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Texas Legislature Allows Saltwater Pipeline Operators to Build Pipelines Along Public Roadways for Disposal of Fracking and Other Drilling Wastewater

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By Jillian Marullo Senate Bill 514, signed into law on June 14, 2013, authorizes saltwater pipeline operators in Texas “to install, maintain, and operate” saltwater pipelines “through, under, along, across, or over a public road” in order to transport the wastewater produced by hydraulic fracturing operations to disposal sites.

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The Good Neighbor Provision on Steroids: Third Circuit Ruling Resurrects Clean Air Act Section 126(b)

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July 12, 2013) (pdf). Following notice and comment, EPA granted the petition, concluding that Portland’s sulfur dioxide emissions significantly contribute to nonattainment and interfere with maintenance of the 1-hour sulfur dioxide NAAQS in New Jersey. See GenOn REMA, LLC v. 12-1022, slip op. at 29 (3d Cir.

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