Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

The CAA’s emphasis on not just “reduction” but “elimination” of pollutants begins in its preamble , where Congress highlights pollution prevention as a key strategy for air quality management and provides the legal foundation for states’ and local governments’ roles.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Founded in 1924 as the Compagnie Française des Pétroles (French Petroleum Company) with the support of the French government and banks, it was renamed Total in 1985. Total was fined $398 million in 2013 for bribing government officials in Iran to win contracts. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Year after year environmental groups, conservation districts, farmers, local governments oppose the cuts and outline the critical environmental infrastructure needs communities have. Read more here. -- FY 2020-21 $48.8 This, in spite of the fact the PA Supreme Court has specifically declared $1.3 Read more here.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Other Key Sources Business and Human Rights Resource Centre's profile on ExxonMobil - UK-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre is an NGO that employs researchers on five continents who work with activists, companies and governments alike to advance human rights in business by eradicating abuse. and Chevron Corp CVX.N

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Other Key Sources Business and Human Rights Resource Centre's profile on ExxonMobil - UK-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre is an NGO that employs researchers on five continents who work with activists, companies and governments alike to advance human rights in business by eradicating abuse. and Chevron Corp CVX.N

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

4 - Repurposing Underutilized Lands For Energy - Marginal Farmlands, Abandoned Mine Sites, Brownfields [PaEN] -- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Highlights Upcoming Events, Programs In November -- PA Resources Council To Hold Nov. 12 [PaEN] -- PA Assn. . -- PA Forestry Assn. 138th Annual Symposium - What Makes A Healthy Forest; Awards Program Nov.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Other Key Sources Business and Human Rights Resource Centre's profile on Coca-Cola - UK-based Business and Human Rights Resource Centre is an NGO that employs researchers on five continents who work with activists, companies and governments alike to advance human rights in business by eradicating abuse.

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

As such, the bill retroactively allows qualified conservation that was completed in a forest mitigation bank on or before December 31, 2020, to be used, under both State and local forest conservation programs. Senate Bill 349 makes changes to the statute governing the Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund to conform State law to federal law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A study found that 13 refineries had benzene emissions higher than EPA action levels 7 in 2020 and were emitted mostly into historically marginalized communities ( here , here ). The refining industry is the largest emitter of pollution during malfunctions compared to other industries. The accident released multiple toxic gases.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

government halts new mining leases in a northeast Minnesota national forest for 20 years. By 2051, the Duffin Creek Water Pollution Control Plant would receive between 20 million and 40 million more liters of wastewater per day, which the facility would clean and dump into Lake Ontario. ” — Deb Haaland, U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

In 1963, a typical car—which ran on leaded gasoline without pollution control devices— emitted 520 pounds of hydrocarbons, 1,700 pounds of carbon monoxide, and 90 pounds of nitrogen oxide every 10,000 miles traveled. Cars and trucks are a lot cleaner than when I was growing up. Transit agencies in Washington, D.C.,

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The FEIR reviewed other methods suggested by Newhall Ranch for determining the significance of GHG impacts, and modified and deleted portions of the DEIR’s GHG analysis, but ultimately did not change the DEIR’s significant-and-unavoidable impact conclusion, and the County therefore determined recirculation was not required.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Water quality in the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries is heavily influenced by nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment pollution delivered from the watershed and can vary year-to-year due to a number of factors including land use, fertilizer and manure use, wastewater and septic discharges, and river flow.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Army Corps of Engineers demanding the project’s federal permit be revoked due to environmental justice, wetlands destruction and pollution concerns. Wesley Muller | Louisiana Illuminator | July 20, 2020 Formosa plans to build on former sugarcane plantations near the Mississippi River, and Rise St.

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Montrose

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

IRVINE, CA (September 4, 2020) —Environmental Business Journal®* (EBJ), a business research publication which provides high value strategic business intelligence to the environmental industry*, has honored Montrose Environmental Group (Montrose) with an award for Business Achievement in Mergers & Acquisitions in 2019. “In

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

The Chinese government cited its need to protect public health and the environment, improve domestic waste management, and halt illegal waste imports. pollutants contaminate one-fifth of all Chinese farmland. , The Chinese government estimates that. Within China, the government is trying to reduce waste at-source.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Crippling air pollution control. Given its passion for fossil fuels, it shouldn’t be a surprise that Project 2025 takes a dim view of pollution control. Consequently, it has a series of proposals to weaken limits on air pollution, especially from power plants, refineries, and cars. [p. 402-404] #5.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These actions, which address several recommendations of the 43rd Statewide Investigating Grand Jury released in 2020. 2020 Grand Jury Report Gov. I want to thank you for having faith in this process, faith in leaders in a whole bunch of different sectors, from government to the private sector.” Read more here. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

In applying state law to ending a harmful algal bloom, the Platte Lake Improvement Association joined a select group of governments, citizen groups, researchers, and private companies seeking to achieve the same result. The federal government paid 80 percent of that bill. . Ohio is investing $91.7 Chesapeake Bay.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Just a year later, however, the industry encountered a potentially major obstacle: A study conducted by the government’s National Air Pollution Control Administration found a link between outdoor NO2 exposure and childhood respiratory problems. She then went on to rave about her gas clothes dryer and fireplace.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

The third-party complaint asserted that while the plaintiffs’ claims were meritless, Statoil, “as well as potentially the many other sovereign governments that use and promote fossil fuels,” must be joined as third-party defendants. Chevron filed similar notices of withdrawal in other cases brought by California localities. June 25, 2021).

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The court then found that BLM’s exclusion of foreign emissions in its alternatives analysis was arbitrary and capricious because its rationale “suffers from the same flaws the Ninth Circuit identified” in a December 2020 decision involving offshore drilling in the Beaufort Sea. CDV-2020-307 (Mont. State , No. Rhode Island v.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2022

It still applies whether EPA enforces it or the state does through its federally-approved pollution control programs. It still applies whether EPA enforces it or the state does through its federally-approved pollution control programs. A state cannot exempt itself from a federal law or regulation. Read more here.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

municipalities face from climate change, the special role that federal vehicle emissions regulations play in protecting municipal public health, and the threat that Petitioners’ radical interpretation of the major questions doctrine poses to the day-to-day operations of state and local governments. Last year, local governments in the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

Just because you have an abundant supply of something, doesn’t mean you control demand or the price. A good illustration of that is the oil price collapse in 2020 due to COVID when the price of crude oil dropped below zero for a time. A state cannot exempt itself from a federal law or regulation. Read more here.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Our primary focus continues to be on chemical substances which are the subject of regulatory activity or scrutiny by various federal and state government agencies and potential litigants. EPA Revised Mercury Inventory Reporting Rule in Response to 2020 Second Circuit Decision. N:Asbestos Disease Awareness Org. Regan, No. 61708 (Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Here are 108 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Thank you for your leadership! -- Penn State Ag Council Recognizes Cong.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2022

During 2020 -- Rep. Wolf Celebrates Passage Of Bipartisan Bill Providing $225 Million To Support Health Care Workforce -- WilliamsportS: Community Marks 472 Local Deaths Due To COVID -- PennLive: PA Restaurants Hope For Even More Financial Aid As They Struggle ‘More Than They Did In 2020’ -- Gov. What’s Your Community Doing?

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

2020 election results] -- LancasterOnline Editorial: Being Subpoenaed By U.S. Wengert Memorial Park In Lebanon -- Game Commission Delivers Annual Report To House Game & Fisheries Committee -- PennLive - Marcus Schneck: PA Hunters, Sport Shooters Spend More than $1.8 What’s Your Community Doing?

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ESA

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

House passes measure keeping the government open through March 11. The government could save money through a new approach and put the funds toward forest restoration, the sponsors said. Appropriations: The House passed a stop-gap measure, known as a continuing resolution, to keep the government open through March. 28, 2022.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

World leaders have made several major commitments at the meeting to date: Almost 90 countries joined an agreement to cut their methane emissions by 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels. Trump administration removed gray wolves from the endangered species list in November 2020. Half of the top 30 methane emitters have signed on to this pledge.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

However, diplomats failed to agree about how to fulfill a decade-old pledge that was set to begin in 2020 to provide $100 billion in climate finance to help developing counties with climate adaptation and mitigation each year. Almost 90 countries joined an agreement to cut their methane emissions by 30% by 2030 from 2020 levels.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Fee On Greenhouse Gases -- WPost: Cost Of Climate Change Impacts Far Surpass Government Estimates, Study Says PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- AP: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Mastriano Sues U.S. What’s Your Community Doing? Other States/National/International -- Financial Times: Oil & Gas Industry Condemns First U.S.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A wave of frontline resistance is now breaking across the Upper Midwest and around the country as organized campaigns aimed at regulating concentrated animal feeding operations, known as CAFOs, are being felt at every level of government, and in state and federal courts.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In the months since our 2020 update on federal actions affecting per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has continued to take action on its PFAS Action Plan. 535 – 116 th ) that passed the US House in January 2020. EPA Will Continue Work on PFAS Disposal and Destruction.

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