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Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators

Circle of Blue

Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators Cause of Michigan’s worst water pollution is too much waste spread on too little land. Every five years since 2005, Michigan has issued a general CAFO permit for the state’s largest livestock farms, where thousands of animals are confined indoors for their entire lives.

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Ask a Scientist: EPA Failing to Protect Communities from Cancer-Causing Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

A decade later, in 2005, the agency contemplated banning new commercial sterilizers from using the gas, forcing them to use alternatives. The Clean Air Act requires the EPA to review—and update—its ethylene oxide emissions standards every eight years, but the last time it did so was in 2006.

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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - April 8

PA Environment Daily

PA Bulletin, page 2005 ) -- Coterra Energy, Inc. - PA Bulletin, page 2005 ) -- EQT Corporation - Pale Ale Well Pad: DEP received a Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated with aluminum, barium, boron, chloride, iron, lithium, manganese, selenium, strontium, vanadium, and zinc in Jackson Twp., Susquehanna County. (

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You Cannot Just Read the Regulations to Understand Stormwater Permitting for Oil and Gas Activities!

The Energy Law

Holden EPA’s most recent NPDES regulations for stormwater permitting of oil and gas facilities were vacated by the Ninth Circuit in 2008 and new regulations have not been promulgated. EPA subsequently issued regulations implementing this exemption. The 2006 regulations were judicially challenged and eventually vacated.

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California Supreme Court Holds In 5-2 Decision, Over Chief Justice’s Strong Dissent, That Federal Power Act Does Not Fully Preempt CEQA’s Application to FERC’s Licensing Process for State-Owned and Operated Hydroelectric Projects

CEQA Developments

The dissent reasoned that CEQA, a powerful and mandatory regulatory statute operating in areas duplicative of FERC’s FPA licensing authority, “stands as a clear obstacle to the Congressional objective of vesting exclusive control over hydropower licensing and regulation in FERC.”.

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MMS Proposes Royalty Relief Amendments

The Energy Law

Hunter MMS has announced proposed amendments to its deep gas royalty relief regulations under the Energy Policy Act of 2005. MMBtu expressed in 2006 dollars. By Jonathan A. The additional relief will only be available in years when the annual NYMEX natural gas price is at or below $4.47/MMBtu Click here to read the Notice.

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Ninth Circuit Vacates EPA Rule Excepting Oil and Gas Construction Discharges from NPDES Permitting

The Energy Law

a)(2) to provide that sediment discharged from oil and gas construction activities would not require NPDES permits, even if the discharge contributed to a violation of the water quality standard. The Ninth Circuit used the following Chevron two step analysis to vacate the regulation.

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