PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Yaw also said he had measures enacted into law that help expand access to natural gas service for underserved and unserved households, as well as reduce surface impacts from unconventional gas wells. Since its inception, the impact fee has generated more than $2.5 Working with former Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Hammerstrom’s comments were made to DCNR’s Conservation and Natural Resources Council during a meeting in Lycoming County. of] our public natural resources", which entails complying with all the legal/ fiduciary requirements of a trustee. Ed Rendell from 2008 to 2010. Click Here for a copy of the letter.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2022

DCNR has not authorized any unconventional natural gas drilling under State Park lands. Fact: DCNR testified at the Senate’s March 4 budget hearing, 65 percent of the prime natural gas leases on State Forest land in 2008-2013 have not been developed. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.] Read more here.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 22, 2021

According to the “Rights of Nature” doctrine, an ecosystem is entitled to legal personhood status and as such, has the right to defend itself in a court of law against harms, including environmental degradation caused by a specific development project or even by climate change. What countries have declared rights of nature?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2022

From 2008 to 2018, the industry reported taking 595,172,958 gallons from our Loyalsock, which in many places is no more than knee deep from shore to shore. Contrary to state law and regulations, the Loyalsock Creek has been both dammed and damned as a result of the massive water needs of the fossil fuel industry.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 4, 2008

In March 2008, several oil and gas companies announced the finding of what could potentially be the fourth largest deposit of natural gas in the world underneath northwestern Louisiana, southwestern Arkansas, and eastern Texas: the Haynesville Shale. The Louisiana Natural Resources Department has now created a website to provide information to the (..)

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Natural gas companies must also sign submerged land lease agreements with the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for using stream and river beds between the high water marks of those bodies of water for pipeline crossings and water withdrawal points because the submerged land is owned by the Commonwealth.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 7, 2022

The Future is : Gender Inclusion in Climate Crisis Solutions By Beckett McGowan , Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23), Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 7, 2022 Climate Change is the great exasperator. 1) However, natural disasters are not the only thing exasperated by Climate Change. Anastario, et.

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The Energy Law

JULY 25, 2013

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. See Natural Resources Defense Council v. 29, 2008); 77 Fed. By Carlos J. Moreno and Robert E. 3d 591 (9th Cir. See 73 Fed. 56,572 (Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Pennsylvania-based natural gas producer is building a water withdrawal point on the stream and laying a 20-inch pipeline across it to connect up to 80 fracked gas wells that will be developed on mountaintops on opposite sides of the stream in Loyalsock State Forest. By law, its water quality must be “maintained and protected.”

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2024

The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources bans road dumping oil and gas wastewater for any purpose on its over 6,500 miles of state forest roads. Non-Compliance The Norm Non-compliance with regulations and the law is not an isolated event with conventional well owners. Read more here.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 27, 2008

At the outset, the court reaffirmed its earlier ruling that the plaintiffs failed to state a claim for alleged damages to non-proprietary State-owned natural resources, including marine estuaries. by Kelly Becker In Barasich, et al. Shell Pipeline Co. Lexis 47474 (E.D.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 17, 2023

Historically, wetland evaluations under OWES were administered by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry working in consultation with local authorities. Flow direction is shown on the map from the 2008 Watershed Report Card. What does this mean for you?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

Peoples Natural Gas Rate Increase Background On Issues -- DEP: Oil & Gas Regulatory Program Will Be In The Red By Fall; All Sectors Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program No Go; Update On Permitting Reform [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 28 -- PUC Reminder Of Opportunities To Comment On Proposed 18.7%

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The Energy Law

JULY 15, 2016

2008-N07, which was commonly referred to by industry as the “supplemental bond” NTL. New BOEM NTL No. 2016-N01, dated July 12, 2016, takes effect on September 12, 2016 and supersedes and replaces NTL No. While NTL No. While NTL No. Under new NTL No.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2023

or a natural resource [e.g., Following the 2008 financial crisis, in the Dodd-Frank Act, Congress directed the CFTC to issue regulations establishing risk management program requirements for major derivatives market participants. The CFTC defines a commodity as “an agricultural product [e.g., wheat, cotton, rice, etc.]

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

2008) The 5th Circuit reversed a Louisiana District Court decision that held a platform worker’s injuries, sustained while being transported from platform to platform by vessel, were subject to the Louisiana Oilfield Anti-Indemnity Act through the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA). by John Almy. Grand Isle Shipyard Inc.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources bans road dumping oil and gas wastewater for any purpose on its over 6,500 miles of state forest roads. Non-Compliance A Norm Non-compliance with regulations and the law is not an isolated event with conventional well owners. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

Based on the nature of the wilderness area improvement project before it, the Court held “the parking reduction here may have an adverse social impact for those who must recreate elsewhere, but it will prevent further adverse physical impacts on the environment.”. 2008) 43 Cal.4th 4th 1143, 1163, citing CEQA Guidelines, §§ 15126.6(a),

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Vermont Law

MARCH 24, 2014

Spokane Riverkeeper, and Natural Resources Defense Council––took big coal and the railroad to court. list of dates and locations since 2008, and even provided an appendix of dates and locations where [they] believed BNSF to have discharged pollutants in the manner described.”.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2022

Retail Electricity Prices Rose At Fastest Rate Since 2008, Driven By Natural Gas And Energy Commodities [Whose Price Is Determined By Foreign Energy Markets And Despots] -- NPR: U.S. Hearing Room 1, North Office Building. Oil Companies Not Pumping More Oil Despite High Prices -- AP: U.S., What’s Your Community Doing?

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The Energy Law

MARCH 17, 2020

The origin of NTL 2009-G04 and SSRAs dates to 2008, when, in response to a request from Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (“LDNR”) and under the authority of 30 C.F.R. Through MMP, and pursuant to the authority granted by 43 U.S.C. that is funded in whole or in part by or authorized by the Federal Government.”

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

A total of five oil and gas wells were drilled in the Towanda Creek watershed prior to 2008, according to data from DEP. Greenworks Law & Consulting LLC [PaEN] Related Articles: -- Center For Coalfield Justice Holds First Water Distribution Day Nov. Of the 567 miles of designated streams in the watersheds-- 85.6 Williams, Esq.,

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Montrose

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

(“Montrose”) (NYSE: MEG) today announced the acquisition of Horizon Water and Environment, LLC (“Horizon”), an environmental consulting firm specializing in planning, watershed science, and environmental compliance for water and natural resource projects in California. will join Montrose’s Planning & Ecosystem Consulting segment.

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The Energy Law

JULY 3, 2008

On July 1, 2008, the Louisiana Supreme Court held that Act 312 of 2006 (“Act 312”) is constitutional and reversed the district court’s judgment declaring Act 312 unconstitutional and unenforceable under La. V, § 16, La. I, § 4 and the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Farms, Ltd. Exxon Mobil Corp. 2007-2371 (La.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 31, 2020

The first is a 2008 Texas Supreme Court decision in which the court framed the issue as “whether subsurface hydraulic fracturing of a natural gas well that extends into another’s property is a trespass for which the value of gas drained as a result may be recovered as damages.” [2] Chesapeake Appalachia, L.L.C. [4] 3d 1, 4 (Tx.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Though plants and seed were historically interpreted to be products of nature and thus, not patentable per existing patent law, the American Association of Nurserymen successfully lobbied the federal government to pass the Plant Patent Act of 1930.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

This has been coined as the largest domestic find of natural gas in recent history. The first Haynesville Shale EXPO, which is free to the public, is being held on November 21, 2008 at the Shreveport Convention Center.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 6, 2009

By Sarah Steward-Lindsey On November 21, 2008, the Supreme Court of Texas decided that a mineral owner’s participation in a validly pooled unit did not cease simply because the lease of that interest terminated.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 15, 2020

2008-N07, a lessee that passed the established thresholds was waived from providing additional security to cover its decommissioning liability. 2008-N07 was subsequently replaced in 2016 by the controversial NTL No. However, the regulations do not specify how BOEM weighs these criteria. This first of such NTLs, NTL No.

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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

On September 19, 2008, the Court granted the Applications for Rehearing in part and deleted the paragraph on page 30 from its Opinion. To read the Louisiana Supreme Court’s modified Opinion in M.J.

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

08-233, 2008 WL 5158887 (La. By Jessica Gladney In Broussard v. Hilcorp Energy Corp., 12/10/08) the plainiffs owned five separate and incongruous tracts of land located in three sections in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 4, 2019

1, 2008) – which allow for the elimination of the gravity component of the penalty rather than the entire penalty. Companies acquiring upstream oil and natural gas assets may find the new policy to be an effective way to mitigate environmental risk and to assure future compliance at the newly-acquired facilities. 44991 (Aug.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 23, 2008

2d __, 2008 WL 2221841 (D.Md. In Victor Stanley, Inc. CreativePipe , Inc. , __ F.Supp.2d

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 24, 2016

In an attempt to obtain a reversal of the district court’s ruling on prescription, on appeal to the Fourth Circuit Bayou Fleet argued, among other things, that the “exceptional remedy” of contra non valentem, specifically the “discovery rule,” applied to prevent the running of prescription, arguing it did not learn of the destruction of the boom until (..)

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 21, 2012

To determine the amount of the emissions cap, the state agency (Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, which later became the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”)) would first determine the corresponding emissions from each emissions unit under the cap if it had pollution controls at the BACT level.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Factual Background In July of 2008, nearly 300,000 gallons of oil spilled into the Mississippi River in New Orleans when a tugboat towing an oil-filled barge veered across the river into the path of an ocean-going tanker. Case: United States v. American Commercial Lines, L.L.C. , 16-31150, F.3d 3d (5th Cir. 16-31150, p. 3d (5th Cir.

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