The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

While current industry and agency practice generally incorporate EJ analyses into the permitting process, the court’s decision cements the need for environmental justice analyses to satisfy the Public Trust Doctrine and provides a more definite avenue for challenging permits based on EJ. What is EJ?

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Breezometer

MAY 5, 2021

Air Pollution Exposure Contributes to Asthma Development - True or False? The effect of air pollution on the development of asthma has been studied for many years and increasingly, evidence shows that both indoor and outdoor air pollution exposure can contribute to asthma development. Correct Answer: True.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

This guidebook is a goldmine of definitions, information, tips, and helpful hints to guide citizens, giving them a way to participate more effectively with local governmental entities,” stated the Monocacy Creek Watershed Association.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2023

New Tools To Detect Air Pollution In Pennsylvania, the use of this and other technology has energized a new breed of environmental activism aimed at detecting air pollution from the sky and from the ground. They also use them to document air quality before gas wells or petrochemical plants are built.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2022

We definitely should be concerned about TENORM, but relative to low-level waste, the radioactivity level is by far smaller. Currently, many conventional oil and gas drilling operations dispose of their waste, including drill cuttings which often meet the definition of TENORM waste, right on the drilling site. Volume is high.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 4, 2023

Eliminating those emissions presents unique challenges, including the fact that they come from many small sources, rather than a few large power plants or factories, and that those sources are mobile by definition, making it more difficult to connect them to new, clean sources of power.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

Everybody’s health stands to gain from reducing local air pollution from tailpipes: communities located near roads, families getting into a car in their garage, children boarding a school bus, and anybody in the vicinity of an idling vehicle.

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Breezometer

JUNE 21, 2021

What is the indoor-outdoor air pollution continuum? Why do smart home brands develop connected indoor air products? In this guide, we explore the subject of indoor air quality and smart home IoT in-depth and explain why indoor air brands are increasingly turning to environmental intelligence to add value and drive sales.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 15, 2023

Finally, the chance of being born prematurely was not specifically associated with unconventional natural gas development, but high levels of particulate air pollution from any source were associated with being born prematurely, consistent with previous studies from other researchers.” Of Health Awards $2.5 27 Released 1.1

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 3, 2024

It is definitely a challenge.” Studies show that the frequency of days in India combining extreme heat and extreme air pollution could increase by 175% by 2050 if there is little reduction in humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions. But out here we were just playing with some kids for a bit and I am drenched.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2022

Approximately 3,834 of the 5,039 owners or operators may meet the definition of small business. DEP replied it does not believe Act 52 applies to this rulemaking because it is being promulgated under the state Air Pollution Control Act not the Oil and Gas Act, which is the subject of Act 52.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 5, 2023

million cubic feet of natural gas and hazardous air pollutants. . -- December 27 Release Of 1.1 Million Cubic Feet Of Gas From Pigging Facility: On December 27, a malfunction at the CNX Oak Springs Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Station in South Franklin Township, Washington County resulted in the release of an estimated 1.1

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CEQA Developments

JULY 7, 2022

While the project would create needed new housing and eliminate blight, it would result in significant unavoidable environmental impacts including air pollution emissions from increased traffic. Under the circumstances, the project definition was sufficiently accurate and stable.”. Adequacy of Response to LASAN Comments.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 24, 2022

I’m hedging a little bit about the factor because I’m definitely not an expert in health economics, and it’s possible that I’m missing something here. On top of that, as the proposal says earlier, the exposure factor [(e???C C ij -1)] for that county in each year will also be higher in EJ communities.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2021

Regenerative agriculture has been defined in many ways, and its definition continues to evolve with time, practices, research, and new information. What is regenerative agriculture?

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Vermont Law

JUNE 15, 2020

State Air Pollution Control Board. Select Steel created something called the rebuttable presumption defense; because emissions do not exceed the national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS), the emissions will not have an adverse impact on communities. In a stark contrast to the decision in. Francis Prayer Ctr.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 4, 2023

(3) Nonetheless, they cause a great deal of environmental problems, including “dramatic potable water consumption, high energy costs from water use, increased water and air pollution, and loss of biodiversity.” (4) The permaculture movement bears many loose definitions and associations.

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Physics World

JUNE 1, 2021

Bogotá’s connection to the stars is cruelly severed by air pollution, but as a young girl, García found another way to introduce the wonders of space to her daily life. “I It’s definitely something that will not help a new generation to build careers in science.”. Old, with messy grey hair, and male,” she says. “We

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2023

As an example of a recent enforcement action, he pointed to the $10 million penalty settlement with the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County on air pollution violations that included a $5 million community fund. Read more here. “We Washington County; Notice Is Re-sent [PaEN] -- Robinson Twp.,

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Vermont Law

JUNE 30, 2014

A facility is subject to new source review if it has potential emissions of 100 or 250 tons per year of an air pollutant, depending on the source. Such a facility must install BACT for each pollutant subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act. Opinion of the Court in Utility Air Regulatory Group v.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The next General Assembly and Governor-elect Shapiro can improve the law by (1) strengthening the definition of "clean H2," (2) conditioning credit eligibility on a timely transition to clean H2, and (3) establishing state community protection and benefit standards. is made from gas , a process that emits significant air pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2021

. -- Work with the Green Government Council to prioritize recycling among all state agencies. -- Regulatory Changes -- Clarify County Coordinator requirements. -- Eliminate the unnecessary air pollution and groundwater contamination associated with open burning waste. -- Expand county planning requirements to encompass more coordination of their respective (..)

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2023

Of Health Awards $2.5 Million Cubic Feet Of Gas; 10,000 Gallon Spill At Compressor Station [PaEN] -- DEP Ongoing Explosion/Fire Investigation: Energy Transfer Reported An Uncontrolled Release Of Ethane For 9.5 Washington County, Notice Is Re-sent [PaEN] -- Robinson Twp., 27 Released 1.1 16; Public Comments Accepted Thru Oct.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 26, 2022

USEPA will therefore have to set a definition and/or screening criteria. Efforts to develop definitions along these lines have generally encountered significant stakeholder input and, often, some degree of dissatisfaction with the results. Eligible Projects.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

As any scientist can attest, it is extremely difficult to come to a definite conclusion about what the scientific literature is telling you. Differing scientific opinions are a strong tool that agencies can use when assessing the scientific literature.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

All three landfills are operated by the County subject to oversight and permits by the County Department of Environmental Health Services, the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, the Regional Water Quality Control Board, and the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

That’s great news because swapping gasoline and diesel vehicles for EVs is an essential strategy to reduce local air pollution and climate change emissions from transportation. Interest in electric vehicles (EVs) is strong among U.S. drivers—including drivers who live in rural areas.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Climate change is and will increasingly exacerbate air pollution, disease outbreaks, drought, flooding, and the melting of glaciers, among other consequences. When you have a baby, you definitely think about the next generation. Reproductive climate concerns are based on people’s perceptions of and expectations for the future.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 22, 2022

The Boston Air Pollution Control Commission has formally adopted its “Building Emissions Reduction and Disclosure Ordinance Phase 1 Regulations.” The Phase 1 regulations are really all about the “disclosure” side of BERDO. However, I do not expect the City to show significant flexibility as it rolls out the Phase 2 regulations.

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Science Blogs

OCTOBER 20, 2017

The report’s authors an international team of nearly 50 public health scientists spent nearly two years synthesizing data on the human health effects and economic costs of toxic substances in the air, soil, and water. Air pollution. Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health. soil pollution. Water pollution.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Other air quality provisions expedite permitting and construction of new or expanded sources of air pollutants. Even with the exceptions, it is not clear the provision allows the state to fully comply with Clean Air Act permitting obligations. Prohibit cap and trade programs for CO2 emissions. House Bill 259, Sec.

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Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Formally, the IPCC definitions are relatively clear: Detection of change is defined as the process of demonstrating that climate or a system affected by climate has changed in some defined statistical sense, without providing a reason for that change. by definition doesn’t give a trend. But it’s not.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 20, 2014

air pollution. , Alaskan touchstones for “actual controversy” include: ‘“definite and concrete, touching the legal relations of parties having adverse legal interests…. in order to enhance the health, safety, and welfare” Alaskans. [13]. and uses trust principles to define state duties. [15]. 15]. . . .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2024

The overall combination of reductions in particulate matter, nitrogen oxides and other air pollutants are expected to deliver $13 billion in annual health benefits. Federal vehicle standards are one piece of the puzzle, and it’s good news that Biden administration has taken definitive step towards a cleaner transportation future.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

PHMSA has an important opportunity to swiftly finalize standards with clear and rigorous definitions for leak detection technology performance, detailed reporting requirements to understand safety and environmental impacts and expanded applicability of leak survey and repair standards to gathering pipelines. 27 Released 1.1

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