PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

By Cindy Adams Dunn, Secretary of DCNR In 2018 at the Lancaster County farm for the kickoff of the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership , I remember thinking about what an ambitious challenge planting that many trees would be and how important reaching that goal is for clean rivers and streams in Pennsylvania. Read more here.]

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Clean Energy Law

JULY 16, 2019

EPA’s first rulemaking under Section 108(b), for the Hardrock Mining sector, was not completed until 2018, so minimal precedent exists under Section 108(b). Moreover, pending litigation challenging EPA’s 2018 findings creates uncertainty regarding how a court will view EPA’s authority under this provision. State law requirements.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 26, 2016

The judgment is the latest in a suit the EPA filed against CITGO under the Clean Water Act for a 2006 spill at the oil company’s St. District Court Judge Richard Haik found CITGO negligent, and, based on the factors in the Clean Water Act, imposed a $6 million civil penalty. Charles refinery. Year in Rev.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 16, 2019

In 2018, a host of lawsuits wound their way through the courts seeking an answer, including several from localities and states alleging the responsibility of fossil fuel companies. But what actions does the law require these facilities to take on their own to prepare for climate change and should those requirements be set higher?

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Environment, Law, and History

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Pittsburgh Press, 2018). Newton writes that Spezio explores the relationships between oil pollution and political changes in the 1970s and asks how the Santa Barbara oil spill became a watershed moment in the history of environmental and science policy in the US, especially in regard to the Clean Water Act of 1972 (CWA).

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A study by the Environmental Law and Policy Center in Chicago and the Washington, D.C.-based based Environmental Working Group identified 775 CAFOs in the western Lake Erie basin in 2018, 230 more than in 2005. Department of Agriculture Publications and National Center for Water Quality, Heidelberg University.

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Smith Enviorment

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

September 23, 2018. Some of the environmental challenges: Disabled water treatment and wastewater treatment systems. Unfortunately, storms never sort debris and efforts to clean out flooded homes often create piles of trash that include both hazardous and non-hazardous materials. Under state law (G.S. Animal waste.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Sponsored Content.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

9 Percent : Share of polluters that did not meet their Clean Water Act discharge permit this year, according to the EPA. The non-compliance rate dropped by more than half since 2018, exceeding the agency’s goal. By the Numbers. About 46,000 facilities are regulated under such permits. News Briefs.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counts 1,921 pediatric cancer cases in the state between 1999 and 2018, about 100 per year. An investigation by Circle of Blue uncovered compelling evidence for why — agrochemical contamination in Nebraska’s surface, ground, and drinking water. There are others across Nebraska.

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Acoel

MAY 17, 2022

My mind went back to law school and Marbury v. EPA seeking clarification on the agency’s position on bacteria mixing zones and wet weather blending [1] under the Clean Water Act. EPA even began work on a new blending rule in 2018, taking public comment and holding a series of public meetings ahead of issuing a proposal.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 2, 2022

billion infrastructure package that allocated federal funds that Congress had appropriated in the last two years in the American Rescue Plan Act and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Already there is evidence that certain Michigan households are breaking under the strain of high water costs. . In March, Gov.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2018, the company announced plans to build a $10 billion complex named ‘The Sunshine Project,’ with 10 chemical manufacturing plants, in St. PVC plants operated by Formosa in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and in Point Comfort, Texas, have also been subject to numerous protests over pollution and elevated cancer rates. billion complex in St.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

In its friend of the court brief in the Idaho case, the American Petroleum Association, the American Gas Association, and the Association for Oil Pipelines complained that the Clean Water Act led to a permitting system so “onerous” that the failure to obtain a permit after years of waiting “can be ruinous.”

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. applied federal common law. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate at gmail dot com.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

It is a practice and a philosophy, utilizing scientific tools and methods with applied ethics, and, where necessary, regulation and environmental law to limit the use of certain materials. The first conservation laws came in then, making it illegal to fell a teak tree under a certain size. The War Between Preservation and Conservation.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice They are expensive, in many cases experimental, and take a long time to work. The association also built a state-of-the art water quality monitoring network across the lake’s 192 square-mile watershed. But the Platte Lake advocates did not rely on federal law.

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Smith Enviorment

JUNE 4, 2021

It also isn’t clear how easy it would be under existing state and federal energy laws to get approval of a project based solely on creating redundancy in the system. Pipeline construction often requires a Clean Water Act Sec. 401 of the Clean Water Act, an applicant for a Sec.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

I nvestigative website O Joio e O Trigo calculated that JBS slaughterhouses in Brazil averaged seven work accidents a day between 2018 and 2020 with regular reports of severe injuries and horrific deaths. JBS also has a history of poor safety practices in the workplace.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

I nvestigative website O Joio e O Trigo calculated that JBS slaughterhouses in Brazil averaged seven work accidents a day between 2018 and 2020 with regular reports of severe injuries and horrific deaths. JBS also has a history of poor safety practices in the workplace.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

There is nothing attractive, though, about Lake Erie’s annual algal bloom, or the harmful blooms that now contaminate so many of America’s iconic waters, among them the Chesapeake Bay, Lake Okeechobee, Lake Champlain, and California’s Clear Lake. These nutrients are the source of some of the nation’s worst water pollution. .

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Supreme Court to resolve an important question about how the federal Clean Water Act (CWA) applies to groundwater. Under the act’s National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (. meaning that sometime next year the court may well issue a major decision on the scope of the Clean Water Act.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sent the 2018 Renewable Fuel Standards rule back to EPA after finding that EPA failed to comply with requirements of the Endangered Species Act.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2018 rule in which EPA decided to expand the D.C. In ruling on the challenge to the 2018 rule, the D.C.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

15 Million : Criminal fine that Summit Midstream Partners LLC will pay after being found guilty of violating the Clean Water Act for spilling 29 million gallons of oilfield wastewater. Farms instead would undertake broad “water assessments” that evaluate and address potential contaminant sources farm-wide. coli outbreak.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The cities also have filed a motion to amend their complaints to withdraw federal common law public nuisance claims that they added after the district court denied remand.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ motion to hold in abeyance a case challenging the Trump administration’s rules defining “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded Law and policy treat farms as special class of polluter. Fifty years ago the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was signed and the Clean Water Act was enacted to clear pollution from the region’s waters. Photographs by J.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. First Circuit Certified State Law Preemption Questions in Case Challenging Local Ordinance Prohibiting Crude Oil Loading at Harbor. and non-U.S. 19-50178 (5th Cir.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The rule took effect on January 17, 2017; on June 15, 2017, BLM issued a notice of postponement of January 17, 2018 compliance dates.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 5, 2024

Healthy soil, Photo credit: USDA Editor’s Note: This is the first post in a multi-part blog series analyzing the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024, which was reported out of the House Agriculture Committee on May 24. Failed by roll call vote along party lines, all Republicans (29) opposed – all Democrats (25) in favor.

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ESA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

EPA, Ruling Could Impact the Definition of “Waters of the U.S.”. ESA and other scientific societies file brief arguing that the interpretation of the Clean Water Act is inherently founded on science. 8965) that would reauthorize existing control of aquatic plant growths and invasive species law through fiscal year 2028.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. By Margaret Barry and Korey Silverman-Roati. and non-U.S. climate litigation charts. If you know of any cases we have missed, please email us at columbiaclimate@gmail.com.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The risk evaluation’s conclusions that consumer uses do not present an unreasonable risk could preempt state-level restrictions on 1,4-dioxane in personal care, cosmetic, and cleaning products such as restrictions enacted by New York in 2019.[[N:N.Y. Law §§ 35-0105, 37-0115.]]. 14560 (Mar. 17, 2021).]]

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

Supreme Court reinstates Trump administration Clean Water Act regulation. Failure to act means tough choices in the future. After a two-year listening session, Huffman introduced a bill overhauling the nation’s fishing laws ( H.R. The Magnuson Stevens Act is the main law governing U.S. International.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 3, 2023

News Briefs Congress Passes Resolution to Overturn Administration’s Clean Water Rules The Senate joined the House in passing a resolution to overturn the Biden administration’s rules for determining which water bodies are protected by the federal Clean Water Act. The bill was first introduced in 2018.

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