PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Beaver Dams The Blueprint For Conservation - Freshwater Research Institute -- PA Capital-Star: Millions In Federal Farm Conservation Funds In Jeopardy For PA Farmers If Programs Eliminated By Congress -- TribLive: Stream Restoration Work Being Done Along Powers Run Road In Allegheny County -- Gettysburg Times: Watershed Alliance of Adams County Reports (..)

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

But renewable generation is not sufficient to decarbonize the electric sector; infrastructure that delivers clean electricity to consumers is also critical. Natural gas, oil, and electricity transmission are each subject to distinct regulatory schemes. Three Regulatory Regimes.

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Acoel

OCTOBER 11, 2023

FERC issues licenses to hydropower operators detailing how and when electricity production may occur. The management of natural lakes is controlled by state agencies acting pursuant to state law. In 1979, FERC succeeded the Federal Power Commission established by Congress in 1920.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Beringia distinct population segment (DPS) of the Pacific bearded seal subspecies as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Circuit Court of Appeals. The plaintiffs charged that the U.S. 4:16 -cv-06040 (N.D.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The new provision limits dredging moratoria unless the restriction on dredging activity is required under the Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, or other applicable federal law. Dredging moratoria are often seasonal, corresponding to fish spawning activity. House Bill 600, Sec.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

The Second Circuit rejected the claim that the renewable energy solicitations exceeded the limited authority granted to states with respect to wholesale sales of electricity under the Federal Power Act and the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act.

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Legal Planet

JULY 27, 2024

The Biden Administration has already taken major strides in this direction by adopting regulations and a memorandum of understanding among the permitting agencies (including CEQ, while I was general counsel) implementing previously unused authorities of the Federal Power Act to improve interagency coordination and expedite permitting processes.

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Acoel

APRIL 2, 2025

The project builds from a 2021 study conducted at UC Merced, one of the projects partner universities, that estimated that covering all 4,000 miles of Californias canals with solar panels could generate enough electricity to power 10 million homes and reduce solar energys land footprint by placing solar arrays on already developed land.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Endangered Species Act : Nearly every country has one of these now as well as international laws and designations for cross-border co-operation on conservation. This Act came into being in 1973 with the aim of setting out special protections for species at risk of extinction. Sponsored Content.

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Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 19, 2023

Less than a week before the effective date of the uplisting of the northern long-eared bat from threatened to endangered under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. It is suggested that this uplisting is an example of the need to reform the Endangered Species Act. in more than half the country.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2025

The President said zero-based regulation uses the bureaucracy against itself.

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Regulations Energy Policy Act 2005 Endangered Species Act 79

Endangered Species Law

JUNE 10, 2021

Linear infrastructure projects, including oil and gas pipelines, electric transmission lines and transportation, have faced a number of regulatory challenges over the last year. Some of these challenges stem from changes in regulatory schemes, adverse court holdings or drastically shifting policy initiatives.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The rostrum has small pores (sensory organs) that can detect electric fields produced by prey. Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 2003. Once detected, sawfish enjoy eating fish and crustaceans and use their rostrums to dig them up out of the sand or as weapons to knock them out. Sawfish can reproduce without sex.

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Ocean Endangered Species Act Conservation 2003 98

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 14, 2023

Her efforts directly assisted with the conservation and recovery of this species under the Endangered Species Act. Fish and Wildlife Service where she contributes to data management and field surveys for the threatened Yellow-Billed Cuckoo in Tucson, Arizona.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2023

-- Solar Power World: New 46 MW Solar Energy Facility In Beaver County To Generate Funds To Support Local Nonprofit Organizations -- Bob Donnan Blog: Solar Power With Savings In November - 8th Electric Bill Under $8.00 In 2023 -- Philadelphia Solar Energy Assn. To Present Final Plan For Youghiogheny River Watershed Dec.

Conservation 77

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 1, 2022

The dams meet nearly 40% of today’s regional electricity needs. The upper Columbia River spring Chinook and Snake River sockeye populations are listed as endangered under the 1973 Endangered Species Act. The pacts between sovereign nations did not stop the U.S. But they decimated wild salmon.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

The High Cost of Renewables House Democrats propose spending hundreds of billions of public and ratepayer money on renewable energy, new transmission lines, energy efficiency, mass transit, electric vehicles, carbon capture and storage, and advanced nuclear energy. Renewables have the same impact everywhere in the world.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2023

TODAY 1:00: Senate Transportation Committee hearing on charging electric vehicles. Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works will hear from the CEO of Norfolk Southern on March 9 starting at 10:00 a.m. Read more here. University of Pittsburgh, Alumni Hall, Room 121, Pittsburgh. Click Here to watch live. -- Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2025

Repeal Of Other Executive Orders On January 20, the new federal administration issued an executive order repealing other executive orders on climate, clean energy, electric vehicle and on other issues by the Biden Administration. Click Here for the entire executive order. Click Here for the entire executive order.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 17, 2025

Phil Pothen, Ontario Environment program manager: Bill 5 would repeal Ontario’s Endangered Species Act, 2007 , marking the end of most meaningful provincial protections for endangered, threatened and special concern species in Ontario.

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Clean Energy Endangered Species Act 2007 Solar Power 143

Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Does anyone really imagine that this project’s greenhouse gas emissions would not adversely affect the habitat of polar bears, or other ice-dependent listed species? In The Atlantic, Emma Marris takes an in-depth look at the IEA 2021 report as context to the Willow project and finds it unnecessary to meet U.S.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2024

They involve reduced protection for endangered species, eliminating energy efficiency rules, blocking new transmission lines, changing electricity regulation to favor fossil fuels, weakening air pollution rules, and encouraging sale of gas guzzlers. #1. Undermining endangered species protections.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In addition, the court found that BLM acted contrary to law by failing to consider a statutory directive to give “maximum protection” to surface values in the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area. They asserted claims under the Endangered Species Act, NEPA, the Clean Water Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) acted arbitrarily and capriciously when it designated the northern long-eared bat as “threatened” rather than “endangered” under the Endangered Species Act. Northern Plains Resource Council v.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

First, the court said the cities’ novel theories of liability based on the defendants’ sales of their product did not differentiate their claims from earlier transboundary pollution suits in which the Supreme Court ( American Electric Power Co. Connecticut ) and Ninth Circuit ( Native Village of Kivalina v. ExxonMobil Corp. AquAlliance v.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) did not sufficiently explain why it reversed a previous determination that the Pacific walrus qualified for listing as endangered or threatened under the Endangered Species Act. In re Hawai‘i Electric Light Co. , Conservation Congress v. Forest Service , 2:13-cv-00934 (E.D.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

Montana Federal Court Vacated Nationwide Permit Due to Corps of Engineers Failure to Initiate Consultation Under Endangered Species Act. The court found that there was “resounding evidence” in the record that authorized discharges may affect endangered and threatened species and critical habitat and that the U.S.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

Report finds there is no hope of slowing global warming without a radical shift to electrical energy and carbon removal. USFWS issues rare emergency rule listing the Dixie Valley toad as an endangered species. The scientists back electric vehicles as the best option for making deep cuts to road emissions.

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2022 Fossil Fuels Clean Water Act Climate Change 98

Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

Take would become harm in ESA: The Trump administration proposed a rule to redefine what it means to harm a protected species under the Endangered Species Act, a move conservationists say will strip vulnerable plants and animals of habitat they need to survive. CBD plans to sue. the Financial Times reports.

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Perciasepe said the administration would likely include efforts to expand natural carbon sinks, the next generation of regulations for vehicle emissions, and the likelihood of new clean energy and electric vehicle tax credits. EPA – Proposed Stipulated Partial Settlement Agreement, Endangered Species Act Claims.

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ESA

JANUARY 10, 2022

Ted Lieu (D-CA) introduced the Climate Solutions Act ( H.R. 6351 ), which requires that 100 percent of electricity sold in the United States be generated from renewable sources by 2035. The bill also requires the U.S. to reduce greenhouse gases emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.

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2022 Endangered Species Act Climate Change 2021 98

ESA

MAY 17, 2021

FERC – Climate Change, Extreme Weather, and Electric System Reliability Technical Conference (June 1 & 2). NOAA NMFS – 90-Day Finding on a Petition To List the Shortfin Mako Shark as Threatened or Endangered Under the Endangered Species Act.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

The federal district court for the District of Montana largely rejected challenges to federal approvals of revisions to the Flathead National Forest Land Management Plan in northwestern Montana but remanded without vacatur for additional analysis of certain issues under the Endangered Species Act. In re Hawaiian Electric Co. ,

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

The plaintiffs asserted Endangered Species Act claims, focusing on the federal agencies’ consideration of impacts on grizzly bears and bull trout; the plaintiffs alleged that bull trout are “particularly vulnerable” to climate change because they require cold water to spawn and rear. The groups alleged that the U.S.

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ESA

APRIL 5, 2021

Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Debbie Dingell (D-MI) are promoting a separate $10 trillion decade-spanning green infrastructure plan, which sets a goal of 100% zero-carbon electricity by 2035, while creating 15.5 A new species status assessment for the grizzly bear in the lower 48 states finds that grizzly bear populations have recovered since the U.S.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 21, 2025

404, Rivers and Harbors Act Sec. 10, and Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act Sec. 404, Rivers and Harbors Act Sec. 10, and Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act Sec.

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ESA

MAY 6, 2021

FERC – Climate Change, Extreme Weather, and Electric System Reliability – Technical Conference (June 1 & 2). NOAA NMFS – 90-Day Finding on a Petition To List Southern Oregon and Northern California Coastal Spring-Run Chinook Salmon as Threatened or Endangered Under the Endangered Species Act.

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