PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2025

Families like mine are in danger because of MarkWests Harmon Creek facility, which has a history of violating protective air pollution regulations while processing fracked ethane gas for use in the overproduction of plastics.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2025

On Monday, March 17, 2025 at approximately 5:30 p.m., DEP did follow-up inspections on March 20, 2025 , March 25, 2025 , March 26, 2025 (file), March 28, 2025 , March 31, 2025 (file), April 1, 2025 , April 2, 2025 (compliance evaluation) and April 3, 2025 (file).

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2025

Community solar will grow Pennsylvanias capacity to get energy from the sun, which will improve air quality and reduce our reliance on more polluting energy sources, said Alice Lu, Policy Analyst at Clean Air Council. Yet they are still a reliable and affordable source of energy.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2025

In addition to the RRI projects, PJM will complete processing on approximately 62,000 MW projects in 2025 and 2026. MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day MW-Day In 2024-25; Extreme Weather Risk Big Factor [PaEN] Related Articles This Week: -- DEP Received Air Quality Permit For 4.6

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Posted: June 8, 2025] PA Environment Digest Greg Vitali (D-Delaware), Chair, House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee -- Marcellus Drilling News: PA Independent Oil & Gas Assn. Responds To Rep. Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

But if Project 2025–the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for the incoming second Trump administration–is implemented, NOAA will be dismantled, downsized, or some parts of it put in private hands, compromising or outright eliminating the valuable services the approximately 11,000 employees who work there provide to the country.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2025

LLC On April 22, 2025, DEP was notified of a well plugging incident at the Brown 1447 conventional well site in Morris Township, Greene County that resulted in contaminating a livestock water supply, two springs and a small stream. Original violations issued March 7, 2025. Read more here. Read more here. No response requested.

2025

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

A quick refresher: Automobiles and trucks are among the leading causes of climate- and lung-destroying air pollution worldwide, and shifting from gasoline-powered to electric vehicles is a key strategy (among many) to cut these emissions. This is terrible news for the climate and for air quality, of course. Download as PDF

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2025

Our mission is to improve policy and regulations for the oversight of fossil fuel extraction and use; to educate, empower and organize coalfield citizens; and to protect public and environmental health. CCJ has over three thousand members and supporters and is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

Over 156 million people in the US are exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollutants, according to the recently published 2025 State-of-the Air report from the American Lung Association (ALA). For 25 years the report has helped people across the country understand the quality of the air in their communities.

Ozone

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The Project 2025 report is 920 pages long, but only a few portions have gotten much public attention. But does Project 2025 even matter, you might ask? With all that in mind, here are six Project 2025 proposals that you probably haven’t heard much about. Project 2025 is opposed to those consumer savings, apparently. #3.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

After an experience dealing with air pollution issues in her own home, she has first-hand knowledge of the health impacts that pollution can have on a family and how government agencies often ignore residents in distress. She equips residents with the tools to feel empowered to fight against the fossil fuel industry.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2025

The air monitoring study is set to begin today, May 1, marking the start of a multi-year air monitoring campaign designed to comprehensively assess the air emissions of gas well development from construction through production. will be monitored close to the well pad through the duration of the air monitoring project.

Natural Gas

HumanNature

JANUARY 30, 2025

Guest Post by Tucker Melles , 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. isoprene, carbitol, benzyl alcohol) to secondary organic aerosol are emitted from trees, fossil fuels, and an assortment of industrial and personal care compounds collectively known as volatile chemical products (VCPs). Image modified from [8].

Ozone

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2025

However, both the text of the Clean Air Act and prior case law make it clear that EPA cannot consider costs when making scientific determinations regarding the effect of air pollutants on public health and welfare. The Supreme Court explicitly held in Massachusetts v. 7521(a)(1).

2009

PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2025

2 fuel oil, No. 4 fuel oil and unleaded gasoline for the site located a 3144 and 2700 Passyunk Ave. PA Bulletin, page 3176 ) 2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 59 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. Lycoming County.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

million Pennsylvanians living within a half-mile of active well sites. -- Allegheny, Bucks, and Philadelphia counties all received a D or F grade for ozone pollution in the American Lung Association’s 2025 State of the Air report. -- Nationally, air pollution from methane and co-pollutants causes an estimated $77 billion in annual health costs.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Resource Links - Harmon Creek Hearing: -- Community Speaks Out Against Expansion Of Harmon Creek Natural Gas Processing Plant In Washington County [PaEN] -- Washington County Resident To DEP: Harmon Creek Natural Gas Plant Expansion Will Result In A Huge Increase In Air Pollution, It Should Be Required To Have A Major Air Quality Permit, It Is Not (..)

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2025

This long struggle to get cleaner air in California is one of necessity; pollution from Californias millions of cars and trucks, combined with its unique climate and geography have led to the state having consistently the worst air pollution in the nation.

Air Pollution

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

On January 13th, 2025 the Province of Nova Scotia and the Regional Municipality of Halifax announced that Nearly half of Halifax’s municipal electricity will soon come from a Queens County wind farm, a move the city says will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by a quarter. This announcement might improve its marks for 2025.

Government

Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2025

Advocates campaigned for cleaner vehicles to cut pollution, and California led a lawsuit by 16 states seeking to electrify the mail trucks. C alifornia’s intervention “played a big part in stopping USPS from committing to decades of air pollution around the nation,” Liane Randolph, head of the state’s Air Resources Board, said.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Endangerment Finding establishes that heat-trapping emissions harm people and the environment, and it forms a core legal basis for the agencys subsequent actions to set standards to limit global warming pollution from vehicles and power plants, as well as methane pollution from oil and gas operations.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MAY 5, 2025

President Trump retook the White House in the midst of a booming transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. While fossil fuels still generated approximately 58% of electricity nationwide, wind and solar generated at least 33% of electricity in ten states. To read other posts from the series, click here.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

s Urgent Need For Power Spurs Return Of Dirtier Gas Turbines -- W&J Center For Energy Policy & Management: Summer 2025 Brings Warnings Of Risk To Electric Reliability Due To Data Centers, Severe Weather Reliability -- Utility Dive: A.I. Cumberland County Adopted New Zoning To Allow Hyperscale A.I.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2025

Yaw Wants A Program Like This In PA] -- Better Path Coalition Hosts May 21 Webinar On Regional Water Use Policy And Siting Data Center Facilities [PaEN] -- John Quigley: Are Merchant Fossil Fuel Plants Uneconomical? Posted: May 18, 2025] PA Environment Digest

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2025

Nelson, Mullens, Barton Announce Legislation To Accelerate Data Center Permitting -- LevitttownNow.com: Waste Management Opens $131 Million Landfill Gas Facility In Falls Twp.,

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2025

McKean County [PaEN] NewsClips: -- TribLive: Proposed TECfusions Data Center To Use 2 Gigawatts Of Natural Gas-Fired Electric Generation In First Phases [No Health Effects To The Community From Burning Fossil Fuels] -- LevitttownNow.com: Waste Management Opens $131 Million Landfill Gas Facility In Falls Twp.,

Waste

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

This editorial first appeared in the Republican Herald (Schuylkill County), Citizens Voice (Luzerne County) and Scranton Times (Lackawanna County) on March 11, 2025-- Theres really no fine line between what constitutes a political rally and an open, honest discussion about issues on which reasonable people can disagree.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The policy details within each action roughly correspond with recommendations in Project 2025, the infamous policy agenda penned by figures from the first Trump administration and supported by several anti-climate organizations. The fourth policy proposal involves the federal permitting process, a perennial enemy of the fossil fuel industry.

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

APRIL 28, 2025

On January 20, 2025, Inauguration Day, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law launched the Climate Backtracker. In an April 9, 2025 memorandum , President Trump directed agencies to fast-track repealing regulations that he argues impede economic growth and may be inconsistent with recent Supreme Court precedent on administrative law.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

Eddystone Generating Station in Delaware County to remain open past its expected closure date of May 31, 2025. The order requires Units 3 and 4 of the plant to remain open through August 28, 2025 when the order expires. DEP just renewed the Title V Air Quality permit for the Eddystone power plant on April 17. Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

4 Webinar - Rewild Your Yard: How Meadows Support Pollinators And Clean Water [PaEN] -- Call For Posters: Alliance For The Chesapeake Bay 2025 Chesapeake Watershed Forum Nov. Posted: July 6, 2025] PA Environment Digest 23 Hard-To-Recycle Collection Events In Allegheny County [PaEN] -- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Sept.

Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

My name is Rachel Meyer and I am the Ohio River Valley Field Organizer for Moms Clean Air Force, a national community of over 1.5 million parents and caregivers united to protect our childrens health from air pollution and climate change. Today I represent our more than 105,000 PA members.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2025

By Pamela Darville, Co-Chairperson of Climate Justice and Jobs Team at POWER Interfaith Recent opinion pieces and public comments by Senator McCormick and other members of Congress pushing for expanded fossil fuel extraction in Pennsylvania represent a reckless ode to corporate greed, masquerading as energy policy.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

Kober [PaEN] -- Erie Times: US Attorney Moves To End Prosecution Of Erie Coke [Coal] Plant Chief, Further Curtailing Case Involving Felony Charges Brought By A Grand Jury For Illegal Air Pollution -- WHYY: Philly Schools Delayed Asbestos Inspections And ‘Knowingly’ Failed To Make Repairs: US Dept. 7, 21, Sept.

Conservation

Legal Planet

APRIL 15, 2025

fossil fuel production, according to lots of reporting based on budget documents. In 2025, the EU and China will mark 50 years of diplomatic relations. Energy March marked the first month ever where fossil fuels made up less than half of U.S. Could something come out of this at COP30?

Law

PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2025

On July 1, PA Interfaith Power & Light is launching a new Faith and Fossil Fuels Initiative to prepare a report and story map documenting how to build a faithful ethic of stewardship for the earth in response to the impacts of polluting industry in Pennsylvania. Fossil fuels are the largest driver of the climate crisis.

Fossil Fuels