SPR Law

JANUARY 23, 2025

On December 31, 2024, NYSDEC announced the adoption of final revisions to its freshwater wetlands regulations, 6 NYCRR Part 664. The revised regulations took effect on January 1, 2025.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The regulator can only be effective if it is independent from the industries it oversees. The regulator can only be effective if it is independent from the industries it oversees. The AER has consistently failed to fulfill its mandate to ensure safe, environmentally responsible energy development.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Policymakers and regulators must act quickly because the market is not going to solve this problem on its own, and its definitely not going to do it in a way that protects low- and middle-income people. State insurance regulators sought more than 70 data points. An anonymized subset of the data was shared with FIO.

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New Scientist

MAY 6, 2025

A type of cognitive behavioural therapy that focuses on mindfulness and tolerating distress has shown promise for relieving chronic pain

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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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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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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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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2025

It is not the job of impacted communities and their allies to police the regulator. Albertans need a regulator that lives up to its mandate: protecting the environment and public health rather than working for corporate interests. Yet, this enforcement does not change the need for urgent regulatory reform in Alberta.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 28, 2025

On January 28, the Department of Environmental Protection said compliance with a 2022 state Air Quality regulation to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas facilities was put on hold for the conventional oil and gas industry as a result of an agreement to stay a legal challenge to the regulations in Commonwealth Court.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

But what makes the case important is the courts use of hard look judicial review, which environmentalists have often used to attack bad regulations. It helped create the framework for regulating pesticides and upheld the use of a precautionary approach rather than requiring EPA to have definitive evidence. v.EPA (1975). EPA (2012 ).

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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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2025

Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) introduced Senate Bill 626 regulating skill gambling games that directs some of the revenue to the state Clean Streams Fund to support the Agriculture Conservation Assistance Program. The legislation directs 50% of the expected $300 million annual revenue generated by regulating skill games to the Clean Streams Fund.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2025

A coalition of health, community, and environmental groups recently released a new map showing more than 500 facilities that emit toxic or hazardous air pollution that have applied for a Presidential two-year exemption from hazardous air pollution limits. Pennsylvania has the fourth highest number of industries applying for an exemption-- 23.

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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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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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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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Law Columbia

APRIL 10, 2025

Seaweed cultivation and sinking are regulated by a number of different laws at the state and federal levels. The ADF&G regulates seaweed cultivation, providing aquatic farm operation permits. Independent of the joint permit, the ADEC also regulates water quality in Alaska. EPA may regulate seaweed sinking under the MPRSA.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 8, 2025

In the 2024 California legislative session, both houses passed SB 615, but it was vetoed by Governor Newsom, due to concerns related to administrative costs of implementing the regulation. SB 615 has since cleaned up reporting language and created a more comprehensive extended producer responsibility framework to address those concerns.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Statement from Aly Hyder Ali, Oil and Gas Program Manager, Environmental Defence Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – We welcome the Government of Canada’s Oil and Gas Greenhouse Gas Pollution Cap draft regulation, which aims to curb pollution from the oil and gas industry.

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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 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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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 28, 2025

This may seem like a setback for climate progress in Canada, but it simply underscores the limits of voluntary initiatives and the need for the government to enforce climate-aligned financial regulations. Surely, according to their own logic, their withdrawal from this alliance indicates that it is the perfect time for regulation?

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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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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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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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Yale E360

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Now, legislators and regulators — in the U.S. Generative artificial intelligence uses massive amounts of energy for computation and data storage and billions of gallons of water to cool the equipment at data centers. and the EU — are starting to demand accountability. Read more on E360 →

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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

MARCH 27, 2025

The California Air Resources Board at the time: predicted that the new [Advanced Clean Cars] program and ZEV regulations would result in over 1.4 Second, regulators in California, at least at the time, were clearly aiming too low with their goals! million ZEVs on the road by 2025, comprising over 15 percent of vehicles sales that year.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 23, 2025

Canadas move to regulate PFAS forever chemicals earlier this year puts it on the leading edge of countries working to get this class of harmful chemicals out of products. that have more protective chemical regulations. that have more protective chemical regulations.

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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

APRIL 24, 2025

Following up on my prior post about the proposed changes to the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) regulations that protect against habitat modification, what might California do to protect the species within its border?

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Legal Planet

APRIL 8, 2025

The report is intended to help policymakers harness satellite data to improve their climate policies, enforce emissions regulations, and accelerate methane reduction efforts. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in a 20-year timespan.

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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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Legal Planet

MARCH 28, 2025

While many environmental effects may already be considered and regulated under other statutes, there may be many other effects that are not considered under other statutes. It might be because the environmental effect is an uncommon one, one that was not seen as widespread or important enough to justify regulation.

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