PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2023

Begins Appeal Hearing On Invenergy Natural Gas Power Plant Proposed In Elizabeth Twp. -- WHYY: SEPTA Natural Gas Power Plant In Nicetown Still Faces Opposition As Philadelphia Weighs Permit Renewal -- York Dispatch: Local Groups Mobilize Opposition To $2.1 15 In Washington County [PaEN] -- WeConservePA Hosts Aug.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 28, 2021

-- WBTimes Editorial: Flood Management Strategies Need To Evolve, Especially With Impacts Of Climate Change -- AltoonaM Editorial: Natural Gas Drillers Put Their Industry Over Your Health -- ScrantonT Editorial: State Is Steward Of Public Land, Not A Developer -- StateImpactPA/Rachel McDevitt: In Boost For Environmental Rights, PA Supreme Court Rules (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Research has shown that the heat-trapping emissions from these companies’ products have led to rising temperatures and sea levels , as well as ocean acidification. I sincerely wish my house wasn’t heated by natural gas, but it currently is. My own heat and electricity bill rose by a whopping 40 percent last month.

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Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

With proposed federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions by the Securities and Exchange Commission requiring GHG disclosure and new state statutes, including a new Maryland law that requires not only disclosure, but also a mandated reduction in GHG emissions, a greater appreciation of the subject of GHG appears in order.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2022

2, 2022 -- Bob Donnan Blog: Tale Of Two Townships In Washington County: Union & Peters Townships - A Decade Of Fracking Issues -- DEP Has Ordered A ‘Top To Bottom Review’ Of How It Regulates Underground Natural Gas Storage Areas As A Result Of The Equitrans Gas Leak In Cambria County In Nov. 10:30 a.m. -- Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2022

EQB Overwhelmingly Approves Emergency Regulation Setting VOC/Methane Limits For Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities; Republicans Vote Against DEP Preparing To Plug The Next 198 Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells With Federal Funding DEP: Schedule For Updating Conventional Oil & Gas Environmental, Waste Regulations Will Be Up To Gov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2023

Utilities and grid operators prepared for the storm as it was coming down the pike, but they still underestimated the energy demand it would trigger, as well as the number of outages at fossil fuel power plants—mainly natural gas-fired, plus some coal-fired plants.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2022

You want rivers, streams, and oceans that are not polluted. Or a candidate might say, “The industry says shale gas development is safe, so it must be. Here, we might say something like, “Should we really trust any industry to regulate itself? If you’re like most people, you want to be healthy. Why Does It Matter?

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Several new regulations controlling methane emissions have been adopted recently, including two new rules for the US oil and gas sector announced last week. We most often encounter methane as the largest component of natural gas: methane makes up 75 – 95% of the gas coming to your stove and furnace.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2021

Billion Meant For Conservation -- DEP: Issues Air Quality Action Day Warning For Friday, Aug. Billion Meant For Conservation -- DEP: Issues Air Quality Action Day Warning For Friday, Aug. Vitali -- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: Zero Carbon Bitcoin?

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

Under the law, “carbon neutrality” means that for every ton of CO 2 emitted in the state by a regulated EGU an equivalent amount of CO 2 must be reduced, removed, prevented, or offset. regulated by the Utilities Commission; and 2. coast where the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has approved wind energy leases.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2023

Thank you for your leadership! -- Pennsylvania Environmental Council President Davitt Woodwell To Retire [PaEN] -- Luzerne County Native Dr. Kate Moran Honored For Ocean Science And Planet Sustainability Leadership By Canada [PaEN] -- Warren Times: Steve Sorenson Takes Home PA Outdoor Writers Assn.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2021

of DEP’s regulations. Unconventional (shale) oil and gas drilling companies are prohibited by DEP’s regulations from disposing of their drilling wastewater on dirt and gravel roads, even though conventional wastewater is very similar and comes from the same source-- deep underground rock formations. From 1991 to 2017 over 240.4

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The Energy Law Blog

JANUARY 31, 2017

In one of his first acts, Senator Kennedy sent President Trump a letter on January 23, 2017, addressing the importance of the oil and gas industry and offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. He highlighted the prior administration’s rules and regulations, which have crippled Louisiana’s energy industry.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

For example, should costs imposed by US regulation of greenhouse gases be justified by including in the benefits the reduction of climate change impacts outside of the United States? First, the SCC will be used to benchmark the benefits of agency regulations. The SCC then monetizes those impacts over time.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In the coming weeks, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) will reveal its plan for revising the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations and guidance for analyzing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. See Certification of New Interstate Natural Gas Facilities , 163 FERC ¶ 61,042 (2018) (2018 NOI).]]

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2022

Finance: OLB Group Signs Long-Term Lease For Cryptocurrency Mining Facility In Bradford -- Meten Begins Trial Operation Of Crypto Mining Business In PA -- Seneca Resources Achieves Certification Of Natural Gas Production Under Equitable Origin Standard [ Compliance History in PA Starting In 2015 ] -- PA Cap-Star: Republican Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Republicans said the final regulations will increase the cost of electricity for individuals and businesses, have a negative impact on jobs and will not significantly reduce carbon pollution. efforts to wean Europe off their dependency on Russian oil and gas. That's one of the global more markets that's been drastically affected.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Biden administration proposed repealing Trump administration Endangered Species Act regulations. The agreement also allows countries to continue to export liquefied natural gas. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5 The Biden administration seeks to replace the Trump regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

House returns to session Nov. 16, 17, Dec. 13, 14, 15 -- Committee Schedule Senate returns to session Dec. PaEN] -- PennEnvironment: New Renewable Energy Reports Shows PA Lags Behind Other States In Solar, Wind Energy -- Guest Essay: Are We Prepared For Solar Energy Projects In Pennsylvania? -

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Nations disappearing beneath rising oceans, losing their freshwater sources from receding mountain glaciers, suffering from scorched earth and deluges, climate-induced food insecurity, spread of infectious borne diseases and more hold the greatest claim to climate injustice. In September [Posted: December 9, 2021] PA Environment Digest

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ESA

MARCH 14, 2022

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration receives $5.88 The Biden administration is developing its own rule but reverted to pre-2015 Clean Water Act regulations in the interim. The EPA’s Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee is recommending that the EPA tighten regulations on soot pollution. increase to $9.56

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 10, 2021

Leases are issued by the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA). Originally enacted in 1953, a key goal of the OCSLA was to facilitate the development of minerals, particularly oil and gas, on the OCS. 1337(p)(1)(C)). 1337(p)(1)(C)).

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ESA

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The Biden administration proposed Wednesday reviving portions of a regulation underpinning federal environmental reviews, reversing Trump administration changes that limited consideration of climate impacts in agency project evaluations. NOAA – Solicitation for New Members: Ocean Exploration Advisory Board. 5, 2021.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit Court of Appeals found that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) failed to adequately analyze the climate change and environmental justice impacts of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals on the Brownsville Shipping Channel in Texas and two pipelines that would carry LNG to one of the terminals.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Legislators provide $200 million to NOAA for weather, coasts, oceans and climate research, $100 million for NOAA competitive climate research grants and provides $100 million to NOAA for development and dissemination of climate science information products and services. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gets $1.5

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

It highlights three trends that industry should be aware of: the willingness of EPA and BSEE to work together to address violations of environmental regulations off-shore, requiring corrective measures that include enhanced reporting and third-party auditing, and multiple mandated certifications by a designated officials. See United States v.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

From the ocean oscillations to trade winds, pressure systems that drives temperature, airborne particles that influence local conditions and even the phases of the moon and Earth's wobble all affect the climate (1). The east of the ocean is colder than normal while the west is warmer than average. What Climatology Is.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court stated: “Plaintiffs’ claims for public nuisance, though pled as state-law claims, depend on a global complex of geophysical cause and effect involving all nations of the planet (and the oceans and atmosphere). Federal Court Dismissed Challenge to Executive Order on Reducing Regulation. Public Citizen, Inc. Trump , No.

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ESA

APRIL 19, 2021

Beaudreau is a former Obama administration official who served as director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and chief of staff to former Interior Secretary Sally Jewell. Seismic Shift’ At FERC Could Kill Natural Gas Pipelines – SEJ/E&E News. Will Wildlife Refuge Benefit Heavily Polluted Albuquerque Neighborhood? –

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

We discuss the need for better water use regulation across the country to lessen the strain on EQIP. In North Carolina, where many hog CAFOs lie within 100 miles of the Atlantic Ocean, several hurricanes have struck and caused lagoons to overflow, including Hurricane Florence in 2018, Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Floyd in 1999.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

The federal district court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring the Biden administration from implementing a “Pause” on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters. Circuit Vacated Approval for Natural Gas Pipeline in St. 20-472 (U.S. Louis area.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

A federal district court in the District of Columbia ruled that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) fulfilled its obligations under NEPA in connection with two offshore oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico. California Department of Conservation, Division of Oil, Gas, & Geothermal Resources , No.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) authorization of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from three facilities in Louisiana, Maryland, and Texas. Finally, the court found that DOE adequately considered distributional impacts in its evaluation of “public interest” under the Natural Gas Act. Sierra Club v.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. Circuit erred by “untethering” Section 111(d) standards from the existing source being regulated. Supreme Court seeking review of the D.C.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit concluded that EPA had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in determining that the four elements of the regulations that had been stayed met these requirements. at its theme park in Jackson Township in Ocean County. State of New Jersey v North Beach 1003, LLC , Nos. A-3393-15T4 et al. June 22, 2017).

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