PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2022

In 2016 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology closed its Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies program because the 43 projects it was involved with had all been canceled, put on hold or converted to other things.” Keeping pumped carbon in the ground—in other words, achieving net negative emissions—is much harder.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency is supposed to review national drinking water standards to consider whether updates are needed. The most recent review came in December 2016. Environmental Protection Agency were to tighten nitrate restrictions the consequences would be enormous. Every six years, the U.S. If the U.S.

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Nanotech

JANUARY 23, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as directed by the 2016 amendment to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), is required to The post Register Now for “What’s New with New Approach Methodologies: A Webinar Featuring EPA CCTEs Katie Paul Friedman, Ph.D.,

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Nanotech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Environmental Protection Agencys (EPA) implementation of the 2016 Frank R. This week, I discuss Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) developments with my colleague,Dr. Engler, Director of Chemistry for B&C and The Acta Group (Acta), our consulting affiliate.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has known for years that emissions of ethylene oxide —a colorless, odorless gas used to sterilize medical equipment and some food products—pose a long-term cancer risk to communities near commercial sterilizing facilities. However, the EPA does caution that children may be more susceptible.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

Environmental protection laws must be enforced in response to incidents like last year’s major spill and leak from Imperial Oil’s Kearl mine. This includes the Joint Oil Sands Monitoring Program (JOSM) set up in 2012 and the Oil Sands Advisory Group (OSAG) set up in 2016. The Alberta government has allowed 1.4

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Conventional oil and gas companies were issued over 4,270 notices of violation for abandoning oil and gas wells without plugging them in 2016 through 2022, according to DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Reporting system. 2016; 2017) IA Const Corp (2020) John H. & Eugene A.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 19, 2024

Note: DEP has both a Regulatory Agenda and a Non-Regulatory Technical Guidance Agenda.] -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the July 20 PA Bulletin announcing the availability of a final “substantive revision” of technical Guidance for [Drinking Water] Filter Plant Performance Evaluations. Bucks County. (

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had failed to fulfill its non-discretionary obligation under Section 321(a) of the Clean Air Act to conduct evaluations of loss or shifts in employment that might result from implementation of the Clean Air Act. 451962/2016 (N.Y.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2016 ) -- CNX Gas Co. PA Bulletin, page 2016 ) -- Range Resources Appalachia, LLC - Stevenson Thomas Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP issued a Chapter 102 permit for a well pad located in Smith Twp., PA Bulletin, page 2016 ) -- Eastern Gas Transmission & Storage, Inc. Received Dec. 23, Issued Feb. Washington County.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 14, 2021

When California voters legalized cannabis in 2016, a key argument for legalization was that legalization would benefit the environment. If cannabis growers necessarily operated outside the law, then they had little incentive to comply with environmental regulatory standards.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Lead author Adam Gold , a watershed researcher for the Environmental Defense Fund, said the wild uncertainty is because the court arbitrarily created a new standard for federal protection divorced from the science of how wetlands support larger streams, rivers, lakes and the ocean.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

Highlights of the environmental and energy notices in the April 8 PA Bulletin -- -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the April 8 PA Bulletin inviting comments on its intent to issue a Title V Air Quality permit for the Monessen Coke (Coal) Plant in Monessen, Westmoreland County. (

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 14, 2022

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will investigate the potential negative impacts on human health from the emissions of airplanes using leaded fuel, the agency announced Wednesday. A 2016 EPA report indicated piston-engine planes are the single largest airborne source of lead exposure. Read the full story in The Hill.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the April 27 PA Bulletin inviting public comments on a proposed declaration of an Exceptional Air Quality Event due to 2023 wildfires from Canada and New Jersey causing elevated levels of nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds impacting ozone pollution in Pennsylvania.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 27, 2022

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday proposed rejecting an industry request to change the findings it uses on the risks posed by a chemical the agency considers to be cancer-causing. In a new proposal, the agency said that it wants to stick by its 2016 findings on the… Read more →

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 9, 2022

Hurricane Matthew in early October, 2016. A recent study found that communities of color in North Carolina faced higher risk of gastrointestinal illnesses after Hurricanes Matthew and Florence in 2016 and 2018. Photo © Ryan Johnson/North Charleston on Flickr. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. This Week’s Top Water Stories, Told In Numbers.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

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. Written By David Hess, former Secretary, PA Department of Environmental Protection. Butler Twp. Chapman Twp. -

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection invites comments on a proposed Total Maximum Daily Load water quality plan for Johnston Run Watershed in Franklin County. The Department of Environmental Protection invites comments on a proposed Total Maximum Daily Load water quality plan for Johnston Run Watershed in Franklin County.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2024

Braymer was appointed Chief Counsel to the Department of Environmental Protection effective December, 2023. Prior to his appointment, Braymer was the Regional Counsel with the Department of Environmental Protection’s Northwest Regional Office.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Pam Taylor, a member of Environmentally Concerned Citizens of South Central Michigan, manages one of the country’s largest citizen-led water monitoring programs. EQIP pays for agricultural practices that are not environmentally beneficial,” wrote Michael Happ the report’s author, “or in some cases actively make the environment worse.”.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 19, 2021

Klapkowski said DEP would be looking to adopt regulations like those proposed in 2016 covering the road dumping of conventional drilling wastewater in Chapter 78, Section 78.70. and we got sued over the program we had in place in time,” said Klapkowski. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2022

The Department of Environmental Protection has issued 12 unconventional shale gas drillers notices of violation for abandoning gas wells without plugging them at 35 wells pads (each with multiple wells) in 17 counties between 2016 and 2022, according to DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Reporting system. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency flagged a host of new, alarming deficiencies. And he’s wary of losing local control in a city that spent years under the rule of state-appointed emergency managers, only regaining full control in 2016. The lead problems only created new expenses.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 25, 2024

On June 25, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it received $28.6 With this federal funding, we will be able to continue this vital work that protects public health and safety, and put reclaimed land to good use with eligible economic development initiatives.”

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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

JULY 2, 2024

In February, the Department of Environmental Protection published final technical guidance on using trenchless technology to construct natural gas, other pipelines and underground utilities after six years of development. Wolf’s 2016 Pipeline Task Force Report. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Nanotech

MARCH 12, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on March 6, 2024, a settlement requiring Haifa North America, Inc. EPA states that it alleged that Haifa failed to submit a data report required under TSCA for 32 chemical substances that Haifa had imported between 2016 and 2019.

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Nanotech

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) implementation of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (Lautenberg), Congress’ 2016 amendments to the The post TSCA Developments in 2024 — A Conversation with Richard E. Engler, Ph.D. appeared first on Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 17, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency has a collection of rules for emissions from oil and gas drilling sites that states must adopt, or else they will lose billions of possible dollars in federal highway funds.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2023

On April 19, the PA Supreme Court issued a ruling overturning a Commonwealth Court decision that blocked the ability of the Department of Environmental Protection to protect public resources and playgrounds from the adverse impacts of unconventional shale gas well operations.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

From 2016 through 2022, DEP issued NOVs for abandoning wells without plugging them to not just to a few companies, but to 256 separate conventional oil and gas companies. Conventional oil and gas operators racked up 4,386 violations of environmental regulations in calendar year 2021 alone. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2023

Carson Consulting conducted a mixed-methods study examining five years of data from 2016 – 2020 and conducted interviews with representatives of law enforcement and judicial officers to gain on-the-ground insight. This study was funded in part by the Department of Environmental Protection.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2024

Laboratory Fee Report DEP periodically evaluates the adequacy of permit and administration fees to support its environmental protection programs. Laboratory accreditation fees were last evaluated and changed in 2016. Visit DEP’s Stream Resdesignation webpage to learn more about these evaluations.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The DEP banned road spreading of unconventional waste in 2016. Recommendations The report makes five recommendations for closing the loophole and fixing the deficiencies in the oil and gas waste reporting system-- -- Ban road spreading – The DEP banned road spreading of waste from unconventional wells in 2016.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Documents obtained through a Right-to-Know request submitted to the Bureau of Waste Management raise new concerns that road spreading of toxic, radioactive drilling waste may have gone unreported in the four years since the Department of Environmental Protection put a moratorium on the disposal method. Read more here. “The

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2022

Wolf directed the Department of Environmental Protection to conduct an evaluation of how it regulates conventional oil and gas wells to prevent new abandoned wells, tighten review of permit transfers, review compliance with environmental safeguards and make recommendations for changes and actions, including criminal sanctions.

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