PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Mike worked for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania since 1986 and served as Regional Director of the Department of Environmental Protections Northeast Regional Office since 2004. From 1999 to 2004, he was Chief Counsel for the DEP - supervising more than 70 attorneys.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

He played a key role in modernizing Pennsylvania’s regulation of mining operations, adoption of the federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act and served as the first Director of the federal Office of Surface Mining. If there is a father of the federal coal mine regulation program, Walter N. Heine is it. Heine Associates, Inc.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 21, 2021

On April 19, the United States Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) released a report (the “Report”) in response to a request from the House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources regarding the oversight and decommissioning of pipelines in federal waters, which are mainly located within the Gulf of Mexico.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 30, 2021

While the idea of ESG began in 2004 with a United Nations initiative to influence capital in non Western markets, in 2021 the legal and political institutions in the United States and the EU are demanding those ideas be implementing with due haste. If each country (. If each country (.

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Acoel

MARCH 9, 2023

One of the earliest attempts to regulate this area was The Weather Modification Policy Act (the “Act”), which was enacted in 1976 to address the interstate nature and broad environmental effects of weather modification technology. For example, who has a right to claim the wet gold resulting from atmospheric water management? 490, 90 Stat.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2023

Although DEP regulates natural gas development, the agency’s response time to environmentally hazardous incidents have been criticized over the years in part because risk is being seen more and more as development occurs within the zone of vulnerability. Keep in mind, 1,000 yards is much more protective than 1,000 feet.

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The Energy Law Blog

MARCH 11, 2020

In support, UNOCAL cites to a BOEM regulation referring to decommissioning as a “non-monetary obligation,” see 30 C.F.R. UNOCAL also cites to OCSLA and BSEE’s regulations at 30 C.F.R. § Parker Drilling Co. , 3d 558, 563 (5th Cir. Marubeni Oil & Gas (USA), Inc. , 3d 515, 530 (S.D. 611 (Bankr.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

The Grand Jury’s two-year investigation uncovered systematic failure by government agencies in overseeing the fracking industry and fulfilling their responsibility to protect Pennsylvanians from the inherent risks of industry operations. Read more here.

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E2 Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

In 2004 Michael and Chantell Sackett bought property near Priest Lake, Idaho and backfilled the lot with dirt in preparation for building a house. If C (adjacent wetlands) were not part of A (“the waters of the United States”) and therefore subject to regulation under the CWA, there would be no point in excluding them from that category.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

In September of 2004, attorneys represented 80,000 plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against DuPont which settled for $374 million. Based on these results, 3,500 residents that did not settle in the 2004 class action suit have brought individual liability lawsuits against DuPont for health problems linked to C8. million Americans.

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Environment Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Comply with laws, regulations, and other environmentally-orientated requirements. Official revisions were released in 2004 and 2015. The number 14000 is an identifier that refers to the broad family of Environmental Management System (EMS) standards. Adopt processes to continually improve on the above.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

The HPP is made up of nearly 300 health care professionals, associations, health systems, health and human services organizations, community collaborations, local public health agencies, government agencies, and others focused on improving health outcomes across the Commonwealth. Of Health Awards $2.5 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Strategy puts forward numerous proposals for legislative reforms that are likely to affect the regulation of the entire life cycle of a medicinal product. Some of these revisions also affect the regulation of medical devices. securing supply and controlling shortages of medicinal products. medical devices); and.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The court also rejected arguments that Vimeo acted in "bad faith" or that its deletion of the account was "anti-competitive conduct or self-serving behavior in the name of content regulation." In 2004, its offshore site was damaged by Hurricane Ivan and leaked oil; consequently, Taylor was required by statute to decommission the site.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance Hays (2004). Photo Gallery Image Coca Cola Protests at World Social Forum, 2004, Mumbai, India PHOTO Knut-Erik Helle Read More Image Protesting Coca-Cola PHOTO Adolfo Lujan Read More Image Protest gegen Coca Cola photo Rettet den Regenwald e.V.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance Hays (2004). Photo Gallery Image Coca Cola Protests at World Social Forum, 2004, Mumbai, India PHOTO Knut-Erik Helle Read More Image Protesting Coca-Cola PHOTO Adolfo Lujan Read More Image Protest gegen Coca Cola photo Rettet den Regenwald e.V.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

The Real Thing: Truth and Power at the Coca-Cola Company by Constance Hays (2004). Photo Gallery Image Coca Cola Protests at World Social Forum, 2004, Mumbai, India PHOTO Knut-Erik Helle Read More Image Protesting Coca-Cola PHOTO Adolfo Lujan Read More Image Protest gegen Coca Cola photo Rettet den Regenwald e.V.

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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Observing that where an administrative remedy is provided it is a “jurisdictional prerequisite” that must be exhausted before courts will act (citing Citizens for Open Government v. City of Berkeley (2004) 122 Cal.App.4th City of Lodi (2006) 144 Cal.App.4th City and County of San Francisco (2021) 60 Cal.App.5th 4th 572, 592.)

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CEQA Developments

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Cal-Am’s Multi-Component, Cross-Jurisdictional Water Supply Project Cal-Am is a CPUC-regulated investor-owned water utility that supplies water to much of the Monterey Peninsula, a semi-arid area prone to frequent drought conditions that is heavily reliant on historically over drafted groundwater aquifers for its water supply.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2022

A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making Time and again, mining company Homestake and government agencies promised to clean up waste from decades of uranium processing. ProPublica found that regulators have failed to hold companies to account when they missed cleanup targets and accepted incorrect forecasts that pollution wouldn’t spread.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century. Murray Energy Corp. McCarthy , No. 5:14 -cv-39 (N.D.

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Environmental Progress

MAY 21, 2020

This also assumes that there is no impact whatsoever on other areas, that there is no “leakage” from the industrially managed areas to those managed in other ways, and that maintaining agricultural expansion under control is subject to firm and transparent governance. It depends on the context.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The report, published last week, found that the government has allocated more than enough funding to build the necessary water infrastructure. The findings come in the aftermath of a critical missed deadline by the federal government. Since the March 31 deadline, the Canadian government has pledged nearly $1.5 A 2004 U.N.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I have written a lot about why the concept of cumulative impacts: its importance, how it is science-based policy , how it makes the Herculean task of regulating over 80,000 chemicals possible , and its potential to more effectively protect people and reduce disparities in environmental exposures. The road to get here has been long.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2024

In a bit of rhetorical ecstasy, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan proclaimed that the federal government “is finally slamming the door on a chemical so dangerous that it has been banned in over 50 countries.” The legacy of death and disease from disinformation and “disappeared” information haunts us to this day.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

For the first 20 years of federal regulation, Congress set the NOx standards for new cars itself. Apparently Congress did not relish the task of periodically resetting the standards itself The 1990 Amendments authorized EPA to set standards for 2004 and beyond. These are called Tier 1 standards. trillion miles in 2022. (If

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Several workers have also been injured and others killed in explosions at the Point Comfort plant in 2005 and at a PVC plant in Illiopolis , Illinois in 2004. Mitchell | The Advocate | March 9, 2020 State regulators relied on nearly decade-old air pollution data to support their conclusion that Formosa Plastics' $9.4

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 17, 2021

The New SCCs—replacing the controller-to-controller and controller-to-processor SCCs (Prior SCCs), which were adopted in 2001, 2004 and 2010—are intended to address concerns set out in last year’s groundbreaking European Court of Justice (CJEU) Schrems II decision. provide appropriate safeguards. The UK and Switzerland.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

for hiding information about acceleration problems from buyers and government officials, as well as $1 billion in compensation to car owners, after as many as 37 people were reported killed in runaway vehicles. Federal Government (via USA Spending) Toyota contracts with the U.S. It paid out a fine of $1.2 billion in 2014 to the U.S.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 1, 2021

Businesses cannot ignore or refuse to think about the environmental, social and governance (ESG) space; it is not going away. Other regulations also prohibit ESG disclosures as recently posted about, Labor Department Will Not Enforce Anti ESG Rule. If the organization wants the very best employees (.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For decades the fossil fuel lobby has masterfully weakened, derailed, and outright blocked government climate policy. We need governments to regulate industry. Under Baiton’s leadership, CAPP has lobbied the federal government 74 times in the first 9 months of 2023 – that’s once every 2.5

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2014

As if crude producers and midstream transportation companies don’t already have enough problems trying to get crude oil from production fields to refineries thanks to inadequate pipeline infrastructure, tank car supply, rail safety concerns, and new regulations, they now also have to address a new, potentially market-busting lawsuit.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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