PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

These penalties are in addition to a $670,000 civil penalty DEP accessed against Shell Falcon Pipeline and its contractor Minnesota Limited LLC for violations of its permit and other laws and regulations that occurred in 2019 and 2020 during pipeline construction. Read more here. 1 Electricity Price Changes; Rates Will Vary From 8.4%

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 5, 2022

New Jersey implements one of the toughest laws on tackling plastic and paper bags in retail settings. The post New Jersey Law Banning Plastic, Paper Bags Goes Into Effect appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

Its a daily litany of spills, polluted water supplies, smell of natural gas in the air, noise, air pollution, explosions, landslides, truck traffic, radioactive waste, gas flares, erosion problems, dust, lights, road dumping waste, abandoned equipment and wells. Fortunately, no one was hurt.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

DEP has told a series of agency advisory committees they do not plan to adopt new regulations incorporating the EPA rule because state regulations automatically adopt federal requirements. In addition to the model rule requirements, the GP requirements will also contain standard conditions regarding state specific regulations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

While this recycling market is growing, there is still no federal or state law or policy that requires it – an obligation that could ensure higher recycling rates and increased efficiency. The materials recovered, including cobalt, nickel, lithium, and manganese, can be used in the manufacturing of new batteries.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

There is presently no federal law or regulation regarding residential or utility-scale solar panel reuse or end-of-life management. Meanwhile, a California law reclassified PV modules as “universal waste” as opposed to “hazardous waste,” which involves less stringent handling regulations. Here are two: 1.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

And then there is all the wasted food if the refrigerator is off too long. Hence the need for full bidirectional charging capability on all EVs, and that’s where regulations can help by standardizing such capability. That doesn’t reduce the hardship of a power outage.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

One key reason is that the nation’s environmental laws and rules consider each chemical or facility in isolation, but no one is exposed to one chemical at a time from one source at a time. No one is exposed to chemicals and pollution in the way that they are regulated, and this is magnified in overburdened communities.

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Law and Environment

APRIL 24, 2023

Specifically, the NRC determined that fusion energy be regulated under the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s byproduct material framework contained in 10 C.F.R. All of the commercial nuclear reactors in service today are fission reactors, which are heavily regulated under 10 C.F.R.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 18, 2022

The closest we’ve ever come to a carbon tax is a limited fee on methane emissions under the new IRA law. Economists like carbon taxes better than regulations, and environmental justice advocates like them better than cap and trade. State law and federal bonding requirements have not proved equal to the task of clean up.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Even if the resolution is adopted, it would not be binding in the same way as a formal international agreement, but it could still impact how countries regulate marine CDR. But in-ocean research could implicate various international and domestic laws that might affect whether, when, where, and how projects take place.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2024

On April 30, Senate Bill 1174 (Stefano-R-Fayette) was reported out of the Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee with unanimous Republican support that would allow any “public utility” to petition the Public Utility Commission to waive any law, regulation or policy under the Commission’s jurisdiction, if it benefits ratepayers.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Countries that commit to the pledge are asked to take comprehensive domestic actions to achieve that global target, focusing on standards to achieve all feasible reductions in the three main methane emitting sectors: energy, waste, and agriculture.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 8, 2024

Last year, one of Imperial Oil’s mines in the tar sands leaked toxic industrial waste into the surrounding environment. Instead of informing downstream communities, the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) helped Imperial cover up the spill for over nine months. They have failed to put in place rules about how toxic waste should be managed.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Ongoing Battle to Keep Toxic Chemicals at Bay Outdated federal water laws and chemicals that were approved for industry without assessing for risk leave Ann Arbor and other communities struggling to ward off water contaminants before they foul drinking supplies. But the scare wasted city resources and left water customers on edge for weeks.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2024

He will describe how the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, new programs have been established to inventory and properly close orphaned wells. The law allocates $4.7 billion for plugging, remediation, and restoration activities on federal, Tribal, state, and private lands.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Joshua Kail (R-Beaver) said he thought it was outrageous DEP has a process where any citizen can petition the agency for a change in its regulations. EQB regulations at 25 Pa. Any regulation would still have to follow the regulatory process. Kail-- So we would have to approve this regulation, this rule that would go into effect?

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 10, 2024

On June 10, the Department of Environmental Protection told the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee the Shapiro Administration supports legislation banning the practice of road dumping oil and gas wastewater and prohibiting its consideration as a coproduct under Residual Waste Regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

The DEP Waste Management Program announced in DEP’s Regulatory Agenda it is developing proposed changes to the Coproduct Determination process under the Residual Waste Regulations that allow a material, that would otherwise be regulated as a waste, to be used as a commercial product without any restrictions or upfront review or approval by DEP.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Because batteries can be hazardous if improperly handled, transporting them involves additional regulations and can constitute 40 to 60% of battery recycling costs. Regulators can also enact new waste categories specifically for batteries, which can make transporting used batteries to reuse or recycling centers safer and more cost-effective.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

The same is true in environmental law. Was it a fundamental paradigm shift, re-centering the law on new values? With all this in mind, here are the cases that I see as making up the canon and anti-canons of environmental law. Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANC) v. The regulation’s coverage was at issue.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Clean Water Act (CWA), one of the nation’s most important environmental laws, is 50 years old today. Nevertheless, and with the possible exception of the Clean Air Act, no law enacted as part of the outpouring of federal environmental legislation in the 1970’s has proven more successful and transformational than the CWA.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 15, 2025

Photo Brett Walton/Circle of Blue By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue January 15, 2025 MILWAUKEE Mounting concern about chemical contaminants in sewage sludge, a waste product widely seen as recyclable and economically valuable, could turn into a costly liability and upend the finances of municipal wastewater utilities across the county.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 6, 2021

All the things that go down the drain and end up at the waste water treatment plant are not removed there. Until better regulations are finalized, the easiest way to protect your water is through a filtration system. All the things that go down the drain and end up at the waste water treatment plant are not removed there.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

. -- DEP published notice in the March 1 PA Bulletin announcing that Impecca is prohibited from selling its products in Pennsylvania as a result of its violation of the state electronics waste recycling law. ( Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations? PA Bulletin, page 1866 ) Read more here. Forest County. (

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Circle of Blue

MAY 16, 2023

. — Christian Thorsberg, Interim Fresh Editor This Week’s Watersheds A new law in Wisconsin will fund more sustainable, watershed friendly farming methods. Ohio residents, fearing their drinking water will be contaminated by increasing amounts of fracking waste, are standing up to oil companies and injection-well owners.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection reported their inspections found 4,386 violations of environmental regulations at conventional oil and gas operations during 2021 -- nearly two and a half times the violations reported just two years ago in 2019 and 337 more than in 2020. Read more here.] barrels or 0.41 barrels or 0.41

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 13, 2025

Packaging waste has received heavy attention from lawmakers in recent years. Read the full story from Beveridge & Diamond PC. A growing number of states are adhering to Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and Recycled Content policies for plastics and packaging materials.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

Three decades of deregulation allowed private companies, as opposed to public regulators, to make critical decisions about reliability. In many places state and federal utility regulators delegated decisions about energy supplies to the market. Modernizing grid planners’ measurements of reliability will help, too.

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

This way of amending laws is a standard procedure in the German legal system. Wind Farm Waste – Emerging Issues with Decommissioning and Waste Regulation in the EU, Denmark and the United Kingdom. F. , & Nieuwenhout, C. OGEL , 2018 (2).)

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

A new report gives New York a failing grade for its flood risk disclosure laws. Some of the earliest memories I have are of protestors standing in the road, blocking semi-trucks hauling nuclear waste.”. — Mikhail Childs, Prairie Island Indian C ommunity member. Fresh from the Great Lakes News Collaborative. In context: Who Pays?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 9, 2023

On September 29, DEP told the Low-Level Waste Advisory Committee shale gas operations in Pennsylvania sent 138,336 cubic feet of radioactive TENORM waste to the Waste Control Specialists low-level radioactive waste facility in Texas for disposal. Click Here for DEP table on TENORM waste. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

. -- The Governors Office published an updated agency-by-agency Regulatory Agenda in the February 15 PA Bulletin that lists regulations in development, an estimated schedule of consideration and opportunities for public comments. Youll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2024

So, in calendar year 2024, DEP will again have a 75% shortfall in the revenue needed to support its Oil and Gas Regulation Program. million to ensure compliance with state environmental laws and regulations. In 2023, DEP received just over 663 shale gas permit applications. 30 Webinar - It’s Scary Out Here!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

Instead, the Court has ruled that, though the agency can still regulate carbon emissions, it must do so narrowly and set standards solely based on options available at individual power plant facilities, such as efficiency measures to improve plant-level heat rates. There is no time to waste.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2024

On May 1, Senate Republicans passed Senate Bill 832 (Yaw-R-Lycoming) giving a state authority the power to take over the review of all necessary permits from any state agency for large-scale energy projects, eliminating any public comment, waiving any regulation needed for the project and providing immunity from prosecution for waived regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2025

Waste Permits -- EQT Production Company - Hoosker Doo Wastewater Tank Pad Facility: DEP is revoking a Waste General Permit 123 and returning a $476,703 bond because the facility was never constructed in Aleppo Twp., Youll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations. Susquehanna County. ( Greene County.

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