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Sandra Steingraber, Senior Scientist with the Science and Environmental Health Network , provided an overview of findings from the newly published 9th Compendium of Scientific, Medical, Media Findings Demonstrating Risk, Harms of NaturalGas Development and Infrastructure during a briefing hosted by the Better Path Coalition.
By Cat (Cathy) Lodge, Washington County Resident My family’s home is in Washington County and we have more Marcellus and Utica Shale naturalgas industrial facilities than any other county in Pennsylvania. Counties across the state have witnessed harm from the heavy industrial activity associated with naturalgas exploration.
million in annual taxpayer subsidies to manufacturing and other businesses that use naturalgas and hydrogen in their operations for at least 20 years. The bill also more than doubles the tax credit for using naturalgas to make petrochemicals or fertilizer from naturalgas. billion in state tax incentives.
DEP published a second notice formally rescinding the previous 2004 Environmental Justice Public Participation Policy. The PennEnviroScreen will redefine environmental justice areas using 32 environmental, health and socioeconomic indicators that are spelled out in a 113-page PennEnviroScreen Methodology Document. Read more here.
More Background Since March 2011, the state Department of Health has been attempting to document health complaints of residents initially in unconventional oil and gas drilling areas and maintains a Health Complaints Registry. These include contamination of surface or groundwater, airpollution or soil degradation.
But on August 17, the DEP announced an upgraded environmental justice policy for the first time since 2004 that it will begin to enforce as of September 16. But on August 17, the DEP announced an upgraded environmental justice policy for the first time since 2004 that it will begin to enforce as of September 16.
None of that means climate change isn’t, and won’t continue to be, a factor in global health, particularly if action to prevent it also reduces airpollution, or removes other health stressors. Carbon emissions are thus following the same trajectory as other airpollutants.
On April 13, House Bill 170 (Otten-D-Chester) was introduced to expand safety zones around oil and gas wells and related naturalgas infrastructure to help reduce their adverse impacts on public health and the environment. Read more here. Read more here.
The first oil or gas well hydraulically fracked was a conventional well in 1963 in Warren County. 2023 is the 20th anniversary of the drilling of the first shale gas well in Pennsylvania that was also the first shale gas well fracked in 2004. Click Here to find oil and naturalgas facilities near you.
million in Alternative Fuel Incentive Grants (AFIGs) to 18 cleaner fuel transportation projects statewide that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other airpollutants. The program supports electric, ethanol, biodiesel, compressed naturalgas (CNG), propane gas, and other cleaner fuel vehicles.
The Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard (AEPS), which would be updated under the Governor’s PRESS plan, is a 2004 Pennsylvania law requiring electricity suppliers to include specific percentages of renewable energy in their supply, in turn creating increased demand for renewable energy. “The
Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major airpollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter airpollution in the U.S.
Corporation ExxonMobil Image Image Products Crude oil, Oil products, Naturalgas, Petrochemicals, Power generation Exxon Knew Protest - Photo credit 350.org Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter airpollution in the U.S.
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Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta SOMO PaulaR Fri, 03/01/2024 - 15:21 Tuesday, February 27, 2024 Read more Audrey Gaughran Shell cannot be allowed to divest from the onshore oil industry in the Niger Delta before it takes responsibility for its toxic legacy of pollution and the safe decommissioning of abandoned oil infrastructure.
Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied NaturalGas, Lubricants, Naturalgas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company. billion pounds of ethylene a year.
Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied NaturalGas, Lubricants, Naturalgas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company. billion pounds of ethylene a year.
Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.
Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.
Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied NaturalGas, Lubricants, Naturalgas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company. billion pounds of ethylene a year.
Lessons Not Learned: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth (2004). Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.
The son of Ronald Wise said the wells have not been pumpted since 2004. 1 Abandoned Shale Gas Well Apex Energy (PA) LLC - Violations: Abandoned Shale Gas Well March 6, 2025 inspection of the Marian Laskowski 6 shale gas well in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland County found the well abandoned and not plugged.
Where to Watch: Texas & Louisiana Texas: With a history of locating hazardous waste facilities, industrial plants, and other polluting industries in low-income communities and communities of color, Texas is rife with environmental injustices. Taylor, Cancer Alley, Louisiana , Pollution A to Z (2004). 3, 2022), [link] Id.
Individual Records & Summaries Click here for violation data on Koch Industries Total Penalties $935,266,865 (September 30, 2022) Number of Records 436 Books Axis of Ideology: Conservative Foundations and Public Policy (National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, March 2004).
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The court found that the plaintiffs pled plausible claims under the Commerce Clause and Property Clause that President Trump exceeded his legal authority when he issued the permit, as well as claims that the 2019 permit violated a 2004 executive order that established a permitting process for cross-border pipelines. Gallaher v.
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