Circle of Blue

JUNE 28, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency has warned that even miniscule levels of PFAS in drinking water can pose health risks. Alan Roberson is the executive director of the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators, a group that represents state regulators. This week Circle of Blue reports on the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would regulate two forms of PFAS contamination under Superfund laws reserved for “the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites.” The same suppression and disinformation kept government regulators at bay for decades.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 4, 2022

Michigan’s Lack of Septic System Regulations is Causing Problems for Some of its Most Pristine Lakes Failing systems can allow contaminated water to seep through the earth into nearby bodies of water. Lester Graham, Michigan Radio – May 4, 2022. . Throughout the Great Lakes region and across the U.S., water systems are aging.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

In 2022, ninety of Texas beaches tested positive for unsafe levels of fecal bacteria (poop!), the Environmental Protection Agency In the recent Supreme Court case , San Francisco was disputing permit language for its Oceanside wastewater treatment facility, which has an outfall pipe that discharges 4.5

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 15, 2025

In April 2022, Maine became the first state to ban the land application of biosolids. Environmental Protection Agency released its first draft assessment of PFAS in biosolids, finding health risks for people living on or near areas where biosolids are land applied or deposited in an unlined landfill. Yesterday, the U.S.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 14, 2022

The largest saline lake in the western hemisphere, the Great Salt Lake dropped to a record low in 2022 as a result of a hot drought that increased evaporation and decreased water flows. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – July 14, 2022. Activists in Arizona are gathering signatures to put groundwater regulation on the ballot.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

2022 Election Recap: Landslide Victory for Florida City’s ‘Right to Clean Water’ Amendment — Voters approved most water-related initiatives on the November 8 ballot. Voters in southeastern Arizona delivered a split decision on the question of groundwater regulation. Drought in the American West.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 7, 2025

On January 6, the Department of Environmental Protection reported its staff conducted over 107,000 inspections to protect Pennsylvanians constitutional right to clean air, pure water, and a healthy and safe environment. DEP also responded to 410 environmental emergencies, like spills from traffic accidents to chemical fires.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 29, 2024

New Oil & Gas Methane Reduction Rule DEP’s presentation on the new federal methane rule will be led by Panna Chibber and Naishadh Bhatt and will begin with an overview of the federal regulation and how it compares to existing DEP regulations on reducing oil and gas methane emissions adopted as final in December 2022.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 25, 2022

October 25, 2022. Pennsylvania takes another step toward regulating two PFAS in drinking water. Pennsylvania Is a Step Closer to Regulating Two PFAS in Drinking Water. By a 15 to 3 margin, the Environmental Quality Board agreed to restrict the concentration of PFOA to 14 parts per trillion and PFOS to 18 parts per trillion.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Earlier this year, environmental health advocates scored a big win when the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) updated the ethylene oxide sterilizer rule requiring commercial sterilizers to significantly lower their emissions. Overburdened communities are not being protected fast enough by these incremental approaches.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 21, 2021

However, they promised to come back in 2022 with better plans. Across the province, groups worked to protect key areas like Lower Duffins Creek wetland from development and to secure a federal review of the proposed 413 mega-highway. Our top ten predictions for the environment in 2022: 1. of global heating.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

2022 was no different, with courts further delineating the procedural dimensions of climate cases and expanding on the responsibilities of stakeholders for climate mitigation and adaption. In June 2022, the Prague Municipal Court ruled in Klimatická žaloba ČR v. See a detailed analysis of the decision here.).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

Sales figure from VELOZ The top selling passenger car AND top selling light truck in CA in 2023, according to California New Car Dealers Association , were both electric vehicles with the Tesla Model 3 and the Tesla Model Y taking the top spots…as they also did in 2022. By making historic investments in the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

On November 11, the Three Rivers Waterkeeper called on the Department of Environmental Protection to implement stronger measures in their water discharge permit to address the recurring releases of oil from the U.S. Steel accountable for its potential future failures to comply with environmental regulations.”

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants under the Clean Air Act. We are deeply troubled by this decision that undermines the authority of the very agency tasked with the mission ‘to protect human health and the environment.’ On June 30, the U.S. Related Articles: -- U.S.

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The Energy Law

MARCH 28, 2022

Both categories are regulated by the Office of Conservation within the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources. The pertinent regulations are in Statewide Order No. It is currently anticipated that primacy for Louisiana will be granted in late 2022 or early 2023. Regulatory approval for CCUS falls under two broad categories.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

In late April, California air regulators are poised to pass one of the most meaningful regulations to reduce pollution from commercial trucks, vans, and buses. The current draft of the ACF rule was released in late March and made several changes to the version that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) heard back in October 2022.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In 2022 alone, cities in Arizona, California, Nevada , Texas , and Utah recorded temperatures of 105°F on multiple days and often over long stretches. In April 2022, a farmworker picking strawberries in Florida passed away due to heat, and according to news reports, it was just his second day on the job.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Even if the resolution is adopted, it would not be binding in the same way as a formal international agreement, but it could still impact how countries regulate marine CDR. Both the London Convention and London Protocol require parties to adopt domestic laws to regulate the “dumping” of “waste and other matter” at sea.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

4 [PaEN] -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the February 4 PA Bulletin announcing the opening of the application period for reimbursements under the Host Municipality Waste Facility Inspectors Program for calendar year 2022. Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations?

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2022

Wolf directed the Department of Environmental Protection to conduct an evaluation of how it regulates conventional oil and gas wells to prevent new abandoned wells, tighten review of permit transfers, review compliance with environmental safeguards and make recommendations for changes and actions, including criminal sanctions.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

Environmental protection laws must be enforced in response to incidents like last year’s major spill and leak from Imperial Oil’s Kearl mine. per cent of the oil sands have received a formal reclamation certificate from the provincial regulator (AER). The Alberta government has allowed 1.4 This is too little, too late.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 22, 2023

On July 22, the Governor’s Office published an update to the Regulatory Agenda of regulations in development that included a new annual permit fee for unconventional shale gas operations and a schedule for the release of updated waste and other environmental standards for conventional oil and gas drilling. Read more here. [

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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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Circle of Blue

APRIL 27, 2022

What’s Up With Water—April 26, 2022 – This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers paying for groundwater in California and a controversial canal project in Nebraska. The post The Stream, April 27, 2022: How a Rural Nebraskan Town Is Moving Forward a Year After Toxic Ethanol Plant Closes appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Toxicology Program, and the International Association of Research on Cancer classify EtO as a substance that can cause certain cancers. What are the health impacts associated with breathing it?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2023

Elder Vogel (R-Beaver) at the March 22 Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on DEP’s budget request , the Department of Environmental Protection said it is projecting a $1,581,000 deficit in funding for the Oil and Gas Regulation Program. In calendar year 2022, DEP received 731 unconventional shale gas permits.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 12, 2024

April 13 PA Bulletin, page 1989 ) Read more here. -- The Department of Environmental Protection invites comments on the Title V Air Quality and the RACT III Air Quality permits for the Wheelabrator Municpal Waste Combustion Facility located in Falls Township, Bucks County. Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations?

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 28, 2023

Highlights of the environmental and energy notices in the January 28 PA Bulletin -- -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the January 28 PA Bulletin announcing the issuance of a revised Air Quality General Permit for Natural Gas, Oil-Fired Small Combustion Units of up to 100 Million Btu/hour.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 1, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency is offering a $2.5 But California and Massachusetts have their own regulations. One grant will be awarded and applications are due September 14, 2022. On the Radar. Fireworks and Drinking Water Contamination. There are no national drinking water standards for perchlorate.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

On September 1, the Department of Environmental Protection said any waste generated by the new conventional oil and gas well plugging program will NOT be exempt from hazardous waste requirements, unlike the same or similar wastes generated from active oil and gas production wells and facilities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Still though, counties across the state have air that hasn’t met the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) standards for decades, causing a host of public health problems from asthma and cardiovascular issues to premature death. This feasible and commonsense regulation would result in 46.45 The short answer is yes.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2023

The deadline for applications is December 31. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the May 20 PA Bulletin on changes to the list of companies certified to perform radon-related Activities. ( Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations? All through its eNotice system.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

On November 13, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it collected $62,475 from Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill, LLC to address violations of Pennsylvania’s Solid Waste Management Act and Clean Streams Law.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

PA Bulletin - November 12, 2022 Note: The Department of Environmental Protection published 41 pages of public notices related to proposed and final permit and approval/ disapproval actions in the November 12 PA Bulletin - pages 7002 to 7043. Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations?

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