PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The DEP Citizens Advisory Council is scheduled to meet on September 20 to hear an overview of the Waste Management Program, an update on the draft State Water Plan and discuss a transition paper to present to the next Governor. She reported the overall amount of waste generated in Pennsylvania has increased 8.3 million tons to 15.6

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Physics World

JANUARY 5, 2022

Since 2014 it has been collaborating with the CERN particle-physics laboratory near Geneva to co-develop a custom line of piezoelectric actuators. “As While many speakers pushed for an “enhanced and shared understanding” between big science and industry, others noted that significant progress is already being made. Clearing hurdles.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2024

Despite a moratorium implemented in 2018 on DEP approvals for road dumping, reports indicate continued use of conventional drilling waste on roads, raising significant concerns over the potential release of harmful substances such as salts, metals, and radioactive materials into the environment. The hearing will start at 11:00 a.m.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

Written Testimony -- Karen Feridun , Better Path Coalition, who has done important research into waste reporting and related issues on conventional road dumping. It’s Waste First, let’s be clear-- we are talking about a waste. The only way to stop this waste from being produced is to plug the well. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2023

2018) determined that between 2008 and 2014, spreading OGPW on roads in Pennsylvania released 4-times more radium than centralized treatment facilities and potentially 200-times more than accidental spill events.” For example, Tasker et al. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2024

DEP has said well permit fees have not generated the revenue needed to support the Oil and Gas Program for at least the last 9 years-- since 2014. PA Bulletin, page 1903 ) Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Coterra Energy, Inc. Read more here. Read more here. Susquehanna County. ( PA Bulletin, page 1892 ) -- Sunoco Inc.

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Acoel

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

take-back, recycling and final disposal.”. carpet recycling). This summer, states showed an increased interest in EPR legislation with laws passed in Maine ( LD1541 – An Act to Support and Improve Municipal Recycling Programs and Save Taxpayer Money) and Oregon ( SB582 – the Recycling Modernization Act).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2022

Over five years, 2014 through 2018, the Department of Transportation spent over $65 million removing litter from within highway rights-of-way. Also visit the Illegal Dump Free PA website for more ideas on how to clean up communities and keep them clean and KPB’s Electronics Waste website.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2022

DEP and PA Waste LLC,[3] PA Waste submitted an application to the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP or Department) for a new solid waste landfill, to be located in Boggs Township, Clearfield County. & Recycling Servs., DEP, 2014 EHB 957 [3] EHB Docket No. In Clearfield County v. 1] Pequea Twp.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2021

Simultaneous with this permitting action, the Wolf administration is working with the General Assembly to propose an amendment to the Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and Waste Reduction Act to require the agreement of host municipalities prior to the approval of future major waste facility expansions.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 14, 2022

She is a supporter of River friendly garden concepts, and implemented an addition to stream waste reduction by having weekly garden and yard waste collections as part of a recycling program to limit the amount of trash being incinerated or landfilled. In 2014, the U.S.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 19, 2019

To make meaningful progress in lowering water pollution, the federal government should begin incentivizing agroecological practices that both allow farmers to keep their land in production and actively work to reduce excess nutrients, pesticide waste, and erosion. In 2014, the USDA received a budget of $157.5

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

In 2014, they calculated the carbon intensity of PV energy as if the panels were made in Europe, with low-carbon energy,” Mariutti told Environmental Progress, referring to data compilers. It wasn’t until 2016, long after much PV production had already moved east, that the transition appeared on data collectors’ radars.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 10, 2016

Another major German eco-label is Der Grüne Punkt, which stands “for a sustainable economy, one that keeps recyclables in closed circuits” with “the aim. to avoid wasting raw materials, and to minimize the impact on the climate and the natural environment.” One of its hallmarks is the closed-cycle economy through the dual-system.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Those trends, in turn, also are prompting innovations in community design and installation of expensive infrastructure to use less fresh water and recycle more wastewater. Similar concerns are buffeting Santolina, a 13,700-acre planned development proposed in 2014 by Western Albuquerque Land Holdings.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2022

The last update was in 2014. There has been no increase in fees for conventional oil and gas drillers since 2014. Background On Oil & Gas Program Funding The latest unconventional well permit fee increase became effective on August 1, 2020 and was already out of date when it was adopted. Read more here.]

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 28, 2022

Or it will be a weakened civilization that is starting to waste away. . But in 2014, as the megadrought was exerting its unmistakable influence on water supplies, the Arizona Department of Water Resources prepared “Arizona’s Next Century,” a well-regarded “strategic vision” for future water supply. . A Cogent Look at What to Expect.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2024

These wells were also issued violations for failure to submit annual production and waste generation and well integrity reports as were Corse 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10. On March 21, 2014 , DEP inspected the Duff 1 conventional well operated by RJ Schreiner, Sr. in Venango County and found them to be abandoned and not plugged. 11 -- Bell Twp.:

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

When Tesla Says It Recycles 100% of Its Batteries, What Does That Mean? Audrey Carleton | VICE | August 16, 2021 The company’s claims convey an image of a totally tightly-controlled in-house recycling system, in which old Tesla batteries are used to make new Tesla batteries. Teller had worked closely with Musk from 2014 to 2019.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

There are four shale gas well pads within a mile or just over a mile of their home, each with multiple natural gas wells connected by the gathering pipeline as well as two large water impoundments serving those well pads, although one was removed and the other is being permitted as a waste holding facility. So we are no longer having rashes.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

Million tons/yr of waste: 7,600 industrial, 250 municipal, 25 hazardous. 1,900 landfills, 21 for hazardous waste. 100 nuclear reactors; 2,000 tons/yr nuclear waste. For example, most states now have optional “lookup tables” to look up the action trigger concentrations for groundwater and soils related to hazardous waste sites.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). Over the next few years, the area surrounding the plant allegedly began to feel the plant’s hazardous effects, as groundwater was contaminated and toxic waste released.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). Over the next few years, the area surrounding the plant allegedly began to feel the plant’s hazardous effects, as groundwater was contaminated and toxic waste released.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Elmore (2014) Coca-Cola: The Alternative Report by War on Want (2006) The Coke Machine by Michael Blanding (2010). Over the next few years, the area surrounding the plant allegedly began to feel the plant’s hazardous effects, as groundwater was contaminated and toxic waste released.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

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 -- Natural Lands, Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership Host Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Among the issues raised by the appellants in their original appeal were-- concerns the landfill’s operation would attract birds and interfere with the operation of the nearby Grove City Airport; that the oil and gas drilling wastes the landfill was allowed to accept presented a radiation hazard; and the landfill’s compliance history.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2021

Another provision authorizes payment of $12,289,000 of Personal Income Tax revenue to the Environmental Stewardship Fund to pay Growing Greener II debt service.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 3, 2021

EPA proposed the listing in response to a petition submitted by the Toxics Use Reduction Institute in 2014 requesting the addition of 25 chemicals to the TRI list. 57614 (Oct. 18, 2021).]] The PFAS CAP also summarizes major findings from Ecology’s assessment of PFAS, their presence in the environment, and their potential impacts.

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