PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Local residents began reporting water contamination, air pollution, and health problems such as respiratory illnesses and headaches. However, the rapid expansion of fracking in Washington County came with significant environmental and health concerns. Bartolotta, Sen.

Toxic Substances Control Act

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

For example, potential air pollution effects from atmospheric oxidation enhancement might differ from local ecosystem impacts from adding materials to soils as part of ecosystem uptake enhancement. and international laws may apply to field research and deployment. The paper also analyzes domestic U.S.

Atmosphere

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 7705 ) -- Chrinergyy Power, LLC - Chrin Brothers Landfill Gas Project Title V Air Quality Permit: DEP invites comments on a Title V Air Quality Plan Approval Permit for a landfill gas project located in Glendon Boro, Northampton County. ( Received May 17, Administratively complete Nov. Received Oct. 15, Approved Oct.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

Its a daily litany of spills, polluted water supplies, smell of natural gas in the air, noise, air pollution, explosions, landslides, truck traffic, radioactive waste, gas flares, erosion problems, dust, lights, road dumping waste, abandoned equipment and wells. 27 Released 1.1 26 to Sept.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

2,070 conventional wells-- 66% of those abandoned wells were not required to have a well plugging bond by law. 2,070 conventional wells-- 66% of those abandoned wells were not required to have a well plugging bond by law. 753 well owners covering 81,396 wells did report. 4,946 well owners were required to report.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Air Quality Permits -- Williams Field Services Company, LLC - White Compressor Station: DEP renewed the GP-5 General Air Quality Permit covering multiple air pollution sources for the facility located in Springville Twp., Susquehanna County. Application received Sept. 30, 2024, approved Oct. 9, 2024. ( Susquehanna County.

2024

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

These fires, often deliberately set as part of land clearing efforts for cattle or agriculture, are becoming even more intense in the face of the climate crisis and exposing millions to dangerous air pollution.

Deforestation

Law Columbia

MAY 30, 2025

Last Thursday, May 22, the New York State Court of Appeals the States highest court issued a decision upholding New York Citys Local Law 97 of 2019. Local Law 97 is one of the countrys most ambitious municipal climate policies, requiring the Citys largest buildings to comply with increasingly stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limits.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 4, 2025

that was the gist of the Dean’s email that restricted communications from Tulane University’s Environmental Law Clinic , where I worked as a research scientist. I also knew that I was a pawn in Tulane’s larger, surreptitious attack on the Environmental Law Clinic. “Here’s your gag order, have a good weekend!”

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2025

Access to clean energy is critical due to the generational harm caused by air pollution from power plants which is over-concentrated in historically marginalized communities. When configured as part of a virtual power plant, DERs can even be used to defer or eliminate the need for expensive, polluting infrastructure.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2024

That means they are going to politicians with their hand out to receive more of your tax dollars with nothing to show for it except receipts from past failures like leaking pipelines, harmful air pollution, and dangerous explosions. It’s focused on increasing the price of natural gas to increase its bottom line. Bartolotta, Sen.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2024

In Civil Penalties For 12-Month Air Quality Violations After May 2023 Consent Order [PaEN] -- DEP Signs Consent Order Including $10 Million In Penalties, Local Payments With Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County To Resolve Air Quality Violations; Plant To Restart May 24 [PaEN] [Posted: December 18, 2024] PA Environment Digest

Air Pollution

Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Railroading State Environmental Law: The Surface Transportation Board Preempts All By Benjamin Albertson The Surface Transportation Board (“STB”) has exclusive authority over railroads in the United States and has since the Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act of 1995 (“ICCTA”). This means such laws will not be preempted by ICCTA.

Law

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In February 2023, the Tokyo District Court found that the Notice of Finalization, which had been issued through a simplified permitting procedure, was lawful. Since climate change affects people globally, distinguishing plaintiffs from the rest of the population will likely remain an issue for establishing standing under administrative law.

2025

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Billion Hydrogen, Natural Gas Tax Credit, Shapiro Wants To Rewrite The Law To Boost Electricity Production -- Ohio River Valley Institute: Is The Appalachian Hydrogen Hub Coming Apart? 23 In-Person Tour Of Shale Gas Fracking Sites & Infrastructure In Washington County And Discover Its Costs [PaEN] -- Sen. Bartolotta, Sen.

2019

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Billion Hydrogen, Natural Gas Tax Credit, Shapiro Wants To Rewrite The Law To Boost Electricity Production -- Ohio River Valley Institute: Is The Appalachian Hydrogen Hub Coming Apart? 23 In-Person Tour Of Shale Gas Fracking Sites & Infrastructure In Washington County And Discover Its Costs [PaEN] -- Sen. Bartolotta, Sen.

Toxic Substances Control Act

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2025

On August 4, 2025, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court denied efforts by all PA Senate Republicans and all PA House Republicans to intervene in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a law that took away the authority to increase conventional oil and gas well plugging bond amounts to cover taxpayer costs of plugging wells they abandon.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

Chart: Patrick Cicero, Former PA Consumer Advocate and Counsel to the Pennsylvania Utility Law Project. Billion Pounds Of Air Pollution Since It Began Operation, During 80 Malfunctions, 43 Violation Episodes [PaEN] -- PA Senate Republican Policy Committee To Hold Aug. Visit the PJM Interconnection website for more information.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

Industries claim that this Board lacks the authority to act on this petition is not supported by these laws. The [state] Oil and Gas Act, Clean Streams Law and Air Pollution Control Act give EQB the authority and mandate to promulgate regulations to protect health and the environment.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

require a petition to meet three criteria in DEP’s initial review-- -- Petition must be complete; -- Petition requests an action that can be taken by the EQB [within its statutory authority]; and -- The action does not conflict with federal law. DEP’s determination means the petition has met these three criteria, at this stage.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

A quick refresher: Automobiles and trucks are among the leading causes of climate- and lung-destroying air pollution worldwide, and shifting from gasoline-powered to electric vehicles is a key strategy (among many) to cut these emissions. It’s a bleak outlook from any angle. What does it mean for the electric vehicle transition?

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2025

I applaud Governor Shapiros continued support for Community Solar and look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to get it signed into law. Solar panels do not emit carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides, or other harmful air pollutants when theyre working.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Over 1st Quarter 2024; Price Of Natural Gas Increased 218% Over 1st Quarter 2024 [PaEN] -- Erie Times Guest Essay: Understaffed DEP Can’t Uphold Law And Protect Public Health - By Rep. Greg Vitali (D-Delaware), Chair, House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee -- Marcellus Drilling News: PA Independent Oil & Gas Assn.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2380 ) -- Columbia Gas Trans LLC - Eagle Compressor Station: DEP issued an Air Quality Plan approval covering multiple sources of air pollution at the facility located in West Vincent Twp., Received Dec. 27, Issued Jan. Chester County. Received Feb. 21, Issued March 7. ( Washington County. Received Feb.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2025

EHB Docket # 2023074 ] At the same time, the EHB imposed new conditions on the permits that force the Department of Environmental Protection to protect nearby residents from nuisances and adverse health impacts such as noise, light, air pollution, and heavy industrial truck traffic. page 98 of opinion).]

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2025

The amendment would cover pollution from major oil and gas infrastructure and pipelines, power plants and many other facilities that emit these air pollutants. The amendment would cover pollution from major oil and gas infrastructure and pipelines, power plants and many other facilities that emit these air pollutants.

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The existing siting process has resulted in a high concentration of polluting electricity generating units in and near environmental justice neighborhoods. Source: UCS , with Alternatives for Community and Environment, GreenRoots, and the Conservation Law Foundation. Rising to meet the challenge ahead The job is not done yet.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

Wolf signed into law legislation in July 2022 that took away the EQBs authority to increase bond amounts for conventional oil and gas wells for 10 years. Conventional oil and gas wells drilled before April 18, 1985, which is most of them, cannot be required to have any well plugging bond by law. Read more here. Read more here.

2025

Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2025

Today, both Vietnam and its people suffer the devastating consequences of Agent Orange: cancer; birth defects; soil, water, and air pollution, and more. For nearly a decade, U.S. military forces sprayed nearly 19 million gallons of herbicides (often called Agent Orange) in Vietnam.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 18, 2024

After all, a framework document is not a rule or law, and it may seem broad and abstract. 6), where there are disparate exposures between low income people and people of color compared to their white or higher income counterparts, and combined exposures to extreme heat and air pollution. Why does it matter?

Environmental Protection

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2024

They involve reduced protection for endangered species, eliminating energy efficiency rules, blocking new transmission lines, changing electricity regulation to favor fossil fuels, weakening air pollution rules, and encouraging sale of gas guzzlers. #1. Crippling air pollution control. 402-404] #5. Embracing gas guzzlers.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2025

As crucial as these vehicles are, and as important as the goods and services they supply are, they also bring high levels of air pollution that endanger peoples health and contribute to climate change. But heavy-duty vehicles can be cleaned up.

Electricity

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. Attorney Eric G. Olshan for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Clean Air Act

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.]

Air Pollution

Legal Planet

APRIL 21, 2025

More than 175 people turned out for the all-day symposium at UCLA Law, co-hosted by the California Lawyers Associations Environmental Law Section and co-sponsored by LA Climate Week and the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy. We have done a poor job in articulating the benefits people get from clean air.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

EPA Supreme Court ruling which held that greenhouse gas emissions are unambiguously air pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. Zeldin is fervently committed to dismantling public health protections and rolling back enforcement of existing laws passed by Congress. These findings followed from the landmark 2007 Mass v.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2025

COLORADO The states air pollution agency adopted stricter rules to prevent methane leaks from oil and gas operations. NEW MEXICO– The state passed eight new climate laws covering a wide range of topics, such as advanced grid technologies, geothermal power, energy storage, and funding for projects to reduce carbon emissions.

Fossil Fuels