Law Columbia

APRIL 8, 2022

3156-B providing environmental protection amendments to Articles 9 and 41 of the Italian Constitution. The reform follows a global trend of increasing recognition of new obligations and rights in the field of environmental protection. 179/2019 ). By Riccardo Luporini, Matteo Fermeglia, and Maria Antonia Tigre.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 2, 2021

percent of disposable income on water and sewer in 2019, up from 10.9 Environmental Protection Agency when utilities assess the cost of controlling sewage pollution. Teodoro, who co-authored the 2019 national water affordability study, has offered alternatives to the percent-of-income metric. percent two years earlier.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates emissions of EtO, yet the agency is years behind on updating standards and control requirements, despite mounting evidence of the harm of long-term EtO exposure. Workers at these facilities and children who are exposed are especially at risk.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Nearly $5 billion in federal grants from the US Environmental Protection Agency’s 2024 Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program is also a source of the influx of clean energy funding. billion in clean energy tax credits as of May 2024. This moment has been nearly two years in the making,” said Endowments President Chris DeCardy.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

On March 14, the Attorney General opened another investigation into Energy Transfer/Sunoco into potential environmental crimes related to the Energy Transfer/Sunoco pipeline that leaked petroleum into household wells in Upper Makefield Township, Bucks County. Environmental Protection Agency. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2025

Impoundments like this must be restored no later than 9 months after their final use, which in this case would have been by February 12, 2019. DEP inspection report. -- January 19, 2018 , no violations. Laurel Mountain Production holds 29 permits for shale gas well pads, water withdrawals, and water pipelines, according to eFACTS.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

The Department of Environmental Protection will hold a March 24 hearing on a revision to an Industrial Minerals (noncoal) Mining permit for the Perkiomenville Quality owned by Highway Materials LLC in Marlborough Township, Montgomery County. ( PA Bulletin, page 2019 ) The revised permit would increase the acreage by 1.3

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Endangered Species Law

DECEMBER 27, 2022

On December 21, 2022, the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Lead author Adam Gold , a watershed researcher for the Environmental Defense Fund, said the wild uncertainty is because the court arbitrarily created a new standard for federal protection divorced from the science of how wetlands support larger streams, rivers, lakes and the ocean. Photo by Derrick Z.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

That time period includes unusually high crop losses in the Midwest due to drought in 2012 and flooding in 2019. The report was published by the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit research organization. Environmental Protection Agency is supposed to review national drinking water standards to consider whether updates are needed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In contrast, V-SCI is the passion project of an all volunteer group of graduate students, formed in 2019. The most useful evidence to support legal actions demonstrate violations of environmental protections afforded by laws like the Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, ENVIRONMENT HAMILTON, STOP SPRAWL HAMONT. Decision will be a template for reconciling environmental protection with new “market based” planning rules . Hamilton City Council declared a Climate Emergency in 2019. Hamilton, Ont.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Nancy Kline (2017) Chautauqua Energy (2017) CNX Gas (2016) Cobra Resources 2019; 2021) D & M Energy (2019; 2020) Dannic Energy Corp (2016; 021) Deitz Gas & Oil (2017) Dev Well, Inc (2017) Diversified Oil & Gas (2017; 2018; 2019) Diversified Prod (2018; 2020; 2021) Donald D. 2016; 2017) IA Const Corp (2020) John H.

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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.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency releases a plan to improve water infrastructure and sanitation for Native American tribes. New Yorkers have a chance to enshrine environmental protections in their state constitution, potentially reviving a legal movement that flourished in the United States a half-century ago.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 8, 2021

As Chile begins to rewrite its constitution, environmental activists center water rights and other environmental protections. City officials said residents owe over $25 million in unpaid water bills, some of which date back to 2019. Black carbon deposits are speeding up glacial melting in the Himalaya , a new report says.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Over the last two weeks, the Department of Environmental Protection issued Bialy Gas Production LLC 36 violations for abandoning conventional oil and gas wells they own, bringing the total of violations for conventional well abandonment to 96 for this year covering 36 different well owners. Inactive status expired on February 7, 2019.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency links proximity to agricultural land to high levels of toxic algal blooms in Midwestern lakes. million gallons of water during 2020, only one million less than during 2019, when tourism peaked on the island. A study from the S. The neighborhood of Waikiki reportedly consumed 2.5 369 LAKES .

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 7, 2025

At the same time, Pennsylvania generates almost four times the amount of energy from the sun compared to five years ago in 2019, putting it in the middle of the pack (26th) behind neighboring states like New York (9th), New Jersey (13th), Maryland (23rd) and even Ohio (16th). GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 3, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its 2020 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) National Analysis, which shows that environmental releases of TRI chemicals by facilities covered by the program declined by 10% between 2019 and 2020. Today, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Read more here.] -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - November 18 [PaEN] -- The Department of Environmental Protection is inviting comments on the renewal of a residual waste processing permit for the Danco Industries, Inc. facility in Barkeyville Boro, Venango County. (

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In 2019, EPA geochemist Rick Wilkin, helped to develop three teams to focus on treatment, characterization, and risk management of PFAS in groundwater. Read the full story from U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

On September 19, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it is ramping up monitoring and plans to develop a surface water standard for PFAS 'forever chemicals' after a DEP/U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s PFAS Guidelines -- Association of State and Territorial Health Officials’ PFAS Risk Communications Hub -- U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2025

Surface coal mine operators were in the same position before a comprehensive framework of financial assurance and modern environmental protection standards were adopted in the late 1970s and early 1980s. A March 28, 2019 DEP inspection report found no change in site conditions from the original July 18, 2018 inspection.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

The county began its Water Quality Monitoring program in 2020, following a 2019 report from the Department of Environmental Protection that claimed York County was the second-highest contributor to key pollutants of nitrogen, phosphorous and sediment entering the Susquehanna River and the Chesapeake Bay.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2008 ) PA Bulletin - March 8, 2025 Note: The Department of Environmental Protection published 92 pages of public notices related to proposed and final permit and approval/ disapproval actions in the March 8 PA Bulletin - pages 1930 to 2022. The revised permit would increase the acreage by 1.3 Luzerne County. (

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Anti-wind groups under the guise of environmental protection are connected to a fossil fuel-friendly think tank , e.g., Protect our Oceans NJ, Save Long Beach Island , and Nantucket Residents Against Turbines ( ACKRATS ). Fortunately, Maine is up to the challenge.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2024

Information provided by the Department of Environmental Protection in response to a Right to Know request shows DEP took major enforcement actions against 26 shale gas drilling and pipeline companies in 2023, including imposing $2,290,849 in penalties for violations going back to 2018.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. This is therefore what Shell must do (oddly enough relative to 2019) in order to act in line with its own “policy, policy intentions and ambitions.”. In the US, for instance, Massachusetts v. These lawsuits face three key barriers.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2023

Instead, the broken process led to controversy and political gridlock – and a loss of public trust in Canada’s environmental laws and the decisions being made. When the new law was finally introduced in 2019, environmental groups didn’t get everything we wanted, but it did make some important improvements.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2021

percent of disposable income on water and sewer in 2019, up from 10.9 Environmental Protection Agency when utilities assess the cost of controlling sewage pollution. A national affordability study found that a four-person household in the bottom 20 percent of the income distribution paid an average of 12.4

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Vermont Law

APRIL 23, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency (City and County of San Francisco), the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that the U. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) acted without statutory authority for the regulation of water pollution under the Clean Water Act (CWA or the Act).

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2023

Background In December 2019, Erie Coke [Coal] Plant locked out its employees and shuttered the plant in the face of significant and continuing environmental violations. Photo: Department of Environmental Protection.) Questions should be directed to: plupo@neighborhoodarthouse.org or call 814-490-3108. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 20, 2023

million dollars per year in farmworker health research projects between fiscal years 2019 and 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2025

On March 25, the Department of Environmental Protection was called to the scene of a conventional well explosion in East Huntingdon Township, Westmoreland County. The well-- Wissinger 001-- is owned by Kriebel Natural Gas Co. LLC that also had a conventional gas well explosion and fire on March 19 in Manor Borough, Westmoreland County.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2024

Construction of the pipeline, which spanned through Washington, Allegheny and Beaver Counties, began in January 2019 and brings ethane feedstock from natural gas to the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County. [In Construction of the pipeline, which spanned through Washington, Allegheny and Beaver Counties, began in January 2019.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

On September 9, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has begun an environmental investigation at the former Erie Coke Inc. When Erie Coke shut down in December 2019, DEP successfully sought a court order to freeze $1 million of Erie Coke’s finances for use in removing waste from the site.

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