Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The proliferation of electronic devices has contributed to the accelerated surge of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in e-waste, according to a new study in Circular Economy. E-waste GHG emissions rose 53 percent between 2014 and 2020.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2024

The USDA’s climate hubs , which were first launched in 2014, represent a unique collaborative effort across the agency to connect climate-related federal research and programming with farmers and agriculture workers in the field. There’s no time to waste.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 2, 2021

A complex and arcane water banking program in the lower Colorado River basin, adopted in 2007 and later amended, was designed to incentivize water conservation, prevent waste, and boost storage in a waning Lake Mead. trillion in economic activity, according to one 2014 study. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue. million acres.

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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.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 7, 2021

In the United States, documents obtained by the news site Undark showed that failure of aging dams across the country could flood major toxic waste sites. Experts say hazardous waste sites can be designed to withstand flooding, but flooding hazards must first be recognized. trillion in economic activity, according to a study in 2014.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

million gallons of toxic, radioactive drilling waste on unpaved roads in the Commonwealth. Feridun’s attempt to use the Oil and Gas Division’s Oil and Gas Reporting Electronic (OGRE) system to track where the waste has gone revealed many problems with the system’s design and entries that should set off alarms but don’t.

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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. The PUCO needs to be less concerned with tone and more concerned with holding utilities accountable and ensuring utility consumers are not paying for wasteful spending. But thanks to H.B.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

After the EPA proposed the Clean Power Plan in 2014, for example, fossil fuel interests and their backers tried to argue that the proposal’s 2030 emission-reduction targets were completely unrealistic, and that the country would see astronomically high costs and blackouts due to the rule.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 4, 2023

COG owned the minerals under four leases in Reeves County, Texas executed between 2005 and 2014. COG also entered into surface use compensation agreements and right-of-way agreements to facilitate its use of the surface when it transported products and waste from the property.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

trillion litres of toxic industrial waste to accumulate for over five decades, but now wants us to believe a steering committee with no decision-making power can resolve the issue. Since 2014, the AER has only collected 71 cents from oil sands companies to pay for cleanup. The Alberta government has allowed 1.4

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In the American West, funds approved in 2014 for water storage projects in California have not been used and a town in Utah completely runs out of water. After drought hit the state of California in 2014, voters approved a $7.5 YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. Rural, low-income towns across America suffer the most from climate disasters.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

This system worked so well in the past that gas plants totally dominated new power plant investment from 1990 through 2014. There is no time to waste in preparing for a reliable system that recognizes the expanding role of renewables. In much of the country, electric power plant choices are now made via competitive markets.

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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. Grant Township has been fighting to keep out this frack-waste injection well since 2013.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 6, 2025

A 2014 study in Tasmania found plastic in the stomachs of 96% of short-tailed shearwater chicks studied. These small actions add up and collectively reduce the amount of plastic waste we create, while sending a clear signal to plastic producers that we are fed up with single-use plastics.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 10, 2024

Pike said Penn State research has shown “from 2008 to 2014, spreading oil and gas waste on roads released over 4 times as much radium to the environment as oil and gas wastewater treatment facilities, and 200 times as much radium as spill events.” Conventional gas well waste is not chemically distinct from unconventional waste.”

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

But the scare wasted city resources and left water customers on edge for weeks. The Clean Water Act, a landmark federal pollution control law passed in 1972, cleaned up American waterways once fouled by industrial waste. Since the discovery, Ann Arbor has spent $1.5

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Join PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center, the Pennsylvania Resources Council and other waste experts for a September 21 webinar on their plan to reduce waste, improve recycling efforts and bring Pennsylvania’s antiquated recycling laws into the 21st Century. percent between 2015 and 2021-- from 14.3 million tons to 15.6

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Physics World

AUGUST 30, 2021

The material, polycrystalline tin selenide, boasts a heat-to-electricity conversion efficiency of nearly 20%, and could be used in devices that capture waste heat from industrial power plants as well as heat generated by combustion engines in cars, ships and tankers. Over 65% of the energy produced worldwide is lost as waste heat.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 10, 2023

In 2014, EPA began building a dataset of names and locations of anaerobic digestion facilities processingfood waste to better understand the practice and prevalence of food waste digestion in the United States(U.S.). … Continue reading Anaerobic Digestion Facilities Processing Food Waste in the United States

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

Wolf’s PFAS Action Team Report noted there is a concern wastewater plant sewage sludge also contains PFAS and policies are needed to properly manage this waste. Similar concerns would be present in oil and gas waste treatment facilities. Read more here. See Paragraph 71 in appeal.] Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2023

who owns the Ambler Asbestos Piles Superfund Site , to pay $500,000 in stipulated penalties to resolve its liability for outstanding violations of a 2014 Consent Order and Agreement (COA). The Ambler site in Montgomery County was formerly used as a disposal site for asbestos product manufacturing waste from the early 1930s until 1974.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2023

Similar concerns are buffeting Santolina, a 13,700-acre planned development proposed in 2014 by Western Albuquerque Land Holdings. Bernalillo County required the developer to install expensive wastewater treatment and recycling infrastructure to reduce water use and waste. billion gallons of water a year to serve its 90,000 residents.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The Carlsbad, California-based company, co-founded in 2014 by Chief Innovation Officer Aaron Kamenash, has developed what it describes as “advanced particle separation techniques” to recover plastics and metals from printed circuit boards … Continue reading Reinventing e-recycling Read the full story at Recycling Today.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

We wasted the hell out of the water.” – Tim Black, a cattle farmer in the Texas Panhandle. Why it matters: With rainfall totals less than half of normal at best and just 10 percent of normal in the worst areas, Circle of Blue reported in 2014 that farmers were leaning on water from the Ogallala aquifer more than ever before.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

For manure emissions, the strategies include anaerobic dairy digesters that capture methane to generate energy or convert it into offsite fuels; and alternative manure management strategies that introduce oxygen into the waste storage process or filtering the waste through an ecosystem of hungry earthworms.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 23, 2024

The Walter Lyon Award will be selected in the same manner and has been an annual addition that started in 2014. Karl’s holistic vision of environmental management embraced essential, but conflicting, needs associated with waste disposal and community environmental protection.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 12, 2021

A report from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources found that nearby drinking water wells were not affected by a 2019 leak of hydraulic fracturing waste in Washington County. Circle of Blue reported that the researchers combed an industry database and compiled information on nearly 264,000 wells drilled between 2000 and 2014.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Read more here ] Complaint Trends Means also reported, for comparison, from 2009 to 2014 there were 1,160 water supply/stray gas complaints in the Northcentral/Eastern District with 132 found to be impacted. And deciding where that's coming from, it gets really complex, really fast.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2025

Well drilled in 2014. Failed to submit production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Owner failed to submit production, waste general and well integrity reports. Response requested by March 25. [ DEP Inspection report. 4,200 gallon wastewater tank not in secondary containment. Drilled in 1800. Violations issued.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2024

DEP issued violations for abandonment, venting and failure to submit annual production, waste generation and mechanical integrity reports on March 7, 2024. DEP issued violations for abandonment, venting gas and for failure to submit annual production, waste generation and disposal and well integrity reports.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 27, 2023

Imperial Oil Ltd: 2019-Present Exxon Mobil Corp: 1983-2009 & 2014-2019 Esso Petroleum Co Ltd: 2009-2014 Villain Career Profile Corson has spent his entire career extracting and marketing oil and gas, working mostly for Imperial Oil and its parent company ExxonMobil. Leaks and Spills 2022 / 2023 (ongoing) — Kearl Lake, AB 5.3

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Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 10, 2022

My first foray in cleantech took place years later, in 2014, when I landed a contract in Colombia for the biogas industry. Wasting energy has no place when prices are up and the climate emergency has never been more pressing. Those were hard times and I was and still am blessed with the support of my family.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 10, 2024

Penn State studies found the amounts of at least 25 of the chemicals they tested for exceeded environmental and health standards and radioactive radium exceeded industrial waste discharge standards. Read more here. Click Here for a copy of Dr. Burgos’ testimony. Click Here to watch a video of the hearing.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

After the group, Cudahy Alliance for Justice, challenged the City of Cudahy’s approval of an elementary and middle school on a hazardous waste site, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mary Strobel ruled that the approval was unlawful under CEQA. In 2012, 80 percent of Cudahy residents were low-income, and in 2014, a third lived in poverty.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Wolf’s PFAS Action Team Report noted there is a concern wastewater plant sewage sludge also contains PFAS and policies are needed to properly manage this waste. Similar concerns would be present in oil and gas waste treatment facilities. Read more here. See Paragraph 71 in appeal.] Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 18, 2021

Since 2014, 245 dams have been proposed in Iraqi Kurdistan—14 have already been completed, 17 are under construction and 40 are in the planning stages. Deutsche Welle reports that Iran’s strategy of building dams to conserve water has cut river flows into Iraq, a country highly dependent on water resources from beyond its own borders.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 12, 2022

Even recently, total fluid tailings volumes have increased from 1075 million cubic metres (Mm³) in 2014 to 1360 Mm³ in 2020 – a 20 per cent increase ! Industry strategically only uses “legacy” to give a false sense of responsible and controlled waste management. What is so special about 2015?

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