PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

That rule, which will be finalized later this year, currently proposes a requirement that gas companies regularly monitor pollution from all gas wells until they are successfully plugged. This funding gives gas drilling companies the opportunity to plug wells before they are required to monitor their air pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2023

Beginning in the 2026 ozone season, EPA is setting enforceable NOX emissions control requirements for certain sources at existing and new industrial facilities that have significant impacts on downwind air quality and the ability to install cost-effective pollution controls.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2024

The $180,000 will be deposited into the Solid Waste Abatement Fund, which is a statewide fund set up to eliminate potential hazards related to solid waste. A $575,000 civil penalty will be split between DEP and the boroughs of Dunmore and Throop. DEP will receive $180,000 from the COA, plus $35,000 for cost recovery.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2024

DEP said it has the statutory authority in the 1995 law that created the agency, the state Air Pollution Control Act and other laws to establish grant and funding programs to implement the Plan. Pennsylvania’s Climate Action Priority Plan is available online.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2024

In Civil Penalties For 12-Month Air Quality Violations After May 2023 Consent Order [PaEN] -- Beaver County Residents Call For Accountability, Emergency Preparedness After Dozens Of Malfunctions, Pollution From Shell Petrochemical Plant [PaEN] -- PA Taxpayers To Give $130.9

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Folks who dealt with contaminated water and air pollution and suffered severe health consequences that they believed were a result of fracking happening near their homes.” “Now, The company has also been criminally charged with violations of the Air Pollution Control Act in Washington County. 27 Released 1.1

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Montrose

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

About Montrose: Montrose is an environmental services company that supports government and commercial organizations with a range of services, from air measurement and laboratory services to regulatory compliance, permitting, engineering, and remediation.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

All three landfills are operated by the County subject to oversight and permits by the County Department of Environmental Health Services, the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, the Regional Water Quality Control Board, and the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Krishnan Ramamurthy, Deputy Secretary for Waste, Air, Radiation, and Remediation, said the need to gather information on the previously largely unregulated conventional oil and gas industry air emissions and changing EPA handling of the oil and gas requirement over time, caused much of the delay. The alternative for Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Ned Ketyer Explains The Results Of New Studies Of The Health Impacts Of Natural Gas Development On Children And Adults [PaEN] -- DEP Responds To Emergency Notification Of Uncontrolled Venting Of Natural Gas For Over 10.5

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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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The researchers never made the claim that air pollution was responsible for the observed effects, and included in the study report was the limitation of not being able to identify a specific hazard. Shapiro And The Shale Gas Company CNX [5.2.24] -- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2022

These regulations were promulgated under authority of the state Air Pollution Control Act and apply to all oil and gas operators that meet the threshold emissions requirements. DEP has said Act 52 only applies to regulations adopted under state Oil and Gas Act and to revisions of regulations in 25 Pa. Code Chapters 78 and 78a.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2022

[PaEN] -- Bloomberg: Equitrans Natural Gas Storage Area Leak In Cambria County Probed By Federal PHMSA Investigators -- DEP: Schedule For Updating Conventional Oil & Gas Environmental, Waste Regulations Will Be Up To Gov. Million Initiative To Electrify Truck Fleets For Cleaner Air; Awards $1.7

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

CNX Resources is wasting millions of SCFs [standard cubic feet] of methane, allowing it to blow freely about my community with no regard to human health or the methane's monetary value. All of you are welcome to visit my home and see how this company operates when no one is watching. 27 Released 1.1

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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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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Now, SB 1137 protects communities by establishing a setback distance of 3,200 feet for homes, schools, parks, or businesses open to the public from new wells, and requires comprehensive pollution controls for existing oil wells within the setback zone. Climate Change Mitigation.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

4 - Repurposing Underutilized Lands For Energy - Marginal Farmlands, Abandoned Mine Sites, Brownfields [PaEN] -- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Highlights Upcoming Events, Programs In November -- PA Resources Council To Hold Nov. 12 [PaEN] -- PA Assn. . -- PA Forestry Assn. 138th Annual Symposium - What Makes A Healthy Forest; Awards Program Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2024

2024 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2024, DEP received or acted on 74 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to 74 oil and gas facility site cleanups. Refinery: DEP extended its Air Quality Plan Approval to allow the facility to continue shakedown activities for the refinery located in Bradford, McKean County. (

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Other air quality provisions expedite permitting and construction of new or expanded sources of air pollutants. Even with the exceptions, it is not clear the provision allows the state to fully comply with Clean Air Act permitting obligations. SOLID WASTE Disposal of lithium- ion batteries. House Bill 259, Sec.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2022

It won’t exist either, since nothing can prevent carbon dioxide and other air pollutants emitted from power plants in Ohio or West Virginia from drifting across state lines. Even the most optimistic projections today show a CO2 reduction of less than 1% by 2030. This is not how the other RGGI states decided to join either.

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Natural Gas Fossil Fuels Air Pollution 2030 97

PA Environment Daily

MAY 26, 2024

Of Conservation Districts Awarded Nearly $37,000 To Support 21 District Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Projects [PaEN] -- Wilkes-Barre Times: Lacawac Sanctuary Receives Grant For Environmental Stewardship Institute -- DEP Now Accepting Applications For Alternative Fuels Incentive Grants [PaEN] -- PennDOT Announces New Funding Opportunity To Repair (..)

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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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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

CEQA requires an EIR to analyze a project’s energy consumption, and to mitigate any significant impacts “due to wasteful, inefficient, or unnecessary use of energy, or wasteful use of energy resources[.]” (CEQA Guidelines, § 15126.2(b); City of Woodland (2014) 225 Cal.App.4th 4th 173, 209, my 4/14/14 post on which can be found here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

These reductions are greater than what was projected for the 2022 and 2021 proposals, thanks to changes that strengthen provisions to limit wasteful, polluting flaring of natural gas and analytical updates that better capture the impacts of this rulemaking. On December 2, the U.S.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 26, 2024

Public Roads In 84 Municipalities In PA, One County In NY Are Being Used As Disposal Areas For Wastewater [PaEN] -- Guest Essay: Oil & Gas Industry Waste And Radioactive Drinking Water In Pennsylvania - By Justin Nobel, Author of Petroleum-238: Big Oil's Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It [PaEN] -- The Energy Age Blog: Federal (..)

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company first attracted global attention when it was caught dumping 3,000 tons of toxic mercury-laden waste in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, that originated at a PVC plant in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. James successfully sued to subject Formosa to an environmental review over the 800 tons of toxic air pollutants as well as the 13.6

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 3, 2025

Material hardship is associated with higher impacts from air pollution, and some scientists are working on models to reflect this association in hazardous chemical protections. If were going to actually improve environmental health , we have to take factors like multiple pollution sources and economic stressors into account.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 3, 2025

Material hardship is associated with higher impacts from air pollution, and some scientists are working on models to reflect this association in hazardous chemical protections. If were going to actually improve environmental health , we have to take factors like multiple pollution sources and economic stressors into account.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

XTO) [ExxonMobil] and Hilcorp Energy Company (Hilcorp) , agreed to resolve alleged Clean Air Act and Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act violations involving their oil and gas production operations in Pennsylvania. Read more here. In separate agreements, XTO Energy Inc. Response requested by December 10.

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