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but it inevitably brings forth a mish-mash of half-remembered, inappropriate or out-of-date comparisons between the impacts of carbondioxide and methane. Thus despite the smaller concentrations and changes in methane compared to carbondioxide, the impacts are comparable. Stocks and flows. References. Etminan, G.
Their study examined the carbondioxide and methane emissions from these companies’ products, as well as from the extraction and production processes of the largest gas, oil and coal producers and cement manufacturers. Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014.
Just how bad is fossil “natural” gas? Responsible for 12 percent of all US global warming emissions from human activities, methane traps significantly more heat per molecule than carbondioxide, making it 86 times more harmful for the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere. First, there’s airpollution.
“ Natural” gas is not clean or green, as its misleading name implies Every reputable environmental organization and energy agency around the world is saying we can’t build new gas projects if we want to avoid complete climate chaos. Using gas appliances at home creates indoor airpollution and can lead to asthma in children.
May 11, the Environmental Integrity Project and Clean Air Council filed a federal lawsuit against the Shell Petrochemical Plant for repeatedly violating permitted airpollution limits from a massive new plastics production plant in Beaver County, which opened last year. In a lawsuit filed in the U.S.
In response, Europe has scrambled to replace flows and decouple this dependence , in part by shifting away from gas to clean energy alternatives, in part by increasing local gas production, and in part by turning to imports of liquified naturalgas, or LNG—including from the US.
Seth Grove (R-York) introduced House Bill 2444 that contains a naturalgas industry wish list of measures they want to expand naturalgas drilling, subsidize pipeline expansion using DCNR Oil and Gas Fund revenue, automatically approve of well permits and preempting local government regulation of all facilities regulated by DEP.
In 2022, these facilities self-reported 13,432,713 tons of airpollution-- 47.93% came from mid-stream pipeline facilities; 30.18% from unconventional shale gas wells and 21.81% from main line naturalgas compressor stations. tons, carbondioxide- 13,222,354.96 tons, carbondioxide- 3,710,597.99
CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the Clean Air Act and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants. at 528–529. 7411(b)(1)(B); see also §7411(a)(2). Post, at 20. That description of the holding in AEP v.
for air quality, waste, and oil and gas violations related to the uncontrolled gas release from Equitrans’ Rager Mountain naturalgas storage field and George L Reade 1 storage well in November 2022. billion cubic feet of gas was released at the facility in uncontrolled venting. Read more here.
Join with the Evangelical Environmental Network , Moms Clean Air Force , Pipeline Safety Trust , and Healthfirst PA on June 5 for a webinar on the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration's proposed rule to cut methane leaks from naturalgas pipelines starting at Noon.
The court overturned a District Court ruling to invalidate a Berkeley, California, prohibition on naturalgas infrastructure in newly-constructed buildings. Berkeley’s so-called “naturalgas ban” was the first local ordinance in the country to effectively require all-electric construction of new buildings.
Instead of ramping up fossil gas (aka naturalgas) consumption, we need to bring it down. Ontario needs to do our part in reducing global emissions and phasing out fossil gas is a smart way to do it. The gas subsidy alone amounts to $26,000 per home! Reserve hydrogen and gas from renewable sources (e.g.
Causer Blames DEP Database For Conventional Oil & Gas Operators Abandoning, Not Plugging Their Wells; Industry Wants To Redefine Operator Responsibility For Abandoned Wells [PaEN] -- Times Leader: Ohio Attorney General Charges PA Company Austin Master Services With Storing Excessive Quantities Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater, Threatening Ohio (..)
Previously, local governments had pursued building electrification through building code provisions requiring or incentivizing electrification expressly, or through affirmative “bans” on naturalgas hookups to new and renovated buildings. Brookline’s attempt was later struck down by the Massachusetts attorney general.
. -- The Susquehanna River Basin Commission published notice in the July 20 PA Bulletin announcing an August 1 hearing on water withdrawal requests, including for the proposed Amazon Data Center in Luzerne County, seven shale gas development and a UGI power plant. Washington County. PA Bulletin, page 4162 ) Read more here. Washington County.
Methane is particularly dangerous because it is up to 86 times more potent than carbondioxide – warming our planet and contributing to airpollution that damages our lungs and our hearts. PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 25 to Dec.
Pennsylvania has more than 350,000 conventional oil and gas wells abandoned by well owners, contributing nearly 8 percent of the state's total methane emissions. Since August 23, Baker Hughes reports the number of naturalgas drilling rigs in Pennsylvania has dropped by 33% as part of an industry attempt to increase naturalgas prices.
. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the July 6 PA Bulletin announcing it has issued an Air Quality Permit Plan Approval to authorize the construction and operation of the Frontier LNG naturalgas production facility at the Winner 4H Shale Gas Well Pad in West Keating Township, Clinton County.
. -- Beech Resources, LLC - Two 16-inch Water Pipelines, One 16-inch Gas Pipeline: DEP invites comments on a Chapter 105 application for three pipelines impacting Beauty’s Run (Exceptional Value), several Exceptional Value wetlands and floodways located in Lycoming Twp., Lycoming County. ( PA Bulletin, page 4044 ) Read more here.
Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Chesapeake Appalachia LLC - Ward Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP approved Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated by production wastewater at the facility located in West Burlington Twp., PA Bulletin, page 7197 ) -- Peoples NaturalGas Company - Replacing 2.43 Bradford County. (
PA Bulletin, page 2640 ) Waste Permits -- SWN Production Company - Odell Water Transfer Facility: DEP issued WMGR123 Waste General Permit for oil and gas waste processing facility in New Milford Twp., mile pipeline project serving shale gas drilling operations with multiple stream and wetlands impacts in Springville Twp.,
Enbridge promises to blend some hydrogen with naturalgas, but that’s just a dangerous distraction. Blending a small amount of hydrogen into a gas plant won’t meaningfully reduce emissions. Instead, it will lock in polluting fossil fuel infrastructure for decades. These are not real solutions.
The 28 funded projects will install 32 electric vehicle chargers for private and public use and put 95 electric vehicles, 24 compressed or renewable naturalgas vehicles, and 11 propane vehicles on the road. It also helps lower the level of carbondioxide, helping to address climate change.
They experience truck traffic and their diesel exhaust emissions, transient workforces, airpollution, including volatile organic compounds, particulate matter, ozone, oxides of nitrogen and fugitive methane emissions. Finally, this industry has fugitive emissions of methane and the burning of gas releases carbondioxide.
Methane emissions are the second-largest cause of global warming after carbondioxide, and controlling them is increasingly considered a key to arresting climate change. This is existential proof that making methane visible can lead to voluntary action,” said Riley Duren, Carbon Mapper CEO and founder. Read more here.]
Methane’s Warming Potential : Methane, a colorless, odorless, and highly flammable gas that occurs abundantly in nature and from a variety of anthropogenic activities, has a considerably higher global warming potential than carbondioxide.
Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee informational briefing on carbon capture. A hearing was held on the bill June 5. Room 140 Main Capitol. Click Here to watch online. Read more here. Room 8E-B East Wing.
Trillion Across Global Economy, Report -- Spotlight PA: Federal Money Won’t Be Enough To Solve PA Abandoned Conventional Oil/Gas Well Problem, Current Well Owners Routinely Fail To Plug Their Wells -- PA General Energy Announced It Will Plug Proposed Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Grant Twp.,
Steel For Clairton Coke (Coal) Works For 2nd Quarter [PaEN] -- WESA: Allegheny County Levees $307,000 In Fines On US Steel For Clairton Coke (Coal) Works AirPollution Violations -- TribLive: U.S. Steel Ready To Close 3 Of 10 Batteries At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works -- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: U.S.
Generator Nonperformance The failure of naturalgas and coal-fired power plants to meet their obligations to generate power during Winter Storm Elliot has heightened concerns about margin projects in the PJM grid area. A record $1.8 Read more here.
million in Alternative Fuels Incentive Grants to municipalities and businesses for 99 electric vehicles and more clean fuel transportation projects to improve air quality in their communities. Transportation is one of the biggest sources of airpollution in Pennsylvania.
These pollutants contribute to ground-level ozone, or smog, which EPA has shown has negative health impacts, including asthma attacks and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Zero- and low-emission vehicles also lower carbondioxide emissions, helping to lessen climate change. Annually, the project will remove 1.38
Shell’s air quality plan approval states that the facility’s emissions of VOCs shall not equal or exceed 516.2 This exceedance is a violation of Shell’s plan approvals ( PA-04-00740A , PA-04-00740B , and PA-04-00740C ) and the Pennsylvania AirPollution Control Act and regulations. tons of VOCs in a 12-month period.
The grant recipients, ranging from a small borough to rental car, garbage truck, and school bus companies, will replace 88 old gasoline or diesel vehicles with 78 electric and 10 renewable naturalgas vehicles and install 36 chargers for electric vehicles.
million in Alternative Fuel Incentive Grants (AFIGs) to 18 cleaner fuel transportation projects statewide that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other airpollutants. The program supports electric, ethanol, biodiesel, compressed naturalgas (CNG), propane gas, and other cleaner fuel vehicles.
Owners of Pennsylvania coal-fired power plants, a coal industry trade group and labor unions that represent their workers filed a lawsuit April 25 to stop the DEP from enforcing new rules that will require fossil fuel power plants to pay to release carbondioxide.
DEP inspections in April found several of these wells venting naturalgas. More than approximately 350,000 orphaned conventional oil and gas wells across our Commonwealth make up nearly 8% of our total methane emissions. Read more here.] Read more here.
Local airpollution (and global climate change) ; 4. At a time where scientists are trying to figure out how to suck the excess carbon out of our atmosphere, Mother Nature has known how to do it for millions of years. Trees are very efficient at absorbing carbondioxide. per watt in 2008 to $3.36/watt
Even though the plant is brought online only during times of high demand, and thus high prices, it is still one of the biggest airpolluters in the county. Electricity Generation From NaturalGas Now Falling Like Coal In Face Of New, Cheaper Renewable Power Plants [Not Subject To Whims Of International Energy Markets] -- U.S.
Peoples NaturalGas Rate Increase Background On Issues -- DEP: Oil & Gas Regulatory Program Will Be In The Red By Fall; All Sectors Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program No Go; Update On Permitting Reform [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb.
Other States/National/International -- Post-Gazette: More Research Links AirPollution Exposure And COVID Risk -- The Guardian: ‘Everything Was Orange,’ U.S. Penn’s Cave & Wildlife Park , Centre Hall, PA. to 4:00 p.m. Penn’s Cave & Wildlife Park , Centre Hall, PA. to 4:00 p.m.
inspection report ] Homeowner Well Venting Gas On May 9, DEP inspected two wells operated by Margaret E. Lawry known as the Richard Applebee 3 and 4 conventional gas wells in Venango Township, Erie County in response to a citizen complaint that one of the wells was venting naturalgas. and Shawn M.
From May 6 to 12, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 449 inspection entries that resulted in reporting 65 violations of environmental regulations-- 49 violations by the conventional oil and gas industry and 16 violations by the unconventional shale naturalgas industry.
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