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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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

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2023

Earlier this month, I provided testimony to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at a public hearing on the proposed rule on sterilization facilities that emit ethylene oxide (EtO), a cancer-causing gas. In fact, the 2016 IRIS risk assessment found that EtO was up to 60 times more toxic than previously understood.

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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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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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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

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is asking for public comment on the draft revision of the Technical Guidance for Assessing Environmental Justice in Regulatory Analysis. The Technical Guidance for Assessing Environmental Justice in Regulatory Analysis was first published in 2016.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 17, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed amendments to the regulations that govern the Agency’s review of new chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to improve efficiency and align with the 2016 bipartisan TSCA amendments under the Frank R. Yesterday, the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

The federal Clean Water Act directs the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set and enforce the rules that regulate this pollution. But the current rules, which were enacted two decades ago, are woefully inadequate at curbing the environmental and human impacts of this dirty water deluge.

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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

JANUARY 14, 2022

The Department of Environmental Protection will open a public comment period on the draft 2022 Integrated Water Quality Monitoring Report starting January 15. The 2016 Water Quality assessment found 19,900 miles of streams did not meet water quality standards. Read more here.] Public comments on the report will be due March 1.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency is now accepting nominations for two environmental education awards until January 11-- -- President’s Environmental Youth Award: recognizes outstanding environmental stewardship projects developed by K-12 youth.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

While the US US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has known that ethylene oxide is a carcinogen since 2016, the agency currently does not account for these cancer risks in regulations for facilities that use ethylene oxide. Children are especially at risk of harm from breathing ethylene oxide.

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Brag

JULY 7, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold a webinar on July 18, 2023, at 2:00 p.m. The final rule increases transparency, modernizes the reporting and review procedures for CBI, and aligns with the 2016 amendments to TSCA. Bergeson and Carla N. Hutton The U.S. The rule will become effective on August 7, 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2022

The Department of Environmental Protection announced the meetings of the Environmental Quality Board from June through October will be one week earlier than originally scheduled. Environmental Protection Agency, including loss of federal highway funds. Read more here.

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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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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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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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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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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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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2023

On October 13, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has reached a Settlement Agreement with DC Ambler Properties, LLC., DC Ambler Properties failed to comply with the 2014 COA and a subsequent stipulation agreement in 2016, and was ordered by the Commonwealth Court to resolve the company’s outstanding obligations.

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Brag

AUGUST 9, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a final rule establishing the applicable volumes and percentage standards for 2023 through 2025 for cellulosic biofuel, biomass-based diesel (BBD), advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel. Bergeson and Carla N. Hutton On July 12, 2023, the U.S. Advanced biofuel 5.94 Renewable fuel 20.94

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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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Environment Next

OCTOBER 1, 2021

While PFAS compounds remain largely unregulated at the federal level, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has taken some steps to develop guidelines with respect to two PFAS compounds. In 2016, EPA issued drinking-water health advisories for the sum of PFOA and PFOS at 70 ppt.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2023

By 2016, dirt road residents in my township of Farmington, were gathering petitions pleading for the road spreading of brine to stop. Those that could stop the brine dumping, the Department of Environmental Protection and township officials, turned a deaf ear to residents. Signs saying ‘No Salt Brine, Please!” Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

On September 9, 2024, the Department of Environmental Protection issued a notice of violation to Apex Energy (PA) LLC for failing to submit a list of fracking chemicals used to frack 37 shale gas wells in Salem and Hempfield Townships, Westmoreland County between March 20, 2018 and February 17, 2024.

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Brag

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it will hold a virtual public hearing on its proposal for the “Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) Program: RFS Annual Rules” signed on December 7, 2021. Bergeson and Ligia Duarte Botelho, M.A. On December 10, 2021, the U.S. to 5:00 p.m.

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A Greener Life

JULY 5, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen Data from the US National Centre for Environmental Protection has concluded, that Monday the 3rd of July 2023 was the hottest day ever recorded globally. degrees C, the average global temperature set a new record surpassing the previous record set in August 2016 of 16.92 Measuring 17.01

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 28, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency has warned that even miniscule levels of PFAS in drinking water can pose health risks. The previous advisory level, set in 2016, was 70 parts per trillion for the two chemicals combined — that’s more than 10,000 times higher than the new level just for PFOA.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 15, 2021

Other major flooding events occurred in 2016, 2019, and 2020. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering drinking water limits for the entire class of PFAS compounds, the Guardian reports. Major flooding events and other climate-induced catastrophes have become familiar in Detroit, Michigan, according to Grist.

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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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Brag

AUGUST 2, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) extended the comment period on proposed amendments to the new chemicals procedural regulations under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Bergeson and Carla N. Hutton On July 19, 2023, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

On September 9, 2024, the Department of Environmental Protection declared 21 conventional wells owned by Schreiner Oil & Gas Inc. In Erie and McKean counties abandoned and not plugged, according to DEP’s Oil & Gas Compliance Database. The wells include-- Erie County -- Conneaut Twp.: Peroil LTD 73; -- Lafayette Twp.:

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2024

During his tenure, the Commission advanced significant water resource policy and management measures for the benefit of over 14 million people, including-- -- Providing coordinated regulatory efficiency "One Process One Permit" programs with multiple state environmental protection agencies. -- Executing collaborative measures to manage significant, (..)

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

A Department of Environmental Protection inspection report from June 23, 2022 indicates it was the result of a “communication incident” between EQT’s Lumber well pad and the abandoned Fox Hill well. EQT was notified by the landowner on 6/19/2022 of the communication incident.

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