Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

While the Alberta Energy Regulator has the ability, and responsibility, to hold companies that break the law to account, it has repeatedly demonstrated an unwillingness to enforce its own laws when it comes to industry rulebreakers — leaving Albertans to bear the costs and clean up the mess. billion Q2 profits from 2024.

Regulations

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

But what makes the case important is the courts use of hard look judicial review, which environmentalists have often used to attack bad regulations. It helped create the framework for regulating pesticides and upheld the use of a precautionary approach rather than requiring EPA to have definitive evidence. v.EPA (1975). EPA (2012 ).

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2025

MISO is regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), but it is important to understand that regional transmission organizations (RTO) are fundamentally planning and coordination entities. What role do local regulators play, and how do they make these calls?

Regulations

Environmental News Bits

JULY 21, 2025

Moving toward fiber-based products free of PFAS: Industry response to regulations for paper packaging, hygiene and textile products. Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 222, 108428.

Regulations

Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2025

Seaweed cultivation and sinking are regulated by a number of different laws at the state and federal levels. The ADF&G regulates seaweed cultivation, providing aquatic farm operation permits. Independent of the joint permit, the ADEC also regulates water quality in Alaska. EPA may regulate seaweed sinking under the MPRSA.

Carbon Dioxide

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2025

Below are the highlights of the report’s 88 recommendations by the Independent Water Commission: SINGLE WATER REGULATOR The report recommends a single water regulator in England and one in Wales to replace the current fragmented regulatory system.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 7, 2025

The two leading theories to explain the record-breaking warmth are a reduction in tiny particles in the atmosphere called aerosols due to shipping fuel regulations that reduced sulfur oxide (SOx) emissions, or decreasing cloud cover. This question was a focus at the 2024 annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in Washington, D.C.,

2024

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Statement from Aly Hyder Ali, Oil and Gas Program Manager, Environmental Defence Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – We welcome the Government of Canada’s Oil and Gas Greenhouse Gas Pollution Cap draft regulation, which aims to curb pollution from the oil and gas industry.

2030

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Agencies need not consider impacts that are remote in space and time, if those impacts are regulated by someone else. First, it would be a difficult standard to apply on several dimensions: Some agency actions like new regulations arent limited to specific times and places. It has two major flaws.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations? Sign Up For DEP’s eNotice: Did you know DEP can send you email notices of permit applications submitted in your community? All through its eNotice system. Click Here to sign up.

Regulations

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 28, 2025

This may seem like a setback for climate progress in Canada, but it simply underscores the limits of voluntary initiatives and the need for the government to enforce climate-aligned financial regulations. Surely, according to their own logic, their withdrawal from this alliance indicates that it is the perfect time for regulation?

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 14, 2025

At the top of the list of key climate regulations that need to be finalized before March 24th is the governments cap on pollution from the oil and gas industry. If a policy isnt finalized before March 24th, its unlikely to ever be. As a refresher, although Parliament is not active during prorogation, civil servants and Ministers still are.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 27, 2025

Reversing California’s air quality and climate regulations would not address the immediate challenges and would compromise the health and welfare of California’s people. In light of these changes, some California regulations, adopted when the gasoline market was more competitive, are no longer working as designed.

Regulations

Circle of Blue

JULY 25, 2025

For example, during droughts when California has enforced restrictions on delivery of surface water to its farmers — which the state regulates — the enormous agriculture enterprises that dominate the Central Valley have drilled deeper and pumped harder, depleting the aquifer — which the state regulates less precisely — even more.

Sea Level

Legal Planet

MARCH 27, 2025

The California Air Resources Board at the time: predicted that the new [Advanced Clean Cars] program and ZEV regulations would result in over 1.4 Second, regulators in California, at least at the time, were clearly aiming too low with their goals! million ZEVs on the road by 2025, comprising over 15 percent of vehicles sales that year.

2012

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 15, 2025

The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) was caught hiding evidence of environmental degradation caused by toxic tailings spills, and misleading the public with false claims that it is closely monitoring the oil sands industry. Crude oil seen separated from sand for collection. Dr Kevin Timoneys report reveals that: 1.

Regulations

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Regulation of chemicals is too slow to keep us safe It turns out that more than 16,000 chemicals have been identified in plastic products , and while more than 25 per cent of these are known to be hazardous to human health or the environment, only 6 per cent are regulated on a global scale.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 8, 2025

In the 2024 California legislative session, both houses passed SB 615, but it was vetoed by Governor Newsom, due to concerns related to administrative costs of implementing the regulation. SB 615 has since cleaned up reporting language and created a more comprehensive extended producer responsibility framework to address those concerns.

Recycling

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The argument is that the Board shouldn’t have to consider that because EPA has authority to regulate air pollution, not the Board. One issue in the Seven Counties case is whether the impact statement should discuss air pollution caused by refining the oil shipped over the proposed rail line.

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

EV battery end of life bill life ended on Governor’s desk Due to the necessarily ambitious regulations we fought to pass, California will continue to see a huge increase in the number of EVs on the road. As these regulations drive down emissions, we will also see an increase in battery retirements.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JUNE 23, 2025

And the dam’s ability to be quickly turned on and off helps regulate the peaks and troughs of electricity demand. The beauty of hydropower is that it’s great for helping to stabilize and regulate the grid,” Gerak said. Still, the cheap electricity is a lifeline for tribes and small rural electric providers.

2027

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The EPA is also conducting a risk assessment of pollutants in biosolids, which may lead to future regulations aimed at reducing the spread of these chemicals on agricultural lands. Tighter regulations for PFAS in food products could also become a reality. Maine’s actions may set a precedent to be followed by other states.

Regulations

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In addition, the impact statement was governed by the 1970 version of NEPA and the 1978 White House NEPA regulations. It was a surprise that the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. The facts are quite unusual. Neither of those is in effect today. Thus, the relevance of any ruling to future agency actions is unclear.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Although the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) has existing regulations intended to control fugitive dust emissions, outdated dust mitigation measures and inconsistent enforcement have left communities like Sun Valley without adequate protection. We look forward to this bill heading to committee after 30 days.

Recycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In Montana and around the world, glaciers support ecosystems, serve as year-round water sources, and regulate the climate, among other important ecological functions. The trip reminded me that the impacts of climate change are not abstract—they are visible, tangible, and current.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2025

States must regulate high-emitting companies —The Court clearly stated that certain sectors and industries, namely the fossil fuel industry and agribusinesses have played an outsized role in driving climate change, and as a result, must work toward reporting and reducing their GHG emissions.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2025

New Mexico, RETA: New Mexico is a regulated electricity market with the investor-owned utility, Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM), serving most of the state. It is regulated by the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (NMPRC). RETA was established in 2007. CETA was established in 2021.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

APRIL 14, 2025

First, unlike the government, which can spread costs to all taxpayers, utilities may not be able to spread costs broadly among the public, because regulators may force some of the costs to be placed on shareholders. Current liability rules, particularly in California, have been criticized on several grounds.

Government

Legal Planet

APRIL 8, 2025

The report is intended to help policymakers harness satellite data to improve their climate policies, enforce emissions regulations, and accelerate methane reduction efforts. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in a 20-year timespan.

Carbon Dioxide

Legal Planet

JULY 7, 2025

We have strong agencies that issue strong regulations. We have all sorts of regulations they have to comply with. We have really strong statutes. There is much truth to this statement.

Endangered Species Act

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 23, 2025

Canadas move to regulate PFAS forever chemicals earlier this year puts it on the leading edge of countries working to get this class of harmful chemicals out of products. that have more protective chemical regulations. that have more protective chemical regulations.

Government

Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2025

Following up on my prior post about the proposed changes to the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) regulations that protect against habitat modification, what might California do to protect the species within its border?

Endangered Species Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The multiple perspectives in the fuller picture have to be on the minds of electricity sector decision makers, from the prospective project proponents to the public utility commissioners and environmental regulators in charge of assessing a project on behalf of the public.

Renewable Energy

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 6, 2025

drinking water with toxic PFAS chemicals led to over $11 billion in settlements in 2023, with experts predicting that new federal regulations and a growing awareness of the breadth of the contamination will spur more litigation and settlements. Lawsuits accusing major chemical companies of polluting U.S.

2026

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Plants will also explore the growing role of carbon credit markets in incentivizing the plugging of orphaned and abandoned wells.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

While municipalities may have some flexibility in how they zone or regulate oil and gas operations – provided they do not exceed limitations in state or federal law – doing so in an unreasonable manner which prevents future natural gas development should render the municipality ineligible for state collected and distributed impact fees.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 7, 2025

Stakeholders including utilities, regulators, governments, and communities are grappling with these questions in forums across the world, and UCS is currently closely involved in one such conversation playing out in Michigan. Will the need for new generation stall progress on clean energy goals ?

Clean Energy