PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Million Natural Gas Royalty Restitution From Chesapeake Energy For PA Property Owners [March 2021] -- Courier Times: PA State Attorney General Investigates Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline Leaks For Potential Environmental Crimes In Bucks County [Convicted Of Other Criminal Charges, Penalized Over $48.1

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Winter is once again here, bringing great festivities and respite via holidays, but also great worries to energy regulators, grid operators, and communities about dangerous winter storms that can spread across large parts of the United States and negatively affect electric grid reliability.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

including the Mariner East Pipelines) and Laurel Pipe Line – and the new HVL regulations would apply to them, as well as any other future intrastate HVL public utilities. Additionally, there are no retroactive design or construction regulations for those pipeline facilities that exist when the rule is made effective by operation of law.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 21, 2024

On June 20, the Independent Regulatory Review Commission gave its unanimous approval to revised final Public Utilities Commission Regulations strengthening state public utility safety standards related to the pipeline transport of hazardous liquids in intrastate commerce. Read more here. Click Here for the complete PUC announcement.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Germany agrees on EU regulation to make cars carbon neutral by 2035 (either zero emissions or net-zero). Renewable Energy Act sets fixed feed-in tariffs and gives renewables priority on the grid. New rates are large enough to spark expansion of renewable industry. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

If climate change risk is a "known unknown", then a regulator with a taste for Robustness will sign up more customers for CPP. Read Frank Wolak's 2011 paper.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 29, 2022

In 2011, a raccoon found its way into some electrical equipment at the Delaware City Refinery, taking a number of units offline. It is the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) responsibility to regulate chemical facilities appropriately. This event was hardly unique. Outdated protections put communities at risk.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The CEFR reached criticality in July 2010 and connected to the grid in July 2011. Russia’s Regulations on the Export and Import of Nuclear Materials , released in 2000 and last amended in February 2023, contain a similar provision against the use of exported nuclear materials or their byproducts for military purposes.

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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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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The evening of January 14, 2011, Jacob, then a 16-year-old sophomore at Aurora High School, entered a basketball game against Central City. At a January 31, 2011, appointment the doctor ordered blood tests and chest X-rays, to check for infection. Everything is going according to plan,” Gary wrote in his journal on February 25, 2011.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

In 2011, in AEP v. Massachusetts made plain that emissions of carbon dioxide qualify as air pollution subject to regulation under the Act. And, most relevant here, §7411(d) then requires regulation of existing sources within the same category. 410 (2011). Regulating power plant emissions is a complex undertaking.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

The market at the time (all of 6,743 California sales in 2011) was dominated by the 73-mile range Nissan Leaf, the plug-in hybrid Chevy Volt (with a 35-mile electric range ). Today, sales in California not only far exceed these targets, but ahead of schedule, because regulators in part underestimated how fast technology would improve. ).

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The regulations were amended in 2020 to include a program for existing generation units, CES-E, which has several distinct requirements. Clarifying language related to banking of Clean Generation Attributes by aligning the regulation with language that has been included in the CES Frequently Asked Questions document since 2018.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The article explored the frameworks established by the Bamako, Basel, and Stockholm Conventions to regulate transboundary hazardous waste movement and highlighted case studies from Nigeria, Cte dIvoire, and Haiti. 6] The majority of environmental regulations were formulated through the twentieth century.[7] million people.[3]

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Harmful algal blooms are the biological consequence of a riptide of bloom-generating nutrients allowed by law and timid regulation to run off the land, particularly farm fields. After five months of investigation, and in interviews with more than 40 farmers, state regulators, advocates, and scientists in five states and Washington, D.C.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A 2011 study in the journal Asthma and Allergy , said the parallel increase of global asthma and carbon dioxide emissions is “remarkable.” Not the regulators, not the permit applicants, not the scientists…. Alito famously said that carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning, a key contributor to global warming, is not a pollutant.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 26, 2022

Depending on the nature and extent of the damage, the plant could experience one or more core meltdowns or spent nuclear fuel pool fires, which could trigger a radiological release rivaling that of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident or even the larger release from the 1986 Chernobyl accident. However, the V-320 does not have such a system.).

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2022

As the collaborative explored last week , regulators are now encouraging some water utilities to consolidate, a catch-all term that could mean small steps like sharing staff, or big changes like closing decrepit, oversized water plants in favor of buying water from a neighbor. All that excess infrastructure is expensive to maintain.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

She joined the DEP Policy Office in 2011 and worked as the Policy Director and most recently served as the Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator for programs related to the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Act. Jessica Shirley Jessica Shirley was named Acting Executive Deputy Secretary at DEP in February 2023. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2025

Chevron drilled two shale gas wells on the Latkanich property approximately 500 feet from the familys water supply starting in 2011. EHB Docket 2023043 The appeal was brought by Bryan Latkanich who, with his son, lives in Deemston Borough, Washington County and leased his mineral rights to Chevron who then sold the lease to EQT Chapp, LLC.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 14, 2021

California began regulating the chemical in 2017, setting the allowable limit for its presence in drinking water at the tiniest, detectable amount, or 5 parts per trillion — a testament to its toxicity. McGhee blamed state regulators for the slow progress. His oldest daughter also got cancer, at age 11, he said.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2024

In any event, regulators are loosening safety and security requirements for SMRs in ways which could cancel out any safety benefits from passive features. SMRs will not reduce the problem of what to do with radioactive waste.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Except in this case, it appears she helped tie the department’s hands: According to the Daily Montanan , Nowakowski herself drafted the original 2011 MEPA limitation for a state senator. “This is not supposed to be a town hall or a popularity contest,” he said. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Gas prices: Without a cap, the flood of bio-based diesel into California will continue, requiring a rapid increase in stringency to stabilize LCFS credit markets, sending 2030 stringency from the 30 percent proposed in the regulation to 34.5 The lower stringency results in lower costs and reduced economic impact of the regulation.

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Energy and Climate Law

APRIL 29, 2020

The latter regulates so called ´essential public services´. The Netherlands is currently in the midst of a transition, during which its renewable energy subsidy scheme SDE+, that has been running since 2011, will be switched to the so called SDE++ (Stimuleringsregeling Duurzame Energietransitie) scheme in 2020.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

A complete and prolonged cutoff of external power would lead to a disastrous meltdown similar to that of the Fukushima Daiichi plant in 2011. While US regulators implemented additional safeguards in the wake of that disaster, questions remain about their effectiveness.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

On April 7, 2023 , DEP posted an inspection report to document that it had requested Greylock to provide the pre-drill survey it had conducted prior to drilling the wells in 2011, along with all the water sample results associated with the site. [ Background There were six shale gas wells on Mohr A drilled in May, June and July of 2011.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 13, 2022

On December 2, 2022, the Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative (RELDI) , in collaboration with the law firm Sidley Austin LLP, filed an amicus brief on behalf of five New York farmers and three community groups urging a New York appellate court to uphold the State’s new regulations for siting renewable energy projects. Docket Nos.

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Environment Next

JULY 22, 2021

House of Representatives passed the PFAS Action Act of 2011 , requiring EPA to establish nationwide drinking water standards for PFOA and PFOS, two of the thousands of PFAS compounds. On July 21, 2021, the U.S. EPA has previously established non-enforceable drinking water health advisories for PFOA and PFOS of 70 ppt.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 30, 2025

Regulations and technological innovations, such as the catalytic converter, have led to a decline in tailpipe emissions, reducing emissions of secondary organic aerosol precursors.[6] 8 166175 (2011). [3] The volatile chemical precursors (e.g., There has been progress in improving air quality over the past several decades.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2023

The infamous fossil fuel and tobacco industry shill Steve Milloy falsely claimed on FOX News—which itself glorifies oil and gas and lambasts environmental regulations—that the wildfire smoke posed “no health risk.” A decade ago, a review of nearly 12,000 studies conducted between 1991 and 2011 found that 97.2 percent agreement.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

One group of researchers found that from 2011 to 2018 there were “11,452 lobbying contacts with government officials. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) lobbied the federal government a whopping 118 times between January and July of this year, according to The Hill Times. How the lobbying bot works.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The Guardian Pad B 6H shale gas well was drilled in February 2011 and then granted inactive status on September 7, 2012 that expired on September 7, 2017, according to the order. On January 21, the Department of Environmental Protection and Roulette Oil & Gas Co.,

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

According to the Santa Fe New Mexican , state regulators and environmentalists oppose the push for less stringent testing of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in up to 140 miles of streams in and around the site. 70,000 HOMES. ON THE RADAR. Researchers in Canada are searching for underwater aquifers off the coast of Prince Edward island.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In August, French regulators suspended thermal pollution standards for rivers, allowing nuclear plants to overheat streams. A similar initiative to regulate groundwater in nearby Willcox basin did not pass. The last famine in Somalia occurred in 2011, when about a quarter-million people died. Circle Blue.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

which outlines the evaluations needed for a waste to qualify as a product-- or “coproduct” as defined in DEP’s Residual Waste regulations. DEP’s Oil and Gas Program banned the practice of disposing of unconventional (shale) drilling wastewater by road spreading in regulations adopted in 2016. DEP regulations at 25 Pa Code Chapter 287.8

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 29, 2021

Chicago‘s Stormwater Management Ordinance, or SMO, governs new development and redevelopment in the city and regulates how rainfall is captured, stored, or released at each site. Because of city policy, local drainage systems in Chicago are deeply intertwined with private sector development.

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