Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

Three decades of deregulation allowed private companies, as opposed to public regulators, to make critical decisions about reliability. In many places state and federal utility regulators delegated decisions about energy supplies to the market. That can prove disastrous. Market forces are moving private investment to renewables.

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Legal Planet

MAY 6, 2024

The issue is created by a 2012 Supreme Court. But if the government doesn’t build the levee, it faces no liability from the urban landowners. That’s the adaptation dilemma: preparing for climate disaster is legally disfavored.

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The Energy Law Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2012

2012-N06 (2012), [hereinafter NTL 2012-N06]. For instance, the regulations require that the Emergency Response Plan identify a qualified individual who has “full authority to implement removal actions. . . .” NTL 2012 N-06, 3. NTL 2012 N-06, 5. NTL 2012-N06, at 28 (emphasis added). By Sarah Y.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

On February 15, the Department of Environmental Protection told the Environmental Quality Board conventional oil and gas drilling companies only paid $46,100 of the $10,600,000 it cost for DEP to regulate that industry in FY 2020-21. Overall, DEP expects an annual revenue deficit of at least $10.5 Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

While municipalities may have some flexibility in how they zone or regulate oil and gas operations – provided they do not exceed limitations in state or federal law – doing so in an unreasonable manner which prevents future natural gas development should render the municipality ineligible for state collected and distributed impact fees.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 29, 2021

The MS4 permit is an important document that regulates how municipalities can allow stormwater to flow through the MS4 system and out into natural (or modified) waterways. The 2012 MS4 Permit in a Nutshell. Taking the 2012 MS4 Permit to Court. WMPs and EWMPs, however, are unenforceable.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 17, 2021

In this blistering year in California drinking water wells are going dry in increasing numbers, rekindling memories of the historic drought of 2012 to 2016, when more than 2,600 wells across the state stopped producing water. Counties, not the state, regulate new wells. And that early action is superior to post-failure reactions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane. California’s transportation fuel policy is knee deep in cow poop, and it’s not a good look.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

AB32 then provides an extensive list of factors that the board must consider in crafting regulation to implement the plan. The 2012 scoping plan was challenged in court but upheld because of the painstaking process that the Board had followed. b) The range of projected air pollution reductions that result from the measure. (c)

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2023

On December 4, the Delaware River Basin Commission released a new report-- A Comprehensive Assessment of the Delaware River Basin’s Water Audit Program (2012-2021) -- providing a detailed look at ten years of Water Audit Program data. Click Here to sign up for regulator updates. This analysis is the first of its kind in the country.

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Nanotech

APRIL 22, 2023

2012-232, companies that manufacture, import, and/or distribute a “substance with nanoparticle status” in an amount of at least 100 grams per year must submit an annual report with substance identity, quantity, and use information. In France, under Decree No.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2023

DC Ambler purchased the property in 2005 and imported a large quantity of regulated and non-regulated fill material in 2012. The Ambler site in Montgomery County was formerly used as a disposal site for asbestos product manufacturing waste from the early 1930s until 1974.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On November 16, the Environmental Quality Board approved a proposed regulation setting a drinking water MCL for PFOA and PFOS “forever” chemicals for comments and accepted for study two rulemaking petitions to increase bonding on both conventional and unconventional oil and gas wells. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming), Rep. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2024

DEP is working with the Storage Tank Advisory Committee on a new version. -- Draft Designation Criteria for Regulated Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4) originally published in 2015. Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations? All through its eNotice system. Click Here to sign up.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2023

Similar mis-characterizations have become the norm among conventional oil and gas well operators while speaking with the public, regulators and legislators and unfortunately it's not accurate and has been used to influence regulations and policy. In 2012 a friend told me about a well that was being plugged in Sabinsville, PA.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

The market-based compliance mechanism deigned by CARB went into effect in 2012 in the form of the California Cap-and-Trade Program. Today, the Program regulates roughly 450 entities responsible for roughly 85% of the state’s GHG emissions. The AB 398 changes to Cap-and-Trade Program started to phase-in on January 1, 2021.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 13, 2024

When the IMO’s regulation to cut SO x emissions went into effect in 2020, LNG became a growing alternative fuel choice for marine transportation. We can see this in the growth in uptake of LNG in order to comply with earlier regulations. Several regulatory and market drivers can help explain this conundrum.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Given the exponential growth of utility distribution grid investments, regulators and stakeholders also will require an open distribution grid planning process. According to the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC), Ameren’s distribution grid expenditures nearly doubled between 2012 and 2020, jumping from $456 million to $857 million.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 12, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), seeking to compel EPA to “fulfill long-delayed nondiscretionary duties” under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) by issuing revised regulations governing oil and gas wastes. See Appalachian Voices v. McCarthy , 989 F. 2d 30, 53-56 (D.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

The first step in regulating agricultural methane emissions (and emissions in general) is to develop an accurate inventory of emissions, which can be used to set a baseline for future targets. Agricultural Methane Regulation. Emissions Inventorying and Baselining.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

That time period includes unusually high crop losses in the Midwest due to drought in 2012 and flooding in 2019. There is similar lack of regulation on the nitrogen-rich manure produced by contemporary animal agriculture. The EPA is again in the middle of a six-year review of drinking water regulations. If the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2024

Specifically, Juul watered down and delayed FDA regulations on their products, disregarded research showing that their product’s formulation was especially addictive and was linked to an epidemic of teenage nicotine use and paid massive amounts of money to think tanks to produce more favorable research and to influence congressional leaders.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The Environmental Quality Board is scheduled to meet November 16 to consider a proposed regulation setting a drinking water MCL for PFOA and PFOS “forever” chemicals and two rulemaking petitions to increase bonding on both conventional and unconventional oil and gas wells. The regulation would affect about 2,898 water systems in Pennsylvania.

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The Energy Law Blog

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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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Joseph – individually and doing business as Joseph Contracting, John Joseph Contracting, and Perry Stone Supply LLC – to settle violations of the Solid Waste Management Act and Pennsylvania regulations that occurred between 2012 and 2015 in Dunbar, Perry, and South Union Townships, Fayette County.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Last week, the Federal Highway Administration finalized an important regulation–the greenhouse gas performance measure. The rule follows an existing framework of performance management started in 2012 that already tracks outcomes for safety, infrastructure conditions, and reliability. But change is coming.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The Coalition said Section 3225(a)(1) Act 13 of 2012 set bond amounts for oil and gas wells, but did not differentiate between conventional and unconventional wells. The operative language links these Fiscal Code provisions to Section 3225(a)(1) of Act 13 of 2012 and says-- “Section 1606-E. Conventional oil and gas well bonding.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

In January 2012, at a hearing of the California Air Resources Board I attended, the board considered updates to the Zero Emission Vehicle standards through model year 2025. 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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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 19, 2013

On October 25, 2012 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its corrected definition of “regulated NSR pollutant.” The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) adopted EPA’s revised definition of “regulated new source review (NSR) pollutant” at LAC 33:III.509.B 1280 (May 20, 2013). 1280 (May 20, 2013).

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Corbett when that Deputate was formed to focus more attention on regulating unconventional (shale) gas drilling in Pennsylvania. No replacement has yet been named. Perry was named Deputy for Oil and Gas Management in September 2011 by Gov. Read more here.] Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It has left Benton Harbor with a water treatment plant in such disarray that regulators say it can’t reliably produce clean water, even before that water is shunted into a delivery system that includes pipes made of toxic metal. State and federal regulators note they’re not yet recommending any particular course of action.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Prudential Regulators [1] and the European Supervisory Authorities (“ ESAs ”) [2] have offered limited relief from or guidance for relaxed enforcement of variation margin requirements for non-cleared swaps that take effect March 1, 2017. Prudential Regulator and ESA Regulatory Guidance The Prudential Regulators, which regulate many U.S.

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Acoel

MARCH 28, 2023

According to the Forest Service’s opposition to the NGO’s motion for summary judgment, between 2012 and 2019, the Forest Service dropped fire retardants from the sky approximately 57,000 times and one in 267 of those drops in whole or in part entered a water.

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Nanotech

JUNE 1, 2023

It addresses: Definition of nanomaterial: Under Article 2 (1) (k) of the Cosmetic Regulation, “nanomaterial” means “an insoluble or bio-persistent and intentionally manufactured material with one or more external dimensions, or an internal structure, on the scale from 1 to 100 nm.”

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 1, 2016

The Corps’ definition of whether property constitutes “waters of the United States” is significant because the Clean Water Act regulates the discharge of pollutants into “the waters of the United States.” a)(3) (2012). See , 33 U.S.C. §§ 1311(a), 1362(7), (12). 33 CFR § 328.3(a)(3)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2022

Prior to his appointment as Acting Deputy, Klapkowski served as Director of the Bureau of Oil and Gas Planning and Program Management since March of 2012. Read more here. -- Conventional Drilling Regulations: Drafting proposed regulations setting environmental protection standards for conventional oil and gas well drilling.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 12, 2023

Connecticut facilitated more than 6,300 projects totaling over $97 million of financing between 2012 and 2022, and Michigan facilitated more than 36,000 residential projects exceeding $460 million in financing between 2009 and 2022. And an incremental approach can be a good alternative if deep retrofits are not possible.

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