PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2025

Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Chesapeake Appalachia llc - Marbaker Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP received a Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated by production wastewater to meet a Statewide Health Standard at the pad located in Auburn Twp., Not in PA Bulletin] Read more here. Susquehanna County. ( Delaware County. (

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug. Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug. Shapiro: Legal Action Against PJM Saved PA Consumers An Estimated $1.6 19-21, Sept. 19-21, Sept. High School As Renovation Work Continues -- DEP Sets Aug.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2025

Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Coterra Energy, Inc. - PA Bulletin, page 3674 ) 2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 74 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. Many of the notices offer the opportunity for public comments.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2024

13 Webinar On EPA Clean School Bus Grant Program [PaEN] -- TribLive: Plum School District Working To Cover Costs Of Adding Electric Buses To Fleet -- WHYY: Philly Property Owners Could Soon Face Fines If Their Electric Vehicle Chargers Don’t Work Help Wanted -- Sustainable Pittsburgh Executive Director Joylette Portlock, Ph.D 22 , 1:00 p.m.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

23 Hard-To-Recycle Collection Events In Allegheny County [PaEN] -- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Sept. 4 Webinar - Rewild Your Yard: How Meadows Support Pollinators And Clean Water [PaEN] -- Call For Posters: Alliance For The Chesapeake Bay 2025 Chesapeake Watershed Forum Nov. 7, 21, Sept.

Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2025

In collaboration with Volpatt, Construction Junction will be deconstructing interior old-growth timber not being used in the future building and reselling it at their facility, while Michael Brothers will source separate other waste streams and recycle when possible.

2004

PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2025

26-28: Field Trips; Awards; Holly Merker Co-Author Of Ornitherapy Keynote [PaEN] -- WITF: Why Pennsylvania Is Removing Dams And How It’s Helping Fish, Rivers And Communities -- Scranton Times: Lackawanna Conservation District Seeks School For Trout In The Classroom -- PA iMapInvasives Program To Hold 2025 Invasive Species Scavenger Hunt Aug.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2025

Shapiro recently highlighted his administration's accomplishments in his first two years in office, including on environmental protection, accountability, climate change, clean energy, public lands and recreation issues.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

APRIL 15, 2025

Regarding that executive press release taking aim at state climate laws , my Legal Planet colleague Ted Lamm writes that the search for state and local laws that violate the Constitution, or federal preemption is likely to prove time-consuming and largely fruitless. In perfect timing, New Mexico Gov. He joins Ann Carlson, Mary D.

Law

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Repsol Oil & Gas USA, LLC - Morgan K Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP received a Notice of Intent to remediate soil contaminated by production wastewater to meet the Statewide Health Standards at the pad located in Armenia Twp., PA Bulletin, page 2554 ) -- Coterra Energy, Inc. Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2025

MTN Energy holds 44 permits. 2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 74 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. No action taken to correct the violations. Response requested by May 30. Read more here.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Luzerne County [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension: Using Live Stake Nurseries To Engage Communities In Stream Health [PaEN] -- Volunteers Needed! Kate Harper (R) and Fmr Cong. 2 Pittsburgh Companies Say Yes -- Volunteers Needed!

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Million To Allegheny Electric Cooperative Under Rural Energy Programs [PaEN] -- TribLive Guest Essay: We Must Build On, Not Kill, Clean Energy Momentum - by Adam Forgie, Mayor, Turtle Creek Borough -- DCED Begins Accepting Applications For PA Solar For Schools Grants Nov. Bartolotta, Sen.

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2025

Recyclable EV batteries Between now and 2030, battery electric vehicle retirements will increase rapidly and if we do not have a strong policy in place we could end up with batteries in landfills or being abandoned all together. But our success doesnt mean we have to stand alone.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Zoning Panel OKs 4th Session For Solar Energy Facility Hearing; Size Requirement In Contention In Westmoreland -- PennLive: Dauphin County Authority Receives One Bid For 2.3 28 - Recycling As A Strategy To Increase Critical Minerals Supply [PaEN] -- On The Kendal Journey Blog: Have Questions About Sustainability?

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 13, 2025

Somerset County [ PDF of Article ] -- PA House Bill Introduced Authorizing Community Solar Energy Programs [PaEN] -- Erie Times: Federal Lawsuit Claims East Fairfield Twp.,

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 13, 2025

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Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2025

Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Received -- Eureka Resources LLC - Standing Stone Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facility: DEP received a Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated with oil and gas wastewater to meet nonresidential Statewide Health Standards at the facility located in Standing Stone Township, Bradford County.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2025

Million In Brownfield Assessment, Cleanup Grants In Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Alterra Energy LLC Thermochemical Plastics Recycling Plant Air Quality Permit Application For A Location In Luzerne County [PaEN] -- Registration Now Open! Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful Annual Conference Oct.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2025

Honore (Retired) [Stop Selling LNG To Our Competitors] -- PUC Urges Electricity Customers To Start Shopping, Conserve Energy To Help Avoid Impact Of June 1 Rate Increases Of Between 5% and 16% On Most Electric Bills [PaEN] -- PUC To Investigate Proposed 18.4% Customer Charge Increase By Wellsboro Electric; 18% Gas Increase + 13.4%

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Oil and gas standards promulgated by EPA must be rooted in the rule of law, not be used as a weapon to shut down development and manufacturing in the United States. Pennsylvania has independent authority to adopt its own methane limits under state law, if it so chooses. Read more here. Click Here for the announcement. Read more here.

Regulations

Legal Planet

JULY 16, 2025

The recent CEQA changes are not the major transformation you might think, so don’t expect a huge rush of housing… My UCLA Law Jonathan Zasloff wrote at Legal Planet about the limits of the recent CEQA reform and why he thinks zoning codes must also be rethought. Here’s a cheat sheet on what tax incentives disappear from Canary Media.

Electricity

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 16, 2025

Skip to content Environmental News Bits Browsing environmental news so you don't have to Primary Menu About ENB C-U donation and recycling guides Battery recycling guide Champaign County electronics recycling C-U recycling guides C-U donation guide Safely dispose of unused medicines Tools for tracking Trump 2.0

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2025

Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Monroe Energy Trainer - Quill Release: DEP received a Final Report on the remediation of soil contaminated with inorganics and other organics to the Statewide Health Standard for the refinery located in Marcus Hook Borough, Delaware County. ( PA Bulletin, page 5042 ) -- Coterra Energy, Inc.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Increasing the reuse and recycling of batteries at their end of life is essential to increasing the sustainability of batteries and creating a circular economy. Recycling must ramp up. There are huge opportunities for recycling to decrease the need for newly mined materials in batteries. Source: Courtesy of Li-Cycle.

Recycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It is more like a straight line from silica mine, to refining factory, to shimmering batch of shining polysilicon ingots, to panel assembly , to a couple decades generating clean electricity—and then, far too often, to a landfill. Among those that are recycled, very few have 100% of their material recovered.

Recycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

It’s been one year since passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), which included provisions to further clean transportation. Importantly, the BIL invests in electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling and repurposing– important strategies for increasing the sustainability of EVs. . million in funding.

Recycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

And there is a snowball of retired EV batteries on the horizon without a responsible party in charge of recycling them. they were approved by the legislature and are now sitting on Newsom’s desk, awaiting his signature to become law. Luckily, these new challenges have proven solutions and – look at that!

Nitrogen Oxides

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 24, 2023

We’re already seeing evidence of the job creation potential of EV investments with billions of dollars in announcements related to EV manufacturing, battery production, and battery recycling investment. The EV transition is happening fast, and autoworkers are some of the first to grapple with the clean energy transition.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 10, 2023

And, while a historic level of federal funding for climate action is on its way via the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, too many bad actors and opposition forces are working hard to stall and stop the help Californians need. This summer was a wild period of extreme heat waves , floods , and fires.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The text that would be added to the state Bill of Rights reads: “Each person shall have a right to clean air and water, and a healthful environment.”. The proposed amendment is a brief but powerful statement of principle, according to John Dernbach, a law professor at Widener University Commonwealth Law School.

2021

Law and Environment

MAY 23, 2023

The federal government has enacted a slew of policies meant to lower the cost of clean hydrogen and address other market pressures. Those policies invest significantly in developing clean hydrogen at scale. The Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”) established the Hydrogen Production Tax Credit to further incentivize clean hydrogen projects.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Batteries are key to enabling the renewable energy transition. When the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing, batteries help store clean energy to continue supplying electricity to the grid and to customers consistently and reliably. And 70% of the copper used in batteries is already recycled.

Renewable Energy

Legal Planet

JULY 28, 2022

The big news today is the deal with Manchin to provide billions of dollars of funding for clean energy. The Bureau of Reclamation got $250 million for desalinization and a billion for water recycling and reuse. Manchin’s vote will be needed because no Republican Senator will vote for the bill.

Sea Level

Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

Some demand is met—and will continue to be met—through mining of new materials, while a portion of demand is met through reusing and recycling recovered materials. Mining Law of 1872 is over 150 years old and remains the primary U.S. federal law governing prospecting and mining. For example, the U.S. New policy in the U.S.

Law

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

It says, "No ex post facto law, nor any law impairing the obligation of contracts, or making irrevocable any grant of special privileges or immunities, shall be passed." Section 17 of Pennsylvania's Constitution contains a provision that clearly makes Senate Bill 945 unconstitutional. Read more here.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 21, 2023

20 Take Five Fridays With Pam Now Available, PA Parks & Forests Foundation [PaEN] -- PA Parks & Forests Foundation Penn’s Stewards Newsletter Features History Of Lehigh Gorge State Park Wilderness [PaEN] -- Tribune-Democrat: Hikers Brave Rain, Hit Johnstown-Area Trails At Keystone Trails Assn.

Natural Gas