Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 28, 2021

A new report from the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) found a sizeable gap between groundwater management regulations and implementation. The CAG report also found that over-extraction of groundwater increased from 2004 to 2017, and units deemed safe for groundwater use have decreased.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 21, 2021

The GAO recommended that BSEE take actions to further develop, finalize, and implement updated pipeline regulations to address limitations in its ability to (1) ensure active pipeline integrity and (2) address safety and environmental risks associated with pipeline decommissioning and abandonment.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

DEP published a second notice formally rescinding the previous 2004 Environmental Justice Public Participation Policy. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the September 16 PA Bulletin the NPDES General Permit for Discharges from the Application of Pesticides (PAG-15) is now available. Click Here to sign up.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

We need governments to regulate industry. Baiton expects high performance teams, and CAPP has successfully achieved many of their goals: delaying and weakening of provincial and federal government climate regulations, massive subsidies and new project approvals. As always, the format is satirical but the information is real.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

And as Lackawanna County especially demonstrates, bearing a disproportionate pollution burden does not dissuade state regulators from allowing developers to degrade the environment even further. Read more here ] The DEP aggressively should enforce the revised regulation and the Legislature should pass Haywood’s bill.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Even before the justices granted review in the Sheetz case last Friday, the Court’s 2023-24 Term was shaping up as one featuring sweeping constitutional challenges to government regulation generally and to environmental regulation in particular. For example, in Loper Bright Enterprises v.

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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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Law Columbia

MARCH 28, 2022

In 2020, the Supreme Court held a preliminary public hearing for the parties to present facts on deforestation in the Amazon and the results achieved by the PPCDAm between 2004 and 2020. These five cases deal with environmental issues that indirectly have climate implications, while ADPF 760 and ADO 59 directly raise climate claims.

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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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The Energy Law

APRIL 21, 2021

The GAO recommended that BSEE take actions to further develop, finalize, and implement updated pipeline regulations to address limitations in its ability to (1) ensure active pipeline integrity and (2) address safety and environmental risks associated with pipeline decommissioning and abandonment.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2023

Pennsylvania has had laws and regulations in place since the 1960s to ensure that mining sites are reclaimed and restored. We put regulations in place in the 1970s-1980s for stormwater and manure management, and to reduce agricultural erosion and sedimentation. JILL: Pennsylvania has a long history of environmental protection.

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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. Rob Kauffman (R-Franklin) serves as Minority Chair, and can be contacted by calling 717-705-2004 or send email to: rkauffma@pahousegop.com.

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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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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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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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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.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 3, 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.

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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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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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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.

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The Energy Law

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. , 611 (Bankr.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This report our fourth since 2004 helps the Commission to benchmark conditions and track progress toward our water resources goals, ensuring we continue to meet the diverse needs of our region." Click Here to sign up for regulator updates. Click Here for a copy of the report. Follow DRBC on Twitter. Visit them on YouTube.

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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

By 2035, those emissions reductions will be 43-45% below 2004 levels. Subsidies indirectly promote stronger regulation. Agency regulations are typically based on which emissions reductions are feasible or on applying cost-benefit analysis. In the power sector, by 2035, emissions will 66-87% below 2005 levels.

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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 Why Does It Matter?

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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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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2022

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. The first oil or gas well hydraulically fracked was in 1963.

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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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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 21, 2021

City of Berkeley (2004) 122 Cal.App.4th It first asks whether a project is consistent with the City’s land use and zoning regulations or would otherwise result in equivalent or fewer GHG emissions than consistent projects. 4th 572, 592.)

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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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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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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. Opinions, statutes, regulations and other authorities migrated from shelves in law libraries to electronic databases accessible anywhere.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The plan must specifically address how EPA will consider the effects of Clean Air Act regulation on the coal industry. Environmental groups had identified five categories of new information since the 2004 preparation of an EIS that they contended warranted supplemental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

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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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Environmental Progress

MAY 21, 2020

For instance, when the Brazilian Amazon reached a peak of deforestation in 2004, strong command-and-control policies were put in place, carrying strong sanctions for municipalities and farmers to comply with legislation. Is the right picture where we keep people on farms and extensify agriculture? It depends on the context.

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