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.

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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 ).

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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.

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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 ).

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2024

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection data indicates radium levels in the state’s Marcellus formation can average 9,330 picocuries per liter (pCi/L) and be as high as 28,500. For context, EPA’s safe drinking water limit for radium is 5 pCi/L, and at 60 pCi/L EPA formally defines a liquid waste stream as “radioactive.”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2023

On April 5, township supervisors, concerned residents, and advocacy organizations submitted a letter to the Department of Environmental Protection calling on the agency to conduct a proper Public Participation Process for an oil and gas waste injection disposal well in Potter County.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Radiation can be present in materials that are spilled or leaked from pits, tanks, or landfills. David Allard, Director of DEP Bureau of Radiation Protection , provided a detailed explanation of the radiation exposure from solid waste, and oil and gas drilling waste in particular. Read more here. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2024

As a result of the accident, emergency planning and response programs at the local, state and federal level were dramatically improved around nuclear plants and state efforts to monitor radiation and provide direct oversight at these facilities also underwent significant changes. Dick Thornburgh. William Scranton, and then Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

On September 18, Protect PT announced the Westmoreland Landfill surrendered its Air Quality Plan Approval for a leachate evaporator system to dispose of its wastewater the Department of Environmental Protection approved on January 8, 2024.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2022

The bill would establish an Interdepartmental Coordinating Task Force in the Department of Health, with the Department of Environmental Protection, to oversee the collection and analysis of baseline health and environmental data related to the impact of oil and natural gas facilities on public health and safety. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection will hold a February 27 hearing on the Helix Ironwood gas-fired power plant Title V Air Quality Permit renewal for the facility located in South Lebanon Township, Lebanon County. ( PA Bulletin, page 176 ) The hearing will be held at the DEP Southcentral Regional Office, 909 Elmerton Ave.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

Mankind has had lots of fears through history, but as Dick put it later, radiation is one of "the worst fears of modern man." The State Department of Environmental Resources did regulate radiation, but only from X-rays in doctors and dentists offices. That drug blunts the effect of radiation poisoning to the thyroid gland.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the June 1 PA Bulletin inviting proposals for Clean Energy Campus generation and storage projects on 13 state-owned abandoned mine land sites of 50 acres or more totaling 1,850 acres.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2024

On May 29, the US Environmental Protection Agency awarded $55.7 million to 21 school districts to purchase 213 clean school buses under the EPA Clean School Bus Program rebate competition as part of the Investing in America agenda. Visit EPA’s Clean School Bus Program webpage for more information on this program.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 8, 2024

Mankind has had lots of fears through history, but as Dick put it later, radiation is one of "the worst fears of modern man." The State Department of Environmental Resources did regulate radiation, but only from X-rays in doctors’ and dentists’ offices. That drug blunts the effect of radiation poisoning to the thyroid gland.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In this, my third post on the recently released report of the Climate Overshoot Commission , I’ll discuss their treatment of the most challenging and controversial part of their mandate, Solar Geoengineering or Solar Radiation Modification (SRM).

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

EPA is coordinating with the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, Marion County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, and others to ensure a unified response to protect the public. [The On October 19, the U.S. Read more here.] [In

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection has issued a record 5,653 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas operators in 2023, with two months left in the year, according to DEP’s November 3, 2023 Weekly Workload Report. Environmental Protection Agency Underground Injection Well Program. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2022

On December 15, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has executed a $600,000 consent assessment of civil penalty (CACP) with John A. As part of this civil penalty settlement, DEP and Joseph have agreed to settle litigation related to other actions taken by the DEP in response to the disposal incidents.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The section highlights actions related to regulations and PA Bulletin notices. -- On November 15, the Environmental Quality Board voted to approve final regulations updating safety requirements for radiation producing machines and compliance schedules for NPDES Water Quality Permits.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Hess, Former Secretary Department of Environmental Protection Related Articles: -- DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council Meets Dec. Related Article This Week: -- Millions Of Gallons Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Spread Illegally On Dirt Roads, Companies Fail To Comply With DEP Waste Regulations By David E.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 4, 2023

But state environmental regulators have done little to address the problems at the plant. The state Department of Environmental Protection cited the company in 2021 for failure to prevent visible emissions, and the company agreed to pay $15,000 in fines.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The research team sought out reports to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Oil and Gas Division from oil and gas wells, indicating that they shipped wastewater to sanitary landfills in New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Related Articles This Week: -- Agenda For Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2022

On April 15, the Department of Environmental Protection issued a request for assistance in the search for a portable nuclear gauge containing sealed sources of radioactive material that belongs to KAKS and Company LLC of Harleysville, PA. The gauge had been secured in a vehicle stolen in Philadelphia.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency to adopt controls on methane emissions from oil and gas operations by December 16 or face the potential loss of $500 million or more in federal highway funds. Environmental Protection Agency. DEP estimates it will cost the conventional natural gas industry approximately $9.8 Read more here.

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