Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

A decade later, in 2005, the agency contemplated banning new commercial sterilizers from using the gas, forcing them to use alternatives. EN: Ethylene oxide is just one of 188 hazardous air pollutants the EPA regulates, and the agency typically regulates them in isolation—despite the fact that people are exposed to multiple toxins.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

o C in 2100, relative to pre-industrial times, is still avoidable, but whether or not we are able to stay within these limits and avert catastrophic climate change depends on achieving our climate goals of emissions reductions at least 50 percent below 2005 levels in 2030, on the way to net-zero emissions in 2050.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 2005 ) -- Coterra Energy, Inc. - PA Bulletin, page 2005 ) -- EQT Corporation - Pale Ale Well Pad: DEP received a Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated with aluminum, barium, boron, chloride, iron, lithium, manganese, selenium, strontium, vanadium, and zinc in Jackson Twp., Susquehanna County. (

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 25, 2023

The letter, spearheaded by Protect PT , has been signed by Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania , FracTracker Alliance , Group Against Smog & Pollution , the Breathe Project , Allegheny County Clean Air Now , and Sunrise Movement Pittsburgh , among others. billion in health savings and other benefits.”

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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

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

But we had data from 2005 to 2019, and so information here was at the well level. Here's a map of which county subdivisions did and did not receive waste between 2005 and 2019. More deprived communities were more likely to receive any well waste, as well as a larger cumulative volume of waste from 2005 to 2019 in Pennsylvania.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Between January 1, 2005 and November 1, 2022, DEP said it received and resolved 4,859 water supply contamination complaints for both conventional oil and gas and unconventional shale gas well drilling. million toward a new regulated public water line as well as payment of 75 years of water bills for the impacted homeowners.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The issues on appeal were limited to the adequacy of certain aspects of the project EIR’s analyses of GHGs and criteria air pollutants. Tsakopoulos Investments, LLC v. County of Sacramento, et al. Mather South, LLC, et al, Real Parties ) (2023) Cal.App.5

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The Energy Law

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

part 63, Subpart HH, “NESHAP (National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants) for Source Categories from Oil and Natural Gas Production Facilities” to include the regulation of area sources. This amendment adds the regulation of benzene emissions from tetraethylene glycol (TEG) dehydration units at minor sources.

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

These air quality impacts are minimal compared with the major ozone reductions resulting from the 1998 SIP Call, which resulted in more than 80,000 megawatts of coal capacity being retrofitted with SCRs. The 2005 Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) provided smaller but significant air quality improvements following its implementation in 2010.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

The elimination of coal-fired power plants and increased use of natural gas in power generation has led to historic emissions and air pollutant reductions equaling $450 billion to $1.04 Thanks to natural gas, Pennsylvanians are breathing cleaner air than ever before, directly translating to improved quality of life for our residents.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Since global and local pollutants are often byproducts of the same activities, mitigation policies for global warming emissions have the potential to simultaneously mitigate local air pollution 2. One good example of the nexus between global warming and local pollution is ground-level ozone. Bermix Studio/Unsplash PM2.5:

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

Beginning January 1, 2005, DEP started receiving drinking water complaints related to the shale gas drilling over a nine square mile area. [In million toward a new regulated public water line as well as payment of 75 years of water bills for the impacted homeowners. As part of the plea agreement, Coterra will pay $16.29

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2024

[PaEN] -- New Penn State Extension Master Gardeners Podcast Features Pollinator Habitat Certification Program [PaEN] -- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary: Register Now For 2024 Summer Student Nature Camps -- DCNR Daily Forecast Wildfire Danger Map Public Participation -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April (..)

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2022

For the first time since 2005, we'll add three new parks to our national award-winning system to bring our total to 124. Cleaner trucks, buses, and trains are reducing air pollution in the state, and more than 1,500 electric vehicle charging plugs have been installed, many of them in environmental justice communities.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

Released from a lot of federal oversight, it left this big, blank slate for states to regulate the industry in whatever manner suited them. Second, we saw this trend of regulations, which do generally provide a degree of safety for the public, but there's a common misconception that they are truly health-protective; they are not.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Power companies will therefore have to pay more for the fuel, but utilities are generally allowed by state regulators to pass those cost increases onto their customers in the form of higher electricity rates. Henry Hub is the national benchmark for wholesale gas prices (Source: US Energy Information Administration ).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

Beginning January 1, 2005, DEP started receiving drinking water complaints related to the shale gas drilling over a nine square mile area. Read more here. Governor Marks Plugging 300th Abandoned Conventional Well On March 12, Gov.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency announced it is strengthening its proposed standards to cut methane and other harmful air pollution. The updates would provide more comprehensive requirements to reduce climate and health-harming air pollution, including from hundreds of thousands of existing oil and gas sources nationwide.

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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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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

USA: Police break up three-month protest outside VW dealership using Covid-19 regulations James Baggot | Car Dealer Magazine | February 15, 2021 Two protesters who set up camp outside a VW dealership in London have been moved on by police using Covid-19 restrictions. Agrees to Pay Over $1 Million for Clean Air Act Violation U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

USA: Police break up three-month protest outside VW dealership using Covid-19 regulations James Baggot | Car Dealer Magazine | February 15, 2021 Two protesters who set up camp outside a VW dealership in London have been moved on by police using Covid-19 restrictions. Agrees to Pay Over $1 Million for Clean Air Act Violation U.S.

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