PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

Washington County [January 2025] -- House Committee Hearing On Increasing Safety Setbacks Zones Around Natural Gas Facilities Heard About First-Hand Citizen Experiences On Health Impacts, From Physicians On Health Studies And The Gas Industry On Job Impacts [October 2023] -- Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2023

21 [PaEN] -- The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources published notice in the January 21 PA Bulletin a new application period for the Community Conservation Partnerships Grant Program. PA Bulletin, page 541 ) -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. The deadline for applications is April 5.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 16, 2022

On August 16, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County Conservation District released a study linking contamination in Pittsburgh’s urban soils to historical air pollution emissions and atmospheric inversions. Urban soils are known to contain various harmful contaminants that pose health risks.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

Wolf signed into law legislation in July 2022 that took away the EQBs authority to increase bond amounts for conventional oil and gas wells for 10 years. Read more here. In response, the General Assembly passed and Gov. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 5, 2024

. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the July 6 PA Bulletin announcing it has issued an Air Quality Permit Plan Approval to authorize the construction and operation of the Frontier LNG natural gas production facility at the Winner 4H Shale Gas Well Pad in West Keating Township, Clinton County.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

On November 22, the Clean Air Council , PennFuture , and the Center for Biological Diversity announced they appealed an extension of Renovo Energy Center’s air pollution permit for a large gas-fired power plant — a significant source of new pollution within an environmental justice area.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2023

When we first started Eyes On Shell in early 2022, there was more concern about lighting than anything else,” said Terrie Baumgardner, Outreach Coordinator in Beaver County for the Clean Air Council. The Shell Exterior Lighting Study was originally promised to the Potter Township supervisors in December of 2022, Baumgardner said.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

On November 29, PennFuture, Clean Air Council , Sierra Club , and Environmental Defense Fund filed an appeal of the Commonwealth Court’s November 1, 2023 ruling that blocked Pennsylvania’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a multistate carbon emissions reduction program.

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Washington Nature

APRIL 22, 2024

It requires polluters to pay for and steadily reduce their carbon pollution while investing those dollars in the people and communities bearing the brunt of climate change—Indigenous communities, communities of color, and rural, natural resource-dependent communities.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

After AB 525 was signed into law, the CEC set offshore wind state planning goals in 2022 (2 to 5 gigawatts (GW) by 2030 and 25 GW by 2045). One solution that could address at least some of the concerns raised by tribal nations and summarized in the Plan is tribal co-management of natural resources with state and federal agencies.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 5, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the July 6 PA Bulletin announcing it has issued an Air Quality Permit Plan Approval to authorize the construction and operation of the Frontier LNG nat ural gas production facility at the Winner 4H Shale Gas Well Pad in West Keating Township, Clinton County. (

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2025

On March 19, firefighters and DEP responded to another explosion and fire at a conventional well owned by Kriebel Natural Gas Co LLC in Manor Borough, Westmoreland County. Amer Natural Resources holds 49 permits. Original violations September 7, 2022. Read more here. Read more here. No request made of well owner.

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The Energy Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

On January 19, 2024, the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal reinstated the Formosa Plastics (“FG LA”) facility air permits, which the lower court had previously vacated. These analyses showed declining criteria pollutant and toxic air pollutant emissions for the community.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 28, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2023

On January 12, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn announced an investment of $11.8 million for streamside forest buffers, converting lawns to meadows and trees, and planting trees in urban communities to help improve water quality and to make the Commonwealth more resilient to climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2023

The Pennsylvania Department of Health chose the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health to undertake the studies The data collection for these studies concluded in September 2022. The University of Pittsburgh's public-facing website for the studies has not been updated since then. 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

We’ve been saying for the last nine months people of Carbon County love their natural resources,” Kunkle said. Residents Support Tax Increase To Save Crebilly Farm In Chester County [Posted: November 10, 2022] PA Environment Digest He said the grassroots campaign crisscrossed the county and conducted a media campaign.

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E2 Law Blog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Earlier this month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a “supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking,” calling for comments on air pollution standards for control of methane emissions from new and existing facilities in the oil and natural gas industry. See 87 Fed. 74,702 (Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

23-24 In State College [PaEN] -- WGAL: Liz Winand From Shank’s Mare Outfitters Introduced Thousands Of Young People To The Great Outdoors -- Reading Eagle: Berks Nature Reviews Environmental Progress In 15th State Of Environment Report -- DCNR Conservation & Natural Resources Council Meets Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

On Wednesday, October 19, 2022, the partnership will plant its five-millionth tree. The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources =would like to congratulate the Chesapeake Bay Foundation for coordinating the partnership and the more than 200 groups and individuals who have worked so hard to reach this milestone.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

23; Transportation- Feb. Billion Endowment -- Inside Climate News: In Dimock, Susquehanna County, A PA Town Riven By Fracking, Concerns About Ties Between A Judge And A Gas Driller Over Recent Attorney General Settlement -- Better Path Coalition Hosts Feb. 23; Transportation- Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 28, 2024

Million In 28 Water, Wastewater, Stormwater, Water Quality Improvement Projects In 20 Counties [PaEN] -- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: PA To Spend Nearly $200 Million On Lead Pipe Replacement, Water Upgrades [Mostly Federal Funds] -- DEP Awards Susquehanna River Basin Commission $68.2

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2022

The Court’s decision upheld the ability of local governments to protect their local communities and natural resources through their traditional tools of land use controls and zoning ordinances. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 17, 2022

With the climate conversation front and center across the country and especially in energy-rich Pennsylvania, a new Global Strategy Group poll commissioned by Environmental Defense Fund Action and Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund shows strong majorities supporting climate action to limit methane and carbon pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

Penn State research released in October 2022 found PFAS chemicals typically persist through public wastewater treatment systems at levels that may impact the long-term feasibility of beneficial reuse of treated wastewater. August 2022 -- Physicians For Social Responsibility: Fracking With PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Ohio.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 14, 2022

June 14, 2022. Researchers find that federal data does not capture local variations in Ohio ’s air pollution. Researchers find that federal data does not capture local variations in Ohio ’s air pollution. A Wisconsin judge delays enforcing an April decision that would limit the state’s power to clean up pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2023

We believe the DEP has a higher obligation to the people and natural resources of the state than they do to drillers, as is stated clearly in the DEP's mission.” “The Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.” Read more here. “We Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 20, 2022

Tom Wolf recognized employees from the departments of Conservation and Natural Resources, Environmental Protection and Transportation with the Governor’s Award for Excellence for environment-related projects. educational video and efforts to reduce air pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 2, 2024

June 3 Solving The Climate Crisis Program -- Group Against Smog & Pollution Report Finds Allegheny County Health Dept. Washington County Latest Township To Realize Current Gas Well Regulations Aren’t Enough To Protect People -- Farm & Dairy: Cecil Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Unplugged or improperly plugged wells can cause a myriad of problems, including gas migration into occupied structures, water supply impacts, surface water impacts, hazardous air pollutant emissions, methane emissions, and soil and groundwater contamination. As of December 16, DEP received 722 permits for review in 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2023

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

is made from gas , a process that emits significant air pollution. The goal of the program is to "accelerate commercialization of, and demonstrate the production, processing, delivery, storage, and end-use of, clean hydrogen." Today, almost all commercial H2 in the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2023

In early October 2022, the PA DOH and the University of Pittsburgh publicly backed out of a public forum to discuss the progress and process of the studies. Those three studies, called the PA Health and Environment Studies , have been underway for two years. Neither the agency or the university have communicated with the public since.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 8, 2022

Section 5(a)(1) of the APCA specifically empowers EQB to “[a]dopt rules and regulations, for the prevention, control, reduction and abatement of air pollution. which shall be applicable to all air contamination sources,” including the establishment of “maximum allowable emission rates of air contaminants from such sources.”

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2022

PA Bulletin, page 7455 ) -- Range Resources Appalachia, LLC - Ogontz Fishing Club Well Site: Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated by drilling wastewater in Cummings Twp., Stoney Run Compressor Station: DEP issued a renewal of a state-only Air Quality Permit for the compressor station in Gaskill Twp., Susquehanna County. (

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CEQA Developments

JULY 7, 2022

On March 7, 2022, the Second District Court of Appeal (Div. City of Los Angeles, et al (The Icon at Panorama, LLC, Real Party in Interest) (2022) 76 Cal.App.5th 4) filed its published opinion in Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters, et al. 5th 1154.

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