Sunday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 5.14.23
PA Environment Daily
MAY 14, 2023
Shapiro -- Observer-Reporter: Former Washington County Couple Sentenced To Federal Prison For Crimes Related To Assault On U.S.
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Lessons Learned from Philadelphia Refinery Closure
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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New Analysis Shows Truck Manufacturers’ Scare Tactic Just a Bunch of Hot Air
Union of Concerned Scientists
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
The two industry-funded studies ( NERA 2008 and ACT Research 2022 ) claim much higher impact on sales than either the academic (RZW 2018) or government ( EPA 2021 ) studies. Industry has spent years pushing for weaker regulations and continues to advocate for the worst possible outcome for the communities inundated by freight pollution.
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Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 3.30.23
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 30, 2023
Steel Reaches Tentative Settlement Over Air Pollution Following 2018 Fire At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Plant [No Specifics Yet] -- WHYY: Philly Officials Say Water Is Safe After Bucks County Chemical Spill, How Do We Know That? -- NextPittsburgh: DEP Awards $3.7
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Wednesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 3.27.24
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 27, 2024
Causer Blames DEP Database For Conventional Oil & Gas Operators Abandoning, Not Plugging Their Wells; Industry Wants To Redefine Operator Responsibility For Abandoned Wells [PaEN] -- Times Leader: Ohio Attorney General Charges PA Company Austin Master Services With Storing Excessive Quantities Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater, Threatening Ohio (..)
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Guest Post: Climate Litigation in Japan: Citizens’ Attempts for the Coal Phase-Out
Law Columbia
JUNE 1, 2022
Civil lawsuits were filed in Sendai in 2017 and Kobe in 2018 by citizens against corporations that planned to build new coal-fired power plants. In September 2018, in Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v. (Judgments and English summaries are found in the Sabin Center’s Climate Change Litigation Database.).
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Testimony of Michael D. Shellenberger Founder and President, Environmental Progress For the House Oversight Committee August 5, 2020
Environmental Progress
SEPTEMBER 12, 2020
In a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi after that hearing I noted that I am aware that Congressional hearings involve some political theater. However, I am not a political appointee. I did not expect to be drawn into political theater that violates basic civility. That may be the case. I do not represent a large trade association.
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House Committee Hearing On Increasing Safety Setbacks Zones Around Natural Gas Facilities Heard About First-Hand Citizen Experiences On Health Impacts, From Physicians On Health Studies And The Gas Industry On Job Impacts; Sen. Yaw Calls Bill ‘Stupid’
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 30, 2023
At every phase of oil and gas production, harmful air pollutants are deliberately released. These air pollutants include such things as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, formaldehyde, naphthalene. “I I don’t care what your politics are but I do care who’s side you are on. Enact setbacks now.
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PA Environmental Defense Foundation Files Lawsuit To Stop Northcentral Regional ATV Trail Connector Project As Violation Of Public Trust Responsibilities
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 14, 2021
Background As part of the state budget settlement in 2018 and 2020, provisions were added to Section 1720-E of the Fiscal Code mandating DCNR develop new ATV trails using State Forest roads and State or local roads under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation or political subdivisions of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 3.5.22
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 5, 2022
PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- MCall - Paul Muschick: Spreading Hate: White Supremacist Groups Send Propaganda Throughout Lehigh Valley -- LancasterOnline: Lancaster County Man Accused Of Planning To Kill Democratic U.S. What’s Your Community Doing?
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Gov. Shapiro, CNX Natural Gas Company Sign Statement Of Mutual Interests To Monitor Air Emissions At Drill Sites, Extend Safety Setbacks While Data Is Being Collected; DEP To Move Ahead With Some Reg Changes
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, Shapiro concluded his remarks at the announcement by saying, “Look, there are far too many people demigoding in our politics today.
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Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 3.11.22
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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A look back at significant decisions in climate litigation in 2022
Law Columbia
DECEMBER 22, 2022
The cities argued that the regulation would prevent them from imposing restrictions on the circulation of passenger vehicles in relation to their air pollutant emissions. In 2018, the General Court partially upheld the actions, prompting an appeal from the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
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KlimaSeniorinnen and Gender
Law Columbia
MAY 9, 2024
The OHCHR found that more older women are likely to live alone, experience higher levels of poverty, and face disproportionate health risks, including from air pollution harms and extreme heat events. Similarly, General Recommendation No.
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Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: We've Got Enough Compelling Evidence To Enact Health Protective Policies For Families Now
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Read more here ] The local media mostly ignored this story, though I don't think even they were very surprised, especially not after publishing the Human Toll series by David Templeton and Don Hopey in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from 2008 to 2018 in four heavily fracked counties in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
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CNX Unveils Appalachia-Focused Vision For The Future, Promoting New Natural Gas Development, Use - ‘Produce It Here. Use It Here - First’
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 12, 2022
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Income-targeted environmental policies, Episode 2
Legal Planet
MAY 19, 2022
TOC has been billed as a double-win : it encourages new housing to be located near public transit—a boon for climate, local air pollution, and traffic—and it creates more “affordable housing.”. While this is politically difficult, or maybe impossible, it is important to understand how far short our current affordability programs fall.
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Senate, House Pass Massive, 20-Year Taxpayer Subsidies For Natural Gas, Hydrogen And Petrochemical Industries In Hours With No Public Accountability Or Environmental Safeguards
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 27, 2022
Wolf, Senate, House Republicans Again Fail To Hold Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Accountable For Protecting The Environment, Taxpayers On Hook For Billions [PaEN] -- Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Reported Spreading 977,671 Gallons Of Untreated Drilling Wastewater On PA Roads In 2021 [PaEN] -- Penn State Study: Potential Pollution Caused (..)
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US oil company ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ climate proposals
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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Mercenary hackers stole data that Exxon later cited in climate lawsuits -US prosecutors
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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French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil
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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Oil Giant's AFCON Sponsorship Denounced as Plot to Set Off Carbon Bombs Across Africa
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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Court orders 42 Ugandan families evicted to make way for oil project
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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Climate of fear: TotalEnergies implicated in repression of land and environmental defenders in East Africa
Corp Watch
DECEMBER 14, 2023
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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Climate groups call for funding withdrawal of TotalEnergies’ Mozambique project
Corp Watch
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
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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South Africa gives go-ahead for TotalEnergies to drill offshore
Corp Watch
OCTOBER 19, 2023
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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Green groups target TotalEnergies over Tanzania, Uganda projects
Corp Watch
OCTOBER 16, 2023
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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Coalition of environmental groups calls for a federal ban on thermal coal exports on Earth Day
Enviromental Defense
APRIL 19, 2022
According to the International Energy Agency , coal is “the single largest source of global temperature increase” in 2018. . Over the past year, tens of thousands of people across Canada have signed petitions and sent letters to political leaders urging them to ban thermal coal exports by 2023. .
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AG Shapiro: Coterra Energy, Formerly Cabot Oil & Gas, Pleads No Contest To 15 Criminal Charges Related To Polluting Water Supplies In Dimock, Susquehanna County
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
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State “Climate Superfund” Bills: What You Need to Know
Law Columbia
MARCH 14, 2024
The Climate Superfund bills have already attracted vicious opposition from the fossil fuel industry and its political allies and, if passed, will inevitably face vigorous legal challenges. Each bill addresses emissions over roughly the same period—2000 to 2018 in Maryland, Massachusetts, and New York, and 2000 to 2019 in Vermont.
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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment
Environmental Science
SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
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. Indoor air is anything contained with a building. The first and most visible way in which the public is aware of and engaged with environmental law is pollution.
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Explainer: China launches first national soil survey in 40 years
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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Washington County Family Lawsuit Alleges Shale Gas Company Violated The Terms Of Their Lease By Endangering Their Health, Contaminating Their Water Supply And Not Protecting Their Land
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
In 2018, Latkanich related an incident where he forgot to take his pills with water from their bottled water cooler and used water out of the tap instead. “I “I didn't want that,” said Latkanich. “So So I suffer with the pain. As far as my son, he still gets rashes. He was incontinent from age five to nine. He couldn't hold his bowels.”
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FracTracker Alliance: Lycoming Creek Watershed Oil & Gas Drilling Impact Analysis In Lycoming County
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 24, 2022
Wesley Silva , former Council President Marianna Borough, Washington County [PaEN] -- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Economically, Socially Deprived Areas In PA Have A Much Greater Chance Of Having Oil & Gas Waste Disposed In Their Communities - By Joan Casey, PhD , Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia Mailman (..)
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Ask a Scientist: Chemical Safety Matters for Real People’s Lives—The Ethylene Oxide Story
Union of Concerned Scientists
DECEMBER 10, 2024
We began to investigate ethylene oxide risks in 2018 after speaking to lawmakers and community advocates in Illinois. The combination of legal obligation, public pressure and attention, and political will under the Biden administration is what I think finally tipped the scales for action at the federal level.
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Why Congress Should Pass the A. Donald McEachin Environmental Justice for All Act
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. That was his way as a political leader: working tirelessly and proactively to make connections and fight to ensure everyone had the right to a safe and healthy environment.
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July 2017 Updates to the Climate Case Charts
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. Exxon Mobil Corp. Schneiderman , No.
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What Do Pig Pens Have To Do With Environmental Law?
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 10, 2022
The National Pork Producers Council litigation arises from an initiative measure–Proposition 12–that California voters passed overwhelmingly in 2018. beyond their political borders. –in which various farm animals–including pigs–are confined.
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Majority Chair Of Senate Committee Calls Opponents Of Natural Gas Infrastructure ‘Radical Environmentalists,’ Arguments By Supporters Of RGGI ‘Hysteria’
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 30, 2022
Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) said opponents of natural gas infrastructure projects “just need to be ignored and politically ran over.” In 2018, a brand new Revolution natural gas pipeline exploded as a result of faulty construction practices in Beaver County resulted in a $30 million penalty and criminal charges by the state Attorney General.
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Guest Essay: Stop Giving Handouts To Natural Gas Industry, Make Them Clean Up Their Own Messes And Protect Public Health
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
[PaEN] -- FracTracker Alliance, Clean Air Council, Other Groups Hosting Nov. 14 Webinar On Protected Zones: Setbacks From Oil & Gas Facilities In California, Colorado, PA [PaEN] -- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Accepting Comments On Draft EIS For Ohio Valley Connector Natural Gas Pipeline In Greene County Until Nov.
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Vietnamese blogger who filmed chemical spill protests released from prison
Corp Watch
JANUARY 17, 2024
In 2012, the company became infamous again when it unsuccessfully sued Ben-Jei Tsuang, a professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Chun Hsing University, who published a paper linking high cancer rates in Mailiao, Taiwan, to toxic dioxin and heavy metals air pollution from the Six Naphtha Cracking plant.
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Guest Essay: Our Leaders Need To Stop Negotiating With The Fossil-Fuel Industry Behind Closed Doors And Protect Public Health And Our Children
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 11, 2022
[PaEN] -- FracTracker Alliance, Clean Air Council, Other Groups Hosting Nov.
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Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 2.5.22
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
7, 8, 9 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- DEP To Hold March 8 Virtual Hearing On Sunoco Pipeline Mariner East II Pipeline Erosion & Sedimentation Permit For Marsh Creek Lake Remediation, Chester County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Renewal Of Sunoco Pipeline LNG Pumping Station Air Permit In West Goshen Twp.,
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Gov. Wolf Signs Massive, 20-Year Taxpayer Subsidies Into Law For Natural Gas, Hydrogen And Petrochemical Industries With No Public Accountability Or Environmental Safeguards
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
Of Health & Human Services Announces $4.5 Million In Revenue At Lowest Tax Rate On Record [PaEN] [Posted: November 3, 2022] PA Environment Digest
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