PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

On March 21, 2025 surveillance cameras caught the latest incident of conventional oil and gas wastewater being dumped on a section of a dirt road paved with tar and stone chips at about 9:25 p.m. Read more here. Read more here. We wait to see what DEP says.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

1 Pennsylvania Firefly Festival Lottery For 2025 Festival & Glow & Know Campouts Will Start January 1 Federal Highway Administration, Fish & Wildlife Service Host Dec. DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4 Million In Abandoned Well Plugging Funding Against Shale Gas Drilling Companies-- XTO Energy, Inc.,

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

4 Webinar: Our Work Helps The Allegheny River Thrive -- TribLive: Nature Focus Of Artwork Featured In Loyalhanna Watershed Association’s 40th Annual Auction -- Registration Now Open For PASA 2025 Sustainable Agriculture Conference Feb. 5-7 In Lancaster [PaEN] -- Wilkes-Barre Times: DEP Reduced Permit Backlog By 67% Under Gov. Shapiro -- Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Methane Emissions EPA announced it would reconsider regulations for the oil and gas industry under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act and Subpart W of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. EPA also announced it would reconsider risk management rules that cover oil and natural gas refineries and chemical facilities.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2021

So if the plan were upheld by the Supreme Court next Spring, it would be 2025 before the state plans went into effect, and the 2030 target would be postponed until 2037. The architects of the Clean Power Plan failed to anticipate just how fast the power system would change due to other economic and regulatory forces.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

This en banc hearing, approved by a unanimous vote of the Commission on March 27, 2025, examined how to ensure a fair, transparent, and forward-looking approach to connecting high-energy users to the grid while protecting existing utility customers. All comments are due on or before May 27, 2025. M-2025-3054271. million U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

9 Webinar On PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' In Land-Applied Biosolids - Research Update And Discussion [PaEN] -- Registration Now Open For PASA 2025 Sustainable Agriculture Conference Feb. . -- PA Forestry Assn. 138th Annual Symposium - What Makes A Healthy Forest; Awards Program Nov. 16 In State College [PaEN] -- Western PA Conservancy: Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

Although we have made incredible gains due to the Clean Air Act and the vital work of the EPA, the American Lung Association finds that nearly 40% of Americans, representing 131.2 million people, still live in areas with unhealthy air.

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Brag

JUNE 28, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a final rule under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program that will establish the biofuel volume requirements from 2023 to 2025. The final volume targets (billion Renewable Identification Numbers (RIN)) are as follows: 2023 2024 2025 Cellulosic biofuel 0.84 Advanced biofuel 5.94

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

4 In Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- PUC Commissioner Kathryn Zerfuss Appointed To EPA’s Farm, Ranch And Rural Communities Advisory Committee -- TribLive: Eureka, Citizens Gifted Eplugs To Fire Company To Thwart Electric Vehicle Dangers -- Moms Clean Air Force Nov. DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4

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Acoel

JANUARY 17, 2025

Posted on January 17, 2025 by Basil Seggos , Seth D. Carlston With the incoming Trump administration poised for an attack on federal environmental regulations, states are quickly emerging with actions on climate change. New York is the second state after Vermont to pass a state Climate Superfund law. Jaffe , and Daniel T.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2025

Email: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com [Posted: March 31, 2025] PA Environment Digest Mercer County DEP Invites Comments On Chapter 105 Permit For A MarkWest Liberty 4.5 PA Environment Daily Blog : Update on PA environmental issues. Click Here for a Calendar of Upcoming Events. Click Here to search back issues of the Digest.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

There are also legal issues associated with CAFOs, such as the EPA failing to require Clean Water Act (CWA) and Clean Air Act (CAA) permits. Biogas is mostly comprised of methane and carbon dioxide, which are harmful gases that contribute to climate change.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

Regulating the carbon emissions of thousands of power plants is not a choice, it’s what’s required under the Clean Air Act and subsequent determinations and court decisions.  If this all feels like deja vu, that’s because we’ve been here before. million electric cars in use by 2025. Long story short, they did and it is.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

However, there is also a long history of the auto industry resisting change by claiming that regulations are an existential threat to their business. Californias clean car rules will save drivers money at the pump, slow the damage from climate change, and reduce exposure to harmful air pollution for everyone in the state.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Of course, an honest assessment of the latest climate science will show that since 2009 the evidence has become even more compelling and dire. Climate change, driven by rising heat-trapping emissions, is already causing significant harm to peoples health and well-being and to vital ecosystems.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

We share the concerns expressed by former EPA administrators who recently wrote that such cuts would render the agency incapable of protecting Americans from grave threats in our air, water and land. Another credible analysis found the benefits of the Clean Air Act exceeded its costs by more than 30 to one.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

The Fifth National Climate Assessment is equally clear: Human activities are changing the climate. Climate change is making extreme weather more intense and more frequent. Advances in attribution science also show that climate change is contributing to worsening some types of extreme weather.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

However, there is also a long history of the auto industry resisting change by claiming that regulations are an existential threat to their business. Californias clean car rules will save drivers money at the pump, slow the damage from climate change, and reduce exposure to harmful air pollution for everyone in the state.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. HERE ARE THE ADDITIONS TO THE CLIMATE CASE CHART SINCE UPDATE #130: FEATURED CASE. and non-U.S.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

It’s a common misconception that Congress has never passed any climate change legislation. But it has passed laws regulating two powerful greenhouse gases, and some other climate laws stretching back over the past five decades. Only laws that specifically cover climate or greenhouse gases are included.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting. Room 205 Ryan Building. Click Here to watch online. April 22-- Agenda Posted. Room 105 of the Rachel Carson Building in Harrisburg. Click Here to join the meeting via Microsoft Teams.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 4, 2021

mpg by 2025. – SAFE Part 1 was challenged by a bevy of states—California and a number of states who follow, or have expressed intent to follow, California’s standards pursuant to Section 177 of the Clean Air Act—and environmental groups, while some automakers and industry groups joined the fray on the side of the federal government.

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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. While the Clean Air Act (CAA) has been amended multiple times since 1970, this basic requirement has remained untouched. Conference of Mayors (USCOM).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Of course, an honest assessment of the latest climate science will show that since 2009 the evidence has become even more compelling and dire. Climate change, driven by rising heat-trapping emissions, is already causing significant harm to peoples health and well-being and to vital ecosystems.

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Law Columbia

JULY 5, 2024

Before Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency had meaningful latitude to determine how to carry out its mandate under the Clean Air Act. If in 2025 Democrats hold the presidency and a majority in Congress, we may see an Inflation Reduction Act 2.0; if Trump wins, the regulatory vacuum will surely grow.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The emissions make a significant contribution to climate change because methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas which, in the first 20 years after it is released, traps approximately 84 times more heat in the earth’s atmosphere than carbon dioxide (on a per ton basis). and our citizens.”.

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Law and Environment

JUNE 11, 2021

I certainly agree that climate change is an existential threat and that’s where our emphasis needs to be. Fortunately, many of the measures that should be implemented to address climate change would also reduce PM 2.5 exposure through our climate change regulation. The evidence is clear.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This secret of the federal government is why I’m so baffled by Project 2025’s proposal to give the President the power (through something called “Schedule F”) to convert as many as 50,000 jobs in the federal government from career positions to political ones. That is true regardless of which party is in power. It’s true across agencies.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

12, 2015, 195 countries signed the historic Paris Agreement creating a firm foundation for meaningful action on climate change through. For now, the United States has relinquished its leadership on climate change, but states and local communities are stepping up to the plate. mpg by 2025. deep decarbonization.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 22, 2025

Yesterday, January 21, 2025, the Sabin Center filed an amicus brief on behalf of the National League of Cities (NLC) and the U.S. This is especially true in the case of heavy-duty vehicles, which have significant negative public health and climate impacts in cities, but whose regulation falls largely outside municipal jurisdiction.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 30, 2025

On March 11, 2025, EPA issued termination notices for two of the GGRFs subprograms , the National Clean Investment Fund and the Clean Communities Investment Accelerator, which together have eight prime grantees and many more subgrantees. Pursuant to the Clean Air Act and the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 15, 2025

Meanwhile, EPA has posted a roster of nearly 50 coal-fired power plants that took the administrations offer on the Email us for a free pass on compliance with the Clean Air Act. If youre new here, welcome to The Drain, a weekly news roundup of climate and environmental headlines. Deep breath.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

Executive Order - Eliminating State Interference The President signed an executive order "removing unlawful and burdensome state-level impediments to domestic energy production"-- -- The Order directs the Attorney General to identify and take action against state laws and policies that burden the use of domestic energy resources and that are unconstitutional, (..)

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

In addition, California’s ability to set its 100% zero-emissions target (and the ability of other states to adopt that target) relies on EPA’s issuance of a Clean Air Act preemption waiver. With the loss of national leadership looming in 2025, the EV focus is becoming local. Download as PDF

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

1 [PaEN] Upcoming Events -- Moms Clean Air Force Nov. 20 Webinar On Clean School Buses Funding For Pennsylvania, Noon to 1:00 p.m. -- PA Solar Center, Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services Release New Guidebook For PA Municipalities On Development Of Large-Scale Solar Facilities; Nov.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

One example is the Trump administration’s early decision to eliminate California’s ability to set motor vehicle emission standards more stringent than those USEPA adopts for most of the nation–as explicitly contemplated by Congress under section 209 of the federal Clean Air Act.

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