PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2023

Radiation Levels Prompt Tank Decontamination On June 28, DEP inspected the Sensinger shale gas well pad operated by Chesapeake Appalachia LLC in Franklin Township, Bradford 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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Environmental Law Centre

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Take a Stand, Make Decisions Better: Alberta Court of Appeal reboots standing test of the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board Normtek Radiation Services Ltd v Alberta Environmental Appeal Board, 2020. The post Take a Stand, Make Decisions Better appeared first on Environmental Law Centre.

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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.,

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2025

Yaw, Republican Chair Of Senate Environmental Committee, Calls Bill To Reduce Shale Gas Industry Impacts On Health, Environment Stupid [PaEN] -- Senators Santarsiero, Comitta Introduce SB 581 Increasing Setback Safety Zones From Natural Gas Drilling Sites, Other Infrastructure, Based On Latest Science [PaEN] -- Environmental Health Project: Setback (..)

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Physics World

JUNE 14, 2021

Gravity and radiation. The gravity law of human migration says that the movement between two urban areas decrease with distance and increases with population size or importance of the areas. Or put more simply, people are unlikely to travel far too often. The one scale that rules them all. Missing component.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2025

Yaw, Republican Chair Of Senate Environmental Committee, Calls Bill To Reduce Shale Gas Industry Impacts On Health, Environment Stupid [PaEN] -- Senators Santarsiero, Comitta Introduce SB 581 Increasing Setback Safety Zones From Natural Gas Drilling Sites, Other Infrastructure, Based On Latest Science [PaEN] -- Environmental Health Project: Setback (..)

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

16 TV’s O’Connor went around coral island to find origins of radiation (6). 10 Not the first law breaker? That’s one in the eye, archdeacon (4). 13 A-level physics comes in form that gives Saturn its place (5). 14 In taking the last of the Rolos, craving leads to rush of power (5). 19 Partial fan? 31 Saturn’s fourth visitor?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In addition to these requirements, DEP is also reviewing its policies for allowing the on-site disposal of radioactive and nonradioactive wastes where oil and gas well plugging will be done under the new federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law plugging program. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

For each of these separate governmental rulemaking processes, public comments will be accepted, and all substantive comments are required by law to be considered by the agency. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has also acknowledged that it has a role to play in identifying alternatives to EtO for sterilizing medical equipment.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Rich Janati, DEP Bureau of Radiation Protection, explained, “TENORM is mainly from fracking operations, a lot of it in Pennsylvania. The Appalachian LLRW Compact includes Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia. It contains radium with a 1,600 year half-life.” Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Physics World

AUGUST 28, 2021

If you have studied physics beyond school, you will likely have heard of the Rayleigh–Jeans law – an equation that accurately approximates the spectral radiance of blackbody radiation at long wavelengths.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2024

Among the issues raised by the appellants in their appeal were-- concerns the landfill’s operation would attract birds and interfere with the operation of the nearby Grove City Airport; that the oil and gas drilling wastes the landfill was allowed to accept presented a radiation hazard; and the landfill’s compliance history.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Waste that is determined to be residual must be transported to a processing or disposal facility that is authorized to accept residual waste and the law prohibits processing and disposal facilities from accepting waste from waste transportation vehicles that do not have a valid authorization.” Why Does It Matter?

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Physics World

MAY 10, 2022

It was in trying to understand how bodies radiate heat that Max Planck postulated the notion of discretely quantizing the distribution of energy among their atoms in 1900. The second law – the rise in entropy for all irreversible phenomena – is a key focus. It is a fun conceit and, like this book, full of charm.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 24, 2022

Mandated By Law A provision requiring DEP to publish the general permit was included in the Administrative Code bill that passed along with the budget in 2021 with no prior warning or consideration by any committee or in any legislation publicly available in the General Assembly.

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Real Climate

JULY 25, 2021

One may be that RCMs are often physically inconsistent with respect to the driving GCMs, which may involve different outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) at the top of the atmosphere over the same atmospheric volume. The reasons for systematic biases in RCMs are unclear. This is true even if the models themselves were perfect.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

billion funding from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law are clear examples of the latter. Administered by the Office of Air and Radiation, this program is $4.6 For example, EPA rules limiting ozone pollution or carbon from power plants move the first lever, while the combined $1.25

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

House holds Regular Session April 24, 25, 26 -- Committee Schedule -- Updated: House Budget Hearing Schedule - April 11, 12, 13, 14 Senate holds Regular Session April 24, 25, 26 -- Committee Schedule -- Updated Senate Budget Hearing Schedule - April 11, 12, 13 TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- April 3 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- PJM This (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

Bedrock federal environmental, health, and safety laws have gaping loopholes and exemptions that allow radioactive oil and gas materials to go virtually unregulated, including the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act that governs waste management, the Atomic Energy Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Clean Air Act.

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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). It is thus consistent with large body of prior international law.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Useful Environmental Law Terms.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Perry and his team helped develop the first comprehensive state law-- Act 13 of 2012-- to regulate unconventional gas drilling and the first comprehensive regulations setting environmental protection standards for both conventional and unconventional drilling, although the conventional regulations were killed by the General Assembly.

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Physics World

MAY 31, 2022

Most notably the cosmological value inferred from fluctuations in radiation known as the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which was generated when electrons and protons combined to form neutral hydrogen atoms a few hundred thousand years after the Big Bang.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 3, 2023

Shapiro Parlay Popularity Into A State Budget Win? -- TribLive: 4th Week Of Pittsburgh Synagogue Attack Trial Focused On Mental Health -- WESA: PA Lacks Certain Gun Laws Despite Support, Survey Finds -- TribLive: Public Menace Or Family Fun? Fireworks In Pennsylvania -- Post-Gazette: Fmr U.S.

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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. Melissa Troutman, Co-Founder of the Public Hearld , shared the story of how oil and gas wastes became exempt from federal and state hazardous waste laws and concerns about radioactivity in these wastes. According to a 2016 U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Sunoco redacted information about the maximum distance from the pipeline that would be impacted by "thermal radiation," i.e. an explosion. Sunoco had been using a 660 foot distance from either side of the pipeline, but PHMSA requested that be increased to 1,000 feet. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2022

This is an issue that has been identified internally, it's actually even broader than just the radiation concerns [with waste], there's a broader waste management concern here, even for non-radioactive plugging waste.” “I I think there are methods that were used in the past that didn't, may not quite work now.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

If the radiation levels in the sludge decrease enough, the waste can be trucked to the same local landfills that handle household trash instead of being shipped by rail to radioactive waste disposal sites out west — a more expensive but safer option. Radium is commonly referred to by radiation experts as “ a bone seeker.”

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E2 Law Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

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. 9604(e)(5), to allow the placement of radiation canisters in the building and sampling of soils, presumably through the pavement in the parking lot.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2023

TODAY 3:00 : Webinar Features Panel Discussion On Radioactivity And Oil & Gas Development, University Of Pittsburgh Radiation Oncologist 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. TODAY 7:30: Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community Monthly Eyes On Shell Meeting.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2024

This milestone demonstrates how many Pennsylvanians want to see this bill become law. House Bill 1842 was passed by the House on March 26-- after unanimous support in the House Consumer Protection, Technology and Utilities Committee-- and referred to the Senate Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee on April 22.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Given this, over the last century, a large body of international law has been developed to govern ocean-based activities. It is proving difficult in part because of the highly siloed nature of international environmental law. This is consistent with the precautionary principle that underlies much international environmental law.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2024

Among the issues raised by the appellants in their original appeal and in this case were-- concerns the landfill’s operation would attract birds and interfere with the operation of the nearby Grove City Airport; the oil and gas drilling wastes the landfill was allowed to accept presented a radiation hazard; and the landfill’s compliance history.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2024

Thanks to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, students in fifty school districts across the region will be able to ride to and from school on buses that produce zero emissions. “Today’s announcement will improve outcomes for human health, the environment, and the clean energy economy,” said EPA Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator Adam Ortiz.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 3, 2023

Click Here To View Or Print The Entire July 3 PA Environment Digest 95 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA Weekly List Of PA Environment & Energy Articles & NewsClips By Topic Senate Overwhelmingly Confirms Richard Negrin As Secretary Of DEP House Democratic Leadership Blocks Environmental Committee Action On (..)

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Roofs covered with reflective paints, for example, reflect more of the solar radiation hitting them and capture less heat as a result. Municipalities are subdivisions of the state that have only the authority granted to them by state law. In almost every jurisdiction state law limits the scope of local authority.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

the Department of Environmental Protection released the first-ever assessment of how well conventional oil and gas drillers comply with state environmental laws and concluded, “(the) conventional oil and gas industry’s recent record of compliance with Pennsylvania law is simply not good, particularly with regard to improper abandonment of wells.” “A

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