Comments on Minnesota’s Proposed Rule for Reporting Products Containing Intentionally Added PFAS Are Due May 21, 2025
Nanotech
APRIL 22, 2025
Written comments on the proposed rule are due May 21, 2025, at 4:30 p.m. On May 22, 2025, at 2:00 p.m.
Illinois Pollution Control Board proposes universal waste rules for hazardous waste paints
Environmental News Bits
APRIL 15, 2025
On March 20, 2025, the Board proposed first-notice rules concerning paint and paint-related waste (PPRW) that are hazardous waste. This rulemaking was initiated by the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) to comply with Public Act 103-887, which took effect on January 1, 2025.
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MPCA Recommends Exempting until 2032 Intentionally Added PFAS in Electronic or Other Internal Components within the 11 Product Categories Prohibiting PFAS in 2025
Nanotech
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has posted a January 2025 report to the legislature regarding recommendations for products containing lead, cadmium, and perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
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DEP Sets March 11 Environmental Justice Office Hearing On Air Quality Permit For New Pollution Control Devices At Harmon Creek Natural Gas Processing Plant In Washington County
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 9, 2025
The Department of Environmental Protection has scheduled a March 11 hearing on a proposed Air Quality Plan Approval permit covering new air pollution control equipment to be installed at the Harmon Creek Natural Gas Processing Plant in Smith Township, Washington County. ( Posted: February 9, 2025] PA Environment Digest
DEP: Southwestern Energy Prod Co. Failed To Comply With Act 2 Cleanup Standards At The Greenzweig Shale Gas Wastewater Impoundment In Bradford County After 5 Years
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 9, 2025
PA Bulletin, page 1377 ) On January 2, 2025 DEP issued a disapproval letter for an Act 2 Final Report on the remediation of a release from the Greenzweig shale gas wastewater impoundment covering releases first documented by DEP on February 3, 2020.
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Environmental Quality Board Tables Vote On Accepting Petition For Study To Increase Setbacks From Shale Gas Wells Until Last Minute Comments Can Be Reviewed
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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What The Shale Gas Industry Is Leaving Behind: DEP Signs Consent Order With Roulette Oil & Gas To Plug Shale Gas Well Abandoned For 8 Years In Hebron Twp., Potter County
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
The order requires the well to be plugged by October 31, 2025 and a final report is due December 31, 2025. Shale Well Abandonments Increasing So far in 2025, DEP issued or continued 11 violations to one shale gas drilling company for abandoning and not plugging their wells-- [ Diversified Production LLC ]. Read more here.
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Boston Regulates Building GHG Emissions: The Next Few Years Will Be Very Interesting
Law and Environment
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
The limits will first be effective in 2025, with the limits declining every five years until they reach zero by 2050. The Air Pollution Control Commission has authority to suspend some or all of the requirements of BERDO 2.0 As indicated by its name, since its original enactment, BERDO only dealt with reporting and disclosure.
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - February 8
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 9, 2025
Many of the notices offer the opportunity for public comments. -- DEP published notice in the February 8 PA Bulletin it has scheduled a March 11 hearing on a proposed Air Quality Plan Approval permit covering new air pollution control equipment to be installed at the Harmon Creek Natural Gas Processing Plant in Smith Township, Washington County. (
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DEP Now Accepting Growing Greener Plus, Abandoned Mine Bond Forfeiture Reclamation, Stormwater Planning, Section 319 Grant Applications
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 21, 2025
The Department of Environmental Protection will start accepting Growing Greener Plus watershed restoration, SMCRA Bond Forfeiture Abandoned Mine Reclamation Grants, Act 167 Stormwater Management Planning Grants and EPA Section 319 Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Grants April 22.
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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 16, 2025
Posted: February 16, 2025] PA Environment Digest 18 - Energy Industry And Its Impacts On Freshwater Resources [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension To Host Feb. Of Environmental Professionals Inviting Presentation Proposals For Annual Conference Sept. Of Environmental Professionals Inviting Presentation Proposals For Annual Conference Sept.
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Minnesota Posts Q&As from July 2024 Webinars on PFAS in Products Law; Leaders Mark 100 Days until Law Takes Effect
Nanotech
OCTOBER 3, 2024
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) held two public webinars in July 2024 to provide updates and answer questions on Minnesota’s per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in products law (Amara’s Law), which takes effect in stages between 2025 and 2032.
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Environmental Council Of The States, Other State Organizations Write Congress About The Importance Of Federal Funding To State Agencies Implementing Federal Programs
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 15, 2025
Note: In Pennsylvania, DEP receives at least $60 million a year in federal funding just to pay staff and other costs of implementing federal environmental protection programs like Air Quality, Water Quality, Mining, Storage Tanks, Waste, Safe Drinking Water and others.]
EPA: Clean Air Act Presidential Exemption Request Information; Send Requests To: airaction@epa.gov
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 28, 2025
Please: Use Presidential Exemption: [Name of Regulation]: [Facility(ies) Name] as the subject of the request.
U.S. Supreme Court Narrowly Construes Permitting Program Under the Clean Water Act, Limiting EPA’s Authority
Vermont Law
APRIL 23, 2025
Supreme Court Narrowly Construes Permitting Program Under the Clean Water Act, Limiting EPAs Authority By Stuart Silverman On March 4, 2025, in City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) acted without statutory authority for the regulation of water pollution under the Clean Water Act (CWA or the Act).
Registration Opens for July Webinars on Minnesota’s PFAS in Products Law; MPCA Publishes Summary of Comments on CUUs
Nanotech
JUNE 24, 2024
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) will hold two public webinars in July to provide updates and answer questions on Minnesota’s per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in products law (Amara’s Law), which takes effect in stages between 2025 and 2032: As reported in our January 12, 2024, blog item, MPCA published a request for comments (..)
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Governor’s Updated Regulatory Agenda Includes Proposed Annual Permit Fee For Shale Gas Wells; Updated Conventional Waste Disposal and Coproduct Waste Regs.
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
The draft schedule has these regulations going to the EQB in the fourth quarter of 2025. Each of these draft regulations are usually provided to advisory committees before they are considered for adoption as proposed by the Environmental Quality Board.
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Reflections on a Half Century of Environmental Law Practice
Acoel
APRIL 23, 2025
Posted on April 23, 2025 by Jeff Civins Growing up in Irvington, NJ, near refineries, chemical plants, and other industrial facilities, I never imagined that one day Id end up being an environmental lawyer, and in Austin, Texas. This year marks my 50 th year practicing environmental law. Its a good time to reflect.
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DEP Posted 72 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In May 18 PA Bulletin
PA Environment Daily
MAY 17, 2024
. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the May 18 PA Bulletin announcing it is extending the NPDES General Permit for Stormwater Discharges from Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (PAG-13) until a new PAG-13 is reissued.
Bay Journal: EPA Says PA’s Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Plan Falls Short, Again
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 3, 2022
After the state submitted a plan in 2019 that failed to meet 2025 cleanup goals, Maryland, Virginia and Delaware, along with the District of Columbia, Chesapeake Bay Foundation and others filed suit against the EPA for failing to press the state to make greater progress. The dispute has found its way into court.
In Memoriam: Former Sen. Mary Jo White, Republican Chair Of The Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
She also served on the Wild Resource Conservation Fund, the Joint Legislative Air and Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee, the Environmental Quality Board, and the PA Commission on Sentencing. For the 2001-2002 Legislative Session, Sen. She never shied away from an issue. Obituary -- In Memoriam: Former Sen.
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Evangelical Environmental Network: FERC Approval Of PJM Fast Track Power Plant Plan Favors Natural Gas, Leaves Clean, Abundant Energy Behind For Pennsylvania
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
to 11% UGI Gas Rate Hike Request -- Utility Dive: New Jersey Residential Customers Face 20% Electric Bill Hikes, Driven By PJM Capacity Prices: NJ Board Of Public Utilities -- US EIA Natural Gas Price Forecast For 2025 Now 21% Higher Than Last Forecast At $3.80; 2026 Forecast Now $4.20 Posted: February 14, 2025] PA Environment Digest
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Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 3.28.25
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 28, 2025
Of Health & Human Services Will Cut 10,000 Jobs As Part Of Major Restructuring Plan [10,000 Already Took Early Retirements] Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: March 28, 2025] PA Environment Digest
Marcellus Drilling News: Rain City Resources, Kendra II Agree To Set Up Pilot Plant To Extract Lithium From Marcellus Shale Wastewater In Susquehanna County
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
It is expected that the plant will be in operation in Pennsylvania by late March/early April 2025 and that it will be processing brine drawn from the Marcellus Shale formation. The plant will be located at Kendras Springville brine transfer site and represents a pre-commercial trial of the ACCELi lithium extraction technology.
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EQB Adopts Final-Omitted Reg. Limiting Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities; And A First-Ever State MCL For PFOS/PFOA
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 12, 2022
DEP again repeated their legal position that Act 52 does not apply to regulations promulgated under the state Air Pollution Control Act like the one before the Board for the vote. The alternative for Rep. Metcalfe said it is inappropriate to use the final-omitted process to avoid the public comment period on this regulation.
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No Decision Posted Yet From DEP On Whether Flare Gas Chemical Makeup, Volume At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County Is Confidential Business Information
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 5, 2024
In Civil Penalties For 12-Month Air Quality Violations After May 2023 Consent Order [PaEN] -- Beaver County Residents Call For Accountability, Emergency Preparedness After Dozens Of Malfunctions, Pollution From Shell Petrochemical Plant [PaEN] -- PA Taxpayers To Give $130.9
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission To Hold Business Meeting March 13, Including 6 Shale Gas Development Water Withdrawals
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - February 8 [PaEN] -- DEP Sets March 11 Environmental Justice Office Hearing On Air Quality Permit For New Pollution Control Devices At Harmon Creek Natural Gas Processing Plant In Washington County [PaEN] -- DEP (..)
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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults
PA Environment Daily
JULY 14, 2024
Plans Youghiogheny River Rafting Trip July 28 -- Tom Ridge Environmental Center In Erie Hosts Aug. 3 Film Showing Of Seeing The Unseen - Aquatic Invaders & What's At Stake [PaEN] -- Sustainable Pittsburgh’s Sustainable Community Development Network Hosts Aug. 21; Annual Dinner Sept. 25 [PaEN] -- Registration Open! 16-17 [PaEN] -- PA Assn.
Second District Affirms Judgment Rejecting CEQA And Other Challenges To CARB’s “Technology-Forcing” Emissions-Control Regulation For At-Berth Tanker And Other Ships
CEQA Developments
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
On February 13, 2025, the Second District Court of Appeal (Div. On February 13, 2025, the Second District Court of Appeal (Div. California Air Resources Board (2025) Cal.App.5th. 93130 et seq). Western States Petroleum Association v. Resources Code, 21080.5(c); Citing to the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006; and to Pub.
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China’s Waste Ban Exposes Missing Links in Recycling
Vermont Law
DECEMBER 19, 2018
However, most of the world’s recycling is exported to lower-income countries, where recycling is cheaper to process due to weak law enforcement and informal sector recycling with no pollution controls. to manufacture only plastic packaging that is fully recyclable, compostable, or reusable by 2025. informal sector recycling.
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Improving EPA’s Latest Ozone Transport Rule
Acoel
JUNE 29, 2022
ppb by 2025. In sum, EPA’s proposal for reducing interstate ozone transport adopts unrealistic deadlines and overly-aggressive emission control retrofit mandates. Greater compliance flexibility, and smaller adverse job impacts, could be achieved by an incremental approach to pollution control upgrades. Eugene M.
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CNX CEO Tells DEP’s Citizens Council Their Monitoring Shows ‘No Material Impact’ To Air Or Water Quality From Natural Gas Development; Citizens Said CNX Lacks Scientific Rigor, Offers Misleading Greenwash
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
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Washington County Judge Rules Sunoco Pipeline Did Not Have Eminent Domain Authority To Take Property For Mariner East Pipelines In Landowner Lawsuit Alleging Fraud
PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Failed To Comply With Act 2 Cleanup Standards At The Greenzweig Shale Gas Wastewater Impoundment In Bradford County After 5 Years [PaEN] -- DEP Sets March 11 Environmental Justice Office Hearing On Air Quality Permit For New Pollution Control Devices At Harmon Creek Natural Gas Processing Plant In Washington County [PaEN] NewsClips: -- Inquirer: Legislators (..)
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EPA, Justice Dept., DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4 Million In Abandoned Well Plugging Funding Against Shale Gas Drilling Companies-- XTO Energy, Inc., Hilcorp Energy Company For Federal, State Clean Air Act Violations
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
XTO) [ExxonMobil] and Hilcorp Energy Company (Hilcorp) , agreed to resolve alleged Clean Air Act and Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act violations involving their oil and gas production operations in Pennsylvania. In separate agreements, XTO Energy Inc.
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113 108 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
4 Webinar: Our Work Helps The Allegheny River Thrive -- TribLive: Nature Focus Of Artwork Featured In Loyalhanna Watershed Association’s 40th Annual Auction -- Registration Now Open For PASA 2025 Sustainable Agriculture Conference Feb. 5-7 In Lancaster [PaEN] -- Wilkes-Barre Times: DEP Reduced Permit Backlog By 67% Under Gov. Shapiro -- Gov.
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EPA Pulls Back Regulations Setting Methane Emission Limits, Regulating Wastewater From Oil & Gas Operations, Risk Management Rule At Petrochemical Plants
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 12, 2025
The Clean Water Act requires EPA to revise industry-wide wastewater treatment limits, called effluent limitations guidelines, to keep pace with innovations in pollution control technology. Technologies to treat produced water to a quality for safe discharge and reuse have become more effective and affordable.
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Road Salt, A Stealthy Pollutant, Is Damaging Michigan Waters
Circle of Blue
JANUARY 26, 2023
By mandating pollution controls on wastewater treatment plants and industrial facilities, it marked a new era of environmental stewardship — an era in which rivers and lakes were viewed not as dumping grounds but as civic assets that fostered recreation, ecological rebirth, and economic development.
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Chesapeake Bay Program: Unusual Weather Conditions Continue To Impact Chesapeake Bay Water Quality
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 28, 2021
According to these computer simulations, pollution controls put into place between 2009 and 2020 are estimated to have lowered overall nitrogen by 13 percent, overall phosphorus by 14 percent and sediment by 4 percent. Click Here for the complete announcement. For more information, visit the Chesapeake Bay Program website.
Moms Clean Air Force To DEP: Families In Washington County Are Already Living In The Middle Of Major Natural Gas Industrial Sites - Do Not Expand The Harmon Creek Natural Gas Processing Plant And Make It Worse
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 12, 2025
Parents have legitimate concerns because the controls that would make this a synthetic minor source are not sufficient to ensure emissions will not exceed those thresholds.
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Bay Journal: States/EPA Agree To New Plan For More Nutrient, Sediment Reductions In Chesapeake Bay Watershed To Make Up For Conowingo Dam
PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
By Karl Blankenship, Chesapeake Bay Journal It has taken more than four years, but leaders in the Chesapeake Bay restoration effort say they’ve found a path forward for dealing with the added pollution stemming from Conowingo Dam. The plan is not fully funded and will not achieve its pollution reduction goals by the 2025 Bay cleanup deadline.
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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
9 Webinar On PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' In Land-Applied Biosolids - Research Update And Discussion [PaEN] -- Registration Now Open For PASA 2025 Sustainable Agriculture Conference Feb. . -- PA Forestry Assn. 138th Annual Symposium - What Makes A Healthy Forest; Awards Program Nov. 16 In State College [PaEN] -- Western PA Conservancy: Dec.
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PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 3, 2023
York County Receives $5.8 8 Bus Tour Of Stream Restoration Projects -- Citizens Voice: Freeland Stormwater Project In Luzerne County Largest Infrastructure Investment In 2 Decades -- Lancaster Clean Water Partners Host In-Person Municipal Stormwater Forum Sept. 25, Clipper Magazine Stadium, Lancaster. to 3:00 p.m. -- Our Pocono Waters Hosts Sept.
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PA Environment Daily
JULY 14, 2024
Yaw: State’s Efforts Are ‘Positively Transforming’ Chesapeake Bay Watershed -- Discover NEPA: Keep NE PA’s Rivers & Streams Clean With PA Environmental Council -- TribLive: Franklin Regional Science Teacher Joins Research On Lake Erie -- Patch.com: New Hope-Solebury Students Awarded Aquetong Watershed Scholarships In Bucks County -- PA Assn.
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Remedies for Harmful Algal Blooms Are Available in Law and Practice
Circle of Blue
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Farmers who don’t agree to adopt the new pollution-control measures would lose the insurance subsidy. . The agreement called for permanently protecting two million acres of forests, wetlands, and other natural landscapes by 2025 to slow drainage and absorb nutrients. The six states in the bay watershed, and Washington, D.C.,
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