Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Included in the regulation are requirements for mineral sourcing, life cycle emissions, information sharing, and recycling. These regulations set a precedent for battery policy; an area where the US needs to do more. Why does the EU need new battery regulations?

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APRIL 24, 2023

Specifically, the NRC determined that fusion energy be regulated under the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s byproduct material framework contained in 10 C.F.R. All of the commercial nuclear reactors in service today are fission reactors, which are heavily regulated under 10 C.F.R.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 27, 2021

See also EPA eyes new rules for PFAS in waste from E&E News. The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday announced it is preparing a rule that would list some so-called “forever chemicals” as hazardous substances that must be eliminated from industrial waste before it is discarded. Read the full story from Reuters.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 8, 2024

Last year, one of Imperial Oil’s mines in the tar sands leaked toxic industrial waste into the surrounding environment. Instead of informing downstream communities, the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) helped Imperial cover up the spill for over nine months. They have failed to put in place rules about how toxic waste should be managed.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

And this waste—along with drilling and fracking waste--can contain radioactive elements known as “technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material,” or TENORM. A new NRDC report describes these risks and how weak regulations fail to appropriately protect workers and communities.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 21, 2023

Read the full story at Waste Dive. The city’s Department of Sanitation, which was already ramping up a voluntary curbside organics program, must now enforce participation in 2024 after Mayor Eric Adams allowed a bill to become law.

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SPR Law

MAY 17, 2024

The public can… The post Proposed Changes to Part 375 Remedial Program Regulations: Implications for Real Estate Developers and their Financing Institutions appeared first on Sive Paget Riesel.

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

However, like any energy source, there are unintended consequences like waste that needs to be safely disposed of when solar panels reach their end of life. By 2030, the United States is expected to have as much as one million total tons of solar panel waste. By 2050, the U.S. By 2050, the U.S.

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Ohio Environmental Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

EPA proposed two new significant regulations that would expand its authority to require cleanup of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The scope of the proposed regulations and the potential facilities affected are discussed below. On February 8, 2024, U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2024

On March 20, the Clean Air Council , Moms Clean Air Force and Earthworks will host a webinar on federal waste emission charges to be assessed on the oil and gas industry from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. Environmental Protection Agency recently proposed its Waste Emissions Charge for oil and gas operators as required by federal law.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 9, 2023

On September 29, DEP told the Low-Level Waste Advisory Committee shale gas operations in Pennsylvania sent 138,336 cubic feet of radioactive TENORM waste to the Waste Control Specialists low-level radioactive waste facility in Texas for disposal. Click Here for DEP table on TENORM waste. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2023

. — Christian Thorsberg, Interim Fresh Editor This Week’s Watersheds A new law in Wisconsin will fund more sustainable, watershed friendly farming methods. Ohio residents, fearing their drinking water will be contaminated by increasing amounts of fracking waste, are standing up to oil companies and injection-well owners.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 5, 2022

New Jersey implements one of the toughest laws on tackling plastic and paper bags in retail settings. The post New Jersey Law Banning Plastic, Paper Bags Goes Into Effect appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

by Eleanor Putnam-Farr, Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University Boulder, Colorado, passed stricter regulations against plastic bags at the beginning of 2024, banning them from all retail stores.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 12, 2024

Act 14 requires applicants to submit notices to municipalities and counties for air quality, water obstruction (Chapter 105), any permit issued under the Cleans Streams Law (including Chapter 102, stormwater, NPDES, many more), any solid waste and hazardous waste, land recycling and water allocation permits. Montgomery County.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 15, 2024

Regulated Entities Under the Guidelines, the top 180 companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the top 50 companies on its Science and Technology Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange must publish SDRs annually, within four months of the end of their fiscal year.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Leading this subnational trend, California officials launched the Subnational Methane Action Coalition, an international partnership between subnational governments that have some responsibility in overseeing or regulating sources of methane emissions. This year, several jurisdictions announced new methane regulations. Since the E.U.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

violated the state Solid Waste Management Act during a demolition of two smokestacks at the former Cheswick Generating Station in Springdale Borough on June 2, 2023. The remaining $17,500 will go to the Commonwealth’s Solid Waste Abatement Fund. “As Cheswick Plant Environmental Redevelopment Group, LLC, Controlled Demolition, Inc.,

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2022

Wolf directed the Department of Environmental Protection to conduct an evaluation of how it regulates conventional oil and gas wells to prevent new abandoned wells, tighten review of permit transfers, review compliance with environmental safeguards and make recommendations for changes and actions, including criminal sanctions. Read more here.

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E2 Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2023

The bill would also have changed the procedures employed by New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) for issuing permits under the Environmental Conservation Law. . The amended bill has now been introduced, and it is expected that the bill will pass both houses of the Legislature and be signed into law in the coming weeks.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2022

Randomly selected individual on-site drill cutting and wastewater disposal plans submitted by conventional oil and gas drillers call for drilling wastes to be “dispersed directly to the environment,” according to a review by PA Environment Digest. Ph and conductivity will be tested and reported according to regulations.”

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2022

On September 30, DEP told the Low-Level Waste Advisory Committee shale gas fracking operations in Pennsylvania sent nearly 236,00 cubic feet of radioactive TENORM waste to out-of-state low-level radioactive waste facilities for disposal, more volume than all the industries combined in the four-state Appalachian Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 28, 2022

Both categories are regulated by the Office of Conservation within the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources. The pertinent regulations are in Statewide Order No. The State regulations that will govern Class VI wells once primacy is achieved are in Statewide Order No. 1, issue 1, sagetech.org.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 4, 2022

Michigan’s Lack of Septic System Regulations is Causing Problems for Some of its Most Pristine Lakes Failing systems can allow contaminated water to seep through the earth into nearby bodies of water. The township does have a law requiring a septic system inspection when a house sells. water systems are aging. But it was too much.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2022

Klapkowski said the waste issue was being discussed, because of, “the scale and scope of the program, things that weren't really talked about much because maybe you can deal with it as a one-off because we were plugging 10 or 20 wells a year. There are some options for waste management that involve on-site disposal. said Klapkowski.

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Environmental Law Centre

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The post Maybe not the last (plastic) straw: Federal Court quashes federal order aimed at regulating “Plastic Manufactured Items” appeared first on Environmental Law Centre. (Photo: Horia Varlan from Bucharest, Romania, CC BY 2.0)

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Among the issues raised by the appellants in their original appeal were-- concerns the landfill’s operation would attract birds and interfere with the operation of the nearby Grove City Airport; that the oil and gas drilling wastes the landfill was allowed to accept presented a radiation hazard; and the landfill’s compliance history.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Read the full story at Waste Dive. Franchisors must closely monitor upcoming changes to state regulations, which could dictate how … Continue reading As state PFAS in packaging laws loom, restaurants mull serviceware alternatives. 10 webinar from legal services firm Lathrop GPM.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2024

Among the issues raised by the appellants in their appeal were-- concerns the landfill’s operation would attract birds and interfere with the operation of the nearby Grove City Airport; that the oil and gas drilling wastes the landfill was allowed to accept presented a radiation hazard; and the landfill’s compliance history.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

trillion litres of toxic industrial waste to accumulate for over five decades, but now wants us to believe a steering committee with no decision-making power can resolve the issue. Environmental protection laws must be enforced in response to incidents like last year’s major spill and leak from Imperial Oil’s Kearl mine. Less than 0.1

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The directive aims to reduce waste and bolster the repair sector. 3] In the future, the Commission can introduce further repairability requirements for new products through the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation. Davies , Michael D. Latham & Watkins will continue to monitor developments in this area.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2022

Klapkowski said DEP will be reviewing its regulations and requirements in the first two categories to strengthen them and do a financial evaluation for the third program in an attempt to qualify for these grants, however, DEP is still waiting for U.S. “It Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2024

In remarks before DEP’s Citizens Advisory Council , Tom Pike, an Environmental Policy Advocate with Protect PT, said -- “ProtectPT is requesting that the PA Department of Environmental Protection revise its rules on road spreading of gas industry waste. “We 380, as amended, 35 P.S. Sections 6018.101-6018.1003.” Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection reported their inspections found 4,386 violations of environmental regulations at conventional oil and gas operations during 2021 -- nearly two and a half times the violations reported just two years ago in 2019 and 337 more than in 2020. Read more here.] barrels or 0.41 barrels or 0.41

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2023

Elder Vogel (R-Beaver) at the March 22 Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on DEP’s budget request , the Department of Environmental Protection said it is projecting a $1,581,000 deficit in funding for the Oil and Gas Regulation Program. The claims that Pennsylvania has the toughest oil and gas regulations in the U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 19, 2023

The proposal to regulate PFAS as a class of chemicals allows the government to more effectively address the human health and environmental harms associated with these thousands of chemicals in products. Additional information: The government signalled in 2021 that it would be proposing a class-based approach to PFAS regulation in Canada.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Five other violations involved illegal disposal or handling of liquid or solid waste. Clearly, there is significant non-compliance with relevant laws in the conventional oil and gas industry in Pennsylvania. Why The Assessment? DEP’s assessment was promised by Gov. Read more here. “The Read more here. Read more here.

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