PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

Failure To Report Waste Generated Conventional oil and gas drillers were also given 836 notices of violation for failing to submit annual production and waste reports for the last two years-- 134 in 2019 and 702 in 2020. There was the same sort of “uniformity” among reporting how waste was disposed in other disposal categories as well.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2023

Going back in the compliance history of Nancy 13, a DEP inspection report dated December 20, 2018 noted the well was leaking brine, gas was venting from the well casing and the value used for fracking the well was still on the wellhead, but no violations were listed. [ Photos: top- Nancy 13 circa 2018, Nancy 13 2023; bottom- James R.

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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. Download the document.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2024

In 2018, Casey championed provisions in the Farm Bill to increase funding for the RCPP, expand dairy margin coverage, protect crop coverage, strengthen the community safety net, and make conservation programs more accessible. I will always fight to protect Pennsylvania’s environment and uplift our farming communities.” 6 Hearing, Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2025

As evidence of these diagnoses and conditions, the Latkanichs provided toxicology reports and a copy of his sons May 1, 2018 medical report. EQT Motion To Dismiss From the EHB Opinion: By its motion [in limine], EQT seeks to preclude the admission of any evidence of medical conditions, physical reactions, and/or toxicology results.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

million gallons of toxic, radioactive drilling waste on unpaved roads in the Commonwealth. Feridun’s attempt to use the Oil and Gas Division’s Oil and Gas Reporting Electronic (OGRE) system to track where the waste has gone revealed many problems with the system’s design and entries that should set off alarms but don’t.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Henk Ovink, the Netherlands’ special envoy for international water, said that even without a formal assessment, he did not think the Paris Pact was a wasted effort. An analysis of 80 NDCs by the Global Water Partnership in 2018 found that nine in 10 plans connected in some way to water.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2025

For nearly seven years-- since July 18, 2018 when the spills were first discovered-- DEP has been trying to work with Benko to get the multiple spills at the site cleaned up. Benko also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Benko in Economy Borough, Beaver County. Violations continued.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The tide of waste was generated by animals from 132 CAFOs in Indiana and Ohio. 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 The total number of acres and location of manifested waste is not known.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2024

Instead of passing a new food and farm bill for the first time since 2018, Congress instead approved a one-year extension last fall and punted the task of crafting an updated bill to the new year. There’s no time to waste.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 2, 2023

Fortunately, alternatives to single-use plastics exist, and we and other Ocean Conservancy colleagues were lucky to see them first-hand as part of the International Zero Waste Cities Conference held in the Philippines earlier this year.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

Related Articles: -- Keystone 10 Million Trees Partnership, 320 Partners, Thousands Of Volunteers To Plant Nearly 200,000 Trees In PA This Year; Over 8.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Curtailment means we are wasting otherwise clean, perfectly usable electricity. For example: Our 2018 report Soot to Solar included a case study looking at retiring the Waukegan coal plant in Illinois. Enter energy storage.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 15, 2025

Photo Brett Walton/Circle of Blue By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue January 15, 2025 MILWAUKEE Mounting concern about chemical contaminants in sewage sludge, a waste product widely seen as recyclable and economically valuable, could turn into a costly liability and upend the finances of municipal wastewater utilities across the county.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 14, 2021

WRAP and IGD launched the ground-breaking Roadmap in September 2018, with a scope thatencompassed the entire supply chain from field to fork, and with a call for businesses to committo implementing a strategy of Target, Measure, Act. Download the document. This report outlines progress made in the third year of the Roadmap.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 4, 2024

LLC -- an Ohio-based company-- to plug the Nancy 13 conventional gas well in Deerfield Township, Warren County that was found to be leaking brine and gas since at least December 20, 2018 -- continues. Read prior history here.] On February 8, 2019, a DEP inspection report said Commonwealth Court had issued an order to Tatonka Oil Co.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2022

EV batteries currently represent about half of the lithium-ion batteries (by mass) that are being recycled, which also includes consumer electronics and waste from battery manufacturing. Assembly Bill 2832 passed in 2018 creating the California Battery Recycling Advisory Group. Recycling is key to making EVs greener.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2023

The DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council is scheduled to meet on May 25 to discuss a variety of issues including well plugging, proposed waste management regulations, methane emission court challenge, road dumping drilling wastewater and more.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The Department of Environmental Protection’s Current List Of Oil And Gas Waste Facilities identifies 84 municipalities in 13 counties where conventional oil and gas wastewater is disposed of by road spreading. These reports show how liquid and solid waste is disposed of in general terms and where. in the Residual Waste Regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2025

For nearly seven years-- since July 18, 2018 when the spills were first discovered-- DEP has been trying to work with Benko to get the multiple spills at the site cleaned up. Violations issued for abandonment and failure to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Benko in Economy Borough, Beaver County.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2023

These units are currently not regulated at the federal level — a gap that a federal court directed EPA to address in 2018. Photo: Little Blue Run coal waste disposal impoundment in Beaver County which is under a DEP agreement to close. For more information, visit this EPA webpage.

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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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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 3, 2021

That’s why thousands of people have taken Ocean Conservancy’s pledges to reduce waste in their daily lives by skipping the straw and quitting the cutlery. Customer adoption of reusable cups is one part of Starbucks’ ongoing commitment to reduce single-use cup waste and their goal to reduce waste by 50% by 2030. ©

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The energy research firm Wood Mackenzie estimates that the number of blades using PET as their core material instead of balsa will increase from 20% in 2018 to 55% in 2023. Additionally, INCA Renewtech invented BioBalsa, a durable blade material made of hemp hurd cellulose. Can wind turbine blades be recycled?

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 7, 2022

DEP put a moratorium on spreading conventional oil and gas drilling wastewater on unpaved roads in 2018. The Better Path Coalition will host a January 12 webinar on Road Spreading Drilling Wastewater, Why Hasn't It Stopped? Starting at 7:00 p.m. Why hasn't the moratorium stopped drillers from spreading more than 2.2

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Environmental Leader

JUNE 24, 2022

The post Nestlé Has Cut Greenhouse Gases by 4 Million Tons Since 2018. Additionally, it is switching its global fleet of vehicles from those that run on fossil fuels to those that are sustainable. appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In 2018, the world entered a municipal waste management crisis. recyclable materials, most notably plastic waste and unsorted paper. China also required stricter pre-shipment inspections to enforce existing laws, such as the import ban on electronic waste (e-waste). China’s waste ban has created backlogs worldwide.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 14, 2023

Our new city offered curbside composting, and ever since then we’ve been separating eggshells, coffee grounds and other food items from the rest of our household waste. But the change has underscored just how much of our waste stream was previously going into landfills. Unfortunately, a lot of organic waste ends up in landfills.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2024

The US Geological Survey PA Water Science Center's latest Pennsylvania Waters newsletter features articles on drought, flooding, water quality and more-- -- USGS-DEP Drought Conditions Web Tool Updated -- PA Flood Data Web Tool For Identifying Water Data Needs -- Legacy Sediment As A Source Of Phosphate In Chesapeake Bay Watershed -- Using Research (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 3, 2022

Because this would seem to suggest that we would have to tie waste reports to the specific facility, which as we said in our comments, wow, that would be an extreme change to our production, reuse and disposal reporting in a way that your forms wouldn't even accommodate.” said Stewart. Read more here.] Read more here.]

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Circle of Blue

MAY 22, 2023

The EPA orders Baltimore to protect its drinking water reservoirs from animal waste. Hydropower Grows by Going Small Baltimore Drinking Water The EPA ordered Baltimore to take steps to protect its drinking water from bacteria and parasites in animal waste. Federal agencies update their seasonal wildfire outlook.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The houses sit on the lowest residential portion of land in Standerton’s Meyerville area, where sewer line blockages and pump station failures have caused waste to back up and overflow, turning the properties into a permanent garbage swamp. Unauthorized, irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure” comprised 34.9% It was 36.7%

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

DEP’s eFACTS database file for the Mohr A and B well pads includes DEP approvals for “alternative waste management practices” for land application of drilling waste on the Mohr A and B well pad site dated April, May and October 2011 which match the drilling dates of seven out of the eight wells. Read more here. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 10, 2022

A comprehensive University of Michigan report published last year found that average water prices in the state, when adjusted for inflation, had nearly doubled between 1980 and 2018. With all her other bills, waste is a luxury she cannot afford. Water, sewer, stormwater, and garbage collection are all part of the same bill.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 9, 2021

But the answer is not to waste public dollars to build expensive gas pipelines that will exacerbate climate change for decades. Natural” gas is a fossil fuel and was responsible in 2018 for the biggest spike in carbon emissions Ontario has seen in decades.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 15, 2021

But as the manufacturing plants shuttered and residents moved out, water deliveries have dwindled to about a tenth of that — much of it wasted water that’s lost in leaky pipes before it ever reaches residents’ homes. Benton Harbor’s rates were already nearly double that of neighboring St.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 18, 2022

Federal nuclear regulators intend to issue a license for an interim nuclear waste storage facility in southeastern New Mexico. 1 Million Acre-Feet : Loss of storage capacity in Lake Powell between 1986 and 2018 due to sediment buildup, according to the U.S. Nuclear Waste Storage in New Mexico. By the Numbers. Geological Survey.

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