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On November 12, Moms Clean Air Force , Environmental Health Project , and Clean Air Council held a press conference at the Pennsylvania State Capitol calling on state leaders to safeguard Pennsylvanians from the impacts of a fossilfuel and plastic industry buildout.
However, there is one notable exception: how much you pay for naturalgas. Instead, they provide the gas industry with justification to increase prices in the name of jobs and national security. 19, naturalgas costs $2.26 It’s focused on increasing the price of naturalgas to increase its bottom line.
Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) announced plans to introduce legislation to prohibit municipalities from receiving Act 13 drilling impact fees if they set more protective standards on the development of naturalgas than required in state or federal law and while a challenge to local restrictions is being litigated. Read more here.
Read more here ] Naturalgas processing plants separate ethane from shale gas, which is then used by Shells Beaver County petrochemical plant to produce plastics. Pennsylvania should also invest in industries that provide good, clean jobs rather than more fuel to dirty plastics production that harms our health and environment.
Williams/Laurel Mountain Midstream, LLM notified DEP of a rupture in the Patterson to Anden six-inch naturalgas gathering pipeline near Todd Farm Road on the Manack farm in Rostraver Township, Westmoreland County. Williams/Laurel Mountain said the underground pipeline served conventional gas wells in the area.
Union of Concerned Scientists’ (UCS) research shows that top fossilfuel producers’ emissions are responsible for as much as half of global surface temperature increase. The best solution: Replace fossilfuels with renewable energy. A small number of big corporations are responsible for the climate crisis.
DEP also detected naturalgas and crude oil odors at the site. Additional inspection reports may be added to DEPs Oil and Gas Compliance Database.] Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- 6-Inch Conventional NaturalGas Gathering Pipeline Rupture Causes Spill In Rostraver Twp., Multiple violations were issued by DEP.
Those benefits will flow to people in rural areas as well as urban ones, to national security and international development, and to nature itself. To begin with, there are the health benefits of the energy transition away from fossilfuels. The disadvantaged bear the heaviest burden from airpollution today.
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 naturalgas-fired power plant from Homer City Generation, LLC to be located in Center Township, Indiana County. ( Read more here.
This means that, with few exceptions, new buildings will need to exclusively use electric appliances, and will not be allowed to contain any fossil-fuel infrastructure, like natural-gas lines. All-electric as the new normal. A win for climate, health & safety, and equitable process.
This testimony was presented by Sarah Martik , Executive Director of the Center for Coalfield Justice based in Washington County, at a March 11 hearing by the DEP Office of Environmental Justice on an Air Quality Permit for the expansion of the MarkWest Energy's Harmon Creek NaturalGas Processing Plant in Smith Township, Washington County.
It attempted to move away from fossilfuels and toward zero-carbon sources like solar power to supply electricity. Fossilfuel plants — coal-fired power plants in particular — cause serious airpollution problems. The Plan was Obama’s signature climate policy.
Just how bad is fossil “natural” gas? And, as it turns out, the infrastructure used to produce, store, distribute, transmit, and burn gas leaks like a sieve , making gas as bad as coal for the climate. First, there’s airpollution. Its primary component is methane.
Upcoming research from my colleague Dave Cooke shows that electric delivery trucks can reduce climate-warming emissions from driving by up to 92 percent and reduce lifecycle public health impacts by up to 85 percent compared to today’s average fossil-fueled delivery trucks.
While the epicenter of the war and its horrors has remained trained on and in Ukraine, Russia has also leveraged its position as a major fossilfuel exporter to fund its war efforts and to manipulate and threaten others, including countries across Europe that have long relied on Russian supplies of gas.
“ 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. Gas is a pollutingfossilfuel which emits greenhouse gasses when it is produced and used.
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On April 14, The Express reported Bechtel Corp will discontinue development of the 1,000 MW naturalgas-fired Renovo Energy Center in Clinton County. Every step away from fossilfuels is a step toward averting both climate disaster and the biodiversity crisis.” “As 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1
On August 14, CNX Resources issued a press release announcing the preliminary results of air emissions monitoring at 14 sites it said "indicate that CNX naturalgas development poses no public health risk." Eleven of the sites were monitored for as little as just four weeks up to 24 weeks or less.
There is also a very small impact of the CH 4 oxidation to CO 2 itself for any fossil-fuel derived methane. (a) Whatever way you slice this it implies that CH 4 reductions have an outsize effect on climate, as well as an undeniably positive impact on airpollution, crop yields and public health.
On November 22, the Clean Air Council , PennFuture , and the Center for Biological Diversity announced they appealed an extension of Renovo Energy Center’s airpollution permit for a large gas-fired power plant — a significant source of new pollution within an environmental justice area.
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Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossilfuel-fired power plants. Indeed, EPA still retains the ability to set strong standards that curtail carbon pollution at the scale, speed, and rigor required.
On September 13, the Pittsburgh-based Environmental Health Project issued a review of the University of Pittsburgh studies released on August 15 showing links between naturalgas development and Lymphoma cancer, worsening asthma conditions and lower birth weights. "We
As Attorney General and now as Governor, I have listened to Pennsylvanians concerned about their health and safety and I am delivering on the promise I made to them to conduct the most robust air monitoring in the country, saidGov. will be monitored close to the well pad through the duration of the air monitoring project.
Shapiro made as Attorney General to advance commonsense measures that prioritize public health and safety and ensure the naturalgas industry is performing its work in line with the highest standards. The Governor's Office said the agreement helps further a promise Gov. Those grand jurors, they did incredible work.
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million in annual taxpayer subsidies to manufacturing and other businesses that use naturalgas and hydrogen in their operations for at least 20 years. The bill also more than doubles the tax credit for using naturalgas to make petrochemicals or fertilizer from naturalgas. billion in state tax incentives.
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The EPA has not sufficiently reconciled its compliance dates with the need for generation to meet dramatically increasing load demands on the system. -- The Final Rule is premised on the availability of increased access to naturalgas infrastructure to support the Rule’s “co-firing with gas” compliance option for existing coal units.
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Conventional Gas Gathering Pipeline Rupture Williams/Laurel Mountain Midstream, LLM On Monday, March 17, 2025 at approximately 5:30 p.m., Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- 6-Inch Conventional NaturalGas Gathering Pipeline Rupture Causes Spill In Rostraver Twp., Read more here. Well as drilled in 2011.
This support for EV charging, and by extension EV ownership among individuals and businesses, is key for accelerating the electrification of the transportation sector that we need to make progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and local airpollution from transportation.
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