PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Before being elected County Executive, Innamorato served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 21st District, where she introduced several environmental bills, including one that closed the hazardous oil and gas waste loophole that endangers our drinking water. In 2011, Kraybill purchased his first electric car, a Chevy Volt.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

-- WNEP: Kindness Tree Dedicated At Marywood University -- Penn State Extension Home Garden News: Changes In Fertilizer Law; Wildflower Seed Mixes; Creating A Stumpery -- Inquirer: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater Is A PA Tourist Attraction; But You Can Spend The Night At His Lynn Hall In McKean County Public Participation -- DEP: New Location For (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2023

in Mercer County who appealed a major permit modification DEP granted to Tri-County Landfill who allegedly misrepresented the types of waste to be accepted at the landfill, including oil and gas waste. DEP has throughout this process taken the side of the polluter. And so this is not an outlier. Read more here. “We

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

On Reporting Unauthorized Spills, Releases [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments At Oct. 25 Hearings On NPDES Stormwater Permits For Two Warehouse Projects In Lowhill Twp., 6 Online Program [PaEN] -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: What Can I Do About Climate Change? On Reporting Unauthorized Spills, Releases [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments At Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The remaining 173 (27%) violations were for various other shortcomings—most issued for improper handling of waste materials. million gallons) of liquid waste and 416,248 tons of solid waste between January 2011 and April 2021. In the Lycoming Creek watershed, operators reported generating 9,064,377 barrels (380.7

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2019

b)), which clarifies that CEQA requires consideration of whether a project will result in significant environmental effects due to “wasteful, inefficient, or unnecessary consumption of energy” and states that agencies “shall mitigate” any wasteful energy use giving rise to significant impacts. Transportation and Vehicle Emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

California’s Central Valley consistently experiences the country’s worst air quality, and climate change is poised to make air quality even worse. In a region known for its exceptional agricultural productivity, climate change is quickly amplifying a dangerous type of climate risk in California’s Central Valley: air pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2025

18 Abandoned Conventional Wells S R Star O&G LLC - Violations: 11 Abandoned Conventional Wells, Failure To Report April 23, 2025 a follow-up inspection of 11 conventional wells in Slippery Rock Township, Butler County found the wells abandoned, unplugged and failed to submit production, waste generation and well integrity reports.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

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. And I'm going to quote now from that study.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

million cubic feet of natural gas and hazardous air pollutants. They also have an air shaft for an underground coal mine near them. From 2011 to 2016, DEP’s Air Quality Program only required oil and gas operators to maintain records of how frequently they conducted pigging operations. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

AB 2108 requires the State and Regional Water Boards to conduct environmental justice outreach regarding disproportionate impacts to water quality from waste discharge in disadvantaged communities or tribal communities. SB 6 and AB 2011 enable residential development in zones where office, retail, or parking are a principally permitted use.

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Environment Next

JULY 22, 2021

House of Representatives passed the PFAS Action Act of 2011 , requiring EPA to establish nationwide drinking water standards for PFOA and PFOS, two of the thousands of PFAS compounds. Other measures in the bill limit industrial discharges of PFAS and restrict incineration of PFAS waste. On July 21, 2021, the U.S.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Coal also emits other air pollution factors such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter… All this causes smog and soot which in turn cause asthma, cancers of all sorts, cardiovascular diseases… Which brings us to its health effects: coal is a mass murderer and is responsible for immense suffering.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

And how are they linked to wildfire, air pollution and other hazards? In his book Making the Modern World , the Czech-Canadian energy researcher Vaclav Smil estimates that China used more cement between 2011 and 2013 than the US did in the entire 20th century. Where are they most likely? How extreme might such occurrences be?

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

City of Rocklin (2011) 197 Cal.App.4th CEQA requires an EIR to analyze a project’s energy consumption, and to mitigate any significant impacts “due to wasteful, inefficient, or unnecessary use of energy, or wasteful use of energy resources[.]” (CEQA Guidelines, § 15126.2(b); Citing Clover Valley Foundation v.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

He created the Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission in 2011. It creates extensive infrastructure in multiple stages and sites, and produces large amounts of liquid and solid waste. And also a disposing of the waste stream. Wastewater can also have various heavy metals and radioactive materials present that can harm health.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2023

While the drilling boom has abated — this year there will be one-fifth as many fracking permits issued as the peak of 3,564 in 2011 — the study gives ample evidence that current rules about setbacks from residences are insufficient. The researchers caution, however, that limited data makes the strength of this conclusion weak.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

27 Webinar On Hydropower From The Three Rivers [PaEN] -- Clean Air Council, FracTracker Alliance Sept. 24 Centennial Celebration -- PennLive Guest Essay: Celebrate World Rivers Day By Supporting Investment In PA’s Water Infrastructure - By Kelly Heffner Means, Former DEP Deputy For Water Management [Sept. 28 to Oct. 1 -- Warren Times: Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

-- 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.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Outdoor air pollution accounts for approximately 3.7 – 4.8 2011), and the World Health Organization has recommended evaluating a separate health standard for black carbon exposure independent of other particle concentration measurements (World Health Organization 2012). link] Climate & Clean Air Coalition.

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Ohio Environmental Law

OCTOBER 23, 2021

EPA proposed a rule in June of 2021 under its TSCA Section 8(a)(7) authority to collect information on any PFAS manufactured since 2011, including information on uses, production volumes, disposal, exposures, and hazards. Evaluate whether PFAS Compounds should be Designated “Hazardous Air Pollutants” under the Clean Air Act.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

EPA Sought Information to Inform Regulation of 1-Bromopropane as Hazardous Air Pollutant. In June 2021, EPA published a proposed rule under TSCA Section 8(a)(7) that the Agency will use to collect information on a one-time basis from manufacturers (including importers) of PFAS in any year since 2011.[[N: 33926 (June 28, 2021).]]

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

After concluding in 2011 that listing of the Pacific walrus was warranted due to threats that included sea-ice loss through 2100, the FWS issued a final decision in October 2017 that the Pacific walrus no longer qualified as a threatened species.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The bill would amend Section 4 of TSCA to require EPA to issue a testing rule for all PFAS that would require manufacturers and processors of PFAS to develop information “likely to be useful in evaluating the hazard and risk posed by such substances in land, air, and water (including drinking water), as well as in products.

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