Air Pollution, Regulations and Waste - Environmental Professionals Connection

California Must Not Abandon its Climate Leadership

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

We progress despite regular cries of impending doom from regulated industries and their enablers. More than two-thirds of our diesel comes from renewable, non-petroleum resources, and many California refineries are shifting from refining fossil fuels to refining waste oils and other renewable feedstocks. But it’s never easy.

Air Pollution

Air Pollution Fossil Fuels Greenhouse 2010

Environmental Integrity Project, Partners List Industries Requesting Exemptions From EPA Hazardous Air Pollutant Regulations-- 23 In PA

PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2025

A coalition of health, community, and environmental groups recently released a new map showing more than 500 facilities that emit toxic or hazardous air pollution that have applied for a Presidential two-year exemption from hazardous air pollution limits.

Air Pollution

Air Pollution Regulations Clean Air Act Waste

Daily Grind Living Next To Oil & Gas Industry: Spills, Polluted Water Supplies, Smells Like Gas, Noise, Air Pollution, Explosions, Truck Traffic, Erosion, Radioactive Waste, Gas Flares, Dust, Lights, Road Dumping Waste, Abandoned Wells

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

Its a daily litany of spills, polluted water supplies, smell of natural gas in the air, noise, air pollution, explosions, landslides, truck traffic, radioactive waste, gas flares, erosion problems, dust, lights, road dumping waste, abandoned equipment and wells. Fortunately, no one was hurt.

Air Pollution

Air Pollution Waste Natural Gas 2023

Webinars

How to Modernize Manufacturing Without Losing Control

MORE WEBINARS

California’s Push to Close the EV Battery Loop

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 8, 2025

Electric vehicle (EV) sales are increasing , and these vehicles are important to reduce fossil fuel use and air pollution. Relying on market dynamics alone risks wasted materials, unsafe and unregulated dismantling, and a lack of accountability for proper disposal.

Recycling

Recycling Fossil Fuels 2026 Air Pollution

Conventional Oil Well Storage Tank Rupture Causes 2,100 Gallon Spill Of Wastewater, Crude Oil In Upper Burrell Twp., Westmoreland County

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2025

Absorbent material and booms were in place along a path of brown staining from the release to help cleanup the waste and preventing it from traveling any further. DEP also detected natural gas and crude oil odors at the site. Multiple violations were issued by DEP. A response to the violations was requested by May 13.

Air Pollution

Air Pollution Natural Gas Fossil Fuels Waste

The Ten Most Important U.S. Environmental Laws

Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2024

It is significant because if its huge public health benefits and because it has provided the basis for EPA regulation of greenhouse gases. In public health terms, what makes air pollution distinctive is the millions of people exposes to common pollutants such as particulates and smog. Also known as the Superfund law.

Law

Law Clean Air Act Endangered Species Act Clean Water Act

Shell Falcon Pipeline LP Pleads No Contest To Criminal Charges For Violating The State Clean Streams Law In Allegheny, Beaver, Washington Counties; Will Pay $300,000 In Penalties

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

These penalties are in addition to a $670,000 civil penalty DEP accessed against Shell Falcon Pipeline and its contractor Minnesota Limited LLC for violations of its permit and other laws and regulations that occurred in 2019 and 2020 during pipeline construction. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Decrease To 31.2%

Law

Law Nitrogen Oxides Natural Gas Air Pollution

When it Comes to the Cumulative Impacts of Pollution, the Science is In

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

More often than not, a higher pollution burden has been measured and modeled in BIPOC and low-income populations. In the United States, more than half of the people who live within 3 kilometers of a hazardous waste facility are people of color. This variability can be driven by both intrinsic and extrinsic factors.

Air Pollution

Air Pollution Regulations Fossil Fuels Environmental Protection

Groups Oppose Brampton Waste Incinerator Expansion and Demand Updates to Ontario Pollution Policy

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Brampton facility owner recently completed a second Environmental Screening Report to get its proposal to expand annual waste burning capacity nearly four times to 900,000 tonnes per year rubber stamped by Queens Park. The expansion would mean a steep increase in highly toxic pollution linked to serious health problems.

Waste

Waste Air Pollution Fossil Fuels Recycling

Susquehanna River Basin Commission: Low Stream Flows Triggering Restrictions On 19 Shale Gas Water Withdrawals, 17 More Approaching Restrictions

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

Of the water withdrawal points regulated by SRBC, only shale gas development water withdrawals have restrictions at this point because they take their water from smaller streams. The shale gas water withdrawals with restrictions include-- Bradford County, Columbia Twp.: Expand Operating LLC [Chesapeake], Towanda Creek-Leroy Twp.

2026

2026 Air Pollution Waste Regulations

6-Inch Conventional Natural Gas Gathering Pipeline Rupture Causes Spill In Rostraver Twp., Westmoreland County; State Agencies Have No Jurisdiction Over Safety Issues

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2025

The Public Utility Commission does not have jurisdiction over this pipeline to regulate it for safety, construction or operations because it is related to gas production. The PUC estimates there are between 60,000 and 100,000 miles of gas gathering pipelines in 33 counties, many not mapped.

Natural Gas

Natural Gas 2025 Air Pollution Fossil Fuels

Making Fossil Fuels Pay for Their Damage

Legal Planet

AUGUST 18, 2022

Economists like carbon taxes better than regulations, and environmental justice advocates like them better than cap and trade. A carbon tax could cover the economy without the need for scores of regulations tailored to each industry. If a carbon tax were politically feasible, there would be a lot to be said in its favor.

Fossil Fuels

Fossil Fuels Carbon Dioxide Politics Carbon Emissions

Consol Conventional Well Plugging Incident Contaminates Livestock Water Supply, 2 Springs, Stream In Morris Twp., Greene County

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2025

DEP issued multiple violations related to the incident, including contamination of a water supply, discharge of pollutants into waters of the Commonwealth and failure to control the disposal of drilling wastes. Act 214 regulates the drilling and plugging of oil and gas wells where they intersect underground coal mining operations.

2025

2025 Natural Gas Air Pollution Fossil Fuels

PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - November 9

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 7426 ) 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. million gallon open-air aboveground storage tank to support shale gas development located in Robinson Twp., Susquehanna County. (

Air Pollution

Air Pollution Natural Gas Nuclear Power 2024

Environmentalism and the Supreme Court

Legal Planet

AUGUST 26, 2021

The Court then held that greenhouse gases are covered by the Clean Air Act as a type of air pollutant. Lucas appeared at the time to be the start of a sweeping constitutional attack on environmental and land use regulations. Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANC) v. Illinois Central Railroad v.

Clean Air Act

Clean Air Act Endangered Species Act Regulations Carbon Emissions

Groups File Federal Lawsuit Against Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County For Air Pollution Violations

PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2023

May 11, the Environmental Integrity Project and Clean Air Council filed a federal lawsuit against the Shell Petrochemical Plant for repeatedly violating permitted air pollution limits from a massive new plastics production plant in Beaver County, which opened last year. In a lawsuit filed in the U.S.

Air Pollution

Air Pollution Nitrogen Oxides Natural Gas Clean Air Act

Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Continue To Push DEP To Legalize Road Dumping Their Wastewater

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2025

Hill also noted the company has been under investigation by the Office of Attorney General for possible state Solid Waste Management Act violations over road dumping of their wastewater under the co-product determination process in DEPs Residual Waste Regulations. Read more here. I've got brine from that well."

Waste

Waste 2007 Regulations Natural Gas

PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - October 26

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Air Quality Permits -- Williams Field Services Company, LLC - White Compressor Station: DEP renewed the GP-5 General Air Quality Permit covering multiple air pollution sources for the facility located in Springville Twp., You’ll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations. 9, 2024. (

2024

2024 Air Pollution Natural Gas Environmental Protection

Better Path Coalition: DEP Removes Co-Product Category From Conventional Oil & Gas Waste Reporting Database; Well Owners Continue To Fail To Report How They Dispose Of Their Waste

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2024

On June 7, the Better Path Coalition reported the Department of Environmental Protection has removed the co-product category from its waste disposal reporting database for conventional oil and gas well owners, according to documents the Coalition received in response to a Right-To-Know request.

Waste

Waste Natural Gas 2018 Regulations

PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - February 15

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

. -- The Governors Office published an updated agency-by-agency Regulatory Agenda in the February 15 PA Bulletin that lists regulations in development, an estimated schedule of consideration and opportunities for public comments. Youll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations. Read more here. Received Jan.

Natural Gas

Natural Gas 2025 2013 Regulations

Environmental Quality Board Tables Vote On Accepting Petition For Study To Increase Setbacks From Shale Gas Wells Until Last Minute Comments Can Be Reviewed

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

Since 2012, 42 independent peer-reviewed studies show fracking at current setback distances has caused dangerous impacts to health and the environment due to releases of benzene and other harmful fracking pollutants. This proposed regulation is narrowly drafted. It does not seek to ban fracking or relocate existing sites.

Natural Gas

Natural Gas 2025 Regulations 2023

EPA’s Proposed Truck Rule Delays Justice for Freight-Impacted Communities

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 1, 2022

And as EPA moves forward with its own proposal to finally strengthen truck pollution regulations, industry has been waging an all-out war on those, too. This fight by industry to delay, obstruct, and otherwise thwart stronger regulation has devastating consequences. And there’s no time to waste.

Clean Air Act

Clean Air Act 2027 2029 Electricity

DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets June 13 On Migration Of Waste From Injection Wells; E&S Permitting; Federal Plugging Programs; Updated Conventional Waste Regs; Financial Assurance To Prevent Well Abandonment

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2024

On the agenda for DEP’s Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board June 13 meeting is a discussion of a variety of topics, including-- -- Potential For Wastewater Migration From Underground Injection Disposal Wells -- Financial Assurance Strategies To Address Future Well Abandonment -- Orphan & Abandoned Well Topics-- -- Implications Of Changing Definitions (..)

Waste

Waste Natural Gas Fossil Fuels Air Pollution

Gov. Shapiro, CNX Resources Announce New Shale Gas Well Pad Air Monitoring Initiative

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2025

The air monitoring study is set to begin today, May 1, marking the start of a multi-year air monitoring campaign designed to comprehensively assess the air emissions of gas well development from construction through production. will be monitored close to the well pad through the duration of the air monitoring project.

Natural Gas

Natural Gas Air Pollution Nitrogen Oxides Regulations

PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - May 3

PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2025

. -- New Castle Power, LLC - New Castle Natural Gas Power Plant: DEP invites comments on the renewal of a Title V Air Quality Permit for the facility located in Taylor Twp., Youll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations. Lawrence County. ( Lycoming County. Received March 26, Issued April 21. (

Natural Gas

Natural Gas Air Pollution Natural Resources 2025

DEP: PA Fracking Operations Sent Nearly 236,000 Cubic Feet Of Radioactive TENORM Waste To Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facilities For Disposal In 2021 - 811,070 since 2016

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2022

On September 30, DEP told the Low-Level Waste Advisory Committee shale gas fracking operations in Pennsylvania sent nearly 236,00 cubic feet of radioactive TENORM waste to out-of-state low-level radioactive waste facilities for disposal, more volume than all the industries combined in the four-state Appalachian Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact.

Waste

Waste 2016 2021 Radiation

Bill Reported Out Of Senate Committee Would Allow Pipelines Like Mariner East To Apply For Waivers Of Any PUC Regulation, Law Or Policy

PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2024

On April 30, Senate Bill 1174 (Stefano-R-Fayette) was reported out of the Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee with unanimous Republican support that would allow any “public utility” to petition the Public Utility Commission to waive any law, regulation or policy under the Commission’s jurisdiction, if it benefits ratepayers.

Regulations

Regulations Law Natural Gas Fossil Fuels

PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 26 to May 2: Contaminated Livestock Water Supply; Ruptured Gathering Pipeline; Failure To Comply With Shale Gas Well Plugging Order

PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2025

Hill also noted the company has been under investigation by the Office of Attorney General for possible state Solid Waste Management Act violations road dumping their wastewater under the co-product determination process in DEPs Residual Waste Regulations. Read more here. Original violations issued March 7, 2025.

2025

2025 Natural Gas Waste 2011

DEP Received Air Quality Permit For 4.6 Gigawatt Homer City Generation Natural Gas Power Plant For Data Center In Indiana County

PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2025

McKean County [PaEN] -- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: Fracking Gas-Powered Cryptocurrency Mining Operation In PA Shuts Down Without A Word To Regulators, Site Found Abandoned -- Gov. Greene County [PaEN] -- Conventional Oil Well Storage Tank Rupture Causes 2,100 Gallon Spill Of Wastewater, Crude Oil In Upper Burrell Twp.,

Natural Gas

Natural Gas Air Pollution Fossil Fuels Electricity

PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 19

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2939 ) 2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 51 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. PA Bulletin, page 2940 ) Air Quality Permits - Issued -- Coterra Energy, Inc. Westmoreland County. Received Sept. Deemed complete Nov.

Natural Gas

Natural Gas 2025 Waste 2027

Environmental Council Of The States, Other State Organizations Write Congress About The Importance Of Federal Funding To State Agencies Implementing Federal Programs

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

Click Here for a copy of the letter. On February 28, ECOS also issued this statement on the reported 65% cut to the US Environmental Protection Agencys budget-- States carry out more than 90% of the nations federal environmental laws in communities around the U.S.,

Air Pollution

Air Pollution Environmental Protection Waste Climate Change

COP28 Global Methane Pledge Efforts Still Not Enough

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

New science has shown that the largest fossil fuel, dairy, and waste methane super-emitters contribute a sizeable fraction of the total methane emissions in the regions the study authors monitored. Small scale fixes are what the industries raking in billions of dollars in profit want, so that regulations don’t cut into their bottom line.

Fossil Fuels

Fossil Fuels Paris Agreement Climate Change 2030

EQB Overwhelmingly Approves Emergency Regulation Setting VOC/Methane Limits For Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities; Republicans Vote Against

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

On November 30, the Environmental Quality Board voted 15 to 2 to approve the emergency regulation setting VOC/methane emission limits for conventional oil and gas facilities. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) voted no on the regulation. Representatives for Sen. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) and Rep. Read more here. Read more here.

Regulations

Regulations Natural Gas 2016 Waste

PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 8

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2024

Waste Permits -- Chestnut Valley Biogas, LLC - Chestnut Valley Landfill: DEP approved a WMGM055 General Waste Permit for the facility located in German Twp., EGTS-Oakford Compressor Station: DEP issued a renewal of a Title V Air Quality Permit covering multiple sources of air pollution at the facility located in Salem Twp.,

Air Pollution

Air Pollution Waste Natural Gas Recycling

Burning Garbage Will Not Solve the Plastic Pollution Crisis

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

You may have heard about a miracle cure for plastic waste that creates green energy in the process—the mystical waste incinerator. We know how many people want to rid the world of plastic waste and shift to sustainable energy. But there really is no miracle cure for waste. It almost sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?

Fossil Fuels

Fossil Fuels Air Pollution Waste Greenhouse

Senate Republicans Pass Bill Authorizing An Authority To Take Over Permitting Large-Scale Energy Projects; Eliminating Public Comment; Waiving Any Regulation; Providing Immunity From Prosecution; Barbers Reviewing Permits?

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2024

On May 1, Senate Republicans passed Senate Bill 832 (Yaw-R-Lycoming) giving a state authority the power to take over the review of all necessary permits from any state agency for large-scale energy projects, eliminating any public comment, waiving any regulation needed for the project and providing immunity from prosecution for waived regulations.

Regulations

Regulations Law Environmental Protection Waste

House Environmental Committee Reports Out Bill To Require DEP To Consider Cumulative Impacts Of Certain New Sources Of Pollution On Already Impacted Communities

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2025

The amendment would cover pollution from major oil and gas infrastructure and pipelines, power plants and many other facilities that emit these air pollutants. The amendment would cover pollution from major oil and gas infrastructure and pipelines, power plants and many other facilities that emit these air pollutants.

Air Pollution

Air Pollution Nitrogen Oxides Carbon Monoxide Natural Resources

Ask A Scientist: What Energy Solutions to the Climate Crisis Are Within Reach?

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2024

Further, the body of research on indoor air pollution continues to grow , showing more and more negative health impacts. State regulators, for example, must make sure that low-income customers aren’t left to cover unreasonably large amounts of gas utilities’ costs if they electrify their homes later than other customers.

Fossil Fuels

Fossil Fuels Clean Energy Electricity Climate Change

PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 5

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2670 ) 2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 41 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups Air Quality Permits - Comments -- Eastern Gas Transmission & Storage Inc. Susquehanna County. ( Delaware County. ( Greene County. (

Natural Gas

Natural Gas Air Pollution Environmental Protection 2025

PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - August 24

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 23, 2024

. -- The Susquehanna River Basin Commission published notice in the August 24 PA Bulletin announcing its September 12 to consider water withdrawal requests-- including eight shale gas development and a gas power plant-- the FY 2026 budget and procurement regulations. 23-0119E (revised) into the TVOP [Title V Air Quality Operating Permit].

Air Pollution

Air Pollution Natural Gas 2024 Waste

Environmental Hearing Board Denies EQT Shale Gas Motion To Exclude Evidence Of Medical Conditions, Toxicology Reports Related To A Landowner Appeal Of A DEP Water Supply Contamination Determination

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2025

Resource Links - Latkanich Family: -- Environmental Hearing Board Will Hear Key Arguments On Appeal By A Washington County Family Alleging Shale Gas Drilling Contaminated Their Water Supply With PFAS And Other Chemicals {October 2023] -- DEP: Widespread Presence Of PFAS Forever Chemicals In Fresh Water May Have Led To Inadvertently Using Contaminated (..)

Natural Gas

Natural Gas 2025 2023 2022

DEP Set To Hold May 17 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For Covanta Waste-To-Energy Facility In Chester, Delaware County

PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2023

On May 4, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it will receive public comments and host a May 17 in-person public hearing regarding a plan approval application for Reasonably Available Control Technology (RACT III) requirements for Covanta Delaware Valley, LP, a waste to energy facility in the City of Chester, Delaware County.

Nitrogen Oxides

Nitrogen Oxides Waste Clean Air Act Air Pollution

Center For Coalfield Justice To DEP: Harmon Natural Gas Processing Plant Should Be Required To Apply For A Full Title V Air Quality Permit As They Originally Proposed In Washington County

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2025

Our mission is to improve policy and regulations for the oversight of fossil fuel extraction and use; to educate, empower and organize coalfield citizens; and to protect public and environmental health. CCJ has over three thousand members and supporters and is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors.

Natural Gas

Natural Gas Air Pollution Regulations Waste

Criminal Convictions; Record Penalties, Restitution Of Over $158.3 Million Highlight Big Shale Gas, Related Petrochemical Industry Compliance History In Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

penalty and $5 million restitution from the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County for air pollution violations; -- $1.4 million penalty against Halliburton Energy Services for 255 violations of the state Solid Waste Management Act; -- $1.5

2014

2014 2010 2018 2020

California Must Not Abandon its Climate Leadership

Environmental Integrity Project, Partners List Industries Requesting Exemptions From EPA Hazardous Air Pollutant Regulations-- 23 In PA

Webinars

Trending Sources

Daily Grind Living Next To Oil & Gas Industry: Spills, Polluted Water Supplies, Smells Like Gas, Noise, Air Pollution, Explosions, Truck Traffic, Erosion, Radioactive Waste, Gas Flares, Dust, Lights, Road Dumping Waste, Abandoned Wells

Webinars

California’s Push to Close the EV Battery Loop

Conventional Oil Well Storage Tank Rupture Causes 2,100 Gallon Spill Of Wastewater, Crude Oil In Upper Burrell Twp., Westmoreland County

The Ten Most Important U.S. Environmental Laws

Shell Falcon Pipeline LP Pleads No Contest To Criminal Charges For Violating The State Clean Streams Law In Allegheny, Beaver, Washington Counties; Will Pay $300,000 In Penalties

When it Comes to the Cumulative Impacts of Pollution, the Science is In

Groups Oppose Brampton Waste Incinerator Expansion and Demand Updates to Ontario Pollution Policy

Susquehanna River Basin Commission: Low Stream Flows Triggering Restrictions On 19 Shale Gas Water Withdrawals, 17 More Approaching Restrictions

6-Inch Conventional Natural Gas Gathering Pipeline Rupture Causes Spill In Rostraver Twp., Westmoreland County; State Agencies Have No Jurisdiction Over Safety Issues

Making Fossil Fuels Pay for Their Damage

Consol Conventional Well Plugging Incident Contaminates Livestock Water Supply, 2 Springs, Stream In Morris Twp., Greene County

PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - November 9

Environmentalism and the Supreme Court

Groups File Federal Lawsuit Against Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County For Air Pollution Violations

Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Continue To Push DEP To Legalize Road Dumping Their Wastewater

PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - October 26

Better Path Coalition: DEP Removes Co-Product Category From Conventional Oil & Gas Waste Reporting Database; Well Owners Continue To Fail To Report How They Dispose Of Their Waste

PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - February 15

Environmental Quality Board Tables Vote On Accepting Petition For Study To Increase Setbacks From Shale Gas Wells Until Last Minute Comments Can Be Reviewed

EPA’s Proposed Truck Rule Delays Justice for Freight-Impacted Communities

DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets June 13 On Migration Of Waste From Injection Wells; E&S Permitting; Federal Plugging Programs; Updated Conventional Waste Regs; Financial Assurance To Prevent Well Abandonment

Gov. Shapiro, CNX Resources Announce New Shale Gas Well Pad Air Monitoring Initiative

PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - May 3

DEP: PA Fracking Operations Sent Nearly 236,000 Cubic Feet Of Radioactive TENORM Waste To Low-Level Radioactive Waste Facilities For Disposal In 2021 - 811,070 since 2016

Bill Reported Out Of Senate Committee Would Allow Pipelines Like Mariner East To Apply For Waivers Of Any PUC Regulation, Law Or Policy

PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 26 to May 2: Contaminated Livestock Water Supply; Ruptured Gathering Pipeline; Failure To Comply With Shale Gas Well Plugging Order

DEP Received Air Quality Permit For 4.6 Gigawatt Homer City Generation Natural Gas Power Plant For Data Center In Indiana County

PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 19

Environmental Council Of The States, Other State Organizations Write Congress About The Importance Of Federal Funding To State Agencies Implementing Federal Programs

COP28 Global Methane Pledge Efforts Still Not Enough

EQB Overwhelmingly Approves Emergency Regulation Setting VOC/Methane Limits For Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities; Republicans Vote Against

PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - June 8

Burning Garbage Will Not Solve the Plastic Pollution Crisis

Senate Republicans Pass Bill Authorizing An Authority To Take Over Permitting Large-Scale Energy Projects; Eliminating Public Comment; Waiving Any Regulation; Providing Immunity From Prosecution; Barbers Reviewing Permits?

House Environmental Committee Reports Out Bill To Require DEP To Consider Cumulative Impacts Of Certain New Sources Of Pollution On Already Impacted Communities

Ask A Scientist: What Energy Solutions to the Climate Crisis Are Within Reach?

PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 5

PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - August 24

Environmental Hearing Board Denies EQT Shale Gas Motion To Exclude Evidence Of Medical Conditions, Toxicology Reports Related To A Landowner Appeal Of A DEP Water Supply Contamination Determination

DEP Set To Hold May 17 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For Covanta Waste-To-Energy Facility In Chester, Delaware County

Center For Coalfield Justice To DEP: Harmon Natural Gas Processing Plant Should Be Required To Apply For A Full Title V Air Quality Permit As They Originally Proposed In Washington County

Criminal Convictions; Record Penalties, Restitution Of Over $158.3 Million Highlight Big Shale Gas, Related Petrochemical Industry Compliance History In Pennsylvania

Stay Connected