Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

When EVs do retire, it is critical that we can keep hazardous waste out of landfills and communities while limiting the amount of critical minerals (lithium, cobalt, nickel, etc.) We negotiated hard with auto makers, recyclers and others for the bill to include robust reporting requirements, producer responsibly and environmental protections.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2024

On October 23, the Department of Environmental Protection began plugging a conventional gas well orphaned by the well owner that contaminated a family's drinking water well in Vowinckel, Clarion County. Read more here. Visit DEP’s Orphan Well Plugging Grant Program webpage for more information. 30 Webinar - It’s Scary Out Here!

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 3, 2024

During a routine inspection on November 27, the Department of Environmental Protection issued a violation to Stonehaven Energy MGT Co. The Latshaw 9 conventional well was first issued a permit as a waste injection well by DEP on June 10, 2014 and by the US Environmental Protection Agency on June 28, 2016.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The notice said to contact the DEP Northwest Regional Waste Management Program-- Christina Wilhelm-- at: ra-epnwrowasteprog@pa.gov. ( PA Bulletin, page 7591 ) -- Environmental Awareness Corp, Inc. Tamaqua Transfer & Recycling Station: DEP invites comments on a renewal of a waste permit for the facility located in Walker Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2025

Other violations include leaking gas and failure to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Many were leaking gas and failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

The size of the toxic ash pile at the Scrubgrass cryptomining facility had turned waste coal into an even riskier form of pollution, said Patrick McDonnell, President and CEO of PennFuture. uses waste coal to fuel its operations, which results in large quantities of coal ash.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2025

On March 19, the Department of Environmental Protection issued notices of violation to Range Resources Appalachia LLC and LPR Energy, LLC for failing to submit required monthly reports of natural gas production, waste generation and disposal for shale gas wells in 12 counties. The owner has 10 days to respond. Baker Gas Inc.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2025

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the January 18 PA Bulletin proposing to add the Nockamixon TCE HSCA Site in Nockamixon Township, Bucks County to the Pennsylvania Priority List of Hazardous Sites under the state Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act. ( DEP has identified a former 77.2-acres

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Guide The Union of Concerned Scientists and Coming Clean , together with community and environmental justice organizations, co-developed a Guide to help you learn about and organize around cumulative impacts policies. The close proximity to hazardous waste facilities classified as Superfund sites contribute to the cumulative impacts.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

This year, Keep Erie County Beautiful partnered with the Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to host the Pennsylvania Lake Erie International Coastal Cleanup. Erie County proudly participates in the international coastal cleanup annually.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has rejected the U.S. Army Corps of Engineersproposed expansion of a toxic waste disposal siteon Chicagos Southeast Side. … Continue reading Illinois EPA blocks Army Corps toxic waste facility expansion Read the full story at E+E Leader.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency, an average home can easily accumulate 100 pounds or more of cleaners, automotive fluids, paints, pesticides and other products containing potentially hazardous components. Participants should place items in their car trunks or truck beds and stay in their vehicles while contractors unload the materials.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2024

On October 28, Department of Environmental Protection and its Office of Environmental Justice announced the agency will host a November 19 public meeting to answer questions from the public with concerns regarding the Blythe Recycling and Demolition Site (BRADS) in Blythe Township, Schuylkill County.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 1, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the March 2 PA Bulletin that MTM Trading LLC (Tagital) is prohibited from selling its products in Pennsylvania as a result of its violation of the state electronics waste recycling law. ( Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

On May 7, Reworld ™, in partnership with Goodwill Keystone Area , unveiled a new initiative to provide free electronic waste recycling across 22 central and southeast Pennsylvania counties. This program reduces waste, reuses items that are still good, and recycles the ones that aren't."

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Any proposed expansion of facilities would lock Pennsylvanians into more plastic industry buildout, more fracked fossil fuel infrastructure, and more pollution. At the end of the press conference, Moms Clean Air Force delivered 5,000+ signed petitions to Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2024

On April 29, Max Environmental Technologies, Inc. has agreed to a consent order that includes several actions to ensure compliance with federal and state hazardous waste safeguards at the company’s waste facility in Yukon, Westmoreland County, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 7526 ) PA Bulletin - November 16, 2024 Note: The Department of Environmental Protection published 60 pages of public notices related to proposed and final permit and approval/ disapproval actions in the November 16 PA Bulletin - pages 7475 to 7535. Received October 10, Issued October 24, 2024. (

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2024

On June 7, the Better Path Coalition reported the Department of Environmental Protection has removed the co-product category from its waste disposal reporting database for conventional oil and gas well owners, according to documents the Coalition received in response to a Right-To-Know request. have gotten easier.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

For DEP, the Agenda includes a proposed regulation establishing an annual permit fee for shale gas wells [ Read more here ] and updated waste management regulations covering conventional oil and gas operations [ Read more here ]. Lancaster County. (

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 3071 ) -- The Game Commission published notice in the April 26 PA Bulletin making changes to areas designed for the management of chronic wasting disease. Meetings April 29-- CANCELED. Bucks County. ( Bucks County. (

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2024

The Penn State PA Technical Assistance Program will hold an in-person training day and tour July 16 on Food Waste Reduction and Upcycling at the Penn State Berks Janssen Conference Center, 4150 Janssen Drive in Wyomissing, Berks County from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Click Here to register and for more information.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2024

On October 4, Department of Environmental Protection Acting Secretary Jessica Shirley joined Joe Arthur, CEO of the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank , to announce DEP is now accepting Food Recovery Infrastructure Grants to help nonprofit organizations fight hunger by reducing food waste. 12 -- DEP Sets Oct. 12 -- DEP Sets Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 27, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 8491 ) -- Republic Environmental Systems (PA) LLC - Hazardous, Residual Waste Storage, Treatment Facility: DEP invites comments on the renewal of the waste permit for the facility located in Hatfield Twp., acre solar energy facility in Porter Twp., Huntingdon County. ( Montgomery County. (

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 525 ) -- Mostoller Landfill LLC - Mostoller Landfill: DEP issued a renewal of a waste permit for the landfill located in Somerset and Brothers Valley Townships, Somerset County. ( Permits -- Arcadia North Land, LLC - 91.2 Monroe County. ( Montour County. ( Centre County. ( Click Here to register to join the meeting remotely.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Residents said both DEP and the US Environmental Protection Agency ignored the history of significant conventional oil and gas well drilling in the area, pointing to more than 100 wells around the proposed injection well site they felt would not provide a secure disposal area for the wastewater. in January, 2024. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 15, 2025

Photo Brett Walton/Circle of Blue By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue January 15, 2025 MILWAUKEE Mounting concern about chemical contaminants in sewage sludge, a waste product widely seen as recyclable and economically valuable, could turn into a costly liability and upend the finances of municipal wastewater utilities across the county.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 6, 2021

All the things that go down the drain and end up at the waste water treatment plant are not removed there. All the things that go down the drain and end up at the waste water treatment plant are not removed there. Clair River upstream of drinking water intakes for several Detroit metropolitan municipalities. Photo Lester Graham.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

She and her team of volunteers have found more than 1,000 lost and unplugged oil and gas wells, which they promptly reported to the state Department of Environmental Protection. She’s also been sued twice and chased from oil and gas rigs on public lands.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2022

His most recent piece even goes so far to take a potshot at the federal National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) and other “little NEPAs” in states across the US. But painting those processes and CEQA with the same brush is misleading, and wrong.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection will be accepting applications until December 16 for the new Methane Reduction Grants Program to plug marginally producing conventional oil and gas wells. Only 10 applicants applied so far to plug 77 wells, according to DEP’s report to the Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board on December 5.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 15, 2024

On August 14, 2024, the Department of Environmental Protection issued notices of violation to 16 owners of 5,374 conventional oil and gas wells for failing to submit annual production, waste generation/disposal and well integrity reports over multiple years, according to DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2025

Permits -- Waste Management Disposal Services Of PA , Inc. Northwest Sanitary Landfill: DEP invites comments on a renewal of a Solid Waste Permit for the facility located in Clay Twp., Northwest Sanitary Landfill: DEP invites comments on a renewal of a Solid Waste Permit for the facility located in Clay Twp., Read more here.

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Nanotech

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of the National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution: Part Three of a Series on Building a Circular Economy for All. On November 21, 2024, the U.S.

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Recycling Environmental Protection Waste 2024 59

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The tide of waste was generated by animals from 132 CAFOs in Indiana and Ohio. Operators are required to “manifest” or document the quantity and location where waste is spread. million more gallons of liquid waste and 50,000 more tons of solid waste were manifested in the two counties. Data: Environmental Working Group.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

On March 14, the Attorney General opened another investigation into Energy Transfer/Sunoco into potential environmental crimes related to the Energy Transfer/Sunoco pipeline that leaked petroleum into household wells in Upper Makefield Township, Bucks County. Environmental Protection Agency. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 28, 2025

On January 28, the Department of Environmental Protection said compliance with a 2022 state Air Quality regulation to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas facilities was put on hold for the conventional oil and gas industry as a result of an agreement to stay a legal challenge to the regulations in Commonwealth Court.

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