Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Campbell Ranch proposed more than a decade ago to build 4,000 residences for 12,000 people, a commercial and retail center and two golf courses on 8,000 acres in the mountains east of the city, according to planning documents. billion gallons of water a year to serve its 90,000 residents.

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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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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The law mandates availability of protective equipment during poor air quality events, and directs Cal/OSHA, the state’s labor regulator, to consider additional high heat protections. SB 1205 protects water access by requiring the state to develop regulations considering climate change effects on water availability for water rights permits.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 26, 2023

Food manufacturers, retailers, restaurants, farmers, and schools now have reason to let go of a fear many of them have long harbored: a fear of litigation if they donate their surplus food. Read the full story at Waste360.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On November 16, the Environmental Quality Board approved a proposed regulation setting a drinking water MCL for PFOA and PFOS “forever” chemicals for comments and accepted for study two rulemaking petitions to increase bonding on both conventional and unconventional oil and gas wells. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming), Rep. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The Environmental Quality Board is scheduled to meet November 16 to consider a proposed regulation setting a drinking water MCL for PFOA and PFOS “forever” chemicals and two rulemaking petitions to increase bonding on both conventional and unconventional oil and gas wells. The regulation would affect about 2,898 water systems in Pennsylvania.

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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. EPA Read more here. Click Here for full Senate Bill Calendar. Room G-50 Irvis Building.

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Acoel

JUNE 17, 2021

That program, in which reimbursements have primarily been based on retail sales taxes, remains in place. A developer in the existing program is not eligible for new incentives for the same project. The maximum tax credit available for a qualifying project will be 40% of remediation costs incurred or $4 million, whichever is lower.

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Manning Law

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Today, the Government of Canada announced that draft regulations prohibiting certain single-use plastics have been published for public comment. It is the Government’s intention to finalize these Regulations and bring the ban into force as quickly as possible and as early as late 2022 after reviewing and considering comments received.

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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

JUNE 2, 2022

Single-use plastic refers to plastic materials such as take out containers, straws, bottles and packaging that are meant to be used once and then become waste or litter. Unlike other waste, plastic will never truly break down. These microscopic fragments of plastics have been found globally in our food systems and even our own bodies.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 21, 2021

18 At Lehighton Outdoor Center. 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. -- Penelec Installs Equipment On Power Lines To Protect Eagles In Crawford County [PaEN] Hurricane Ida -- Gov.

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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. On average, m onitoring the lake for toxins costs Western Lake Erie treatment plants about $21 million per year. Mitigating those blooms costs another $21 million.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2023

On January 14, the Environmental Quality Board published final regulations to protect Pennsylvanians’ drinking water from PFAS chemicals by setting new limits on two forms of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and the first drinking water maximum contaminant level developed by the DEP.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

Maryland has been described as having more pages of environmental statutes and regulations on a per capita basis than any other state. By January 1, 2022, MDE must adopt regulations that establish license eligibility criteria, minimum training standards, license terms, and fees for license applications and renewals. to 100%.

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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. Forest Service Forest To Faucets 2.0

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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

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.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2023

Noon to 1:00 p.m. -- EPA Invites Comments On Draft Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well Permit In Young Twp., 25 - Blue Hydrogen Made From Natural Gas - What You Need To Know. Jefferson County; Feb. 13 Virtual Hearing Tentatively Set [PaEN] -- FracTracker Alliance Hosts Jan. 17 [PaEN] -- DCNR Announces $3.2

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2022

You know of our immense potential, yet the State has been hamstrung by regulation, bans, time-intensive permitting, RGGI, and further taxation while you support energy means that cannot possibly power the needs of the 21st century.” Wolf have all called on the General Assembly to toughen laws regulating pipelines to no avail.

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Columbia Climate Law

JULY 9, 2015

On May 22, 2015, CPUC Commissioner Mike Florio issued an alternate proposal that is seen as a compromise between the existing regulations and the ALJs’ proposal. It is, however, inconsistent with the principles of marginal pricing, according to which the cost of retail electricity should reflect the cost of wholesale electricity.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 3, 2021

This includes emerging contaminants as well as substances identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for prioritization, risk evaluation, or regulation. EPA Denied Petitions Seeking TSCA Regulation of Chemicals in Cigarettes and Cosmetics.

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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. The nuclear regulators in Washington? Read more here. Read more here. Maybe folks think it won’t happen…. State Police?

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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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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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