PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2022

On May 17, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Allegheny County Health Department announced the U.S. 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 Corporation will pay a $1.5

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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

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

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

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). Environmental Protection Agency deadline to finalize the regulation, so DEP had to move to the emergency rulemaking procedure. 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

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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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2024

On June 7, the Better Path Coalition reported the Department of Environmental Protection has removed the co-product category from its waste disposal reporting database for conventional oil and gas well owners, according to documents the Coalition received in response to a Right-To-Know request. Read more here. Read more here.]

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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. Yaw have supported legislation rolling back environmental protection standards for conventional oil and gas operators. Metcalfe and Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

Limpert works on issues of Stormwater Management for Maryland’s National Capital Park and Planning Commission, and Montgomery County’s Department of Environmental Protection. Justin Nobel, science journalist, will moderate the panel discussion. Nobel writes on issues of science and the environment for U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency to adopt controls on methane emissions from oil and gas operations by December 16 or face the potential loss of $500 million or more in federal highway funds. Environmental Protection Agency. DEP estimates it will cost the conventional natural gas industry approximately $9.8 Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

Since 2016, 811,070 cubic feet have been sent to low-level disposal facilities. Follow the progress of this case through the new Environmental Hearing Board Twitter feed. Note: The Department of Environmental Protection does not comment on matters in litigation.] ( Photo: The Latkanich property and Chevron/EQT well pad.

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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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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Elect Shapiro to ban road dumping conventional wastewater just like DEP did for unconventional shale gas drillers in 2016. The report says, “CDAC vigorously opposed adoption of the majority of the environmental protection standards rulemaking and adopted a report detailing CDAC’s concerns with the proposed rulemaking.”

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2022

On May 18, the Department of Environmental Protection will present a revised final oil and gas methane emission reduction regulation to the EQB in June that it hopes will address objections raised to the regulation that could have resulted in a disapproval of the regulation and delaying final adoption.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2022

DEP issued over 4,270 notices of violation for new well abandonments from 2016 through 2022. Elect Shapiro to ban road dumping conventional wastewater just like DEP did for unconventional shale gas drillers in 2016. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Some of those results should start to become available in early 2023.

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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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 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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PA Environment Daily

JULY 8, 2022

Section 5(a)(1) of the APCA specifically empowers EQB to “[a]dopt rules and regulations, for the prevention, control, reduction and abatement of air pollution. which shall be applicable to all air contamination sources,” including the establishment of “maximum allowable emission rates of air contaminants from such sources.”

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In fact, according to Dorceta Taylor’s book The Rise of the American Conservation Movement (2016), the history of environmentalism in the United States “reflected elements of settler colonialism, cultural nationalism, and frontierism as well as Transcendental and romantic thought.” Near Pilchuck Creek on the Stillaguamish Reservation.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

When one resident contacted the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protections to ask when their water would be clean again, they were told that the water would be clean again in several years. In order to supply their homes with this necessity, residents had to travel miles to pick up drinking water.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

Despite worsening levels over decades, some work to combat heavy metal pollution has begun to yield results; a 2013 initiative to tackle air pollution and strict controls of cadmium content in zinc-containing animal feeds have brought sources of cadmium contamination under control. Rapid acidification. meaning a 2.2-fold

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lacked authority to administratively stay portions of new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector for which it had granted requests for reconsideration. New Jersey Appellate Court Affirmed State Authority to Take Easements for Coastal Protection Projects. FEATURED CASE.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2023

While the PA Department of Environmental Protection has, on its face, a Permit Decision Guarantee policy, in reality the policy is not adhered to. Click Here to watch a video of the hearing and for more testimony.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 27, 2023

Since then, my husband and I were, at the very least, exposed when we biked through the area around the Hanover plant that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determined exceeded the federal cancer risk threshold. It turns out that we are among the lucky ones.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

After the dumping incidents on dirt and paved roads around her home and throughout the region, Lawson provided photos and reports on the dumping to the Department of Environmental Protection to document the problems. Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water." [ Read more here.]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Based on data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on toxic air and water emissions for a large number of industrial facilities across the US, refineries are the 10 th most toxic industry , in a toxicity ranking list with over 200 grades. Refineries are among the most toxic industries in this country.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The PUC estimates there are from 60,000 to 100,000 miles of natural gas gathering pipelines in 33 counties, according to testimony presented to the Senate and House Emergency Preparedness and Veteran Affairs Committees in 2016. million cubic feet of natural gas and hazardous air pollutants. 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. From 2011 to 2016, DEP’s Air Quality Program only required oil and gas operators to maintain records of how frequently they conducted pigging operations. Yes, three times a day, seven days a week for nearly a decade.] Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Latest Science - University of Pittsburgh 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. ] Read more here. ] Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

According to its Oil and Gas Program Compliance Database , the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) issued 315 Notices of Violation (NOV) just for the first three-quarters of 2022. It would be great if we could rely on the industry to clean up its own mess, but too often we can’t. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 30, 2022

CBS reported, and not all its foundries had installed air pollution control equipment. But Pomeroy told reporter Hughes Rudd that he had arranged meetings with the local polluters to promote dialogue. “We Albion called itself “Manufacturing City U.S.A.,” He coached 175 scouts to their Eagle rank.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

They also requested an “internal audit” of the Department of Environmental Protection, the Wilkes-Barre OSHA Office, and the Williamsport Bureau of Codes for “willful neglect related to these matters.” Read more here. Read more here. The action follows a hearing on the bill where the shale gas industry opposed the legislation.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Written by David Hess, former Secretary PA Department of Environmental Protection. For photos, maps and news reports related to this case, visit Bob Donnan’s Blog. Photo: L atkanich Farm and Chevron drill pad June 2012; View out the back door of the Latkanich home May 2013.) Send comments to: Paenvirodigest@gmail.com.)

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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