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.

2022 264

2022 Electricity Climate Change Fossil Fuels 264

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Specifically, USACE has been in the Coldwater Creek region for the last 20 years attempting to remediate radioactive waste associated with the creek (which does not include Jana Elementary). The radioactive waste was released decades ago. Finally, they [tested] parks that had flooded, and found [radioactive waste]. Louis area.

Waste 227

Waste Radiation 2017 2014 227

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Powerful Industry’s Torrent of Manure Overwhelms State Regulators Cause of Michigan’s worst water pollution is too much waste spread on too little land. September 22, 2022 . That’s because phosphorus applications on farmland have increased since the early years of the century, according to a comprehensive 2022 evaluation by the U.S.

Regulations 354

Regulations Waste 2022 2015 354

Circle of Blue

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.

2022 298

2022 Fossil Fuels 2007 Renewable Energy 298

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 28, 2025

On January 28, the Department of Environmental Protection said compliance with a 2022 state Air Quality regulation to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas facilities was put on hold for the conventional oil and gas industry as a result of an agreement to stay a legal challenge to the regulations in Commonwealth Court. Read more here.

Regulations 86

Regulations 2022 Natural Gas 2023 86

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.

Waste 108

Waste 2017 2022 Radiation 108

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.

Law 130

Law Waste Electricity 2024 130

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.

Waste 264

Waste Fossil Fuels Recycling Ocean 264

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.

Waste 97

Waste 2025 Natural Gas 2011 97

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.

Recycling 101

Recycling Waste 2022 2023 101

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.

Waste 121

Waste Government Law 2022 121

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.

Recycling 97

Recycling Waste Electricity 2024 97

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.

Waste 283

Waste Recycling Law 2019 283

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.

2022 130

2022 Waste 2020 Solar Power 130

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.

Waste 93

Waste Natural Gas Fossil Fuels 2026 93

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

November 22, 2022. Many people still associate the Chicago River with chemical waste and pollution. November 30, 2022 – National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: Measuring benefits of nature-based solutions – register. December 1, 2022 – Great Lakes HABS — A regional update – register. Lawrence Seaway.

2022 130

2022 Natural Resources Sea Level Climate Change 130

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.

Waste 107

Waste Natural Gas 2018 Regulations 107

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.

Waste 97

Waste Recycling 2022 97

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

2014 97

2014 2010 2018 2020 97

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.

Natural Gas 100

Natural Gas 2025 2023 2022 100

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.

2025 117

2025 Radiation 2013 2024 117

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.

Waste 109

Waste Conservation 2004 Recycling 109

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.

Waste 100

Waste Technology Technology Clean Water Act 100

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.

2022 130

2022 Climate Change Waste Government 130

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.

2022 130

2022 Climate Change Fossil Fuels Pollution Control 130

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The Latshaw 9 conventional well was first issued a permit as a waste injection well by DEP on June 10, 2014 and by the US Environmental Protection Agency on June 28, 2016. Over 2,280,390 gallons of oil and gas wastewater was disposed of at this well between 2017 to 2022, according to five annual reports filed with EPA.

Natural Gas 113

Natural Gas 2024 Waste Environmental Protection 113

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.

2025 91

2025 2011 Natural Gas Waste 91

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.

Technology 130

Technology Technology 2022 Electricity 130

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.

2030 317

2030 2021 2022 Recycling 317

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

Waste 103

Waste Fossil Fuels Climate Change Environmental Protection 103

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.

2014 359

2014 2022 Climate Change Politics 359

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2024

On March 25, DEP said 86% of conventional oil and gas well owners did not submit a 2023 annual production and waste generation and disposal report to DEP for each well they own which means DEP has no idea how much waste those wells generate and where it is being disposed. In 2023, DEP issued a record 6,860 violations. Read more here.

Waste 112

Waste 2023 2024 Law 112

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 10, 2022

A Tsunami of Human Waste’: Half of South Africa’s Sewage Treatment Works Are Failing, Says Report – CCIJ reports that rivers and water bodies across South Africa have become too polluted for use, and the government is doing an increasingly poor job of addressing the situation, according to a long-awaited audit of the country’s wastewater.

2022 130

2022 Government 2010 2015 130

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.

Law 290

Law Clean Air Act Endangered Species Act Clean Water Act 290

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.

Natural Gas 91

Natural Gas 2025 Regulations 2023 91

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.

Natural Gas 77

Natural Gas 2018 2024 2023 77

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.

2022 130

2022 Recycling 2020 Waste 130