Legal Planet

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Cost-benefit analysis is required for all major regulations. However, since Ronald Reagan’s first days in office, Presidents have ordered agencies to make cost-benefit analysis for major regulations a major part of their decisions. Q: How does an agency determine the cost of a regulation? Those laws are a minority.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 20, 2022

Equity weighting can make a big difference in assessing regulations that heavily benefit disadvantaged communities. Equity weighting thus has the potential to make regulation much more progressive. Hence, the regulation is likely to be a bad deal for the poor unless the benefit to them is larger than the cost.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

In much of the country, those wholesale transactions are under the control of regional transmission organizations established by federal power regulators, but that’s not true everywhere. In those states where rates are regulated, regulators can do some things to shift these incentives.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Kober This profile was first published on the PA Conservation Heritage website-- Paul O. In the late 1970s, he worked as a partner in a small business (Conservation Concepts, Inc.) Career In Conservation Begins Pauls conservation career included working at the local, state and regional levels. By Wayne W. Hershey Jr./Sr.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Based on a broad interpretation of a single word (“system”) in this fairly obscure provision, EPA proposed regulations quite different than the normal fare under the statute. I would have voted to uphold the regulation as a reasonable if not necessary way to accomplish the statute’s purpose.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 8, 2024

In a string of really problematic decisions, the US Supreme Court’s ultra-conservative majority has ensured that the hard job of regulatory agencies in protecting the public interest will get even harder, if not impossible in many instances. To stymy regulations so that businesses have and even freer hand. Deregulation successful!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2024

If governments bypass or undermine science and public comments in policy making, our health could be in jeopardy from increased pollution, cases of foodborne illnesses, politically-driven medicine approvals or disapprovals, and more. When facilities emit less pollution, their regulations require less specific record-keeping and monitoring.

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Legal Planet

JULY 11, 2022

As we all know, the West Virginia case involved the Obama Administration’s signature climate change regulation, the Clean Power Plan. The Court rejected the regulation on the basis of the major questions doctrine. A: Roberts focuses on four factors in determining whether a regulation involves a major question. .

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Circle of Blue

JULY 14, 2022

Utah regulators have identified high numbers of toxin-producing algae in the southern reaches of Utah Lake , a water body notorious for summer algae outbreaks. California regulators passed an emergency order in June that took small steps to address the supply-demand imbalance. 4) Drought Is Political. 3) Cutbacks Are Inevitable.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Harmful algal blooms are the biological consequence of a riptide of bloom-generating nutrients allowed by law and timid regulation to run off the land, particularly farm fields. After five months of investigation, and in interviews with more than 40 farmers, state regulators, advocates, and scientists in five states and Washington, D.C.,

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2023

That statute authorizes the state’s oil and gas supervisor–rebranded in recent years as the Department of Conservation’s more benign-sounding Geologic Energy Management Division–to permit drilling of new oil and gas wells and to use fracking technology in the operation of existing wells.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 19, 2022

No PFAS chemical is currently regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act. But the agency is developing binding regulations for two of the chemicals, PFOA and PFOS. Utah regulators see high numbers of toxic algae in the southern reaches of Utah Lake, a water body notorious for summer algae outbreaks. 4) Drought Is Political.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

But in trying to shape a regulation that would mollify opponents—largely industries responsible for the heat-trapping gases that cause climate change—the SEC failed to relieve investors of responsibility for determining how companies will fare in the clean energy transition.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

With every spill, every fine for violating environmental rules, every increase in emissions, and every lobbying push for subsidies and looser environmental regulations, Edwards cements his place as a true master of fossil-fueled villainy. Let’s just say “safety first” isn’t quite their motto.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2022

Now the reports driven by these resolutions are beginning to roll in, and while they certainly provide some insight into the fossil fuel industry’s investment in political influence, a sleight of hand is preventing investors from seeing the companies’ full strategy. ExxonMobil Names Names. The organization received between $2.5

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 28, 2021

They worry that scrapping the project after it was approved by state and federal regulators would set a bad precedent for the state and subject future permitting decisions to partisan politics. The DEP also ordered Central Maine Power to conserve 40,000 acres in western Maine and spend nearly $1.9

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

1 - No Attempt To Contain, Cleanup Injection Well Spill; Gas Storage Area Well Release; More Abandoned Conventional Wells [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: As Fracking Turns 20 In Pennsylvania, Towns Consider New Regulations For Distance Between Homes And Well Pads [Cecil Twp., 26 to Nov. 26 to Nov. 26 to Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2025

Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Similarly, so many local regulations are based on single-family needs that the zoning change is irrelevant: for example, the report presents the example of the City of Los Angeles forbidding more than one water meter on a single-family parcel, which makes a duplex impossible. But localities can deal with their own regulations.).

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The issue has begun changing minds about climate change among recreational fishermen, a demographic that leans politically conservative. Across the country, these anxieties are gradually translating into political momentum. McCool, the angler, hopes that the DNR will begin to enforce these regulations.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 7, 2023

In basic terms, the narrative is a counterproposal: cities have enough water as long as they conserve, reuse, stamp out leaks, and align their policies and cultures to the environmental contours of the drylands. That’s what more and more communities are looking to with landscape regulations, with zoning, with ordinances, with codes.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

If you’re an anti-regulatory conservative, you’d probably flip these designations. Lucas appeared at the time to be the start of a sweeping constitutional attack on environmental and land use regulations. At the time, a regulation said all wetlands used by migratory water birds were under federal jurisdiction. Michigan v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2022

This action is particularly important in terms of equity because water pollution disproportionately affects under-resourced communities with low political representation. Water conservation. Water education should go beyond teaching the hydrologic cycle and incorporate components of local hydrology, regulations, and laws.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Across the country, these anxieties are gradually translating into political momentum. Recreational fishermen are a demographic that leans politically conservative, and the issue has begun changing minds about climate change. The Department of Natural Resources told Circle of Blue that it has been taking a slow approach.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

And while state laws across the region regulate how, when and why water rights are sold, some worry it won’t be enough to hold back the tide. “I The regulation requiring that water be used would seem to discourage speculative behavior. Conservation groups use them to increase in-stream flows to help native fish.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Ohio- $2.84 Ohio- $2.84 Ohio- $2.84

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 16, 2021

Elder, a conservative talk radio host, is probably the leading Republican candidate at this point. Jenner’s views on environmental issues are hazy, but she does say that California “needs less regulation” and has to compete with Texas. Ose’s lifetime score from the League of Conservation Voters was 12%. ” Larry Elder.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

February 27-- House Appropriations Committee Budget Hearing: 10:00- Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Click Here to watch live. House Floor. Click Here to watch online.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2025

DCNR Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council. Snowden at dsnowden@pa.gov or (717) 783-8846. -- PA Conservation Heritage Project Profile: George Wolff - One Room School To The Group That Doesnt Exist - By Wayne W. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. Click Here for options for joining the meeting remotely. Contact: Daniel E.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 11, 2022

But Michigan’s experience shows how political conflicts and logistical challenges can complicate the math. Clair River Corridor is just one place where state regulators are pushing towns to consolidate water systems for greater efficiency as aging, costly plants near their expiration date. Are Mergers The Answer?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

-- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 Of Environmental Professionals Now Accepting Applications For College Scholarship Program [PaEN] -- MCall: Can Dogs Be Used To Combat Spotted Lanternfly?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 12, 2023

Capitol -- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: PA Looks To Bring Tavern ‘Skill Games’ Under Gambling Regulation 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 12, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Senate returns to voting session Feb. 27, 28, March 1, 6, 7, 8 -- Committee Schedule -- March 7-- Governor’s Budget Address House returns to voting session Feb.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The big reservoirs on the Colorado River continued to shrink as a warming climate and inadequate conservation dry out the basin. In August, French regulators suspended thermal pollution standards for rivers, allowing nuclear plants to overheat streams. A climate shark is fearsome enough for water. They still haven’t been attained.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Until there’s scarcity most developers aren’t incentivized to conserve water,” said Brock Smethills. For us, the incentives were aligned day one to use less water and conserve as much as possible.”. The developers, Harold Smethills and his son Brock, are studying how to most efficiently collect and use rainwater from rooftops. .

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2025

In addition, thirty volunteers continued the cleanup efforts, collecting 168 bags of litter, abandoned electronic devices and appliances, and over 300 political signs, which were recycled through an initiative started by Keep Chester County Beautiful , an affiliate of Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 29, 2023

28 PA Bulletin [PaEN] -- Republican Herald: ‘PostHistory’ Depicts Coal Region History After King Coal Was Dethroned -- Scranton Times: Lackawanna River Conservation Assn. 28 PA Bulletin [PaEN] -- Republican Herald: ‘PostHistory’ Depicts Coal Region History After King Coal Was Dethroned -- Scranton Times: Lackawanna River Conservation Assn.

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