Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2021

At a contentious board hearing on May 7, 2021, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) approved a first-in-the-nation rule to regulate trucking emissions from warehouses by a 9-4 vote. Bledsoe and Jennifer Garlock. the actions must be surplus to other regulatory requirements at the time they are used for compliance).

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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. There is similar lack of regulation on the nitrogen-rich manure produced by contemporary animal agriculture. If the U.S.

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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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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. But now it’s unclear what protections they have.”

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 21, 2024

On June 20, the Independent Regulatory Review Commission gave its unanimous approval to revised final Public Utilities Commission Regulations strengthening state public utility safety standards related to the pipeline transport of hazardous liquids in intrastate commerce. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

In the face of disappointing legislation and regulation, activists have increasingly turned to courts in the last fifteen years. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. However, given the unprecedentedruling’s questionable logic, I doubt that it stand on appeal.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2025

Its a long and difficult story, but it illustrates the typical lack of resources thousands of conventional oil and gas well owners have to properly operate their wells in compliance with state law and regulations. 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

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. Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

On November 30, the Environmental Quality Board voted 15 to 2 to approve the emergency regulation setting VOC/methane emission limits for conventional oil and gas facilities. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) voted no on the regulation. Representatives for Sen. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) and Rep. Read more here. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In Uganda, national regulators are cracking down on the illegal destruction of wetlands in an attempt to reduce flood risk in the east African country. Regulators are keen to act because wetlands reduce flood risk by absorbing heavy rains. percent of disposable income on water and sewer in 2019, up from 10.9 Transcript.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has known for years that emissions of ethylene oxide —a colorless, odorless gas used to sterilize medical equipment and some food products—pose a long-term cancer risk to communities near commercial sterilizing facilities. This is a blatant example of environmental injustice.

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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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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It has left Benton Harbor with a water treatment plant in such disarray that regulators say it can’t reliably produce clean water, even before that water is shunted into a delivery system that includes pipes made of toxic metal. Environmental Protection Agency flagged a host of new, alarming deficiencies.

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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. Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

On April 7, the Department of Environmental Protection appealed the April 6 Commonwealth Court order blocking publication of the final regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to the PA Supreme Court. Read more here. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

One critical tool for forcing that reckoning comes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Section 111 employs a two-phase process where, once EPA moves to regulate pollution from a new source—here, power plants—(111(b)), it is then required to regulate that pollution from existing sources, too (111(d)).

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2023

The main pieces of legislation are the Environmental Protection Act , the Ontario Water Resources Act , and federally, the Fisheries Act. The Nutrient Management Act regulations are also most restrictive for winter applications. Satellite photo by NOAA, 2019 What more needs to be done?

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. In other words, if an action was required for compliance with a regulation, then WAIRE Points cannot be generated.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Voters in southeastern Arizona delivered a split decision on the question of groundwater regulation. The Arizona Republic reports that voters in Cochise County approved regulations for the Douglas groundwater basin. Increase in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon in the 2019-2022 period compared to the three previous years.

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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. And that there are enforcement mechanisms to make sure that they don’t continue to occur.

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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

JULY 12, 2021

On July 12, the Department of Environmental Protection released a revision to the final regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants dealing with a single issue-- the legacy emissions provisions in Section 145.302 related to waste coal-fired power plant emissions.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 27, 2019

December 27, 2019. A short list of environmental and energy law changes compared to recent years: Fisheries. Regulations on siting and design of on-site wastewater systems (such as septic systems) have both a public health and environmental protection purpose. On-Site Wastewater. Vetoed Bills.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Hess, Former Secretary Department of Environmental Protection The information submitted to DEP’s Bureau of Waste Management from eight conventional oil and gas companies to justify allowing them to dispose of millions of gallons of wastewater by spreading it on dirt roads fails to meet the requirements of DEP’s 25 Pa Code Chapter 287.8

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2023

On January 20, the natural gas industry and Senate Republicans launched an effort to unleash the industry by reducing regulations, requiring automatic approval of permits and limiting opportunities for public review of permits at a hearing of the Senate Republican Policy Committee in Pittsburgh. Read more here.

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The Energy Law

JULY 15, 2021

Act 301 amends Louisiana Revised Statute § 30:1154 and requires the Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to develop regulations concerning minimum requirements for solar leases, including requirements for decommissioning and final site closure. [1] 6] See 2019 N.C. 1] [link]. [2] 2] [link]. [3] 4] [link]. [5]

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 26, 2021

Big Plastic wants to stop the federal government from regulating plastics under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA). million tonnes to single-use plastic waste around the world in 2019 alone. We hope to see regulations to ban six single-use plastic items by summer. NOVA is #21.

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Manning Law

JUNE 11, 2020

a fuel supplier based in Western Canada, was fined $200,000 in the Provincial Court of British Columbia after pleading guilty on June 17, 2019, to five counts of transferring petroleum products into a storage-tank system where storage-tank-system identification numbers were not visible. The Regulatory Framework. Background.

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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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2022

On April 12, the Department of Environmental Protection and others submitted comments to the Public Utility Commission recommending ways to strengthen its regulations covering the safety of natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines. L-2019-3010267. L-2019-3010267. Click Here for a copy of DEP’s comments.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 13, 2022

On April 13, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has reached two agreements with PLPT Logistics Products Terminals, LLC (PLPT), for violations of the Storage Tank and Spill Prevention Act and the Clean Streams Law. PLPT Logistics operates a petroleum terminal on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The 1972 Clean Water Act immunizes crop farmers from government regulations to control agricultural runoff. EQIP pays for agricultural practices that are not environmentally beneficial,” wrote Michael Happ the report’s author, “or in some cases actively make the environment worse.”. Environmental Protection Agency.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2023

The Independent Regulatory Review Commission is scheduled to meet April 20 on final EQB emergency regulations setting emission limits on conventional oil and gas operations. The regulation was adopted by the Environmental Quality Board on November 30 and delivered to the IRRC on the same day. Read more here. Read more here.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, ECOJUSTICE, OCEANA CANADA. Industry opposition to regulating plastics is out of step with science and public opinion. Bronwyn Roe, lawyer, Ecojustice said: “It is well within the federal government’s authority to regulate plastic at all stages of its lifecycle.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Regrettably, this annual budget has shortchanged the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for many years. Reduced staffing has compromised the department’s ability to regulate oil and gas development, monitor and reduce air and water pollution and protect the Chesapeake Bay.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2023

That intentionally is a broad mandate, so it makes sense that Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) regulations protecting the environment also must be broad. The Commonwealth Court ruled partially in favor of the drillers in 2019, leading to the state government’s appeal that the Supreme Court ruled on April 19.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency finalized strong safeguards on wasteful and dangerous methane emissions that will significantly cut climate-warming pollution and associated air toxics. 16 [PaEN] -- Evangelical Environmental Network Delivers Over 36,000 Comments From Pro-Life Christians To Gov. Last December, the U.S.

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