PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2023

9 Meeting [PaEN] -- DEP Sets Feb. 13 Hearing On Hazardous Sites Cleanup Plan For Newberry Twp. .;

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Last week the Sabin Center and the American Bar Association held an event on addressing landowner concerns in renewable energy siting. Wind and solar farms often spark siting battles between local residents who welcome renewable energy projects and their neighbors who are concerned about visual or other impacts.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2024

-- PA Resources Council Hosts Backyard Composting Workshop March 23 In Delaware County [PaEN] -- Group Against Smog & Pollution: PA Regulators Struggle To Implement Federal Clean Air Act Requirements For Regional Power Plants -- Scranton Times: Tunkhannock Area Schools Going All Out For Solar Energy Generation; Will Have Largest Solar Facility (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2024

‘It Simply Should Not Happen, Period’ [PaEN] -- Stars and Stripes Guest Essay: Pause On Permits For New LNG Gas Export Facilities Right Move For National Security - Rivals Like China Are Using US LNG To Build Influence - By Steve Anderson, US Army Brigadier General - Retired [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: A Rescue Plan For American Energy And (..)

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Washington Nature

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

There were no environmental laws in the United States until Congress passed The Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts in the 1970s,” she said. Leading up to the position, Kate had practiced environmental law but found herself looking for something different.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 3, 2022

Do this by restricting the use of Minister’s Zoning Orders, reversing changes that weakened Conservation Authorities, the Growth Plan and Planning Act and the Endangered Species Act. Expand the Greenbelt to protect key areas like Carruthers Creek Headwaters which are under threat from sprawl development.

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Montrose

JULY 6, 2021

Transaction expands Montrose’s biological consulting services, including fire mitigation and support of renewable energy projects in the Southwestern U.S. The addition of EI to the Montrose platform will also strengthen our exposure to renewable energy projects throughout Southern California. IRVINE, Calif.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2023

11 Hearing On Bill To Expand Renewable Energy Mandates In Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards [PaEN] -- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: What’s The Current State of Clean Energy Transition? -- Hydrogen Tax Credit Changes, Riparian Buffers, Light Pollution On House Environmental Committee Agenda For Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2023

In 2023 -- Philadelphia Solar Energy Assn. -- Hydrogen Tax Credit Changes, Riparian Buffers, Light Pollution On House Environmental Committee Agenda For Dec. 13 [PaEN] -- House Environmental Committee To Hold Dec. 2 to 8 -- 9 Abandoned Conventional Wells; Failure To Restore Shale Gas Pad; No Progress In Spill Cleanups [PaEN] -- DEP Sets Jan.

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National Law Center

AUGUST 23, 2022

A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE. . The post Ag and Food Law Daily Update: August 23, 2022 appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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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. I am honored to address the Committee.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Second Circuit Rejected Challenges to Connecticut Renewable Energy Programs. Allco is an owner, operator, and developer of solar energy projects throughout the country, including in Georgia and New York. State Air Resources Board , No. S241948 (Cal. June 28, 2017). PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP , No. 451962/2016 (N.Y.

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Legal Planet

JULY 27, 2024

The Manchin-Barrasso Bill seeks to exploit concerns by climate advocates that delays in permitting new transmission and renewable energy will stall America’s clean energy transition. In exchange for some useful reforms to address those concerns, the bill would extract major concessions to promote and expand oil, gas, and coal.

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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). The plaintiffs charged that the U.S.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 17, 2023

That’s a major departure from the environmental legislation of the 1970s—NEPA, the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, to name a few. For better or worse, it’s an incentives-based law that moves away from the reliance on traditional regulation and enforcement.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

This is defined as the ability or desire to sustain a resource at a certain level and based on three scientific principles: increased dependence on renewable energy, biodiversity, and chemical cycling. This Act came into being in 1973 with the aim of setting out special protections for species at risk of extinction.

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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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Legal Planet

JULY 31, 2022

The Biden Administration has made deployment of renewable energy, including renewable energy projects on federal lands, a high Administration priority. This provision ties the Administration’s priority to Manchin’s priority – no oil and gas leasing, no renewable energy development.

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Acoel

JUNE 23, 2021

The Biden administration has committed to significantly expanding development of renewable energy. They have the potential to generate significant amounts of energy with a minimal carbon footprint. Generation of wind energy involves little or no water use, few if any chemicals, and virtually no waste disposal.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

and Japan, wealthy countries announced a $20 billion agreement to help Indonesia transition away from coal-fired power plants and to clean, renewable energy. NOAA NMFS – Atlantic Highly Migratory Species; Advisory Panel. NOAA NMFS – Listing the Queen Conch as Threatened Under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

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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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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Circuit Ruled that EPA Must Consider Endangered Species in Setting Renewable Fuel Standards. Circuit Court of Appeals sent the 2018 Renewable Fuel Standards rule back to EPA after finding that EPA failed to comply with requirements of the Endangered Species Act.

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Scientific American

JANUARY 21, 2025

Though largely symbolic, President Trump’s declaration of an “energy emergency” could throw a wrench in renewable energy development and will cut into the Endangered Species Act

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Project 2025 portrays the Fish & Wildlife Service as “the work of the Fish and Wildlife Service is the product of ‘species cartels’ afflicted with group think, confirmation bias, and a common desire to preserve the prestige, power, and appropriations of the agency that pays or employs them.”

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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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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

By traditional energy, Lummis means fossil fuels. The groups priorities extend from public lands management and wildfire prevention to reforms of the Endangered Species Act and federal environmental reviews that would allow for more mining, drilling, and building. government water policy.

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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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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Fish and Wildlife Service receives $180 million for developing and carrying out Endangered Species Act recovery plans and a combined $19.4 The Public Land Renewable Energy Development Act ( H.R. The agency designated 563 river miles as critical habitat for the species. Lawmakers also allocate $9.7

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court decision that vacated the listing of the Arctic ringed seal as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The decision also addressed a number of non-climate change claims under NEPA, the Endangered Species Act, CEQA, and other state law.

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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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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

ENRD attorneys defend a vast array of agency actions including the approval of mining projects, LNG export terminals, and oil pipelines; renewable energy development efforts; wildlife conservation plans; programs to facilitate military readiness; and the promulgationand rollbackof regulations.

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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. Lawsuit Sought Protection for 10 Species Under Endangered Species Act. May 17, 2021).

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2024

In terms of energy and environment, AFPI stresses energy dominance. must “become an energy superpower by exporting America’s energy abundance.” AFPI scoffs at renewable energy. That means maxing oil and gas, which are “central to America’s energy ecosystem.”

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ESA

APRIL 25, 2022

The administration also released plans to approve 48 renewable energy projects on public lands by the end of fiscal year 2025 and double renewable energy production on public lands by 2023. With the resumption of lease sales, the Interior Department increases the royalties paid for oil and gas from 12.5%

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ESA

JULY 26, 2021

billion for climate and clean energy-related research. This includes research about atmospheric composition, water and carbon cycles, computational modeling of climate systems, renewable energy technologies, materials sciences, and social, behavior and economic research on human responses to climate change. million acres.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

US Fish and Wildlife Service reverses Endangered Species Act rules. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said it anticipates issuing a proposed rule in September updating its regulations for renewable energy generation. Senate holds confirmation hearing for Bureau of Land Management director nominee.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Fish and Wildlife Service to reconsider 2019 decision to not list Joshua Trees under the Endangered Species Act. Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals report finds that 70% of protected species are hunted for wild meat. Judge orders U.S. Illinois Governor signs climate legislation.

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