PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2024

DEP issued conventional oil and gas operators a record total of 6,860 violations for all infractions of law and regulations in 2023, nearly 52% more than in 2021. Some go back to 2016, but the actual enforcement action took place in 2023. 2016 violations) [reports not available] -- ETUX 662-2 - Washington County, Nottingham Twp.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 22, 2024

PJM Interconnection had identified grid congestion across the Pennsylvania-Maryland border and concluded that such congestion had led to approximately $800 million in costs from 2012 to 2016. PJM approved the project in 2016 and entered into an agreement with Transource’s parent company allocating responsibilities for the project.

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JULY 7, 2021

Department of State and TC Energy, but The Energy Law Blog has not yet received a response. A similar notice of intent was filed by TC Energy in 2016 when President Obama denied its Keystone XL Pipeline permit. 2016 Notice of Intent at p. See NAFTA at articles 1102, 1103, 1105, & 1110, respectively.

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Acoel

JANUARY 4, 2023

Madison established that “[i]t is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.” At that time, the leading case on judicial review of agency interpretations of the law, Skidmore v. Is ambiguity too subjective, malleable, or amorphous to determine what the law is, and who decides?

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JANUARY 8, 2016

Sabin Colloquium on Innovative Environmental Law Scholarship. Columbia Law School. 6-27, 2016?. Annual Sabin Colloquium will allow junior environmental law scholars to present early-stage work and receive constructive feedback from a panel of senior scholars and from each other. University of Utah College of Law. ?John

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

As a matter of law, the Court also held the County improperly relied on the existing facilities exemption for the project. or if the public agency failed to give the notice required by law.” Existing Facilities Exemption Did Not Apply As A Matter of Law. Factual/Procedural Background. Applying the holding of Tomlinson v.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2022

From 2016 to 2021, DEP issued 4,193 notices of violation to conventional drillers for attempting to abandon their wells. DEP issued 12 unconventional shale gas drillers notices of violation for abandoning gas wells without plugging them at 35 wells pads (each with multiple wells) in 17 counties between 2016 and 2022 (through February).

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2022

Wolf in a formal statement published in the July 30 PA Bulletin and comes in the wake of the Governor allowing House Bill 2644 to become law without his signature. The evaluation was outlined by Gov. Read more here. Evidence on this count is discouraging. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2022

The Department of Environmental Protection has issued 12 unconventional shale gas drillers notices of violation for abandoning gas wells without plugging them at 35 wells pads (each with multiple wells) in 17 counties between 2016 and 2022, according to DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Reporting system. Read more here. Jordan 6 - Hempfield Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2023

“The Coalition commends Senator Carper, Representative Blunt Rochester, and Representative Fitzpatrick for reintroducing the Delaware River Basin Conservation Reauthorization Act to continue supporting the Basin through critical funding, bolstering our ability to protect and preserve this beloved natural resource for future generations.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

16-30009, 2016 WL 6810728, at *1 (5th Cir. 17, 2016), a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently limited the effect of the collateral source rule in a maritime employee’s personal injury action against a non-employer. In DePerrodil v. Bozovic Marine, Inc. ,

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2024

Tioga County; -- Frontier Natural Resources: Winner Well Pad, Keating Twp., Potter County; -- Seneca Resources Co. . Check These Resources Visit DEP’s Compliance Reporting Database webpage to search their compliance records by date and owner and the Inspection Reports Viewer. Westmoreland County: -- EQT Prod Co.:

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

On September 30, 2016, Governor John Bel Edwards sued Attorney General Jeff Landry to compel him to approve several contracts between the Governor’s office and private legal counsel. On October 17, 2016, the presiding District Judge denied the Governor’s request and refused to force the Attorney General to approve the Governor’s contracts.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Strayer, who also works full-time in law enforcement, received 90 percent cost-share funds for the $111,000 storage area from ACAP through the Cumberland County Conservation District. When his grandfather passed away in 2016, Greg Strayer, now 48, took the farm over. The conservation district received a total of $3.5

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2021

The district court in Oregon in 2016 seemed to favor such a right, but a divided Ninth Circuit concluded in 2020 that the plaintiffs lacked standing. Most recently, in the famous Juliana v. United States case, plaintiffs sought an order directing the federal government to slash the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Here’s a summary of that paper-- It started with a simple question: Are natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines required to have insurance to cover property damage, bodily harm or environmental cleanup and natural resource damage costs? Spoiler-- the answer is-- no.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2023

2016) by adopting a new rule of construction: when an antiquated oil and gas conveyance contains double fractions that include one-eighth, a rebuttable presumption arises that the parties intended for “one-eighth” to reflect the entire mineral estate, though that presumption may only be rebutted by language present in the instrument itself.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Chapter 78 Updates For more than two years, DEP has been in the process of updating conventional oil and gas environmental protection and waste disposal and handling standards, after the last comprehensive update was killed by the General Assembly in 2016. Read more here. Read more here. The evaluation was outlined by Gov. Read more here.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

Plaintiffs alleged that despite advance knowledge of the likelihood for significant downstream flooding, SRA-L decided to open spillway gates freeing water from the reservoir into the Sabine River to alleviate elevated reservoir volumes from a cataclysmic rain storm in March of 2016.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2021

We are proud to honor Franklin Kury’s legacy and the landmark legislation that continues to ensure Pennsylvanians’ natural resources are protected and conserved,” Dunn said. DCNR and other state resource organizations carry out this mission each day as trustees on behalf of the owners – the current and future citizens of Pennsylvania.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 6, 2016

Texas, however, has enacted a state law expressly preempting local authority over a number of drilling activities. In March 2016, the Louisiana First Circuit recognized the preemptive authority of state law to regulate and permit fracking. Colorado Oil and Gas Association , 2016 CO 29, P. City of Longmont v.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In 2016, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service launched an investigation into Shell for suspected bribery surrounding its exploration of the Etosha oil field in Nigeria. This Advisory is intended to be a general summary of the law and does not constitute legal advice. Background. Significance.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 15, 2016

2016-N01, dated July 12, 2016, takes effect on September 12, 2016 and supersedes and replaces NTL No. 2016-N01, the NTL implementation timeline, and information regarding the BOEM workshops can be found at the links below. New BOEM NTL No. While NTL No. While NTL No. Under new NTL No. A copy of NTL No.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Harvard law students ramp up protest against ExxonMobil climate firm Emily Holden | The Guardian | January 15, 2020 Harvard law students have disrupted a recruiting event for Paul Weiss, the law firm representing ExxonMobil in climate lawsuits, in an escalation the protesters hope will open a new front in climate activism in the legal world.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Clearly, there is significant non-compliance with relevant laws in the conventional oil and gas industry in Pennsylvania. The bad news is that the resources and enforcement tools and techniques available to the Department have not made an appreciable dent in compliance rates and numbers over the past five years.” Why The Assessment?

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 25, 2022

Taxpayers pick up the tab One overarching issue is that even modern-day drillers in the state sometimes abandon wells without plugging them, a violation of state laws. Before the board could take any action, the state legislature rushed through a law that blocks any increase in plugging bonding for 10 years.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

In 2017, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources tried to ban road spreading of oil and gas wastewater based on concerns about levels of radioactivity found by the agency, but was blocked by the Ohio legislature. PA DEP banned the road spreading of unconventional shale gas wastewater in regulations adopted in 2016.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2023

For example in 2009 and 2010, Toyota recalled over 10 million vehicles over unintended acceleration problems and in 2016, Toyota recalled 1.4 T accusing the companies of violating consumer protection laws and engaging in fraud by concealing the use of substandard metal components in vehicles. In 2018, Toyota was ordered to pay out $21.9

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Harvard law students ramp up protest against ExxonMobil climate firm Emily Holden | The Guardian | January 15, 2020 Harvard law students have disrupted a recruiting event for Paul Weiss, the law firm representing ExxonMobil in climate lawsuits, in an escalation the protesters hope will open a new front in climate activism in the legal world.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 28, 2017

Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University, 2012. 2016-C-2181 (2017). [2] 9/28/2016), 2016 WL 5404650 [3] See id. [4] 2016 WL 1179206 (W.D. La 2016) (finding that only unleased mineral owners are entitled to 103.1 The Energy Law Blog (October 6, 2016), available at [link] [5] XXI Oil & Gas , at p.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2016

12] Finally the Court stated that “[t]he legislature well may have intended to provide greater protections for landowners who typically are not as sophisticated as, or have the available resources of, individuals or entities that procure mineral leases.” [13] Hebert Law Center, Louisiana State University, 2012. [1] Hilcorp II. [14]

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 4, 2021

DEP and the Public Utility Commission have fined natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines over $55 million for environmental and safety law violations. In 2018, the brand new Revolution Natural Gas Pipeline exploded in Beaver County causing property and natural resource damage, but fortunately no deaths or injuries.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Executive Order 13673, known as the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order, directed the Department of Labor and the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to create new rules and guidance aimed at ensuring that government contractors comply with existing federal and state labor laws.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75 million fine Emily Pickrell | Houston Chronicle | September 20, 2013 Total Petrochemical will pay an $8.8 French Oil Giant Total S.A.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 18, 2021

DEP and the Public Utility Commission have fined natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines over $55 million for environmental and safety law violations. In 2018, the brand new Revolution Natural Gas Pipeline exploded in Beaver County causing property and natural resource damage, but fortunately no deaths or injuries.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2021

Here’s a summary of that paper-- It started with a simple question: Are natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines required to have insurance to cover property damage, bodily harm or environmental cleanup and natural resource damage costs? Spoiler-- the answer is-- no.

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Smith Enviorment

AUGUST 1, 2018

Two of the proposed amendments could affect environmental and natural resource policy. Historically, laws creating commissions gave the Governor power to appoint all or a majority of the members. The governor argued the laws giving the legislature power to select a majority of commissioners violated the N.C.

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