PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Josh Shapiro and CNX Resources, a shale gas extraction company based in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, announced a collaboration on environmental monitoring and chemical disclosures. The CNX report cited data monitoring associated with the collaboration and declared that its shale gas development “is safe and poses no public health risk.”

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

FBP would treat fluids from the hydraulic fracturing process used to extract natural gas. The shale gas industry also shipped over 138,000 cubic feet of TENORM waste to secure low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities in 2022 and over 911,000 cubic feet since 2017. Read more here.] [In

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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. 22 DEP Awards $39.6

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

We most often encounter methane as the largest component of natural gas: methane makes up 75 – 95% of the gas coming to your stove and furnace. Natural gas” was a marketing term for this then-new, safer gas pumped through urban distribution pipes starting in the 1940s. the absence of air.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2023

Researchers attribute 70 percent of the greening to CO2 fertilization from of fossil fuel emissions. Another nine percent is attributed to fertilizers derived from fossil fuels.) However, the gas has saturated to a large extent within the infrared range, leaving relatively little potential for increased warming.

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Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Yes, in some cases, fossil fuels are burned to generate the electricity used to charge electric cars, but this highlights two of electric vehicles’ many advantages. They are much more efficient than gas powered vehicles and the electrical grid is getting greener. Taking a national average of 25.1 You’ll feel the loss of energy.

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A Greener Life

MAY 28, 2023

Currently, 84% of the energy consumed in Argentina is generated using natural gas and oil, fossil fuels whose production and use drive global warming, and which can bring other harmful impacts on ecosystems, societies and their health. Now, eight schools in the city have solar panels.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 2, 2024

Laughlin Introduces Bill On Local Solar Programs Supported By Utilities -- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Ad Crable: Feds Offer $90 Million For Vast Solar Energy Array On PA Mine Land In Clearfield County -- Williamsport Sun: Families United Network ‘Flips The Switch’ To Solar Energy Panels At Their Muncy Campus -- Post-Gazette Editorial: Yes, Solar Energy (..)

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Edouard Stenger

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Despite the fact that Puerto Rico does not have any coal, natural gas, or oil reserves, the quasi totality of its electricity is produced by such means. ( As per official EIA statistics , almost half of the electricity is still coming from oil. Natural gas covers a third and coal one sixth.)

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

17 Hearing On Title V Air Quality Permit Renewal For The Consol Bailey Coal Prep Plant In Greene/Washington Counties [PaEN] -- DCNR Conservation & Natural Resources Advisory Council Meets Nov. Greene County [PaEN] -- DEP To Hold Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Sandra Steingraber, Senior Scientist with the Science and Environmental Health Network , provided an overview of findings from the newly published 9th Compendium of Scientific, Medical, Media Findings Demonstrating Risk, Harms of Natural Gas Development and Infrastructure during a briefing hosted by the Better Path Coalition.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 14, 2024

On January 12, the PJM Interconnection declared ‘Conservative Operations’ to maintain electric grid reliability forced by natural gas pipeline fuel restrictions brought on by winter weather impacts on their operations. No action is requested of the public.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2024

Yaw, Republican Chair Of Senate Environmental Committee, Calls Bill To Reduce Shale Gas Industry Impacts On Health, Environment ‘Stupid’ [PaEN] -- State Dept. Yaw, Republican Chair Of Senate Environmental Committee, Calls Bill To Reduce Shale Gas Industry Impacts On Health, Environment ‘Stupid’ [PaEN] -- State Dept. Why Does It Matter?

Radiation 94

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Fossil fuel : Any mineralized formerly organic material extracted from the ground and used in energy production: coal, natural gas, oil. Greenhouse gas : A group of gases known to be responsible for increasing the “greenhouse effect” - that is, gases that absorb infrared radiation and increase atmospheric density.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2023

Murphy - Scientist, Engineer, Pioneer In Mine Safety, Regenerative Medicine, NASA Gemini Space Program -- Pennsylvania Groups Call For Transparency With State Plans For Carbon Capture, Storage [PaEN] -- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: Who Is Blocking Climate, Oil & Gas Bills In Pennsylvania?

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

I further argue that, if we continue to develop in these ways, deaths from natural disasters will continue to decline, food surpluses will continue to rise, and global carbon emissions will likely peak and decline soon, preventing temperatures from rising more than three degrees centigrade over pre-industrial levels.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

This pause does not affect permits issued by DEP’s Oil & Gas Program (i.e., Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Xpress Natural Gas - Forest Lake: DEP received a Notice of Intent to remediate soil and groundwater contaminated by the release of used motor oil to meet an unknown standard at the site located in Forest Lake Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard- Nov. 4 [PaEN] -- Environmental Hearing Board Issues Temporary Supersedeas To Stop The Opening Of Catalyst Energy, Inc.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

By Council To Modernize Governance -- The Allegheny Front: New Book Takes On Radiation Dangers In Oil & Gas Industry [PaEN] -- ABC27: Environmental Advocacy Groups Rally At Capitol For Action On Gas, Oil Industry -- Sen.

Conservation 80

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

Revenue from the 2023 Act 13 impact was already down 25%-- $105 million-- from the year before.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

“Again, this is a very controversial, for some, issue in this building as a bipartisan love affair has existed for the oil and gas petrochemical industry in Pennsylvania for many, many years. “I We have been subjected to continual gas inhalation, methanol byproducts, carbon monoxide, H2S [hydrogen sulfide] gas, etc.,

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2023

DEP Radiation Protection Advisory Committee meeting. Room G-50 Irvis Building. Click Here to watch live. TODAY 9:00: Agenda Posted. 14th Floor Conference Room, Rachel Carson Building, Harrisburg. Visit the Committee webpage for options to attend the meeting remotely.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Director Of The Center For Private Forests At Penn State All Articles & NewsClips In This Week’s Digest By Topic 17 Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Operators Under Review By DEP To Determine If They Comply With Program Allowing Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Oct. 20, 27, Nov. 20, 27, Nov.

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Fossil Fuels 2021 Conservation Radiation 52

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

How this section of the TSF was virtually handed over to the shale-gas industry for exploration and fossil-fuel development is beyond explanation. The current plan calls for a pipeline that bends east before intersecting with the existing Tennessee Gas trans-state gasline.

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Natural Gas Fossil Fuels 2024 Electricity 97

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

NERC continued, “While the natural gas industry is making progress on commercial practices and voluntary commitments to improve winter preparedness, supplies to electric generators remain vulnerable in extreme cold temperatures in many parts of North America, placing electric reliability at risk. “As

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2023

Air -- Olympus Energy Shale Gas Driller Expresses Fear Municipalities Will Use Their DEP Compliance Record With Hundreds Of Violations To Help Make Local Land Use Decisions On Oil & Gas Infrastructure Projects [PaEN] -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Methane Leaks From Natural Gas Pipelines Targeted By Proposed Federal Rule -- TribLive: Upgrades (..)

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal: Volunteer Laurie Barr Leads Hunt For Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In Pennsylvania - By Ad Crable [PaEN] -- FracTracker Alliance Announces 2024 Community Sentinel Award Recipients To Be Honored Dec.

Conservation 82

Conservation Electricity Recycling 2025 82

Environmental Progress

JULY 9, 2020

One of the reasons for the failure to burn up the underbrush or the wood fuel that accumulates in managed forests, the post-European forests is because the locals don't like all the smoke, you know? When one of our neighbors here — in our natural gas burning neighborhood — burns wood, everyone's like, “What are you doing?

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Climate Change Electricity Sea Level Nuclear Power 61

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Staff from DEP’s Bureau of Radiation Protection last week told a Senate Committee-- “The potential environmental impact from spills or leaks of TENORM [naturally occurring radiation] contaminated material [from oil and gas drilling operations] is real.” Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. “I Read more here. “We

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

[PaEN] -- PennLive: PA Senate Republicans Pass Bill Allowing Large-Scale Energy Projects To Bypass State Agencies -- Bill Reported Out Of Senate Committee Would Allow Pipelines Like Mariner East To Apply For Waivers Of Any PUC Regulation, Law Or Policy [PaEN] -- PA Capital-Star: PA Senate Committee Advances Bill To Allow Utility Companies To Request (..)

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Conservation Nuclear Power Waste 2024 106

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Casey, Colleagues: Introduce Bill To Empower Fossil Fuel Workers To Train, Find Jobs In Changing Energy Industry [PaEN] -- EQB: Meets Oct. 14 [PaEN] -- Delaware RiverKeeper: Oct. 8 RiverWatch Video Report -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Fall Newsletter Now Available [PaEN] -- DEP: Issues Air Quality Action Day Warning For Oct.

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Natural Gas Fossil Fuels Radiation 2021 72

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2024

These tests do not have to include a radiation analysis, even though studies have shown radium from oil and gas wastewater — which often contains 300 to 560 times the acceptable levels of radioactive substances in drinking water — has made its way into roadside vegetation, fresh water, and up the food chain.

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Waste Natural Gas 2024 Radiation 110

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Mensch Introduces Bill To Encourage Development Of Clean Vehicle Infrastructure- Electric, Natural Gas, Hydrogen -- 35 Senate, House Democrats Urge Gov. Wolf To Investigate Health Impacts Associated With Natural Gas Fracking -- EPA Honors Energy-Efficient Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc.

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Conservation 2021 Natural Gas Climate Change 64

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2022

House returns to session March 21, 22, 23 -- Committee Schedule Senate returns to session [Budget Hearings] March 28, 29, 30 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events ADVISORY: Some DEP Databases Back: eFACTS , interactive Oil & Gas Compliance Reporting , online eDMR reporting databases seem to be back online, mostly. Mitchell C.

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Fossil Fuels Air Pollution 2022 Politics 64

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2021

TODAY 12:30: Senate Local Government Committee meets to consider Senate Bill 275 (Yaw-R-Lycoming) which would limit the ability of communities to offer new and clean energy sources and energy efficiency programs by locking in the status quo, in particular natural gas. Room 8E-A East Wing of the Capitol. TODAY 12:30: Agenda Posted.

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