PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

These include contamination of surface or groundwater, air pollution or soil degradation. Additionally, direct and fugitive air emissions from oil and gas well sites can worsen local air quality and have the potential to increase health risks among residents living nearby (i.e., within one-half mile). Of Health Awards $2.5

Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2023

. -- Bursts Of Intense Natural Gas Emissions From Pigging Unit: On December 27, CNX Gas Co LLC’s Oak Springs stand-alone pig launcher/receiver along Farmer Lane in South Franklin Township, Washington County released bursts of dangerous methane emissions into the air around homes 1,500 feet away for over an hour.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2023

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. Spreading wastewater on roads from conventional oil and gas wells is illegal because it does not meet the requirements of DEP’s Residual Waste Regulations, but it’s still going on.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The first shale gas well was drilled in 2003 and that well was the first shale gas well fracked in 2004. Shale Gas + 20 The first commercial oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania in 1859. The first oil or gas well hydraulically fracked was in 1963.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 6, 2023

As early as 1966 , the state began to take regulatory action to reduce pollution from passenger cars and trucks. As a result of continuing progress on regulations, the air-polluting emissions of new passenger vehicles currently for sale are thankfully much lower than those of older vehicles. Combining the PM 2.5

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

million infants born in Pennsylvania between 2004 and 2013. These associations can be attributed to the environmental impacts of fracking, including air pollution, water contamination, noise, traffic, and community impacts." So these are all problems that are known to be related to exposure to toxic air pollution.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

At the high temperatures in internal combustion engines, some of the nitrogen in the air actually burns, resulting in the formation NO or NO 2 , which are collectively called NOx. For the first 20 years of federal regulation, Congress set the NOx standards for new cars itself. These are called Tier 1 standards.

Ground-Level Ozone

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

Oil & Gas Citizens Hotline When Attorney General Shapiro announced the results of the Grand Jury report, he also announced a new hotline citizens can use to report environmental issues with oil and gas drilling in Pennsylvania-- 507-904-2643 or send an email to: fracking@attorneygeneral.gov.

Natural Gas

Environment, Law, and History

AUGUST 27, 2023

Dan Farber at Legal Planet recently posted on "Cars, Smog, and EPA" An excerpt: For the first 20 years of federal regulation, Congress set the NOx [nitrogen oxides] standards for new cars itself. That’s quite different from the standards for industrial pollution sources, which Congress has always delegated to EPA.

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2024

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.

Clean Energy

Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2012, the company became infamous again when it unsuccessfully sued Ben-Jei Tsuang, a professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Chun Hsing University, who published a paper linking high cancer rates in Mailiao, Taiwan, to toxic dioxin and heavy metals air pollution from the Six Naphtha Cracking plant.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

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 air pollution, or removes other health stressors. Carbon emissions are thus following the same trajectory as other air pollutants.

2020

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Is your story being told? -- In Memoriam: Louise Dunlap A Leading Force Behind Coal Mine Reclamation, Regulation -- In Memoriam - Dr. Jim Finley, Fmr. Thank you to local news media for publishing these stories! Support Local Journalism! Of Environmental Professionals Award Scholarships To Isaac Nulton, Poppy Northing; Conference Starts Oct.

Conservation

Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

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.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

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.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

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.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

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.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

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.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

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.

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

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.

Fossil Fuels

Vermont Law

AUGUST 7, 2023

Home to “all five city-owned landfills,” six out of eight incinerators, and three out of four privately-owned landfills, these neighborhoods bear the brunt of the city’s pollution. [7] Louisiana: Louisiana has been criticized for its inadequate regulation of toxic chemicals, particularly as it is home to Cancer Alley.

2023

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Washington Supreme Court Invalidated Regulation of Indirect Greenhouse Gas Emissions. DECISIONS AND SETTLEMENTS. Association of Washington Business v. 95885-8 (Wash.

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