Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would regulate two forms of PFAS contamination under Superfund laws reserved for “the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites.” But companies had a leisurely decade to meet commitments.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 30, 2024

In November 2023, conservation and environmental protection leader Deborah Nardone was appointed as the Executive Director of the Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds. Dawes served as the inaugural Executive Director, dedicating more than 30 years to building the FPW into a well-organized, strategic philanthropy.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Sydnee Owens, who contracted non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2006, died six year later at age 14. Environmental Protection Agency. Tyler Larson was diagnosed in 2010 with neurofibroma sarcoma, which resulted in tumors on nerve endings. He was 19 when he died. Alyssa Sandmeier died at age 10 from leukemia. And they are small.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

For example, PBDE neurotoxic flame retardants used in consumer products were assessed as toxic in 2006 but the draft regulations restricting PBDEs in products were only published last year, a delay of 16 years. These delays have real life consequences for the health of people in Canada and the environment.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Law and Environment

MAY 31, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency , which significantly narrowed the Clean Water Act’s (“CWA”) test for determining whether wetlands are protected “waters of the United States” and the federal permitting requirements for development projects in covered wetlands areas. United States , 547 U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The Department of Environmental Protection and Friends of the ‘Sock recently documented continuing sediment pollution plumes from a natural gas pipeline stream crossing and water withdrawal construction site on the Loyalsock Creek at the Pennsylvania General Energy Loyalsock/Shawnee site in Gamble Township, Lycoming County.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

He joined regional leadership in 1999, became executive VP Production in 2006, and President of Exxon Production and VP of Exxon Corp in 2008. He then rose through the ranks at Exxon during the time when the company was successfully suppressing and denying climate science and spending big on climate denial and political obstruction.

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The Energy Law

JULY 25, 2013

Thus, under the 2006 regulations, stormwater from Oil &Gas sites that only contained sediment was always exempt from permitting. The 2006 regulations were judicially challenged and eventually vacated. United States Environmental Protection Agency , 526 F.3d See Natural Resources Defense Council v. 3d 591 (9th Cir.

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MGKF Law

MAY 29, 2023

715, 754 (2006). In Sackett v. EPA , 2023 WL 3632751 (U.S. United States, 547 U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Environmental Protection will hold an event and tour on September 17 in Philadelphia to announce the recipients of this year’s Schuylkill River Restoration Fund grants. The garden will feature a subterranean stormwater storage system and Pennsylvania native plants.

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The Energy Law

JULY 6, 2007

Holden and Monica Derbes Gibson The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. 2208 (2006). In 2006, the Supreme Court decided two consolidated cases involving the Corps’ authority to require dredge and fill permits under CWA § 404 for discharge into wetlands having only indirect connections to navigable waters.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

Duran said she also contacted the Department of Environmental Protection about the incident and was told they planned to send inspectors to tour the plant Tuesday (January 3). Written by David Hess, Former Secretary, PA Department of Environmental Protection. on December 25 and ceased as of 4:59 p.m. the same day.

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Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

On August 29, 2023, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. 2006)- Plurality decision which includes test adopted by Justice Kennedy known as the “significant nexus test” which extended federal jurisdiction to non-adjacent wetlands. EPA issued the rule to conform its regulations to the ruling of the U.S.

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Ohio Environmental Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

On August 29, 2023, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. 2006)- Plurality decision which includes test adopted by Justice Kennedy known as the “significant nexus test” which extended federal jurisdiction to non-adjacent wetlands. EPA issued the rule to conform its regulations to the ruling of the U.S.

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Vermont Law

JULY 28, 2014

They include forbidding practices that might “disturb the ecological balance,” making natural sites accessible to all citizens, developing local sources of energy, outlining state’s authority to punish those who violate flora and fauna protection laws, and protect against waste originating from “foreign sources.”

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MARCH 23, 2015

According to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA). States are primarily responsible for regulating fracking activities, as fracking is exempt from most federal laws targeted toward environmental protection, such as the Clean Water Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and the Safe Drinking Water Act.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

Part Three, below, explores preemption questions in the context of other domestic frameworks: California’s climate-disclosure laws and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s GHG emissions reporting regime. the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Solutions Act).

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E2 Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

A few months later, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) notified the Sacketts that their property contained wetlands and ordered the couple to restore the site or face penalties of up to $40,000 a day. 715 (2006), and embraced ever since in a series of rulemakings and jurisdictional determinations by the EPA and the U.S.

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Brag

JANUARY 4, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of a draft document entitled Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (External Review Draft) for public comment. Bergeson and Carla N. On January 3, 2023, the U.S.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 1, 2014

On March 25, 2014, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and the Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) jointly released a proposed rule purporting to clarify the scope of the “waters of the United States” protected under the Clean Water Act. The agencies claim that, as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision in Rapanos v.

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Greenbuilding Law

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Environmental Benefits : The primary goal of London’s LEZ, the world’s largest low emission zone, covering all London boroughs and much of the greater area, is to reduce GHG emissions from vehicles as part of a larger kingdom wide effort to fight climate change.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In 2006, Tamaqua Borough of Pennsylvania. The modern movement in the United States began when residents of towns in Pennsylvania passed ordinances banning extractive activities harming water supplies and the natural environment. passed local law. preventing a waste company from depositing toxic sewage. Pittsburgh followed in 2010, declaring.

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The Energy Law

MAY 17, 2011

By Lesley Foxhall Pietras On April 27, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) released new proposed guidance on how the agencies will identify waters protected by the Clean Water Act (CWA) in light of Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. 715 (2006).

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency announced $9.6 Since 2006, the INSR Program has provided more than $115 million to 210 projects that reduce the amount of nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. On June 3, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and the U.S.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The 2022 Act sets the big, hairy, audacious goal of dramatically reducing statewide GHG emissions by 60% below 2006 levels by 2031, arguably the strictest state standard in the nation (i.e., Michigan, Connecticut, New York, and Oregon all have GHG mandates but nothing like Maryland) and achieve net zero emissions by 2045.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2021

On October 14, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the award of over $4.1 Erosion has resulted in over 1,500 tons of sediment entering the creek since 2006 and is shifting the creek close to Interstate 81. A section of the creek is severely eroded on both sides, with banks over eight feet high.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Sydnee Owens, who contracted non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2006, died six year later at age 14. Environmental Protection Agency is undertaking a mandatory review of federal drinking water standards, due in 2023. The federal nitrate standard was set three decades ago to protect infants from a disease called blue baby syndrome.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2022

In the 1980s, Homestake promised residents groundwater would be cleaned within a decade, locals told the Environmental Protection Agency and ProPublica. After missing that target, the company told regulators it would complete the job around 2006, then by 2013.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lacked authority to administratively stay portions of new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector for which it had granted requests for reconsideration. New Jersey Appellate Court Affirmed State Authority to Take Easements for Coastal Protection Projects. FEATURED CASE.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 14, 2024

2006 , NCI 1997 ). 2006 , NCI 1997 ). As a universal environmental protection standard, this model would better protect the general public and the most marginalized in society. Unfortunately, the health harms of radiation for females and children are also often underreported when it comes to regulatory science.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

3] California has long led the nation in adoption of environmental rules, including the first motor vehicle emission standards in 1966, energy efficiency standards for appliances in the 1970s, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, and many others. [4] Environmental Protection Agency, 142 S. Times , Oct. 12, 2022. [49]

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 20, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency announced more than $16 million in grant awards from the Investing in America funding to expedite the assessment and cleanup of brownfield sites in Pennsylvania while advancing environmental justice. acre cleanup site operated as an oil terminal from 1942 to 2006 and is currently unused.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency will set water quality standards, a requirement under the federal Clean Water Act. This is the first time the EPA has set biofuels targets under the program that began in 2006. The proposal lays out the process by which the U.S. Before now, the targets were mandated by Congress.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

µm in diameter, which include our black carbon particles of interest, have been shown to be particularly problematic because they can penetrate deep into the lungs and blood stream and cause cardiovascular and respiratory disease (Pope and Dockery, 2006; Brook et al., link] US Environmental Protection Agency. March 26, 2014.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

The guidelines are supposed to contribute to implementing corporate accountability - in the field of environmental protection amongst others -, and they provide multinational enterprises with detailed instructions on how to act. Volkswagen of America, Inc. Agrees to Pay Over $1 Million for Clean Air Act Violation U.S.

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