Enviromental Defense

MAY 20, 2025

We dont exactly what they say behind closed doors, but its a safebet that cutting climate and environmental regulations and massively expanding fossil fuel production was on the agenda. Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) was the most lobbied ministry. Who is the oil and gas industry targeting in 2025?

2025

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.

Clean Water Act

Law Columbia

MAY 6, 2025

These pressures are further compounded by social tensions , as Indigenous communities are frequently excluded from decision-making processes, raising concerns about environmental justice and the equitable governance of natural resources.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

On August 9, the Governor’s Office published an update to the agency-by-agency Regulatory Agenda listing regulations in development to improve public participation. Read more here. Posted: August 10, 2025] PA Environment Digest

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

On November 15, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the award of $402,021 to support 10 local projects to protect and restore the Delaware Estuary Coastal Zone. Greene County [PaEN] -- DEP To Hold Dec.

Conservation

National Law Center

JULY 29, 2025

Until recently, the contents of an EIS report were outlined in regulations issued by the Council on Environmental Quality (“CEQ”), the agency tasked with administering NEPA. However, following a series of court rulings from late 2024 and early 2025, CEQ has rescinded all of its NEPA-implementing regulations.

2013

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 23, 2025

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

DEP has tried for decades to regulate this practice but failed because the conventional industry simply does not comply. Because of these findings, oil and gas produced waters fail to meet the EPA's [US Environmental Protection Agencys] criteria for beneficial reuse of industrial waste. Read more here - page 39. Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2025

The Chesapeake Bay Commission signed the original agreement in 2014 alongside the Environmental Protection Agency, the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York and Pennsylvania. Chesapeake Bay Journal - Jeremy Cox: A New Chesapeake Bay Agreement - What’s In, What’s Out? ]

2025

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 886 ) PA Bulletin - January 25 2025 Note: The Department of Environmental Protection published 90 pages of public notices related to proposed and final permit and approval/ disapproval actions in the January 25 PA Bulletin - pages 797 to 887. Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations?

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 360 ) PA Bulletin - January 11, 2025 Note: The Department of Environmental Protection published 84 pages of public notices related to proposed and final permit and approval/ disapproval actions in the January 11 PA Bulletin - pages 336 to 420. Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations?

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2025

Highlights of the environmental and energy notices in the August 9 PA Bulletin -- -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - August 9 [PaEN] -- Environmental Quality Board published notice in the August 9 PA Bulletin announcing the publication of the Final Regulation Changing Chapt.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 9, 2025

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

Conservation

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 29, 2024

With the overturning of Chevron deference and the narrowing of rulemaking authority, regulatory agencies and regulated entities are scrambling to understand how two landmark cases will affect the enforcement and implementation of federal statutes. Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio v. Natural Resource Defense Council (1984).

Law

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

On March 20, the Department of Environmental Protection told the Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board the US Department of the Interior has "withdrawn" the Orphan Oil and Gas Well Regulatory Improvement Act Grant Program designed to help states strengthen their programs, in particular to prevent future oil and gas well abandonments.

2025

National Law Center

AUGUST 12, 2025

FIFRA is the primary federal law regulating pesticide use in the United States. Additionally, EPA is proposing new mitigation measures to include on the labels for the three dicamba pesticides intended to both limit volatilization and reduce exposure to endangered species. 136a(c)(5)(C).

Endangered Species Act

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 4, 2025

The PA House Environmental and Natural Resource Protection Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing "on how Pennsylvania should subsidize the remediation of waste coal piles." ( formal notice ) The hearing is in part a response to discussions surrounding a May 19 hearing on House Bill 501 (Otten-D-Chester), part of the Gov.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2025

DCNR Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council. formal notice ) PA Bulletin - March 22, 2025 Note: The Department of Environmental Protection published 115 pages of public notices related to proposed and final permit and approval/ disapproval actions in the March 22 PA Bulletin - pages 2281 to 2396.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

On November 21, the US Environmental Protection Agency, US Department of Justice and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced two settlements with oil and gas operators in Pennsylvania involving operations in Butler, Lawrence and Mercer Counties. In separate agreements, XTO Energy Inc.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2025

On April 7, the House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee amended and reported out House Bill 109 (Vitali-D-Delaware) establishing an environmental justice permit review program in DEP to consider cumulative impacts of pollutants on communities already burdened by pollution by a vote of 14 to 12-- Republicans opposing.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

After the dumping incidents on dirt and paved roads around her home and throughout the region, Lawson provided photos and reports on the dumping to the Department of Environmental Protection to document the problems. DEP has tried for decades to regulate this practice but failed because the conventional industry simply does not comply.

Natural Gas

National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

Swampbuster is implemented by the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (“NRCS”). Under that process, NRCS will classify an area as being either a type of wetland, a converted wetland, or an area not subject to Swampbuster regulation. In CTM Holdings, LLC v.

2013

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 1, 2025

One of the vital expert boards this administration has targeted is the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC), which for over 30 years provided the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) advice and counsel on the science, programs and actions, and lived experience of environmental justice (EJ) communities.

Government

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2025

DEP said Laurel Mountain Production also never complied with the basic requirement to register the impoundment with the agency since it was constructed in 2017 as required by state regulations. Photos from the April 14 inspection show the impoundment contains an unknown quantity of water.

2017

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2025

125 Abandoned Conventional, 39 Abandoned Shale Gas Well Violations 2025 Abandoned Conventional: So far in 2025, DEP issued or continued 125 violations to 41 conventional oil and gas well owners for abandoning and not plugging their wells- [3D Resources LLC ; Amer Natural Resources LLC; WB Anderson; Apollo Resources LLC; Baird Oil Co.;

2025

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

If you’ve wondered what is in the US Environmental Protection Agency Employees’ Declaration of Dissent urging Administrator Lee Zeldin to “change course by re-committing to his oath to protect the health of the American people and our environment” -- this is the text. Like you, EPA employees are committed to these principles.

Environmental Protection

Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Florida regulator is nominated to oversee the EPA Office of Water. Were working all angles to promote Western energy dominance, and now we have the opportunity to do it in a way that we can prove we can use traditional sources of energy in a very responsible environmental manner. Previously the water counsel for Sen.

Endangered Species Act

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The state Department of Health Bureau of Epidemiology and Penn State Project ECHO hosted two webinars in January and February for medical professionals and the public on Caring for Persons Living and Working in Communities Involved in Oil and Natural Gas Extraction. Pennsylvania does not regulate the water quality of private well water.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Notice: See You February 10 The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2025

"That means ensuring a stable regulatory environment that gives industry the confidence to invest in this game-changing technology."

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

JULY 9, 2025

On July 9, community and environmental groups announced they filed suit to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to address the threat of the unnecessary and dangerous hydrogen fluoride chemical used in dozens of American refineries, despite its potential to form toxic acid clouds. The case was filed in the U.S.

Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2025

On April 23, Department of Environmental Protection Acting Secretary Jessica Shirley and members of the Lancaster Clean Water Partners gathered at the Blue Green Connector Project to celebrate stream and floodplain restoration investments on Little Conestoga Creek.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 24, 2025

On June 24, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it will begin accepting applications for the Streamlining Permits for Economic Expansion and Development (SPEED) program beginning on Monday June 30, 2025, for Chapter 102 Erosion and Sedimentation Permits. Click Here for the DEP announcement.

2025

Circle of Blue

MAY 19, 2025

Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is supporting a new regulation that would stabilize glyphosates continued use by immunizing it from any claims of injury. might follow the trend in Europe and severely regulate glyphosate. In the newest verdict, a Georgia jury awarded nearly $2.1

Biotechnology

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Luzerne County [PaEN] -- DCNR Conservation & Natural Resources Advisory Council To Hear Update On State Budget, Chesapeake Bay Program March 26 [PaEN] -- PUC To Hold Hearings Starting April 7 On Proposed UGI Gas Rate Increase Of Up To 10.8%

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

On Tuesday, US Environmental Protection Agency proposed to rescind the 2009 endangerment finding that increasing greenhouse gas emissions threaten the public health and the welfare of current and future generations. Gigawatts Of Power Due To Reduced Reliability Rating Of Natural Gas Power Plants; Could Gain 12.2 I will end here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Vitali, who serves as Majority Chair of the House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee, said this-- I'm going to direct my comments to Secretary Shirley. This is not the Department of Business Development, it's the Department of Environmental Protection. So, my questions are for you.

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