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The Washington & Jefferson College Center for Energy Policy and Management will host a free March 30 webinar on the push to reduce methane emissions in the naturalgas industry as part of its Energy Lecture Series. “ Two Approaches to Reducing NaturalGas Methane Emissions ” will be the subject of an hour-long webinar at 11 a.m.
On November 21, the Department of EnvironmentalProtection announced it has determined , in response to a rulemaking petition, the state Environmental Quality Board has the statutory authority to adopt a regulation setting more protective setbacks from shale gas wells for homes, schools and streams in its initial petition review.
On October 17, the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee held an informational briefing on Project Canary , a company that measures, analyzes and reports on methane emissions from naturalgas production and distribution infrastructure.
Camera Bartolotta (R-Washington) circulated a cosponsor memo announcing she plans to introduce legislation to eliminate the ability of citizens, local governments and anyone else to appeal permits issued by DEP for naturalgas pipelines and related facilities to the Environmental Hearing Board. of Bordentown v. [EHB
On March 14, the Attorney General opened another investigation into Energy Transfer/Sunoco into potential environmental crimes related to the Energy Transfer/Sunoco pipeline that leaked petroleum into household wells in Upper Makefield Township, Bucks County. EnvironmentalProtection Agency. Read more here.]
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EPA on Thursday, June 30, 2022, curbing the power of the EnvironmentalProtection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants across the country. The decision focuses on EPA’s authority under a specific section of the CleanAirAct. What does this mean for clean energy projects?
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EnvironmentalProtection Agency (EPA) announced it had finalized a voluntary disclosure program for new owners of upstream oil and naturalgas exploration and production facilities. On March 29, 2019, the U.S. New owners who acquired facilities in the twelve months before EPA finalized this program are also eligible.
On February 17, the CleanAir Council and the Environmental Integrity Project sent a letter to the Department of EnvironmentalProtection urging the state to temporarily halt operations at a Shell plastics chemical plant in Beaver County that has repeatedly violated air pollution limits and recently released plumes of black smoke for several hours.
The roughly $6 billion Shell Monaca plant transforms a product of naturalgas (ethane), extracted through hydraulic fracturing in the region’s shale formations, into tiny plastic pellets used to manufacture single-use plastic goods like soda bottles and plastic packaging.
The November 30 meeting was made necessary by a letter sent by Republicans on the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee to the IRRC on November 14 disapproving the regulation. The disapproval blocked consideration of a final-omitted regulation covering conventional oil and gas facilities until after a December 16 U.S.
However, the SCAQMD lacks the authority to directly regulate mobile sources; instead, that authority lies with the US EnvironmentalProtection Agency (EPA) and the California Air Resources Board (CARB). According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012.
Moreno: On August 23, 2011, the EnvironmentalProtection Agency (EPA) published in the Federal Register a proposed rule that significantly expands the applicable air emissions standards for the Oil and NaturalGas Sector. By Carlos J. See 76 Fed. 52738 (Aug. 52738 (Aug.
When making single stationary source determinations without the protection of the non-aggregation provision in Section 112 of the CleanAirAct, 42 U.S.C. EnvironmentalProtection Agency, No. By Lesley Foxhall Pietras On August 7, 2012, in a 2-1 decision in Summit Petroleum Corp. See Summit Petroleum Corp.
DEP estimates it will cost the conventional naturalgas industry approximately $9.8 million of their product not leaking into the atmosphere, at current naturalgas prices. Because these regulations are required under the CleanAirAct, failure to submit them in final form to U.S.
EnvironmentalProtection Agency wrote a letter to DEP accepting DEP’s final regulations setting VOC/methane limits on conventional and unconventional oil and gas facilities for evaluation which “stops the imposition of federal highway funding sanctions that were set to take effect in Pennsylvania on December 16, 2022.”
The November 30 meeting was made necessary by a letter sent by Republicans on the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee to the IRRC on November 14 disapproving the regulation. EnvironmentalProtection Agency deadline to finalize the regulation.
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On November 14, the Department of EnvironmentalProtection discovered evidence of a continuous wastewater release at the Parsons and Warrant 566 conventional oil well sites in Eldred Township, McKean County owned by Charles T. PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov.
After the dumping incidents on dirt and paved roads around her home and throughout the region, Lawson provided photos and reports on the dumping to the Department of EnvironmentalProtection to document the problems. EnvironmentalProtection Agency for drinking water." [ Read more here.]
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The Department of EnvironmentalProtection invites comments on a Chapter 105 Encroachment permit for a three mile long, 8-inch naturalgas gathering pipeline being constructed on a 50 foot wide right-of-way by EQT ARO LLC in Cascade Township, Lycoming County. (
Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration proposed much-needed protections to improve oversight and reduce pollution from the nation’s network of naturalgas pipelines today.
Many of the notices offer the opportunity for public comments. -- DEP published notice in the April 12 PA Bulletin inviting comments on a Chapter 105 Encroachment permit for a three mile long, 8-inch naturalgas gathering pipeline being constructed on a 50 foot wide right-of-way by EQT ARO LLC in Cascade Township, Lycoming County. (
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The briefing held by the Department of EnvironmentalProtection and the state Department of Health April 10 on the state response to the Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline leak in Bucks County is now available on demand. Million For Pipeline Violations So Far] [PaEN] -- Criminal Convictions; Record Penalties, Restitution Of Over $158.3
The briefing held by the Department of EnvironmentalProtection and the state Department of Health April 10 is now available on demand. Read more here. Multiple violations were issued. DEP requested a geotechnical evaluation of whether the land slips present any threat to pipeline integrity.
We know that, for children living, and pregnant mothers living close by well pads or other naturalgas facilities, that they suffer tremendous amount of health impacts, from birth defects, to lower birth weight, to exposure to cancer-causing VOCs and other toxins; it's a problem.
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Of EnvironmentalProtection -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Shapiro Nominates Former Philadelphia Official As DEP Secretary -- Mon Valley Independent: Olympus Energy Gets Green Light From Elizabeth Twp.
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