PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2023

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal In the summer of 2021, a twin-engine special research aircraft took off from State College, PA. For the 2021 aerial probe, Carbon Mapper targeted areas of generally high methane levels that the organization had previously located using readings from space satellites operated by the European Space Agency.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Wolf, Senate, House Republicans Again Fail To Hold Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Accountable For Protecting The Environment, Taxpayers On Hook For Billions [7.19.22] -- Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Reported Spreading 977,671 Gallons Of Untreated Drilling Wastewater On PA Roads In 2021 [8.31.22] -- Penn State Study: Potential Pollution (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2023

Click Here to watch online. -- House Committee Holds June 5 Hearing On Bill Requiring Environmental Impact Reports On Certain Electric Generation, Waste, Major Air Pollution Sources Locating In Already Burdened Communities [PaEN] -- PA Assn. Room 8E-B East Wing.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

-- Utility Dive: FERC Approves PJM’s Mid-Auction Capacity Rule Change Over Protests From Some Generators -- Bay Journal: Pennsylvania's State Water Plan Points To New Challenges - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal [PaEN] -- Stroud Water Research Center: Cutting Waste In Reforestation Of Riparian Buffers; Summer Intern Opportunities [PaEN] -- Lancaster (..)

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We have reviewed the DCNR 2021 ATV Regional Trail Connector Pilot (2021 ATV Regional Pilot) and the associated State Forest Environmental Review (SFER) conditionally approved by the State Forester on July 15, 2021. Additional impacts included noise and air pollution.” Click Here for a copy of the expert report.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 13, 2021

2021 Virtual Watershed Congress In Southeast PA [PaEN] -- DEP: Issues Air Pollution Warning For Friday, August 13 In Southeastern PA Counties -- DEP: Notice Of Sept.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 20, 2022

Guest Post by Shae Rupinsky 2021-2022 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Student in the Department of Political Science at Colorado State University How climate change offers opportunities to revitalize and reconnect with rural communities Rural voices are increasingly lamented as forgotten and unacknowledged.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

13, 14, 15 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY 11:00: House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets to consider House Bill 2075 (Knowles-R- Schuylkill) abrogating DEP’s air pollution control regulations covering heavy-duty trucks [Note: DEP already suspended enforcement of these regulations November 6 - Read more here.];

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Further, the Act on Promotion of Global Warming Countermeasures (national legislation providing the general framework concerning the adoption and implementation of measures to combat global warming) was revised in May 2021. The revised Act explicitly included the pledge for net zero by 2050. Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 4, 2021

Of Conservation Districts: Recognizes Pennsylvania Conservationists With 2021 Awards [PaEN] -- 7 Western PA Students Win National Garden Club Contests, Receive Prizes, College Scholarship [PaEN] -- 5 PA Winners Of National Assn. Penn Manor School District Partner To Study Local Streams -- Registration Open! 6; Arboretum Planting Day Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2022

A new poll from Embold Research found that solar energy has strong support across political, racial, gender, and regional lines. 65 percent of respondents would like to see Pennsylvania produce more solar, citing reasons ranging from reduced air pollution to energy bill savings.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Million In Penalties Collected; Record Number Of Violations Issued; Major Compliance Issues Uncovered; Evidence Of Health Impacts Mounts [PaEN] -- DEP Issues 2021 Oil & Gas Program Annual Report -- DEP Declares Air Pollution Action Day In Allegheny County For Friday, Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. Mr. Minott holds two degrees in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Villanova University School of Law.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 21, 2021

7 [PaEN] -- PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers: Hosts Sept. Steel Plant In Braddock, Allegheny County -- CitizensV: DEP To Review Heating Oil Leak Site Near White Haven Center -- MCall: PPL Electric To Lower Customers’ Bills Slightly Beginning Dec. 1 -- PPL Electric: Reaches Agreement To Lower Transmission Rates -- Aug.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Million As Of June 30, 2021 [$33.6 Million As Of June 30, 2021 [$33.6 Rejects Air Pollution Mitigation Plans For 6 Facilities -- WESA: How Poor Air Quality Days Can Affect Pittsburghers -- WHYY - Susan Phillips: Geothermal Energy Lies Right Beneath Our Feet, Could Philadelphia Tap Into It? Comitta Announces $1.3

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As noted at the end of last year, 2021 was significant for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. In Germany, after the successful decision from 2021 in Neubauer et al. By Maria Antonia Tigre. Photo by Matt Palmer on Unsplash.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2022

Other States/National/International -- Post-Gazette: More Research Links Air Pollution Exposure And COVID Risk -- The Guardian: ‘Everything Was Orange,’ U.S. Senate Candidate Carla Sands Voted By Mail Twice In 2021, But Now Wants To Outlaw Mail-In Ballots -- Post-Gazette - Brandon McGinley: Republicans Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 5, 2022

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- MCall - Paul Muschick: Spreading Hate: White Supremacist Groups Send Propaganda Throughout Lehigh Valley -- LancasterOnline: Lancaster County Man Accused Of Planning To Kill Democratic U.S. What’s Your Community Doing?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2022

What’s Your Community Doing? Of State Reports Successful Primary Election In PA -- Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2022

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Legal Planet

MAY 19, 2022

TOC has been billed as a double-win : it encourages new housing to be located near public transit—a boon for climate, local air pollution, and traffic—and it creates more “affordable housing.”. While this is politically difficult, or maybe impossible, it is important to understand how far short our current affordability programs fall.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2022

PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Spotlight PA: A Complete Guide To PA’s Redistricting Court Challenges -- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Franklin & Marshall Poll Shows Tight Race For Republican U.S. What’s Your Community Doing?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Wolf, Senate, House Republicans Again Fail To Hold Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Accountable For Protecting The Environment, Taxpayers On Hook For Billions [PaEN] -- Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Reported Spreading 977,671 Gallons Of Untreated Drilling Wastewater On PA Roads In 2021 [PaEN] -- Penn State Study: Potential Pollution Caused (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2023

26 Virtual Brown Bag Briefing On Environmental Impacts From Development Of Unconventional Shale Gas & Oil Reserves [PaEN] -- York Daily Record Guest Essay: Low Blow By PA Lawmakers - Playing Politics With Kids Abused By Clergy, Harmed By Polluters - By By Mitchell Hescox, Evangelical Environmental Network [PaEN] -- Sen. 31 to Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2022

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Wesley Silva , former Council President Marianna Borough, Washington County [PaEN] -- Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Living Near Oil & Gas Facilities Means Higher Health Risks, The Closer You Live, The Higher The Risk - By Nicole Deziel PhD MHS , Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health [PaEN] -- Observer-Reporter: (..)

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

I n 2021, the FracTracker Alliance released a watershed oil and gas drilling impact analysis for Lycoming Creek in Lycoming County, one of four watershed reports on drilling impacts in the Susquehanna River Basin. million gallons) of liquid waste and 416,248 tons of solid waste between January 2011 and April 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Ketyer, M.D., President, Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- Since Nov.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Zhengzhou, a city of 13 million, saw almost as much rainfall over three days in July 2021 as it does in an average year. In 2021, a survey of over 10,000 young people in ten countries was conducted by universities and research institutes, including Bath and Stanford universities. Photo credit: Aly Song / Alamy.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The inflation claim is new, prompted by the passage of the 2021 Infrastructure law and the 2022 IRA. The National Association of Manufacturers recently claimed that new regulations to cut air pollution would “threaten $162.4 billion of gross value added (in 2021 prices) and 501,000 jobs in 2027 in areas of nonattainment.”

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2023

The Marcellus Shale Coalition talked about the “chronic permitting logjam” in a May 13, 2021 post on their blog and that House Bill 604 was a big part of the solution. Current Permit Review Numbers The oil and gas industry often quotes the fact that it can take “ 200, 300 or even more days ” to get a simple permit from DEP. Shapiro, Lt.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

We found this to be met, that effect estimates were similar to air pollution or PM2.5, So these aren't specific to air pollution or stress, they're just considering the oil and gas well as a whole entity. Were the odds ratios or the risk ratios in the studies similar to what we would expect given the potential hazards?

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

The Climate Superfund bills have already attracted vicious opposition from the fossil fuel industry and its political allies and, if passed, will inevitably face vigorous legal challenges. In a 2021 appellate decision, City of New York v. No federal statutes explicitly preempt state Climate Superfund laws, and different U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Million Initiative To Electrify Truck Fleets For Cleaner Air; Awards $1.7 Million Initiative To Electrify Truck Fleets For Cleaner Air; Awards $1.7 7 Webinar On Where Solar Energy And Farming Meet [PaEN] -- Dec. 5 Penn State EarthTalk Webinar On Empowering Native Communities With Renewable Energy.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2022

Our environment, our communities, and our health are too often secondary when it comes to politics in Pennsylvania. Here’s the text of that summary-- AIR Pennsylvania experiences high levels of air pollution, which negatively impacts our health and climate. Our goal in developing this document was to change that dynamic.

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