PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2022

From 2016 to 2021, a total of 811,070 cubic feet of TENORM waste was sent to low-level radioactive facilities for disposal, while all the other industries combined in the four states sent 1,272,003 cubic feet of LLRW.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Agroecology offers significant opportunities to holistically address numerous agricultural challenges —including climate change, soil degradation and erosion, water and air pollution, and biodiversity loss—while supporting human health, racial equity, and food justice. UCS analysis estimated that between FY 2016 and FY 2019, just $15.7

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 4, 2021

Congress has legislated the treatment of air quality data influenced by exceptional events, which includes fireworks. Fireworks arguably do contribute to air pollution, but only very modestly over a few hours each year. Wildfires, high winds, volcanoes and fireworks” (. Wildfires, high winds, volcanoes and fireworks” (.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

This shift has coincided with the nation’s rapid rise in LNG exports overall, surging from zero at the start of 2016 to becoming the largest global LNG exporter in 2022—and even more export projects are anticipated to come online over the next few years. Credit: U.S. Credit: U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2022

The following factsheet on asthma and air pollution from natural gas facilities was compiled by the Environmental Health Project -- Asthma is a chronic disease that affects breathing. Asthma attacks, also known as exacerbations, may be triggered by indoor and outdoor air pollution, stress, and other physical and environmental factors.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2022

million penalty and make extensive improvements at its steel production facility in Braddock, Pennsylvania, as part of a settlement covering longstanding air pollution violations. Steel is required to make numerous improvements in training, monitoring and work practices to increase compliance and timely response to air pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Air Quality Permit -- Sandy Run Landfill, LLC - Renewable Landfill Gas Refinery: DEP invites comments on an Air Quality Plan Approval for the facility located in Broad Top Twp., Bedford County. ( Chester County. ( Butler County. ( Tioga County. ( Tioga County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Greene County. ( Greene County. ( Clinton County. (

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2024

Air Quality Permits -- UGI Texas Creek, LLC - Castle Compressor Station: DEP approved an Air Quality Permit for multiple sources of air pollution at the compressor station located in Canton Twp., PA Bulletin, page 3089 ) Read more here. Bradford County. ( York County. ( Westmoreland County. ( Bradford County. (

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

These communities are often already exposed to lots of air pollution from things like other industries, airports, and nearby highways. Pollution data released from Canada’s newest waste incinerator, located east of Toronto, showed releases of dioxins and furans 12 times greater than permitted in 2016. Sorry, but no again.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2023

The closure in January 2016 of one of Pittsburgh’s biggest coal-processing plants led to immediate and lasting declines in emissions of fossil fuel–related air pollutants. The impact of the closure persisted through at least December 2018, the last month for which data were analyzed.

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Environmental and Urban Economics

MAY 19, 2022

For those WFH workers who are especially sensitive to air pollution, they will anticipate that elevated fire risk in the American West will create PM2.5 A Postscript: Back in 2016, a prominent University of Chicago economist (who does not have a PHD from Chicago!) spikes during summer months. He just looked at me.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 2126 ) - - Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining & Marketing, LLC - 2016 Release East of Former Tank PB 23: DEP received a Notice of Intent to remediate soil contaminated with petroleum constituents to the Statewide Health Standards and Site-Specific Standards for the site located on West Passyunk Ave., Philadelphia. (

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2022

The study cites increased noise, air pollution, and traffic associated with gas sites as the culprits of higher levels of heart patient hospitalizations. The same sense of urgency needs to be applied to tackling air pollution, a health problem with a clear and actionable solution. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Wolf, Senate, House Republicans Again Fail To Hold Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Accountable For Protecting The Environment, Taxpayers On Hook For Billions [7.19.22] -- Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Reported Spreading 977,671 Gallons Of Untreated Drilling Wastewater On PA Roads In 2021 [8.31.22] -- Penn State Study: Potential Pollution (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2022

On May 24, the Clean Air Council announced a six-year saga over air pollution from the Energy Transfer natural gas liquids processing plant and terminal at Marcus Hook ended with a voluntary legal settlement in which Energy Transfer agreed to drop its appeals of two air pollution permits.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

The company has operated a small-scale demonstration plant since 2016 in San Antonio, TX. At a public call-in session with Encina officials in March, residents raised concerns about air pollution, building in the floodplain, microplastic pollution, wastewater pollution and the plant’s water consumption — estimated at up to 2.5

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Latest Science A 2016 study led by health researchers at the University of Pittsburgh examined the adequacy of unconventional natural gas drilling setbacks in the three largest and most heavily drilled natural gas plays in the U.S. Read more here.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

By Leigh Hartman When Son Nguyen lived in the US, he saw rapidly advancing electric vehicle technology and heard stories from back in Vietnam about air pollution. Zul Kifli / AFP / Getty Images. So after returning home, he launched Dat Bike in 2019.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2022

An objection to that regulation was raised by the Republicans on the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee questioning whether the regulation met the requirements of a 2016 law (Act 52) requiring separate regulations for conventional oil and gas operations. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 6, 2022

On May 6, Laura Legere of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported the Department of Environmental Protection is re-evaluating the final regulation to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas operations over a 2016 law requiring separate regulations for conventional oil and gas operations. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The IRRC had earlier expressed concern there were not separate final regulations for unconventional and conventional oil and gas facilities as required by a 2016 state law (Act 52). Read more here. The retiring Republican Chair of the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee Rep. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

Related Articles: -- DEP: PA Fracking Operations Sent Nearly 236,000 Cubic Feet Of Radioactive TENORM Waste To Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facilities For Disposal In 2021 - 811,070 Since 2016 -- DEP: Potential For Environmental Impacts From Spills Or Leaks Of Radioactive Oil & Gas Waste Materials Is Real; Health Dept.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2024

DEP outlawed road dumping wastewater from shale gas drilling operations in 2016 regulations, but not from conventional oil and gas wells even though the wastewaters have few differences, according to Penn State research. Read more here. Read more here.] barrels of oil.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 16, 2017

China’s coal consumption declined over three consecutive years (2013 to 2016), and a continued slow decline is expected. This amounts to over 115,000 new electric buses just in 2016 , an increase by a factor 70 in just three years! India has stated that its planned coal-fired power plants may not be needed.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2022

Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler), expressed a concern DEP did not follow the provisions of Act 52 of 2016 which requires the EQB to adopt separate rulemakings covering conventional oil and gas wells.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Meanwhile, many forget that the flip side of local air pollution is global climate change. We have seen it many times over, pollution from our air, water and soil is killing nine million people every year. In 2016, the world added 138.5 Solving one will solve the other. trillion USD per year (12.6 Transportation.

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Local air pollution (and global climate change) ; 4. Renewable energy sources have been booming in the US (+262 % and over 4,600% from 2008 to 2016 for wind and solar, respectively. watt in 2016 (Source: Energy Sage ). Biking could solve or help solve a laundry list of issues such as: 1. per watt in 2008 to $3.36/watt

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Science Blogs

AUGUST 21, 2017

One of the AQAST projects resulted in a brief video with President Obama explaining how satellite data has been helpful in tracking nitrogen dioxide, a common air pollutant. AQAST was instrumental in showing how satellites can ‘see’ trends in air pollution, even in areas where no other monitors exist. air pollutants.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2024

Latest Science A 2016 study led by health researchers at the University of Pittsburgh examined the adequacy of unconventional natural gas drilling setbacks in the three largest and most heavily drilled natural gas plays in the U.S. Yaw received the Marcellus Shale Coalition’s 2023 Shale Gas Advocate Award. Read more here. Read more here.

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Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 16, 2018

According to numbers from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), ion lithium batteries have gotten 20 percent cheaper year on year from 2010 to 2016 , going from $1,000 per kWh of energy stored in 2010 to $273 in 2016. Decarbonization and killing King Coal are priorities to combat global climate change and local air pollution.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 20, 2022

This is driven by a sentiment shared among rural residents that political decisions are often made by those outside of their communities who have differing values and access to more resources including money, time and power (Cramer 2016). This feeling is not untrue. Climate.gov. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. link] Cramer.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

Since 2016, 811,070 cubic feet have been sent to low-level disposal facilities. Radiation monitoring of oil and gas wastes have resulted in unconventional shale gas operators sending nearly 236,000 cubic feet of radioactive TENORM [naturally occurring radioactive materials] to low-level radioactive waste facilities for disposal in 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution. The next logical question is why is there such an excess of flared gas?

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Two steps forward, one step back: In February 2016, the Supreme Court issued a. Equally exciting, in August 2016, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld agencies’ ability under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to include the. Air pollution generally has many proven. Air pollution also.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Metcalfe was again critical of DEP’s delay in finalizing this regulation when DEP knew of the EPA’s oil and gas emission limit requirement starting in 2016. DEP again repeated their legal position that Act 52 does not apply to regulations promulgated under the state Air Pollution Control Act like the one before the Board for the vote.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2022

Laura Legere of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported DEP was re-evaluating the final methane regulation over a 2016 law requiring separate regulations for conventional oil and gas operations. Republicans on the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee also sent a letter disapproving of the regulation largely based on the 2016 law.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Read more here ] According to DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database, CNX Gas Company also received over 1,000 notices of violation from DEP since January 1, 2016.

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