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of Environmental Protection told the Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board the US Department of the Interior has "withdrawn" the Orphan Oil and Gas Well Regulatory Improvement Act Grant Program designed to help states strengthen their programs, in particular to prevent future oil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

JULY 23, 2024

These prestigious awards are presented to Pennsylvanians who made a unique and creative contribution to the field of environmental management in Pennsylvania with preference given to the fields of administration, law, regulation and community organization. Public Health Service in Washington D.C.

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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

MAY 2, 2023

Federal Infrastructure Louie Krak, DEP Federal Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator, will provide the update on mine reclamation, well plugging and other projects in the agency funded by the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Visit DEP’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law webpage for more background. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

2013), claims under the ERA had very little teeth without a supporting claim of a violation of some other statutory or regulatory provision, and an ERA claim often served as strongly worded bluster without any substance. 2013)) (citing Pa. By Paul Bruder, Jr., Commonwealth, 83 A.3d 3d 901 (Pa. Further, the Commonwealth (i.e.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

PAEP presents these awards to Pennsylvanians who made unique and creative contributions to the field of environmental management in Pennsylvania with preference given to the fields of administration, law, regulation and community organization. The awards were presented at the PAEP annual conference in State College.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Ian Irvin Ian Irvin is an attorney-- graduate of Dickinson Law School-- who worked for the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the last eight years specializing in administrative law related to nuclear material licenses. DEP’s Monthly Written Report to Council on agency activities is also available for review.

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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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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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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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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As previously reported on this blog, ocean CDR research could implicate various international and domestic laws that might affect whether, when, where, and how projects take place. Both the LC and LP require parties to adopt domestic laws to regulate the “dumping” of “waste and other matter” at sea. Many haven’t yet done so.

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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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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

JANUARY 24, 2023

First Conventional Industry Compliance Review Another possible agenda item is the first-ever assessment of how well conventional oil and gas drillers comply with state environmental laws DEP released on December 29. Read more here. All three reports support our findings.”

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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. Article IV of the Pipeline Treaty clearly allows governmental authorities to make decisions about pipelines, and enforce laws that don’t unfairly impede the flow of oil. Canada wants to influence U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2024

Information provided by the Department of Environmental Protection in response to a Right To Know request shows DEP took enforcement action against 14 conventional oil and gas well operators that resulted in collecting $422,365 in penalties and bond forfeitures in 2023. Read more here. Read more here.

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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. Read more here.

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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. The law would have to be changed.

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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

MAY 10, 2023

On May 10, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund announced PA General Energy, LLC notified the Department of Environmental Protection that it intends to plug its proposed toxic frack-waste injection well in Grant Township after this Memorial Day. The community’s concerns have been vindicated.

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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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The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

By Jillian Marullo House Bill 788, signed into law on June 14, 2013, authorizes the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”) to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases (“GHG”) “[t]o the extent that greenhouse gas emissions require authorization under federal law.” 10-1425, 2013 U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2022

The awards are presented to Pennsylvanians who made a unique and creative contribution to the field of environmental management in Pennsylvania with preference given to the fields of administration, law, regulation and community organization. Karl Mason served as Pennsylvania’s first State Environmental Administrator from 1952 to 1966.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate new national ballast water treatment standards to address the threat of invasives by December 2020. 2013 EPA Vessel General Permit. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit that struck down parts of the 2013 VGP as being arbitrary and capricious. requires U.S. by the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 26, 2021

The awards are presented to Pennsylvanians who made a unique and creative contribution to the field of environmental management in Pennsylvania with preference given to the fields of administration, law, regulation and community organization. Karl Mason served as Pennsylvania’s first State Environmental Administrator from 1952 to 1966.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Meaningful Air Monitoring Results Difficult DEP’s Bureau of Air Quality did regional air quality sampling around shale gas facilities between 2010 and 2013 in Southwest, Northcentral and Northeast parts of the state. That is true but we can stop stupid legislation from becoming law. CNX installed two Particulate Matter 2.5

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Acoel

DECEMBER 17, 2021

ASTM announced revisions to its standard practice for Phase I environmental site assessments (E1527-21) on November 1, 2021 (the “Standard”). Environmental Protection Agency (“U.S. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (“CERCLA”) and analogous state laws. . Looking Ahead.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 25, 2021

DEP Hasn’t Ordered Dust Control In their long experience with the Center, neither Steve Bloser nor Eric Chase were aware of instances where the Department of Environmental Protection has “ordered” a township to control dust from dirt and gravel roads. Read more here.

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

I am excited to be presenting a fast paced and fun one hour virtual program, “Environmental Social Governance (ESG) an Emergent and Fast Growing Area of the Law” for the Maryland State Bar Association, and Not just for lawyers, on December 14, 2021 at noon. Register today for the live virtual program. 9601) and petroleum products.”.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2025

Drilled in 2013 but not produced. [ Inactive status expired on February 7, 2019. Drilled in 2011 but not produced. [ DEP inspection report ] -- Springfield Twp.: Inactive status expired on April 22, 2019. DEP inspection report ] -- Ridgebury Twp.: Inactive status expired on February 21, 2020. Drilled in 2011 but not produced. [

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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 31, 2022

County of Merced (2013) 216 Cal.App.4th Attempting to draw support from San Joaquin Raptor, it stated that an exemption finding “is not a minor matter” since it forecloses any environmental impact analysis and “is at least as important to environmental protection as an MND.” Real Party In Interest) (2022) __ Cal.App.5th

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Vermont Law

APRIL 19, 2019

In June 2013, the University of Hawaii prepared the Lahaina Groundwater Tracer Study for the State of Hawai‘i Department of Health, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. LAHAINA GROUNDWATER TRACER STUDY (2013), [link]. After graduation, Savannah hopes to practice environmental law in Seattle, Washington.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The agenda includes -- -- Discussion of the first-ever assessment of how well conventional oil and gas drillers comply with state environmental laws DEP released on December 29 that concluded the industry accepts non-compliance as a norm. PA DEP Public Notice Dashboards: -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 6, 2015

In 2010, following years of missed deadlines, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) jumped into the morass by exercising its power under the Clean Water Act. Opposition to fertilizer laws come from synthetic and organic fertilizer manufacturers. As of October 2013, lawn fertilizer containing phosphorus is banned.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

Since when was environmental protection focused on promoting and expanding parking in protected wilderness monuments? Plainly, reducing and formalizing parking spaces in the San Gabriel River and adjacent canyon recreation areas will protect and restore the environment. San Diego Unified School Dist. 2012) 215 Cal.App.4th

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