PA Environment Daily

JULY 22, 2023

On July 22, the Governor’s Office published an update to the Regulatory Agenda of regulations in development that included a new annual permit fee for unconventional shale gas operations and a schedule for the release of updated waste and other environmental standards for conventional oil and gas drilling. Read more here.

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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. 4 Hearing, Meeting Set [PaEN] -- Environmental Health Project: State Dept.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Sara Innamorato (D-Allegheny) co-chaired a hearing by the Senate Democratic Policy Committee on the environmental and health dangers associated with oil and gas drilling waste in Pennsylvania. We are concerned because radium-226 and radium-228, both present in oil and gas waste, can cause bone and connective tissue cancer.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

Wolf’s PFAS Action Team Report noted there is a concern wastewater plant sewage sludge also contains PFAS and policies are needed to properly manage this waste. Similar concerns would be present in oil and gas waste treatment facilities. Read more here. See Paragraph 71 in appeal.] Read more here. See paragraph 78-98 of EHB appeal.]

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

million gallons of toxic, radioactive drilling waste on unpaved roads in the Commonwealth. Feridun’s attempt to use the Oil and Gas Division’s Oil and Gas Reporting Electronic (OGRE) system to track where the waste has gone revealed many problems with the system’s design and entries that should set off alarms but don’t.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2021

In an effort to further protect Pennsylvania’s waterways and drinking water, the Department of Environmental Program announced it will soon require all Pennsylvania landfills – including those that accept unconventional oil and gas waste – to conduct quarterly testing of leachate for radiological contaminants.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 10, 2024

On June 10, the Department of Environmental Protection told the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee the Shapiro Administration supports legislation banning the practice of road dumping oil and gas wastewater and prohibiting its consideration as a coproduct under Residual Waste Regulations.

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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. Joseph will pay a civil penalty of $600,000 to the Solid Waste Abatement Fund.

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Researchers, using DEP data, found an average 30 percent discrepancy between the waste numbers reported by the oil and gas industry and the waste received by landfills. The study noted landfills must test leachate for radioactive radium and other markers of oil and gas waste, but wastewater plants don’t. Read more here.]

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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. The annual Awards Celebration raises funds critical for our waste reduction, recycling, education, watershed protection and advocacy efforts,” said Spielman.

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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

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. DEP labels a total of 84 townships as “waste facilities” where road dumping of the wastewater has occurred. Read more here.

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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

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

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Hess, Former Secretary Department of Environmental Protection The information submitted to DEP’s Bureau of Waste Management from eight conventional oil and gas companies to justify allowing them to dispose of millions of gallons of wastewater by spreading it on dirt roads fails to meet the requirements of DEP’s 25 Pa Code Chapter 287.8

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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

JUNE 10, 2022

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the June 11 PA Bulletin of final guidance on handling radioactive waste going to solid waste processing and disposal facilities from unconventional shale gas drilling operations and other sources. Read more here.

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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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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

What the DEP staff did not address or mention was another office in DEP-- DEP’s Bureau of Waste Management-- allows the road dumping of conventional oil and gas drilling wastewater as a dust suppressant under its co-product regulations and this practice continues. There is a ban on road spreading of fracking waste.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2022

The requirements in the bill cover oil and natural gas facilities, including wells, pipelines, pumping stations, compressor stations, power plants, natural gas processing plants or plants processing waste streams from oil and gas operations. The data is required to be publicly available on the Internet. Read more here. Read more here.

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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

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, 2024

Decommissioning of both units will require the disposal of both high level and low-level radioactive waste and the safe, permanent storage of the nuclear fuel used by both units that is still on Three Mile Island. Seif , former Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection, and in 1979 administrative assistant to Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 7, 2023

Read more here. -- The Department of Environmental Protection is inviting comments on proposed RACT 3 revisions to the Title V Air Quality Permit for the Artemas Natural Gas Compressor Station operated by the Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC in Mann Township, Bedford County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Greene County. ( Greene County. (

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2024

Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas In Cambria County DEP Issued Air Quality Permit For Leachate Evaporation System At Westmoreland Landfill With Special Radiation Monitoring Due To The Disposal Of Shale Gas Drilling Waste DEP Sets Feb. 22 DEP Awards $39.6 16; Snowmobile/ATV Grants Feb.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Let’s start with the 1972 Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (London Convention) and the 1996 Protocol to the Convention (London Protocol). At the time they were adopted, the primary focus was on preventing the discharge of waste materials into the ocean.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection issued a record 6,860 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas operators in 2023, according to DEP’s December 29, 2023 Weekly Workload Report. Environmental Protection Agency Underground Injection Well Program. more than in 2021 and 26.6% more than in 2022 and 569.9%

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 27, 2022

Using oil and gas wastewater from conventional wells to control dust was considered a beneficial use of the residual waste on the state’s 25,000 miles of dirt and gravel roads, since it was thought to have a chemical composition and behavior similar to commercial dust suppression products. Read more here.] Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Read more here. -- Radiation Levels In Storage Tank Prompt Decontamination: On June 28, DEP inspected the Sensinger shale gas well pad operated by Chesapeake Appalachia LLC in Franklin Township, Bradford County in response to a notification that over 800 gallons of production wastewater was released over a 10 day period on the well pad.

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Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The fastest way to shift the transportation sector to environmental sustainability is to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles (EVs). According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions is from transportation. Gasoline engines are riddled with inefficiencies.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection has received and is reviewing the Act 2 Land Recycling Final Report by Equitrans on the cleanup of soil around the conventional gas well that failed and resulted in the uncontrolled venting of 1.1 PA Bulletin, page 201 ) The report deals with the George Reade 1 conventional well. 30 to Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 7, 2022

On July 7, Department of Environmental Protection Waste, Air, Radiation and Remediation Deputy Secretary Krishnan Ramamurthy and the Professional Recyclers of Pennsylvania Executive Director Jennifer Summers highlighted the student winners of PROP’s 2022 Earth Week Poster and Video Contest.

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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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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 213 ) According to Equitrans, CONSOL has plans to mine coal above and around the Equitrans Hunters Cave and Swarts Natural Gas Storage Fields over the next several decades. 30 to Jan. 14-17, Including Duquesne Light, West Penn Power, Penn Power [PaEN] [Posted: January 12, 2024] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The videos cover these topics and more-- -- Exploring Risk Factors of Human Exposure to Environmental Risk Factors - Birth Impacts, Radiation & Waste -- 9th Compendium of Scientific, Medical and Medial Findings on Risks and Harms of Fracking and Associated Gas and Oil Infrastructure -- Blue Hydrogen Click Here to view and share the videos. “A

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 25, 2021

“There are also concerns from the environmentally sensitive standpoint about what is in those brines,” said Chase. “We We know there are some heavy metals [lead, arsenic], some radiation, oil and gas residues in them. It’s not something we would be willing to put on our roads anyways,” said Chase.

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