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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.
These include contamination of surface or groundwater, airpollution 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).
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 development has added compressor stations, pig launchers/receivers to clean out pipelines, cryogenic/fractionation plants, cracker plants, injection wells, residual waste storage tanks and impoundments as well as frack water and freshwater impoundments, metering stations and miles of gas pipelines throughout rural Pennsylvania.
The first shale gas well was drilled in 2003 and that well was the first shale gas well fracked in 2004. This industry has been protected by politicians that continue to allow it to literally dump their waste and responsibilities on taxpayers to clean up. Shale Gas + 20 The first commercial oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania in 1859.
million infants born in Pennsylvania between 2004 and 2013. These associations can be attributed to the environmental impacts of fracking, including airpollution, water contamination, noise, traffic, and community impacts." So these are all problems that are known to be related to exposure to toxic airpollution.
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.
Also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Owner failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Violations issued, continued for failure to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Violations issued. Crude A Co - Randy L.
The company first attracted global attention when it was caught dumping 3,000 tons of toxic mercury-laden waste in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, that originated at a PVC plant in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. James successfully sued to subject Formosa to an environmental review over the 800 tons of toxic airpollutants as well as the 13.6
-- Natural Lands, Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership Host Feb. 24 Organizing Black Birders Week Webinar With Tykee James -- Keep PA Beautiful Local Affiliates Recycle 1.1 24 Organizing Black Birders Week Webinar With Tykee James -- Keep PA Beautiful Local Affiliates Recycle 1.1 17; Loving The Land Thru Working Forests Conference Sept.
Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. 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).
Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. 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).
Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. 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).
Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. 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).
Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. 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).
Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. 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).
Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. 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).
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. For instance, minority neighborhoods in Houston are burdened with waste facilities. [6].
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