PA Environment Daily

JULY 4, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection reports a study by Penn State Extension from 2013 to 2015 at various roadside springs across Pennsylvania, over 90% of the roadside springs that were sampled were found to be contaminated with total coliform bacteria.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 12, 2024

April 13 PA Bulletin, page 1989 ) Read more here. -- The Department of Environmental Protection invites comments on the Title V Air Quality and the RACT III Air Quality permits for the Wheelabrator Municpal Waste Combustion Facility located in Falls Township, Bucks County. Read more here. Montgomery County. Montgomery County.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

On January 21, the Department of Environmental Protection and Roulette Oil & Gas Co., LLC signed a consent order and agreement requiring the company to plug a shale gas well that was abandoned for 8 years in Hebron Township, Potter County.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 23, 2024

Karl’s holistic vision of environmental management embraced essential, but conflicting, needs associated with waste disposal and community environmental protection. The general framework established by Karl serves as the foundation for Pennsylvania’s environmental protection programs to this day.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Over the last two weeks, the Department of Environmental Protection issued Bialy Gas Production LLC 36 violations for abandoning conventional oil and gas wells they own, bringing the total of violations for conventional well abandonment to 96 for this year covering 36 different well owners. Drilled in 2013 but not produced. [

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

He then served for three years as the Assistant Chief of the Environmental Health Section, Philadelphia Department of Public Health. From 1983 to 2013, Walter went on to teach and consult in the areas of environmental engineering and water policy. Public Health Service in Washington D.C.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2023

Act 54 Report The Council has been working on comments on DEP’s 2013-2018 Act 54 Report detailing environmental and property impacts of underground coal mining since the report was first available in December 2021. Photos: Damage caused by underground coal mining from DEP’s 2013-2018 Act 54 Report.) Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

On March 20, the Department of Environmental Protection told the Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board the US Department of the Interior has "withdrawn" the Orphan Oil and Gas Well Regulatory Improvement Act Grant Program designed to help states strengthen their programs, in particular to prevent future oil and gas well abandonments.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency , Philadelphia Water Department , and Partnership for the Delaware Estuary joined to celebrate Earth Week and highlight a new ad campaign, ‘Trash Free Waters Begin with YOU!’ Environmental Protection Agency - Region III webpage for more information. On April 23, leaders from the U.S.

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Frontiers

JULY 6, 2021

Based on long-term data on air quality and public health from national databases, they show that the risk to develop dysmenorrhea over a period of 13 years (2000-2013) was up to 33 times higher among Taiwanese women and girls who lived in areas with the highest levels of air pollutants compared to their peers exposed to lower levels of pollutants.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2023

He served as a legal intern with DEP in 2014, an intern with the US Environmental Protection Agency Air Enforcement Division in Washington, DC, also in 2014, and was a policy intern in DEP in 2013.

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Law of the Lands

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

AS PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN THE RURAL VOICE : Section 156(1) of Ontario’s Environmental Protection Act (“EPA”) authorizes a provincial officer, without a warrant or court order, to inspect any location in which or from which a contaminant “is being, has been or may be discharged in to the natural environment.”

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Manning Law

JUNE 11, 2020

This action is contrary to subparagraph 29(b)(i) of the Storage Tank Systems for Petroleum Products and Allied Petroleum Products Regulations , made pursuant to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999. The penalty will be directed to the Government of Canada’s Environmental Damages Fund. The Regulatory Framework.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 23, 2023

The Petitioners argued that the City’s 2013 and 2015 rate methodology for the SFR class violated the requirement of Proposition 218 that rates charged to any parcel be proportional to the cost of providing service to that parcel.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2013 ) Erosion & Sedimentation Permits - Issued -- Blackhill Energy LLC - Unknown Project: DEP issued a Chapter 102 permit for an unknown project impacting Mill Creek located in Springfield Twp., Received June 11, 2024, Issued Feb. 24, 2025. ( Washington County. Received Sept. 19, 2024, Issued Feb. 21, 2025. (

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

On December 19, 2019 the Department of Environmental Protection released the 2013-2018 Act 54 Assessment Report, the fifth in a series of reports required by Act 54 documenting the impacts of underground coal mining on surface structures, water supplies, streams, land damage, groundwater and wetlands.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 25, 2021

The Phase l Environmental Site Assessment Standard E1527-13 will sunset in late 2021, eight years from its approval on November 6, 2013. This is hugely significant because a Phase l Environmental Site Assessment is conducted in the vast majority of the 5.6 Importantly, the ASTM E1527 is recognized by the U.S.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 21, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency released its 2022 Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) National Analysis showing that environmental releases of TRI chemicals from facilities covered by the program were 21% lower in 2022 compared to 2013. Today, March 21, 2024, the U.S. This includes a 26% decrease in air releases.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Since 2007, only 2009, 2013 and 2014 had more ice at the end of the melt season. Environmental Protection Agency, the summer melt season in the Arctic is now 38 days longer than it was in 1979. The Arctic is warming three times faster than the world as a whole. According to the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2025

DEP Orders Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline To Provide Clean Water On March 6, the Department of Environmental Protection issued an order to Energy Transfer/Sunoco to provide water to residents in Upper Makefield Township, Bucks County affected by a leak in Energy Transfers 14-inch jet fuel/petroleum products pipeline. Read more here.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

environmental disturbance would be minimized and the scientific benefits maximized.” But, in 2013, the parties to the LP adopted an amendment that is intended to be. The 2013 amendment has not yet entered into force. The parties might similarly agree to provisional application of the 2013 amendment.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection reported their inspections found 4,386 violations of environmental regulations at conventional oil and gas operations during 2021 -- nearly two and a half times the violations reported just two years ago in 2019 and 337 more than in 2020.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Here in Pennsylvania, a landfill applying for a permit with the state’s Department of Environmental Protection to evaporate liquid landfill runoff — called leachate — could create airborne radioactive material over people downwind. I’m a science journalist and four years ago, I fell down the oil-field radioactivity rabbit hole.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Each of these draft regulations are usually provided to advisory committees before they are considered for adoption as proposed by the Environmental Quality Board. For more information on environmental programs in Pennsylvania, visit DEPs website. The draft schedule has these regulations going to the EQB in the fourth quarter of 2025.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

However, the 6th version is being done internally by the Department of Environmental Protection itself. In the last Act 54 report covering 2008-2013 in 2015, the University of Pittsburgh also found 40 percent of the streams undermined by deep coal mining suffered the same sorts of impacts. Click Here for more.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2023

By Kevin Sliman, Penn State News In 2013, Penn State launched the Pennsylvania Mine Map Atlas, an interactive online database of Pennsylvania’s underground mines. He said that “the placement of the pipe was a matter of informed guesswork by mining engineers poring over maps.”

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

In the ongoing legal battle, Enbridge has been found guilty of trespass on tribal territory since 2013. This includes upholding safety and environmental protections, as long as they do not unfairly block the flow of oil between the two countries. Canada wants to influence U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2022

On December 15, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has executed a $600,000 consent assessment of civil penalty (CACP) with John A. The majority of the drill cuttings were dumped at sites owned or controlled by Joseph, while some ended up at sites where he had contracts to provide fill material.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2022

Since the program began in 2013, this brings the total volunteer hours to 79,828 hours, valued at $2.2 Adams and Franklin Counties will be merged with Cumberland County to create a regional program thanks to funding from the Department of Environmental Protection, and Susquehanna County will launch a program in 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2025

Since January 1, the Department of Environmental Protection has issued 11 notices of violation to Diversified Production LLC for abandoning and not plugging shale gas wells in Fayette and Westmoreland counties. Almost all are repeat offenses where Diversified has failed to correct violations for more than three and a half years.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2022

Karl’s holistic vision of environmental management embraced essential, but conflicting, needs associated with waste disposal and community environmental protection. The general framework established by Karl serves as the foundation for Pennsylvania’s environmental protection programs to this day.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2024

On January 26, 2024, the Department of Environmental Protection issued a notice of violation to Equitrans Midstream for abandoning and not plugging 19 conventional gas wells at the Swarts Natural Gas Storage Field in Greene County. Click Here to read the NOV.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Reality: Between 1994 and 2013, the U.S. Although the easements expired in 2013, Enbridge has refused to remove the pipeline from these 12 parcels and has been found guilty of trespassing by the Wisconsin court. . Environmental Protection Agency and holds significant cultural importance to the Bad River Band. .

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2023

William Burgos, lead author of the Penn State study released in May on the environmental impacts of road spreading conventional drilling wastewater, wrote a memo to the Council on how the conventional industry misrepresented his positions on the study and its contents in a resolution it passed in August.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Other violations like failure to manage drilling wastewater safely, not notifying DEP of spills, failure to submit annual well integrity and waste disposal reports, failure to operate the wells to meet environmental protection standards and many more go along with NOVs for failure to plug wells. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 26, 2021

Karl’s holistic vision of environmental management embraced essential, but conflicting, needs associated with waste disposal and community environmental protection. The general framework established by Karl serves as the foundation for Pennsylvania’s environmental protection programs to this day.

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