Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

California has a longstanding leadership role on transportation pollution, and the Clean Air Act grants the state the right to set strong vehicle emissions standards. Truck pollution is a national issue, and in the absence of federal leadership, states have taken the helm. The nation needs rules as strong as California’s.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

That is A LOT of EVs and A LOT less oil use, air pollution and climate emissions. Federal vehicle standards are needed to keep us on track We’re likely to see the next round of vehicle standards finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the coming weeks. By making historic investments in the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2025

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the May 3 PA Bulletin it received an Air Quality Plan Approval application on April 4 for a 4.6 gigawatt natural gas-fired power plant from Homer City Generation, LLC to be located in Center Township, Indiana County. (

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2025

. -- New Castle Power, LLC - New Castle Natural Gas Power Plant: DEP invites comments on the renewal of a Title V Air Quality Permit for the facility located in Taylor Twp., Lawrence County. ( Lycoming County. Received March 26, Issued April 21. ( Received March 26, Issued April 21. ( Butler County. ( Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2025

Shapiro and CNX Resources Corporation announced the Department of Environmental Protection will begin conducting an independent study of unconventional shale gas well pad air emissions. will be monitored close to the well pad through the duration of the air monitoring project. On May 1, Gov. VOCs and PM2.5 Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

On May 8, the PJM Interconnection issued a statement on the US Environmental Protection Agency's final rule setting New Source Performance Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions and its potential impact on electric grid reliability. Friel-Otten, Rep. Abney Introduce Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

On March 24, the US Environmental Protection Agency posted information on how industries regulated under a variety of federal Clean Air Act programs could obtain Presidential Exemptions from those requirements. Please: Use Presidential Exemption: [Name of Regulation]: [Facility(ies) Name] as the subject of the request.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Just months after the massive, taxpayer-subsidized Shell petrochemical refinery in Butler County began operations, the state Department of Environmental Protection has cited it for substantial air pollution. The following editorial was published in the Republican Herald on December 19, 2022 -- That didn’t take long.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2023

By Joseph Minott, Clean Air Council This guest essay first appeared in the Beaver County Times on March 19, 2023 -- If the first three months of operations at Shell’s petrochemical plant are any indication, the next 30 years are going to be stressful and hazardous for nearby Beaver Country residents. tons in any consecutive 12-month period).

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

On November 22, the Clean Air Council , PennFuture , and the Center for Biological Diversity announced they appealed an extension of Renovo Energy Center’s air pollution permit for a large gas-fired power plant — a significant source of new pollution within an environmental justice area.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2021

On September 29, the Department of Environmental Protection terminated the air quality permit for the proposed Beech Hollow natural gas-fired power plant in Robinson Township, Washington County at the request of the company. said nearby resident and Clean Air Council member Cathy “Cat” Lodge.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

He was appointed as a mediator by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to work with the environmental community and industry to establish better regulations for water quality monitoring in areas impacted by coal ash. from Villanova University School of Law. Since assuming elected office in 2020, Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2024

Air Quality Permits -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the May 11 PA Bulletin inviting comments on a proposed Title V Air Quality RACT III Permit for the Montour LLC Coal/Natural Gas-fired Power Plant located in Derry Twp., Susquehanna County. ( Montour County. Montour County.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2022

The study cites increased noise, air pollution, and traffic associated with gas sites as the culprits of higher levels of heart patient hospitalizations. The same sense of urgency needs to be applied to tackling air pollution, a health problem with a clear and actionable solution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 3, 2024

Despite the generous funding opportunities and holistic flexibilities baked into ACF, confusion around and misinformation about the rule may undermine this much-needed shift away from fossil-fueled trucks and buses. The IRA also provides up to $100,000 in assistance per commercial vehicle charger under Section 30C.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

On February 28, the Department of Environmental Protection awarded $1.5 million in 2022 Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant funding to help municipalities, schools, and businesses around the state switch to clean transportation and improve air quality in their communities. Click Here for a list of projects funded.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 5054 ) Air Quality Permits -- McElroy Green Marketing LLC - Mine Methane Flare Project: DEP invites comments on Air Quality Plan Approval for the project located in Gilmore Twp., The following DEP notices were published in the August 12 PA Bulletin related to oil and gas industry facilities. Bradford County. (

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 7075 ) Air Quality Permits -- Eastern Gas Transmission & Storage, Inc. South Oakford Compressor Station: DEP invites comments on Air Quality Plan Approval to operate air pollution sources at the facility located in Hempfield Twp., PA Bulletin, page 7050 ) ( PA Bulletin, page 7083 ) Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2024

While the bill includes a provision for evaluating waiver requests in terms of how “safety and reliability standards will be maintained or exceeded” if the petition is granted, there are no provisions excluding pipelines from the waiver process or specifically ensuring applicable environmental protection standards would still be met.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

Encina claims, none of the material would be sold as diesel fuel, synthetic oil or other forms of fossil fuel. Encina representatives said modifications would be made to protect buildings from flooding. Air emissions would adhere to restrictions set by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

They experience truck traffic and their diesel exhaust emissions, transient workforces, air pollution, including volatile organic compounds, particulate matter, ozone, oxides of nitrogen and fugitive methane emissions. Fully fund and staff government agencies that protect public health.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

On September 16, the Department of Environmental Protection published the Interim Final Environmental Justice Policy in the PA Bulletin that will now guide DEP’s permit application reviews and outreach efforts in environmental justice areas throughout the Commonwealth. Read more here.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Folks who dealt with contaminated water and air pollution and suffered severe health consequences that they believed were a result of fracking happening near their homes.” “Now, The company has also been criminally charged with violations of the Air Pollution Control Act in Washington County.

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MGKF Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The holding halts former Governor Tom Wolf’s efforts to make Pennsylvania the first major fossil-fuel producing state to implement a price on carbon emissions. Read More » Tags: Air , Climate Change , Commonwealth Court , Pennsylvania , Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection , Taxes

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 17, 2022

The Yale Study will add to the wealth of scientific research documenting the devastating impacts of the fossil fuel industry and fracking on human health, communities and the environment. Click Here for a copy of the study.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Josh Shapiro, the Department of Environmental Protection, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Pennsylvania Environmental Council marked the plugging of the 100th conventional oil and gas well– more wells than were plugged in the prior 6 years combined-- using federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Act funding.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- Awards/Recognition -- We Remember Sept. 6 Webinar On New Model Ordinance To Mitigate The Environmental Impacts Of Warehouse Facilities [PaEN] -- Schuylkill River Greenways Hosts Sept. 16 -- Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Many of the notices offer the opportunity for public comments. -- The Department of Environmental Protection reports spills and releases from the oil and gas industry have created over 575 brownfield sites being cleaned up under the Act 2 Land Recycling Program , as of September 12, 2023. . Tioga County. ( Chester County. (

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Science & Climate

APRIL 22, 2021

A team of transportation and policy experts from the University of California released a report today to the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) outlining policy options to significantly reduce transportation-related fossil fuel demand and emissions.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, it’s crucial that we shift energy production away from the unsustainable fossil fuels that cause climate change and towards those that release little to no greenhouse gases (GHG), such as solar and wind power. We didn’t leave the Stone Age because we ran out of stones.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Appeal The Department of Environmental Protection and Petro Erie, Inc. Other projects include bringing the contaminated Bellows Spring water source back into service with a new water treatment facility-- $610,000-- and replacing customer water meters. Documents related to this PUC proceeding can be found at PUC Docket No.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2022

On October 13, local, regional, and state environmental groups submitted 28 pages of comments to the Department of Environmental Protection urging the agency to deny Erosion and Sedimentation and Water Encroachment permits through Exceptional Value and High Quality watersheds for the Transco Regional Energy Access Natural Gas Pipeline.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2022

Cheswick is one of only a half-dozen remaining coal-fired plants in Pennsylvania, and the state Department of Environmental Protection predicts that none will operate after 2025. Even though the plant is brought online only during times of high demand, and thus high prices, it is still one of the biggest air polluters in the county.

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