PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

On November 13, the Department of Environmental Protection awarded Coastal Zone Grants totaling more than $288,000 to seven projects in the state’s Northwest region. The grants, which are aimed at protecting and restoring the Lake Erie Coastal Zone, will be used toward projects that will benefit this critical habitat and ecosystem.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Although methane doesn’t linger very long in the atmosphere, increasing methane levels are particularly bad news because it packs a big punch. But its short lifetime in the atmosphere is also a reason for hope. It is 80 times stronger than carbon dioxide (CO2) at trapping heat on short timescales. The planet has already warmed 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2022

It may migrate along cracks, faults and fissures before finding its way back to the atmosphere. Given the right atmospheric conditions, pollution can travel for miles, impacting unsuspecting residents far from the source of emissions. Keeping pumped carbon in the ground—in other words, achieving net negative emissions—is much harder.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency et al. Atmospheric concentrations of heat-trapping emissions are on a relentless upward trajectory , as is the increase in global average temperatures. The Supreme Court’s decision in the case known as West Virginia et al. There is no time to waste.

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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? Have I been exposed to ethylene oxide?

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

On June 7, Senate Republicans passed Senate Bill 691 (Yaw-R-Lycoming) dropping ‘Protection’ from the name of the Department of Environmental Protection and changing it to the Department of Environmental Services.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, estimated to be 80 times more damaging to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide but not as long lasting. She and her team of volunteers have found more than 1,000 lost and unplugged oil and gas wells, which they promptly reported to the state Department of Environmental Protection.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2023

During an April 4 routine inspection, the Department of Environmental Protection found two Repsol Oil and Gas USA LLC shale gas wells in Apolacon Township, Susquehanna County venting natural gas to the atmosphere through the well annulus at the Kropp Well Pad.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 31, 2025

CDR refers to deliberate human activities that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and durably store it in geologic, terrestrial, or ocean reservoirs or in long-lived products. OAE attempts to artificially increase the oceans carbon sink, i.e., its ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2024

Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) were developed to replace a type of chemical that impacted the ozone layer in our upper atmosphere, but these replacements are potent greenhouse gases. Phasedown of hydrofluorocarbons There are several rules that inform and facilitate the phasedown of hydrofluorocarbons.

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Inside Climate News

MARCH 25, 2025

By Lauren Dalban Wetlands and ephemeral streams provide a wide variety of benefits to people and wildlife, from flood protection for local communities, to preventing pollutants from entering the water supply, to breeding grounds for endangered bird species.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 19, 2022

This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers a setback to the environmental rights of nature in Florida and a recent lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Environmental Protection Agency faces a lawsuit over its recent action in response to PFAS chemicals in drinking water.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Stockholm Declaration of 1972 laid the foundation by recognizing the importance of environmental protection. The legal right to a healthy environment The legal framework supporting the right to a healthy environment is rooted in a series of international agreements.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Compared to carbon dioxide (CO2), methane doesn’t linger for long in the atmosphere after being emitted. Methane gas has devastating effects on the climate system and its extraction and combustion generate numerous harms to human health. But during the decade it does linger, its heat-trapping potential is 80x stronger than CO2.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 16, 2024

It is, after all, a necessary component of point-source carbon capture and storage (“CCS”) systems that seek to prevent carbon dioxide produced by power plants and other industrial facilities entering the atmosphere (i.e., by capturing it before release and storing it underground). Or at least that’s the theory. groundwater contamination).

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Law Columbia

APRIL 8, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency. In a 5-4 decision, the Court curtailed the Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) authority under the Clean Water Act (CWA) to issue pollutant discharge permits. On March 4, 2025, the Supreme Court handed down an important ruling in City and County of San Francisco v. How is mCDR affected?

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Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2025

It is also necessary to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (a process known as carbon dioxide removal or CDR). This, in turn, enables the ocean to absorb more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. These laws are administered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE).

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Why it matters: The recent Inflation Reduction Act expands the tax credit for capturing carbon dioxide that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere. Environmental Protection Agency. The company is seeking powers of eminent domain from state regulators. Evers restarted the process after new guidance from the U.S.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Steep reductions in emissions of methane—which traps 81 times as much heat as carbon dioxide in the first 20 years in the atmosphere—are among the most important steps for slowing climate change in the short term. By Phil McKenna The U.S.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency releases a plan to improve water infrastructure and sanitation for Native American tribes. New Yorkers have a chance to enshrine environmental protections in their state constitution, potentially reviving a legal movement that flourished in the United States a half-century ago.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

The researchers proposed a new geothermal-assisted compressed-air energy storage system that makes use of depleted oil and gas wells the Environmental Protection Agency estimates there are around 3.9 If these wells are improperly plugged, or damaged, they can leak methane into the atmosphere and groundwater.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Lead author Adam Gold , a watershed researcher for the Environmental Defense Fund, said the wild uncertainty is because the court arbitrarily created a new standard for federal protection divorced from the science of how wetlands support larger streams, rivers, lakes and the ocean.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 7, 2022

Read the full story at Smart Cities Dive.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We know that over 135 years, 88 fossil fuel producers contributed approximately: 61% of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide 52% of the rise in global average temperature 34% of global sea level rise 55% of the increase in ocean acidification Fisheries, including lobsters, are responding to the warming by moving elsewhere.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2023

On October 28, the Department of Environmental Protection will formally publish the draft 2024 Integrated Water Quality Monitoring Report for public comment showing just over one-third (34%) of Pennsylvania’s streams-- 28,820 miles-- have impaired water quality. Click Here for a spreadsheet showing all sources of impairment.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. China’s emissions are about 30%) and that CO 2 , the most important greenhouse gas, accumulates in the atmosphere, the defendant’s emissions are not determinative. In the US, for instance, Massachusetts v.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

On November 15, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the award of $402,021 to support 10 local projects to protect and restore the Delaware Estuary Coastal Zone. A portion of this award is used to fund eligible projects that address CRMP priorities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2023

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is charged with the Herculean and crucial task of assessing which chemicals are innocuous and which ones need to be banned or restricted because they pose a threat to our health or the environment. Graphite (pencil lead) and diamonds are a classic example.

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National Law Center

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

REGULATORY: EPA, FWS, FAS, FS, NOAA, USDA ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Notice announcing the availability of EPA’s draft human health and ecological. The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: February 3, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 1, 2024

Atmospheric rivers Similarly, atmospheric rivers are carrying more moisture due to climate change. Imagine the Mississippi River except in the sky and even more massive— atmospheric rivers can stretch more than 300 miles wide and transport 15 times the amount of water flowing out of the Mississippi. Fund nature-based solutions.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Whereas CDR aims to mitigate climate change by removing and durably store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, solar radiation management techniques seek to lessen the impacts of climate change by reflecting solar radiation into outer space.) Solar radiation management is distinct from CDR.

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National Law Center

JUNE 7, 2021

REGULATORY: EPA, FWS, NOAA, USFS Environmental Protection Agency Final rule establishing tolerances for residues of difenoconazole in or on olive; olive, with. The post Ag & Food Law Daily Update: June 7, 2021 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Law and Environment

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

On September 21, 2023, the Biden administration outlined plans to expand federal agencies’ consideration of the social cost of carbon—a metric for the economic cost of each additional ton of carbon dioxide emitted to the atmosphere. The directive is, nonetheless, significant.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 21, 2023

Rodell said that a warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor, so that storms can release more rain. Environmental Protection Agency took an initial step to control toxic “forever chemicals” in drinking water. At the same time, higher temperatures increase evaporation, which dries out soils and contributes to drought.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

The Treasury Department, in collaboration with the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency, is responsible for protecting against such outcomes by developing guidance for tax credit implementation to ensure qualifying “clean” hydrogen is truly clean.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 2, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency announced the selection of Dr. Kandis Boyd as the new Director of EPA's Chesapeake Bay Program. Dr. Boyd has nearly 30 years of experience leading, teaching, advising and mentoring students and early career enthusiasts in environmental and atmospheric science. On June 2, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

million of their product not leaking into the atmosphere, at current natural gas prices. Environmental Protection Agency to adopt controls on methane emissions from oil and gas operations by December 16 or face the potential loss of $500 million or more in federal highway funds.

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