PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

-- EQB To Meet Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2025

Read more here ] Natural gas processing plants separate ethane from shale gas, which is then used by Shells Beaver County petrochemical plant to produce plastics. Photo: The Energy Age Blog and Marcellus Air.) Questions from media should be sent to: MomsCleanAirForce@dkcnews.com. Read more here.

Natural Gas 89

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

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 air pollution sources at the facility located in Jefferson Twp., Deemed complete Oct. Greene County. ( Greene County. Approved Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

2024 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2024, DEP received or acted on 244 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard- Nov. DEP inspection report.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

DEP Advisory: DEP is migrating its website to a new platform to launch in mid-December. Bat Stories; Bat Trivia; Witch-Hazel; News Around The Watershed -- Penn State Extension: The Value Of Bats To Crop Production And Revenue -- Delaware RiverKeeper Nov.

Nuclear Power 84

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

Miles of two 16-Inch Natural Gas Pipelines, One 16-Inch Water Pipeline: DEP issued an NPDES Water Quality Permit for the project impacting Pucketa Creek in Upper Burrell Twp., PA Bulletin, page 1444 ) -- Beech Resources, LLC - 16-Inch Natural Gas Pipeline/16-Inch Water Pipeline: DEP approved Chapter 105 permit for 1.9

Natural Gas 90

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2023

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 Air Pollution Violations -- TribLive: U.S. Steel Ready To Close 3 Of 10 Batteries At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works -- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Summary Of House Bill 2277 PRESS continues all of the successful elements of the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards (AEPS) while making it more inclusive—adding nuclear power, next generation technologies like fusion, and clean forms of natural gas for the first time.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2022

12 Webinar On LNG Natural Gas Export Terminal Safety [PaEN] -- Republican Herald Editorial: Gas Industry Appeased Too Long [PaEN] [Posted: December 22, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2023

Below are examples of going the WRONG WAY on environmental and energy issues from last week’s articles and NewsClips-- -- The Guardian: One Of The Worst Global Methane Leaks In 2022 Was In PA - Equitrans In Cambria County; Routine Abandonment, Non-Compliance Of Conventional Gas Wells [PaEN] -- Sen.

Nuclear Power 75

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

This reflects the proceeds expected to come from Pennsylvania electricity customers. -- 30 percent to support energy efficiency projects that reduce air pollution in Pennsylvania, invest in new job-creating clean energy projects, and support low-income energy consumers with their energy bills through a year-round LIHEAP program.

Clean Energy 87

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

PA] Natural Gas - PA Chamber Of Business & Industry -- Erie Times Guest Essay: Support Reliable, Affordable PA Natural Gas, Coal, Petroleum And Grow Renewable Energy - Sen. Dan Laughlin (R-Erie) -- TribLive: City Of Pittsburgh To Continue Leasing Natural Gas Fueling Equipment -- AP: Vistra To Buy Energy Harbor For $3.4

Natural Gas 108

Natural Gas Air Pollution Nuclear Power Solar Power 108

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2024

Causer Blames DEP Database For Showing Conventional Oil & Gas Owners Abandoning, Not Plugging Their Wells; Industry Wants To Redefine Owner Responsibility For Their Abandoned Wells DEP: 89% Of Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Did Not Comply With Well Integrity Reporting For 34,455 Wells In 2023 DEP: 86% Of Conventional Oil & Gas Well (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2024

PRESS raises the target for the cleanest and renewable energy projects in Tier I to 35% by 2035; it raises the target for Tier II to 10%; and it creates a new Tier III that includes important alternative sources or of power like co-blended or low emission natural gas and other step-stone resources with a 5% target by 2035.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

Renewables contributed to electricity prices rising six times more in California than in the rest of the US since 2011, the state’s “take-off” year for rapid growth in wind and solar, a price rise that occurred despite the state’s reliance during the same years on persistently-low-priced natural gas.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

24 Program In Washington County On Increasing Setbacks From Oil & Gas Infrastructure [PaEN] -- Inquirer - Will Bunch: Everything You Know From TV About Pennsylvania And Fracking Is Wrong -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Aug. 4 Hearing In Washington County [PaEN] -- Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Sept.

Nuclear Power 76

Nuclear Power Electricity Conservation Recycling 76

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

14 - Shale Gas Well Ordered Plugged After 8 Years; 20 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Shale Gas Well Leaking Gas For 23 Months And Counting [PaEN] -- What The Shale Gas Industry Leaves Behind: DEP: Southwestern Energy Prod Co.

Conservation 79

Conservation Natural Gas 2025 Electricity 79

PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

By Council To Modernize Governance -- The Allegheny Front: New Book Takes On Radiation Dangers In Oil & Gas Industry [PaEN] -- ABC27: Environmental Advocacy Groups Rally At Capitol For Action On Gas, Oil Industry -- Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2022

John Yudichak (I-Luzerne), who Senate Republicans appointed as Majority Chair of the Senate Community, Economic and Recreational Development Committee, called opponents of natural gas infrastructure projects “radical environmentalists” and arguments by supporters of the RGGI carbon pollution reduction regulations covering power plants “hysteria.”

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 12, 2023

Trillion Across Global Economy, Report -- AP: EPA: New Pollution Limits Proposed For U.S. Trillion Across Global Economy, Report -- AP: EPA: New Pollution Limits Proposed For U.S. Trillion Across Global Economy, Report -- AP: EPA: New Pollution Limits Proposed For U.S.

Air Pollution 102

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Of Environmental Educators Conference March 10-12 In Erie [PaEN] -- TribLive/AP: On Lake Erie, Getting Rid Of Problem Algae Starts With Giving It Less Food -- DCNR Forecast Wildfire Danger HIGH In Most Of PA For Wednesday, Oct. 23 -- LehighValleyLive: Northcentral PA ATV Trail Is A Hit, Generating $23.5

Nuclear Power 83

Nuclear Power Natural Gas 2001 Clean Energy 83

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2025

Cascading Failures Combined To Produce The Worst Nuclear Power Accident In US History At Three Mile Island PennDOT, DEP, Keep PA Beautiful Invite Public To Be Part Of Pick Up Pennsylvania Litter Cleanup By Organizing Or Volunteering For Local Cleanup Events Criminal Convictions; Record Penalties, Restitution Of Over $158.3

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Shapiro’s Dangerous Partnership With CNX Resources Hurts Communities, Ignores The Facts -- Cecil Township Proposes 2,500 Foot Setback Ordinance From Oil & Gas Infrastructure For Sept. 6 - Mystery Oil Leak Into Allegheny River; Holes In Shale Gas Casing; 65 Days Late In Plugging Conventional Well [PaEN] -- US Dept. 31 to Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 7, 2024

Programs/Information -- DCNR, Education Launch PA's 2024 Summer Learning And Literacy Road Trip Featuring State Parks, Libraries [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette: How Pittsburgh-Area School Districts Are Responding To PA’s New Science Standards -- The Danville News Guest Essay: Susquehanna River Shapes History, Culture Of Danville - By Clare Charlton, Danville (..)

Conservation 84

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2022

Constellation Energy, which is an owner of the Limerick and Peach Bottom nuclear power plants and the Muddy Run hydroelectric plant in Pennsylvania, is seeking to intervene to defend the rules. The plaintiffs argue the rules amount to an unauthorized tax and go beyond the scope of the state’s air pollution law.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Of Health, Penn State Project ECHO Host Webinar On Caring For Persons Living And Working In Communities Involved In Oil & Natural Gas Extraction. 11 DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meeting On Radical Transparency [PaEN] -- What The Shale Gas Industry Leaves Behind: DEP: Southwestern Energy Prod Co. Ohio- $3.03 Ohio- $3.03

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Natural Gas Carbon Dioxide Nuclear Power 2025 53

Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

None of that means climate change isn’t, and won’t continue to be, a factor in global health, particularly if action to prevent it also reduces air pollution, or removes other health stressors. Carbon emissions are thus following the same trajectory as other air pollutants. For example, the Green New Deal proposed by Rep.

2020 95

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

12 On Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Reductions; Hydrogen Hubs [PaEN] -- WHYY: ‘No Seat At The Table:’ Why Environmental Justice Activists Like Zulene Mayfield Fear Republican Presidential Win -- Environmental Quality Board To Consider Proposed Spill Notification Regulation; Blasting; NOx & VOC Corrections Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Residents Will Have Drinkable Water By 2026 -- Courier Times: PA State Attorney General Investigates Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline Leaks For Potential Environmental Crimes In Bucks County [Convicted Of Other Criminal Charges, Penalized Over $48.1 Million In Growing Greener Plus Grants From DEP -- Volunteers Needed!

Conservation 57

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Panther Creek has committed at least seven violations related to unpermitted air pollution issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, and the vast majority of those violations came after Stronghold Mining acquired the Panther Creek Tower Plant in late 2021,” said Zerbo. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Data Centers And Pennsylvania's Future [PaEN] -- Volunteers Needed! Shapiro Is Lying About How His Trip To White House Unfroze $2.1 Shapiro Is Lying About How His Trip To White House Unfroze $2.1

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

Cascading Failures Combined To Produce The Worst Nuclear Power Accident In US History At Three Mile Island - By James M. Seif, Former Administrative Assistant to Gov. Data Centers Impacts On Electricity Grid -- PJM Interconnection Reliability Initiative Attracts 94 Applications For 26.6

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2023

My home is surrounded by oil and gas operations and located only eight miles from the Shell petrochemical complex that has already had multiple malfunctions resulting in pollution releases. I’m very concerned about what my three year old daughter is breathing since children are especially vulnerable to air pollution.

Natural Gas 95

Natural Gas Air Pollution Nuclear Power Government 95

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

Cascading Failures Combined To Produce The Worst Nuclear Power Accident In US History At Three Mile Island - By James M. Cascading Failures Combined To Produce The Worst Nuclear Power Accident In US History At Three Mile Island - By James M. Seif, Former Administrative Assistant to Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

-- Politico: Republican Administration Plans To Resuscitate Dead Keystone XL Oil Pipeline -- The Economist: New Republican Administration’s Natural Gas War Is About To Begin [ PDF of Article ] -- WSJ: Republican Oil & Gas Donors Don’t Really Want To ‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ [ PDF of Article ] -- Reuters: Gauging The Likely Republican Effect On US Energy, (..)

Natural Gas 83

Natural Gas Clean Air Act Nuclear Power Electricity 83

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Shapiro Touts Capping Of 300th Conventional Oil & Gas Well At North Franklin Twp., Shapiro Touts Capping Of 300th Conventional Oil & Gas Well At North Franklin Twp., Million In Growing Greener Plus Grants From DEP -- TribLive: Stormwater Fee Tabled, But Stark Fiscal Challenges Stand For Allegheny Twp.,

Natural Gas 53

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Luzerne County [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension: Using Live Stake Nurseries To Engage Communities In Stream Health [PaEN] -- Volunteers Needed!

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