Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Regulators can also enact new waste categories specifically for batteries, which can make transporting used batteries to reuse or recycling centers safer and more cost-effective. Where do their raw materials come from, and how can we ensure their valuable contents are recovered rather than wasted? The secret? Click to learn more!

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Implementation of these new laws will be the true test of that statement, but they provide an exciting starting point. Prior to this new law, the state was required by law to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions be reduced to at least 40% below the 1990 level by 2030. Climate Change Mitigation.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2022

DEP’s Citizens Advisory Council is scheduled to meet on October 18 to take a deeper dive into Pennsylvania’s Municipal Recycling Program and talk about better ways to manage electronics waste. She reported the overall amount of waste generated in Pennsylvania has increased 8.3 Municipal waste generated in Pennsylvania has increased 10.1

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2022

However, stations often sit on corner lots at major intersections, making them prime retail spots. Those sites may be governed by state and federal hazardous waste laws. Redeveloping gas stations for other uses may cause another problem, however.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

The new laws compiled below add to that already very green environmental regulatory scheme. Savvy players in the environmental industrial complex and associated industries will find business opportunities to lead and profit in environmental matters, including opportunities advantaged by these newly enacted laws. Until July 1, 2024, 7.75

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 23, 2023

Simply named ‘Close the Shop Door’ the campaign is asking that the UK government introduce legislation that insists on shop front doors being kept shut to avoid wasting millions of £ worth of energy and causing unnecessary CO2 emissions. The campaign group believes the only way to end this wasteful practice is through legislation.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Our society’s addiction to single-use plastic products is polluting our waterways and threatening our health,” said PennEnvironment Zero Waste Advocate Faran Savitz. The General Assembly should modernize Pennsylvania’s cornerstone recycling law, Act 101, in order to bring the Commonwealth’s waste management into the 21st century.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Anti-Amazon campaigners in France team up to say 'non' to firm's expansion Christian Lowe, Elizabeth Pineau and Mathieu Rosemain | Reuters | July 30, 2020 In France, disparate anti-Amazon forces – including local activists, environmentalists, trade unions and members of parliament - are coming together to battle the world’s largest online retailer.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 31, 2024

Amazon Fined in France for Illegally Spying on Workers Common Dreams PaulaR Wed, 01/31/2024 - 13:59 Tuesday, January 23, 2024 Read more Julia Conley The retail giant was also ordered to pay more than $30 million last year after allegedly surveilling customers with its tech products.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 1, 2022

Plastic waste and pollution is not someone else’s problem. Ontario’s Resource Recovery and Circular Economy Act is designed to shift responsibility for waste management off of municipalities and taxpayers and on to goods producers, retailers, etc. And EPR regulations are weak for other types of waste as well.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Good samaritan food laws across the country provide liability protection for those who donate food. In 2010, the United States wasted an estimated 133 billion pounds of post-harvest food. Of that, 43 billion pounds of waste occurred in the retail sector and 90 billion pounds occurred at the consumer level. Sarah Munger.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JULY 1, 2021

July 1 also marks the start of Philadelphia’s ban on single-use plastic bags at retail establishments and a ban on paper bags that contain less than 40% recycled content. New Jersey’s law banning single-use plastic bags and foam containers takes effect May 22 and is one of the toughest laws of its kind in the country.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 7, 2022

As governments enact mandatory greenhouse gas emission laws and as businesses voluntarily make “net zero” pledges, we are increasingly working with organizations, first to understand and calculate their GHG emissions, then to implement strategies for efficacious yet frictionless reductions. Organic waste sent to landfills emits CH4.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

And special measures to dispose of the toxic waste product costs $220 million, though not all of those costs are strictly related to algae. While previous efforts to give legal personhood to natural resources have sprung up around the world, from Bangladesh to Bolivia, so-called “rights of nature” laws are few and far between in the U.S.,

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CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2022

For both residential and non-residential buildings, the “design elements” include that the buildings (1) not include natural gas appliances or natural gas plumbing, and (2) not result in any wasteful, inefficient, or unnecessary energy usage as determined by relevant CEQA analysis pursuant to Pub. Coon of Miller Starr Regalia.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The transition to clean heavy-duty vehicles, like trucks and buses, is already well underway, largely due to the increased funding for electric transit and charging infrastructure included in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL).

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Acoel

JUNE 17, 2021

The New Jersey Economic Recovery Act of 2020 (ERA), signed into law by Governor Phil Murphy on January 7, 2021 (Senate Bill 3295), is comprised of an array of programs that include a broadening of New Jersey’s incentives for developers to clean up Brownfields. Posted on June 17, 2021 by David B.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2022

Million DOE Contract To Target Upcycling Plastic Waste -- Register Now For PA Chapter American Water Works Assn. Annual Conference April 25-27 In State College [PaEN] -- PA Assn. Of Environmental Educators Webinar: Feb. 18 - Social Media & Marketing For Environmental Educators.

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Manning Law

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This includes a number of restaurants that have already moved away from using single-use plastic cutlery and straws as well as a number of retailers that have moved away from single-use plastic checkout bags in favour of reusable alternatives. Manning Environmental Law is a Canadian law firm based in Toronto, Ontario.

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JANZEN AG

AUGUST 4, 2020

The laws of libel and slander protect persons and businesses from being the subject of harmful, untrue statements. If a grocery store chain (or online retailer) decides to impose its own carbon-labeling scheme on all products sold in its stores, the store will be picking winners (with low carbon scores) and losers (with high carbon scores).

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Although the proliferation of waste plastic is nothing new, the report was alarming because the researchers specifically targeted 50 streams that the state Department of Environmental Protection had categorized as the cleanest and best-maintained waterways across the state. The Legislature has approved about $1.7

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Krupa Introduces HB 1656 To Ban Oil, Gas Wastewater Injection Wells To Protect The Public From Radioactive, Toxic Materials [PaEN] -- Inside Climate News: New PA Legislation Aims To Classify Oil & Gas Wastewater As Hazardous Waste -- State Dept. Room G-50 Irvis Building. Click Here to watch live online.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2022

Noon. -- Chesapeake Bay Foundation: Pennsylvania Images Invited To Compete In CBF's Photo Contest [PaEN] -- Reuters: Company Uses Pennsylvania Coal Waste To Power Bitcoin Mining -- Republican Sen. Bipartisan Federal Infrastructure Law -- Gov. Forest Service Forest To Faucets 2.0 What’s Your Community Doing?

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Vermont Law

JUNE 28, 2016

Food waste is a potent source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. By encouraging food donation and streamlining food-recovery policies the federal government can build a national framework to combat the massive accumulation of food waste and begin to change people’s food-waste habits. By Bonnie Smith. emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2022

All of the newly launched recognition programs enable better tracking of aggregated data, such as diversity, equity & inclusion metrics; energy usage; waste reduction; and water savings. Questions cover a variety of topics related to sustainability including energy, waste, water, transportation, diversity, and procurement.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2022

Retail Electricity Prices Rose At Fastest Rate Since 2008, Driven By Natural Gas And Energy Commodities [Whose Price Is Determined By Foreign Energy Markets And Despots] -- NPR: U.S. What’s Your Community Doing? Corman Gets Boost From Kellyanne Conway During Pittsburgh Visit [Corman worked to overturn Nov.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Read the full story at Waste Today. District Court Judge Maxine Chesney dismissed a lawsuit Greenpeace Inc. filed against Walmart in late 2020, saying the organization lacked standing for the case to be considered on the merits.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 15, 2023

The average gas station goes through roughly 2,600 gallons of fuel every day and big-box stores average five times that amount, according to the Association for Convenience & Fuel Retailing (NACS). A leak from a UST will often result in a loss of pressure, causing the flow of gas to become really, really slow.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2022

The Senate budget hearings last week spotlighted the fact Pennsylvania’s experience with new pipeline construction shows state laws are not strong enough to prevent environmental damage and protect public safety. Wolf have all called on the General Assembly to toughen laws regulating pipelines to no avail. Read more here.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Accordingly, it retained key elements of the state-wide drought emergency, including the ban on wasteful water uses, existing groundwater directives, emergency measures for drought-stricken watersheds like the Klamath and Colorado Rivers, and a state of emergency across all 58 counties to facilitate ongoing drought response and recovery.

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Columbia Climate Law

JULY 9, 2015

On April 21, 2015, CPUC administrative law judges (ALJs) McKinney and Halligan filed a proposal that suggests implementing a two-tiered system, with a 20% maximum difference in rates for customers. Consumers using rooftop solar are credited for each kWh generated at retail rates through the net metering system. [7]

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Instead, the Second Circuit held that the rule’s retailer distribution ban to prevent consumer uses was “a reasonable means” to ensure that the risks posed by consumer uses of methylene chloride were “no longer present[ed],” as required by TSCA. The deadline for comments on the guidance is December 21, 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2022

Not So Fast, Say Crash-Wary Energy Investors -- Bloomberg Green: Oil Leasing To Resume On Federal Land After Court Allows Use Of Carbon Cost Metric -- Reuters: Oil Settles Up But Posts Second Consecutive Weekly Decline -- Reuters: Number Of U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 26, 2022

Decommissioning of both units will require the disposal of both high level and low-level radioactive waste and the safe, permanent storage of the nuclear fuel used by both units that is still on Three Mile Island. Read more here. Read more here. Maybe folks think it won’t happen…. The Accident At 3:53 a.m.,

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 6, 2021

This contemplated program responds to USGS research seeking to strengthen domestic clean energy supply chains and provide environmental benefits through the reuse and treatment of waste material.[[N: N: See e.g. , USGS, Critical Mineral Recovery Potential from Tailings and Other Mine Waste Streams , ( last visited July 31, 2021).]]

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