PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2023

JILL: The Environmental Stewardship Fund, which was signed into law in 1999 by Governor Tom Ridge and funds the Growing Greener grant program, is one of the most meaningful investments in Pennsylvania’s natural resources. Our state Clean Streams Law has been in place since 1937. What was your vision for it?

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

SLAPPs are lawsuits filed against a person or organization for statements made, or positions taken, in connection with a matter of public interest or regulation. In 2000, Pennsylvania established limited protections from SLAPPs, but only in the narrow area of environmental law (Title 27 Chapter 83).

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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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Physics World

MAY 5, 2021

So asks Will Smith’s Detective Del Spooner of the artificial being Sonny, in a memorable scene from the 2004 film I, Robot. The authors seek to equip the reader with the knowledge necessary to make informed decisions concerning the regulation of the use of ML tools, in what Zerilli and co-authors call the “new algorithmic world order”.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 3, 2023

“I'm going to oppose the bill today, but I'll look forward to studying this bill in further detail to determine if it's truly needed and that it does not in any way stifle free speech or in any way discourage or inhibit those who feel they have a legitimate cause of action to bring that action in a court of law.”

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Diamond to describe the bill-- “Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, or SLAPPs, are lawsuits filed against a person or organization for statements made or positions taken in connection with a matter of public interest or regulation. Several other states – including Texas and California – have broad anti-SLAPP statutes. “In

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Acoel

MARCH 9, 2023

Is this an element of state water law or something new and different? 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. 490, 90 Stat.

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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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The Energy Law

MARCH 11, 2020

UNOCAL appealed to the Fifth Circuit, arguing, inter alia , that Sojitz’s claim for equitable subrogation failed as a matter of law because the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (“OCSLA”) does not grant BSEE a civil claim for monetary damages based on a party’s failure to perform decommissioning to which Sojitz could subrogate. 611 (Bankr.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2023

2023 is the 20th anniversary of the drilling of the first shale gas well in Pennsylvania that was also the first shale gas well fracked in 2004. Spreading wastewater on roads from conventional oil and gas wells is illegal because it does not meet the requirements of DEP’s Residual Waste Regulations, but it’s still going on. 31 to Jan.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 9, 2007

In 1988, FERC, pursuant to the Natural Gas Act of 1938, issued Standards of Conduct to regulate natural gas pipelines’ interactions with their marketing affiliates. The Standards required pipelines and ther marketing affiliates to function independently and imposed restrictions the the sharing of information between them.

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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Where an agency adopts an administrative appeal process, the common law exhaustion rule applies in CEQA cases and the remedy’s scope is defined by the specific jurisdiction’s relevant and available local procedures. City of Berkeley (2004) 122 Cal.App.4th City and County of San Francisco (2021) 60 Cal.App.5th 4th 572, 592.)

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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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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2022

As a result of reintroduction efforts, legal protection, improved habitat quality, and regulated harvest, otter populations rebounded during the mid- to late 1900s. From 1982-2004, the Pennsylvania River Otter Reintroduction Project released 153 otters into eight water systems in central and western Pennsylvania.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Confirming initial projections when the law was passed, models now predict that IRA will significantly cut emissions by 2030. By 2035, those emissions reductions will be 43-45% below 2004 levels. Subsidies indirectly promote stronger regulation. The impact by 2035 is likely to be even greater.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

On appeal, the Second Circuit agreed with the trial court's holding that Section 230 preempted the user's state and constitutional law claims. 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."

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Shapiro Provides Fresh Support To Key Changes Recommended In 2020 Grand Jury Report To Tighten Regulation Of The Natural Gas Drilling Industry To Better Protect Public Health, Environment [PaEN] -- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. Of Health Awards $2.5 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1 Why Does It Matter?

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2022

This is a case study in how not to enact a law that’s in the interest of the people of Pennsylvania.” The first shale gas well was drilled in 2003 and that well was the first shale gas well fracked in 2004. Shale Gas + 20 The first commercial oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania in 1859.

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The Energy Law

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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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

N: Men's Health, History of Stress (June 2, 2004) ( [link] ); Baqutayon, supra. ]] Making an effort to adopt positive, effective strategies is one way to help avoid an approach that is harmful. ABA Survey: Lawyers Are Stressed Out, Above the Law (Aug. ABA Survey: Lawyers Are Stressed Out, Above the Law (Aug. N: Black, N.,

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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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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The plan must specifically address how EPA will consider the effects of Clean Air Act regulation on the coal industry. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The first shale gas well was drilled in Pennsylvania in 2003 and fracked in 2004, so we are now beginning the 20 year threshold discussed in research. Ingraffea , Professor Of Engineering at Cornell University, and others suggest that from 5 to 6.2 We now have 13,952 active unconventional shale gas wells drilled in Pennsylvania.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act of 2021 on February 4, 2021 in an effort to, in her words, comprehensively "overhaul[] and moderniz[e]" US antitrust laws. Law Offices of Curtis V. 398 (2004).]] Major Provisions of the Legislation. Trinko, LLP, 540 U.S.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Opened in 2004 by DMB Associates, an Arizona-based developer, the community has 60,000 square feet of office and retail space in a town center, and is permitted to build 14,000 residences. The law also requires developers to replenish aquifers with the same amount of water that they withdraw. .

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2025

Since 2004, Etna Borough has dedicated its efforts to advancing resilience, adopting green infrastructure, and implementing comprehensive stormwater management strategies to enhance community safety against flooding and other environmental risks., said Veni Mittal, ECO Board Treasurer and local sustainability professional.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 1, 2021

ESG has become such a large component of my law practice that I am now collaborating with a fabulous group attorneys in ESG Legal Solutions, LLC, a new non-law consulting firm. Other regulations also prohibit ESG disclosures as recently posted about, Labor Department Will Not Enforce Anti ESG Rule.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

Yet the state law minimum “set-back” for well construction is only 500 feet. The recommendation said-- “Everything we’ve seen confirms that all the impacts of fracking activity are magnified by proximity. The closer you live to a gas well, compressor station or pipeline the more likely you are to suffer ill effects. That is dangerously close.

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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

MARCH 15, 2024

The Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard (AEPS), which would be updated under the Governor’s PRESS plan, is a 2004 Pennsylvania law requiring electricity suppliers to include specific percentages of renewable energy in their supply, in turn creating increased demand for renewable energy.

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Environment, Law, and History

AUGUST 27, 2023

Dan Farber at Legal Planet recently posted on "Cars, Smog, and EPA" An excerpt: For the first 20 years of federal regulation, Congress set the NOx [nitrogen oxides] standards for new cars itself. That’s quite different from the standards for industrial pollution sources, which Congress has always delegated to EPA.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 29, 2018

Even with current regulations, it’s still possible to encounter asbestos fibers in homes and public buildings. mortalities in 2004, and this doesn’t take into consideration deaths from other, less well-known illnesses caused by asbestos, such as laryngeal and ovarian cancers, and non-occupational exposures. appeared first on.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Protest Toyota Campaign vs. Toyota Protest Toyota Campaign vs. Toyota | March 4, 2004 TMPCWA filed a complaint against Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation (TMP) for labour rights violations. million yuan over Lexus price-fixing Reuters | December 27, 2019 China's market regulator on Friday has fined Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor 7203.T

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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. Finally, the Strategy considers how competition law enforcement can help address affordability concerns.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 18, 2024

After all, a framework document is not a rule or law, and it may seem broad and abstract. Cumulative impacts approaches to environmental protection match regulations with peoples actual lived experience, since we arent all an average person exposed in a veritable vacuum. Why does it matter?

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 8, 2023

Flush with Cash, State Lawmakers Consider Water Risks — Water is poised for prominence this year in state law and policy. According to EPA data gathered between 2004 and 2020, Texas, Louisiana, California, and Illinois lead the nation in “accidents at facilities handling hazardous chemicals.” In total, 11 restrictions were issued.

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