PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

Klapkowski made the comments to the House Environmental and Natural Resource Protection Committee hearing on oil and gas well abandonment. 2,070 conventional wells-- 66% of those abandoned wells were not required to have a well plugging bond by law. Read more here.] 753 well owners covering 81,396 wells did report.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 7, 2025

DEP inspections include both scheduled and unscheduled on-site visits to permitted facilities, as well as document reviews to verify compliance with environmental laws and regulations. When there is an accident or an emergency that threatens the environment and safety of our residents, DEP staff are there to guide the response.

2024

Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2025

A new Sabin Center report explores the laws governing seaweed cultivation and sinking for CDR in Alaska. Seaweed naturally converts dissolved carbon dioxide in ocean water into organic carbon through photosynthesis. Seaweed cultivation and sinking are regulated by a number of different laws at the state and federal levels.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2025

While DCNR took the lead in managing parks and forests, DEP was entrusted with the vital responsibility of protecting Pennsylvania’s air, land, and water resources, an increasingly complex and critical mission. billion to date for reclamation efforts.

Environmental Protection

Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2025

To tackle the effects of climate change, the Malaysian Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability (NRES) released a consultation paper in October 2024, proposing a Climate Change Act ( Rang Undang-Undang Perubahan Iklim Negara , or RUUPIN). Other laws around the world do the same.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JULY 22, 2025

Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug. PJM Decisions Have Driven Up The Cost Of Electricity [PaEN] -- PUC: Pennsylvania Doubles Solar Power Generation In Just 17 Months To 2 Gigawatts [PaEN] -- Registration Open!

Solar Power

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

“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. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JUNE 28, 2025

The changes are focused on facilitating development where it is on net beneficial to the environment, and not in places where it would harm important natural resources. It includes conservation easements and state parks – lands that should not be available for development because of property law limits on development in any case.

Endangered Species Act

PA Environment Daily

JULY 28, 2025

“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. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. 6 Hearing, Sept.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2024

“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. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. 1 Electricity Price Changes; Rates Will Vary From 8.4%

Conservation

Acoel

APRIL 23, 2025

This year marks my 50 th year practicing environmental law. In NYC, I met my wife, Katy, a graduate student at Columbia, and we jointly decided to apply to law schools in NYC, DC, and Boston. UT Law was (and is) an exceptional law school; remarkably, tuition back then was even less than the cost of our textbooks.

Law

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2025

Working across the globe, EDF links science, economics, law and innovative private-sector partnerships to turn solutions into action. It was a primary advocate for the overhaul of Americas chemical safety laws in 2016 and the passage of historic climate investments in 2022. With more than 3.5

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Related Articles: -- SolarBank's First 2 Community Solar Projects In PA: 13.8-Megawatt Megawatt And 7 Megawatt Projects In Lancaster County Contingent On PA Passing Community Solar Legislation [PaEN] -- USDA Announces Investment Of $24 Million In 112 Clean Energy Projects In PA; $20.5

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Over 1st Quarter 2024; Price Of Natural Gas Increased 218% Over 1st Quarter 2024 [PaEN] -- Erie Times Guest Essay: Understaffed DEP Can’t Uphold Law And Protect Public Health - By Rep.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2025

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. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Ohio- $2.99 Ohio- $2.99

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2025

Greg Vitali, D-Havertown, chair of the Environmental and Natural Resource Protection committee, has reintroduced a bill to give the state Department of Environmental Protection and the Environmental Quality Board the authority to set bonds for drillers that are closer to the cost of plugging a well. 4 [PaEN] -- Upper Makefield Twp.

Natural Gas

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Notably, this term reshaped administrative law and regulatory agencies in unprecedented ways. This article argues that while Loper Bright captured the nations attention regarding administrative law, the threat posed by the Ohio v. Natural Resource Defense Council (1984). EPA decision warrants serious attention.

Law

Law Columbia

MAY 6, 2025

These pressures are further compounded by social tensions , as Indigenous communities are frequently excluded from decision-making processes, raising concerns about environmental justice and the equitable governance of natural resources. Since 1979, Decree Law No.

Politics

National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

However, the court disagreed, concluding that Swampbuster is a valid exercise of Congress’s spending power and that the law should be upheld. Swampbuster is implemented by the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (“NRCS”). 5 U.S.C. § To determine whether the plaintiff in CTM Holdings, LLC v.

2013

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

“These actions are the result of our continuing efforts to ensure that oil and gas operators comply with the Clean Air Act,” said Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division. Attorney Eric G. Olshan for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

JULY 5, 2025

“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. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

Wolf signed into law legislation in July 2022 that took away the EQBs authority to increase bond amounts for conventional oil and gas wells for 10 years. Conventional oil and gas wells drilled before April 18, 1985, which is most of them, cannot be required to have any well plugging bond by law. Read more here. Read more here.

2025

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

According to the Japanese Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, the countrys fossil fuel dependency was 83.2% In February 2023, the Tokyo District Court found that the Notice of Finalization, which had been issued through a simplified permitting procedure, was lawful. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

2025

Endangered Species Law

JULY 24, 2025

The Committee on Natural Resources (Committee) in the U.S. While it is unclear whether any of these will gain traction, collectively they represent a significant effort to reform federal wildlife law. The Committee held a hearing on this bill on March 25.

Endangered Species Act

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Degnan Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, will give the talk, “Repurposed Energy,” at 4:00 p.m. Klass teaches and writes primarily in the areas of energy law, environmental law and natural resources law. By Penn State News As part of Penn State’s EarthTalks series , Alexandra Klass, the James G.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 9, 2025

“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. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 9, 2025

“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. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

2026

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 8, 2025

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. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Snowden at dsnowden@pa.gov or (717) 783-8846. House Floor.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

A 1985 study released in 2010 by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources found high concentrations of barium in conventional oil and gas brines was the "likely the source of barium contents exceeding the drinking-water limits in some private wells and small municipal water supplies in western Pennsylvania." [ Read more here.]

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

Industries claim that this Board lacks the authority to act on this petition is not supported by these laws. The [state] Oil and Gas Act, Clean Streams Law and Air Pollution Control Act give EQB the authority and mandate to promulgate regulations to protect health and the environment.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

A 1985 study released in 2010 by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources found high concentrations of barium in conventional oil and gas brines was the "likely the source of barium contents exceeding the drinking-water limits in some private wells and small municipal water supplies in western Pennsylvania." [ Read more here.]

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2025

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. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Click Here for options to join remotely.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 22, 2025

“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. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. DCNR Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

“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. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. DEP Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board meeting.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is expected to hold a hearing on Wrights nomination tomorrow. Should Mr. Wright engage in such tactics during his confirmation hearing, Senators on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee must not allow him to get away with this ploy. Here are the facts.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 1, 2025

Environmental justice, as defined by the EPA, is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people, regardless of race, color, culture, national origin, income, or educational levels, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of protective environmental laws, regulations, and policies.

Government

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) of the Department of Justice faces its most profound crisis since it was established in 1909. Dedication to upholding the Constitution and the Rule of Law is irrelevant. More rumors swirl that other closures and terminations may follow. Nonpartisanship is disloyalty.

Natural Resources