Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Supplement to: THE TOXIC DIVIDE: INTERNATIONAL WASTE DUMPING AND THE FIGHT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY By Christine Paul This blog is a supplement to an original article published by Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 13] Waste management remains problematic even after the laws promulgation.[14] 26 Issue 2. million people.[3]

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2022

Randomly selected individual on-site drill cutting and wastewater disposal plans submitted by conventional oil and gas drillers call for drilling wastes to be “dispersed directly to the environment,” according to a review by PA Environment Digest. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Edwards was also a key player in the Mount Polley tailings dam disaster of 2014 , where Imperial Metals, of which he is a controlling shareholder, experienced a catastrophic breach to one of its tailings ponds that released billions of liters of toxic waste into nearby waterways. The province and taxpayers of B.C.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Food waste refers to material that is safe and suitable for human and animal consumption, yet not consumed. The food waste and loss problems reveal inefficiencies in the food system that have consequential, permanent environmental impacts. This global problem of food waste is related to consumer behaviors (e.g., Borresen, E.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2023

The following blog post By Tina Curry-Bashioum was posted on the Environmental Health Project website providing a detailed look at the MAX Environmental Yukon Facility hazardous waste disposal site that accepts shale gas drilling waste in Westmoreland County. The decay chain of radium involves the release of radiation.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

million gallons of toxic, radioactive drilling waste on unpaved roads in the Commonwealth. Feridun’s attempt to use the Oil and Gas Division’s Oil and Gas Reporting Electronic (OGRE) system to track where the waste has gone revealed many problems with the system’s design and entries that should set off alarms but don’t.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

These solids, along with animal waste, further deplete oxygen in waterways and introduce pathogens like E. Recent research by the Environmental Integrity Project on slaughterhouses that paid little to no fines for their illegal water pollution between 2016 and 2018 concluded that “penalties and enforcements are rare.”

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 4, 2021

The Institute for Local Self Reliance (ILSR) an advocacy organization that works to empower local communities, helped support a compost cooperative in Baltimore, MD in 2016, planting a seed that would be the start of something bigger. Read the full story at Waste360.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

Importantly, that number can be reduced in many ways: greater solar panel efficiency (possibly through new materials like perovskites ), panels on waste sites , panels on aqueducts , agrivotaics (solar and agriculture combined), roof-top solar, off-shore wind, and increased and improved energy storage (often co-located with renewables).

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Madalyn “Maddy” Spellman lived in Aurora and died from cancer in September 2016, at age 13. In countries without proper waste disposal, untreated sewage is a factor. This map shows nitrate concentrations in drinking water between 2016 and 2018 for federally regulated water systems. So does fossil fuel combustion.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The tide of waste was generated by animals from 132 CAFOs in Indiana and Ohio. Operators are required to “manifest” or document the quantity and location where waste is spread. million more gallons of liquid waste and 50,000 more tons of solid waste were manifested in the two counties. Carl Ganter/ Circle of Blue.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

But the scare wasted city resources and left water customers on edge for weeks. The Clean Water Act, a landmark federal pollution control law passed in 1972, cleaned up American waterways once fouled by industrial waste. Environmentalists have long complained that regulators are too quick to green light new chemicals. For example, U.S.

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Environmental Leader

JULY 29, 2022

From a 2016 baseline, it has vowed to reduce water intensity by 15%, carbon intensity by 30%, and waste-to-landfill by 45% by 2025. Marriott is an environmental leader. The post Marriott Reduces Water and Energy Use by Double-Digits appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 28, 2023

The ARA is comprehensive, science-based legislation that covers many topics related to environmental and climate concerns in agriculture, including conservation on both agricultural and pasture land, renewable energy, and food loss and waste.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Five other violations involved illegal disposal or handling of liquid or solid waste. Failure To Report Waste Disposal Over 56 percent of conventional well operators-- 1,886-- failed to report not only their oil and gas production, but also how much liquid and solid waste they produced and how it was disposed of as required by state law.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2021

In an effort to further protect Pennsylvania’s waterways and drinking water, the Department of Environmental Program announced it will soon require all Pennsylvania landfills – including those that accept unconventional oil and gas waste – to conduct quarterly testing of leachate for radiological contaminants.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

At least 3,641 lives were lost to the crisis between 2016 and 2018, according to Amnesty International , with over half of the fatalities recorded in 2018 alone. And, in 2016, the government awarded contracts through the Presidential Initiative for the North East (PINE) to two companies, paying them ?544 Photo by Murtala Abdullahi.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

trillion litres of toxic industrial waste to accumulate for over five decades, but now wants us to believe a steering committee with no decision-making power can resolve the issue. This includes the Joint Oil Sands Monitoring Program (JOSM) set up in 2012 and the Oil Sands Advisory Group (OSAG) set up in 2016.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 14, 2021

When California voters legalized cannabis in 2016, a key argument for legalization was that legalization would benefit the environment. That raises real questions about whether legalization in California can deliver on the promises of environmental protection that were made to the voters in 2016.

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Environmental Leader

JULY 29, 2022

From a 2016 baseline, it has vowed to reduce water intensity by 15%, carbon intensity by 30%, and waste-to-landfill by 45% by 2025. Marriott is an environmental leader. The post Marriott Reduces Water and Energy Use by Double-Digits appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

These radioactive isotopes are found in the waste of both conventional and unconventional oil and gas drilling operations. The WSU study focused on naturally occurring radioisotopes such as 226 Ra, 228 Ra, 210 Po and 210 Pb, which are present in brines, salt deposits and geologic reservoirs that serve as oil/gas reservoirs.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 27, 2025

The United States generates more food waste than all but two countries. To address this, the federal government set a goal to cut food waste in half by 2030 compared to 2016 levels, to about 164 pounds per person annually. But a new study published … Continue reading States struggle to curb food waste despite policies

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 19, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 4159 ) -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the July 20 PA Bulletin saying a major Waste Permit Modification was issued to Waste Management of Fairless, LLC for the lateral expansion of the landfill in Falls Twp., Montour County. ( Bucks County. ( Tioga County. (

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2022

On December 12, the Better Path Coalition delivered signatures from 65 organizations , institutions, and businesses, and more than 2,700 individuals on a letter and petition calling on Governor-Elect Shapiro to ban road spreading of conventional drilling waste. Pennfield has obtained a Co-Product status instead of Waste with our brine.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

See for instance Benestad (2016). This cost is something we have to reckon with, but it is a waste of time if it is really obvious that the analysis was wrong in the first place. 679-688, 2016. In other words, the claim shows a lack of knowledge and is a well-known old argument that I commented on Realclimate.org in 2007.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In 2018, the world entered a municipal waste management crisis. recyclable materials, most notably plastic waste and unsorted paper. China also required stricter pre-shipment inspections to enforce existing laws, such as the import ban on electronic waste (e-waste). China’s waste ban has created backlogs worldwide.

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Nanotech

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

On November 15, 2021, the European Union (EU) Observatory for Nanomaterials (EUON) announced the release of a report that it commissioned entitled “ Study on the Product Lifecycles, Waste Recycling and the Circular Economy for Nanomaterials.” Conclusion 2. Recommendation 1. Conclusion 3. Conclusion 4. Recommendation 3. Conclusion 8.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2023

Established in 2016, the AMLER program funds projects that return legacy coal mining sites to productive uses through economic and community development.  On March 9, the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement announced the award of FY 2023 of $135 million in Abandoned Mine Land Revitalization (AMLER) grants to states.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2022

DEP reported in its Right To Know response just 76 conventional companies were assessed penalties for their violations over the last six years by the agency totalling $2,524,973-- between 2016 and 2021. Read more here.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

You may have heard about a miracle cure for plastic waste that creates green energy in the process—the mystical waste incinerator. We know how many people want to rid the world of plastic waste and shift to sustainable energy. But there really is no miracle cure for waste. It almost sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Hess, Former Secretary Department of Environmental Protection The information submitted to DEP’s Bureau of Waste Management from eight conventional oil and gas companies to justify allowing them to dispose of millions of gallons of wastewater by spreading it on dirt roads fails to meet the requirements of DEP’s 25 Pa Code Chapter 287.8

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection has advised 18 municipalities where road dumping of oil and gas wastewater has occurred the practice is illegal and considered waste disposal. DEP labels a total of 84 townships as “waste facilities” where road dumping of the wastewater has occurred. Read more here. Read more here.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 10, 2023

In 2014, EPA began building a dataset of names and locations of anaerobic digestion facilities processingfood waste to better understand the practice and prevalence of food waste digestion in the United States(U.S.). … Continue reading Anaerobic Digestion Facilities Processing Food Waste in the United States

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Frontiers

JULY 11, 2021

Then, they analyzed and compared the carbon reduction progresses of the cities based on the emission inventories recorded in different years (from 2012 to 2016). For 30 cities, there was a clear emission decrease between 2012 and 2016. Lastly, they assessed the cities’ short-, mid-, and long-term carbon mitigation goals.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2022

From 2016 to 2021, DEP approved 752 plans for the permanent disposal of drill cuttings at oil and gas well drilling sites through the decades-old practice of “dusting”-- forcefully blowing drill cuttings on the ground around their drilling sites, according to DEP’s response to a Right To Know request. Code Section 78.61(d) Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Background As recently as September 20, DEP told the Citizens Advisory Council road dumping conventional oil and gas drilling wastewater still does not meet the state’s residual waste regulations and remains illegal. Read more here. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 8, 2024

Other threats are tied to human sloppiness: Gulls went beyond recovery to crowding out other birds on Maine islands, boosted by banquets of coastal landfills and fishing waste. Bald eagles and peregrine falcons are flourishing again after the 1972 banning of the pesticide DDT. Just ask Steve.’”

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