Law Columbia

JANUARY 31, 2025

Most climate action today rightly focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. typically have primary authority over near-shore ocean waters and the underlying submerged land (i.e., The MPRSA regulates ocean dumping, while the CWA regulates pollution in navigable waters, but both may apply to certain OAE activities.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2024

He counsels clients on compliance under the full suite of environmental statutes, including the Clean Water Act (CWA); National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA); Endangered Species Act (ESA); the Comprehensive, Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA); and state equivalents.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 29, 2022

The permit was issued under the Clean Water Act in March 2019 – the same year the project received FERC approval – and will allow construction crews to “clear, grade, excavate and place fill material” on site to build the plant, which is being built on a 1,000-acre site on the west bank of the Calcasieu River, south of Lake Charles. [1]

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2022

Project partners will use COMET-Farm to model the greenhouse gas benefits of project activities. The Chesapeake Conservancy and thirteen partners will work with NRCS to accelerate conservation improvements to work toward eventual delisting of the streams. Click Here for a complete list of projects. Click Here for full announcement.

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Acoel

JANUARY 22, 2024

This second of four blogs explains the many agricultural practices that can reduce greenhouse gas emissions or increase carbon sequestration, and build resilience to extreme and changing weather, but need policy support for wider adoption. Organic fertilizers can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and water pollution and improve soil health.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

The Chesapeake Conservancy and 13 partners have more than 30 farms lined up to put practices in place that will help address water quality issues and wildlife habitat concerns in Huntingdon, Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Union and Snyder counties in the central part of the state. How Clean Is Your Stream? million from the program.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 23, 2022

20 Via Zoom, Offer Sensor Rentals -- Citizen Science Parasite Hunters Needed: Penn State Researcher Asking Deer Hunters For Help In Biting Flies Research Effort - By Penn State News [PaEN] -- PUC Joins 8th Annual ‘Imagine A Day Without Water’ To Raise Water Awareness -- Warren Times: Night Sky Program Offered Oct.

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Acoel

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Either we believe what the scientists are telling us about the effect Greenhouse Gases are having on our planet or we don’t. Here’s the thing. Believing them has caused the Federal Government to authorize billions of dollars in spending to expedite a transition to renewable energy, including energy generated by wind.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

To offset emissions, cultivated seaweed could be used to replace more greenhouse gas-intensive products, or could be sunk in the deep sea. Like terrestrial plants, seaweed uptakes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as it grows and stores it in biomass. Potentially applicable U.S.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions into our atmosphere—the equivalent of 300 coal-fired power plants—and these facilities are sited in predominantly low-income communities and communities of color. More plastic means more pollution—for the climate, coastal communities and our ocean. By 2030, plastic production will contribute 1.3

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions should be the highest priority, but that won’t be enough to prevent severe impacts, some of which are already occurring. This blog is based on a talk given to the Climate Change: Response and Resilience Leadership Forum at Columbia University on November 20, 2019, sponsored by RenaissanceRe.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2021

27-28 PA Statewide Watershed Conference - Nov. 7-8, Webinars Nov. 10-11 Keystone Coldwater Conference + PA Chapter Of American Fisheries Society Feb. 25-26 Supporting Member PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers; PA Outdoor Writers Assn.;

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

For example, the ongoing debate over the impact of certain pesticides in agriculture , greenhouse gas emissions are often a battle between the science and industry's attempts to muddy the science and government lobbying to roll back legislation (2). Typically used in conjunction with “greenhouse gas” but some emissions are not GHGs.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In the United States, excess nutrients build up in waterways from Lake Erie to the Gulf of Mexico, precipitating algae outbreaks that kill fish, close public drinking water utilities, and pollute water. Some residual nitrogen was lodged in soils where microbes converted it into nitrous oxide, a significant greenhouse gas.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 21, 2023

Army Corps of Engineers for violating both the National Environmental Policy Act and Clean Water Act in a proposed expansion of a lakefront sediment dumping site. On Chicago’s Southeast Side, a Lawsuit to Protect Residents and Nature SEDIMENT LAWSUIT: Environmental activists on Chicago’s Southeast Side are suing the U.S.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The Task Force’s duties include recommending strategies, policies and incentives aimed to curb growth of greenhouse gas emissions in Louisiana. Army Corps of Engineers permitting requirements under Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act and Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. Part 585.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The Task Force’s duties include recommending strategies, policies and incentives aimed to curb growth of greenhouse gas emissions in Louisiana. Army Corps of Engineers permitting requirements under Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act and Section 404 of the Clean Water Act. Part 585.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

million tons of greenhouse gases that the project is expected to emit annually. million to resolve violations under the Clean Air Act (CAA), Clean Water Act (CWA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) and Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA).

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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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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Climate Change, and Tree Planting. Additionally, the bill establishes a Commission for the Innovation and Advancement of Carbon Markets and Sustainable Tree Plantings charged with developing a plan to achieve the State’s carbon mitigation goals. Environmental Standing and Environmental Justice.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Funded by the Erb Family Foundation and the Joyce Foundation, the project comes on the 50 th anniversary of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, a high point of environmental diplomacy, and the U.S. Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law. Once Cleared Harmful Blooms. did it once before. .

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Beef giant JBS vows to go deforestation-free — 14 years from now Aurora Solá | Mongabay News | April 6, 2021 JBS, the largest animal protein producer on Earth, made headlines last week with a commitment to achieve zero deforestation across its global supply chain by 2035 and net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Beef giant JBS vows to go deforestation-free — 14 years from now Aurora Solá | Mongabay News | April 6, 2021 JBS, the largest animal protein producer on Earth, made headlines last week with a commitment to achieve zero deforestation across its global supply chain by 2035 and net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2040.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The banning of DDT, the Clean Water Act, banning of shooting eagles, protected nest sites and targeted restoration programs means this majestic bird of prey has gone from just 500 at the low point to 70,000 today. Also, we know that the use of DDT also killed a great many more (30).

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

We need to take real action to address climate change, protect and create energy jobs and ensure Pennsylvania has reliable, affordable and clean power for the long term,” Shapiro said in the statement. Read more here. “We

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Labeling and reuse requirements for cylinders with HFCs, the super-powerful greenhouse gases. Applying Clean Water Act to shrimp trawlers’ dumping of bycatch back in the ocean. Biden , 67 F.4 4 th 921 (9 th Cir. 2023), vacated as moot, 70 F. 4 th 1167 (9 th Cir. 3d 59 (D.C. NRC , 2023 WL 5498874 (5 th Cir.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Youngkin says he will take Virginia out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to save ratepayers money – The Washington Post. House votes to ‘disapprove’ of entering Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, defying Gov. EPA – Proposed Settlement Agreement, Clean Water Act. Wolf – The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 10, 2023

The Rundown An EPA proposal to cut mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants would decrease water pollution and accumulation of pollutants in fish. President Biden vetoes a Clean Water Act rollback. An EPA survey of drinking water utilities estimates the number of lead service lines.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 21, 2022

Anchorman Frank Blair reported that “a government scientist” had told colleagues at the American Geophysical Union that “over-pollution, unless checked, could so warm the earth in 200 years as to create a greenhouse effect, melting the Arctic ice cap and flooding vast areas of the world.”. Which brings us to this Earth Day.

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MGKF Law

APRIL 9, 2023

of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit dismissed states’ challenges to President Biden’s social cost of greenhouse gases established pursuant to Executive Order No. Five days later, in The State of Louisiana, et al. Biden, Jr., 22-30087, 2023 WL 2780821 (5th Cir. April 5, 2023), the Honorable Jacques L.

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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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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

environmental organizations, and climate activists were appropriately enthused last summer when Democrats passed the Inflation Reduction Act. Agricultural nutrient pollution is the primary reason that the Clean Water Act has not come close to meeting its “fishable and swimmable” goal for US surface waters.

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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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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 23, 2023

The Rundown The EPA proposes elevating PFAS and greenhouse gas emissions as enforcement priorities for the next four years. EPA researchers want a better understanding of the economic benefits of improved water quality. Those focus areas would join a priority list that includes waste discharges and drinking water violations.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Circuit Court of Appeals granted motions seeking to dismiss as moot the proceedings challenging the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, which established emission guidelines for greenhouse gases from existing power plants. The court dismissed the proceedings 11 days after the effective date of the U.S.

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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. California enacted its LCFS to combat greenhouse gases (GHGs) being released into the atmosphere.

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ESA

MARCH 20, 2023

Courts Federal judge blocks news Clean Water Act rule in Texas and Idaho. Council on Environmental Quality – National Environmental Policy Act Guidance on Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change. Greenhouse Gas Monitoring and Information System; Number NNH23ZDA009L.

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