PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

Governor Shapiro also highlighted key components of the plan while visiting Penn England Farms in Blair County, where a methane digester is turning farm waste into clean energy, cutting electricity costs, and generating revenue. Read more here ] The Lightning Plan will expand access to shared digesters to help more farmers benefit.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

Rate Increase For Philadelphia Gas Works [PaEN] -- PUC To Investigate Proposed 11.4%

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2025

Rate Increase For Philadelphia Gas Works [PaEN] -- PennDOT Opens 3 New Electric Vehicle Charging Stations In Clearfield, Clinton, Columbia Counties -- WHYY: These Philly-Area Doulas Want Parents To Think About Their Exposures To Heat, Air Pollution, Lead, Other Toxins -- Williamsport Sun: Signs Opposing Solar-Chicken Farm In Muncy Creek Twp.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Waste Coal In July of 2021 a company by the name of Stronghold Digital Mining (Stronghold) filed an S-1 report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing plans to purchase three waste coal fired power plants and install 57,000 Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) dedicated to mining bitcoin.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Greg Vitali (D-Delaware), Majority Chair House Environmental & Natural Resources Committee [ PDF of Article ] -- House Committee OKs Increase In Per Ton Recycling Fee To Support Local Recycling Programs, Waste Disposal Planning [PaEN] -- NextPittsburgh: Is Hyperlocal Recycling The Future?

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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

APRIL 25, 2023

Waste Coal In July of 2021 a company by the name of Stronghold Digital Mining (Stronghold) filed an S-1 report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing plans to purchase three waste coal fired power plants and install 57,000 Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) dedicated to mining bitcoin.

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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

Also on the Committee agenda are-- -- House Bill 2393 (Friel-D-Chester) setting standards for the storage or land application of food processing residual waste on farms. An amendment is expected. -- House Bill 2594 (Friel-D-Chester) providing for the certification of food processing residual waste haulers and brokers.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 2, 2024

28 to Oct. 28 to Oct. 6 [PaEN] Background On Issues -- Lt.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 11, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen When the Industrial Revolution emerged in the UK in the 1800s, coal was the driving force, and it became the first country to power its emerging industries on coal. The smoke and air pollution, the Great Smog, killed thousands of people over the years with respiratory illnesses.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

For Particulate Air Pollution - Harrisburg, York, Lancaster Region Related Articles This Week: -- Gov. EIA: 'Increasing Electricity Generation From Renewable Sources Contributes To Lower Power Prices' In 2023 [PaEN] -- Bill Setting Decommissioning Rules For Utility-Scale Solar Energy Facilities Passes The Senate [PaEN] -- Sen.

Natural Gas 90

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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

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

MAY 5, 2024

[PaEN] -- PennLive: PA Senate Republicans Pass Bill Allowing Large-Scale Energy Projects To Bypass State Agencies -- Bill Reported Out Of Senate Committee Would Allow Pipelines Like Mariner East To Apply For Waivers Of Any PUC Regulation, Law Or Policy [PaEN] -- PA Capital-Star: PA Senate Committee Advances Bill To Allow Utility Companies To Request (..)

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

-- EQB To Meet Nov. In State College On Game Day -- Better Path Coalition Invites Submissions For ‘Worth Protecting’ Photo Book For New Governor, Legislators [PaEN] -- NRDC Blog: How Clean Is Pennsylvania’s New Hydrogen Subsidy?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

4 - Repurposing Underutilized Lands For Energy - Marginal Farmlands, Abandoned Mine Sites, Brownfields [PaEN] -- EPA Awards $34 Million In Grants To Reduce Air Pollution At Schools; Highlights Efforts In Philadelphia [PaEN] -- DEP Awards $18.9 Million To 126 Municipalities To Support Local Recycling Programs [PaEN] -- DEP To Hold Nov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

At the same time, an audit of the subsidies found that purchasing energy and capacity from regional wholesale markets is cheaper than power from the OVEC plants. In addition, FirstEnergy—owner of the two uneconomic nuclear power plants H.B.

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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. 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

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 58

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2023

Otherwise it was a big week for spills, venting gas into the atmosphere, failure to submit production and waste generation and well integrity reports, failing to get a permit to drill and operate a well, etc. LLC (Allegheny County), Bear Lake Prop LLC (Warren County) and DJW Enterprises, Inc. Washington County). Burrell Twp. - Amwell Twp.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

2 Pittsburgh Companies Say Yes -- Volunteers Needed!

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

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.,

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

Thank you for your leadership! -- Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen [PaEN] -- PennLive - Charles Thompson: 45 Years After Infamous Accident, Why Are They Still Cleaning Up Three Mile Island?

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 7, 2024

Man Killed In Storm Cleanup Accident Was Eagle Scout In Westmoreland -- Westmoreland Pollinator Partners, Penguin Court Invite Entries To 4th Annual Pennsylvania Pollinator Photo Challenge [PaEN] -- PA Resources Council Invites Entries Into Lens On Litter Photo Contest By Oct.

Conservation 84

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2022

Exported 74% Of LNG Natural Gas To Europe During First 4 Months Of 2022; Total Exports Increased 18% -- Reuters: Oil Prices Advance Despite U.S.

Natural Gas 62

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

Files Proposed Cold Weather Standard To Improve Reliability For Natural Gas-fired, Other Electric Generators [PaEN] -- Eleven Coal, Coal-Waste Power Plants In Pennsylvania Now Covered By Presidential Exemption From 2024 Mercury, Hazardous Air Pollutant Regulation For 2 Years [PaEN] -- PUC Issues Management, Operations Audit For Peoples Natural Gas (..)

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

140 Billion gallons per day to power plants (plus 60 Billion saline). Million tons/yr of waste: 7,600 industrial, 250 municipal, 25 hazardous. 1,900 landfills, 21 for hazardous waste. 100 nuclear reactors; 2,000 tons/yr nuclear waste. 8% nuclear. 23% from groundwater. Food supply requires 1.2

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Hosted By PA League Of Women Voters & University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health [PaEN] -- Now On Demand: Group Against Smog & Pollution Webinar: What The Donora PA Smog Disaster Can Teach Us 74 Years Later [PaEN] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Industrial Energy Consumers Of America Write Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Potter County [PaEN] -- Governors Updated Regulatory Agenda Includes Proposed Annual Permit Fee For Shale Gas Wells; Updated Conventional Waste Disposal and Coproduct Waste Regs. 27 Webinar: General Update Of Large-Scale Solar In Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- LancasterOnline: Solar Energy Projects On Manheim Twp.

Conservation 80

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2022

Until you agree to close the hazardous waste loopholes in Pennsylvania, under state law, [until] the two committees agreed to that, this would be a different conversation. Note: Market-driven competition with natural gas has shut down 20 coal-fired power plants in Pennsylvania, with only three remaining [ Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Senate Environmental Resources & Energy Committee holds a hearing on waste to fuels. Room G-50 Irvis Building. Click Here to watch online. TODAY 9:30: Agenda Posted. Room 8E-B East Wing Capitol Building. Click Here for available online video. TODAY 10:00: Agenda Posted.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

DEP Recycling Fund Advisory Committee + Solid Waste Advisory Committee joint meeting. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building. Click Here for instructions for joining remotely. Contact Laura Henry at 717-772-5713 or ahenry@pa.gov.

Nuclear Power 53

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2025

Wants Pennsylvanias Power, So Its Buying 2 Stronghold Waste Coal-fired Power Plants In Carbon, Venango Counties -- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: US Steel Agrees To $1.5

Cooling 53

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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

MAY 14, 2025

As rising electricity costs and energy demand strain family budgets and our electric grid, Congress should preserve residential and utility-scale clean energy investments as well as other measures that wisely steward, rather than waste, our precious energy resources. Earlier Action The MERP's waste emissions charge is estimated to raise $7.2

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2024

How Oil & Gas Waste Haunts Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- TribLive: Murrysville Council Denies Citizen Petition To Rescind Oil And Gas Leases Under Park Land In Westmoreland County -- Protect PT Hosts Nov. 30 Webinar - It’s Scary Out Here! 11 Information Session On Penn Twp. Of Energy Awards DEP $16.2

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