Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

There is similar lack of regulation on the nitrogen-rich manure produced by contemporary animal agriculture. 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. Every six years, the U.S. If the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

On November 30, the Environmental Quality Board voted 15 to 2 to approve the emergency regulation setting VOC/methane emission limits for conventional oil and gas facilities. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) voted no on the regulation. Representatives for Sen. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) and Rep. Read more here. Read more here.

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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. per cent of the oil sands have received a formal reclamation certificate from the provincial regulator (AER). The Alberta government has allowed 1.4 This is too little, too late.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 19, 2024

Permits -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the July 20 PA Bulletin of an August 21 hearing on an Air Quality permit for an Equitrans LP compressor station located in Union Township, Washington County. ( Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations? Montour County. ( Bucks County. (

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

On September 20, Ali Tarquino Morris, Director Of DEP’s Bureau of Waste Management, told the Citizen Advisory Council conventional oil and gas operator plans to dispose of their wastewater by dumping it on dirt and gravel roads as a dust suppressant continue to fail to meet the state’s Residual Waste Regulations. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2022

Residents must be informed fully about health risks to which they are exposed. -- It is not enough to regulate sources of emissions singly. Keeping pumped carbon in the ground—in other words, achieving net negative emissions—is much harder. Globally there are only [a] handful of places where this is done. None of them is commercially viable.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2022

With that said, by revising and enforcing setback regulations to EHP’s recommended distances, people who live near shale gas operations could be less exposed to dangerous associated emissions — 20 to 40 times less exposed, according to inventory from the PA Department of Environmental Protection and EHP’s air exposure model.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It has left Benton Harbor with a water treatment plant in such disarray that regulators say it can’t reliably produce clean water, even before that water is shunted into a delivery system that includes pipes made of toxic metal. Environmental Protection Agency flagged a host of new, alarming deficiencies.

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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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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. But now it’s unclear what protections they have.”

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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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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. Pritzker , Nos. opinion Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2024

Many have questions about the safety of these pipelines and how they will be regulated by the federal and state government. In Pennsylvania, natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines have the worst environmental compliance record of any industry in the state. Wolf’s 2016 Pipeline Task Force Report. Read more here.

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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. The regulations included Sections 78a.1

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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. In response, on Tuesday the state’s Environmental Quality Board passed satisfactory regulations on the shale part of the industry.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2022

On December 1, Kurt Klapkowski, Acting DEP Deputy Secretary for Oil and Gas Management, said the schedule for considering updates to environmental protection standards for conventional oil and gas drillers will be up to the incoming Shapiro-Davis Administration. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2023

On January 20, the natural gas industry and Senate Republicans launched an effort to unleash the industry by reducing regulations, requiring automatic approval of permits and limiting opportunities for public review of permits at a hearing of the Senate Republican Policy Committee in Pittsburgh. Read more here.

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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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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. The 1972 Clean Water Act immunizes crop farmers from government regulations to control agricultural runoff. Environmental Protection Agency.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection reported their inspections found 4,386 violations of environmental regulations at conventional oil and gas operations during 2021 -- nearly two and a half times the violations reported just two years ago in 2019 and 337 more than in 2020. Read more here.] .:

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

On October 12, the Environmental Quality Board vot ed 15 to 3 to approve Part II of the final-omitted regulation limiting volatile organic compounds and methane from conventional oil and gas facilities. The regulation would affect 4,719 conventional well owners of approximately 27,260 facilities. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2023

That intentionally is a broad mandate, so it makes sense that Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) regulations protecting the environment also must be broad. The Commonwealth Court ruled partially in favor of the drillers in 2019, leading to the state government’s appeal that the Supreme Court ruled on April 19.

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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

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

MAY 25, 2023

That intentionally is a broad mandate, so it makes sense that Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) regulations protecting the environment also must be broad. The Commonwealth Court ruled partially in favor of the drillers in 2019, leading to the state government’s appeal that the Supreme Court ruled on April 19.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2023

Final VOC/Methane Limits The meeting packet includes a three-page list of questions for DEP on the final regulation setting VOC/methane emission limits on conventional oil and gas operations for discussion. Read more here.] Read more here.] Because of that litigation, it is unlikely DEP will be able to respond to those questions.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The agenda includes -- -- Discussion of the first-ever assessment of how well conventional oil and gas drillers comply with state environmental laws DEP released on December 29 that concluded the industry accepts non-compliance as a norm. Read more here. Read more here.] Read more here.] 28 to Feb.

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Nanotech

MARCH 12, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on March 6, 2024, a settlement requiring Haifa North America, Inc. Haifa) to pay a civil penalty of $664,267 “for violations of chemical data reporting regulations under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).”

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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

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 purchased the property in 2005 and imported a large quantity of regulated and non-regulated fill material in 2012.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

The agenda for the December 1 DEP Oil & Gas Technical Advisory Board meeting includes updates on Chapter 78 regulation changes, the new federal abandoned well plugging program and more. The last draft of the waste handling regulation update was posted by DEP in September, 2021. Read more here. Read more here. 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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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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