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The Department of Environmental Protection invites comments on a new State Only Minor Air Quality Operating Permit for the continued operation of the ETC Northeast Pipeline LLC [Energy Transfer] Revolution NaturalGas Cryogenic Processing Plant in Salem Township, Washington County. ( million to DEP.
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.
These penalties are in addition to a $670,000 civil penalty DEP accessed against Shell Falcon Pipeline and its contractor Minnesota Limited LLC for violations of its permit and other laws and regulations that occurred in 2019 and 2020 during pipeline construction. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.
But just in case there was any doubt, UCS crunched the numbers to compare the different types of school buses from gasoline and diesel-powered option, to naturalgas, electric and yes – even propane. The infrastructure law allows for some of the funds to be used for other types of buses including naturalgas or propane-powered buses.
One way to better understand the impact the oil and gas industry has on the daily lives of Pennsylvanians is to read Oil and Gas Program inspection reports to see the kinds of violations DEP uncovers every day, week in and week out, as they inspect oil and gas wells and gas infrastructure across the state.
PA Bulletin, page 2380 ) -- Columbia Gas Trans LLC - Eagle Compressor Station: DEP issued an Air Quality Plan approval covering multiple sources of airpollution 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 Quality Permits -- Williams Field Services Company, LLC - White Compressor Station: DEP renewed the GP-5 General Air Quality Permit covering multiple airpollution sources for the facility located in Springville Twp., Susquehanna County. Application received Sept. 30, 2024, approved Oct. 9, 2024. ( Susquehanna County.
PA Bulletin, page 7398 ) Air Quality Permits -- Equitrans, LP - Denny Hill Road Compressor Station: DEP invites comments on a Title V/RACT III Air Quality permit covering multiple airpollution sources at the facility located in Jefferson Twp., Deemed complete Oct. Greene County. ( Greene County. Approved Oct.
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So, we're all making decisions right now about whether it makes any sense, again, to vote on something that would ban naturalgas development in the state, said King. She added-- It is possible that the department proposes something different that is not effectively a ban on oil and gas development.
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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.
Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Chesapeake Appalachia llc - Marbaker Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP received a Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated by production wastewater to meet a Statewide Health Standard at the pad located in Auburn Twp., Susquehanna County. ( Delaware County. ( Greene County. ( Franklin County. (
Air Quality Permits - Comments -- Constellation Energy Generation LLC - Eddystone Gas/Oil Power Plant: DEP invites comments on the renewal of a Title V Air Quality Permit for the facility located in Eddystone Boro, Delaware County. ( Bradford County. ( Butler County. Received Jan. 28, Issued Jan. Washington County. Received Dec.
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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. Million In Abandoned Well Plugging Funding Against Shale Gas Drilling Companies-- XTO Energy, Inc.,
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On September 18, Senators Steven Santasiero (D-Bucks) and Carolyn Comitta (D-Chester), Minority Chair of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, announced they were introducing legislation to increase setback safety zones from shale naturalgas drilling sites based on the latest science. Read more here.
On February 17, the Clean Air Council and the Environmental Integrity Project sent a letter to the Department of Environmental Protection urging the state to temporarily halt operations at a Shell plastics chemical plant in Beaver County that has repeatedly violated airpollution limits and recently released plumes of black smoke for several hours.
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.
Even when accounting for pollution from electricity generation, electric trucks can significantly reduce airpollution and get us on a better track to addressing climate change.
The following notices were published in the March 29 PA Bulletin related to oil and gas industry facilities. PA Bulletin, page 2565 ) Read more here. -- Tennessee Gas Pipeline - Compressor Station 219: DEP to hold May 7 hearing on Title V RACT 3 Permit for the facility located in Jefferson Township, Mercer County. ( Luzerne County. (
On March 14, the federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Adelphia Gateway naturalgas pipeline company was not entitled to a different outcome in Federal Court after receiving an adverse judgment in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania in Cole et al v. Department of Environmental Protection in 2021. Opinion, p.
As a result, all parties agreed in a voluntary settlement that Bradford County Real Estate Partners would have to apply for a new air quality permit before moving ahead with the project. Photo: WNEP - NaturalGas Plant coming To Bradford County.) O’Neill, PennFuture Senior Attorney.
DOT Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and states were preempted from “prescribing and/or enforcing safety standards and practices for interstate naturalgas pipeline or storage facilities” by federal law. Wells serving these fields are regulated as conventional oil and gas wells by DEP.
Here are j ust a few examples of the penalties imposed by DEP against Big Shale Gas and related industries include-- -- $939,553 penalty against Chevron related to fatal gas well fire in Greene County; -- $1.1 billion cubic feet of naturalgas from the Rager Mountain Gas Storage area in Cambria County; -- $1.1
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Read more here. ] ( Photo: NaturalGas Leaks At Diversified Energy Conventional NaturalGas Well in Boyce Park , Allegheny County July 16, 2022 by Earthworks. The Evangelical Environmental Network also supports those regulations. Click Here for video.)
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The amendment would cover pollution from major oil and gas infrastructure and pipelines, power plants and many other facilities that emit these airpollutants. The amendment would cover pollution from major oil and gas infrastructure and pipelines, power plants and many other facilities that emit these airpollutants.
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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The study-- Hazardous AirPollutants In Transmission Pipeline NaturalGas: An Analytic Assessment -- was accepted for publication in Environmental Research Letters journal September 16. blowdowns and blowouts), which we now know not only contains methane, but also Hazardous AirPollutants and other chemicals.
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