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Texas Appellate Court: Water Created During Fracking Is Oil and Gas Waste, Not Water

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In July 2023, the El Paso Court of Appeals held that produced water created in the fracking process is considered an oil and gas waste rather than water — meaning it belonged to the mineral lessee, not the surface owners. See...more

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Second National Infrastructure Assessment: an Insight Into Future Infrastructure Policy

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Publication of the National Infrastructure Commission’s (NIC) second National Infrastructure Assessment (‘NIA2’) in October 2023, in line with its 5-year requirement, is an important step and a document that will be used to...more

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CLEAN Future Proposal Offers Details on House Democrats' Vision for Climate Legislation

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Senior Democrats from the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce introduced on March 2, 2021, their comprehensive climate bill, the Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation's (CLEAN) Future Act. The...more

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Disposing of Coal Combustion Residuals Just Got Much More Expensive — At Least in North Carolina!

On Monday, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality issued determinations with respect to six Duke Energy coal plants, requiring that Duke close coal combustion residual surface impoundments at the plants by...more

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Latin American Environmental Regulatory Tracker - February 2019

ARGENTINA - ENERGY - Law No. 27492 modifies Law No. 26.473 to ban the import and marketing of halogen lamps as of December 31, 2019....more

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North Carolina’s Alternative Gas Pilot Program Flares Up

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North Carolina’s nascent biogas industry has witnessed significant progress in recent years. In March 2018, the Optima KV swine waste to renewable natural gas (“RNG”) project near Kenansville, North Carolina came online as...more

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Latin American Environmental Regulatory Tracker January 2018

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ARGENTINA - ENFORCEMENT - Chamber of Deputies Bill No. 7195-D-2018 would establish minimum provisions for identifying and recording environmental liabilities arising from any anthropogenic activity, as well as...more

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Latin American Environmental Regulatory Tracker December 2018

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ARGENTINA - BIODIVERSITY - The Secretariat of Environment and Sustainable Development published the 2017 State of the Environment Report....more

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Latin American Environmental Regulatory Tracker - August 2018

ARGENTINA - DESIGN FOR ENVIRONMENT - Chamber of Deputies Bill No. 3847-D-2018 would prohibit, as of December 31, 2019, the production, import, and sale of cosmetic and oral hygiene products for dental use that contain...more

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Latin American Environmental Regulatory Tracker - May 2018

ARGENTINA - AGRICULTURE - Chamber of Deputies Bill No. 1344-D-2018, Establishing minimum environmental protection measures for the traceability of agrochemicals. CLIMATE CHANGE - Senate Bill No. 410/18, Promoting...more

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Latin American Environmental Regulatory Tracker

Welcome to the new format of the Tracker! Because many of our readers have interests in a wide variety of environmental fields, we have expanded our coverage. While we will no longer be including summaries, we will now...more

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Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions: Projected U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Activities

The Trump Administration released the Fall edition of the semi-annual Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions and the Regulatory Plan (“Plan”). Federal agencies twice a year produce in combination a...more

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Sustainable Development Update - July 2017

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Sustainable Development Focus - Sustainable design of communities dramatically reduces waste - Scientific American - Jun 26 - In the past decade, the construction and retrofitting of individual homes to reduce...more

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Latin American Environmental Regulatory Tracker

This month’s tracker reflects key initiatives from May 16, 2017 – June 15, 2017. Latin America is moving full speed ahead to adopt and implement Climate Change Convention commitments, signaling that greenhouse gas ...more

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Latin American Environmental Regulatory Tracker

Latin America continues it vigorous and progressive introduction of wide ranging environmental and sustainability issues. Some highlighted activity to reflect the range: Sustainability. Signaling what may be a future...more

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Latin American Environmental Regulatory Tracker

This month’s tracker reflects key initiatives from January 15, 2015 – February 15, 2016. LAR is quickly embracing consumer-right-to-know initiatives through a host of new proposed labeling and product claims standards....more

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