PA Environment Daily

MARCH 1, 2023

The Washington & Jefferson College Center for Energy Policy and Management in Washington County will host a free March 8 webinar on renewable natural gas as part of its Energy Lecture Series. Renewable Natural Gas: Sustainable Energy from Trash” will be the subject of a free, hour-long webinar at 11:00 a.m.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 26, 2024

Speakers from several public health, community advocacy and environmental groups will participate in a September 19 webinar -- A Year Later: Have Leaders Addressed Health Concerns From Natural Gas Development Raised In University Of Pittsburgh Public Health Studies? Shapiro's deal with natural gas developer CNX Resources.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 27, 2024

. “Utilizing waste heat from natural gas engine and LNG cold energy to meet heat-electric-cold demands of carbon capture and storage for ship decarbonization: Design, optimization and 4E analysis.” ” Journal of Cleaner Production, 446, 141359.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Better Path Coalition will host an October 18 webinar launching the 9th Compendium of Scientific, Medical, Media Findings Demonstrating Risk, Harms of Natural Gas Development and Infrastructure at Noon and 7:00 p.m.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2023

On March 16, the Susquehanna River Basin Commission approved proposed water withdrawals, including six natural gas drilling water use renewals totaling 7.1 The natural gas drilling water withdrawal renewals were-- -- Repsol Oil & Gas USA, LLC ( Fall Brook), Ward Township, Tioga County , PA.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

On September 18, Senators Steven Santasiero (D-Bucks) and Carolyn Comitta (D-Chester), Minority Chair of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, announced they were introducing legislation to increase setback safety zones from shale natural gas drilling sites based on the latest science. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

On September 19, Utility Dive reported the North American Electric Reliability Corp issued a statement that it "remains concerned about maintaining sufficient natural gas supplies to address extreme winter conditions." and grid operators and the natural gas sector say they are preparing, said Utility Dive. Read more here.]

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2021

Wastewater-to-energy systems start with a process called anaerobic digestion, which treatment plants have been using for ages to reduce the volume of sewage waste. But as the market grows, some urge caution before using wastewater to create renewable natural gas. Photo © Richard Webb / Wikimedia Commons. How It Works.

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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

JUNE 7, 2024

On the agenda for DEP’s Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board June 13 meeting is a discussion of a variety of topics, including-- -- Potential For Wastewater Migration From Underground Injection Disposal Wells -- Financial Assurance Strategies To Address Future Well Abandonment -- Orphan & Abandoned Well Topics-- -- Implications Of Changing Definitions (..)

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

On February 26, 2024, DEP notified CNX Midstream Operating Company LLC that its application for the Slickville fracking wastewater and natural gas pipelines project is considered withdrawn because CNX failed to provide the information needed to complete the application within 60 days and start its review.

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Cleannovate

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Biogas is simply natural gas derived from rotting organic waste. These include kitchen waste, fresh livestock manure, human faeces among others. BACTERIA Bacteria used to convert organic waste into biogas are mainly derived from runinants. Several reasons.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

By Adam Peltz and Jon Goldstein , Environmental Defense Fund This article first appeared on the Environmental Defense Fund Blog on November 21, 2022-- A natural gas storage site in Western Pennsylvania has sprung a massive gas leak that’s impacting both the climate and the communities who live in Cambria County.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2023

natural gas and oil as a long-term strategic asset during API’s annual State of American Energy event. As consumers face growing energy costs, API urges policymakers to take a more realistic approach and ensure that American natural gas and oil are prioritized as long-term strategic assets. Jefferson County; Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 14, 2024

On August 14, CNX Resources issued a press release announcing the preliminary results of air emissions monitoring at 14 sites it said "indicate that CNX natural gas development poses no public health risk." Eleven of the sites were monitored for as little as just four weeks up to 24 weeks or less.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2023

On March 14, the federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Adelphia Gateway natural gas pipeline company was not entitled to a different outcome in Federal Court after receiving an adverse judgment in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania in Cole et al v. Department of Environmental Protection in 2021. Opinion, p.

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Environmental Leader

JANUARY 17, 2022

A project in California involving several energy companies is turning methane from 15 dairy farms and producing renewable natural gas. The post California Renewable Natural Gas Project Creates Economic Opportunities, Reduces Dairy Emissions appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Brantley has published more than 300 scientific papers aimed at understanding what controls the chemistry of natural water and how water interacts with the rocks through which it flows. Her recent work has focused on environmental impacts related to the use of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) in natural gas and oil extraction.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

On December 27, 2022-- Christmas week-- a malfunction at the CNX Oak Springs Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Station in South Franklin Township, Washington County resulted in the release of an estimated 1.1 million cubic feet of natural gas and hazardous air pollutants. From approximately 10:14 a.m. to at least 11:55 a.m.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2023

On April 24, DEP inspectors, responding to a citizen complaint, found two conventional wells continuing to vent natural gas in Hanover Township, Washington County. The DEP inspector found significant natural gas readings around the well head of the water well which has been disconnected from the house and is no longer in use.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 22, 2023

On June 15, the Susquehanna River Basin Commission voted to approve proposed water withdrawals and renewals projects, including 12 related to unconventional shale natural gas drilling. NewsClips: -- Marcellus Drilling News: Punxsutawney Phil Getting A New Neighbor - Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well -- TribLive: Grant Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2023

On March 14, PennFuture and the Delaware Riverkeeper Network appealed the Department of Environmental Protection water quality permits for the Transcontinental Gas and Pipeline Company’s Regional Energy Access Expansion natural gas pipeline expansion that will run through Luzerne and Monroe Counties.

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Environmental Leader

JANUARY 17, 2022

A project in California involving several energy companies is turning methane from 15 dairy farms and producing renewable natural gas. The post California Renewable Natural Gas Project Creates Economic Opportunities, Reduces Dairy Emissions appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

Is this what we should expect from the natural gas industrial infrastructure in Washington County and Pennsylvania? December 25 Christmas Morning Explosion Kasey Duran and her family live about 1,500 feet from the Energy Transfer Revolution Cryogenic Natural Gas Processing Plant in Smith Township, Washington County.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2023

By Cat (Cathy) Lodge, Washington County Resident My family’s home is in Washington County and we have more Marcellus and Utica Shale natural gas industrial facilities than any other county in Pennsylvania. Counties across the state have witnessed harm from the heavy industrial activity associated with natural gas exploration.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2024

PJM also issued a Conservative Operations advisory on January 12 that will last through January 17 to maintain electric grid reliability as a result of winter weather impacts and pipeline fuel restrictions reported by natural gas pipeline operators. The natural gas prices changes ranged from a decrease of 64.2%

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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. DEP Inspection Reports: Kropp Well 1H and Kropp Well 7H.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2023

One of the most significant changes is "enhance resource accreditation" that would more accurately assess the reliability value of natural gas-fired power plants which accounted for 70% of the power plant outages in PJM during Winter Storm Elliot.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

On February 11, Jon Hurdle of Inside Climate News reported the Department of Environmental Protection took nine days to inspect the Energy Transfer Revolution Cryogenic Natural Gas Processing Plant in Washington County after an explosion and fire on Christmas Day. hours on Christmas Day. hours on Christmas Day.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 13, 2023

An October 13 DEP inspection of the construction site again found multiple violations of the state Clean Streams Law and Solid Waste Management Act. PGE will attempt to use new underground “micro-tunneling” technology for the natural gas pipeline, down steep slopes on both sides of the Creek. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2023

Forced generation outages during the coldest part of the storm on December 24 found 32,473 MW of natural gas-fired generation off-line, 7,562 MW of coal-fired generation and 5,917 MW of nuclear, oil, wind, solar, according to PJM. Nationwide, PJM said, there was a 20 percent decline in natural gas production. 31 to Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

On September 1, the Department of Environmental Protection said any waste generated by the new conventional oil and gas well plugging program will NOT be exempt from hazardous waste requirements, unlike the same or similar wastes generated from active oil and gas production wells and facilities. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2022

On December 30, the Observer-Reporter newspaper reported an explosion and fire at Energy Transfer’s Revolution Cryogenic Natural Gas Processing Plant broke out about 7:30 a.m. The article said the fire continued burning at the natural gas facility for nearly 11 hours.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2023

The Susquehanna River Basin Commission is scheduled to hold a hearing February 2 on proposed water withdrawals, including an out-of-basin diversion for the Ironwood natural gas power plant in Lebanon County and six other natural gas drilling water uses. million gallon per day withdrawal from the Susquehanna River Basin.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

On September 5, 2023, DEP issued a notice of violation to the operator for abandoning the well without plugging it and the operator tried to plug it, but a camera inserted into the well found natural gas was still bubbling up through the well indicating it had failed. DEP issued the original notice of violation on May 3, 2023. [

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

billion gallons of drilling wastewater generated every year in Pennsylvania-- where it does for disposal or recycling, waste injection well development, problems with the conventional and shale gas wastewater reporting system, road dumping of conventional drilling wastewater and much more. Click Here to read the entire article.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2023

From July 29 to August 4, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 702 inspection entries that resulted in reporting 68 entries of environmental regulation new and outstanding violations-- 67 violations by the conventional oil and gas industry and 1 violation by the unconventional shale natural gas industry.

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