PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2025

On January 17, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced an Administrative Order on Consent with the City of Corry and its municipal authority requiring them to correct federal Clean Water Act permit violations at their wastewater treatment plant. Posted: January 17, 2025] PA Environment Digest

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National Law Center

MARCH 21, 2025

By Drew Viguet National Agricultural Law Center U of A System Division of Agriculture March 21, 2025 Fast facts: New NALC.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

On October 12, the Environmental Quality Board vot ed 15 to 3 to approve Part II of the final-omitted regulation limiting volatile organic compounds and methane from conventional oil and gas facilities. The regulation would affect 4,719 conventional well owners of approximately 27,260 facilities. Read more here. Read more here.

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Smith Enviorment

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

February 23, 2025. Two approaches to limiting the release of 1,4 dioxane to North Carolina drinking water sources have been blocked in the last two years. Challenges to the “Narrative Standard” for Toxic Water Pollutants. An existing water quality rule, 15A NCAC 2H.0208, Clear and unambiguous.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Small, Chesapeake Bay Foundation-PA When the federal Clean Water Act was established 50 years ago to regulate pollution to the country's rivers and streams and set quality standards for surface waters, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania already had a Clean Streams Law and an Environmental Rights Amendment (ERA) to its Constitution on the books.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2022

million pounds of nitrogen and 95,000 pounds of phosphorus by 2025 related to climate change conditions as expected by the Principals’ Staff Committee.” Pennsylvania’s draft amended Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) meets 70 percent of its nitrogen reduction target – 9.7

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

formal notice ) DEP also gave notice it is extending the existing permit for 24 months to March 15, 2025. Workgroup The Department intends to convene a PAG-13 workgroup in the coming months to gather feedback on permit requirements from the regulated community and other interested parties.

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Acoel

APRIL 13, 2023

Posted on April 13, 2023 by Ridge Hall What can a frustrated state legislator do when the agency implementing the Clean Water Act fails to renew expired permits or sanction major violators? Legislation recently adopted by Maryland provides some innovative answers. Here’s the problem.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2022

12 EQB Agenda [PaEN] -- Bay Journal: With 2025 Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Goal Out Of Reach, Region Plans For What's Next At Oct. Limiting Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities To Oct. 15 In Pittsburgh -- Reminder: Bucknell University River Symposium Abstracts Due Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2022

-- Caren Glotfelty Recognized As A 2022 Distinguished Daughter Of Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- CBF Blog: Franklin Kury: Two Jars Of Water, And A Lasting Environmental Legacy For Pennsylvania - By B.J.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

On March 12, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced sweeping plans to reconsider more than 31 major environmental regulations and programs, including pulling back regulations reducing methane emissions and regulating production wastewater from oil and gas operations. Click Here for the announcement.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Fifty years ago the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was signed and the Clean Water Act was enacted to clear pollution from the region’s waters. clean water statute, though, give farmers and their wastes special treatment. Video: Lake Erie’s murky algae water. Regulation Begins.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Farming-related contaminants already pollute thousands of drinking water wells from Minnesota to Missouri, and virtually every mile of streams and rivers in Iowa is impaired with little regulation to rein in the pollutants. farmland as “the single greatest challenge to our nation’s water quality.”

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2023

This is the first story in a series of reports from the Great Lakes News Collaborative that will investigate contemporary water pollution challenges in the Great Lakes region. In the interim, state regulators this year are directly asking municipalities with storm sewer systems to outline steps for controlling salt runoff from roads.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Because Pennsylvania will miss a 2025 deadline for Chesapeake Bay improvements, the EPA will continue stricter oversight of the state’s polluters. The DHHS office that oversees water and energy bill assistance will collect demographic data on grant recipients. About 46,000 facilities are regulated under such permits.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2025

Of Agriculture Expands Spotted Lanternfly Quarantine Area To Bradford, Sullivan, Venango, Wyoming Counties [PaEN] -- The Nature Conservancy - PA/DE Adds 509 Acres To Protected Land Along Susquehanna River Water Gaps In Dauphin County [PaEN] -- MCall: Lower Macungie Twp.

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Acoel

JUNE 25, 2024

The DC Circuit, the Ninth Circuit, and the Biden Administration Council on Environmental Quality have concluded that NEPA and the regulations implementing it require a Federal Agency to consider all “reasonably foreseeable” environmental effects of a project whether or not the Federal Agency can do anything about said effects.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

29 Webinar On How Recent US Supreme Court Decisions Will Impact Environmental Regulation, Planning [PaEN] -- Learn How To Save Money On Energy Thru PA Solar Center’s G.E.T. 1 Briefing On State Of Climate Efforts In Pennsylvania At College Of Physicians Of Philadelphia [PaEN] -- House Committee Meets Oct. Solar Program In Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 17, 2023

Most states in the Chesapeake region will miss their 2025 goals for reducing nutrient pollution, which is the main cause of the Bay’s water quality woes. The hope was to have all necessary actions in place by 2025 to meet those goals. But that and other farm-related regulations were often unenforced. million pounds to 73.5

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Of Agriculture Announces 2025 PA Farm Show Theme - Powering Pennsylvania -- Audubon Society Of Western PA, Buffalo Creek Coalition, Penn State Extension Host Oct. 18 Winter Feeding Pasture Walk In Newville, Cumberland County [PaEN] -- Dept.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 20, 2023

The water quality was so bad that there were incidents where tributary rivers that empty into Lake Erie caught fire. These deplorable conditions eventually led to the implementation of the Clean Water Act , which was passed in 1972 and strengthened regulations on industrial waste disposal.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Hosted By PA League Of Women Voters & University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health [PaEN] -- DEP Issues Notice Of Violation To Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County For Air Quality Violations In Sept. - 23-24: Save The Date, Sponsorship Opportunities Visit the PA Environment Digest website to learn more.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order on climate change and clean energy. Executive Order 80 supports the 2015 Paris Agreement and sets several goals for the state to meet by 2025: Reduce state greenhouse gas emissions by 40% from 2005 levels. Increase the number of zero-emission vehicles in the state to 80,000.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The federal Clean Water Act includes specific provisions to limit pollution from such “point sources” of contamination. Wetlands that filter water draining from creeks into the lake are removing 90 percent of the phosphorus, she said. But achieving the agreement’s water quality goals by 2025 appears to be out of reach.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

To address this problem, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized a suite of important regulations. In April of 2024, the EPA introduced new Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs) for PFAS in drinking water, signaling a critical regulatory shift. Why Are Federal Regulations Necessary to Regulate PFAS?

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2025

Bartolotta contends the federal Natural Gas Act mandates the federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has exclusive jurisdiction over an appeal which challenges any state agencys action in either approving or denying a permit when the state agency acts on the basis of federal law. It was passed by the Senate, died in House.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 6, 2023

The strategy notes the administration’s willingness to use “existing authorities” to regulate critical sectors like water and energy. The bill takes aim at Section 401 of the Clean Water Act, which has been a source of conflict in recent years over permitting fossil fuel projects.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

USA: Stop the Formosa Plastics Plant Coalition Against Death Alley | 2021 As part of the fossil fuel industry’s push to increase North American plastic production by 35 percent by 2025(1), Formosa Plastics is planning to build a massive petrochemical industrial complex in St. James Parish, Louisiana. James, LA =in the heart of Cancer Alley.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 17, 2025

History EPA aims to roll back power sector regulations in broad deregulatory push Former regulators say EPAs planned rollbacks would reverse 50 years of environmental progress Trump administration to roll back many EPA regulations, revisit contested water rule Deregulatory blitz at EPA includes climate and water rules that impact agriculture EPA signals (..)

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ESA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

EPA, Ruling Could Impact the Definition of “Waters of the U.S.”. ESA and other scientific societies file brief arguing that the interpretation of the Clean Water Act is inherently founded on science. EPA determines that most Chesapeake Bay watershed states are not on track to meet 2025 pollution reduction commitments.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 10, 2025

Supreme Court narrows Clean Water Act discharge permits. And lastly, Democratic senators from western states ask the administration to preserve water funding and staff. He described it as a most unfortunate misstep that rewards an act of judicial hubris and imposes a $2 billion penalty on American taxpayers.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Both animal and environment advocates have filed many lawsuits in this area, some of which have sought stricter regulation of CAFOs. 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.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

Yesterday, EPA also unveiled plans to rewrite the definition of wetlands and other waters protected by the Clean Water Act. The regulatory rollbacks are proposals that must still undergo a rigorous process before being finalized.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Inspectors general for the Defense Department and EPA will investigate water contamination from an Oahu naval base. The Justice Department announced a settlement with a southeastern Pennsylvania water authority over sewage spills that violated the Clean Water Act. Oahu Water Contamination. News Briefs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

The so-called No IRIS Act (H.R. Silencing this office would stifle the lifesaving health research that underlies our nations environmental protections, and would result in weaker regulations and higher rates of cancer, birth defects, learning disabilities, and other devastating health consequences, especially for children. 1415 and S.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 14, 2025

By releasing this draft risk assessment, EPA is providing stakeholders with a rigorous, data and science-driven report that, once finalized it may help the agency determine whether regulating PFOA and PFOS in sewage sludge under the Clean Water Act is appropriate. and Appendix A.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

[Deep Cuts Threaten 50 Years Of Progress] We are writing to urge Congress to ensure that EPA has sufficient staff and funding to effectively implement the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and other bedrock environmental laws for the good of all Americans.

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