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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2024

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! When facilities emit less pollution, their regulations require less specific record-keeping and monitoring. When do we want it? After Public Comment!”

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane. California’s transportation fuel policy is knee deep in cow poop, and it’s not a good look.

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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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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit concluded that EPA had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in determining that the four elements of the regulations that had been stayed met these requirements. Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register.

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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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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

AUGUST 30, 2023

In 2017, over 95,000 National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) policyholders submitted claims to FEMA for approximately $8.7 Include more specific references to coastal regulations (e.g. Inadequate disclosure laws have serious consequences, considering the high cost of flood damage recovery.

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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 25, 2022

In July 2017, the UK regulator tasked with overseeing the London Interbank Offer Rate (LIBOR) announced that publication of LIBOR may cease after the end of 2021. Various tax issues may arise when taxpayers modify contracts in anticipation of the discontinuance of LIBOR and other IBOR.

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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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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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

For years, state and local air quality districts have implemented polices and regulations aimed at curbing these different sources of pollution, like working to phase out burning as a method of disposing of agricultural waste, incentivizing transitions to gas-powered heat, and creating regulations to limit vehicle pollution.

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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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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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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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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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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Under the Rule, certain banking organizations are obligated to notify their primary federal regulator promptly, and not later than 36 hours, after the discovery of a “computer-security incident” that rises to the level of a “notification incident.” as defined under the respective regulations of the Agencies.

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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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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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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

CAFOs dominate agriculture in the United States: in 2017, an estimated 99% of all meat sold in the U.S. Despite the tremendous harm that CAFOs do, the federal government does not effectively regulate methane emissions from CAFOs. EPA in 2017. Citizens can pressure state legislatures to regulate CAFOs more strictly.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Prudential Regulators [1] and the European Supervisory Authorities (“ ESAs ”) [2] have offered limited relief from or guidance for relaxed enforcement of variation margin requirements for non-cleared swaps that take effect March 1, 2017. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“ CFTC ”), the U.S.

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Arnold Porter

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Effective September 10, 2021 , the Federal Acquisition Regulation Council revised FAR 52.219-14, Limitations on Subcontracting, and related FAR sections to address an inconsistency between that clause and the corresponding Small Business Administration (SBA) regulation at 13 C.F.R. § 125.6.[[N: N: SBA promulgated 13 C.F.R.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

On April 29, 2021, the departments of Justice, Commerce and Treasury announced that they had reached a global resolution with SAP SE (SAP), a multinational software company based in Germany, resulting from the company’s disclosure of the fact that it had provided software to users in Iran in violation of export and sanctions regulations.[[N:

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2024

DEP said 1,230 wells (approximately 49%) appear to have been abandoned after January 1, 2017; 518 wells (approximately 21%) appear to have been abandoned prior to January 1, 2017; and 746 wells (approximately 30%) were identified after January 1, 2017 as having been abandoned, but the precise date of abandonment is unknown.

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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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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

which outlines the evaluations needed for a waste to qualify as a product-- or “coproduct” as defined in DEP’s Residual Waste regulations. DEP’s Oil and Gas Program banned the practice of disposing of unconventional (shale) drilling wastewater by road spreading in regulations adopted in 2016. DEP regulations at 25 Pa Code Chapter 287.8

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CEQA Developments

DECEMBER 17, 2021

But at the Coastal Commission’s November 8, 2017 de novo hearing on the project, the Commission rejected staff’s recommendation and ultimately voted 7-5 to approve the CDP. Had the Commission followed its staff’s recommendation, the story would have ended there. The Writ Litigation and Trial Court Decision. The Court of Appeal’s Decision.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

As a result, between 2005 and 2017 greenhouse gas pollution from Ontario’s electricity system dropped by 93 per cent. According to the Independent Electricity System Operator greenhouse gas emissions from Ontario’s gas plants are set to increase by over 400 per cent by 2030 and by almost 800 per cent by 2040 (compared to the 2017 level).

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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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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

T he bill was introduced at the request of Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation which was unhappy with an April 17, 2017 settlement with DEP over an appeal of a stormwater pollution prevention permit for its West Point, Montgomery County plant (Environmental Hearing Board Docket No. Read more here.

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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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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

PEC has administered the PA Water Trail Mini-Grant program since 2017. For more information on programs, initiatives and special events, visit the PA Environmental Council website, visit the PEC Blog , PEC Bill/Regulation Tracker , follow PEC on Twitter or Like PEC on Facebook. Visit PEC’s Audio Room for the latest podcasts.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The DEP found that, from 2017 through 2021, more than half of owners of “conventional” gas wells failed to report how much gas they extracted and that operators abandoned, without plugging, more than 3,000 methane-spewing wells. Now, a report by the state Department of Environmental Protection reflects that legislative malpractice.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Texas-based corporation has a history of pipeline accidents in Pennsylvania, including the 2017 leak on Mariner East 1 in Berks County caused by pipeline corrosion, and the 2018 Revolution Pipeline explosion in Beaver County caused by land subsidence. 27 Released 1.1

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2023

courts have also recently criticized the approach that North American regulators took in determining whether glyphosate is a human carcinogen and in October 2022 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency withdrew its risk assessment. In November, Environment Canada started consultations to protect the monarch as an endangered species.

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