PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2022

This exceedance is a violation of Shell’s plan approvals ( PA-04-00740A , PA-04-00740B , and PA-04-00740C ) and the Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act and regulations. DEP is authorized under the Air Pollution Control Act to order compliance where appropriate.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

to 11% UGI Gas Rate Hike Request -- Utility Dive: New Jersey Residential Customers Face 20% Electric Bill Hikes, Driven By PJM Capacity Prices: NJ Board Of Public Utilities -- US EIA Natural Gas Price Forecast For 2025 Now 21% Higher Than Last Forecast At $3.80; 2026 Forecast Now $4.20

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2022

“I am vetoing, disapproving, and returning the Concurrent Resolution because Final Form Regulation 7-559 is a vital step for Pennsylvania to reduce carbon emissions and achieve our climate goals. Addressing the global climate crisis is one of the most important and critical challenges we face.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 14, 2024

14 Hearing [If Requested] On Title V Air Quality Permit For Gas-fired Hummel Station Power Plant In Snyder County [PaEN] -- DEP To Hold Aug.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2023

Image via PickPik On May 23, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposed emission limits and guidelines for carbon dioxide from fossil fuel-powered plants. That does not mean, however, that states and utilities are similarly constrained from generation shifting as they develop ways to comply with the federal regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

On March 12, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced sweeping plans to reconsider more than 31 major environmental regulations and programs, including pulling back regulations reducing methane emissions and regulating production wastewater from oil and gas operations. EPA promulgated the Subpart E regulations in 1979.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

That would of course include fossil gas, which consists of 85 to 90 percent methane, a significantly more potent heat-trapping gas than carbon dioxide. Regardless, industry-funded studies have generated enough controversy over the conclusions of government and independent studies to hold regulators at bay.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 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. In separate agreements, XTO Energy Inc. Specifically, by Dec. million to plug or remediate them.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

EPA does have authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the federal Clean Air Act and the Court’s ruling did not address that existing authority. The decision handed down by the Supreme Court does not change these rights and it does not change Pennsylvania's authority to regulate greenhouse gases."

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. Ecological Conservation.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Parents have legitimate concerns because the controls that would make this a synthetic minor source are not sufficient to ensure emissions will not exceed those thresholds.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The legislature put two provisions in the Appropriations Act of 2023 (House Bill 259) to prevent state agencies from adopting rules intended to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses such as carbon dioxide (CO2) in the state. Other air quality provisions expedite permitting and construction of new or expanded sources of air pollutants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

GHG Emissions by Sector Climate changes pollution and pollution changes climate Another reason to look at the global warming impacts of refineries from a health perspective is that there is an important link between global warming and local pollution. Furthermore, refineries have a long history of violating regulations.

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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. And that clean air RGGI promises to deliver? Even the most optimistic projections today show a CO2 reduction of less than 1% by 2030.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 14, 2024

Yaw: State’s Efforts Are ‘Positively Transforming’ Chesapeake Bay Watershed -- Discover NEPA: Keep NE PA’s Rivers & Streams Clean With PA Environmental Council -- TribLive: Franklin Regional Science Teacher Joins Research On Lake Erie -- Patch.com: New Hope-Solebury Students Awarded Aquetong Watershed Scholarships In Bucks County -- PA Assn.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Note: In December, 2022, DEP finalized regulations reducing volatile organic compounds and methane from existing conventional and unconventional oil and gas facilities. The conventional regulations were challenged in Commonwealth Court by conventional oil and gas operators. Read more here. [In Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Shapiros Budget Includes Energy Plan; Funding To Make-up Deficit In Oil & Gas Program; New State Park, Trail Initiative; Over $6.2 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

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

19 Meeting On Emergency Plans 6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables [ There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay ] -- AAA Gasoline Prices: National- $3.13 Ohio- $3.03 Ohio- $3.03 Ohio- $3.03

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

Supreme Court issued a decision striking down an Obama era rule regulating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing power plants. Three key takeaways from the court’s decision: The Court did not rule that EPA lacks authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants or other sources. The Dissent.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court said the trade group had satisfied the stringent requirements for a stay pending judicial review and stayed the rule “insofar as it purports to regulate trailers.” In addition, the company filed an appeal with the Washington State Pollution Control Hearings Board. Millennium Bulk Terminals-Longview, LLC v.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit found that FERC failed to address the significance of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulation that the petitioners argued required use of the social cost of carbon or another methodology to assess the impacts of the projects’ greenhouse gas emissions. The states appealed the dismissal of the case. Missouri v.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Following the 2007 landmark Supreme Court case Massachusetts v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

global warming pollution, second only to the transportation sector. The rule, which also applies to new gas plants, would avoid as much as 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042, the EPA calculated , the equivalent of the annual emissions of 137 million passenger vehicles—about half of the cars in the country.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Virginia Federal Court Said Challenge to NEPA Regulations Was Not Justiciable. The Washington Court of Appeals held that the Pollution Control Hearing Board erred when it approved the Washington Department of Ecology’s general permits for concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). June 25, 2021). 52952-1-II (Wash.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

On March 12, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced sweeping plans to reconsider more than 31 major environmental regulations, programs and findings. The Biden and Obama era regulations being reconsidered have suffocated nearly every single sector of the American economy.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

On March 12, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced sweeping plans to reconsider more than 31 major environmental regulations, programs and findings. The Biden and Obama era regulations being reconsidered have suffocated nearly every single sector of the American economy.

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