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Senate Appropriations Set To Consider $106.6 Million In Annual ‘Forever’ Taxpayer Subsidies For Use Of Natural Gas, Hydrogen

PA Environment Daily

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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Chesapeake Bay Journal: Proposed Encina Pyrolysis Chemical Plant To Break Down Plastic Waste Into Benzene, Toluene, Xylenes Proposed For Susquehanna River Shoreline In Northumberland County

PA Environment Daily

The company has operated a small-scale demonstration plant since 2016 in San Antonio, TX. Alexis Goldsmith, of Vermont-based Beyond Plastics , said the pyrolysis process will produce greenhouse gases and emit toxic volatile organic compounds, which she claimed would end up either in the air or water. million gallons daily.

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EQB Overwhelmingly Approves Emergency Regulation Setting VOC/Methane Limits For Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities; Republicans Vote Against

PA Environment Daily

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. Williams, Esq.,

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How climate change offers opportunities to revitalize and reconnect with rural communities

HumanNature

Student in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University How climate change offers opportunities to revitalize and reconnect with rural communities Rural voices are increasingly lamented as forgotten and unacknowledged. The politics of resentment?: This feeling is not untrue. Climate.gov. link] Cramer.

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Using the Free Market to Affect Change: An Argument for Environmental Taxes

Vermont Law

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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CNX Unveils Appalachia-Focused Vision For The Future, Promoting New Natural Gas Development, Use - ‘Produce It Here. Use It Here - First’

PA Environment Daily

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. Williams, Esq.,

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Senate, House Pass Massive, 20-Year Taxpayer Subsidies For Natural Gas, Hydrogen And Petrochemical Industries In Hours With No Public Accountability Or Environmental Safeguards

PA Environment Daily

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