PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Hours From A Repsol Oil Shale Gas Well; Temporary Evacuation Order Issued In Bradford County [PaEN] -- The Derrick: 6 Weeks After Water Supply Contaminated By Conventional Oil Well Wastewater, Emergency Water Supply Distributions Continue In Village Of Reno, Venango County [ PDF of article ] -- TribLive: 5th Shale Gas Well Pad Planned In Frazer Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

GT Thompson, Chair of the US House Agriculture Committee; Members Of The PA In The Balance Farm Conservation Initiative Team; Student Jessica Herr [PaEN] -- Penn State Master Watershed Steward Jane Cook Leads By Example In Lehigh Valley [PaEN] -- PA Assn. 16 In State College [PaEN] -- Western PA Conservancy: Dec. 26 to Nov. 26 to Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2022

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal Repeated sediment pollution incidents and accusations of destroying habitat for rare hellbenders on a Pennsylvania “river of the year” have brought criticism over natural gas operations in a scenic valley and revealed weak protections for “exceptional value” streams.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

28 [PaEN] Help Wanted -- Help Wanted: Armstrong Conservation District - Agricultural Technician [PaEN] Upcoming Events -- Our Pocono Waters Hosts Sept. 28 [PaEN] Help Wanted -- Help Wanted: Armstrong Conservation District - Agricultural Technician [PaEN] Upcoming Events -- Our Pocono Waters Hosts Sept. to 3:00 p.m.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Cascading Failures Combined To Produce The Worst Nuclear Power Accident In US History At Three Mile Island - By James M. Seif, Former Administrative Assistant to Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 26, 2024

Bizzarro: DEP Awards Environmental Education Grants To Asbury Woods Environmental Center And Regional Science Consortium At Presque Isle Center -- Altoona Mirror: Blair Conservation District Receives DEP Grant To Host Four BioBlitz Events For Students -- PA Assn.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2022

-- AG Shapiro: Coterra Energy, Formerly Cabot Oil & Gas, Pleads No Contest To 15 Criminal Charges Related To Polluting Water Supplies In Dimock, Susquehanna County [PaEN] -- DEP Has Ordered A ‘Top To Bottom Review’ Of How It Regulates Underground Natural Gas Storage Areas As A Result Of The Equitrans Gas Leak In Cambria County In Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2022

Read more here. -- DCNR Secretary Outlines 2022 Priorities To Conservation & Natural Resources Advisory Council, Including Need For $1.4 EIA: Proved Reserves Of Natural Gas Fell 4% In U.S. Senate returns to session Feb. 7, 8, 9 -- Committee Schedule House returns to session Feb. Live Stream. During 2020 -- Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 30, 2022

Below are examples of going the WRONG WAY on environmental and energy issues from last week’s articles and NewsClips-- -- Witnesses Unanimously Support Allocating American Rescue Plan Funding For On-Farm Conservation Projects At House Committee Meeting; Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

billion diverted from DCNR’s Oil and Gas Fund unconstitutional-- twice, they… keep… on… doing… it. Year after year environmental groups, conservation districts, farmers, local governments oppose the cuts and outline the critical environmental infrastructure needs communities have. Read more here. million from DEP, $1.5

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Josh Shapiro and CNX Resources, a shale gas extraction company based in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, announced a collaboration on environmental monitoring and chemical disclosures. The CNX report cited data monitoring associated with the collaboration and declared that its shale gas development “is safe and poses no public health risk.”

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 3, 2022

2, 2022 -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 2, 2022 -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. Billion Appalachia Natural Gas Deal -- EPA Announces Proposed Renewable Fuel Standard Program For 2023-25 -- Financial Times: U.S. 26 To Dec. 26 To Dec. Luzerne County -- Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 5, 2021

Million For PFAS Cancer Study WHYY: What’s In The Water? 27-28; Moraine State Park Regatta Aug. 27-28; Moraine State Park Regatta Aug.

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Law Columbia

MAY 28, 2021

Previously, local governments had pursued building electrification through building code provisions requiring or incentivizing electrification expressly, or through affirmative “bans” on natural gas hookups to new and renovated buildings. Brookline’s attempt was later struck down by the Massachusetts attorney general.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

29; No Information Yet On Whether Oil & Gas Development Health Risks Will Be Included Health Department Distributing Free Potassium Iodide Tablets To Pennsylvanians Near State’s Four Active Nuclear Power Plants Sept. 27 Western PA Conservancy Webinar: Benefits Of Water-Thirsty Trees Sept. 30 Manada Conservancy Hosts Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2022

Final Form Regulation 7-559 authorizes Pennsylvania’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) under the authority of the Air Pollution Control Act. By the 1890s, our forests were all but gone until the 1930s Civilian Conservation Corps replanted them.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

acres of commercial use on a 775-acre portion of the West Parcel and withdraw those lands from the TPZ zone, while designating the entire East Parcel as Forest and TPZ; upon approval, real parties would sell or restrict the East Parcel for conservation purposes in perpetuity. acres of commercial uses. City of Newport Beach (2017) 2 Cal.5th

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

This testimony was presented by Rachel Meyer , Moms Clean Air Force and Western Pennsylvania resident, at a March 11 hearing by the DEP Office of Environmental Justice on an Air Quality Permit for the expansion of the MarkWest Energy's Harmon Creek Natural Gas Processing Plant in Smith Township, Washington County.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

14 - Shale Gas Well Ordered Plugged After 8 Years; 20 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Shale Gas Well Leaking Gas For 23 Months And Counting [PaEN] -- What The Shale Gas Industry Leaves Behind: DEP: Southwestern Energy Prod Co.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 26, 2024

Greg Vitali (D-Delaware), Chair House Environmental Committee -- Gas Industry, Sen. Bartolotta Seek Legislation To Eliminate Environmental Hearing Board Appeals Of DEP Permits For Natural Gas Pipeline Facilities [PaEN] -- Damascus Citizens: Do You Live In An Oil & Gas Wastewater Disposal Facility?

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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. Click Here for the announcement.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2024

Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Farmer -- LancasterOnline: Chesapeake Bay Report Card Reveals Progress From Local Pollution Control Efforts -- Williamsport Sun: Sen.

Natural Gas 104

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

Energy Policy & Conservation Act (“EPCA”), are specifically tasked with administering two broad rebate programs for which individuals and building owners are eligible. States, Indian tribes, and air pollution control agencies are also eligible for funding. State energy offices, as defined under Section 124(a) of the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

Waste 107

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2021

Billion Meant For Conservation -- DEP: Issues Air Quality Action Day Warning For Friday, Aug. Billion Meant For Conservation -- DEP: Issues Air Quality Action Day Warning For Friday, Aug. 19 - Biodiversity Jam [PaEN] -- Governor’s Office: Publishes Latest Catalog Of Nonregulatory Documents [PaEN] -- PA Bulletin: Dept.

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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. In June 2018, DEP finalized an Air Quality General Permit to reduce methane emissions from new unconventional oil and gas operations. On December 2, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Of Health, Penn State Project ECHO Host Webinar On Caring For Persons Living And Working In Communities Involved In Oil & Natural Gas Extraction. Ohio- $3.03 Ohio- $3.03 Ohio- $3.03 Ohio- $3.03

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

23 Celebration [PaEN] -- Tribune-Democrat: Stakeholders Celebrate ‘Vitally Important’ Somerset County Acid Mine Drainage Treatment Systems -- DCNR, Crawford & Warren Conservation Districts Host Field To Forest Workshops On Sept. Matt Connell For Conservation Efforts At Sept. Matt Connell For Conservation Efforts At Sept.

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Natural Gas Waste Conservation Climate Change 62

Legal Planet

JANUARY 17, 2022

The idea that agencies need especially clear authority for really important regulations is one that the Court’s conservatives invented. EPA pollution rules nearly always require pollution control measures of one kind or another to be implemented at the polluting facility. That brings us to the West Virginia case.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Of Health, Penn State Project ECHO Held A Webinar To Educate Medical Professionals, Public On Exposures To Natural Gas Facility Pollution; Real Washington County CNX Facility Case Study Used What The Shale Gas Industry Is Leaving Behind: DEP: Southwestern Energy Prod Co.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) authorization of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from three facilities in Louisiana, Maryland, and Texas. Finally, the court found that DOE adequately considered distributional impacts in its evaluation of “public interest” under the Natural Gas Act. Sierra Club v. 2:16 -cv-00285 (D.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Yet it comes with the imprimatur of a host of conservative organizations and involves many people with ties to Trump. Letting more wind farms in Iowa sell electricity to Ohio, and the like, would make it “less economical” for “coal, nuclear, and natural gas to stay operational.” [pp. Crippling air pollution control.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit Court of Appeals found that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) failed to adequately analyze the climate change and environmental justice impacts of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals on the Brownsville Shipping Channel in Texas and two pipelines that would carry LNG to one of the terminals.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

billion to support Indigenous conservation of forests. The agreement also allows countries to continue to export liquefied natural gas. million for conserving pollinators, freshwater mussels, desert fish and Hawaiian Islands plants. Wealthy countries and global charities also pledged $1.6 Lawmakers also allocate $9.7

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ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

million for conserving pollinators, freshwater mussels, desert fish and Hawaiian Islands plants. The bill repeals section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021. 5345 ), sponsored by Rep.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

The federal district court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring the Biden administration from implementing a “Pause” on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters. Circuit Vacated Approval for Natural Gas Pipeline in St. 20-472 (U.S. Louis area.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Unleashing American Energy -- Reconsideration of regulations on power plants (Clean Power Plan 2.0) -- Reconsideration of regulations throttling the oil and gas industry (OOOO b/c) [Rule Reducing Methane Emissions] -- Reconsideration of Mercury and Air Toxics Standards that improperly targeted coal-fired power plants (MATS) -- Reconsideration of mandatory (..)

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