PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

He was appointed as a mediator by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to work with the environmental community and industry to establish better regulations for water quality monitoring in areas impacted by coal ash. Church was an elementary school counselor in Philadelphia until 2014.

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MAY 11, 2024

Yaw To Introduce Bill To Punish Counties That Seek To Protect Their Residents From Impacts Of Natural Gas Thru Lawsuits [PaEN] -- PUC Approves Settlement In Peoples Gas Pipeline Over-Pressurization Failure That Damaged Hundreds Of Furnaces, Water Heaters [PaEN] -- Sen. Friel-Otten, Rep. Abney Introduce Gov.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Home Resource Guide Protect PT’s Home Resource Guide contains four sections-- -- Complaints and Compliance -- Emergency and Disaster Preparedness -- Air Pollution & Water Pollution -- Noise Pollution Visit Protect PT’s Fracking In Your Neighborhood webpage for more resources.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 25, 2021

The Center’s experts conduct research and develop best management practices to construct and maintain dirt and gravel roads in ways that reduce sediment and runoff causing water and air pollution. Obviously industry is regulated in terms of dust levels, but I’ve never heard of DEP going after townships,” said Eric Chase.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In November 2014, the United States and China—two of the world’s most significant emitters—. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. user charges for services like wastewater treatment or effluent charges used as enforcement mechanisms for statutes and regulations). Clean Power Plan.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Search interest in fracking in Pennsylvania peaked in 2014, but people were still interested in Googling this quite a bit. We also know that public interest in fracking in Pennsylvania mirrored this uptick in production, so people were Googling about it. That's what I'm showing here on the right.

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Law Columbia

MAY 31, 2024

In reality, however, the eight old coal-fired power plants had been shut down since 2014. This significantly improved air quality in the local area. The assessment report was submitted to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), which issued a final notice only two weeks after receiving it.

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JULY 6, 2017

Circuit concluded that EPA had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in determining that the four elements of the regulations that had been stayed met these requirements. The court said the administrative record “makes clear that industry groups had ample opportunity to comment on all four issues on which EPA granted reconsideration.”

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JUNE 27, 2023

It’s likely our neighborhood was most exposed from the time the neighborhood was developed in 2007 until 2014, when the plants installed scrubbers in their smokestacks. Agency officials told us that EtO is one of the most dangerous chemicals the agency regulates. The EPA comment period for EtO regulations closes today.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The OVEC coal bailouts, which the PUCO approved in 2014, were set to expire in 2024 and only applied to utility customers who had a stake in OVEC. Ohio regulators need to act. The Ohio utilities that purchase power from OVEC are imprudently buying polluting, expensive electricity—and the H.B. But thanks to H.B.

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

Dr. Steingraber noted similar conclusions were reached in 2014 when New York State banned fracking, saying “At the time, and again, this is nine years ago in 2014, there were 400 studies and investigations in the peer-reviewed scientific literature in government reports and by journalists that showed evidence for harm.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

DEP has tried for decades to regulate this practice but failed because the conventional industry simply does not comply. Attempts To Regulate Road Dumping All Failed There have been several attempts by DEP to regulate the road dumping of conventional wastewater to reduce its environmental and health impacts. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

At every phase of oil and gas production, harmful air pollutants are deliberately released. These air pollutants include such things as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, formaldehyde, naphthalene. “I Unconventional gas development cannot happen without significant air pollution, even under the best of circumstances.

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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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OCTOBER 24, 2023

The study looked at air pollution, blowouts and evacuations, and thermal modeling and found that “(C)urrent natural gas well setbacks in…the Marcellus Shale of Pennsylvania… cannot be considered sufficient in all cases to protect public health and safety.” Read more here. ] Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

million cubic feet of natural gas and hazardous air pollutants. Because the Pigging Station was built prior to 2018 it is not covered by an Air Quality Program permit from DEP. The gathering pipeline is not regulated by the state Public Utility Commission, according to the PUC. So we are no longer having rashes.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 26, 2024

waiving papers with her written remarks] I typically just roll off the cuff because this topic has been a passion of mine since long before I was elected in 2014. To finalize here, we have got to make sure that regulation does not get in the way of progress, of prosperity and of freedom.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

Tom Corbett lifted it briefly in 2014. “We need to protect our unleased public lands from this rush because they are the most significant tracts of undisturbed forest remaining in the state,” he said in 2010. The moratorium remained until Republican Gov. Two years later, his Democratic successor, Gov. Tom Wolf, reinstated the ban.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

Environmental regulation. EPA and agencies have dozens of guidance documents and regulations about analytical methods to be used for environmental samples. Based on regulations and scientific knowledge, commercial laboratories have an established suite of chemicals they typically look for in environmental samples. Limitations.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2022

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. In 2018, DEP began the Driving PA Forward initiative, using the settlement funds from the e Volkswagen cheating scandal.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

City of Woodland (2014) 225 Cal.App.4th In doing so, it found the County’s EIR deficient in this regard, and stated it was following the Third District’s earlier decision in California Clean Energy Com. 4th 173, 209, my 4/14/14 post on which can be found here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2023

Atenas started introductions with, “Toxic tours are educational for regulators and others that may have direct interest in standing alongside in advancing environmental justice efforts, these sites are overburdened by pollution and contamination.” Many discussed exacerbations of allergies by air pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Note: In December, 2022, DEP finalized regulations reducing volatile organic compounds and methane from existing conventional and unconventional oil and gas facilities. Note: In December, 2022, DEP finalized regulations reducing volatile organic compounds and methane from existing conventional and unconventional oil and gas facilities.

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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. For example, the Green New Deal proposed by Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Is your story being told? -- In Memoriam: Louise Dunlap A Leading Force Behind Coal Mine Reclamation, Regulation -- In Memoriam - Dr. Jim Finley, Fmr. Thank you to local news media for publishing these stories! Support Local Journalism! Of Environmental Professionals Award Scholarships To Isaac Nulton, Poppy Northing; Conference Starts Oct.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

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.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

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.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 7, 2023

Home to “all five city-owned landfills,” six out of eight incinerators, and three out of four privately-owned landfills, these neighborhoods bear the brunt of the city’s pollution. [7] Louisiana: Louisiana has been criticized for its inadequate regulation of toxic chemicals, particularly as it is home to Cancer Alley. 117-169, H.R.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Shell Oil Loses Arctic Drilling Lawsuit Anastasia Pantsios | EcoWatch | November 13, 2014 In early October it was announced that the Greenpeace Campaign to get Danish toy company LEGO to sever its nearly 50-year partnership with the oil giant was successful. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Shell Oil Loses Arctic Drilling Lawsuit Anastasia Pantsios | EcoWatch | November 13, 2014 In early October it was announced that the Greenpeace Campaign to get Danish toy company LEGO to sever its nearly 50-year partnership with the oil giant was successful. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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