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PA Conservation Heritage Project Profile: Paul O. Swartz - From Photojournalist To Susquehanna River Basin Commission

PA Environment Daily

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. In 1969 Ralph W.

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Clean Power Plan: The Legal Battle Continues

The Energy Law

EPA also cannot require electricity generation to be shifted from coal-burning units to units that use other energy sources as a pollution control technology. The Rule arbitrarily excludes pre-2013 low- and zero-emitting generation sources from being able to create emission reduction credits. Constitution and the Clean Air Act.

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The Infamous Failure of the Eco-Patent Commons and the Quiet Success of the WIPO Green Project: What We Can Learn About Disseminating Green Tech to Developing Countries

Vermont Law

In an attempt to create a cohesive and synergistic pool, the patents were limited to a few specific areas of technology: energy conservation, pollution control, environmentally friendly materials, water or materials use, and reduction and recyclability. Clugston is a professor of law at Keimyung University in Daegu, South Korea.

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Incentivizing Ecosystem Services: Agroecology as a Solution to Agricultural Nonpoint Source Water Pollution

Vermont Law

To make meaningful progress in lowering water pollution, the federal government should begin incentivizing agroecological practices that both allow farmers to keep their land in production and actively work to reduce excess nutrients, pesticide waste, and erosion. However, the CWA does not address agricultural pollution in a meaningful way.

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The Good Neighbor Provision on Steroids: Third Circuit Ruling Resurrects Clean Air Act Section 126(b)

The Energy Law

In the recent ruling, the Third Circuit held that it was reasonable for EPA to interpret Section 126(b) to be an “independent mechanism for enforcing interstate pollution control,” thereby giving EPA authority to directly regulate a specific source in an upwind state. July 12, 2013) (pdf). See GenOn REMA, LLC v. at 29 (3d Cir.

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Fighting Big Coal––Washington Judge Allows Novel Clean Water Act Citizens’ Suit to Proceed

Vermont Law

In June 2013, a coalition of seven environmental organizations––including Sierra Club, Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, RE Sources for Sustainable Communities, Columbia Riverkeeper, Friends of the Columbia Gorge, Inc., By the railroad’s own estimate, coal trains can lose. 500 pounds. of coal from. Kelly Nokes, JD/MELP ’15. ,

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Washington County Judge Rules Sunoco Pipeline Did Not Have Eminent Domain Authority To Take Property For Mariner East Pipelines In Landowner Lawsuit Alleging Fraud

PA Environment Daily

Neuman ruled Sunoco Pipeline, LLC did not have eminent domain authority to take property for the Mariner East Pipelines in 2013 from Bradley and Amy Simon and possibly many other property owners. Judge Neuman said since Sunoco was also not regulated as a public utility by the state in 2013, it also had no eminent domain power under state law.

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