PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The existing use of ATVs on the State Forest degrades the State Forest public natural resources. “By Additional impacts included noise and air pollution.” The Bureau does not need to have another “pilot program” to study the impacts of ATV use. “The Click Here for a copy of the expert report.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

We’ve been saying for the last nine months people of Carbon County love their natural resources,” Kunkle said. He said the grassroots campaign crisscrossed the county and conducted a media campaign. But the referendum still needs the approval of county Commissioners Rocky Ahner, Chris Lukasevich and Wayne E. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Urban trees provide cooling shade and windbreaks that reduce energy costs in all seasons, provide noise buffers for quieter neighborhoods, and reduce air pollution that improves air quality. “It was a pretty obvious relationship between those physical health events and trees,” Huling says.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2022

The program would clearly provide taxpayer funding to support pipelines like Energy Transfer/Sunoco’s Mariner East Pipeline that resulted in record penalties from DEP and the PUC and Energy Transfer’s Revolution Pipeline that exploded in Beaver County in 2018 right after it entered service and also penalized record amounts. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 28, 2024

Million In 28 Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Water Quality Improvement Projects In 20 Counties [PaEN] -- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: PA To Spend Nearly $200 Million On Lead Pipe Replacement, Water Upgrades [Mostly Federal Funds] -- DEP Awards Susquehanna River Basin Commission $68.2

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 3, 2024

“When the outside temperature is hot and humid, just perspiration is not enough to cool down the body since there is no evaporation of sweat,” says Abhiyant Tiwari, lead climate resilience and health consultant at India’s Natural Resources Defense Council. This could mean roughly 78 such days per year.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

By Cindy Adams Dunn, Secretary of DCNR In 2018 at the Lancaster County farm for the kickoff of the Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership , I remember thinking about what an ambitious challenge planting that many trees would be and how important reaching that goal is for clean rivers and streams in Pennsylvania.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 4, 2024

ITLOS noted that article 193 acknowledges the sovereign right of States to exploit their natural resources pursuant to their environmental policies, a right balanced with “their duty to protect and preserve the marine environment” (paras 187, 380). Article 195 absolutely prohibits this kind of practice.

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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.

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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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CEQA Developments

JULY 7, 2022

While the project would create needed new housing and eliminate blight, it would result in significant unavoidable environmental impacts including air pollution emissions from increased traffic.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

All three landfills are operated by the County subject to oversight and permits by the County Department of Environmental Health Services, the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, the Regional Water Quality Control Board, and the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2022

“While hydrogen technology may have a role in addressing climate pollution, its production need not come at the expense of Pennsylvania’s environment, climate, or the health of surrounding communities."

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 24, 2020

Space is infinite, but earth’s orbits are a finite natural resource that must be managed properly. [1]. The problem of orbital debris pollution is complex and serious. [2]. MARPOL is particularly important for the regulation of marine pollution from ships spilling oil and other harmful substances. [14].

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

water resources. As the 2018 Farm Bill is set to expire on September 30, 2023, we believe this report is timely. Farmers who wish to implement EQIP conservation practices on their land work with local Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) staff to determine which practice or practices make the most sense.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

Each bill addresses emissions over roughly the same period—2000 to 2018 in Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York, and 2000 to 2019 in Vermont. Many courts have upheld the model of retroactive liability used by CERCLA, which seeks damages for past pollution from parties who created and profited from the pollution-generating activities.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

We emitted about 269 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2018 (the latest year for which data are available), with industry, electricity production, and transportation the largest sources. Find resources at: Agricultural Energy Use. We've funded over 1,000 chargers?installed million in just the past five years!

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 3, 2022

Matzie (D-Beaver) -- WESA: Braddock Residents, Environmentalists Push Back On Air Pollution From Edgar Thomson Steel Works -- Post-Gazette: Proposed U.S. Steel Permit At The Forefront Of Air Quality Hearing In Braddock -- MCall: How Much Pollution Are Tractor-Trailers Causing In Lehigh Valley?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

It’s Up To The Feds - By Mark Szybist , Natural Resources Defense Council [PaEN] -- Beaver County Residents And Allies Launch New Shell Ethane Plant Accountability Campaign [PaEN] -- Guest Essay: PA Politicians Capitalizing On Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine To Benefit Natural Gas Industry - By Lauren M.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

Reflecting its importance, the survey team will be headed by the vice premier of the State Council, Hu Chunhua, with deputy posts occupied by leaders of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. Photo credit: Alamy. Rapid acidification. meaning a 2.2-fold fold increase in acidity.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2019

On December 28, 2018, California adopted comprehensive amendments to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines , which include a suite of provisions aimed at improving the analysis of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change impacts in state environmental reviews. By Jessica Wentz. New section 15064.3

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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. Natural Resources Defense Council v.

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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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

Despite the 2018 EHB decision [a settlement with DEPs Oil & Gas Program saying they would not approve more road dumping without developing a formal permit] road dumping is still pervasive on the more rural dirt roads, said Lawson. Click Here for a copy of Dr. Burgos testimony. Read more here. . Read more here - page 39. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 originally bailed out—reported in a 2018 bankruptcy filing that it lost $12 million annually due to its stake in OVEC, and Ohio legislative analysts discovered that Ohio utilities paid $94 million over market prices for OVEC’s electricity in 2018. She is now the Midwest campaign manager at the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

XTO) [ExxonMobil] and Hilcorp Energy Company (Hilcorp) , agreed to resolve alleged Clean Air Act and Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act violations involving their oil and gas production operations in Pennsylvania. The EPA identified the alleged violations through field investigations conducted in 2018 and 2019.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Updated Background -- WHYY - Susan Phillips: Marsh Creek State Park Once Again Site Of Cleanup Due To Mariner East Pipeline Construction In Chester County -- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Material Leaks Into Tributary Of Marsh Creek State Park At Site Of Mariner East Pipeline Spill In 2020 -- DEP Publishes Final Guidance On Environmental Consideration In (..)

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

We have been recognized as a standard for enacting strong yet reasonable environmental safeguards that protect our natural resources. “Pennsylvania already has among the strictest setbacks for wells in the entire nation. Read more here. Photo: Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Tioga County; -- Frontier Natural Resources: Winner Well Pad, Keating Twp., Potter County; -- Seneca Resources Co. These operators include-- -- Chesapeake Appalachia, Inc: Stoorza Well Pad, Terry Twp., Bradford County; -- EQT Chap LLC: Basista-Dermotta Well Pad, Sewickley Twp., Westmoreland County: -- EQT Prod Co.:

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

27 Online Lunch & Learn With Laurie Barr About Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells [PaEN] -- February 28-- House Appropriations Committee budget hearing - Departments Of Conservation & Natural Resources and Environmental Protection. Room 140 Main Capitol. Click Here to watch online. -- Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2022

Through the Clean Streams Law, which will assist farmers with best management practices, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources will receive $8.8 This year's budget investments are just the latest result of the Wolf administration's commitment to protect and preserve our precious natural resources.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in 2013.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in 2013.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million in 2013.

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