PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

On November 18, the Public Utility Commission approved a settlement related to a massive pipeline failure and fire in Beaver County in 2018 involving the “Revolution Pipeline” – resulting in nearly $2 million in civil penalties and additional preventative measures required by the pipeline operator. Early on the morning of Sept.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Reducing the harm of eviction post-disaster In the days and weeks after a disaster, the priority for all levels of government should be meeting people’s immediate needs and stabilizing communities. Every state hit by disaster has the ability to request assistance from the federal government and enact its own emergency plan.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

President-elect Gabriel Boric’s new government must address issues of decarbonisation, water crisis and lithium nationalisation, all while rewriting the country’s constitution. In our government, it will be a priority to avoid this destruction and to have development that is compatible with the environment.”. By Francisco Parra Galaz

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In a recent opinion released by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the court declined to vacate a deficient environmental impact statement (“EIS”) prepared in connection with two offshore lease sales held in 2018, the records of decision announcing the sales, or the leases issued.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2022

However, this total is still short of 2018 revenue of $251.8 million, 2018 $251.8 million 2021 revenue will be divided primarily for these uses-- -- Local Governments & Housing: $129.3 On January 18, the Independent Fiscal Office issued a report estimating the Act 13 drilling impact fee revenue will total $233.8 million.

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ESA

JANUARY 14, 2022

As you may recall, ESA formally made the latest in a series of changes to our Bylaws, as recommended by the Governing Board and adopted by the ESA Council last August. The new Council Structure provides a greater voice of the membership to strategic directions of ESA and enhanced exchange with the ESA Governing Board and staff.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Since 1999, after the Chinese government approved the reactor plans, TVEL, Russia’s nuclear fuel company and a Rosatom subsidiary, worked with the China Institute of Atomic Energy to supply highly enriched uranium fuel (64.4% In 2018, Russia agreed to supply fuel for the CFR-600 for seven years. U-235) for China’s CEFR.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 13, 2021

First Nations groups in Australia plead the federal government to distribute $40 million promised to them in 2018 for to buy water. First Nations groups in Australia are calling on the federal government to deliver the $40 million promised in 2018 to buy water supplies. state of Georgia. 40 MILLION . Schools in the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 20, 2022

Government dysfunction has multiplied drought risks. Water levels behind Impofu Dam — which forms the second-largest reservoir in Nelson Mandela Bay district — dropped too low for extraction on June 13, according to data released by the local government. The national government has taken over in a last-minute bid to avert disaster.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 5, 2023

Governments are, it seems, beginning to listen to the growing chorus of scientists who have warned that deploying CDR is essential to avoid catastrophic climate change. Government funding for research and deployment of CDR is increasing. Yet, key issues around definitions, guidance, and climate governance remain.

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Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For France, the “Affaire du Siècle” case was filed in the Administrative Court of Paris in May 2019 by four NGOs against the government for its failure to act on climate change. As a result, the Conseil d’Etat requested the government to justify how the reduction path to 2030 can be respected without stricter measures.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

But large-scale battery storage has actually gotten much safer in recent years, with the failure rate dropping 97% between 2018 and 2023. Governments and developers should work to educate the public about the safety mechanisms incorporated into battery storage systems. First responders have been injured.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments. As in the US, Australia’s climate policy was long a victim of a lengthy period of divided government and political upheaval. As in the United States, state governments made some effort to pick up the slack.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Taken together, the need for governments to meaningfully regulate these super polluters has never been clearer. Advisory opinions provide a court or judge’s interpretation of a law, and are delivered in response to a question from an official, agency, or government.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 28, 2018

July 28, 2018. 14 of House Bill 374 (2018 Regulatory Reform Act) directs the Environmental Management Commission to study delegated local stormwater programs to identify: 1. local governments that enforce requirements exceeding those in state law, including requirements for inspection and maintenance of stormwater systems; and 2.

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Dario Piselli

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

As anticipated a few weeks ago, over the course of 2018 I had the pleasure of co-authoring an article on ‘Gridlock, Innovation and Resilience in Global Health Governance‘ with David Held, Ilona Kickbusch, Michaela Told and Kyle McNally.

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Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The German Federal Constitutional Court decided yesterday that the way in which compensation under the Atomic Energy Amendment Act of 10 July 2018 has been organized infringes the German constitution. It was initiated nine years ago, but now it comes back to haunt the German government with a vengeance.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 27, 2023

This is consistent with Sedona Principle 6, which has long recognized that “a responding party is best situated to preserve, search, and produce its own ESI.” The Sedona Principles for Addressing Electronic Document Production, 19 Sedona Conf.

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Environmental Law Centre

AUGUST 20, 2024

By June 2018, the federal government released a. Woodland caribou – an iconic Canadian species – has been legally recognized as a threatened species under Alberta’s Wildlife Act since 1985.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In South Africa, garbage and high levels of bacteria are contaminating the country’s rivers, and environmental activists are struggling to hold government officials accountable. However, even the South African government’s own data points to a disaster. The agreement stems from a change in Israeli government.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Last year, the California Legislature enacted SB 9 , which required local governments to allow duplexes (and with ADUs, sometimes triplexes and quadraplexes) in single-family zones. Photograph by Eli Pousson, 2018 April 24. Duplex: The NIMBY’s Nightmare. Baltimore Duplexes: Not Manhattan. That is ripe for a lawsuit.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2022

In another respect, though, there’s more similarity: in both countries, subnational governments play a key role in climate policy. Regional governments. Although ultimate power remains in the national Parliament, the national government has devolved certain powers to regional governments in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. The government proposes new measures to help meet the 2030 climate target, including 80% renewables by 2030. Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The new wave of litigation also arose from the urgency of combating the rise in deforestation under the right-wing-oriented President Jair Bolsonaro, who left the government in January 2023 for the return of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula). The decision was made in a lawsuit filed by four political parties (PSB et al.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

According to the White House , the National Climate Assessment is a critical resource for “[p]eople who make risk management decisions,” a large group that includes “local government officials, city planners, utility managers, healthcare providers, adaptation specialists, educators, farmers, and small business owners.” 175577 (Exhibit C).

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The government has plans to buy 200,000 tents for displaced families, officials say, and has dispersed $300 million in cash handouts. According to government figures, virtually every consumer price index continues to climb. World Food Program in Pakistan, told VOA News. “ has called for $150 million in international support.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Even so, it compares favorably with the national governments in places like the U.S. In 2021, South Korea set a target under the Paris Agreement of a 40% cut from 2018 levels by 2030. The government has also pledged that a third of new cars will be electric or hydrogen by 2030. What is South Korea doing to cut its emissions?

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Environmental Law Centre

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Since 2018, Alberta has had legislation which supports PACE programming via the Clean Energy Improvements Regulation (CEIP Regulation) and amendments to the Municipal Government Act (MGA).[1] 1] The amendments to the.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

Recent research by the Environmental Integrity Project on slaughterhouses that paid little to no fines for their illegal water pollution between 2016 and 2018 concluded that “penalties and enforcements are rare.” Importantly, the agency affirmed that affordable technologies exist to help slaughterhouses meet the proposed standards.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 14, 2022

A bare-chested old man lies in the emergency room of a government hospital in northeast Nigeria. At least 3,641 lives were lost to the crisis between 2016 and 2018, according to Amnesty International , with over half of the fatalities recorded in 2018 alone. We want the government to help us. Photo by Murtala Abdullahi.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

For more than a century, the United States has recognized this, and maintaining roads and bridges has been a core function of federal, state, and local governments. The federal government embraced a role in supporting transit in the 1970s, but this was cut back for the past 40 years and didn’t rebound until the pandemic.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Law 1931 of 2018 on climate change action. Resolution 40807 of 2018 of the Ministry of Mines and Energy on the Climate Change Management Plan for the Energy Sector. Likewise, the country has started to implement programs to mitigate GHG emissions and to promote REDD+ projects , all intending to achieve climate-related goals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 26, 2023

This year, many on the far-right are attempting to rebrand Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing as “woke capitalism.” While ExxonMobil left ALEC in 2018 , Chevron includes ALEC on its most recent list of trade association memberships , and the company has even sponsored the organization’s annual meetings.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

3), upheld the City of Livermore’s (“City”) approval of a 130-unit affordable housing project on a downtown infill site and its accompanying determination that the project was CEQA-exempt under Government Code section 65457 (“Section 65457”). ( Save Livermore Downtown v. City of Livermore (2023) __ Cal.App.5th__ 5th__ (“ SLD” ).)

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Canadian officials urge the federal government to spend more money on water projects in Indigenous communities. While residents in an impoverished village in South Africa go without running water and plumbing, its government built community centers that have gone unused. percent in 2018. IN RECENT WATER NEWS. 138 MILLION.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

It’s not going to be enough for the federal government to push money out the door and be hands off about it,” Dr. Cleetus states. “We Field and Israel were energized by the swift progress in Maine since 2018, noting, “it is possible to work towards climate resilience quickly and effectively.”

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 19, 2022

But today, there is virtually no climate policy in place in the province, and the Ontario government has resorted to becoming a climate pretender. In fact, practically nothing from the 2018 Made-in-Ontario Environment Plan has been implemented. Once upon a time, Ontario was a provincial leader in fighting climate change.

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