PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Environmental Quality Board is scheduled to meet on November 12 to consider a proposed regulation on notification of spills, corrections to Air Quality regulations on RACT requirements for nitrogen oxide and volatile organic compounds and final-omitted regulations on noncoal mine blasting.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

We progress despite regular cries of impending doom from regulated industries and their enablers. None of this would be possible without the market created by a healthy Low Carbon Fuel Standard, and no level of public investment or direct regulation could deliver a similar range of benefits across a wide array of emission sources and sectors.

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Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Scientists launch a new research center to study what they say is now a leading disease risk factor: corporations. By Liza Gross Theres been a marked shift in the types of diseases causing the most harm around the world over the past few decades.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Today, California took another important step in planning for the transition to clean energy, a step that’s been a long time coming.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would regulate two forms of PFAS contamination under Superfund laws reserved for “the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites.” The same suppression and disinformation kept government regulators at bay for decades.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Now, the case faces resistance, with apparent intimidation tactics aimed at discouraging academics and regulators from getting involved in the case. The case names ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute, McKinsey & Co.,

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Sabin Center has previously discussed the regulation of OAE here and here. A new Sabin Center report continues the conversation by focusing on the regulation of OAE in Washington State. OAE projects conducted in near-shore areas off the Washington coast may be subject to regulation at the federal, state, tribal and local levels.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This can happen through stringent government regulation, reputation, private certification, or some combination of these. Simply calling for more effective regulation has not been adequate to halt this trend. When there is an easy way to make a buck, there will be fraud. I see no reason why that will change any time soon.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 6, 2025

As the year kicks off with a very cold January weather forecast, US power grid operators and the regulators who oversee them are paying close attention to ensure that the grid failures of several past extreme winter storms dont happen again. and would greatly facilitate transmission development on a reasonable timeline.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

This decision , reached with a 6-3 majority led by Chief Justice John Roberts, marks a significant shift in administrative law and has profound implications for environmental regulations and climate accountability. Successful court cases could limit the scope of future regulations. Worse, agencies may decide not to even try.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 7, 2025

The two leading theories to explain the record-breaking warmth are a reduction in tiny particles in the atmosphere called aerosols due to shipping fuel regulations that reduced sulfur oxide (SOx) emissions, or decreasing cloud cover. This question was a focus at the 2024 annual American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting in Washington, D.C.,

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Legal Planet

MAY 23, 2023

A key finding is that regulation, which is critical for protecting public and environmental health, can encourage or impede innovation. As a result, innovative projects may require utilities and regulators to engage in new ways as they navigate unfamiliar technical, legal, and institutional territory. municipal wastewater sector.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 7, 2025

Now, Colorado is taking a major step … Continue reading Colorado is tackling air pollution in vulnerable neighborhoods by regulating 5 air toxics While these neighborhoods have long suffered from air pollution, theyre not the only ones in Colorado.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2025

The House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee is scheduled to meet March 18 to consider six pieces of legislation-- -- Notice Of Oil & Gas Permits: House Bill 43 (Conklin-D-Centre) require publication of newspaper notice of oil and gas well permits; -- Invertebrate Biodiversity: House Bill 441 (Pielli-D-Chester) amends the (..)

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Assembly Bills: A major focus of environmental regulation in California has been on ways to alleviate the health disparities faced by environmentally burdened frontline communities. Let’s see which of the environmental bills I’ve been tracking for Legal Planet were touchdowns and which ones were sidelined.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The argument is that the Board shouldn’t have to consider that because EPA has authority to regulate air pollution, not the Board. One issue in the Seven Counties case is whether the impact statement should discuss air pollution caused by refining the oil shipped over the proposed rail line.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 13, 2025

Opponents will undoubtedly argue that such state-based initiatives conflict with federal law.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This legislation mandates the removal of regulated PFAS chemicals from menstrual products. AB 2316 is a huge step in the right direction toward eliminating harmful chemicals from being consumed by children. The T.A.M.P.O.N. Act ( AB 2515 ) by Assemblymember Diane Papan is also known as “Take All Menstrual Product PFAS Out Now.”

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In addition, the impact statement was governed by the 1970 version of NEPA and the 1978 White House NEPA regulations. It was a surprise that the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. The facts are quite unusual. Neither of those is in effect today. Thus, the relevance of any ruling to future agency actions is unclear.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

EV battery end of life bill life ended on Governor’s desk Due to the necessarily ambitious regulations we fought to pass, California will continue to see a huge increase in the number of EVs on the road. As these regulations drive down emissions, we will also see an increase in battery retirements.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations? Sign Up For DEP’s eNotice: Did you know DEP can send you email notices of permit applications submitted in your community? All through its eNotice system. Click Here to sign up.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 26, 2023

Moreover, agencies can apparently give greater responsibility to local government units (which aren’t covered by subsection (G)) and to state governments for actions that are federally regulated but not federally funded. Coverage of agency regulations. Agencies are required to issue regulations but there is no deadline for doing so.

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Environment + Energy Leader

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Other topics include fighting greenwashing and supporting climate regulations. The post UN Net-Zero Guidance Calls for End of Fossil Fuels Financial Support appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2024

Last week, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized updated regulations for certain facilities that emit ethylene oxide (EtO), a colorless, cancer-causing gas. For the first time, the government will regulate fugitive or “unintended” emissions and require permanent total enclosure of sterilization operations.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Critically, AB 3233 clarifies and confirms local government authority to regulate, and even prohibit outright, oil and gas operations. He signed the package on a Los Angeles soccer field that overlooks oil wells, joined by community organizers who have led the charge for years.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2024

It is significant because if its huge public health benefits and because it has provided the basis for EPA regulation of greenhouse gases. Another California climate law, setting targets for greenhouse gas reductions and providing the basis for California cap and trade system as well as other regulations. Inflation Reduction Act.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2024

When facilities emit less pollution, their regulations require less specific record-keeping and monitoring. How stringently facilities are monitored should be based on science and on the impacts on the people who live nearby—not by a judge’s ideological viewpoint on regulation.

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Yale E360

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Researchers are now calling for new regulations restricting where wells can be located. Two decades after the advent of fracking, a growing number of studies are pointing to a link between gas wells and public health, particularly among children and the elderly. Read more on E360 ?.

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Legal Planet

JULY 11, 2024

It seems clear that the specific regulation upheld by an earlier decision is protected by that previous decision. Thus, the idea that overruling Chevron makes it open season on existing regulations is an exaggeration, because many of those regulations are protected by binding precedent.

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Environment + Energy Leader

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Growing scrutiny from responsible business practices from shareholders, regulators and other stakeholders is driving a boom in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) reporting. The post Integrate Your Supply Chain to Meet ESG Objectives appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

The SWRCB is currently using watershed-based emergency regulations under Water Code section 1058.5 In 2021, curtailments would have been warranted beginning in April, but the SWRCB didn’t adopt emergency regulations requiring maintenance of drought minimum flows until mid-August 2021, finally issuing curtailment orders in early September.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 28, 2024

For example, there’s a current challenge to EPA’s waiver under the Clean Air Act for the Air Resources Board’s Advanced Clean Trucks regulations (ACT), which require that zero-emission trucks represent an increasing proportion of in-state heavy-duty truck sales. (A

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

And current EPA regulations for public health don’t require facilities to account for fugitive emissions , meaning companies have no reason to rein them in. These GHGs are not regulated, so producers can emit them freely. And any fines for violating regulations are paltry sums to companies that make billions of dollars per quarter.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

A growing body of scientific evidence supports regulating chemicals with similar structures, functions, and impacts as a chemical class rather than one pollutant at a time. This is particularly important for pesticides since active ingredients are regulated while so-called “inert ingredients” are normally not.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane. California’s transportation fuel policy is knee deep in cow poop, and it’s not a good look.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

While municipalities may have some flexibility in how they zone or regulate oil and gas operations – provided they do not exceed limitations in state or federal law – doing so in an unreasonable manner which prevents future natural gas development should render the municipality ineligible for state collected and distributed impact fees.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Klein Chair, who has long studied public utility regulation, electricity market design, and renewable energy finance. I’m excited to work alongside Emmett Institute faculty like William Boyd, faculty co-director and Michael J.

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