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Shell Petrochemical Plant Penalties In May 2023, the Shell Petrochemical Plant served by the pipeline signed a consent order that included over $17 million in penalties to resolve airpollution violations-- over $12.6 million in penalty payments and $5 million in local community environmental restoration funding. Read more here.
The Department of Environmental Protection has scheduled a March 11 hearing on a proposed Air Quality Plan Approval permit covering new airpollutioncontrol equipment to be installed at the Harmon Creek NaturalGas Processing Plant in Smith Township, Washington County. (
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for air quality, waste, and oil and gas violations related to the uncontrolled gas release from Equitrans’ Rager Mountain naturalgas storage field and George L Reade 1 storage well in November 2022. billion cubic feet of gas was released at the facility in uncontrolled venting. Read more here.
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discussing the ways in which local air districts can take action to end harmful airpollution from building appliances. While the SIP submittal maintained that air district standards already on the books—none of which were zero-emission standards—satisfied BACM demonstration requirements, EPA disagreed.
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CT , the Supreme Court said this: We hold that the Clean Air Act and the EPA actions it authorizes displace any federal common law right to seek abatement of carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel fired power plants. Massachusetts made plain that emissions of carbon dioxide qualify as airpollution subject to regulation under the Act.
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Josh Shapiro and CNX Resources, a shale gas extraction company based in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, announced a collaboration on environmental monitoring and chemical disclosures. The CNX report cited data monitoring associated with the collaboration and declared that its shale gas development “is safe and poses no public health risk.”
Joe fought tirelessly to raise awareness on urban airpollution in the1980’s by establishing and distributing a daily regional air quality index report that is still used today. And in the early 2000’s when fracking was falsely seen as transitional energy, Joe purposely grew the legal team to oppose naturalgas expansion.
Steel for Article XXI AirPollutionControl violations (and as calculated in accordance with the 2019 Settlement Agreement and Order) that occurred at the Clairton Coke (Coal) Works during the second quarter of 2022. On March 15, the Allegheny County Health Department issued $ 307,800 in stipulated penalties against U.S.
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Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, naturalgas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million for airpollution in 2007, and then $8.75
Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, naturalgas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million for airpollution in 2007, and then $8.75
Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, naturalgas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million for airpollution in 2007, and then $8.75
Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, naturalgas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million for airpollution in 2007, and then $8.75
Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, naturalgas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million for airpollution in 2007, and then $8.75
Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, naturalgas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million for airpollution in 2007, and then $8.75
Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, naturalgas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. million for airpollution in 2007, and then $8.75
Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major airpollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter airpollution in the U.S.
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Appendix F elaborates that relevant considerations include “decreasing reliance on fossil fuels such as coal, naturalgas and oil” and “increasing reliance on renewable energy sources.”
On November 21, the US Environmental Protection Agency, US Department of Justice and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced two settlements with oil and gas operators in Pennsylvania involving operations in Butler, Lawrence and Mercer Counties. In separate agreements, XTO Energy Inc.
Several provisions – a few of which are directly available to local governments – can additionally help address local airpollution and other inequitable impacts to vulnerable communities. States, Indian tribes, and airpollutioncontrol agencies are also eligible for funding. Second, $11.97
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