Sunday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 5.14.23
PA Environment Daily
MAY 14, 2023
Shapiro -- Observer-Reporter: Former Washington County Couple Sentenced To Federal Prison For Crimes Related To Assault On U.S.
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New Analysis Shows Truck Manufacturers’ Scare Tactic Just a Bunch of Hot Air
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
The two industry-funded studies ( NERA 2008 and ACT Research 2022 ) claim much higher impact on sales than either the academic (RZW 2018) or government ( EPA 2021 ) studies. Industry has spent years pushing for weaker regulations and continues to advocate for the worst possible outcome for the communities inundated by freight pollution.
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Lessons Learned from Philadelphia Refinery Closure
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 27, 2023
The refinery was a major polluter, according to 2019 report by the City of Philadelphia it was the largest stationary source of air pollution and the largest single emitter of toxic pollutants in Philadelphia, accounting for 57% of total toxic emissions from larger sources in Philadelphia in 2016 including benzene and other known carcinogens.
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Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 3.30.23
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 30, 2023
Steel Reaches Tentative Settlement Over Air Pollution Following 2018 Fire At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Plant [No Specifics Yet] -- WHYY: Philly Officials Say Water Is Safe After Bucks County Chemical Spill, How Do We Know That? -- NextPittsburgh: DEP Awards $3.7
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Guest Post: Climate Litigation in Japan: Citizens’ Attempts for the Coal Phase-Out
Law Columbia
JUNE 1, 2022
Civil lawsuits were filed in Sendai in 2017 and Kobe in 2018 by citizens against corporations that planned to build new coal-fired power plants. In September 2018, in Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. (Judgments and English summaries are found in the Sabin Center’s Climate Change Litigation Database.).
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Files Lawsuit To Stop Northcentral Regional ATV Trail Connector Project As Violation Of Public Trust Responsibilities
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 14, 2021
Background As part of the state budget settlement in 2018 and 2020, provisions were added to Section 1720-E of the Fiscal Code mandating DCNR develop new ATV trails using State Forest roads and State or local roads under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation or political subdivisions of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
A look back at significant decisions in climate litigation in 2022
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 22, 2022
The cities argued that the regulation would prevent them from imposing restrictions on the circulation of passenger vehicles in relation to their air pollutant emissions. In 2018, the General Court partially upheld the actions, prompting an appeal from the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
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KlimaSeniorinnen and Gender
Law Columbia
MAY 9, 2024
The OHCHR found that more older women are likely to live alone, experience higher levels of poverty, and face disproportionate health risks, including from air pollution harms and extreme heat events. Similarly, General Recommendation No.
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Income-targeted environmental policies, Episode 2
Legal Planet
MAY 19, 2022
TOC has been billed as a double-win : it encourages new housing to be located near public transit—a boon for climate, local air pollution, and traffic—and it creates more “affordable housing.”. While this is politically difficult, or maybe impossible, it is important to understand how far short our current affordability programs fall.
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US oil company ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ climate proposals
Corp Watch
JANUARY 23, 2024
Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.
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Mercenary hackers stole data that Exxon later cited in climate lawsuits -US prosecutors
Corp Watch
NOVEMBER 7, 2023
Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.
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French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil
Corp Watch
MARCH 8, 2024
In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in 2013.
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Oil Giant's AFCON Sponsorship Denounced as Plot to Set Off Carbon Bombs Across Africa
Corp Watch
JANUARY 17, 2024
In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in 2013.
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Court orders 42 Ugandan families evicted to make way for oil project
Corp Watch
JANUARY 2, 2024
In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in 2013.
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Climate of fear: TotalEnergies implicated in repression of land and environmental defenders in East Africa
Corp Watch
DECEMBER 14, 2023
In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in 2013.
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Climate groups call for funding withdrawal of TotalEnergies’ Mozambique project
Corp Watch
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in 2013.
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South Africa gives go-ahead for TotalEnergies to drill offshore
Corp Watch
OCTOBER 19, 2023
In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in 2013.
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Green groups target TotalEnergies over Tanzania, Uganda projects
Corp Watch
OCTOBER 16, 2023
In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in 2013.
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Coalition of environmental groups calls for a federal ban on thermal coal exports on Earth Day
Enviromental Defense
APRIL 19, 2022
According to the International Energy Agency , coal is “the single largest source of global temperature increase” in 2018. . Over the past year, tens of thousands of people across Canada have signed petitions and sent letters to political leaders urging them to ban thermal coal exports by 2023. .
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State “Climate Superfund” Bills: What You Need to Know
Law Columbia
MARCH 14, 2024
The Climate Superfund bills have already attracted vicious opposition from the fossil fuel industry and its political allies and, if passed, will inevitably face vigorous legal challenges. Each bill addresses emissions over roughly the same period—2000 to 2018 in Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York, and 2000 to 2019 in Vermont.
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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
Indoor air (pollution) : coming under OSHA rather than EPA, there are laws in place to ensure that employees work in a clean and safe environment with good ventilation. Indoor air is anything contained with a building. The first and most visible way in which the public is aware of and engaged with environmental law is pollution.
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Explainer: China launches first national soil survey in 40 years
A Greener Life
AUGUST 22, 2022
Comparison with the results of the second soil survey indicated that three decades of rapid economic growth had also meant rapid pollution of China’s land. In 2018, results were published from the survey of pollution of agricultural land, which again warned of pollution risks in some soil. Photo credit: Alamy.
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Why Congress Should Pass the A. Donald McEachin Environmental Justice for All Act
Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 2, 2023
Donald McEachin, who co-led the inception of this legislation starting in 2018 and was a fierce champion for environmental justice all his life. That was his way as a political leader: working tirelessly and proactively to make connections and fight to ensure everyone had the right to a safe and healthy environment.
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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts
Law Columbia
JULY 6, 2017
These potential intervenors alleged that the additional emissions during the stay period would harm their interest in protecting their residents from the effects of air pollution and climate change. The magistrate judge’s order also set the trial to begin on February 5, 2018. Exxon Mobil Corp. Schneiderman , No.
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Ask a Scientist: Chemical Safety Matters for Real People’s Lives—The Ethylene Oxide Story
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 10, 2024
We began to investigate ethylene oxide risks in 2018 after speaking to lawmakers and community advocates in Illinois. The combination of legal obligation, public pressure and attention, and political will under the Biden administration is what I think finally tipped the scales for action at the federal level.
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What Do Pig Pens Have To Do With Environmental Law?
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2022
The National Pork Producers Council litigation arises from an initiative measure–Proposition 12–that California voters passed overwhelmingly in 2018. beyond their political borders. –in which various farm animals–including pigs–are confined.
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Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison
Corp Watch
JANUARY 17, 2024
In 2012, the company became infamous again when it unsuccessfully sued Ben-Jei Tsuang, a professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Chun Hsing University, who published a paper linking high cancer rates in Mailiao, Taiwan, to toxic dioxin and heavy metals air pollution from the Six Naphtha Cracking plant.
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Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta
Corp Watch
MARCH 1, 2024
Shell ends National Gallery sponsorship – to delight of campaigners Adam Vaughan | The Guardian | October 19, 2018 Shell has ended its 12-year sponsorship of the National Gallery, to the delight of campaigners who have fought to keep fossil fuel financing out of the arts. Slick PR can’t disguise Shell's devastating oil pollution in Nigeria.
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Address Impact Of Operations In Niger Delta Before Selling SPDC – CSOs Tell Shell
Corp Watch
JANUARY 26, 2024
Shell ends National Gallery sponsorship – to delight of campaigners Adam Vaughan | The Guardian | October 19, 2018 Shell has ended its 12-year sponsorship of the National Gallery, to the delight of campaigners who have fought to keep fossil fuel financing out of the arts. Slick PR can’t disguise Shell's devastating oil pollution in Nigeria.
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New Shell documents could aid climate cases, attorneys say
Corp Watch
JANUARY 25, 2024
Shell ends National Gallery sponsorship – to delight of campaigners Adam Vaughan | The Guardian | October 19, 2018 Shell has ended its 12-year sponsorship of the National Gallery, to the delight of campaigners who have fought to keep fossil fuel financing out of the arts. Slick PR can’t disguise Shell's devastating oil pollution in Nigeria.
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Shell faces shareholder rebellion over climate activist resolution
Corp Watch
JANUARY 17, 2024
Shell ends National Gallery sponsorship – to delight of campaigners Adam Vaughan | The Guardian | October 19, 2018 Shell has ended its 12-year sponsorship of the National Gallery, to the delight of campaigners who have fought to keep fossil fuel financing out of the arts. Slick PR can’t disguise Shell's devastating oil pollution in Nigeria.
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Allegations of extensive sexual abuse at Kenyan offsetting project used by Shell and Netflix
Corp Watch
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
Shell ends National Gallery sponsorship – to delight of campaigners Adam Vaughan | The Guardian | October 19, 2018 Shell has ended its 12-year sponsorship of the National Gallery, to the delight of campaigners who have fought to keep fossil fuel financing out of the arts. Slick PR can’t disguise Shell's devastating oil pollution in Nigeria.
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Shell angers climate activists with plan for $23bn shareholder payout
Corp Watch
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
Shell ends National Gallery sponsorship – to delight of campaigners Adam Vaughan | The Guardian | October 19, 2018 Shell has ended its 12-year sponsorship of the National Gallery, to the delight of campaigners who have fought to keep fossil fuel financing out of the arts. Slick PR can’t disguise Shell's devastating oil pollution in Nigeria.
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Shell called out for promoting fossil fuels to youth via Fortnite game
Corp Watch
OCTOBER 13, 2023
Shell ends National Gallery sponsorship – to delight of campaigners Adam Vaughan | The Guardian | October 19, 2018 Shell has ended its 12-year sponsorship of the National Gallery, to the delight of campaigners who have fought to keep fossil fuel financing out of the arts. Slick PR can’t disguise Shell's devastating oil pollution in Nigeria.
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Brazil: Volkswagen will pay more than R$10 million in labor lawsuits
Corp Watch
JANUARY 4, 2024
Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.
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VW owners affected by "Dieselgate" in Switzerland will not receive compensation
Corp Watch
JANUARY 4, 2024
Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.
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Germany: Scandal at Volkswagen subsidiary MOIA: The company is refusing to sign a collective agreement, but gets millions in state subsidies
Corp Watch
JANUARY 4, 2024
Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.
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Germany: Workers at VW subsidiary Cariad protest against job cuts
Corp Watch
JANUARY 4, 2024
Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.
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China: Volkswagen under fire after audit finds no evidence of Uyghur forced labor
Corp Watch
JANUARY 4, 2024
Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.
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VW Escapes Multiple Fines In EU Over Emissions Scandal
Corp Watch
JANUARY 4, 2024
Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.
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EU fines Volkswagen, BMW $1 bln for emissions cartel
Corp Watch
JANUARY 4, 2024
Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.
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UAW files unfair labor practice charges against Hyundai, Honda and Volkswagen
Corp Watch
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.
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Inspired by Strike Wins, 1,000 Volkswagen Workers Sign Union Cards
Corp Watch
DECEMBER 12, 2023
Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. but virtually nothing in Europe.
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Gov. Shapiro, CNX Natural Gas Company Sign Statement Of Mutual Interests To Monitor Air Emissions At Drill Sites, Extend Safety Setbacks While Data Is Being Collected; DEP To Move Ahead With Some Reg Changes
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
Folks who dealt with contaminated water and air pollution and suffered severe health consequences that they believed were a result of fracking happening near their homes.” “Now, Shapiro concluded his remarks at the announcement by saying, “Look, there are far too many people demigoding in our politics today.
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