Environmental News Bits

APRIL 4, 2025

startup, originating from founder Jacob Nathans high school science project on using enzymes to break down plastic waste, has secured an oversubscribed $18.3 million in Series A funding.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

Customers $900,000 So Far; Oil & Gas Waste Plant Fails To Report Wastewater [PaEN - 2025] -- PA State Seismic Network Has Detected Only 1 Fracking-Inducted Seismic Event, So Far [PaEN - 2019] -- DEP Documents Connection Between Fracking, Earthquakes In Lawrence County [PaEN [ 2017] [Posted: April 8, 2025] PA Environment Digest

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 11, 2022

The 2019 GlobalWebIndex, Sustainable Packaging Unwrapped data cites that 64% of consumers say recyclability is the most important aspect of environmentally friendly packaging. . The post Vital Pet Life Incorporates Recyclable Packaging in New Pet Food Line appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Earth 911

JUNE 17, 2021

The post Tips for Recycling Computers, Phones and Other E-waste Successfully appeared first on Earth911. It happens to all of us, when the computer, smartphone, or another electronic device no.

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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. have gotten easier.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 13, 2025

The Conference will bring together scientists, public health experts, industry leaders, and advocacy groups to explore the latest research and insights on unconventional oil and gas development, its environmental impact and associated health risks, and community wins and responses.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Their inactive status expired without being renewed between 2019 and 2022, which means they should have been plugged three to six years ago. Other violations include leaking gas and failure to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Most of the original violations were issued in November 2023.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Food waste refers to material that is safe and suitable for human and animal consumption, yet not consumed. The food waste and loss problems reveal inefficiencies in the food system that have consequential, permanent environmental impacts. This global problem of food waste is related to consumer behaviors (e.g., & Zhang, X.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Since 2019, the Department of Energy’s ReCell Center has been researching effective and affordable battery recycling technology. Regulators can also enact new waste categories specifically for batteries, which can make transporting used batteries to reuse or recycling centers safer and more cost-effective. Source: Courtesy of Li-Cycle.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In 2019, the state convened a group of experts and stakeholders – thanks to Assembly Bill 2832 – to develop policy recommendations that would increase EV battery recycling. These policies were all supported by the public interest organizations, along with many of the waste industry representatives. What policies weren’t recommended?

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Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In the nearer term, it wants to reduce its emissions by 56% by 2030, using 2019 as a baseline. H&M's goal is to be carbon positive by 2040. Meanwhile, it aims to make all of its clothing using recycled components by 2030. It says it is 65% of the way there now. .

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2024

Construction of the pipeline, which spanned through Washington, Allegheny and Beaver Counties, began in January 2019 and brings ethane feedstock from natural gas to the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County. [In Construction of the pipeline, which spanned through Washington, Allegheny and Beaver Counties, began in January 2019.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

million penalty against Halliburton Energy Services for 255 violations of the state Solid Waste Management Act; -- $1.5 Here are j ust a few examples of the penalties imposed by DEP against Big Shale Gas and related industries include-- -- $939,553 penalty against Chevron related to fatal gas well fire in Greene County; -- $1.1

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

“Some of the earliest memories I have are of protestors standing in the road, blocking semi-trucks hauling nuclear waste.”. — Mikhail Childs, Prairie Island Indian C ommunity member. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has declared the plant to be safe, tribe members remain worried about their proximity to nuclear waste. While the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Oil & Gas Wells Continue To Be Abandoned So far in 2024, DEP issued 767 new or continued violations to conventional oil and gas well owners for abandoning and not plugging their wells, more than double the violations issued in 2019. Read more here. 30 Webinar - It’s Scary Out Here!

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 4, 2023

In response, the Texas Legislature passed Texas Natural Resources Code § 122.002 on September 1, 2019, which grants title to produced water to whoever takes possession of it for the purpose of treating it for subsequent beneficial use, unless a conveyance instrument expressly provides otherwise.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2024

We will continue to help others understand their individual responsibility for proper waste disposal, including properly disposing of their cigarette butts, and the impact that can have on their community." The program partners with TerraCycle to recycle collected cigarette butts, turning waste into reusable materials. million or 37.1

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2024

By Justin Nobel, Author of Petroleum-238: Big Oil's Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It Since the fracking boom began in the early 2000s, oilfield waste has been spilled, spread, injected, dumped, and freely emitted across America, with particularly worrisome problems in Pennsylvania.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2025

Benko also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. A March 28, 2019 DEP inspection report found no change in site conditions from the original July 18, 2018 inspection. 2022 production, waste generation and well integrity reports appear to have been submitted by the owner.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

These penalties are in addition to a $670,000 civil penalty DEP accessed against Shell Falcon Pipeline and its contractor Minnesota Limited LLC for violations of its permit and other laws and regulations that occurred in 2019 and 2020 during pipeline construction. Read more here. 1 Electricity Price Changes; Rates Will Vary From 8.4%

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In 2017, the company merged into DowDuPont, and in April 2019, the company’s parent, Dow Inc., Among the company’s environmental goals … Continue reading Dow is buying renewables and cutting waste in its environmental quests. The Michigan-based company operates in 160 countries and has 54,000 employees. became public.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee holds a hearing on waste to fuels. House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets to consider House Resolution 565 (Pielli-D-Chester) directing the Legislative Budget and Finance Committee to do a study on wil native terrestrial invertebrate management ( sponsor summary ).

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In addition to this uptick in production, at the same time, we had a big increase in waste production. So actually about 98% of waste production from fracked wells is in the form of produced water. Where does this waste actually go? Are There Disproportionate Exposures From Waste? It has several different outlets.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Background The Blueprint aims to reduce domestic aviation emissions [i] from airport operations by 20% from 2019 levels (404ktCO2) in 2030 and achieve net zero domestic and international aviation emissions by 2050. This facility would turn waste into feedstock to generate electricity or biofuel for use within the airport.

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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. Disposal of waste without approval from DEP is unlawful conduct under the Solid Waste Management Act, Act of July 7, 1980, P.L.

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Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In the nearer term, it wants to reduce its emissions by 56% by 2030, using 2019 as a baseline. H&M's goal is to be carbon positive by 2040. Meanwhile, it aims to make all of its clothing using recycled components by 2030. It says it is 65% of the way there now. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

A little more than $40 million of the package would be financed by Minnesota’s Renewable Development Account, which Xcel Energy is required to pay into as a condition of storing its nuclear waste. In 2019, Minnesota Gov. billion budget surplus. The bill the Minnesota Senate passed, on the other hand, is nearly 10 times smaller.

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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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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The tide of waste was generated by animals from 132 CAFOs in Indiana and Ohio. Operators are required to “manifest” or document the quantity and location where waste is spread. million more gallons of liquid waste and 50,000 more tons of solid waste were manifested in the two counties. Data: Environmental Working Group.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Researchers, using DEP data, found an average 30 percent discrepancy between the waste numbers reported by the oil and gas industry and the waste received by landfills. The study noted landfills must test leachate for radioactive radium and other markers of oil and gas waste, but wastewater plants don’t. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

All this waste must be handled, transported, and disposed of. If the radiation levels in the sludge decrease enough, the waste can be trucked to the same local landfills that handle household trash instead of being shipped by rail to radioactive waste disposal sites out west — a more expensive but safer option.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A report this year by the US Fish and Wildlife Service found between 2009 and 2019, the nation lost enough acreage of forest and scrub wetlands to equal the size of Rhode Island. A 2019 study in the journal of Marine and Freshwater Research found that the world’s wetlands deliver $47 trillion a year in ecosystem services.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2025

Eva Wilkinson et al 2, failed to submit production, waste generation reports for 4 years. Hannah & Kathryn Marvin 6, failed to submit production, waste generation reports for 4 years. . : J.Ross 105-1, Response by Feb. DEP inspection report ] -- Peters Twp. : Response by Feb. DEP inspection report ] -- Peters Twp. Response by Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2025

Violations issued for abandonment and failure to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Violations issued for abandonment and failure to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. DEP also requested a Waste Control and Disposal Plan for the site. Shaffer Jr.

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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

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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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2024

Erosion & Sedimentation BMP Failure (2019) [ DEP Inspection Report ] -- Civil Penalty - $26,725 - Mor42 well site - Washington County, East Finley Twp. Industrial Waste Discharge, Erosion & Sedimentation BMP Failure (2019) [ DEP Inspection Report ] -- Civil Penalty - $15,263 - Mor29 Gathering Pipeline - Greene County, Morris Twp.

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