PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Shapiro Secures Additional Federal Aid To Help 12 Counties Recover From Tropical Storm Debby [PaEN] -- Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy To Host 3 Public Meetings On Perkiomen Mapping & Flood Mitigation Study Spanning Parts Of Montgomery, Berks, Bucks, Lehigh Counties Starting Nov. 12 (In-Person), Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2025

Kober [PaEN] -- WITF StateImpartPA - Rachel McDevitt: Jimmy Carter Offered Calm To Pennsylvanians After Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant Partial Meltdown -- Ag Conservation Professionals! Get Your Passport To 2025 PA Farm Show, Enhance Your Conservation Skills Starting Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Environmental Quality Board is scheduled to meet on November 12 to consider a proposed regulation on notification of spills, corrections to Air Quality regulations on RACT requirements for nitrogen oxide and volatile organic compounds and final-omitted regulations on noncoal mine blasting.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

This decision , reached with a 6-3 majority led by Chief Justice John Roberts, marks a significant shift in administrative law and has profound implications for environmental regulations and climate accountability. However, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority saw this as an opportunity to dismantle the doctrine altogether.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2024

20 RiverWatch Video Report -- Post-Gazette: PA Farmers Turning To No-Till Farming Focusing On Bottom Line, Human Health -- Penn State Extension Conservation Cornerstone: Jan. Get Your Passport To 2025 PA Farm Show, Enhance Your Conservation Skills Starting Jan.

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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

JUNE 27, 2024

It is significant because if its huge public health benefits and because it has provided the basis for EPA regulation of greenhouse gases. Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA). If I were listing laws in order of importance, I would put the CAA on top. Comprehensive Emergency Response and Cleanup Act (CERCLA ).

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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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Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2025

Seaweed cultivation and sinking are regulated by a number of different laws at the state and federal levels. The ADF&G regulates seaweed cultivation, providing aquatic farm operation permits. Independent of the joint permit, the ADEC also regulates water quality in Alaska. EPA may regulate seaweed sinking under the MPRSA.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2025

The House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee is scheduled to meet March 18 to consider six pieces of legislation-- -- Notice Of Oil & Gas Permits: House Bill 43 (Conklin-D-Centre) require publication of newspaper notice of oil and gas well permits; -- Invertebrate Biodiversity: House Bill 441 (Pielli-D-Chester) amends the (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2025

On March 14, a coalition of conservation, recreation, and environmental organizations filed a petition for review in the U.S. The Lancaster Conservancy , Chesapeake Bay Foundation , Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association , Farm & Natural Lands Trust of York County , and Susquehanna National Heritage Area joined together in this appeal.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2025

Following up on my prior post about the proposed changes to the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) regulations that protect against habitat modification, what might California do to protect the species within its border?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2025

Agricultural professionals and conservation leaders from across Pennsylvania gathered in Harrisburg earlier this month for the second annual Agriculture Conservation Assistance Program (ACAP) Ag Conservation Con , a statewide conference designed to strengthen knowledge, skills, and partnerships in support of on-farm conservation.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2025

Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) announced his intention to introduce legislation to tax gambling skill games and deposit the revenue in the state Clean Streams Fund to support the Agriculture Conservation Assistance Program. Regulating and taxing skill video games is estimated to generate $300 million in annual tax revenues, said Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

To help agriculture professionals who are beginning their journey in agricultural conservation, the Center for Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training , administered by Penn State Extension, is holding a webinar-- Conservation Cornerstone: Effective Engagement Techniques-- from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

On March 13, the ClearWater Conservancy announced individuals, families, and groups are invited to register for the 29th annual Watershed Cleanup Day and help at more than 50 cleanup sites around Centre County. The event will be held during Earth Day weekend on Saturday, April 12 from 8:00 a.m. Click Here to register and for more information.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2024

UC Berkeley’s Center for Law, Energy, & Environment (CLEE) is sponsoring a series of papers evaluating aspects of Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation publication, entitled “Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise,” which has received attention in the Presidential election campaign.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2025

On April 25, the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and BHE GT&S announced the award of 14 grants, totaling $29,650, to 14 different local environmental organizations in eight counties across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as part of the 2025Watershed Mini Grant Program. Click Here for the WPC announcement.

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SPR Law

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

On January 29, 2025, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) announced the release of Draft Amendments to the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) regulations, codified at 6 NYCRR Part 617, as well as accompanying proposed revisions to NYSDECs Short and Full Environmental Assessment Forms (EAFs).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Surface water diversions by those who divert water from state waterways to use on adjacent (“riparian”) lands don’t need to obtain prior approval from state water regulators to do so. The working group issued a report in February 2022 identifying 11 specific proposals to revise and improve state water law. Download as PDF

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 9, 2024

Last week, the 9 th Circuit voted against rehearing en banc its decision from last April finding the City of Berkeley’s ban on natural gas connections in new construction to be preempted by the Energy Policy and Conservation Act. Is prohibiting consumers from using gas appliances really not regulating the energy use of those appliances?

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Regulating groundwater extraction in southeast Arizona: yes and no. Projects eligible for funding include removing old dams, buying out flood-prone properties, improving water quality, conserving land, restoring wetlands, and planting trees in cities. Water, in different forms, was on the ballot in state and local races this year.

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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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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2025

Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations? Three hearings have been scheduled. . -- SRBC also published notice in the January 25 PA Bulletin announcing the registration of five grandfathered water withdrawals in December. acre project located in Cumru Twp., Berks County. ( All through its eNotice system.

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National Law Center

APRIL 16, 2024

The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”) have issued a final rule to update the implementing regulations for Section 10. The post FWS Streamline ESA Voluntary Conservation Programs appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2024

When facilities emit less pollution, their regulations require less specific record-keeping and monitoring. How stringently facilities are monitored should be based on science and on the impacts on the people who live nearby—not by a judge’s ideological viewpoint on regulation.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

I often tell my conservative students that if they really want to get rid of over-regulation, they shouldn’t attack EPA (which if anything is too timid): they should go after their local zoning board. But this is a kind of regulation that helps wealthier, paler people.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

WeConservePA will honor Cynthia Carrow with the 2025 Lifetime Conservation Leadership Award at its PA Land Conservation Conference in State College on April 2-5. Cynthia Carrow began her career at the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC) in March of 1973, more than 51 years ago. In 1996, Ms.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

At nearly $20 billion over five years, it’s the largest investment in conservation on farms since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and it’s focused on helping farmers shift the ways they manage their land in order to better adapt to our new climate reality. And guess what has happened since then?

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2025

Read more here. -- The Underground Storage Tank Indemnification Board published notice in the January 18 PA Bulletin inviting comments on proposed changes to regulations establishing eligibility requirements for paying claims under the underground tank cleanup program. DCNR Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Anti-Nuke Activists Use 46th Anniversary Of Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident To Protest Restart -- Post-Gazette: Anti-Nuke Activists Use 46th Anniversary Of Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident To Protest Restart -- PennDOT, DEP, Keep PA Beautiful Invite Public To Be Part Of Pick Up Pennsylvania (..)

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Read more here. -- The Public Utility Commission published notice in the November 30 PA Bulletin of the Final Order relating to the Energy Efficiency and Conservation 2026 Total Resource Cost Test under Act 129. Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations? All through its eNotice system. Click Here to sign up.

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Legal Planet

JULY 11, 2024

It seems clear that the specific regulation upheld by an earlier decision is protected by that previous decision. Thus, the idea that overruling Chevron makes it open season on existing regulations is an exaggeration, because many of those regulations are protected by binding precedent.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

Click Here to check out your streams. Click Here for a tutorial on using the viewer. to Noon -- Williamsport Sun: Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2025

Microplastics have been found in almost every drinking water source in the United States, but there is no federal testing or regulation for this harmful substance. The governors petition can force the EPA to start monitoring and regulating microplastics, but it will take all of us to push Governor Shapiro to act.

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