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

AUGUST 19, 2021

On August 19, Kurt Klapkowski, Director of DEP’s Bureau Of Oil and Gas Planning and Program Management, told the PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council DEP is looking to develop the data to defend the development of a program to allow the road dumping of drilling wastewater across the state under new conventional drilling regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2025

DEP said Laurel Mountain Production also never complied with the basic requirement to register the impoundment with the agency since it was constructed in 2017 as required by state regulations. It was completed by August 2017, according to DEP eFACTs records. DEP classified the facility as abandoned. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A claims settlement process in the 1970s jump-started discussions that resulted in the Whanganui River Claims Settlement Act 2017. Measuring Success As any lawyer knows, what is written in the regulation may have little bearing on what happens on the ground. These pose fundamental issues for traditional environmental law.

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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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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

With every spill, every fine for violating environmental rules, every increase in emissions, and every lobbying push for subsidies and looser environmental regulations, Edwards cements his place as a true master of fossil-fueled villainy. Let’s just say “safety first” isn’t quite their motto.

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The current EEG stems from 2017 and by that time some fundamental changes were made to the system, as discussed on this blog. Wind Farm Waste – Emerging Issues with Decommissioning and Waste Regulation in the EU, Denmark and the United Kingdom. F. , & Nieuwenhout, C. OGEL , 2018 (2).)

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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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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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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 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

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

On November 18, the Department of Environmental Protection formally notified the Independent Regulatory Review Commission it was withdrawing the final regulation changing the water quality standard for manganese, ending the rulemaking process. Read More here. Click Here for a copy of DEP’s withdrawal letter.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 2, 2023

According to the last Census of Agriculture in 2017, agricultural land is still primarily owned by families and individuals (201.5 There is also a patchwork of regulations and disclosure requirements at the state level, and some states limit or have proposed banning certain foreign entities from acquiring agricultural land. percent.

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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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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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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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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

On September 15, the Independent Regulatory Review Commission voted 4 to 1 to disapprove the final Environmental Quality Board regulation setting a water quality standard for manganese DEP said would protect public health and aquatic life. Read more here. DEP will not make a decision until the IRRC sends them a formal disapproval letter.

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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

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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Million For Drilling Violations In Greene, Clearfield Counties [January 2018] -- DEP Assesses CNX Gas Drilling $433,500 For Violations In Greene County [January 2018] -- DEP Issues Cabot Oil & Gas $99,000 Penalty For Numerous Well Site Air Quality Violations In Susquehanna County [December 2017] -- EHB Issues $1.1

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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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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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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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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

OCTOBER 6, 2022

If the operator fails to perform adequate cleanup, state regulators confiscate the bond and use it to hire contractors to finish the job. Recent internal communications obtained by InsideClimate News show that Kentucky regulators are scrambling to deal with unresolved environmental violations at abandoned mine sites.

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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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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

DECEMBER 1, 2022

On December 1, Kurt Klapkowski, Acting Deputy Secretary for Oil and Gas Management, said he has ordered a “top to bottom review” of how DEP regulates underground natural gas storage areas as a result of the leak of 1 billion cubic feet of gas from the Equitrans Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area in Cambria County November 6 to 20.

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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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Circle of Blue

MAY 25, 2021

The Cross Creek Levee in Corcoran, CA was rebuilt in 2017 after having sunk seven feet since 1983. And there was the levee that was rebuilt for $10 million in 2017. The levee had sunk from 195 feet when it was built in 1983 to 188 feet in 2017. was built has been slowly. Photo by Ryan Christopher Jones.

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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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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 28, 2021

A new report from the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) found a sizeable gap between groundwater management regulations and implementation. The CAG report also found that over-extraction of groundwater increased from 2004 to 2017, and units deemed safe for groundwater use have decreased. . 920 THOUSAND . 8 BILLION .

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