Legal Planet

JUNE 14, 2024

.” The Shasta River illegal water diversions and subsequent Sacramento Bee expose’ served as a catalyst for proposed California water reform legislation that was introduced in January 2023: AB 460 by Assemblymember Bauer-Kahan. This week the pared-down bill passed the Senate Natural Resources & Water Committee.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 27, 2023

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2023

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2023

He was the author and lead advocate for the environmental amendment to the state constitution that declares a right to a clean environment by the people and makes the state government the trustee of the public natural resources. constitutional amendment on environmental rights.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 5, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 15, 2024

This includes clear guidelines for how governments report on their efforts and a legal requirement to align their sustainable jobs policies with Canada’s climate goals. This bill has already been significantly delayed by politicians who shamefully prioritized political games over helping workers and their families prepare for the future.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 17, 2023

Montgomery County 6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables [ There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay ] -- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Prices Slump 7.5% Josh Shapiro -- Post-Gazette: Bob Casey Builds U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Wallace, at twallace@pa.gov or (717) 783-6395.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2022

On the contrary, it relies on the routine exploitation of food and farm workers , heavy use of fossil fuels and chemicals that pollute the environment , and the degradation of soil and other natural resources that are critical to future production of healthy food. We need healthy and sustainable food systems.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2023

Natural Gas Drops 7% To 3-Week Low On Milder Weather Forecasts PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Scranton Times Editorial: PA Lawmakers Prove Bigger Isn’t Better -- PA Gaming Control Board Reports February Gaming Revenue Up 22% Over Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

” Prioritizing fossil fuels over renewable energy in 2023 for insubstantial reasons does not pass strict scrutiny. The current barriers to implementing renewable energy systems are not technical or economic, but social and political,” the decision says.  Is it a ‘game-changer’? that justified the harm. “The

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. 19 & Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2023

MGD Out-Of-Basin Diversion For Ironwood Natural Gas Power Plant In Lebanon County, 6 Other Natural Gas Drilling Water Uses Better Path Coalition Hosts Jan. MGD Out-Of-Basin Diversion For Ironwood Natural Gas Power Plant In Lebanon County, 6 Other Natural Gas Drilling Water Uses Better Path Coalition Hosts Jan.

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Legal Planet

JULY 1, 2022

The bill took key amendments in the Assembly Natural Resources Committee, chaired by Assemblymember Luz Rivas, including important details about the mitigation fee and its disbursement. And environmental groups held fast through the negotiations, refusing to compromise on a law that wouldn’t meet their core objectives.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Guest Post by Débora Nunes , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. It seemed like a great mix of the subjects I loved: mathematics, politics, history, and geography. There, I met Professor Stefanía Vela Barba, who taught Sexual and Reproductive Rights.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2023

-- DEP Notice Of Additional Public Hearings On Interim Final Environmental Justice Permit Review Policy -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Appalachian Hydrogen Hub Companies And Projects Finally Revealed : ‘The Cloak Has Been Removed’ [ ARCH2 Presentation ] [ ARCH2 website ] -- PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: RGGI Is About Climate Change, But Also About Environmental (..)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: April 17, 2023] PA Environment Digest 2 In The Country When It Comes To Citizen Militias, What Does Constitution Say About That?

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 9, 2023

Photo courtesy of Flickr/Creative Commons user Michael Rael By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – March 9, 2023 The San Luis Valley, a high desert farming region in southern Colorado, is a land of daunting natural constraints, especially its scarce water reserves. Conservation easements protect the region’s depleted groundwater.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Wolf: 2021 Climate Impacts Report Projects Pennsylvania Will Be 5.9°

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 22, 2023

Frankel & Innamorato -- Erie Times Guest Essay: Erie’s New Environmental Advisory Council Eyes Sustainability, Equity - By Jenny Tompkins, PennFuture -- WILK: Bob Wolensky And Mike Korb Talk About 2023 Anthracite Mining History Month -- Keep PA Beautiful Wants You To Fight Dirty!

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Guest Post by Julia Branstrator , 2022-2023 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources at Colorado State University How does creativity, imagination, or emotion relate to our resilience and resistance during crises and disasters? 2007; Wied et al.,

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Acoel

JUNE 11, 2024

births per woman in 2023 is a new low for the United States and has prompted a spate of press commentary not only on the impact of fewer workers to support Social Security, but also on many other potential consequences of population decline. Political support for funding child-friendly initiatives is not nearly so strong.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2024

DEP’s Oil & Gas Compliance Database shows D & B Gas Prod LLC had no violations in 2019, 2020 and 2021, one minor violation in 2022, no violations in 2023 and one violation prior to these in 2024. No wells were listed as abandoned before this action. In March, DEP issued violations to Medina Res Dev Co. Read more here.

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E2 Law Blog

AUGUST 31, 2022

In light of the “worsening drought crises” and “critically low reservoir conditions” in the Western United States, on Aug. 16, 2022, the U.S. Department of the Interior (“Interior”) announced a number of “urgent actions to improve and protect the long-term sustainability of the Colorado River System.”

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2024

Casey Cosponsors Bill To Find, Clean Up Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells, Improve Detection, Plugging Tech [PaEN] -- PUC Seeks To Accelerate Removal, Replacement Of Older Plastic Pipe In Natural Gas Distribution Systems [PaEN] -- PJM Electricity Auction Price 9 Times Higher Than Previous Auction-- $269.92/MW-Day Luzerne County. (

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2023

Reaction Tom Rutigliano , Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a blog post published on January 9-- "As that day and the next wore on [December 23, 24], power plant after power plant failed. Some couldn’t get fuel, some just stopped working, and still others failed to start when called on. Jefferson County; Feb. 31 to Jan.

Natural Gas 98

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 4, 2024

We must not forget that at that time the economic options for Black Americans were scarcely more than sharecropping on former plantations or brutal industrial labor in northern cities; political and social freedoms were systematically denied. And for a few brief promising decades, Allensworth thrived in the way its founders envisioned.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 26, 2023

An entity classified as an “arm of the state” would be entitled to sovereign immunity provided by the Eleventh Amendment; in contrast, a “political subdivision” is not afforded the same protection. Tarrant County , 798 F.2d 2d 736, 744-45 (5 th Cir. The burden of proof falls on the entity seeking immunity and SRA-L failed to meet its burden.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2024

Figure 1 Top Ten Oil and Gas Company Lobbyists Environmental Defence Canada has just released a new report called Big Oil’s Big Year: A Summary of Big Oil’s 2023 Federal Lobbying that digs into it all. In 2023, they had at least 1,255 lobby meetings with the federal government, which is the equivalent of meeting nearly five times per workday.

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Acoel

JANUARY 4, 2023

Posted on January 4, 2023 by Robert L. Chevron compelled judicial restraint in an era of political friction over judicial activism, and at a time when Congress was enacting prodigious, bipartisan, nearly unanimous, regulatory legislation (including most of modern federal environmental law). Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. ,

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

The Climate Superfund bills have already attracted vicious opposition from the fossil fuel industry and its political allies and, if passed, will inevitably face vigorous legal challenges. In 2023, the Supreme Court of Hawaii held the opposite in City & County of Honolulu v.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Issued on: 02/10/2023 - 14:20Modified: 02/10/2023 - 14:19 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. Major Shareholders Click here for the late st data. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. Total to pay $2.9 agreed to pay $2.9

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