Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Though testing capabilities and our knowledge of the risks have improved, regulations to protect America’s waterways, and ultimately its drinking water, from a range of troubling contaminants have been slow to follow. Since the discovery, Ann Arbor has spent $1.5 Since the discovery, Ann Arbor has spent $1.5

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Today, the Program regulates roughly 450 entities responsible for roughly 85% of the state’s GHG emissions. Program Linkage : The Cap-and-Trade Regulations permit California to link its Program with that of another jurisdiction to promote cost effectiveness and facilitate greater emissions reductions.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 22, 2023

As the House and Senate Agriculture Committees are busy working on their respective first drafts of the 2023 Farm Bill, farmers and advocates took an important opportunity to speak to Members of Congress about improved agriculture policy needs. Participants flew in from Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Suncor Energy Inc: 2023-Present Imperial Oil Ltd: 2013–2019 ExxonMobil Corp: 1981-2013 Villain Career Profile Rich Kruger has a long and storied career in oil. In April of 2023, Suncor dumped massive quantities of oil sands mine waste-water from its Fort Hills tailings pond into surrounding waterways.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Why it matters: With rainfall totals less than half of normal at best and just 10 percent of normal in the worst areas, Circle of Blue reported in 2014 that farmers were leaning on water from the Ogallala aquifer more than ever before. Those caught without a permit can be fined $2,000 and have their boat confiscated.

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Law of the Lands

JULY 26, 2024

Noxious weeds are those that are prescribed in the Regulation made under the Act (including giant hogweed, poison-ivy, leafy spurge, sow-thistle, ragweed, etc.) The orchard was cut down in 2014 and the landowners were billed $12,800 for the work. In August, 2014, the Municipality moved in and had the diseased trees cut down.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2023

The results of the study-- Toxicity And Chemical Composition Of Commercial Road Palliatives Versus Oil and Gas Produced Waters -- were published in the Journal Environmental Pollution on July 13, 2023. The chemical contaminant levels generally exceeded the conventional well brine waters regulated by DEP, according to the study.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In an April 2023 DEP determination of whether natural gas drilling contaminated a Washington County family’s water well, DEP said the “widespread presence of PFAS” forever chemicals in fresh water may have led to “inadvertently” using contaminated water to frack a shale gas well. Read more here. Impoundments have since been removed.)

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

“Grant’s efforts have included the passage of multiple ordinances and a Home Rule Charter (local constitution) that we at the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) have worked to draft with them, and defend in court, since 2014. In the first case, brought in 2014, the judge – who owned stock in the oil company KBR, Inc.,

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

In an April 2023 DEP determination of whether natural gas drilling contaminated a Washington County family’s water well, DEP said the “widespread presence of PFAS” forever chemicals in fresh water may have led to “inadvertently” using contaminated water to frack a shale gas well. Read more here. Send comments to: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com.)

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2023

Woodwell has been associated with PEC since 1991, including roles as staff attorney, director of the western PA office, and as a vice president, before becoming president in 2014. Posted: July 25, 2023] PA Environment Digest Visit PEC’s Audio Room for the latest podcasts. Click Here to receive regular updates from PEC.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Law 1715 of 2014 on non-conventional renewable energy sources. In February 2023, the Tribunal of Cundinamarca decided the case. In April 2023, the Council of State, the highest court on administrative law matters, affirmed the decision. The Tribunal of Cundinamarca decided the case in July 2023. 29 Subsections 3 and 4).

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

He was appointed as a mediator by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to work with the environmental community and industry to establish better regulations for water quality monitoring in areas impacted by coal ash. Church was an elementary school counselor in Philadelphia until 2014.

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Law Columbia

MAY 30, 2024

Upon the initiative of the United Nations Human Rights Council (the UNHRC), a new legally binding agreement regulating transnational business enterprises’ human rights violations is likely on its way. The future legal value of the Draft Treaty will be that of enforceable regulation, provided of course that it is adopted in its current form.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 10, 2024

Penn State also found from 2008 to 2014, “spreading O&G PW [oil and gas wastewater] on roads released over 4 times more radium to the environment than O&G [oil and gas] wastewater treatment facilities, and 200 times more radium than spill events.” Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

January 5, 2023. Similar concerns are buffeting Santolina, a 13,700-acre planned development proposed in 2014 by Western Albuquerque Land Holdings. 20 Years of Severe Drought Impede Huge Developments in Southwest Uncertain path forward for largest development ever proposed in Arizona. By Keith Schneider. Circle of Blue. BUCKEYE, AZ.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

billion in 2014 to the U.S. million yuan over Lexus price-fixing Reuters | December 27, 2019 China's market regulator on Friday has fined Japanese carmaker Toyota Motor 7203.T Toyota workers urged to reject union Grace Macaluso | Windsor Star | February 19, 2014 The head of a U.S. It paid out a fine of $1.2 million yuan ($12.5

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2024

This well was issued violations for methane leaks on August 23, 2023. The violation was originally issued on November 15, 2023 and there was still evidence of staining and conductivity readings indicating contamination remains. DEP’s inspection report had no follow-up for the well owner.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 15, 2023

It implicates any other application that any other natural gas operator might have, and it implicates basically any zoning applicant who may also be regulated by the Department of Environmental Protection.” So far in 2023, DEP has issued 557 notices of violation to unconventional operators. There's no firsthand testimony.”

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In a written reply to parliament in August 2023, the coal minister stated that a “major leap in coal production over the years has been witnessed”. From 2013 to 2014, Indian coal production was 565 million tonnes; from 2022 to 2023, that had increased by 58% to 893 million. tCO2/tcs.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

In addition, the US Energy Information Administration reported increasing electricity generation from renewable sources contributed to lower power prices so far in 2023. Mechanical failures at thermal generators—especially gas plants—were the chief driver of outages during Winter Storm Elliott and the 2014 Polar Vortex. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 14, 2023

Our country continues to experience an increase in significant weather events- the 2014 Polar Vortex, successive hurricanes, fires, and Winter Storm Uri in 2021, which brought down Texas' grid,” said Chairman Dutrieuille. Natural Gas Is An Intermittent Generator Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Violations were issued on December 28, 2023 for well abandonment and failure to plug the well and the venting of gas and requested a plan to bring the well into compliance by January 11, 2024. DEP continued violations issued on June 8, 2023 for abandoning the well without plugging and failure to stop the movement of gas from the well bore.

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Law Columbia

MAY 31, 2024

This blog post introduces two judgments of the Yokosuka climate case, one issued in January 2023 and the second in February 2024. In reality, however, the eight old coal-fired power plants had been shut down since 2014. Therefore, the plaintiffs in the Yokosuka case have largely inherited the legal structure adopted in that case.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] This piece previously appeared in the CLS Blue Sky Blog.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

The gathering pipeline is not regulated by the state Public Utility Commission, according to the PUC. In fact, the Oak Springs Pigging Station did not have a record in DEP’s eFACTS database as a regulated Air Quality facility until after the Attorney General began investigating the facility in 2019, according to Jodi. “So

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 6, 2023

In a published opinion filed on February 23, 2023, the Fourth District Court of Appeal reversed a judgment of dismissal after the sustaining of a demurrer and held that an amended writ petition challenging a city’s street closure project sufficiently stated claims against the city for Vehicle Code, local ordinance, and CEQA violations.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

AUGUST 28, 2024

million for each fiscal year for CIG projects that address air quality, an increase from the $25 million annual allocation in the Agricultural Act of 2014 (2014 Farm Bill). According to SARE’s 2023-2024 Biannual Report From the Field , less than half of eligible Farmer Rancher Grant proposals were funded from 2022-2023.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Baiton was at COP27 and is expected to return for COP28, which runs from November 30th until December 12th, 2023. We need governments to regulate industry. Under Baiton’s leadership, CAPP has lobbied the federal government 74 times in the first 9 months of 2023 – that’s once every 2.5

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

The second area that is currently and prospectively adversely impacting the timing of Key Con plant closures are final and pending new environmental regulations.” Natural gas had the same problems during a cold weather event in 2014 and the polar vortex in 2018. PJM is projecting it to grow at much more significant rates than that.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 26, 2024

Guest Post by Alex Siggers , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Biology and the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University “We could learn from digging down, but no one ever seems to be digging.” Had enough yet? Biology and Fertility of Soils 48 :489-499. Moreno‐Jiménez, E.,

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Shell Oil Loses Arctic Drilling Lawsuit Anastasia Pantsios | EcoWatch | November 13, 2014 In early October it was announced that the Greenpeace Campaign to get Danish toy company LEGO to sever its nearly 50-year partnership with the oil giant was successful. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Shell Oil Loses Arctic Drilling Lawsuit Anastasia Pantsios | EcoWatch | November 13, 2014 In early October it was announced that the Greenpeace Campaign to get Danish toy company LEGO to sever its nearly 50-year partnership with the oil giant was successful. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Shell Oil Loses Arctic Drilling Lawsuit Anastasia Pantsios | EcoWatch | November 13, 2014 In early October it was announced that the Greenpeace Campaign to get Danish toy company LEGO to sever its nearly 50-year partnership with the oil giant was successful. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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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. He pointed to a December 2023 DEP study that found “non-compliance” is an “acceptable norm in the conventional oil and gas industry.” [ Read more here.] “If From their tires, it ends up in their garages.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Between 2017 and 2023 there were over 1500 injuries and seven deaths in 153 refineries across the US. A study of the causes of the explosion suggested the need for stronger safety regulations. Furthermore, refineries have a long history of violating regulations. Refining uses many risky industrial processes.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 27, 2023

Imperial Oil Ltd: 2019-Present Exxon Mobil Corp: 1983-2009 & 2014-2019 Esso Petroleum Co Ltd: 2009-2014 Villain Career Profile Corson has spent his entire career extracting and marketing oil and gas, working mostly for Imperial Oil and its parent company ExxonMobil. Leaks and Spills 2022 / 2023 (ongoing) — Kearl Lake, AB 5.3

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