Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Gasoline consumption is down by more than two billion gallons per year since 2017, when 15.6 These regulations (both state and federal) that UCS has advocated for have saved drivers money and reduced emissions. But even though we’ve added six million passenger cars to the road in the last 10 years, gasoline use has dropped.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

While the operation of the CEFR and supply of highly enriched uranium to the reactor attracted less attention from foreign media, the construction of the two China Fast Reactor (CFR)-600 reactors in Xiapu, China, in 2017 sparked widespread discussion. energy and weapons) capabilities.

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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

JULY 27, 2021

oil and gas industry produced an estimated one trillion gallons of produced water in 2017. A new NRDC report describes these risks and how weak regulations fail to appropriately protect workers and communities. State regulations are also filled with gaps that allow unsafe practices for radioactive oil and gas waste.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Environmental Quality Board is scheduled to meet on November 12 to consider a proposed regulation on notification of spills, corrections to Air Quality regulations on RACT requirements for nitrogen oxide and volatile organic compounds and final-omitted regulations on noncoal mine blasting.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 9, 2023

From 2017 to 2022, shale gas operators sent a total of 911,006 cubic feet of radioactive TENORM waste to low-level radioactive waste facilities for disposal. That amount is down from the 236,150 cubic feet of TENORM (Technically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material) sent in 2021. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2022

Wolf directed the Department of Environmental Protection to conduct an evaluation of how it regulates conventional oil and gas wells to prevent new abandoned wells, tighten review of permit transfers, review compliance with environmental safeguards and make recommendations for changes and actions, including criminal sanctions.

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Energy and Climate Law

MAY 19, 2020

The German energy regulator Bundesnetzagentur rejected an application of the Nord Stream 2 operating consortium to obtain an exemption from EU unbundling rules after the Gas Directive was amended in 2019. The argumentation of the regulator strikes at a crucial point - is a pipeline already built when 160 kilometres are still missing?

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 10, 2024

On June 10, the Department of Environmental Protection told the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee the Shapiro Administration supports legislation banning the practice of road dumping oil and gas wastewater and prohibiting its consideration as a coproduct under Residual Waste Regulations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Between 1992 and 2017, at least 815 farmworker deaths have been attributed to heat. Data have shown that farmworkers die of heat-related causes at a rate 20 times greater than other professions. This number is likely undercounted and misattributed because heat-induced illnesses and conditions are often not traced correctly to their source.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Carolyn Comitta (D-Chester), Minority Chair Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, announced new regulations enhancing pipeline safety and governing hazardous liquids pipelines owned by public utilities in Pennsylvania are expected to be published as final this month and take effect in November.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Meanwhile, on the West Coast, a 2017 PSE Healthy Energy study found that nearly half of California’s gas power plants are in communities that are among the state’s 25 percent most disadvantaged neighborhoods. In New England, for example, the percentage of people of color that live within 6 miles of a power plant is as much as 23.5

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Germany agrees on EU regulation to make cars carbon neutral by 2035 (either zero emissions or net-zero). Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption. Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Hurricanes Fiona and Ian brought destruction and death: the former to Puerto Rico, which still has not recovered from Hurricane María in 2017, and the latter to Florida, destroying the Fort Myers area. And, as we know, it only takes one to bring extreme devastation—and both of these did.

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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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2024

DEP’s program that regulates conventional oil and gas and shale gas wells and their infrastructure is funded almost entirely by permit application fees. million annual cost of regulating their industry-- typically about $46,100 in permit fees in a “good” year. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

On November 12, the Environmental Quality Board approved for public comment a proposed regulation on notification of spills and corrections to Air Quality regulations on RACT requirements for nitrogen oxide and volatile organic compounds. Also approved was a final-omitted regulations on noncoal mine blasting.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

As you mentioned, it can establish more protective vehicle emissions regulations than the federal government, and it now requires manufacturers and dealers to sell an increasing number of zero emission vehicles, culminating in 100 percent of sales by 2035. And next year, there will be a tax credit available for purchasing a used EV.

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Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

In California, we see this, among other places, in the Scoping Plan process, and through such oversight institutions as the Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) and the Independent Emissions Market Advisory Committee (IEMAC) – established in 2017 under AB 398. – Do no harm. Implications for China.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

In the pre-colonial era, mechanisms such as the traditional administrative system which regulated grazing activities and demarcated cattle migratory routes, known as the burti, were key to establishing clear boundaries between farmers and herders. Though a 2017 senate probe revealed that ?530 530 million ($1.2

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 20, 2021

So it won’t come as a surprise that a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the benefits of on-road emissions reductions from 2008 to 2017 could be measured in the hundreds of billions of dollars and almost 10,000 fewer deaths. Spoiler alert: There’s a tried and true means for doing so.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The CES, first enacted in 2017, requires retail sellers of electricity in Massachusetts to provide increasing quantities of clean electricity over time. The regulations were amended in 2020 to include a program for existing generation units, CES-E, which has several distinct requirements.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

PA Bulletin - April 8, 2023 Note: The Department of Environmental Protection published 67 pages of public notices related to proposed and final permit and approval/ disapproval actions in the April 8 PA Bulletin - pages 1950 to 2017. Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations? All through its eNotice system.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

RMS), a NYDFS-licensed mortgage banker and mortgage loan servicer, that fines RMS $1,500,000 for its violations of Cybersecurity Regulation, Part 500 of Title 23 of the New York Codes, Rules, and Regulations (Part 500). 23 NYCRR 500.01(d)).]]

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Environment, Law, and History

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

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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Clean Energy Law

MAY 17, 2019

In 2017, only 43% of cases focused on EIRs. Overall, public agencies prevailed in 37 of 57 cases, or 65% of the time, the same percentage as in 2017, and won in 68% of EIR cases, compared with 55% in 2017. Of the 57 cases, 26 were published, 25 were unpublished, and six were partially published.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This talk aims to de- mystify these colours by embodying an expanded palette that reflects both existing and emerging (advanced) pathways to contribute to the ongoing conversation, and efforts toward promoting and supporting the research, policy and regulations on realizing the clean hydrogen vision. Want to take part in this webinar?

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Boyd is recognized as one of the country’s leading energy and environmental law scholars and has written pathbreaking articles on public utilities, risk regulation, forestry, and the role of science and technology in environmental law. Through the project, Prof.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

Driven by drought and water quality conditions in the Klamath River, since 2017 the Karuk committed to only harvesting 200 salmon for their ceremonies. Council Member Hockaday’s contribution to the hearing starts around 2:11 through 2:26, and it is worth listening for yourself.

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CEQA Developments

DECEMBER 20, 2021

County of Sonoma (2017) 11 Cal.App.5th 5th 11, 29-30, my April 24, 2017 post on which can be found here. ) Further, contrary to appellant’s argument, POWER “does not remotely suggest that an agency lacking discretionary authority is required to conduct CEQA review because a different agency had such authority.”. Code, § 1228.6(a)(2),

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2023

In 2017, the 12-year-old was walking home when he slipped into a deep pit abandoned by Metallicon S.A Local authorities in Cameroon do not strictly enforce environmental regulations for mining companies, and nationwide legislation on the matter has not yet been completed.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 14, 2021

California began regulating the chemical in 2017, setting the allowable limit for its presence in drinking water at the tiniest, detectable amount, or 5 parts per trillion — a testament to its toxicity. McGhee blamed state regulators for the slow progress. There is currently no federal limit for 1,2,3-TCP in drinking water.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 17, 2019

Oregon argued that while a state may not regulate wholly out-of-state commerce, there is no constitutional bar to a state regulating its fuels market based on a product’s objectively measured contributions to in-state harms ( i.e. , regulating based on harm caused by a fuel’s carbon intensity).

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

These new violations are separate from violations covered in a 2017 consent order and agreement DEP signed with Energy Corporation of America-- now Greylock-- covering pollution incidents at the 17 well sites. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. million because the company paid the penalty in full before January 31, 2018.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

That the state official who oversees the permitting and regulation of all major energy projects in Montana could be ignorant of the UN body that has been issuing increasingly urgent assessments about global warming and climate data for 30 years is unbelievable and distressing. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 2, 2022

He also served as the manager of the program’s market monitoring section and as an attorney supporting the development and implementation of climate and air quality regulations at CARB. Jason Gray (far right) is presented with the GCF Task Force Everyday Hero award in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, Indonesia in 2017.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 13, 2020

As discussed in previous posts , regulated entities must either: (1) ensure that fuels supplied in California meet annual, decreasing carbon intensity (CI) targets ( e.g. , by blending biofuels into gasoline and diesel); or (2) procure and surrender credits to CARB. 95487, 95491, and 95495 of Title 17, California Code of Regulations.

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