PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

A new NRDC report describes these risks and how weak regulations fail to appropriately protect workers and communities. Despite the clear health risks, there are no dedicated federal regulations to ensure comprehensive and safer management of radioactive oil and gas materials. What does this mean for workers and communities?

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The lax state regulations allow CAFOs to dump phosphorus into waterways, resulting in water quality issues such as cyanobacteria blooms in Lake Champlain. Vermont Law School cited numerous concerns with how ANR issued and enforced discharge permits to prevent water pollution. and Masters in Environmental Law and Policy.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Until the early years of this century, Michigan regulators and lawmakers paid scant attention to the supply of groundwater. Michigan responded in 2008 by requiring farmers to register any new well capable of pumping at least 100,000 gallons a day and forming a team of state regulators to issue or deny new registrations.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2024

million to ensure conventional well compliance with state environmental laws and regulations. Note: DEP’s Oil and Gas Program regulates 88,516 active conventional oil and gas wells, but a total of 191,442 permits are held by owners, along with some of the related gas infrastructure.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2022

The Environmental Quality Board is scheduled to meet on June 14 to vote on a revised final regulation reducing volatile organic compounds and methane emissions from unconventional (shale gas) wells and facilities. In the executive summary of the revised regulation applying to only unconventional shale gas facilities DEP maintains “.Act

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Law Columbia

MAY 8, 2024

Lawyers, bar associations, and law societies have an important but not fully recognized role to play in achieving the net zero goal in the Paris Agreement. Climate Change as an Increasingly Common Feature of Law Practice Climate change is no longer an issue of concern only to environmental and energy lawyers. John Kerry, then U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A 2008 EPA report published during the Bush administration said, “Given their importance and vast extent, it is concluded that an individual ephemeral or intermittent stream segment should not be examined in isolation.” Not the regulators, not the permit applicants, not the scientists…. No one likes uncertainty,” Gold said.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Responsible for implementing the authorities of the PA Conservation District Law of May 15,1945, Paul credits the vision and foresight of the individuals responsible for the enactment of this statue and with enabling and guiding him throughout his soil and water conservation career.

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Energy & the Law

JULY 12, 2023

The court traced the Commission’s authority to a 2008 minute entry in which two of the three commissioners approved a permit while directing staff that wells that are permitted based on PSA’s should be approved when the operator certifies that at least 65% of the working and mineral interest owners in each component tract have signed a PSA.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 2, 2022

The task force was created in 2008 by California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and nine other governors from Brazil, Indonesia, and the U.S. He also served as the manager of the program’s market monitoring section and as an attorney supporting the development and implementation of climate and air quality regulations at CARB.

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Legal Planet

MAY 30, 2023

The decision strips key environmental protections from the Clean Water Act by narrowly defining which bodies of water can be regulated under the Act, making it the most important water-related case in decades. EPA case, having to do with regulating air pollution. Taken together, what is the future of environmental regulations?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2022

Seth Grove (R-York) introduced House Bill 2444 that contains a natural gas industry wish list of measures they want to expand natural gas drilling, subsidize pipeline expansion using DCNR Oil and Gas Fund revenue, automatically approve of well permits and preempting local government regulation of all facilities regulated by DEP.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The path to this Proposed Rule has been long and winding, beginning in 2014 with BOEM resisting making changes through formal notice and comment rulemaking pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act, and instead continuing to regulate this issue through Notice to Lessee (“NTL”) guidance documents.

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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. Part Two considered the future of the climate disclosure rule in the context of the SEC’s rulemaking process.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2022

SRBC can include more stringent time of year water withdrawal limits in Exceptional Value watersheds if they believe that is necessary, but the Commission relies on state environmental agencies like DEP to regulate water quality issues. For natural gas industry operations, SRBC starts regulating water withdrawals from the first gallon.

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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. EPA subsequently issued regulations implementing this exemption. The 2006 regulations were judicially challenged and eventually vacated.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

In 2008, Bolivia nationalized lithium, and since then, the state has controlled the access, extraction process, and production of lithium carbonate. The Chilean case Meanwhile, Chile is facing its own challenges, which are mainly related to the peculiar laws and regulations governing lithium production there.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 7, 2022

The Court’s majority acknowledged such actions would contravene FERC’s “sole jurisdiction” over licensing process disputes and be preempted under longstanding federal law. (18 4.34 (i)(6)(vii); First Iowa Coop. Federal Power Comm’n (1946) 328 U.S. 152, 164 (“ First Iowa ”).). North Coast Railroad Authority (2017) 3 Cal.5th

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

2008 ) Chapter 105 Encroachment Permits - Comments -- Appalachia Midstream Services LLC - 10-Inch Gas Pipeline: DEP invites comments on a Chapter 105 permit for a pipeline project impacting South Branch Towanda Creek and wetlands located in New Albany Twp., Youll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2024

Dean served as the first Upper Neuse Riverkeeper for over seven years, and later became the first Yadkin Riverkeeper in 2008, where he also served as Executive Director until 2014.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 14, 2022

On June 14, the Environmental Quality Board voted 15 to 3, with one abstention, to adopt Part I of a revised final regulation reducing volatile organic compounds and methane emissions from just unconventional (shale gas) wells and facilities. Representatives of Sen. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) and Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) and John St.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 6, 2024

The first post provides an overview of the markup process and the bill as a whole, as well as its likely (or unlikely) path to becoming law. However, FFNSA misses the opportunity to increase funding levels for FSOP, a crucial misstep especially given the array of food safety regulations increasingly impacting smaller producers.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The path to this Proposed Rule has been long and winding, beginning in 2014 with BOEM resisting making changes through formal notice and comment rulemaking pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act, and instead continuing to regulate this issue through Notice to Lessee (“NTL”) guidance documents.

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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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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The 2011 General Plan EIR ultimately established three thresholds of significance—one for residential, one for commercial and industrial, and one for transportation activities—based on the strategy and assumptions underlying AB 32’s year 2020 GHG emissions reduction goal, estimated in the 2008 Scoping Plan as 15% below 2005 levels.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 15, 2024

On 21 May 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) delivered its much anticipated Advisory Opinion on Climate Change. 133) and iii) Article 31(3)(c) VCLT, according to which account shall be taken of “any relevant rules of international law applicable in the relations between the parties” (para.

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The Energy Law

APRIL 7, 2010

By Stephen Wiegand EPA recently announced its position regarding the timing of the regulation of greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act’s Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) Program. However, pollutants such as carbon dioxide, for which EPA regulations only require monitoring and reporting, are not subject to PSD permitting.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The Court’s embrace of the ill-defined “ major questions doctrine ” as the rationale for refusing to give any deference to EPA’s admittedly “plausible” interpretation of section 111 d of the Clean Air Act has raised the specter of the Court’s conservative majority taking a sharp axe to any number of environmental regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2024

Attempts To Regulate Before Failed There have been attempts to regulate the road dumping of conventional wastewater before to reduce its environmental and health impacts. 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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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency wrote a letter to DEP accepting DEP’s final regulations setting VOC/methane limits on conventional and unconventional oil and gas facilities for evaluation which “stops the imposition of federal highway funding sanctions that were set to take effect in Pennsylvania on December 16, 2022.” Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 10, 2024

Pike said, “The takeaway is that we should regulate waste based on the chemicals it contains, not what process produced it. Regulatory changes are also impermanent as compared to laws.” “I “The process of gas drilling brings radioactive material from underground to the surface. From their tires, it ends up in their garages.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulates the derivatives market and is now considering updates to its risk management regulations. The regulations currently specify ten areas that these programs must address, including market, credit, and operational risks (described above).

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 17, 2023

The regulations accompanying many recent changes included in Bill 23 have yet to take effect. Source: TRCA Regulation Mapping. Flow direction is shown on the map from the 2008 Watershed Report Card. Under new provincial laws, wetlands will continue to shrink and be replaced by development at an accelerating pace.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

Attempts To Regulate Disposal Before Failed There have been attempts to regulate the road dumping of conventional wastewater before to reduce its environmental and health impacts. Non-Compliance A Norm Non-compliance with regulations and the law is not an isolated event with conventional well owners. Read more here.

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CEQA Developments

JANUARY 3, 2022

In a lengthy, but mostly unpublished, opinion filed December 16, 2021, the Fourth District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court’s judgment rejecting a petitioner group’s CEQA, Planning and Zoning Law, and procedural due process/fair hearing challenges to the City of San Diego’s approval of a four-lane road connecting existing developments.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As previously reported on this blog, ocean CDR research could implicate various international and domestic laws that might affect whether, when, where, and how projects take place. Both the LC and LP require parties to adopt domestic laws to regulate the “dumping” of “waste and other matter” at sea. Many haven’t yet done so.

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Manning Law

JUNE 11, 2020

This action is contrary to subparagraph 29(b)(i) of the Storage Tank Systems for Petroleum Products and Allied Petroleum Products Regulations , made pursuant to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999. Manning Environmental Law is a Canadian law firm based in Toronto, Ontario. The Regulatory Framework. Background.

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