Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2025

MISO is regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), but it is important to understand that regional transmission organizations (RTO) are fundamentally planning and coordination entities. What role do local regulators play, and how do they make these calls?

Regulations

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.

Regulations

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.

Regulations

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Brampton facility owner recently completed a second Environmental Screening Report to get its proposal to expand annual waste burning capacity nearly four times to 900,000 tonnes per year rubber stamped by Queens Park. Incineration produces dangerous pollutants that are not well controlled under existing regulation in Ontario.

Waste

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. 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.

Recycling

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.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JULY 25, 2025

For example, during droughts when California has enforced restrictions on delivery of surface water to its farmers — which the state regulates — the enormous agriculture enterprises that dominate the Central Valley have drilled deeper and pumped harder, depleting the aquifer — which the state regulates less precisely — even more.

Sea Level

PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2025

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Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Plants will also explore the growing role of carbon credit markets in incentivizing the plugging of orphaned and abandoned wells.

Natural Gas

Earth 911

AUGUST 7, 2025

The Coming Wave of Solar Waste Unlike the relatively modest recycling needs of today, we’re heading toward a tsunami of solar panel waste. In the United States alone, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates recyclers will need to process one million tons of solar panel waste by 2030 and up to 10 million tons by 2050.

Recycling

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 (..)

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

85% of conventional well owners with 23,708 wells failed to submit production and waste generation and disposal reports-- 19,644 of these wells are not required to have a plugging bond. 89% of well owners failing to submit production/waste reports have at least one well not required to have a bond. Read more here. Read more here.

Waste

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.

Air Pollution

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. Drivers buying used EVs have less control.

Fossil Fuels

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

” But, she adds, the benefits of nurturing a local textile industry are many: more transparent supply chains, support for local economies and regenerative farming practices, less waste, fewer emissions, and a profound sense of community and interconnectedness. But what’s enabled things to get this bad is a lack of regulation.

Upcycling

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 15, 2025

The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) was caught hiding evidence of environmental degradation caused by toxic tailings spills, and misleading the public with false claims that it is closely monitoring the oil sands industry. trillion litres of toxic waste in huge pits called tailings ponds. Dr Kevin Timoneys report reveals that: 1.

Regulations

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!

Natural Gas

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. Both the London Convention and London Protocol require parties to adopt domestic laws to regulate the “dumping” of “waste and other matter” at sea.

Carbon Dioxide

Ocean Conservancy

JULY 30, 2025

Estimates published last year suggest that 3 to 11 million metric tons of plastic now reside on the ocean floor—up to 100 times more than at the surface—threatening deep-sea ecosystems vital to climate regulation. These hotspots included more than 1,800 marine protected areas identified as under significant stress from microplastic pollution.

Ocean

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.

Regulations

Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

With every spill, every fine for violating environmental rules, every increase in emissions, and every lobbying push for subsidies and looser environmental regulations, Edwards cements his place as a true master of fossil-fueled villainy. Let’s just say “safety first” isn’t quite their motto. The province and taxpayers of B.C.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The notice said to contact the DEP Northwest Regional Waste Management Program-- Christina Wilhelm-- at: ra-epnwrowasteprog@pa.gov. ( Tamaqua Transfer & Recycling Station: DEP invites comments on a renewal of a waste permit for the facility located in Walker Twp., Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations?

Environmental Protection

Environmental News Bits

APRIL 16, 2025

Textiles, furniture, tires and mattresses will be subject to much stricter design standards to ensure they last longer, as the EU aims to stamp out wasteful consumption, the European Commission confirmed on Wednesday.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2025

Absorbent material and booms were in place along a path of brown staining from the release to help cleanup the waste and preventing it from traveling any further. DEP also detected natural gas and crude oil odors at the site. Multiple violations were issued by DEP. A response to the violations was requested by May 13.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Containers labeled with radioactive waste sat on properties in the township. Over the past 20 years, cancer incidents in students in the Fort Cherry School District living near fracking facilities have made headlines. Residents’ contaminated water and land and their exposure to benzene from shale operations were reported on.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2025

These efforts have reduced the number of unsafe dams from 210 to just 66, with no loss-of-life dam failures since modern dam safety regulations were passed in 1978. Over the past 30 years, DEP has reviewed more than 1,700 dam rehabilitation projects and removed over 560 dams.

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

This proposed regulation is narrowly drafted. The [state] Oil and Gas Act, Clean Streams Law and Air Pollution Control Act give EQB the authority and mandate to promulgate regulations to protect health and the environment. The petition for rulemaking meets all the requirements under the board's regulations for moving forward.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Republican History Of Preventing Local Regulation Of Oil/Gas The original announcement of this legislation references Act 13 of 2012 which originally contained a provision preempting any local regulation of drilling operations included at the insistence of Republicans. Cecil Township is in Sen. Bartolotta’s district. 27 Released 1.1

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Highlights of the environmental and energy notices in the February 15 PA Bulletin -- -- 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. Read more here. Read more here.

Waste

Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2025

The two are not mutually exclusive; effective environmental regulations that protect disadvantaged communities can coexist with job preservation and creation. Of 846 landfill sites, 830 have been closed and are no longer accepting waste; however, many toxins remain and may contribute to New Jerseys high ozone levels.

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Shapiro [PaEN] Lead Counsel On Court Cases Striking Down Provisions In Act 13 To Preempt Local Regulation Of Oil & Gas Operations Raises Concerns About Proposed Legislation Establishing A RESET Board To Site Large Energy Projects [PaEN] Gov. Shapiro Announces Amazon Plans To Invest $20 Billion In Pennsylvania For A.I.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In McKean County Until Hearing On Full Supersedeas [PaEN] -- TribLive: Environmental Groups Appeal CNX Slickville Pipelines Permits -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 23 Workshop On Holiday Greens Creations - Bring Home The Cheer In Wayne County -- North Branch Land Trust: Dec.

Conservation

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Human-driven sources of methane, including fossil fuels, agriculture, and waste, account for about 60% of emissions. This patchwork approach to regulating atmospheric methane removal projects is likely to result in significant uncertainties and complexities for project developers. Methane has contributed 0.5°C C of the 1.1°C

Atmosphere

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

He said the board wants to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars and that can be accomplished by cutting electric bills. PaEN] -- Washington & Jefferson College Hosts March 19 Webinar On Meeting The Challenges Of The Electric Grid - PJM's Role [PaEN] -- PUC To Investigate Proposed 10.8%

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2024

The owner also failed to submit production, waste generation and well integrity reports for at least five years. On October 11, 2024 , DEP inspected the WK Stewart 1 conventional well owned by Big Sand Drilling Co Inc. in Lower Burrell City, Westmoreland County and found it to be abandoned and not plugged with a faint odor of gas.

2019

Circle of Blue

MAY 20, 2025

Wasted energy, pollution and the noise. While Microsofts 2024 Environmental Sustainability Report references goals around construction waste and air filtration at its data centers, there is no reference to efforts to conserve the use of water. There are environmental and security and management issues. Think about the traffic.

Cooling

Environmental News Bits

JULY 16, 2025

The European Union’s newly approved packaging and packaging waste regulation (PPWR) sets mandatory targets for the progressive reuse of packaging. Read the full story at Recycling Today.

Recycling