PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2024

Since a moratorium on road dumping of conventional oil and gas was declared in 2018 as a result of the settlement of a citizen appeal of DEP’s program for approving of road dumping to the Environmental Hearing Board [ Read more here ], conventional well owners have reported spreading more than 3 million gallons of waste on roads.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2022

The study cites increased noise, air pollution, and traffic associated with gas sites as the culprits of higher levels of heart patient hospitalizations. The same sense of urgency needs to be applied to tackling air pollution, a health problem with a clear and actionable solution.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The Commonwealth should be engaged in a transition away from fossil fuels because of the need to address climate change," said Rep. Hohenstein. "As

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2023

Trillion Across Global Economy, Report -- Spotlight PA: Federal Money Won’t Be Enough To Solve PA Abandoned Conventional Oil/Gas Well Problem, Current Well Owners Routinely Fail To Plug Their Wells -- PA General Energy Announced It Will Plug Proposed Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Grant Twp.,

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A Greener Life

JUNE 27, 2022

Leonard Kirago, a PhD researcher from the University of Nairobi, told me that fossil fuel combustion in the transport sector is a major source of particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution in Nairobi. Over 40% of Kenya’s electricity generation is geothermal in origin. Photo credit: Alamy.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

It also improved air quality and made smog days a thing of the past. But what you probably haven’t heard is that our grid is getting dirtier again, with fossil fuels increasing in our electricity supply from burning natural gas. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 . Source: IESO [link]. times more than reported.

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Environment Blog

JUNE 25, 2021

Portfolios were typically created by just excluding certain types of business such as tobacco, weapons, and fossil fuels and the number of companies available to invest in, that were involved in solving environmental problems, was limited. With more than £1.5

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2023

[PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: As Shell Shuts Down New Beaver County Petrochemical Plant For Repairs, And Burns Off Natural Gas In Flares, Company Says It Hasn’t Exceeded Air Emission Limits -- Shell Petrochemical Plant Beaver County: Bad And Dangerous Start; Shell Shut Down Part Of Plant For Repairs, Beings Full Natural Gas, Flammable Gases (..)

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Folks who dealt with contaminated water and air pollution and suffered severe health consequences that they believed were a result of fracking happening near their homes.” “Now, The company has also been criminally charged with violations of the Air Pollution Control Act in Washington County. Read more here.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 16, 2019

In 2018, a host of lawsuits wound their way through the courts seeking an answer, including several from localities and states alleging the responsibility of fossil fuel companies. These leaks are only a fraction of the 90,000 barrels spilled in Louisiana in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina. mile radius.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2023

Of Health Establishes Community-Based Health Resource Network To Provide Long-Term Assistance To Residents Impacted By Norfolk Southern Train Derailment [PaEN] -- TribLive Editorial: Norfolk Southern Lawsuits Are Necessary Enforcement Of Railroad’s Promises -- WESA/The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Steele, Executive Director The CNX report displays an astonishing number of misleading statements, questionable methodologies, and premature conclusions that, unfortunately, only serve to further undermine the health of frontline communities faced with pollution from fossil fuel extraction. 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Reaction PennFuture President & CEO Patrick McDonnell issued this statement on the Senate action-- "Today, the Pennsylvania Senate voted on $2 billion in new tax breaks for the fossil fuel industry. Rather, this is slapdash industrial policy at its worst that will perpetuate Pennsylvania’s addiction to fossil fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 5, 2022

Steel Appealing $860,000 Allegheny County Penalty For Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Air Violations -- TribLive Editorial: Balancing Act Between Regulation And Condemnation [Allegheny County Air Pollution Penalties On Clairton Coke (Coal) Works] -- DEP Posts 61 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In March 5 PA Bulletin [PaEN] -- TribLive: Allegheny County (..)

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Fossil fuel : Any mineralized formerly organic material extracted from the ground and used in energy production: coal, natural gas, oil. Indoor air (pollution) : coming under OSHA rather than EPA, there are laws in place to ensure that employees work in a clean and safe environment with good ventilation.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

Comparison with the results of the second soil survey indicated that three decades of rapid economic growth had also meant rapid pollution of China’s land. In 2018, results were published from the survey of pollution of agricultural land, which again warned of pollution risks in some soil. Photo credit: Alamy.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

As the 2018 Farm Bill is set to expire on September 30, 2023, we believe this report is timely. In North Carolina, where many hog CAFOs lie within 100 miles of the Atlantic Ocean, several hurricanes have struck and caused lagoons to overflow, including Hurricane Florence in 2018, Hurricane Matthew in 2016 and Hurricane Floyd in 1999.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Certainly, gas stoves are just one source of air pollution in the District. As we now know, fossil fuel companies lied about it for decades to protect their profits. That would of course include fossil gas, which consists of 85 to 90 percent methane, a significantly more potent heat-trapping gas than carbon dioxide.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

With the backdrop of the first-ever Health Day at the annual UN climate conference, air quality in Dubai soared, as PM2.5 pollution reached 155 micrograms per cubic unit. Air pollution is harmful to human health as it exacerbates and causes an increase in health issues, like respiratory illnesses. More than ever before.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

All of my children have experienced health impacts such as rashes, chronic nosebleeds and Lyme disease due to the warming of our climate from the fossil-fuel industry. But now the same oil and gas billionaires polluting our air and water are being rewarded yet again.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

These potential intervenors alleged that the additional emissions during the stay period would harm their interest in protecting their residents from the effects of air pollution and climate change. The magistrate judge’s order also set the trial to begin on February 5, 2018.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

Donald McEachin, who co-led the inception of this legislation starting in 2018 and was a fierce champion for environmental justice all his life. Beverly Wright, Vernice Miller-Travis , and Peggy Shepard, among others, shows that Black and brown communities are disproportionately exposed to and harmed by pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Communities and ecosystems continue to suffer the consequences of human-caused climate change , primarily from the burning of fossil fuels across our economy. The case for phasing out of fossil fuels and making a just and equitable transition to clean energy has never been more clear. comes from burning fossil fuels.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 30, 2025

isoprene, carbitol, benzyl alcohol) to secondary organic aerosol are emitted from trees, fossil fuels, and an assortment of industrial and personal care compounds collectively known as volatile chemical products (VCPs). There has been progress in improving air quality over the past several decades. Image modified from [8].

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 27, 2023

The refinery was a major polluter, according to 2019 report by the City of Philadelphia it was the largest stationary source of air pollution and the largest single emitter of toxic pollutants in Philadelphia, accounting for 57% of total toxic emissions from larger sources in Philadelphia in 2016 including benzene and other known carcinogens.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Tom Wolf and the legislature having passed a giant tax break to incentivize massive chemical plants that will require more methane-producing gas wells to provide raw material, Pennsylvanians face the urgent need to defend our children from the harmful health impacts of legacy fossil fuel pollution as well as increased pollution to come.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

million for multiple, serious violations related to the construction of the Mariner East Pipelines and the Revolution Pipelines starting in 2018 that resulted in an explosion, contamination of water supplies, pollution of the Marsh Creek State Park lake and the lake at the Raystown Lake Recreation Area. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2023

Indiana County [PaEN] -- Inside Climate News - Jon Hurdle: Ohio Environmentalists, Oil Companies Battle State Over Dumping Of PA/OH Fracking Wastewater -- TribLive: Class Action Lawsuit Alleges 123,000 Mon Valley Residents Due Compensation For Nuisance Caused By 2018 U.S.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2025

Military activities and trainings create emissions, disrupt landscapes and marine habitats, create air, soil, light, and noise pollution, and more. Unsurprisingly, according to a 2018 study, wildlife populations are more stable during peacetime and decline during war. During the Vietnam War, the U.S. For nearly a decade, U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 19, 2022

Thermal coal is the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel and increases global carbon pollution putting all countries at risk from the disastrous impacts of climate change. . According to the International Energy Agency , coal is “the single largest source of global temperature increase” in 2018. .

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 26, 2024

You are using the fossil fuel industry right now. “What I like to tell people who rail against the gas and oil industry, who happen to drive to a protest, use a cell phone, and by the way, have clothes on. Everything you see, you touch, you utilize that makes your life better, came from underground folks. “It

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

. -- Oil & Gas Industry And Their Politicians Are Pushing Hard To Hook Us To Volatile Foreign Energy Markets Where There Is No Limit On What They Can Charge You [PaEN] -- AP: PUC Judge: Sunoco/Energy Transfer Failed To Protect Delaware County Community During Construction Of Mariner East Pipeline, $51,000 Penalty Proposed [PaEN] -- PA Supreme Court (..)

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Pennsylvania must join the rest of the country in an all-out mobilization to confront the climate crisis, and billions in additional fossil fuel subsidies are simply unacceptable. Of Health & Human Services Announces $4.5

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

Million Planted Since 2018 [PaEN] -- Guest Essay: Life Depends On Protecting The Natural World, Federal Rollbacks Are Threatening Our Future - By Michael Kensinger, Juniata Valley Audubon Society [PaEN] -- TribLive: Flight 93 Memorial Supporters In Somerset County Step Up Fundraising As Potential Job Cuts Loom -- Gov.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

But coal is already in terminal decline in both the US and the EU, all that is needed is a little push: Bloomberg New Energy Finance has confirmed this month that US coal plant retirements are nearing an all-time high, with at least 16 gigawatts (GW) worth of coal-fired plants already retired in 2018. A moral imperative.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75

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