the U.S. Studies and Reports Natural Capital Accounting. Department of Health and Human Services.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

Reported’ is the operative term because, as we learned in 2022, more than half of conventional drillers fail to file production and waste reports,” said Feridun. In 2023, 86% of conventional well owners failed to report the amount of waste they generated and where it went, according to DEP. Read more here. Muth’s website.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2023

The new Federal Evidence Agenda on LGBTQI+ Equity instructs agencies on how to collect the data and evidence necessary to improve the lives of LGBTQI+ people; it includes an overview of priority evidence gaps and guidelines for collecting sexual orientation and gender identity information. Jennifer W.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This means that adding more of this resource to our generation mix will bolster the reliability of our power system during cold spells and help to reduce the risk of close calls like the one we had on December 24, 2022. Emphasis added.) The “tendency” of oil plants to struggle at startup was on full display on December 24 th.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

Few companies did so, however, posing great risk to investors and the economy: A 2015 Union of Concerned Scientists report on the threat to oil refineries from rising sea levels found that investors and taxpayers will likely bear the costs of future disasters if companies fail to disclose and manage these risks.

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