Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2022

In the 1980s, Homestake promised residents groundwater would be cleaned within a decade, locals told the Environmental Protection Agency and ProPublica. Still, the cleanup target date continued shifting, to 2017, then 2022. Now, Carver and his wife both have spots on their lungs, with hers recently requiring radiation treatment.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Hess, Former Secretary Department of Environmental Protection The information submitted to DEP’s Bureau of Waste Management from eight conventional oil and gas companies to justify allowing them to dispose of millions of gallons of wastewater by spreading it on dirt roads fails to meet the requirements of DEP’s 25 Pa Code Chapter 287.8

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Other amazing strides have been made in targeting black carbon emissions such as, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Black Carbon Diesel Initiative in the Russian Arctic. link] US Environmental Protection Agency. link] US Environmental Protection Agency. million deaths globally (Cohen et al.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2024

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection data indicates radium levels in the state’s Marcellus formation can average 9,330 picocuries per liter (pCi/L) and be as high as 28,500. For context, EPA’s safe drinking water limit for radium is 5 pCi/L, and at 60 pCi/L EPA formally defines a liquid waste stream as “radioactive.”

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Here in Pennsylvania, a landfill applying for a permit with the state’s Department of Environmental Protection to evaporate liquid landfill runoff — called leachate — could create airborne radioactive material over people downwind. Radium is commonly referred to by radiation experts as “ a bone seeker.”

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The videos cover these topics and more-- -- Exploring Risk Factors of Human Exposure to Environmental Risk Factors - Birth Impacts, Radiation & Waste -- 9th Compendium of Scientific, Medical and Medial Findings on Risks and Harms of Fracking and Associated Gas and Oil Infrastructure -- Blue Hydrogen Click Here to view and share the videos. “A

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency to adopt controls on methane emissions from oil and gas operations by December 16 or face the potential loss of $500 million or more in federal highway funds. Environmental Protection Agency. DEP estimates it will cost the conventional natural gas industry approximately $9.8 Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection introduced several new concepts for discussion, including providing well plugging financial assurance through a “life insurance policy” for wells and establishing a certified well inspector program modeled on the certified storage tank inspector program it already operates. “I'm 30 to Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In addition, Penn State’s Center for Dirt and Gravel Road Studies called the use of drilling wastewater an “environmentally unsound practice” and does not approve of its use on dirt and gravel road projects funded by the state. From 1991 to 2017 over 240.4 Better rule-making would protect the public and the environment.” "As

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection has issued at least 435 notices of violation to 87 conventional oil and gas operators and 20 NOVs to 11 shale gas operators for abandoning their wells without plugging them so far in 2023, according to DEP’s Oil & Gas Compliance Reporting Database. Just one conventional operator-- John B.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection has issued at least 512 notices of violation to 95 conventional oil and gas operators and 20 NOVs to 11 shale gas operators for abandoning their wells without plugging them in 2023, according to DEP’s Oil & Gas Compliance Reporting Database. Just one conventional operator-- John B.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency Annual Greenhouse Gas Inventory ( April 2022 ) At the same time natural gas began to produce 40% of all power generation in the United States, power sector emissions dropped by 39%. Air Quality -- U.S.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

She had previously worked in EPA’s air and radiation office where she “played a key role in the administration’s efforts to address . Prior to working for the EPA, McCarthy worked as the Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. [4]. The Senate confirmed this nomination in 2017. [9].

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Later reports found from 1991 to 2017 over 240.4 Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water." [ Read more here.] The study went on to recommend significant changes to the environmental protection standards covering road “spreading” at the time-- none of which are in place now. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

On December 11, former employees of the Eureka Resources oil and gas wastewater treatment company based in Williamsport wrote a letter to Lycoming County District Attorney Ryan Gardner requesting him to undertake a “criminal misconduct” investigation of alleged workplace and environmental violations by the company. They posted it up.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Approximately 240 million gallons of drilling wastewater were spread on Pennsylvania roads from 1991–2017, according to records, though the practice started before that. But the study recommended further review of radiological environmental impacts.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The Department of Environmental Protection is now reviewing 17 conventional oil and gas drilling operators for their compliance with a self-certification program that allows the road dumping of drilling wastewater, according to Ali Tarquino Morris, Director of DEP’s Bureau Of Waste Management. From 1991 to 2017 over 240.4

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The Department of Health letter says-- “DOH does not have any regulatory authority over O&G production activities in the state, however we work in close collaboration with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) who does regulate the industry. “We Read more here ] From 1991 to 2017 over 240.4

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Vitali -- Morton Family Partners With French Valley Conservancy To Donate 340 Acres In Crawford County -- Farm Families Partner With Dept.

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

The full Committee also approved amendments adding solar radiation management and wildfire science to the list of climate change research topics funded by the bill. billion increase for the Environmental Protection Agency over FY 2022. . Former President Donald Trump shrank the size of both of monuments in 2017.

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