Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2024

How could we realistically achieve permitting reform that will advance climate and environmental goals? Answering that question requires recognizing the political realities of a sharply divided Congress and country. The second post is here. Any significant change to permitting reform requires a deal that is acceptable to both sides.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In order to enforce those standards, the state must be granted a waiver by the Environmental Protection Agency, something which Congress makes very clear should be given under virtually all conditions. Over 10,000 UCS supporters chimed in with EPA in support of granting California’s ability to enforce its truck regulations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

One critical tool for forcing that reckoning comes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

State of Montana, a Montana trial court ruled that the state Constitution’s guarantee of a healthy and clean environment prevails over Montana’s longstanding fossil-fuel-based state energy system. The court’s 103-page decision in Held v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2025

The rhetoric from this administration that mischaracterizes core public health and environmental programs as wasteful or ideologically driven is a dangerous distortion of reality. The American publicacross the political spectrumsupport clean air, water and land.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

“Pursue Your Happiness In Pennsylvania” Senate next voting day September 18, 19, 20; Oct.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Bio-based diesel fuels are expensive. Without substantial policy support, there would be little if any bio-based diesel fuel produced or consumed in the United States. A non-binding RFS is not a stable long-term situation, for both economic and political reasons.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2023

Of Agriculture: PA Senate Confirms Russell Redding To Serve As Secretary Of Agriculture -- Republicans On Senate Environmental Committee Report Out Bills To Narrow Grounds For Appealing DEP Actions, Stream Cleaning, Take ‘Protection’ Out Of The Dept. Senate, Governor Races -- PA Capital-Star: Lt.

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Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 29, 2023

were down slightly in 2022, but thousands of industrial facilities with substantial emissions remain, according to the Environmental Protection Agency’s recently released Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program data. By Phil McKenna Emissions from the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

He was appointed as a mediator by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to work with the environmental community and industry to establish better regulations for water quality monitoring in areas impacted by coal ash. from Villanova University School of Law. Since assuming elected office in 2020, Rep.

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Inside Climate News

JANUARY 7, 2024

As secretary of environmental protection, Hess flipped the switch on Pennsylvania’s first commercial wind farm and helped avert a catastrophe at Quecreek mine. Now, his blog is essential reading for lawmakers, executives and activists on either side of the state’s fracking divide.

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Inside Climate News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

By Jake Bolster The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week approved a permit for a toxic fracking wastewater disposal well named Sedat 4A, a highly controversial project in Plum Borough, Pennsylvania, rejecting residents’ concerns that leaks from the well could migrate and pollute other wells and groundwater.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In my last post I discussed the Commission’s remarkably radical – and challenging – headline recommendation on mitigation, a global phaseout of fossil fuels. But no part of their mandate or report matches this description of “stuff you wish you didn’t have to think about, but realize you must” better than SRM. So, what happens now?

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Shapiro Will Not Execute Any Inmates While He Is In Office, Calls For Repeal -- TribLive: Sen.

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

By Phil McKenna The Environmental Protection Agency announced new regulations at the COP28 global climate summit in Dubai on Saturday that will reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas industry by nearly 80 percent.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 17, 2022

“It is clear that not only are we devastating the health of these children when they are young, the oil and gas industry and their political supporters are inflicting harm that will follow them throughout the entirety of their lives. This is a moral outrage. Click Here for a copy of the study.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2023

The following DEP notices were published in the August 12 PA Bulletin related to oil and gas industry facilities. Potter County To Sept. 7 [PaEN] -- DEP Extends Current ESCGP-3 Oil & Gas Erosion Control General Permit Without Changes Thru Jan. Potter County To Sept.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Canadians voted for climate action and environmental protection. Canadians voted for more ambitious and urgent climate action: Millions of Canadians cast ballots for parties that put forward strong policies to confront the climate emergency and advance environmental protection. A Parliament of Climate Champions.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Designated an “Exceptional Value” waterway by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the Loyalsock provides solace, joy, adventure and a connection to the natural world to thousands of anglers, kayakers, inner-tubers, swimmers, bird watchers, photographers and sightseers. I received a call from DEP later that afternoon.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

Encina claims, none of the material would be sold as diesel fuel, synthetic oil or other forms of fossil fuel. In order to divert political will from passing laws to reduce plastic use, they say chemical recycling is the solution. Potentially over and over. Unlike other advanced recycling plants in the U.S.,

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

On April 7, the Department of Environmental Protection appealed the April 6 Commonwealth Court order blocking publication of the final regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to the PA Supreme Court. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection is now accepting public comments on two Chapter 105 encroachment applications submitted by Olympus Energy/Hyperion Midstream LLC covering natural gas gathering pipelines and water pipelines in Westmoreland County, according to public notices in the August 12 PA Bulletin.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Shapiro concluded his remarks at the announcement by saying, “Look, there are far too many people demigoding in our politics today. Shapiro added at the press announcement, “Look, CNX it should be lost on no one, is the first company in Pennsylvania to step up and make these voluntary commitments, but I do hope they will not be the last.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2022

One caveat: these great soil and plant carbon sequestration opportunities should not be used to offset the fossil fuel emissions from other sectors; they are still too hard to measure, can be reversed, and are needed to balance out agricultural emissions that are not eliminated.) FARMING FOR OUR FUTURE, CH. Policy opportunities abound.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Appeal The Department of Environmental Protection and Petro Erie, Inc. Other projects include bringing the contaminated Bellows Spring water source back into service with a new water treatment facility-- $610,000-- and replacing customer water meters. Documents related to this PUC proceeding can be found at PUC Docket No.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 14, 2024

-- Evangelical Environmental Network: EPA Proposes Waste Charge On Methane Leaking From Large Oil & Gas Facilities [PaEN] -- Jewish Earth Alliance, Beth Am Israel Hosting Jan. 13 -- Warren Times: Audubon Community Nature Center To Host Day Camp Jan. 3 -- The Derrick: Seneca Rocks Audubon Holding Bird Seed Sale Until Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2022

The bill contains a laundry list of many proposals Republicans have tried to get enacted for years to emasculate environmental protection efforts in Pennsylvania. The bill was referred to the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee for consideration. Click Here for the announcement of the legislation. Read more here.

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Environment, Law, and History

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

The Santa Barbara spill is often pointed to as one of the foundational moments of modern American environmentalism and environmental regulation, but Spezio seems to flesh out the picture.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2022

On February 3, the Associated Press reported the Department of Environmental Protection filed a lawsuit in Commonwealth Court to compel the publication of the final regulations in the PA Bulletin so they would become effective. Read more here. Read more here. This lawsuit is still pending.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2022

Entitled, “ A Shared Vision for Pennsylvania’s Environment and Communities ,” this 30-page document is designed to put Pennsylvania at the forefront of action on climate change and environmental justice to protect our families, create jobs and ensure that every Pennsylvania community benefits.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

And fossil fuel power plants may not stick to their retirement schedules for a variety of reasons. But if plant owners actually do follow through on their retirement plans, there will be real, tangible public health and environmental benefits. A bit more on those reasons later. What can be done?

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

Hence many soil scientists had for years been calling for a third survey, particularly those who are representatives to China’s top legislature, the National People’s Congress (NPC), or its top political advisory body, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPCCC). Forty years of change. Photo credit: Li Ga / Alamy.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Fossil fuel : Any mineralized formerly organic material extracted from the ground and used in energy production: coal, natural gas, oil. Often subject to specific environmental protections, especially when “endangered” (see above). As it is a waste, it serves no purpose on its own. It covers the following areas.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The original NDC considered an unrealistic 5% GDP growth and an energy growth based entirely on fossil fuels – which is extremely unlikely in a country with a significant representation of clean energy. In addition, the same political parties brought a similar case questioning how the government paralyzed the Amazon Fund ( PSB et al.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had failed to fulfill its non-discretionary obligation under Section 321(a) of the Clean Air Act to conduct evaluations of loss or shifts in employment that might result from implementation of the Clean Air Act.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2023

While the PA Department of Environmental Protection has, on its face, a Permit Decision Guarantee policy, in reality the policy is not adhered to. Click Here to watch a video of the hearing and for more testimony. Read more here. Click Here to read more about the record of the oil and gas industry in Pennsylvania. Shapiro, Lt.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

While the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)has drawn all the attention lately for its spring proposals to cut emissions from new vehicles by electrifying both passenger cars and heavy trucks, the o.g. And if we are to address our fossil fuel dependence ASAP, we need to be targeting both near-term and long-term reductions.

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