Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

It was a big step towards providing adequate health protections, but Environmental regulations need to look at people, not just pollutants—and the way to get there is by assessing cumulative impacts. But the requirements in the rule were developed considering that one carcinogen from that one type of facility.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 2013 ) -- Coterra Energy, Inc.: PA Bulletin, page 2013 ) -- Seneca Resources Co LLC : DEP issued a Chapter 102 permit for a project impacting Baldwin Run (High Quality) located in Delmar Twp., PA Bulletin, page 2013 ) -- Williams Field Services Co. .: PA Bulletin, page 2013 ) -- Williams Field Services Co. .:

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Even before the justices granted review in the Sheetz case last Friday, the Court’s 2023-24 Term was shaping up as one featuring sweeping constitutional challenges to government regulation generally and to environmental regulation in particular. Finally, in the 2013 case of Koontz v.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 23, 2024

These prestigious awards are presented to Pennsylvanians who made a unique and creative contribution to the field of environmental management in Pennsylvania with preference given to the fields of administration, law, regulation and community organization. Public Health Service in Washington D.C.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2023

Commissioner Barrow Background Barrow has been involved in the utility regulation industry for more than two decades. Most recently, Barrow has served as Chief of Staff for Chairman Gladys Brown Dutrieuille since 2013. From 2008 to 2013, Barrow served as Chief of Staff in the Office of Commissioner Wayne E.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 7, 2023

Tribal land holds more that 5% of the solar photovoltaic potential in the United States, according to a 2013 report by NREL. Read the full story from NREL. However, this resource remains underutilized, and tribes often cite regulatory hurdles to achieving their solar deployment goals. In a three-year project funded by the U.S.

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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. percent of the cost of regulating their industry; the unconventional industry pays the remainder.

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The VIDA, enacted in December 2018, will standardize incidental discharge permits and regulations, replacing the 2013 Vessel General Permit (“VGP”) that commercial vessels are currently required to follow. Coast Guard (“USCG”) to develop corresponding regulations to enforce compliance with the EPA’s standards.

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Effective September 10, 2021 , the Federal Acquisition Regulation Council revised FAR 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting, and related FAR sections to address an inconsistency between that clause and the corresponding Small Business Administration (SBA) regulation at 13 C.F.R. § 125.6.[[N: N: SBA promulgated 13 C.F.R.

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Regulators and policymakers began to reevaluate their approach to rate design. Despite California regulators’ stated interest in pricing based on marginal costs, however, fixed costs have often been bundled into volumetric rates. Regulators are acting on these redistributive concerns.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

PAEP presents these awards to Pennsylvanians who made unique and creative contributions to the field of environmental management in Pennsylvania with preference given to the fields of administration, law, regulation and community organization. The awards were presented at the PAEP annual conference in State College.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Read more here ; -- Status of updating conventional drilling regulations; and -- Natural gas industry effort to reform permitting, limit public comments. The Council will be discussing their comments on the 2013-2018 report at this meeting. Read more here ; -- Conventional Oil & Gas Compliance Report issued in December.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Before joining the UCS staff in 2013, Reichmuth—who has a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley—worked at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, where he conducted a cost-benefit analysis of the relative benefits of vehicles powered by batteries, hydrogen fuel cells, and petroleum.

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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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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 25, 2021

The Phase l Environmental Site Assessment Standard E1527-13 will sunset in late 2021, eight years from its approval on November 6, 2013. CRECs arise from a past release of a hazardous substance that has been address to the satisfaction of regulators, but carry some implementation of controls, like a drinking water restriction.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Innovative regulation and incentive programs can facilitate the development and implementation of many of these methods, and these will be explored in a future blog post. 2013 , IPCC 6th Assessment Report, Chapter 6 , González et al., 2013 , Patra and Yu, 2012 , Kinley et al., 2013 , Patra and Yu, 2012 , Kinley et al.,

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 21, 2013

On August 21, CCCL released a new white paper that evaluates the legal workability and constitutionality of regulating imports into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or “RGGI” (for background on RGGI, the Northeastern states’ cap-and-trade program for carbon dioxide, see prior posts ).

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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 B in a May 20, 2013 Louisiana Register Notice.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

Ontario Power Generation, a Crown corporation that generates a chunk of the province’s electricity, has been secretly selling clean energy credits since about 2013 and has made billions in profit from the sales. Tell the Feds to strengthen these regulations so Ontario can’t build new gas plants!

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2023

From April 15 to 21, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 465 inspection entries that resulted in reporting 50 violations of environmental regulations-- 46 violations by the conventional oil and gas industry and 4 violations by the unconventional shale natural gas industry. SWN Prod Co. Beech Creek Twp. -

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

As for who can participate, DEP’s website states, “…the Department will consider input from mining professionals,” meaning the very industry regulated by the act will play a part in assessing its effectiveness. However, the 6th version is being done internally by the Department of Environmental Protection itself. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Dernbach told Circle of Blue that these amendments act as a steadying force in state politics, because constitutions are more stable than policies and regulations, which can change from administration to administration. Rhode Island followed in 1987, and was the last state to do so.

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 24, 2023

Hatfield’s Ferry Power Station, a Pennsylvania coal-fired power plant, stopped producing electricity in 2013. Read the full story from Reuters. Its closure came in a wave of coal-plant shutdowns triggered by competition from cheaper, cleaner natural gas and incentives in the U.S. Clean Air Act.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JANUARY 4, 2022

In the absence of government regulation, insurance prices for real estate will rise there. Since the government regulates insurance and effectively subsidizes risk taking (by putting limits on insurer "price gouging"), building codes are needed to raise the average quality of the housing stock in risky places.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 23, 2023

The new “cap-and-invest” program is designed to follow in the footsteps of California, where a cap-and-trade system began in 2013, while trying to learn from its missteps. Washington state rang in the New Year with the launch of its most ambitious plan to slash carbon pollution. Here’s how it works.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 28, 2022

The Environmental Quality Board is scheduled to meet July 12 on a final regulation establishing a municipal waste rural transfer facility permit-by-rule and to hear a presentation on DEP’s permit fee report on the Chapter 102 Erosion and Sedimentation Program. Click Here for a summary of the final regulation.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection reported their inspections found 4,386 violations of environmental regulations at conventional oil and gas operations during 2021 -- nearly two and a half times the violations reported just two years ago in 2019 and 337 more than in 2020. Read more here.]

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

As a result, Japan’s CO 2 emissions increased, peaking in 2013. In its Nationally Determined Contribution , Japan has committed to reducing GHG emissions by 46% in 2030 from 2013 levels and achieving net zero emissions by 2050. Both courts took the position that the regulation of GHG emissions was a policy issue.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

The Freedom Industries chemical spill in Charleston, West Virginia exposed holes in state and federal regulations for chemical storage tanks. Almost immediately, politicians and community groups cried for new regulations to prevent something like the Elk River spill from happening again. Summary: . A new Senate bill – S.

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 27, 2023

In 2018 and 2019, the City adopted ordinances to tax and impose licensing procedures and regulations on commercial cannabis businesses, but it was also required to designate certain parcels in the City where cannabis-related land uses would be permitted before it could accept permit applications. City of Dublin (2013) 214 Cal.App.4th

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Law Columbia

MAY 24, 2024

The Planktos proposal never went ahead, but it did prompt the international community to consider whether and how ocean fertilization should be regulated. Later, in 2013, the parties to the London Protocol adopted an amendment on marine geoengineering. The 2013 amendment is intended to be binding but has not yet entered into force.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. million fine Emily Pickrell | Houston Chronicle | September 20, 2013 Total Petrochemical will pay an $8.8 In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. In the U.S.

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Nanotech

JULY 7, 2021

2010, 2013).” The proposed entry in Annex VI of the Classification, Labeling and Packaging (CLP) Regulation is: Carc. The proposal is based on the observation that fibers of high-diameter MWCTs (? STOT RE 1, H372. The hazard classes open for comment are carcinogenicity and specific target organ toxicity — repeated exposure.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. million fine Emily Pickrell | Houston Chronicle | September 20, 2013 Total Petrochemical will pay an $8.8 In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. In the U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. million fine Emily Pickrell | Houston Chronicle | September 20, 2013 Total Petrochemical will pay an $8.8 In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. In the U.S.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. million in 2013. million fine Emily Pickrell | Houston Chronicle | September 20, 2013 Total Petrochemical will pay an $8.8 In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. In the U.S.

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