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On July 15, the Department of EnvironmentalProtection awarded more than $3.47 AFIG aims to lower greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality for many Pennsylvania communities with the use of electric school buses, Renewable NaturalGas (RNG) trucks, electric charging stations, and other clean transportation alternatives.”
The state Department of Health Bureau of Epidemiology and Penn State Project ECHO hosted two webinars in January and February for medical professionals and the public on Caring for Persons Living and Working in Communities Involved in Oil and NaturalGas Extraction. Of Health Oil & NaturalGas Production Health Concerns -- Dept.
The amendment would cover pollution from major oil and gas infrastructure and pipelines, power plants and many other facilities that emit these air pollutants. Before issuing a permit in an environmental justice area, the applicant would be required to submit a cumulative environmental impact report.
Shapiro and CNX Resources Corporation announced the Department of EnvironmentalProtection will begin conducting an independent study of unconventional shale gas well pad air emissions. On May 1, Gov. Josh Shapiro. Nick Deiuliis, President and CEO of CNX Resources Corp. VOCs and PM2.5 Read more here.]
Many of these coalition partners have come together to ask the PSCW to reject the proposals for new gas plants, arguing that cleaner, affordable options are available nowand they are submitting data to prove it.
The Department of EnvironmentalProtection has scheduled an April 30 hearing on the RACT 3 Air Quality Permit for the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Compressor Station 307 in Howe Township, Forest County. ( The hearing will be held at the DEP Northwest Regional Office, 230 Chestnut Street in Meadville from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m.
The state Department of Health Bureau of Epidemiology and Penn State Project ECHO hosted two webinars in January and February for medical professionals and the public on Caring for Persons Living and Working in Communities Involved in Oil and NaturalGas Extraction. Of Health Oil & NaturalGas Production Health Concerns -- Dept.
But just in case there was any doubt, UCS crunched the numbers to compare the different types of school buses from gasoline and diesel-powered option, to naturalgas, electric and yes – even propane. The infrastructure law allows for some of the funds to be used for other types of buses including naturalgas or propane-powered buses.
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The study-- Hazardous Air Pollutants In Transmission Pipeline NaturalGas: An Analytic Assessment -- was accepted for publication in Environmental Research Letters journal September 16. This includes new regulations in Pennsylvania. Read more here.
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EnvironmentalProtection Agency announced the final Good Neighbor Plan , a rule that will significantly cut smog-forming nitrogenoxide pollution from power plants and other industrial facilities in 23 states. On March 15, the U.S.
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With this agreement, the Department of EnvironmentalProtection is taking steps to hold Shell accountable and protect Pennsylvanians’ constitutional right to clean air and water while encouraging innovation and economic development in the Commonwealth,” said Rich Negrín, Acting Secretary of the Department of EnvironmentalProtection. “We
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million commercial trucks on California roads, and although they make up just seven percent of vehicles on the road, these trucks are responsible for more than one-quarter of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, more than 60 percent of smog-forming nitrogenoxides (NOx) and more than 55 percent of lung- and heart-harming fine particulate (PM2.5)
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EnvironmentalProtection Agency show that CO2 accounts for the vast majority of heat-trapping greenhouse gases emitted by the U.S. They also worry that the injections could touch off small earthquakes, similar to those that were triggered in Ohio and Texas by underground injections of wastewater from naturalgas and oil drilling.
But if plant owners actually do follow through on their retirement plans, there will be real, tangible public health and environmental benefits. So what might happen if all the plants that are scheduled to retire did in fact retire and never burned fuel again?
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