Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

In Kobe city, the construction of two new coal-fired power plants was planned, and the operator started the environmental impact assessment despite the opposition by the Kobe residents in 2014. In addition to the above claims based on climate change, the Plaintiffs in the Kobe civil case also strategically included arguments on air pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2024

DEP has said well permit fees have not generated the revenue needed to support the Oil and Gas Program for at least the last 9 years-- since 2014. Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP issued an Air Quality Plan Approval for a Caterpillar engine at the pad located in Springville Twp., Read more here. Read more here. Beaver County. ( Dobrosielski, S.

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Breezometer

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Past studies have shown a link between weather changes and migraine headaches, but research also highlights how other environmental factors, like air pollution, could also trigger these painful headaches. The Links Between Air Pollution & Migraines. They found that higher levels of common outdoor pollutants PM2.5,

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 27, 2023

As relevant here, the City certified a Final EIR in 2014 (2014 EIR) for a General Plan Update (GPU) with a 2035 development horizon. The Findings addressed each of the environmental issues studied in the 2014 EIR and compared the effects of the Project to those of the adopted GPU.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2024

“PADEP’s order to Shell to apply for a Title V Operating Permit for its plant sets up the public and our environment with better protection from harmful pollution, and allows the public to file comments and petition the EPA to object to any potential shortcomings in the resulting permit.” 12,671,044.75

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The Energy Law

JUNE 19, 2013

EPA further noted in its response, however, that the Agency’s “timely execution of the corrective actions is directly dependent upon the availability of resources.”

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Vermont Law

MARCH 23, 2022

Some of these impacts include contaminated drinking water, increased air pollution, and environmental. wells that were fractured between 1940 and 2014, about one-third of those were fractured after. The air pollution released during fracking has been linked to headaches, asthma, cancer, birth defects, and.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

An October 2014 DEP memo still in use today by the Oil and Gas Program and by the Act 2 Land Recycling Program spells out the chemicals and other constituents oil and gas operators and DEP test for during investigations and cleanups of spills and releases. Read more here. Impoundments have since been removed.)

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2024

Friel-Otten, Rep. Abney Introduce Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Church was an elementary school counselor in Philadelphia until 2014. During her career, she supported students who were frequently affected by asthma, which was worsened by air pollution. Prior to her involvement in environmental advocacy, Ms.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Home Resource Guide Protect PT’s Home Resource Guide contains four sections-- -- Complaints and Compliance -- Emergency and Disaster Preparedness -- Air Pollution & Water Pollution -- Noise Pollution Visit Protect PT’s Fracking In Your Neighborhood webpage for more resources.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Local air pollution (and global climate change) ; 4. Now imagine if all buildings in the world did the same… Another study I blogged about in 2014 noted that retrofitting buildings brings a 387% return on investment and that for each million dollar invested over 17 new jobs were created….

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Search interest in fracking in Pennsylvania peaked in 2014, but people were still interested in Googling this quite a bit. We also know that public interest in fracking in Pennsylvania mirrored this uptick in production, so people were Googling about it. That's what I'm showing here on the right.

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CEQA Developments

JULY 7, 2022

While the project would create needed new housing and eliminate blight, it would result in significant unavoidable environmental impacts including air pollution emissions from increased traffic. City and County of San Francisco (2014) 227 Cal.App.4th City and County of San Francisco (2019) 33 Cal.App.5th

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 20, 2014

air pollution. , S–14776, 2014 WL 4494394 (Alaska Sept. 12, 2014). [3]. 26, 2014). [4]. 26, 2014). [6]. “as trustee of the environment for the present and future generations”; and to “conserve, improve, and protect its natural resources and environment and control water, land, and. 15]. . . . State, Dept.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 25, 2021

The Center’s experts conduct research and develop best management practices to construct and maintain dirt and gravel roads in ways that reduce sediment and runoff causing water and air pollution. In 2013, Act 89 was passed increasing the funding for the Program from $5 Million to $35 Million annually in 2014-15. Read more here.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In November 2014, the United States and China—two of the world’s most significant emitters—. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. Air pollution generally has many proven. Air pollution also. jointly committed. to reducing their carbon emissions.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 4, 2023

(3) Nonetheless, they cause a great deal of environmental problems, including “dramatic potable water consumption, high energy costs from water use, increased water and air pollution, and loss of biodiversity.” (4) 394, 403-405 (2014). 4) Luckily, awareness of lawns’ negative impact is on the rise. (5) Citations Sarah B.

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Law Columbia

MAY 31, 2024

In reality, however, the eight old coal-fired power plants had been shut down since 2014. This significantly improved air quality in the local area. The assessment report was submitted to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), which issued a final notice only two weeks after receiving it.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

The inaugural project in 2014 provided a first-of-its kind approach through the fusion of river surfing, paddleboarding, and conservation actions that fostered love and appreciation for the outdoors and improved the lives of students in areas with limited opportunities and access.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

As for the two surveys of soil pollution, the first was of soil in general while the second focused on agricultural land. million km2 and its result were published in a report in 2014. Pollution was found to breach standards at 16.1% of polluted sites. The first covered around 6.3 of the sampling sites. meaning a 2.2-fold

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

These potential intervenors alleged that the additional emissions during the stay period would harm their interest in protecting their residents from the effects of air pollution and climate change. Thirteen states, the District of Columbia, and the City of Chicago sought leave to intervene on behalf of the petitioners.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Their disinformation apparatus is therefore starting to spin up in response , pushing out false and misleading narratives that aim to water down the pollution measures as much as possible. The 2014-focused study referenced above found that Black Americans were most affected by the toxic power plant emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Dr. Steingraber noted similar conclusions were reached in 2014 when New York State banned fracking, saying “At the time, and again, this is nine years ago in 2014, there were 400 studies and investigations in the peer-reviewed scientific literature in government reports and by journalists that showed evidence for harm.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The OVEC coal bailouts, which the PUCO approved in 2014, were set to expire in 2024 and only applied to utility customers who had a stake in OVEC. The subsidies insulate the utilities from the costs of expensive, uneconomic coal and provide a disincentive for them to invest in cheaper clean energy resources. But thanks to H.B.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Since global and local pollutants are often byproducts of the same activities, mitigation policies for global warming emissions have the potential to simultaneously mitigate local air pollution 2. One good example of the nexus between global warming and local pollution is ground-level ozone. Bermix Studio/Unsplash PM2.5:

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 27, 2023

It’s likely our neighborhood was most exposed from the time the neighborhood was developed in 2007 until 2014, when the plants installed scrubbers in their smokestacks. Could my family be affected?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The study looked at air pollution, blowouts and evacuations, and thermal modeling and found that “(C)urrent natural gas well setbacks in…the Marcellus Shale of Pennsylvania… cannot be considered sufficient in all cases to protect public health and safety.” Read more here. ] Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

At every phase of oil and gas production, harmful air pollutants are deliberately released. These air pollutants include such things as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, formaldehyde, naphthalene. “I Unconventional gas development cannot happen without significant air pollution, even under the best of circumstances.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

million cubic feet of natural gas and hazardous air pollutants. She said DEP did set up a summa canister air sampler once in August of 2014 in an attempt to document air emissions from the pigging facility. Yes, three times a day, seven days a week for nearly a decade.] So we are no longer having rashes.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

Penn State studies found the amounts of at least 25 of the chemicals they tested for exceeded environmental and health standards and radioactive radium exceeded industrial waste discharge standards. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 26, 2024

waiving papers with her written remarks] I typically just roll off the cuff because this topic has been a passion of mine since long before I was elected in 2014. Bartolotta said-- “I got a lot of words here, but you know what? We should be exporting freedom from Pennsylvania all around the world right now.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

Tom Corbett lifted it briefly in 2014. “We need to protect our unleased public lands from this rush because they are the most significant tracts of undisturbed forest remaining in the state,” he said in 2010. The moratorium remained until Republican Gov. Two years later, his Democratic successor, Gov. Tom Wolf, reinstated the ban.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2022

Cleaner trucks, buses, and trains are reducing air pollution in the state, and more than 1,500 electric vehicle charging plugs have been installed, many of them in environmental justice communities. In 2018, DEP began the Driving PA Forward initiative, using the settlement funds from the e Volkswagen cheating scandal.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

City of Woodland (2014) 225 Cal.App.4th In doing so, it found the County’s EIR deficient in this regard, and stated it was following the Third District’s earlier decision in California Clean Energy Com. 4th 173, 209, my 4/14/14 post on which can be found here.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 4, 2016

Other cyberattacks offer further compelling evidence that the critical components of our infrastructure, including sewage treatment plants, air pollution control systems, pipelines, refineries, and chemical plants, among others, are at risk.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

In general, environmental data are organized according to media, such as air or groundwater, analytical fraction, such as VOCs, and sampling round, such as 2014 data. On the positive side, to some degree, is the fact that our air is huge which gives us a lot of dilution. Soil data are probably least sensitive to time.

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