PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2008 ) PA Bulletin - March 8, 2025 Note: The Department of Environmental Protection published 92 pages of public notices related to proposed and final permit and approval/ disapproval actions in the March 8 PA Bulletin - pages 1930 to 2022. Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations?

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

In the face of disappointing legislation and regulation, activists have increasingly turned to courts in the last fifteen years. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. However, given the unprecedentedruling’s questionable logic, I doubt that it stand on appeal.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In Uganda, national regulators are cracking down on the illegal destruction of wetlands in an attempt to reduce flood risk in the east African country. Regulators are keen to act because wetlands reduce flood risk by absorbing heavy rains. percent of disposable income on water and sewer in 2019, up from 10.9 Transcript.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 25, 2022

The case concerns the scope of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil fuel power plants under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (CAA). Conference of Mayors in West Virginia v. In January 2021, the D.C.

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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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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It has left Benton Harbor with a water treatment plant in such disarray that regulators say it can’t reliably produce clean water, even before that water is shunted into a delivery system that includes pipes made of toxic metal. Environmental Protection Agency flagged a host of new, alarming deficiencies.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Read more here.] -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - November 18 [PaEN] -- The Department of Environmental Protection is inviting comments on the renewal of a residual waste processing permit for the Danco Industries, Inc. Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Power companies will therefore have to pay more for the fuel, but utilities are generally allowed by state regulators to pass those cost increases onto their customers in the form of higher electricity rates. Solar was actually the leading capacity addition from 2019 through 2021 if you include smaller-scale systems such as rooftop solar.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has known for years that emissions of ethylene oxide —a colorless, odorless gas used to sterilize medical equipment and some food products—pose a long-term cancer risk to communities near commercial sterilizing facilities. This is a blatant example of environmental injustice.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. In other words, if an action was required for compliance with a regulation, then WAIRE Points cannot be generated.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Voters in southeastern Arizona delivered a split decision on the question of groundwater regulation. The Arizona Republic reports that voters in Cochise County approved regulations for the Douglas groundwater basin. Increase in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon in the 2019-2022 period compared to the three previous years.

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2022 Deforestation Government Regulations 130

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2023

The main pieces of legislation are the Environmental Protection Act , the Ontario Water Resources Act , and federally, the Fisheries Act. The Nutrient Management Act regulations are also most restrictive for winter applications. Satellite photo by NOAA, 2019 What more needs to be done?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Based on data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on toxic air and water emissions for a large number of industrial facilities across the US, refineries are the 10 th most toxic industry , in a toxicity ranking list with over 200 grades. Furthermore, refineries have a long history of violating regulations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 20, 2023

million dollars per year in farmworker health research projects between fiscal years 2019 and 2022. And that there are enforcement mechanisms to make sure that they don’t continue to occur.

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Climate Change Government 2019 Environmental Protection 283

PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2021

On July 12, the Department of Environmental Protection released a revision to the final regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants dealing with a single issue-- the legacy emissions provisions in Section 145.302 related to waste coal-fired power plant emissions.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 27, 2019

December 27, 2019. A short list of environmental and energy law changes compared to recent years: Fisheries. Regulations on siting and design of on-site wastewater systems (such as septic systems) have both a public health and environmental protection purpose. On-Site Wastewater. Vetoed Bills.

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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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The Energy Law

JULY 15, 2021

Act 301 amends Louisiana Revised Statute § 30:1154 and requires the Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to develop regulations concerning minimum requirements for solar leases, including requirements for decommissioning and final site closure. [1] 6] See 2019 N.C. 1] [link]. [2] 2] [link]. [3] 4] [link]. [5]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

One critical tool for forcing that reckoning comes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Section 111 employs a two-phase process where, once EPA moves to regulate pollution from a new source—here, power plants—(111(b)), it is then required to regulate that pollution from existing sources, too (111(d)).

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 26, 2021

Big Plastic wants to stop the federal government from regulating plastics under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA). million tonnes to single-use plastic waste around the world in 2019 alone. We hope to see regulations to ban six single-use plastic items by summer. NOVA is #21.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

In 2019, air pollution more broadly was responsible for about 6.7 A recent study found that more than 99 percent of the global population is exposed to unsafe levels of PM 2.5 pollution, which are particles with diameters of 2.5 micrometers or less. million deaths globally.

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Manning Law

JUNE 11, 2020

a fuel supplier based in Western Canada, was fined $200,000 in the Provincial Court of British Columbia after pleading guilty on June 17, 2019, to five counts of transferring petroleum products into a storage-tank system where storage-tank-system identification numbers were not visible. The Regulatory Framework. Background.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2024

Information provided by the Department of Environmental Protection in response to a Right to Know request shows DEP took major enforcement actions against 26 shale gas drilling and pipeline companies in 2023, including imposing $2,290,849 in penalties for violations going back to 2018.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2022

On April 12, the Department of Environmental Protection and others submitted comments to the Public Utility Commission recommending ways to strengthen its regulations covering the safety of natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines. L-2019-3010267. L-2019-3010267. Click Here for a copy of DEP’s comments.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 13, 2022

On April 13, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has reached two agreements with PLPT Logistics Products Terminals, LLC (PLPT), for violations of the Storage Tank and Spill Prevention Act and the Clean Streams Law. PLPT Logistics operates a petroleum terminal on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The 1972 Clean Water Act immunizes crop farmers from government regulations to control agricultural runoff. EQIP pays for agricultural practices that are not environmentally beneficial,” wrote Michael Happ the report’s author, “or in some cases actively make the environment worse.”. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, ECOJUSTICE, OCEANA CANADA. Industry opposition to regulating plastics is out of step with science and public opinion. Bronwyn Roe, lawyer, Ecojustice said: “It is well within the federal government’s authority to regulate plastic at all stages of its lifecycle.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency finalized strong safeguards on wasteful and dangerous methane emissions that will significantly cut climate-warming pollution and associated air toxics. 16 [PaEN] -- Evangelical Environmental Network Delivers Over 36,000 Comments From Pro-Life Christians To Gov. Last December, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

Youll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations. 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.

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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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Nanotech

MARCH 12, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on March 6, 2024, a settlement requiring Haifa North America, Inc. Haifa) to pay a civil penalty of $664,267 “for violations of chemical data reporting regulations under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).”

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Toxic Substances Control Act 2016 2019 Environmental Protection 59

PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2023

On July 26, the Department of Environmental Protection and Sunoco Pipeline L.P. see list below) [The Public Utility Commission and the Susquehanna River Basin Commission have imposed millions more in penalties of their own laws and regulations for this project. Sunoco agreed to pay $660,000.00 Read more here. [In

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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. regulation with Co-product determination.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2022

On April 13, the Department of Environmental Protection advised 18 municipalities in four counties the road dumping of conventional oil and gas drilling wastewater is illegal and considered waste disposal. DEP said coproduct determinations submitted by CRS Energy, LLC, DJR Well Services, Energy Resources of America, Inc.,

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Waste Environmental Protection Regulations 2019 98

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2022

On October 6, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has assessed and collected a $147,250 civil penalty from Rice Drilling B LLC for erosion and sedimentation violations that were documented in 2019 and 2020 at Rice’s Mac well site in Whitely Township, Greene County.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

In 2019 and again in 2020 , Shell found that CAPP was out of step with Shell’s principles because of lack of support for the Paris Agreement and climate policies such as carbon pricing. Every year Shell reviews its membership in industry associations. Shell “supports” the Paris Agreement on climate change , limiting warming to 1.5

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection has issued a record 5,653 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas operators in 2023, with two months left in the year, according to DEP’s November 3, 2023 Weekly Workload Report. Environmental Protection Agency Underground Injection Well Program. Read more here.

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