Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Toxicology Program, and the International Association of Research on Cancer classify EtO as a substance that can cause certain cancers. This group pressed the EPA to support the adoption of a far less protective standard based on the TCEQ’s analysis.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The Environmental Health Project based in Southwest PA published a fact sheet on how the Department of Environmental Protection is issuing permits for shale gas infrastructure facilities without considering the impact of how those new sources of pollution will impact local communities when added to the existing pollution in the area.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The pledge is a voluntary agreement to reduce global methane emissions by 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030; however, methane levels keep going up and we are woefully off track for meeting this goal.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

By Russell Zerbo, Clean Air Council This guest essay first appeared on the TribLive.com website September 22, 2023 -- Pennsylvania has an opportunity to receive $33,695,097 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Energy (DOE) to plug small, conventionally drilled oil and gas wells with known owners.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Host a webinar series to STEM the Vote In order to bring scientific research and data into discussions on political concerns we organized a STEM the Vote series of webinars focused on the top voter concerns of the 2020 election. The topics included public health, climate change, gun control, education, food security, and immigration.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2023

Voluntary Reductions The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, which collaborated in the project, was thrilled by the reactions they received when they took the results to the sources of the highest emissions. During the flights, the researchers found 63 super emitters.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Guest Post By Erin Boedicker , 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Outdoor air pollution accounts for approximately 3.7 – 4.8 In a place that is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 2020), mitigation of warming agents is crucial. June 25, 2020.

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Breezometer

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

One such project is the AQ-Watch initiative, for which BreezoMeter, together with 11 other partners, won the prestigious Horizon 2020 grant. What is the EU Horizon 2020 Research & Innovation Program ? AQ-Watch was formed as a response to the pressing global air pollution problem. What is 'AQ-Watch'?

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

In celebration of Environment Day 2020 on June 5, we publish here in full the speech given by Inger Andersen, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme. Now is not the time to set aside environmental laws and norms in the name of recovery, as we have seen done in some places.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2023

Baumgardner noted agencies like the Department of Environmental Protection have no legal jurisdiction over light pollution from the Shell Plastics Plant. “That's what bothers me most of all,” said one neighbor of the Shell Plastics Plant in Potter Township, Beaver County.

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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. Like commercial sterilizers, they emit the gas into the air.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020. A 2020 study found that Native American households’ median energy burden was 45 percent higher than non-Hispanic White households, while Black households’ median energy burden was 43 percent higher and Hispanic households’ burden was 20 percent higher.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

On September 3, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it will receive public comments and host a virtual public hearing regarding a Title V/State Operating Permit renewal request for Covanta Delaware Valley, LP, a waste to energy facility in the City of Chester, Delaware County.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The study looked at air pollution, blowouts and evacuations, and thermal modeling and found that “(C)urrent natural gas well setbacks in…the Marcellus Shale of Pennsylvania… cannot be considered sufficient in all cases to protect public health and safety.” Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

Limpert works on issues of Stormwater Management for Maryland’s National Capital Park and Planning Commission, and Montgomery County’s Department of Environmental Protection. Justin Nobel, science journalist, will moderate the panel discussion. Nobel writes on issues of science and the environment for U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

Both agencies have been leading the way on recovering ridership, which has been steadily increasing nationwide since its initial drop in March 2020. Even so, cars and trucks are still making us sick—and killing us. Transit agencies in Washington, D.C.,

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

He was appointed as a mediator by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to work with the environmental community and industry to establish better regulations for water quality monitoring in areas impacted by coal ash. Since assuming elected office in 2020, Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency has selected 11 projects to receive more than $4.27 million in funding for monitoring air quality in communities across Pennsylvania. The projects are among 132 air monitoring projects in 37 states which will receive $53.4 On November 3, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2022

Tom Wolf, this year's budget includes a $696 million bipartisan program to use federal recovery funds and state allocations for restoration and environmental protection. Those efforts are paying dividends, with unprecedented progress in reducing pollution: 6.77 Protecting water has been a priority of the Wolf administration.

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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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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Total operates the world’s largest* polystyrene factory in Carville, Louisiana, which released 28,114 lbs of toxic chemicals in 2020 including 21,776 lbs of styrene and 5,507 lbs of ethylbenzene, less than a mile away from the town of St. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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Capaccio

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

On December 20, 2020, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) promulgated amendment 310 CMR 7.76 under the Air Pollution Control regulations 310 CMR 7.00.

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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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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Total operates the world’s largest* polystyrene factory in Carville, Louisiana, which released 28,114 lbs of toxic chemicals in 2020 including 21,776 lbs of styrene and 5,507 lbs of ethylbenzene, less than a mile away from the town of St. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Total operates the world’s largest* polystyrene factory in Carville, Louisiana, which released 28,114 lbs of toxic chemicals in 2020 including 21,776 lbs of styrene and 5,507 lbs of ethylbenzene, less than a mile away from the town of St. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Total operates the world’s largest* polystyrene factory in Carville, Louisiana, which released 28,114 lbs of toxic chemicals in 2020 including 21,776 lbs of styrene and 5,507 lbs of ethylbenzene, less than a mile away from the town of St. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Total operates the world’s largest* polystyrene factory in Carville, Louisiana, which released 28,114 lbs of toxic chemicals in 2020 including 21,776 lbs of styrene and 5,507 lbs of ethylbenzene, less than a mile away from the town of St. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Total operates the world’s largest* polystyrene factory in Carville, Louisiana, which released 28,114 lbs of toxic chemicals in 2020 including 21,776 lbs of styrene and 5,507 lbs of ethylbenzene, less than a mile away from the town of St. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Total operates the world’s largest* polystyrene factory in Carville, Louisiana, which released 28,114 lbs of toxic chemicals in 2020 including 21,776 lbs of styrene and 5,507 lbs of ethylbenzene, less than a mile away from the town of St. million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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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. Refineries are among the most toxic industries in this country.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Updating Conventional Regulations The report notes DEP has been working on updating conventional oil and gas environmental protection and waste disposal and handling standards, after the last comprehensive update was “abrogated” by the General Assembly in 2016. Read more here. Read more here.] Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency announced the federal government has settled its final federal Clean Air Act (CAA) claim against Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining and Marketing, LLC pertaining to the June 21, 2019 fire and explosion at its former South Philadelphia refinery. On October 8, the U.S. The proposed $4.2

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

The bill was referred to the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee. On April 13, House Bill 170 (Otten-D-Chester) was introduced to expand safety zones around oil and gas wells and related natural gas infrastructure to help reduce their adverse impacts on public health and the environment.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Mogridge C Shale Gas Pad: DEP issued an Air Quality Operating Permit for the well drilling pad located in Springville Twp., PA Bulletin, page 6105 ) -- Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC - Artemas Compressor Station: DEP issued a revised Title V Air Quality Permit adding RACT 3 requirements for the facility located in Mann Twp.,

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Shell campaign IndustriALL Global Union | May 22, 2020 IndustriALL is calling on Shell to engage with unions on a global level in a campaign to limit precarious work, improve health and safety, and ensure that Shell applies the same high-level standards at its operations everywhere, including suppliers. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Shell campaign IndustriALL Global Union | May 22, 2020 IndustriALL is calling on Shell to engage with unions on a global level in a campaign to limit precarious work, improve health and safety, and ensure that Shell applies the same high-level standards at its operations everywhere, including suppliers. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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