Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 2, 2025

For instance, explaining nuclear toxicology concepts is important for helping the public understand why and how to avoid radiation exposure. The nominee must be able to communicate complex scientific concepts so clearly that your grandma (and even the President ) will understand.

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

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 Environmental Protection to document the problems. Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water." [ Read more here.] Read more here.

Natural Gas

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Populations who live near sites storing and producing TENORM can experience direct gamma radiation, inhalation of contaminated dust, inhalation of downwind radon, ingestion of contaminated well water, ingestion of food contaminated by well water, and ingestion of food contaminated by dust deposition.

2011

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2025

On March 12, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced plans to reconsider EPAs 2009 endangerment finding for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, along with all regulations and actions that rely on the finding.

2009

PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

Because of these findings, oil and gas produced waters fail to meet the EPA's [US Environmental Protection Agencys] criteria for beneficial reuse of industrial waste. Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water." [ Read more here.] Click Here for a copy of Dr. Burgos testimony. Read more here.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 15, 2025

The near-total elimination of CDC centers like the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) will make it much harder to monitor and respond to environmental health and occupational safety hazards.

Regulations

Legal Planet

MARCH 12, 2025

Getty Images) In what is one of the most mind boggling press releases ever to come out of the Environmental Protection Agency, Administrator Lee Zeldin today declared that he wants to make America’s air and water dirty again and to make the planet still warmer. Today is a shameful day for environmental protection.

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Staff have been threatened and fired , with targeted cuts to the agencys environmental justice office, federal spending was frozen , and EPA Administrator Zeldin announced a massive deregulatory plan to undertake 31 actions to weaken key environmental protections. 1415 and S.

Toxic Substances Control Act

Nanotech

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on January 21, 2025, the availability of a final document entitled Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (Third Report). The document was prepared by EPAs Offices of Research and Development (ORD) and Air and Radiation (OAR), in consultation with the U.S.

Biofuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Lee Zeldin was full of pablum in his January Senate confirmation hearing to run the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). There are surely many more attempts to come that will turn back the clock on environmental protection. Aaron Szabo has been nominated to be assistant secretary for Air and Radiation.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2025

The rhetoric from this administration that mischaracterizes core public health and environmental programs as wasteful or ideologically driven is a dangerous distortion of reality. All to protect the profits of the oil, gas and chemical industries at our expense. As Zeldin goes up before Congress, heres what lawmakers could ask him.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

Adequate support could enable this agency to create and distribute comprehensive resources, actionable guidance, and suitable response/investigations near existing facilities, as well as provide Health Impact Assessments and evaluations of additional considerations for Environmental Justice communities before the permitting and development of new facilities. (..)

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

Illustration with Canva AI While many of us prepared to celebrate Independence Day last week, a group of employees from the Environmental Protection Agency were bravely speaking out about what they see as their boss “recklessly undermining the EPA mission” of protecting human health and the environment.

Climate Change

Nanotech

JULY 25, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rolled out the “reorganization plan” for its Office of Research and Development (ORD). On July 18, 2025, the U.S. The EPA press release refers The post EPA’s Office of Research and Development — Villain or Victim? appeared first on Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 29, 2025

On January 29, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the winners of the 2025 Pennsylvania Student Radon Poster Contest and continues to encourage Pennsylvanians to test their homes for radon as part of the departments ongoing National Radon Action Month outreach. pCi/L (picocuries per liter).

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2025

[However, in some programs like air quality, hazardous waste, safe drinking water, radiation protection, storage tanks and others, Pennsylvania chose to adopt many federal regulations by reference. [So So if the federal regulations disappear, so could Pennsylvanias regulations.]

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 21, 2025

To challenge cuts at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development, we organized a letter to Congress signed by more than 120 environmental, public health, science and community organizations, and businesses. The letter has been cited in the media and used by members of Congress.

Radiation

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Last month, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued updated final guidelines for how the agency plans to “ meaningfully engage ” the public in health and environmental protection. So, what does this mean in practice?

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

DEP’s Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board is scheduled to have a meeting September 9 with several critical issues on the agenda, including road dumping of conventional drilling wastewater, radiation monitoring of drilling and other wastes, and review of draft conventional drilling regulations.

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

On January 10, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has authorized an Air Quality Plan Approval to allow an onsite leachate treatment and evaporation system to be installed at Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill, located in Rostraver Township, Westmoreland County.

Radiation

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Toxicology Program, and the International Association of Research on Cancer classify EtO as a substance that can cause certain cancers. What are the health impacts associated with breathing it? How can I get involved to raise concerns about ethylene oxide in my community?

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

Marsha Haley: University of Pittsburgh radiation oncologist – Speaking about health risks associated with oil and gas industry’s radioactive emissions, the various radioactive elements involved, and the research she is currently involved with on the topic. Haley, M.D., Justin Nobel, science journalist, will moderate the panel discussion.

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

Radiation Testing DEP did not test anywhere on the Latkanich property for radiation or radon gas, in spite of multiple requests, according to Johnson. Radiation testing was never part of the testing that the Department performs on the site, even though we had asked repeatedly for radiation testing. Read more here.

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection invites students ages 9 to 14 to enter the 2024 Student Radon Poster Contest. DEP then enters the first-place poster into the 2024 National Radon Poster Contest, sponsored by the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors. The deadline for submissions is November 1.

Radiation

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Administered by the Office of Air and Radiation, this program is $4.6 During my more than two decades of federal service, I learned many things about the function of government. EPA’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) On September 20, 2023, EPA announced the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG).

Government

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2023

Read more here. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the August 12 PA Bulletin inviting comments on draft Stream Evaluation Reports for Aquashicola Creek (Monroe and Carbon counties); Jones Creek (Susquehanna County) and Hosensack Creek (Berks, Lehigh and Montgomery counties). PA Bulletin, page 5052 ).

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

The Department of Environmental Protection's Environmental Justice Office will hold a March 20 hearing on a new NPDES Water Quality Permit for the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Rostraver Township. ( PA Bulletin, page 1543-1544 ).

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

On September 1, the Department of Environmental Protection said any waste generated by the new conventional oil and gas well plugging program will NOT be exempt from hazardous waste requirements, unlike the same or similar wastes generated from active oil and gas production wells and facilities.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Here in Pennsylvania, a landfill applying for a permit with the state’s Department of Environmental Protection to evaporate liquid landfill runoff — called leachate — could create airborne radioactive material over people downwind. Radium is commonly referred to by radiation experts as “ a bone seeker.”

Waste

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

David has spent his career tirelessly serving the people of Pennsylvania and working to protect our environment,” said PRC Board President Winnie Branton. Past recipients have included Pennsylvania governors, Secretaries of Pennsylvania DEP and DCNR, members of Congress, United States Cabinet members and nonprofit leaders.

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

JULY 22, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection has its own Regulatory Agenda for regulations in development and its own Non-Regulatory Agenda for technical guidance in development. Read more here.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2023

During an April 4 routine inspection, the Department of Environmental Protection found two Repsol Oil and Gas USA LLC shale gas wells in Apolacon Township, Susquehanna County venting natural gas to the atmosphere through the well annulus at the Kropp Well Pad.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2021

This additional step of including radium in the list of contaminants to be measured will allow the Department of Environmental Protection to evaluate the presence of radium in landfills.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection has advised 18 municipalities where road dumping of oil and gas wastewater has occurred the practice is illegal and considered waste disposal. Another example, the EPA guideline for chloride concentrations in freshwaters is 230 mg/L to protect the health of aquatic systems.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

The Department of Environmental Protection confirmed as of February 11, Scott Perry, Deputy Secretary for Oil and Gas Management, is no longer an employee of the agency. No other comments on personnel actions were made. No replacement has yet been named. Perry was named Deputy for Oil and Gas Management in September 2011 by Gov.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

MAY 30, 2024

Austin Davis and Acting Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection Jessica Shirley touted the potential economic and environmental benefits of building solar facilities on abandoned mine lands in Pennsylvania at a news conference at a newly operational solar farm in Beaver County. On May 30, Lt.

Solar Power

E2 Law Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency , No. The property adjoined a site contaminated with radiation in the last century. EPA wanted access to the dealership to test the buildings and soils for radiation. EPA wanted to test to be sure that employees and customers of the dealership were not exposed to radiation.

Radiation