PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 7398 ) Air Quality Permits -- Equitrans, LP - Denny Hill Road Compressor Station: DEP invites comments on a Title V/RACT III Air Quality permit covering multiple air pollution sources at the facility located in Jefferson Twp., Deemed complete Oct. Greene County. ( Greene County. Deemed complete Oct.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Here’s a breakdown of DTE’s proposal to add solar, wind and batteries in the first five years, second five years, and last 10 years of its 20-year plan: The federal Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law in August, contains game-changing new incentives for energy storage batteries and renewables such as solar and wind.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 13, 2022

In November 2021, Prime Minster Modi announced in Glasgow that India would get half its energy from renewables by 2030 as well as significantly cutting its emissions. Much of the shift may have been due to recognition that renewables would provide more energy independence and would help get India’s crippling urban air pollution under control.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

If passed, this new law would finally put an end to the millions of tonnes of coal – the world’s dirtiest and deadliest fossil fuel – that are shipped overseas from Canada’ west coast every year. Back in 2021, the federal government committed to ending the export of thermal coal before 2030. More information is available here.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

require a petition to meet three criteria in DEP’s initial review-- -- Petition must be complete; -- Petition requests an action that can be taken by the EQB [within its statutory authority]; and -- The action does not conflict with federal law. DEP’s determination means the petition has met these three criteria, at this stage.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Read more here ] The Office of Attorney General also brought about a 2021 settlement with Chesapeake Energy for payment of royalties to landowners with shale gas leases that involved $5.3 penalty and $5 million restitution from the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County for air pollution violations; -- $1.4 Read more here.]

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Environment, Law, and History

APRIL 29, 2022

The recently published open-access book, Greening Europe: Environmental Protection in the Long Twentieth Century – A Handbook , edited by Anna-Katharina Wöbse and Patrick Kupper (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021), has a number of law-related chapters.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2024

To address these dual needs, UC Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy and the Environment (CLEE) and the UCLA Law Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment are today releasing the new report Fueling & Financing: Addressing the Urgent Challenges Facing Electric Heavy-Duty Vehicle Deployment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

That law created the state’s Community Air Protection Program focused on reducing exposure in communities most impacted by air pollution. She said in 2021, “What was done functionally was exactly what everybody was worried about. We’ve made it more complex for communities to advocate.”

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 2021, DEP reported 236,150 cubic feet of TENORM (Technically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material) was sent to LLRW facilities for disposal, while all other industries combined in the four state compact sent 46,546 cubic feet of traditionally defined low-level radioactive waste. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2024

On April 30, Senate Bill 1174 (Stefano-R-Fayette) was reported out of the Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee with unanimous Republican support that would allow any “public utility” to petition the Public Utility Commission to waive any law, regulation or policy under the Commission’s jurisdiction, if it benefits ratepayers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 20, 2024

We also noted that, for those living in historically marginalized communities to be able to effectively contribute their input, they need to be able to easily access information about federal policy actions on issues as disparate as air pollution standards, student loan debt, and climate change impacts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Investing in transportation electrification would not only reduce climate impacts from Minnesota’s largest source of global warming emissions, but would reduce particulate matter air pollution, which disproportionately harms Black, Latinx and low-income Minnesotans. $4 Two years later, he accelerated that plan by 10 years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

That is A LOT of EVs and A LOT less oil use, air pollution and climate emissions. In 2021 and 2022, if you wanted to buy an EV you might be on a waiting list for many months or even years which in turn drove aggressive projections by automakers for future years sales. The bipartisan infrastructure law provided up to $7.5

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Law and Environment

MARCH 10, 2023

Circuit Court of Appeals rejected challenges to EPA’s “Revised Cross-State Air Pollution Update Rule”. In short, EPA still gets substantial deference in its technical judgments, and sometimes it’s more important to get those judgments into law than it is to refine them until they are perfect. Last week, D.C.

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Washington Nature

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Ecology is seeking input from the public on three main areas of the new air quality program: The indicators to use to identify an overburdened community highly impacted by air pollution, The types of air monitors to deploy to communities, and How communities would like to see air quality improved.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2023

California’s allowance-auction prices , which had been at or near the regulatory minimum for much of the life of the program, started rising markedly in mid-2021 and have been over $25 since. Hochul’s office has said that her plan “will not allow the use of offsets that could allow high-emitting sources to continue to pollute.”

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

Industry Has No Interest In Changes In September 2021, environmental groups submitted rulemaking petitions to the Environmental Quality Board to increase well plugging bonding amounts for conventional and unconventional shale gas wells to what it costs taxpayers to plug oil and gas wells abandoned by their owners. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2022

On August 29, the Environmental Hearing Board ruled in favor of three environmental groups in their appeal of the air pollution permit for the proposed Renovo Energy Center natural gas-fired power plant in Clinton County, finding the Department of Environmental Protection set limits for sulfur dioxide and volatile organic compounds too high.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2023

In 2021, the District Court ruled that the Berkeley ordinance was not preempted by EPCA , rejecting the notion that EPCA preempts local ordinances that do “not facially address any of those [energy conservation or energy use] standards.” Clean Air Act, not EPCA. Berkeley decision.)

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A 2021 Mountain State Spotlight and ProPublica story detailed how largely Black … Continue reading A Black community in West Virginia sues the EPA to spur action on toxic air pollution

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 23, 2023

The right to a healthy environment will be recognized for the first time under federal law. We welcomed the introduction of the original version of this bill in April 2021 and called for it to be prioritized and strengthened. The House of Commons committee studying the legislation reported the bill with amendments yesterday.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2022

After two extensions of the air quality permit, Bradford County Real Estate Partners was advised that construction would not be completed before the July 22, 2022 expiration date of the second extension and neither would the August 26, 2021 appeal of that extension be resolved before then. O’Neill, PennFuture Senior Attorney.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Further, the Act on Promotion of Global Warming Countermeasures (national legislation providing the general framework concerning the adoption and implementation of measures to combat global warming) was revised in May 2021. Civil law cases. The revised Act explicitly included the pledge for net zero by 2050. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 15, 2022

On August 15, the Allegheny County Health Department released an Air Quality Annual Review covering accomplishments in 2021. Bogen wrote this introduction to the report-- In 2021, ACHD expanded and implemented new technology and programs and completed some long-term studies that will inform our future. Dr. Debra L.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

County of Inyo (2021) __ Cal.App.5th__. As a matter of law, the Court also held the County improperly relied on the existing facilities exemption for the project. or if the public agency failed to give the notice required by law.” City of Los Angeles etc. Factual/Procedural Background. Applying the holding of Tomlinson v.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2024

Air Quality Permits -- Philadelphia Gas Works - Richmond LNG Gas Plant: Philadelphia Air Management Services invites comments on the renewal of the Title V Air Quality Permit for the natural gas liquefaction facility located at 3100 East Venango Street in Philadelphia. ( Lancaster County. ( Bradford County. ( Cameron County. (

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Our valley communities have suffered from dangerous pollution for decades and we certainly do not need more risks to our health.” More than 200 individuals showed up to the public hearing during a pandemic to oppose this air pollution permit,” said Lisa Hallowell, Senior Attorney with the Environmental Integrity Project.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 6, 2024

The CEOs were scrutinized for earning massive salaries and profits while taking no accountability for their pollution. million in his first year, failed to acknowledge the recent legal challenge against Suncor for their repeated violations of air pollution laws in Colorado. Suncor CEO Mr. Kruger, who pocketed $36.8

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

On November 22, the Clean Air Council , PennFuture , and the Center for Biological Diversity announced they appealed an extension of Renovo Energy Center’s air pollution permit for a large gas-fired power plant — a significant source of new pollution within an environmental justice area.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 20, 2023

As directed by a state law enacted in 2021, as HB 1286, the Colorado Health Department’s Air Pollution Control Division developed the newly finalized standards. It’s a major step forward in protecting both public health and clean air.” Buildings are one of Colorado’s top five sources of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Legal Planet

JULY 14, 2023

Credit: Alex Krohn The UCLA Environmental Law Clinic has submitted an amicus brief in a case that challenges Kern County’s (the “County”) repeated efforts to streamline oil and gas development without proper regard for myriad environmental harms. The Temblor legless lizard. The Clinic filed its amicus brief on behalf of Professor H.

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Vorys Law

JANUARY 26, 2021

On January 20, 2021, the Ohio EPA’s Division of Air Pollution Control (DAPC) hosted a “Program Advisory Group” (PAG) meeting via Microsoft Teams to inform interested stakeholders of recent and upcoming DAPC activities.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

FRIDAY Noon: PA Solar Center Hosts Webinar Update On PA Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards, Community Solar Legislation + Review 2021-22 AEPS Compliance Report. Million Pounds Of Industrial Air Pollutants Discharged In Pittsburgh Area In 2021 Came From U.S. 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2021

On December 16, DEP’s Solid Waste Advisory and Recycling Fund Advisory Committees are scheduled to meet and on the agenda are presentations by DEP on its recommendations for changing the law to make Act 101 Recycling Programs more effective and fixing the very broken Electronics Waste Recycling Program.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As noted at the end of last year, 2021 was significant for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. The Ministry of the Environment appealed on points of law to the Supreme Administrative Court. By Maria Antonia Tigre. Photo by Matt Palmer on Unsplash.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2023

Department of Environmental Protection in 2021. Neighbors Clifford Cole, Pamela West, Brian Weirback, Kathy Weirback, Todd Shelly, and Christine Shelly oppose the DEP permit, an air quality Plan Approval, which would allow Adelphia to emit hundreds of tons of air pollution into the community.

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