Circle of Blue

AUGUST 23, 2022

By Delaney Nelson, Circle of Blue – August 23, 2022. American Rivers (@americanrivers) August 19, 2022. Dwayne Wade, Sylvester Stallone and Kim Kardashian are among the household names currently trending for their water waste in California. The American West is experiencing its most severe drought in 1,200 years.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 10, 2022

With all her other bills, waste is a luxury she cannot afford. The post What’s Up With Water — May 10, 2022 appeared first on Circle of Blue. Water, sewer, stormwater, and garbage collection are all part of the same bill. And that’s “What’s Up With Water” from Circle of Blue, where water speaks.

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

It is expensive, though, and generates a waste brine that requires disposal. The post The Stream, October 19, 2022: California City Approaches Water Supply Peril in Next Two Months appeared first on Circle of Blue. Companies are considering a range of alternatives, each of which comes with substantial drawbacks.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 9, 2023

On September 29, DEP told the Low-Level Waste Advisory Committee shale gas operations in Pennsylvania sent 138,336 cubic feet of radioactive TENORM waste to the Waste Control Specialists low-level radioactive waste facility in Texas for disposal. Click Here for DEP table on TENORM waste. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Minerals like lithium, nickel, graphite, and cobalt are too often mined and processed in ways that contribute to harming communities and ecosystems, while the batteries often face wasteful end-of-life disposal.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2023

Since Pennsylvania Resources Council launched a partnership with the City of Pittsburgh in May 2022, more than 2,800 city residents have dropped off materials through the City’s hard-to-recycle program. Appropriate recycling of these items provides many benefits. Advance registration is required for all collection events.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The complaint is a cri de coeur : clear, outraged, and horrifying in its recounting of the plastic waste problem and its causes. In fact, Mobil patented the co-processing of plastic waste in cokers in 1978. In California, from 1990 to 2022, an astounding 2.7 million tonnes of plastic waste escaped into California’s environment.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2025

Other violations include leaking gas and failure to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Many were leaking gas and failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

They require that most homes large enough for families be built in inefficient low-density types and put on farmland and natural areas where construction resources are wasted on building roads, sewers and other infrastructure from scratch. They also make Canada vulnerable to U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This webinar showcases Benton Foundry’s green initiatives that have significantly reduced energy consumption and waste. Join PennTAP for an exclusive, in-person tour of Benton Foundry, winner of the 2022 Green Foundry “Sustainability & Stakeholder Engagement” Award from the American Foundry Society.

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Legal Planet

JULY 1, 2022

Less than 10 percent of the world’s plastic waste is recycled. In a welcome reprieve from news coming out of the Supreme Court , here’s an uplifting story from the Golden State: On Thursday, Governor Newsom signed SB 54, a comprehensive piece of legislation aimed at significantly reducing single-use waste.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 24, 2023

Since 2020, the company has diverted 22 million pounds of food waste from landfills, achieving 88% of their goal, which is to divert 25 million pounds of food waste.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

Flagged as a permit violation DEP site inspection in 2022 , the coal ash pile had surpassed the approved size, enveloping parts of the surrounding area. The size of the toxic ash pile at the Scrubgrass cryptomining facility had turned waste coal into an even riskier form of pollution, said Patrick McDonnell, President and CEO of PennFuture.

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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

APRIL 2, 2025

On April 22, 2022, the Latkanichs filed a complaint with DEP requesting an investigation of their water supply saying it was impacted by oil and gas operations, including PFAS forever chemicals. Chevron drilled two shale gas wells on the Latkanich property approximately 500 feet from the familys water supply starting in 2011.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 24, 2024

And if you’re thinking the grocery sector is headed the wrong way when it comes to wasteful plastic packaging, you’re right. And let’s not forget that packaging is the number one source of plastic waste in Canada. Our updated survey of the major retailers’ shelves proves it.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 20, 2022

Canada makes its case for storing nuclear waste beneath the Great Lakes. As Canada attempts to find a place to store radioactive nuclear waste, two Ontario communities weigh the economic benefits and environmental risks of burying the waste in caves deep below the Great Lakes.

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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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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 13, 2025

Of Health Pushing For Changes To Reduce Adverse Health Impacts [PaEN] -- 2022 Conference: Presentations Now Available From 2022 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference In Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2023

The Independence Conservancy will host three waste tire collection events in Beaver and Washington counties to provide an affordable way for vehicle owners to get rid of tires or wheels from cars and light trucks and other vehicles. All collections are held on Saturday mornings from 9:00 a.m.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2024

has agreed to a consent order that includes several actions to ensure compliance with federal and state hazardous waste safeguards at the company’s waste facility in Yukon, Westmoreland County, the U.S. RCRA is the principal federal hazardous waste storage and disposal statute. On April 29, Max Environmental Technologies, Inc.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

Failure To Report Waste Generated Conventional oil and gas drillers were also given 836 notices of violation for failing to submit annual production and waste reports for the last two years-- 134 in 2019 and 702 in 2020. There was the same sort of “uniformity” among reporting how waste was disposed in other disposal categories as well.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Waste continues to flow into Lake Suchitlan, El Salvador’s largest freshwater lake and key drinking water source. Despite being a protected site, the lake is overrun with algal blooms, sludge, and plastic waste. They say the reservoirs — built mostly using taxpayer funds — will contribute to wasteful, water-intensive farming practices.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 12, 2022

July 12, 2022. The state agency moved to renew the plant’s permit, allowing 1 milligram per liter of effluent waste per month. The post FRESH, July 12, 2022: Michigan Agency Launches Mercury Monitoring Program appeared first on Circle of Blue. Laura Gersony, Fresh Editor. This Week’s Watersheds.

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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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Circle of Blue

MAY 4, 2022

What’s Up With Water—May 3, 2022 – This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers two UN reports on humankind’s impact on Earth’s lands and waters, worsening food crises in the Horn of Africa, and Las Vegas’s water insurance policy. Keep up on the series from Bridge Michigan, Circle of Blue, Great Lakes Now, and Michigan Radio here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposal for a methane waste charge on large sources of oil and gas methane pollution. The proposed methane waste charge is part of the Methane Emissions Reduction Program authorized by Congress through the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. On January 12, the U.S. 22 [PaEN] -- DEP Awards $39.6

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Environment + Energy Leader

OCTOBER 4, 2022

from 2022–2030. The global green packaging market size had a revenue holding of $229.46 billion in 2021. It is expected to reach $409.2 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 7.5% The post Global Green Packaging Market to Reach $409B by 2030 appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

September 20, 2022 . And special measures to dispose of the toxic waste product costs $220 million, though not all of those costs are strictly related to algae. Danger Looms Where Toxic Algae Blooms 0 Comments / September 8, 2022 Billions spent on strategies to limit nutrient pollution that don’t work. Photographs by J.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2024

Until gutted by the Supreme Court in 2022, it also provided important protection to the nation’s wetlands. Provides for cleanup of hazardous waste sites. Other substances are more dangerous but the number of people exposed is much smaller. Clean Water Act. Endangered Species Act (ESA ). Also known as the Superfund law.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 27, 2022

What’s Up With Water—April 26, 2022 – This week’s episode of What’s Up With Water covers paying for groundwater in California and a controversial canal project in Nebraska. The ethanol plant AltEn had been producing massive amounts of toxic waste for years before it was shut down. This Week’s Top Water Stories, Told In Numbers.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2023

The departments of Environmental Protection, Agriculture and Conservation and Natural Resources have released Pennsylvania's Healthy Waters Health Communities 2022 Chesapeake Bay Progress Report. In 2022, our farmers implemented conservation practices including no-till farming and cover crops on more than 1.5

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The IFO projects another $100 million drop in revenue in calendar year 2024 fee revenue from 2022 to $170 million. Expect Much Less Community Support In June, the Ind ependent Fiscal Office issued a report on the latest projections of revenue from the Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fee showing a drop in calendar 2023 revenue to $179.1

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2025

Benko also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. An August 15, 2023 DEP inspection report found no change in site conditions since the 2019 inspection report and issues violations for failure to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Other violations continued.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Permian Basin oil and gas developments are among the state’s biggest industrial consumers of fresh water, and largest disposers of waste water. The post The Stream, September 7, 2022: Study Reveals the Impact of Texas Oil and Gas Industry on Water Supply appeared first on Circle of Blue. The annual $1.89 YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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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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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 31, 2022

The BoF Sustainability Index 2022 finds that incremental progress among a handful of larger players assessed last year is eclipsed by wider industry inaction, as the time left for fashion to curb its impact by 2030 – a milestone for global sustainability goals – runs short. .

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