PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

Letters Submitted To The Board -- April 2, 2025 letter from Marcellus Shale Gas Coalition -- April 4, 2025 letter from American Petroleum Institute - Pennsylvania -- April 7, 2025 letter from PA Independent Oil & Gas Association -- April 7, 2025 letter from PA Chamber of Business & Industry What Does Vote To Accept For Study Mean?

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2024

On July 30, the PJM Interconnection announced the results of its 2025/26 capacity auction, which revealed that costs will be roughly seven times greater than in 2024/25. billion, which could increase retail power bills by as much as 29% starting mid-2025. MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 886 ) PA Bulletin - January 25 2025 Note: The Department of Environmental Protection published 90 pages of public notices related to proposed and final permit and approval/ disapproval actions in the January 25 PA Bulletin - pages 797 to 887. Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations? Berks County. (

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2025

12 Abandoned Conventional Wells DEP has a new initiative underway in 2025 to inspect conventional oil and gas wells that have never been inspected before to ensure the safest oil and gas production possible. DEP issued the original violations for failure to restore the well pad and the water impoundment on July 14, 2017. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 7, 2025

DEP inspections include both scheduled and unscheduled on-site visits to permitted facilities, as well as document reviews to verify compliance with environmental laws and regulations. Posted: January 7, 2025] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2025

Of Health, Penn State Medical Webinars On Caring For Persons Living & Working In Communities With Oil & Natural Gas Extraction [January 2025] -- Part II - Health Impacts: State Dept.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2024

On October 7, the Ohio River Valley Institute released the results of a new poll which found 90% of Pennsylvania voters support stricter regulations on the fracking industry, according to the poll conducted by Upswing Research for the Ohio River Valley Institute. Click Here for poll results narrative. Click Here for presentation slides.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- Awards/Recognition -- PA State Conservation Commission Wins Natural Resource Education Champion Award [PaEN] -- Dept. Get Your Passport To 2025 PA Farm Show, Enhance Your Conservation Skills Starting Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Notice: See You February 10 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

APRIL 8, 2025

In an April 7, 2025 letter to the Environmental Quality Board, the PA Independent Oil and Gas Association acknowledged that 1.4 Of Health, Penn State Medical Webinars On Caring For Persons Living & Working In Communities With Oil & Natural Gas Extraction [January 2025] -- Part II - Health Impacts: State Dept.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2025

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. DCNR Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 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. 26 to Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2025

I believe an Independent Energy Office can streamline our approach to responsible energy policy and ensure a more cohesive strategy for managing our vast natural resources. Resource Links: -- Gov. Pennsylvania has one of the most diverse energy portfolios in the United States. "I

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This work started in the spring of 2018 with grant funding from the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) as the Alliance sought to offer flexible, comprehensive reforestation support that would help fill gaps in existing programs. Partnership For The Delaware Estuary Science & Environmental Summit Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

Final guidance on the federal program was just issued on January 15, 2025. So far in 2025, DEP issued 96 violations to 36 conventional oil and gas well owners for abandoning their wells. In 2023, DEP issued 512 violations to conventional well owners for abandonment. Read more here. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2023

By incentivizing the occupation of land, ownership by force, and exploitation of natural resources, the state and federal governments promoted the violent dispossession and genocide of Native Americans from the land. They can, however, once they have enacted an emergency regulation that sets a minimum flow in the river.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2025

These bills on the agenda, but saw no action-- -- Notice Of Oil & Gas Permits: House Bill 43 (Conklin-D-Centre) require publication of newspaper notice of oil and gas well permits; and -- Regulating Food Processing Waste: House Bill 586 (Friel-D-Chester) requires a DEP permit to spread food processing residuals. Jack Rader, Jr. (R-Monroe)

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2024

formal notice ) The hearing agenda also includes accepting comments on the proposed 2025 fee schedule. The Susquehanna River Basin Commission is scheduled to hold a hearing October 30 on water withdrawal requests, including four supporting shale gas development in Bradford, Susquehanna and Wyoming counties.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

The mission of ClearWater Conservancy is to conserve and restore natural resources through land conservation, water resource stewardship, and environmental outreach across Central Pennsylvania. Click Here to register and for more information. Registration is open until April 4.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

. – $62,000 to conduct Delaware Riverfest 2025 events to educate the public about coastal recreation, historic sites, and public access. Greene County [PaEN] -- DEP To Hold Dec. Partnership For The Delaware Estuary Science & Environmental Summit Feb. 12 (In-Person), Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

to 11% UGI Gas Rate Hike Request -- Reuters: US Inflation Increases At Fastest Pace In Nearly 18 Months In January; Gasoline, Natural Gas Prices Up 1.8% -- US EIA Natural Gas Price Forecast For 2025 Now 21% Higher Than Last Forecast At $3.80; 2026 Forecast Now $4.20 -- Gov. MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Iowa Department of Natural Resources considered over half of Iowas lakes, reservoirs, rivers and streams impaired. The lax state regulations allow CAFOs to dump phosphorus into waterways, resulting in water quality issues such as cyanobacteria blooms in Lake Champlain.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2025

On April 7, the House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee amended and reported out House Bill 109 (Vitali-D-Delaware) establishing an environmental justice permit review program in DEP to consider cumulative impacts of pollutants on communities already burdened by pollution by a vote of 14 to 12-- Republicans opposing.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2025

The partners filing this appeal believe that, in granting a preliminary permit, FERC acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner, did not exercise reasoned decision making, and acted contrary to proper interpretations of FERCs own regulations and applicable legal precedent, the Federal Power Act.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2025

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. Snowden at dsnowden@pa.gov or (717) 783-8846. House Floor.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 8, 2023

The agency must complete its rulemaking by August 31, 2025. The WIPPES Act would require federal regulators to issue rules that require companies to label sanitary wet wipes with the phrase “Do Not Flush.” Natural Resources Defense Council. The agency must issue a notice of proposed rulemaking by December 13, 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Luzerne County [PaEN] -- DCNR Conservation & Natural Resources Advisory Council To Hear Update On State Budget, Chesapeake Bay Program March 26 [PaEN] -- PUC To Hold Hearings Starting April 7 On Proposed UGI Gas Rate Increase Of Up To 10.8% Data Centers And Pennsylvania's Future [PaEN] -- Volunteers Needed!

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The new message from the state comes nearly a month after local activists joined a host of state and national groups to file an emergency petition with the EPA asking federal regulators to intervene in Benton Harbor, citing concerns that a lackluster response from state and local regulators was putting residents at risk.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

18 - Energy Industry And Its Impacts On Freshwater Resources [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension To Host Feb. Visit DEPs Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources. Posted: February 16, 2025] PA Environment Digest School Campus Could Save $10 Million -- TribLive: Developer Appeals Unity Twp.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Our natural resources, including trees, are critical infrastructure,” Executive Director Heather Manzo said. The services provided by these trees will carry downstream and contribute to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s goal of planting 95,000 acres of forested buffers by 2025.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

19 [PaEN] -- PA Sea Grant Names PA 2025 Knauss Marine Policy Fellows: Nathaniel Edelheit-Rice, Sahara Rios-Bonilla, Chelsea Russ [PaEN] -- Gov. Partnership For The Delaware Estuary Science & Environmental Summit Feb. 12 [PaEN] -- Three Rivers Waterkeeper Calls For Stronger Environmental Oversight Of U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Get Your Passport To 2025 PA Farm Show, Enhance Your Conservation Skills Starting Jan. Get Your Passport To 2025 PA Farm Show, Enhance Your Conservation Skills Starting Jan. 16 Webinar On Forest Carbon Markets And Payment Programs Expert Panel [PaEN] -- PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers Hosts Jan.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The two bureaus stated their focus for fiscal year (FY) 2022 would be on the development of regulations to address the IIJA requirement; accordingly, both BOEM and BSEE have budgeted funds for FY 2023 to develop such a framework.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

On February 21, the Delaware River Basin Commission released its 2025 State of the Basin report , which provides an overview of the health of the water resources and key species of the Delaware River Basin, along with factors impacting the Basin including water pollution and climate change. "I Click Here for a copy of the report.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 21, 2024

Ask your legislators to ask their leadership (that is, their respective Democratic or Republican leaders of the PA House or Senate) to include a one-time injection of $80 – 100 million into a Healthy Outdoors for All Program (HOAP) for the 2024-2025 budget year, as advocated for by the Growing Greener Coalition.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

formal notice ) May 22-- DCNR Conservation & Natural Resources Advisory Council meeting. Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations? Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. Click Here for options to attend this meeting remotely. Contact: Jake Newton at (717) 783-3349 or janewton@pa.gov. Read more here on the agenda.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 25, 2023

On its tentative agenda is consideration of its FY 2025 budget, a climate change resolution and water withdrawal requests, including eight shale gas drilling operations-- 1 in Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek. Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations? Frederick St., All through its eNotice system.

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