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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2025

In 1976, the California legislature passed a law that effectively bans new nuclear power plants. To be more specific, the law forbids the California Energy Commission from issuing a permit to any new nuclear fission power plants until theres a way to dispose of toxic and long-lived nuclear waste.

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Legal Planet

JULY 1, 2022

Less than 10 percent of the world’s plastic waste is recycled. In a welcome reprieve from news coming out of the Supreme Court , here’s an uplifting story from the Golden State: On Thursday, Governor Newsom signed SB 54, a comprehensive piece of legislation aimed at significantly reducing single-use waste.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 1, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the March 2 PA Bulletin that MTM Trading LLC (Tagital) is prohibited from selling its products in Pennsylvania as a result of its violation of the state electronics waste recycling law. ( For more information on this program, visit DEP’s Electronics Waste Recycling webpage.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Minerals like lithium, nickel, graphite, and cobalt are too often mined and processed in ways that contribute to harming communities and ecosystems, while the batteries often face wasteful end-of-life disposal.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

But its laws prohibit labour-efficient multi-family housing on almost all existing low-rise neighbourhood streets, limiting apartment buildings to tiny high-rise pockets where family-sized homes arent viable. Stop the wasting of construction capacity, by reversing all designations of rural land for sprawl development since 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 23, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the August 24 PA Bulletin announcing that Teclast is prohibited from selling its products in Pennsylvania as a result of its violation of the state electronics waste recycling law. ( For more information on this program, visit DEP’s Electronics Waste Recycling webpage.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2025

Other violations include leaking gas and failure to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Many were leaking gas and failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

Along with interim goals and priorities for pollution reduction in environmental justice areas, the law provides authorization and resources for state agencies to enable the transition to clean, renewable energy.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2025

On March 19, the Department of Environmental Protection issued notices of violation to Range Resources Appalachia LLC and LPR Energy, LLC for failing to submit required monthly reports of natural gas production, waste generation and disposal for shale gas wells in 12 counties. The owner has 10 days to respond. Baker Gas Inc.

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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

APRIL 8, 2025

Relying on market dynamics alone risks wasted materials, unsafe and unregulated dismantling, and a lack of accountability for proper disposal. 5 years of stakeholder discussions The progress of SB 615 bill over the legislative session will determine if a comprehensive EV battery recycling policy will finally be made law in California.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The complaint is a cri de coeur : clear, outraged, and horrifying in its recounting of the plastic waste problem and its causes. The document should be required reading for everyone from corporate marketers to policymakers to law students learning how to build a compelling narrative from complex facts.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Supplement to: THE TOXIC DIVIDE: INTERNATIONAL WASTE DUMPING AND THE FIGHT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY By Christine Paul This blog is a supplement to an original article published by Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 13] Waste management remains problematic even after the laws promulgation.[14] 26 Issue 2.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 20, 2023

We hear a lot of encouraging rhetoric from our political leaders about wanting to preserve an existing international order based on the rule of law. We are worried that military conflict may follow, and that such a conflict could result in a nuclear war. Great power competition is just a concept, a perception, not a fact.

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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. These are all policies that have been proposed by the European Commission and are expected to become law in the European Union.

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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.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 9, 2025

Governments must stand up for stronger toxics laws and champion industry-reforming regulations. There is no time to waste when it comes to protecting our youngest and most vulnerable from these known and emerging harms. It should go without saying that childrens health must be put first.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2024

My organization, the Union of Concerned Scientists, works closely with communities sickened by radiation from nuclear weapons testing, waste, and uranium mining, including those exposed to fallout from the Trinity Test. We spent the fall and winter fighting every day to make that bill law.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 31, 2025

Army Corps of Engineersproposed expansion of a toxic waste disposal siteon Chicagos Southeast Side. The agencys recent federal court filing asserts that the expansion violates Illinois state law, which bans new landfill construction or expansion in Cook County.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2023

The two states engaged with Carson Consulting to review existing state litter laws and interview key stakeholders to evaluate the strength of the states’ current litter enforcement tools and systems. This study helps to support and identify what is most effective from a law enforcement and judicial perspective.”

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

And then there is all the wasted food if the refrigerator is off too long. The bill, signed into law at the end of September, gives explicit authority to the California’s Energy Commission to set a requirement for bidirectional charging capability in EVs, from the moment they come off of the assembly line.

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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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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. Just as chemical production led to the creation of scores of hazardous waste sites, fossil fuel production has left its own bitter legacy. A more promising alternative might be a clean-up tax on the fossil fuel industry.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

But in-ocean research could implicate various international and domestic laws that might affect whether, when, where, and how projects take place. Both the London Convention and London Protocol require parties to adopt domestic laws to regulate the “dumping” of “waste and other matter” at sea.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2024

This critical legislation was originally expected to be signed into law by the fall of 2023, but a chaotic schedule—and an often dysfunctional Congress—got in the way. One of these was for Congress to codify, or permanently authorize in law, the national network of climate hubs, and to provide $50 million in annual funding for them.

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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. The path forward.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

On May 7, Reworld ™, in partnership with Goodwill Keystone Area , unveiled a new initiative to provide free electronic waste recycling across 22 central and southeast Pennsylvania counties. This program reduces waste, reuses items that are still good, and recycles the ones that aren't."

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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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PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2024

The Penn State PA Technical Assistance Program will hold an in-person training day and tour July 16 on Food Waste Reduction and Upcycling at the Penn State Berks Janssen Conference Center, 4150 Janssen Drive in Wyomissing, Berks County from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Click Here to register and for more information.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

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. Where do their raw materials come from, and how can we ensure their valuable contents are recovered rather than wasted? The secret? Click to learn more!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2024

Additional costs of transportation: Once batteries are taken out of a vehicle, they are classified as hazardous waste and are therefore controlled by the rules that govern the transportation of hazardous wastes (which are often quite costly).

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Energy & the Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The contracts Along with its rights under oil and gas leases, COG has agreements with surface owners giving it the right to gather, store and transport oil and gas waste, lay lines on the surface for freshwater and produced water, and lay pipelines for transportation of oil and gas, produced water and other oilfield-related liquids or gases.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

EPA decision is also harmful in a broader sense because it goes to the heart of federal agencies’ abilities to interpret existing laws based on the best available science, and to then set robust standards accordingly. There is no time to waste.

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