PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Read more here. House Bill 652 would give DEP the statutory authority to deny a permit application in any environmental justice area based on the “cumulative environmental impacts.”

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Read more here. House Bill 652 would give DEP the statutory authority to deny a permit application in any environmental justice area based on the “cumulative environmental impacts.”

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The environmental justice movement began with a focus on neighborhood struggles against toxic waste facilities and other local pollution sources. The most powerful tool for assisting those communities, however, may be the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS).

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

yes, each year, a single cow will belch more than 220 pounds of methane] to rice cultivation), followed by solid waste management (decay of food and other organic waste in landfills). Co Benefits for Human Health : Methane is a key precursor of tropospheric ozone (ground level), a harmful air pollutant.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

So, the further buildout of the gas-fired power fleet would not only be completely incompatible with addressing climate change, it would also be a huge waste of ratepayer and investor money because that fossil-fueled electricity would mostly have nowhere to go.

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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

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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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This, along with many other chemicals, like diesel particulates and ground-level ozone that form soot and smog, and metals like lead in paint and drinking water, are regulated by the EPA to keep us safe. PFAS is shorthand for a class of “forever chemicals” that persist in the environment indefinitely.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

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. For example, most states now have optional “lookup tables” to look up the action trigger concentrations for groundwater and soils related to hazardous waste sites.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone. Commercial Waste : Any waste material produced as a byproduct of commercial or industrial activity.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

These potential intervenors alleged that the additional emissions during the stay period would harm their interest in protecting their residents from the effects of air pollution and climate change. The standards and guidelines were published on August 29, 2016. They asserted that “[r]oughly 40 percent of U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2022

The following factsheet on asthma and air pollution from natural gas facilities was compiled by the Environmental Health Project -- Asthma is a chronic disease that affects breathing. Asthma attacks, also known as exacerbations, may be triggered by indoor and outdoor air pollution, stress, and other physical and environmental factors.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Outdoor air pollution accounts for approximately 3.7 – 4.8 AMAP Assessment 2015: Black Carbon and Ozone as Arctic Climate Forcers.” Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease.” link] Climate & Clean Air Coalition. Health Effects of Fine Particulate Air Pollution: Lines That Connect.”

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Read more here. House Bill 652 would give DEP the statutory authority to deny a permit application in any environmental justice area based on the “cumulative environmental impacts.”

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 17, 2023

Read more here. House Bill 652 would give DEP the statutory authority to deny a permit application in any environmental justice area based on the “cumulative environmental impacts.”

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Read more here. House Bill 652 would give DEP the statutory authority to deny a permit application in any environmental justice area based on the “cumulative environmental impacts.”

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Read more here. House Bill 652 would give DEP the statutory authority to deny a permit application in any environmental justice area based on the “cumulative environmental impacts.”

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The study-- Hazardous Air Pollutants In Transmission Pipeline Natural Gas: 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 Air Pollutants and other chemicals.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Because the challengers did not explain how the discrepancy would impact estimates of air pollution, according to the majority, their challenge based on this discrepancy failed to undermine the validity of the environmental assessment. There’s a lot of back and forth about just where these numbers came from and how FAA used them.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 14, 2022

Krishnan Ramamurthy, DEP Deputy Secretary for Waste, Air, Radiation and Remediation, explained it this way-- “Conventional wells [were] pretty much exempted from any permitting requirements, regulatory requirements. For the first time we are addressing those. The Preamble to the revised rulemaking says “.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Runoff from these applications, as well as from soil erosion and livestock manure, is the leading cause of river and stream pollution, the second leading cause of wetland pollution, and the third leading cause of lake pollution. But Big Ag pollutes more than water. And that pollution has compounding consequences.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

And also a disposing of the waste stream. They experience truck traffic and their diesel exhaust emissions, transient workforces, air pollution, including volatile organic compounds, particulate matter, ozone, oxides of nitrogen and fugitive methane emissions. Then drilling and hydraulic fracturing.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2023

Major oil and gas infrastructure facilities could be covered by the amended legislation if they are considered a major source of hazardous air pollutants, criteria pollutants or are subject to prevention of significant deterioration or nonattainment new source review under existing regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 21, 2022

Krishnan Ramamurthy, DEP Deputy Secretary for Waste, Air, Radiation and Remediation, told the EQB in order to have a complete SIP [State Implementation Plan] revision meeting the mandatory requirements of EPA, Pennsylvania must cover both conventional and unconventional oil and gas facilities sources.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency announced it is strengthening its proposed standards to cut methane and other harmful air pollution. innovation and manufacturing of critical new technologies, all while delivering significant economic benefits through increased recovery of wasted gas. million homes for the winter.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2023

Oil and gas operations in Pennsylvania release hundreds of thousands of tons of methane pollution each year alongside smog-forming volatile organic compounds as well as toxic and cancer-causing air pollutants like benzene.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 5, 2023

On June 5, the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee held a hearing on House Bill 652 (Bullock-D-Philadelphia) requiring an evaluation of the cumulative impacts of certain electric generation, waste management, sewage treatment facilities and major sources of air pollution proposed in communities already burdened by pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

At every phase of oil and gas production, harmful air pollutants are deliberately released. These air pollutants include such things as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, formaldehyde, naphthalene. “I Unconventional gas development cannot happen without significant air pollution, even under the best of circumstances.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

It creates extensive infrastructure in multiple stages and sites, and produces large amounts of liquid and solid waste. And also a disposing of the waste stream. Released from a lot of federal oversight, it left this big, blank slate for states to regulate the industry in whatever manner suited them. So the first is equity.

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