PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Energy Information Administration (EIA) and stream sulfate concentrations taken by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s Bureau of Clean Water. In September -- DEP Blog: Pennsylvania Has A Strong Climate Action Plan, And We Need To Use It Now [Posted: December 10, 2021] PA Environment Digest

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

The flares from the refinery burned so bright after Hurricane Ida in 2021 that they could be seen 25 miles away. In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Seven workers were killed in a 1988 explosion at the refinery. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

The flares from the refinery burned so bright after Hurricane Ida in 2021 that they could be seen 25 miles away. In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Seven workers were killed in a 1988 explosion at the refinery. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

The flares from the refinery burned so bright after Hurricane Ida in 2021 that they could be seen 25 miles away. In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Seven workers were killed in a 1988 explosion at the refinery. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The flares from the refinery burned so bright after Hurricane Ida in 2021 that they could be seen 25 miles away. In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Seven workers were killed in a 1988 explosion at the refinery. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The bill retains a provision from the House bill repealing section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. million for wildlife corridor programs. Wolf – The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The flares from the refinery burned so bright after Hurricane Ida in 2021 that they could be seen 25 miles away. In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Seven workers were killed in a 1988 explosion at the refinery. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The flares from the refinery burned so bright after Hurricane Ida in 2021 that they could be seen 25 miles away. In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Seven workers were killed in a 1988 explosion at the refinery. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The flares from the refinery burned so bright after Hurricane Ida in 2021 that they could be seen 25 miles away. In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Seven workers were killed in a 1988 explosion at the refinery. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Acoel

JUNE 30, 2021

Posted on June 30, 2021 by Heidi B. Environmental counsel must be strategic and look at holistic risk and opportunity rather than just interpret existing regulations relating to the Clean Air Act or RCRA. Goldstein) Friedman. It is a clear opportunity for the “Es” to spend a lot more time with the “S” and the “G” folks.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 3, 2018

The SAFE Vehicle Rule proposes changes to EPA’s greenhouse gas emissions standards and DOT’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for light duty vehicles in model years (MY) 2021 through 2025. The rule will substantially increase vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. transportation sector in 2016 (based on EPA data ).

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

cities move toward their greenhouse gas reduction goals via a cleaner national electric grid, increased vehicle and building electrification, and new distributed renewable energy resources. Clean Air Act appropriating $2.25 economy and to significantly contribute to its greenhouse gas reduction efforts.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP) is a regional blueprint prepared by the SCAQMD for achieving the standards. One of the most significant air quality challenges in the Basin is reducing emissions of the ozone precursor nitrogen oxides (NO x ) to meet the ozone standard attainment deadlines.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is a potent greenhouse gas over 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in the near-term. Recently, EPA issued a protective supplemental proposal under the federal Clean Air Act to reduce methane pollution from new and existing sources in the oil and gas sector.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions into our atmosphere—the equivalent of 300 coal-fired power plants—and these facilities are sited in predominantly low-income communities and communities of color. More plastic means more pollution—for the climate, coastal communities and our ocean. By 2030, plastic production will contribute 1.3

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

James successfully sued to subject Formosa to an environmental review over the 800 tons of toxic air pollutants as well as the 13.6 million tons of greenhouse gases that the project is expected to emit annually. Organizations such as EarthJustice and Rise St. billion complex in St. James Parish, Louisiana.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

These state-level “Climate Superfund” bills are modeled on the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), commonly known as Superfund, which imposes liability on multiple parties, including the generators of waste, for the cleanup of contaminated sites.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

greenhouse gas emissions, more than the electric power sector. EPA is an effort by conservative states and fuel suppliers to block EPA regulations of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. I’m an appellate litigator with a focus on climate and Clean Air Act cases.

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MGKF Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

On February 22, 2021, the D.C. Circuit granted the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) motion to stay the vacatur of the Trump administration’s Clean Power Plan Repeal Rule until EPA conducts further rulemaking on the issue in the case of American Lung Association v. 19-1140 (D.C.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit found that FERC failed to address the significance of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulation that the petitioners argued required use of the social cost of carbon or another methodology to assess the impacts of the projects’ greenhouse gas emissions. 3, 2021); Vecinos para el Bienestar de la Comunidad Costera v.

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Columbia Climate Law

AUGUST 26, 2020

Today, the Sabin Center released a collaboratively authored report that outlines a series of executive actions that a Biden administration could take to do the opposite: re regulate greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) and achieve other mitigation and adaptation goals.

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Columbia Climate Law

APRIL 1, 2020

The COVID-19 policy defines “routine requirements” to include those imposed by EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP), under which approximately 9,000 entities are required to report annually on their greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks (Inventory).

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ESA

AUGUST 30, 2021

UN plans virtual Biodiversity Conference in October 2021 and in-person meeting in April and May 2022. Innovation and Competition Act with representatives from the White House and the Commerce Department. 16, 2021 ). 16, 2021 ). Federal judge cancels permits for “Willow” drilling project in Alaska. International.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

EPA in defense of EPA’s authority to effectively regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. Our client is Tom Jorling, a former Senate staffer and EPA official who was directly involved in drafting the Act in 1970. (We

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

May 17, 2021). May 24, 2021); Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) May 24, 2021); Shell Oil Products Co., May 24, 2021). June 2, 2021). The fossil fuel companies removed the case in March 2021, citing five grounds for removal, including the federal officer removal statute. May 19, 2021). June 3, 2021).

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

The first petition was filed by West Virginia and 18 other states that had intervened to defend the repeal and replacement rule, known as the Affordable Clean Energy rule. EPA’s response to the petitions is due June 3, 2021. 29, 2021); North American Coal Corp. West Virginia v. 20-1530 (U.S. 20-1531 (U.S. WildEarth Guardians v.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 8, 2022

Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23) and Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 8, 2022 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) establishes air quality standards under the Clean Air Act. (1) 11) Global warming, in part, is a result of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

July 15, 2021). July 1, 2021). The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed judgment in favor of the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security on claims that the Department violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by failing to consider environmental impacts of certain immigration programs and policies.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. In 2021 the Biden Administration reversed the Trump-era rollbacks and instituted the strictest-ever vehicle GHG emissions standards in a move aimed at preventing 3.1

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on April 26, 2021 that it is formally reconsidering the Trump Administration’s withdrawal of a waiver of preemption that previously allowed California to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from cars and light trucks.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The New York Times reported last week that the Biden administration is preparing to restore California’s waiver to set greenhouse gas auto emissions standards stricter than the federal government’s rules. Nichols Campus in Riverside in December 2021. It’s the latest episode in a regulatory saga stretching back to the George W.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The updates, which supplement proposed standards EPA released in November 2021, reflect input and feedback from a broad range of stakeholders and nearly half a million public comments. That’s nearly the same as all greenhouse gases emitted from coal-fired electricity generation in the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2022

percent in 2021. It kills the Environmental Quality Board’s final regulation reducing carbon pollution from power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Read more here. This provision has nothing to do with increasing natural gas or oil production in the Commonwealth. Wolf announced the initiative in 2019.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

June 15, 2021). June 16, 2021). On June 14, 2021, the U.S. On June 23, 2021, Chevron Corporation filed notice in the district court of its voluntary dismissal of third-party complaints against the energy company Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil ASA). June 14, 2021). June 28, 2021). Louisiana v. Biden , No.

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ESA

JANUARY 18, 2022

Judge orders USFWS to reconsider 2019 decision to not list the Yellowstone bison under the Endangered Species Act. Pennsylvania governor vetoes measure stopping the state from joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. 20-21 to discuss measuring and monitoring greenhouse gases and accelerating innovation in energy technologies.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

In rejecting EPA’s plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act, the Court stated that “agency decisions of vast economic and political significance” (i.e., those that pose “major questions”) must be made “pursuant to a clear delegation” from Congress.

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