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Just and Sustainable Solutions for the Mining and Recycling of Rare Earth Elements in Wind Turbines

Union of Concerned Scientists

The wind is in our sails on the voyage towards a clean energy future. Wind energy is currently the largest renewable energy source in the US, and the industry is growing fast. Recycling rare earth elements. Many governments, the mining industry, and renewable energy companies are committed to tackling it.

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Climate Adaptation Moves Toward Center Stage

Legal Planet

The big news today is the deal with Manchin to provide billions of dollars of funding for clean energy. The Bureau of Reclamation got $250 million for desalinization and a billion for water recycling and reuse. Manchin’s vote will be needed because no Republican Senator will vote for the bill.

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June 17 Weekly PA Environment Digest Now Available

PA Environment Daily

Of Township Supervisors Opposes Ban On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Saying It’s Only Affordable Option For Dust Suppression [Plain Water Works Just As Well] House Hearing: Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Trade Groups Oppose Bill Banning The Road Dumping Their Wastewater Saying It’s ‘Effective And Safe’ PA Environmental Council (..)

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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 1

PA Environment Daily

Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- SWN Production Company, LLC - O’Dell Impoundment: DEP received a Final Report on remediation of oil contaminated by three releases of freshwater and production wastewater to meet the Statewide Health Standard for the facility located in New Milford Twp., PA Bulletin, page 3088 ) -- Coterra Energy, Inc. -

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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - September 14

PA Environment Daily

Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Coterra Energy, Inc. PA Bulletin, page 5902 ) 2024 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2024, DEP received or acted on 201 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. . PA Bulletin, page 5913 ) -- Coterra Energy, Inc.

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DEP Issued 754 Notices Of Violation For Defective Oil & Gas Well Casing, Cementing, The Fundamental Protection Needed To Prevent Gas Migration, Groundwater & Air Contamination, Explosions

PA Environment Daily

DEP issued 605 NOVs against unconventional shale gas operators and 149 to conventional oil and gas drillers for defective casing or cementing from 2016 through 2022, according to DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database. Folta N BRA 3H (2016) -- Chesapeake Appalachia LLC - Tuscarora Twp. PA Tract A 7H (2021) -- XTO Energy Inc.

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Burning Garbage Will Not Solve the Plastic Pollution Crisis

Enviromental Defense

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. Ok, but can’t we make clean energy from burning waste? Focus on increasing truly renewable, low-emission energy such as wind and solar power.