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DEP Inspection Finds Two Repsol Oil & Gas Shale Gas Wells Venting Natural Gas To Atmosphere, Defective Well Casing/Cementing In Susquehanna County; Violations Continue From May 2017

PA Environment Daily

During an April 4 routine inspection, the Department of Environmental Protection found two Repsol Oil and Gas USA LLC shale gas wells in Apolacon Township, Susquehanna County venting natural gas to the atmosphere through the well annulus at the Kropp Well Pad. There are 12 shale gas wells producing natural gas on the Kropp Well Pad.

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This Year’s Danger Season Is Over, but Risks to Farmworkers Remain

Union of Concerned Scientists

Between 1992 and 2017, at least 815 farmworker deaths have been attributed to heat. In the absence of a federal heat standard, hundreds of thousands of farmworkers remain without protection. Data have shown that farmworkers die of heat-related causes at a rate 20 times greater than other professions.

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EPA Faces Treated Seeds Lawsuit

National Law Center

In 2017, several environmental groups petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) to close what the groups described as a “loophole” that. The post EPA Faces Treated Seeds Lawsuit appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Supreme Court Sidelines Science, Threatens Public Health: These Rules-in-Progress Show What’s at Stake

Union of Concerned Scientists

When our family participated in the Science March at the Minnesota Capitol in 2017, one of our signs said, “What do we want – Science Based Policy! The rules are developed by engineers, scientists, health professionals, and professional agency staff who know about environmental protection and how to develop and implement rules.

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Economic theory and climate policy

Environment, Law, and History

Drawing on a new dataset of policy reports, we show how economic ideas influenced climate policy advice by major international organizations, including the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Bank, from 1990 to 2017.

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The Future is Green: Amending State Constitutions to Safeguard the Environment for Future Generations

Vermont Law

This stops legislators from rescinding environmental protections when doing so would damage the environment because it would violate the peoples constitutional rights. Then, in 2017, the Court overturned its previous decision, holding that the test previously established by the Court was incorrect.

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DEP Bans Sale Of Impecca Electronics Products For Violating PA’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law; E-Waste Recycling Law Broken

PA Environment Daily

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the March 1 PA Bulletin announcing that Impecca is prohibited from selling its products in Pennsylvania as a result of its violation of the state electronics waste recycling law. ( Read more here.