PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection invites comments on a new State Only Minor Air Quality Operating Permit for the continued operation of the ETC Northeast Pipeline LLC [Energy Transfer] Revolution Natural Gas Cryogenic Processing Plant in Salem Township, Washington County. ( million to DEP.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 21, 2021

The Wastewater Treatment Plant Energy Assistance Program started in 2018 with funding from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency. Partnering with the University of… Read more →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 22, 2024

The federal Clean Water Act directs the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set and enforce the rules that regulate this pollution. But the current rules, which were enacted two decades ago, are woefully inadequate at curbing the environmental and human impacts of this dirty water deluge.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 21, 2022

What GAO Found To remove household hazardous waste—some items that can catch fire, react, or explode under certain circumstances or that are corrosive or toxic—after the 2018 and 2020 California wildfires, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took steps that followed its emergency response policy.

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Waste 2018 Environmental Protection 2020 105

Circle of Blue

JULY 14, 2022

In California, sampling carried out in June by the Environmental Protection Department of the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians revealed algal toxins in Clear Lake that were higher than state advisory levels. These hazardous outbreaks typically worsen deeper in the summer. 3) Cutbacks Are Inevitable. Clunky, perhaps. But more accurate.

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Atmosphere Regulations Politics Electricity 352

Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 12, 2019

On December 5, the Environmental Integrity Project (a national nonprofit organization) issued a report on state funding for environmental protection programs. The report, The Thin Green Line, looks at staffing levels and funding for environmental programs between 2008 and 2018 in the lower 48 states. 2008 Funding.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2024

Chevron began publishing its list in 2018 after more than 30 percent of investors approved a resolution directing the company to disclose its “policy and procedures governing lobbying, both direct and indirect, and grassroots lobbying communications.”

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

This is a list of companies issued ten or move NOVs for abandoning conventional oil and gas wells without plugging them in any one year-- Advanced Petro Corp (2016) Aiello Bros Oil & Gas (2016; 2017) Allegheny Enterprises (2018) ARG Resources (2018) Bobcat Well & Pipeline (2017) Boyd G. & Eugene A.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 29, 2022

The Sunday after Thanksgiving is usually quiet, but for those who live along Route 9 in New Castle, Delaware, it’s hard to forget the harrowing events that unfolded in November 2018. It is the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) responsibility to regulate chemical facilities appropriately.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) and Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) announced that proposed amendments to the state’s Clean Energy Standard (CES) were finalized earlier this month without substantive changes from draft language initially proposed by the agencies in April 2022.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

A study by the Environmental Law and Policy Center in Chicago and the Washington, D.C.-based based Environmental Working Group identified 775 CAFOs in the western Lake Erie basin in 2018, 230 more than in 2005. million tons of manure on farmland in 2018, 1.6 Environmental Protection Agency.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2022

Storm surge overwash in Charlestown barrier-strip island due to nor’easter storm in March 2018. The Environmental Protection Agency has set an upper advisory level for salt in drinking water at 30-60 parts per million. Summer tourism, sea level rise, and storm surges threaten East Coast wells.

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Sea Level Ocean Climate Change 2018 340

Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Since 2018, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Energy has partnered with the Smart Energy Design Assistance Center (SEDAC) and the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) to help municipalities reduce energy and costs for water and wastewater treatment. Download the document.

2018 81

2018 Environmental Protection Technology Technology 81

Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 15, 2021

With fewer customers, the city now had even less revenue, and despite a rate increase to offset the loss, the plant began to fall into such alarming disrepair that state regulators in 2018 directed the city to again raise rates on city residents to fund fixes. Environmental Protection Agency flagged a host of new, alarming deficiencies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

To contextualize that, the Environmental Protection Agency describes PM 2.5 A study from Harvard found that in 2018, eight million people died from fossil fuel pollution—that’s 1 in every 5 deaths. Fine particulate matter–or PM 2.5 refers to the maximum size of the particle, 2.5 micrometers. Sources of PM 2.5

Fossil Fuels 280

Fossil Fuels Clean Energy Nitrogen Oxides Air Pollution 280

PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2023

Act 54 Report The Council has been working on comments on DEP’s 2013-2018 Act 54 Report detailing environmental and property impacts of underground coal mining since the report was first available in December 2021. DEP is now working to gather data for the 2018-2022 Act 54 report. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2023

On July 26, the Department of Environmental Protection and Sunoco Pipeline L.P. The violations occurred between 2018 and 2021 in Chester, Berks, Blair, Cambria, Chester, Cumberland, Delaware, Perry, and York Counties. million penalty to DEP for the 2018 Revolution Natural Gas Pipeline explosion in Beaver County.

Natural Gas 98

Natural Gas 2018 Environmental Protection 2017 98

Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 31, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency’s Excess Food Opportunities Map, first released in 2018, displays facility specific information for potential generators and recipients of excess food in the industrial, commercial and institutional sectors, including estimates of excess food for most generators.

2018 75

2018 Environmental Protection Waste 75

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2024

Highlights of the environmental and energy notices in the January 27 PA Bulletin -- -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the January 27 PA Bulletin it is extending the deadline for conventional and unconventional natural gas facility operators to submit their first methane pollution emissions report to June 1, 2024.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. To determine what this requires, the court turns to the 2018 Special Report on 1.5°C In the face of disappointing legislation and regulation, activists have increasingly turned to courts in the last fifteen years.

Carbon Dioxide 246

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2021

percent in 2018. Environmental Protection Agency when utilities assess the cost of controlling sewage pollution. It found a sharp rise in the number of Michigan households paying more than 5 percent of income on water and sewer services. That number, when adjusting for inflation, grew from 1.6 percent of households in 1980 to 6.7

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2023

Spring seeps and unmanaged stormwater caused a significant landslide on Haverhill Street in 2018 and released a substantial amount of sediment on the roadway. This uncontrolled water continues to deteriorate the road and carries pollutants and sediment downstream to combined sewage systems along Nine Mile Run.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2024

On January 26, 2024, the Department of Environmental Protection issued a notice of violation to Equitrans Midstream for abandoning and not plugging 19 conventional gas wells at the Swarts Natural Gas Storage Field in Greene County. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Map: Post-Gazette. Westmoreland County?

Natural Gas 108

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 2, 2021

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Inspector General identified a decline in enforcement activity within the agency from fiscal 2007 through fiscal 2018 in a report released Thursday. Read the full story in The Hill.

2007 65

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 30, 2021

Why it matters: In 2018, a World Economic Forum survey found that private sector executives in Egypt, Iran, Namibia, and Pakistan ranked “water crises” as the top business risk in their countries. Circle of Blue reported that fluctuations in the availability of fresh water are even more apparent the deeper one looks at the report.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Other violations like failure to manage drilling wastewater safely, not notifying DEP of spills, failure to submit annual well integrity and waste disposal reports, failure to operate the wells to meet environmental protection standards and many more go along with NOVs for failure to plug wells. Read more here. --In Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The initial stage of the project began in 2018 before facing delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic and easement issues. Jamie Barton (R-Schuylkill), and other federal and local officials shared remarks about the importance of this bridge to the trail and to the economies of both Berks and Schuylkill Counties. Interested in visiting?

2018 105

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Vermont Law

APRIL 5, 2023

The potential contribution of the BBNJ agreement to strengthen environmental protection in the development of marine renewable energy technologies in areas beyond national jurisdiction. The BBNJ negotiations started in April 2018 and the new instrument was agreed on 4 March 2023.

Renewable Energy 52

Renewable Energy Environmental Protection Technology Technology 52

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

MARCH 7, 2025

Act 14 Notices To Municipalities Many communities and citizens are not aware that a state law passed in 1984 gives them the first chance to comment on Department of Environmental Protection permit applications even before they are submitted to the agency. Read more here.

2006 79

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2024

On June 7, the Better Path Coalition reported the Department of Environmental Protection has removed the co-product category from its waste disposal reporting database for conventional oil and gas well owners, according to documents the Coalition received in response to a Right-To-Know request. barrels of oil.

Waste 108

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would regulate two forms of PFAS contamination under Superfund laws reserved for “the nation’s worst hazardous waste sites.”

Regulations 209

Regulations Toxic Substances Control Act Government 2006 209

PA Environment Daily

JULY 15, 2022

The departments of Health and Environmental Protection strongly recommend? 19 Counties The Department of Environmental Protection conducts regular surveillance and control to manage mosquito populations around the state. The specimens will be forwarded to the U.S. that all residents minimize their exposure to mosquitoes.

Environmental Protection 98

Environmental Protection 2022 2018 Recycling 98

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

For the first time since the Department of Environmental Protection’s 2018 moratorium on road spreading, the Bureau of Waste Management asked 17 drillers to provide determinations they were supposed to conduct before continuing road spreading using a loophole called Coproduct Determination.

Waste 98

Waste 2018 2016 2017 98

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection issued a record 6,860 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas operators in 2023, according to DEP’s December 29, 2023 Weekly Workload Report. regarding the energy company’s failure to fix a natural gas leak that caused a house explosion in Greene County in 2018. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

Gas pipeline companies like Adelphia Gateway and the Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line have argued, with the support of the Department of Environmental Protection which is defending permits it issued, the federal Natural Gas Act gives the federal Third Circuit Court exclusive jurisdiction in appeals of DEP permits for gas pipeline facilities.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 14, 2024

Read more here [Greylock and Energy Corporation of America, the previous owner of the sites in both counties, entered into a consent order with DEP in 2018 that required ECA to pay a $1.7 [The original criminal charges also involved sites in Clearfield County. million penalty for drilling violations in Greene and Clearfield counties.

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