PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The Senate passed this legislation in June 2023, but prior to final passage, the bill was specifically amended to prohibit any party from presenting “new evidence before the [Environmental Hearing] Board that was not part of the record of decision considered by the Department.

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MGKF Law

APRIL 9, 2023

No 3:23-cv-00007-GFVT, 2023 WL 2733383 (E.D. March 31, 2023), the Honorable Gregory F. 22-30087, 2023 WL 2780821 (5th Cir. April 5, 2023), the Honorable Jacques L. Over the last week, pre-enforcement challenges to two separate federal government actions have been dismissed for lack of standing. EPA, et al. , Biden, Jr.,

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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

MAY 16, 2024

The Clean Water Act requires that industrial sources reduce their discharges, but it left two big questions unanswered: Would EPA or the states set the pollution limits? In this opinion dealing with a fairly technical issue under the Clean Air Act, Justice Stevens strengthened judicial deference to administrative agencies.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

The bill also would establish a grant program under the Safe Drinking Water Act for assistance to community water systems affected by PFAS to pay for capital costs associated with treatment technologies. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 requires EPA to promulgate this rule by January 1, 2023.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The bill would amend Section 4 of TSCA to require EPA to issue a testing rule for all PFAS that would require manufacturers and processors of PFAS to develop information “likely to be useful in evaluating the hazard and risk posed by such substances in land, air, and water (including drinking water), as well as in products.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Part 419 (under Clean Water Act) 40 C.F.R. 60.5525a(c)(3) (under Clean Air Act): Allows fossil fuel-fired power plants to continue operating during a system emergency, even if they are not in compliance with emissions performance standards. 1742, 1748a. Generating fossil fuel energy: 40 C.F.R. 2925, 2926.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Canada and other countries pledged to stop public financing of fossil fuel projects abroad by 2023. The Biden administration moved Thursday to formally repeal the Trump administration’s controversial rule that vastly restricted the scope of Clean Water Act protections. By Annie Snider, PoliticoPro, 11/18/2021.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Canada and other countries pledged to stop public financing of fossil fuel projects abroad by the end of 2023. New court ruling clears path for Bristol Bay Clean Water Act protections – National Fisherman. EPA – Proposed Consent Decree, Clean Air Act Citizen Suit. In ‘chilling’ decision, U.F.

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ESA

AUGUST 1, 2022

Senate Releases FY 2023 Spending Bills. Spending bills for fiscal years FY 2022 and FY 2023 have fallen short of appropriating the amount included in similar authorizing legislation. The House and Senate had been negotiating a compromise between the America COMPETES Act and the Senate’s U.S. billion over the next five years.

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ESA

JANUARY 31, 2022

Supreme Court to hear Clean Water Act case. Clean Water Act: In what will be one of the most important final environmental rulings in the history of the U.S., The Supreme Court may not issue its ruling until 2023. EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee Meeting (Feb.

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ESA

DECEMBER 6, 2021

3277 ) to codify a Trump administration regulation that limited states’ ability to block fossil fuel projects under the Clean Water Act. ESC – Recommendation to the White House Office of Management and Budget for FY 2023 Budget (Nov. EPA – Clean Air Act Advisory Committee Meeting (Dec. 13, 2021.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 19, 2023

On June 30, 2023, the Supreme Court applied the major questions doctrine in Biden v. In response, the EPA has argued that it is merely tightening existing standards and exercising the same authority under the Clean Air Act that it always has.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Stakeholders will want to pay particular attention to the next Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR) and Contaminant Candidate List (CCL), both of which play a role in which drinking water contaminants EPA will consider for NPDWRs. In addition, EPA requested nominations for the next CCL in 2018 but has not published the final.

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

Supreme Court will hear Clean Water Act case in October 2023. At stake was the ability to reduce carbon emissions as written in the ‘Clean Power Plan’ regulation under the auspices of the Clean Air Act that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power to regulate “the best system of reducing emissions.”

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ESA

APRIL 18, 2023

The Clean Water Act is a federal law that gives authority to states to protect the nation’s waters. Congress Clean Water Act: President Joe Biden vetoed a Congressional Review Act measure that would have nullified the administration’s most recent Clean Water Act rule, which seeks to define the “Water of the U.S.”

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ESA

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The $425 million amount would represent a $57 million increase over FY 2023 levels. The United Arab Emirates is set to host the United Nations Framework on Climate Change Conference of Parties 28 (COP 28) in November 2023. Nominations are due March 2, 2023. 16, 2023, submit a comment here. climate talks.

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ESA

APRIL 27, 2023

Congress President Joe Biden vetoes measure to nullify the administration’s most recent Clean Water Act rule. The Clean Water Act is a federal law that gives authority to states to protect the nation’s waters. EPA case by early summer 2023. Forests: Reps.

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ESA

MAY 6, 2021

should seek to build upon the myriad examples where collaboration and consensus-building have led to significant conservation outcomes,” continues the report, alluding to the Great American Outdoors Act, the largest conservation legislation in decades that passed Congress last year with broad bipartisan support. Justice Dept. Justice Dept.

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ESA

APRIL 3, 2023

Congress Senate votes to nullify Clean Water Act rule, Biden is expected to veto the measure. Call for Nominations for 2023 ESA Regional Policy Award Do you know someone who has made positive efforts toward environmental sustainability in Portland, Oregon? Four Democratic Senators, Sens. Conservation : Sens.

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