PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Photo: Wall Street Journal story from 2011 stray gas contamination of a water supply in Bradford County from shale gas drilling.) Questions should be directed to Todd Wallace, at twallace@pa.gov or (717) 783-6395. Visit DEPs Office of Oil and Gas Management webpage to learn more about this program.

2023

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2025

Chevron drilled two shale gas wells on the Latkanich property approximately 500 feet from the familys water supply starting in 2011. EHB Docket 2023043 The appeal was brought by Bryan Latkanich who, with his son, lives in Deemston Borough, Washington County and leased his mineral rights to Chevron who then sold the lease to EQT Chapp, LLC.

Natural Gas

Environmental News Bits

MAY 1, 2025

Google hasjust announcedthat its ending software updates for the first-generation Nest Learning Thermostat, released in 2011, and the second-gen model that came a year later. Read the full story at The Verge. This decision also affects the European Nest Learning Thermostat from 2014.

2011

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 6, 2025

These disproportionate harms are not limited to the Navajo Nation; Indigenous land in general is disproportionately the target of nuclear waste. The Navajo Nation has historically been disproportionately burdened by the US nuclear weapons program, especially uranium mining. of the end of 2024, life expectancy on the Navajo Nation is 58.8

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2025

Wells drilled in 2011. Failed to submit production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Owner failed to submit production, waste general and well integrity reports. Read more here. Three generators used to power cryptocurrency mining operations have been removed as well as production equipment. Drilled in 1800.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2025

Hill also noted the company has been under investigation by the Office of Attorney General for possible state Solid Waste Management Act violations road dumping their wastewater under the co-product determination process in DEPs Residual Waste Regulations. Well was drilled in 2011. Read more here. No response requested.

2025

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

CERCLA dictated requirements for closed and abandoned hazardous waste sites, including providing for the liability of people responsible for the hazardous waste and establishing a fund for cleanup if there was no identifiable responsible party. Navy stemming from a toxic waste and ammunition disposal site. The enactment of S.259,

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2025

Owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Well owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Well completed in 2011. Well owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports.

2025

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Supplement to: THE TOXIC DIVIDE: INTERNATIONAL WASTE DUMPING AND THE FIGHT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EQUITY By Christine Paul This blog is a supplement to an original article published by Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 13] Waste management remains problematic even after the laws promulgation.[14] 26 Issue 2. million people.[3]

Waste

Circle of Blue

APRIL 25, 2025

the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, was an outspoken leader of the citizen movement before he joined the government, and described fluoride as an industrial waste. Kennedy Jr., Nevertheless, community water fluoridation has not become any less valuable now than it was before, proponents say.

2002

PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2025

The owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Other violations include failing to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports, leaking or rotted out wastewater tanks and leaking gas. Well was drilled in 2011. Violations issued. DEP inspection report.

2025

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.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 1, 2025

PMG Baird 1H - Drilled in 2011 [ DEP inspection report ] Well listed as abandoned on December 7, 2023 [ DEP inspection report ] -- Fayette County, Henry Clay Twp. Humberston Unit 1H - Drilled in 2011. [ Owner also failed to submit production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Violations issued. DEP inspection report.

2012

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

This insight led him to establish BlueTech Research in 2011 to accelerate innovation and help bridge the gap between technology development and real-world implementation. Later, while working as an engineering consultant, he observed the significant delays in bringing promising water technologies to market.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

The owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. The owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports have never been submitted. Both wells were drilled in 2011.

2025

Circle of Blue

JULY 23, 2025

This year, according to the forecast announced in June, the Lake Erie bloom will be “moderate,” neither as large as some years since 2011, nor as small as others since 2016. Yes, the forecasting is an impressive display of computer modeling and scientific acumen. The consequences are ugly.

2016

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JULY 16, 2025

Currently, sequestration is enforced through three laws: the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, the Budget Control Act of 2011, and the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO). In particular, PAYGO prevents “new revenue and mandatory spending legislation enacted during a session of Congress from increasing the net deficit”.

Conservation

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 4, 2025

While the Government Accountability Office has found on several occasions that federal payments to Approved Insurance Providers (AIPs) contribute to spending waste or exceed what may be considered a reasonable amount based on market necessities, the House decided to authorize a range of new subsidies for AIPs.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2025

Equitrans was charged Thursday with 14 counts of unlawful conduct, prohibition against discharge of industrial wastes, and prohibition against other pollutions from its Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area in Jackson Township, Cambria County. Read more here. Bloomberg News called the Rager Mountain gas leak the worst US climate disaster in 2022.

2025

Physics World

AUGUST 5, 2025

After an internship at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, she joined Physics World in 2011, where she now works as careers and features editor. Instead, Commissariat did a master’s in science journalism at City, University of London.

2011

Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Clorox's key priorities include using 100% renewable energy to power its operations and reaching net-zero targets by 2050 from a 2011 baseline. Already, it has also reduced its energy use by 17%, water consumption by 22%, and solid waste to landfill by 33%. .

2011

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

The first known relativistic tidal disruption event, called Swift J1644+57 , was detected in 2011 when NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory spotted a strange burst of radiation from the center of a galaxy 3.8 Why waste valuable time looking at an explosion years after it occurred? billion light-years away.

2018

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

Two major wildfires threatened Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico in 2000 and 2011. The biggest fear was that fires would reach radioactive waste stored in above-ground holding areas that could have presented a contamination risk to the surrounding region. Are there risks to national security?

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2024

And a site with four such reactors could have four times the annual risk of a single unit, or an even greater risk if an accident at one reactor were to damage the others, as happened during the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident in Japan. SMRs will not reduce the problem of what to do with radioactive waste.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

And this waste—along with drilling and fracking waste--can contain radioactive elements known as “technologically enhanced naturally occurring radioactive material,” or TENORM. State regulations are also filled with gaps that allow unsafe practices for radioactive oil and gas waste.

Waste

HumanNature

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Food waste refers to material that is safe and suitable for human and animal consumption, yet not consumed. The food waste and loss problems reveal inefficiencies in the food system that have consequential, permanent environmental impacts. This global problem of food waste is related to consumer behaviors (e.g., Spaggiari, M.,

Waste

Energy & the Law

DECEMBER 10, 2021

This case is about injection wells for industrial and municipal waste, not for oil and gas waste. January 13, 2011: the RRC rescinds its no-harm letter. + February 17, 2011: TCEQ issues an order approving the application. April 2, 2011: TCEQ reissues the order. I’m an oil and gas guy. The litigation.

2011

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Published in the journal Global Environmental Change , this research combined information from 22,508 ICC beach and land cleanups across 116 countries from 2011-2017 with 7,290 PADI AWARE underwater cleanups across 118 countries from 2011-2018. Ocean Conservancy has worked closely with CSIRO scientists Drs. Never miss an update.

Ocean

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

On April 7, 2023 , DEP posted an inspection report to document that it had requested Greylock to provide the pre-drill survey it had conducted prior to drilling the wells in 2011, along with all the water sample results associated with the site. [ Background There were six shale gas wells on Mohr A drilled in May, June and July of 2011.

2011

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Sara Innamorato (D-Allegheny) co-chaired a hearing by the Senate Democratic Policy Committee on the environmental and health dangers associated with oil and gas drilling waste in Pennsylvania. We are concerned because radium-226 and radium-228, both present in oil and gas waste, can cause bone and connective tissue cancer.

Waste

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A 2011 study in the journal Asthma and Allergy , said the parallel increase of global asthma and carbon dioxide emissions is “remarkable.” The prime ones are erosion and flood control, waste treatment, water purification, recreation, and tourism. That is despite studies tying carbon dioxide to skyrocketing rates of childhood asthma.

Carbon Dioxide

HumanNature

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Yet, amid these advancements, we often overlook the simplest and most immediate solution: reducing food waste. Food waste occurs at every stage of the production and supply chain, from agricultural fields to supermarket shelves to consumer households. These alarming statistics highlight the urgent need for action to combat food waste.

Waste

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In 2018, the world entered a municipal waste management crisis. recyclable materials, most notably plastic waste and unsorted paper. China also required stricter pre-shipment inspections to enforce existing laws, such as the import ban on electronic waste (e-waste). China’s waste ban has created backlogs worldwide.

Recycling

Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Austin, Texas, adopted a new plan this month to renew efforts to help the city achieve its goal of zero waste by 2040. Austin first adopted the goal, which envisions diverting 90% of trash from landfills by 2040, in its comprehensive plan in 2011.

Waste

Environmental News Bits

MAY 30, 2023

There is a lot more food waste than you might think: A 2011 report for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) stated that approximately one-third, or around 1.3 billion tonnes, of food production worldwide ends up as waste.

Upcycling

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Hess, Former Secretary Department of Environmental Protection The information submitted to DEP’s Bureau of Waste Management from eight conventional oil and gas companies to justify allowing them to dispose of millions of gallons of wastewater by spreading it on dirt roads fails to meet the requirements of DEP’s 25 Pa Code Chapter 287.8

Waste

PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

The shale gas wells were drilled and fracked between September 2011 and August 2012. Johnson said DEP’s letter of determination does not say whether DEP directly asked if Chevron used PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ at the drilling site in 2011-2012, but the Department instead stated it relied on a “review of documents related to the well site.”

Radiation