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Ocean Conservancy
APRIL 1, 2022
Items made from recycled plastics are hot commodities right now. Companies are rushing to make everything from sneakers to computer mouses to car parts out of recycled and “ocean-bound” plastics, and demand for recycled plastics has never been higher. are incinerated and used (just like fossil fuels) to generate energy.
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PA Environment Daily
MAY 2, 2025
gigawatt natural gas-fired power plant from Homer City Generation, LLC to be located in Center Township, Indiana County. ( PA Bulletin, page 3148 ) This 3,200 acre site will host Pennsylvanias largest natural gas power plant and data center campus, according to DEP. Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Sunoco Inc.
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A Greener Life
JUNE 14, 2024
By Anders Lorenzen The annual meeting of the world’s seven largest economies, G7, which this year is hosted in Italy has pledged to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels.
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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
JANUARY 28, 2023
27 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- DEP Releases Bid Solicitation To Plug 19 Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells In Forest County All At Taxpayer Expense [PaEN] -- DEP Blog: Plugging PA’s Abandoned Conventional Oil And Gas Wells -- Bradford Era: Rep. Senate returns to voting session Feb.
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PA Environment Daily
MARCH 10, 2023
Senate Committee On Ohio/PA Train Derailment -- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: Ohio/PA Train Derailment Site Under Investigation By OSHA After workers Report Health Problems -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meets March 16 On 6 Natural Gas Drilling Water Uses; 4.5
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PA Environment Daily
MARCH 20, 2023
Who’s Responsible For Cleaning It Up? -- The Nature Conservancy Receives $4.25 Million In Combined Investments For Appalachians.
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PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Gas Explosions -- WPXI: Major Natural Gas Leak At Ross Twp., Gas Explosions -- WPXI: Major Natural Gas Leak At Ross Twp., TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- TribLive: DEP Declares TODAY Code Orange Air Quality Alert For Liberty/Clairton, Allegheny County = -- FERC Approves PJM $1.25
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PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
21, 22, 23, 27, 28, March 1 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- Natural Gas Industry Tells House They Want Faster Permit Reviews, But Didn’t Say They Don’t Use 40% Of The Well Permits They Get From DEP; Industry Practices Keep Energy Prices High [PaEN] -- Reuters: U.S. Senate returns to voting session Feb.
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PA Environment Daily
JUNE 7, 2024
Related Articles This Week: -- House Environmental Committee Hearing On Road Dumping Oil & Gas Wastewater Set For June 10; A Voting Meeting On Bill To Ban Road Dumping June 11 [PaEN] -- Better Path Coalition: DEP Removes Co-Product Category From Conventional Oil & Gas Waste Reporting Database; Well Owners Continue To Fail To Report How They (..)
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PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
. -- The Public Utility Commission published notice in the September 7 PA Bulletin inviting comments on the proposed replacement of plastic pipe by natural gas distribution utilities. Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- National Fuel Gas Distribution Corp. Read more here. Adams County. ( Greene County. (
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PA Environment Daily
MAY 3, 2025
Conventional Gas Gathering Pipeline Rupture Williams/Laurel Mountain Midstream, LLM On Monday, March 17, 2025 at approximately 5:30 p.m., 2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 59 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups.
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PA Environment Daily
MAY 11, 2023
Rules Could Stem Emissions From Coal, Gas Power Plants -- Bloomberg: EPA Plan To Cut Planet-Warming Pollution Spares Most Natural Gas Power Plants -- Reuters: White House Backs Faster Energy Project Permits, Joining Republicans -- AP: Court: EPA Must Regulate Perchlorate, Contaminant In Water -- Utility Dive: U.S.
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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.
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PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 18, 2024
House next voting day March 18, 19, 20 -- Committee Schedule -- House Agency Budget Hearing Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- 105 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA [PaEN] -- Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults [PaEN] -- Top 10 Stories: Harrisburg/PA Politics Reported By (..)
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PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
17 RiverWatch Video Report -- TribLive: Westmoreland Commissions Asked To Oppose Underground Coal Mine. Billion Endowment -- New Planet Philadelphia Radio Program Feb. Shapiro Will Not Execute Any Inmates While He Is In Office, Calls For Repeal -- TribLive: Sen.
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PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 16, 2023
Billion In Federal Funding Up For Grabs, PA Environmental Officials Collect Climate Action Plan Suggestions -- Herald-Star: Tenaska Outlines Carbon Capture, Storage Project In Shale Gas Formations In SW PA, Southern Ohio -- PA GreenGov Council, Penn State Sustainability Host 4-Part Sustainability Webinar Series Starting Jan.
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PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 29, 2022
Municipalities should pass local bans and other restrictions on hard to recycle single use plastics, such as bags, polystyrene, bottles, straws, and utensils. The General Assembly should modernize Pennsylvania’s cornerstone recycling law, Act 101, in order to bring the Commonwealth’s waste management into the 21st century.
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PA Environment Daily
MAY 3, 2023
Steel’s Clairton Coke (Coal) Plant - By Mayor & Council Member of Clairton City -- DEP Blog: Air Quality Awareness Week: Particulate Matter 101 -- PPL Electricity Price To Compare To Drop June 1 For Customers Who Don’t Shop For Suppliers -- Altoona Mirror: Blair Conservation District Offering $1.6
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PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
1 Utility Prices Are Changing - Natural Gas (+149% to -64.2%); Electric (+18.8% 1 Utility Prices Are Changing - Natural Gas (+149% to -64.2%); Electric (+18.8% 1 Utility Prices Are Changing - Natural Gas (+149% to -64.2%); Electric (+18.8% PA Recycling Markets Center’s PA ReMaDE Conference Jan.
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PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
DEP reports spills and releases from the oil and gas industry have created over 575 brownfield sites being cleaned up under the Act 2 Land Recycling Program , as of September 12, 2023. This, however, is far from the whole story about oil and gas industry spill and release cleanups. The Land Recycling Program is voluntary.
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PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
House Committee Meets On Recycling Fee, Farm Solar The House Local Government Committee is scheduled to hold a voting meeting on House Bill 223 (Isaacson-D-Philadelphia) increasing the recycling fee on municipal waste disposed in the state to $5/ton from $2/ton ( sponsor summary ).
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PA Environment Daily
FEBRUARY 16, 2025
School Campus Could Save $10 Million -- Scranton Times: Renewable Natural Gas Plant Operator At Keystone Landfill Begins Test Drilling For Underground Carbon Dioxide Storage -- Protecting Clean Water Together: Starting To Think About The Garden? Of Environmental Professionals Inviting Presentation Proposals For Annual Conference Sept.
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PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 27, 2023
The following DEP notices were published in the October 28 PA Bulletin related to oil and gas industry facilities. Pennay G Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP issued an Air Quality Plan Approval covering multiple sources of air pollution, including compressors, pigging operations, at the well pad located in Brooklyn Twp., Luzerne County. (
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Enviromental Defense
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
The companies behind the lawsuit will produce more than 4 million tonnes of polyethylene in Canada this year from oil and gas extracted in Alberta’s oil sands, North American natural gas wells and fracking. based oil company ExxonMobil; licenses Esso and Mobil gas station brands in Canada. Majority owner is U.S.-based
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PA Environment Daily
APRIL 22, 2025
Plucked From Front Yards Escalating Rising Tensions -- Aqua Pennsylvania, PA Environmental Council Award More Than $55,000 In Local Grants To Protect Your Drinking Water In Southeast Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Webinar Series To Focus On Successful Tree And Shrub Planting Starting April 28 -- Saint Vincent College: Angela Belli Receives (..)
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PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Martin PPL Electric Utilities President -- PennLive: Encina To Reapply To DEP For Permit Needed For Plastics Chemical Recycling Plant In Northumberland County -- DEA: Locate An Oct. -- PennDOT Hosts Nov. 28 Prescription Drug Take Back Day Drop Off Location Near You -- Observer-Reporter: National Prescription Drug Take Back Day Saturday, Oct.
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PA Environment Daily
MAY 10, 2024
The following DEP notices were published in the May 11 PA Bulletin related to oil and gas industry facilities. Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- T&T Compression, Inc. Many of the notices offer the opportunity for public comments. Indiana County. ( Philadelphia. ( PA Bulletin, page 2575 ) -- Chesapeake Appalachia, Inc.
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PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
. -- The Department of Environmental Protection reports spills and releases from the oil and gas industry have created over 575 brownfield sites being cleaned up under the Act 2 Land Recycling Program , as of September 12, 2023. PA Bulletin, page 5809 ) Air Quality Permits -- Eastern Gas Transmission & Storage, Inc.
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PA Environment Daily
JUNE 7, 2024
The following DEP notices were published in the June 8 PA Bulletin related to oil and gas industry facilities. Larue Shale Gas Well Pad 2: DEP received a Final Report on remediation of groundwater contaminated by a release of petroleum-based drilling mud to meet the Statewide Health Standard at the pad located in Dimock Twp.,
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PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 28, 2023
DEP inspections in April found several of these wells venting natural gas. DEP inspection report + photos ] Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area Issues Not Resolved On October 16, 17, 18 and 19, 2023, DEP did follow up inspections of the Equitrans Rager Mountain Gas Storage Facility in Jackson Township, Cambria County, the site of the 1.1
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Environmental Progress
JANUARY 20, 2022
Notably, in the same proposal, the Commission has also included screening criteria for gaseous fossil fuels. The Regulation sets a time limit on the inclusion of nuclear energy but not on fossil fuels and grants the Commission special powers to rule on nuclear taxonomy compliance.
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PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 19, 2023
DEP Recycling Fund Advisory Committee & Solid Waste Advisory Committee joint meeting. Noon to 1:15 p.m. -- 9th Compendium Of Studies On Health & Environmental Harms From Natural Gas Development Released - ‘The Rapidly Expanding Body Of Evidence Compiled Here Is Massive, Troubling And Cries Out For Decisive Action’ [PaEN] -- Gov.
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PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 11, 2023
. -- The Department of Environmental Protection is now accepting public comments on two Chapter 105 encroachment applications submitted by Olympus Energy/Hyperion Midstream LLC covering natural gas gathering pipelines and water pipelines in Westmoreland County, according to public notices in the August 12 PA Bulletin. Read more here.
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PA Environment Daily
MARCH 28, 2024
“The Appalachian Hydrogen Hub is a vehicle for environmental racism, threatening Black communities already overburdened by air and water pollution with even more harmful fossil fuel and carbon capture infrastructure," said Archbishop Marcia Dinkins, Founder and Executive Director of the Black Appalachian Coalition. "In
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PA Environment Daily
MARCH 16, 2024
Tune Into Local Webcams 6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables [ There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay ] -- AAA Gasoline Prices: PA- $3.55 Time Will Tell -- LancasterOnline: Want To See PA Bald Eagle Hatchlings? National- $3.43 National- $3.43
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PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 6, 2023
. -- The Department of Environmental Protection is inviting comments on a proposed Chapter 105 permit and Section 401 Water Quality Certification for three new PA General Energy shale natural gas and water pipelines in Cummings and McHenry Townships, Lycoming County. ( PA Bulletin, page 6242 ) Read more here. Bradford County. (
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PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 23, 2023
2022 Natural Gas House Explosion In Dauphin County Susquehanna River Basin Commission Holds Nov. 30 Guest Essay: My Hometown Shows The Benefits Of The Fossil Fuel Industry Come At A Tremendous Cost - Gov. 2022 Natural Gas House Explosion In Dauphin County Susquehanna River Basin Commission Holds Nov.
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PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 29, 2021
So far, there has been no discussion of putting extra bonding requirements to cover decommissioning nuclear, coal, natural gas and oil-fired power plants. Read more here. Comments so far on Senate Bill 284 have not supported the overly broad scope, how it duplicates landowners leases and adds new government bureaucracy. Read more here.
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Of Health Pushing For Changes To Reduce Adverse Health Impacts From Natural Gas Development [PaEN] -- TribLive: PA Leads Nation In Lyme Disease Cases, Oil & Gas Development, Other Forest Fragmentation Boosting The Risk -- Observer-Reporter Editorial: Is Shapiro’s Voluntary Agreement With CNX The Right Move For Gas Well Safety? ‘We
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PA Environment Daily
SEPTEMBER 15, 2023
Reference Links: -- DEP’s Environmental Justice Plan -- DEP Expands Environmental Justice Protections With Updated Policy, Improved Mapping Tool; Enhanced Permit Reviews Start Sept.
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PA Environment Daily
JUNE 7, 2024
Related Articles This Week: -- House Environmental Committee Hearing On Road Dumping Oil & Gas Wastewater Set For June 10; A Voting Meeting On Bill To Ban Road Dumping June 11 [PaEN] -- Independent Fiscal Office Reports Drop In PA Shale Gas Production From 4th Quarter [PaEN] -- DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets June 11 To Hear About Mid-Atlantic (..)
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PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 5, 2023
Tree Health Struggles; What’s My Tree Doing For Me? -- WESA/The Allegheny Front: Why Teaching People About Invasive Plants Can Get A Little Thorny -- TribLive: Recycling Pumpkins Good For Wildlife, Environment -- Post-Gazette - John Hayes: Bear Season: Here’s How PA Controls Its Largest Predator -- PennLive: To The Bat Hospital!
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PA Environment Daily
MARCH 6, 2023
25 to March 3; More Well Plugging Sites Inspected PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 4 Independent Fiscal Office Reports 4th Quarter 2022 Natural Gas Production Decreased 1.6%; Average Price Increased By 82.5%
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