PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Pennsylvanians deserve better than to be beholden to the oil and gas industry — and I am so proud to stand alongside these environmental changemakers to call on our leaders to take climate change seriously and to begin to prioritize green, renewable energy sources.”

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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Climate Change Air Pollution 116

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2024

million from Cyprus Amax Minerals Company for natural resource damage due to pollution at the American Zinc and Chemical Site in Washington County and will use the money for projects to benefit the environment in the County. On October 16, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has secured $1.62

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Natural Resources 2009 Environmental Protection Waste 81

Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2024

NEPA remains the workhorse of natural resource litigation today. Provides for cleanup of hazardous waste sites. This law, signed on the first day of 1970, requires agencies to disclose the environmental effects of their actions. This marked the beginning of a decade of legislative environmental legislation. Clean Air Act.

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Law Clean Air Act Endangered Species Act Clean Water Act 290

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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Ocean Recycling Environmental Protection Waste 103

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. ( DCNR Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council. Permits -- Arcadia North Land, LLC - 91.2 Monroe County. ( Read more here.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This serves no one it creates uncertainty, wastes money, and destroys trust in the federal government, said Mike Lavender, NSAC Policy Director. Farmers are delaying planting decisions and owed tens of thousands of dollars in contract payments for infrastructure the federal government agreed to support months ago.

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Natural Resources 2025 Conservation Government 76

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2025

The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Shapiro Lost His Home, Tried Suicide, Waste Melting Down -- Gov.

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Natural Gas Natural Resources Waste Earth Day 80

Energy & the Law

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The contracts Along with its rights under oil and gas leases, COG has agreements with surface owners giving it the right to gather, store and transport oil and gas waste, lay lines on the surface for freshwater and produced water, and lay pipelines for transportation of oil and gas, produced water and other oilfield-related liquids or gases.

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Waste Natural Resources Law Technology 148

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

“Some of the earliest memories I have are of protestors standing in the road, blocking semi-trucks hauling nuclear waste.”. — Mikhail Childs, Prairie Island Indian C ommunity member. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has declared the plant to be safe, tribe members remain worried about their proximity to nuclear waste. While the U.S.

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2022 Waste Climate Change Law 229

The Energy Law

AUGUST 4, 2023

In response, the Texas Legislature passed Texas Natural Resources Code § 122.002 on September 1, 2019, which grants title to produced water to whoever takes possession of it for the purpose of treating it for subsequent beneficial use, unless a conveyance instrument expressly provides otherwise.

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Waste Natural Resources 2019 Law 98

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 28, 2023

The ARA is comprehensive, science-based legislation that covers many topics related to environmental and climate concerns in agriculture, including conservation on both agricultural and pasture land, renewable energy, and food loss and waste. New paradigm?

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Climate Change 2023 Natural Resources Government 295

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Will there be enough water for Michigan’s thriving farm sector, and for every other use of a natural resource growing scarcer across much of the rest of the nation? Will there be enough water for the state’s thriving farm sector, and for every other use of a natural resource growing scarcer across much of the rest of the nation?

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 8, 2025

The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Snowden at dsnowden@pa.gov or (717) 783-8846. House Floor.

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2025 Carbon Dioxide Natural Resources Conservation 81

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Room G-50 Irvis Building. Click Here to watch online.

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Politics Natural Resources Conservation 2019 83

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 24, 2024

According to the USDA , the climate hubs’ overarching mission is “to develop and deliver science-based, region-specific information and technologies, with USDA agencies and partners, to agricultural and natural resource managers that enable climate-informed decision-making, and to provide access to assistance to implement those decisions.”

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 19, 2023

The grants support projects that address food waste prevention, reduction, and recovery across The GIANT Company’s operating area. which received $20,000 to complete an anaerobic digester project for conversion of community food waste and dairy manure into biogas and grid-tied electricity.

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Waste 2023 Natural Resources Conservation 96

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2025

The House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee is scheduled to meet April 7 to consider House Bill 109 (Vitali-D-Delaware) establishing an environmental justice permit review program in DEP to consider cumulative impacts of pollutants on communities already burdened by pollution. See bill language for more details.]

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Natural Resources 2024 2023 Environmental Protection 64

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2025

Violations issued for abandonment and failure to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Violations issued for abandonment and failure to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. DEP also requested a Waste Control and Disposal Plan for the site. Shaffer Jr.

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2025 Waste Natural Gas 2023 89

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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2025 Natural Gas Conservation Natural Resources 94

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2325 ) Grants -- DEP published notice in the March 22 PA Bulletin announcing the award of Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event grants to Mercer, Susquehanna, Venango and Wyoming counties. DCNR Conservation and Natural Resources Advisory Council. Meetings March 26-- Agenda Posted.

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2025 Regulations Natural Resources Environmental Protection 102

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Because 30 to 40 percent of food is wasted—thrown away or spoiled at the consumer end—rotting food in landfills is another major source of heat-trapping emissions. Climate change will make food more expensive, especially for the socioeconomically vulnerable groups who already spend a higher portion of their income on food.

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Climate Change Carbon Dioxide Conservation Carbon Emissions 314

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2025

These bills on the agenda, but saw no action-- -- Notice Of Oil & Gas Permits: House Bill 43 (Conklin-D-Centre) require publication of newspaper notice of oil and gas well permits; and -- Regulating Food Processing Waste: House Bill 586 (Friel-D-Chester) requires a DEP permit to spread food processing residuals. Jack Rader, Jr. (R-Monroe)

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Renewable Energy Natural Resources Waste 2025 53

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 28, 2025

DeepSeek -- The Guardian: Sputnik Moment: $1 Trillion Wiped Off US Stocks After Chinese Firm -- UGI Gas Division Filed A Request With PUC To Increase Residential Gas Rates By 10.8% -- Scranton Times: UGI Seeking To Raise Natural Gas Rates 10.8% MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day

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Electricity Natural Gas 2025 Waste 90

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Last week, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved PJMs proposed Reliability Resource Initiative (RRI), allowing new natural gas-fired power plants to jump to the front of the interconnection queue for fast-track reviewahead of the clean energy projects that comprise 97.5% of the proposed generation in the queue.

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Natural Gas Electricity Fossil Fuels Clean Energy 69

Circle of Blue

JUNE 2, 2021

A complex and arcane water banking program in the lower Colorado River basin, adopted in 2007 and later amended, was designed to incentivize water conservation, prevent waste, and boost storage in a waning Lake Mead. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue. million acres. The false sense of security is what irks Brad Udall about ICS.

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2007 2014 Conservation Natural Resources 363

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2025

Resource Links - Latkanich Family: -- Environmental Hearing Board Will Hear Key Arguments On Appeal By A Washington County Family Alleging Shale Gas Drilling Contaminated Their Water Supply With PFAS And Other Chemicals {October 2023] -- DEP: Widespread Presence Of PFAS Forever Chemicals In Fresh Water May Have Led To Inadvertently Using Contaminated (..)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2025

The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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2025 Radiation 2024 Natural Gas 76

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2025

On March 19, firefighters and DEP responded to another explosion and fire at a conventional well owned by Kriebel Natural Gas Co LLC in Manor Borough, Westmoreland County. Owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Amer Natural Resources holds 49 permits. Read more here.

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2025 Natural Gas Waste Electricity 70

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

Of Health, Penn State Medical Webinars On Caring For Persons Living & Working In Communities With Oil & Natural Gas Extraction [March 2025] -- New State Health Plan Identifies Health Issues Related To Natural Resource Extraction, Climate Change In Top 5 Threats To Health Outcomes [April 2023] -- 2025 PA Shale Gas & Public Health Conference (..)

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Natural Gas 2025 2023 2024 77

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources will increase Lake Michigan’s Chinook salmon population by 50,000 in spring 2023. Many people still associate the Chicago River with chemical waste and pollution. House Natural Resources Committee advanced a handful of water-related bills. This Week’s Watersheds.

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2022 Natural Resources Sea Level Climate Change 130

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

7 Forage For Your Own Native Wreath Hike/Craft Event In Luzerne County -- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature - True Beauty Of A Tree Is Seen When It Loses Its Leaves -- USDA NRCS/NFWF: $1 Million In Funding Available For Community-Based Gardens -- DCNR Blog: Places That Honor Veterans And Preserve Our History -- Nov.

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Conservation Electricity Recycling Waste 83

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

Of Health, Penn State Medical Webinars On Caring For Persons Living & Working In Communities With Oil & Natural Gas Extraction [March 2025] -- New State Health Plan Identifies Health Issues Related To Natural Resource Extraction, Climate Change In Top 5 Threats To Health Outcomes [April 2023] -- 2025 PA Shale Gas & Public Health Conference (..)

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Natural Gas 2025 Regulations 2023 91

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Room G-50 Irvis Building. Click Here to watch online.

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Natural Gas Conservation Politics Waste 83

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Shapiros commitment to protecting Pennsylvanias cherished natural resources. Pick Up PA, an annual volunteer effort to clean up Pennsylvania roads, parks, streams and communities, represents part of Gov. 77,000+ Volunteers In 2024, more than 77,000 volunteers participated in Pick Up Pennsylvania.

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2025 Environmental Protection 2024 Natural Resources 65

The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (LDNR) has proposed a rule that will significantly restrict the practice of venting and flaring at wellsites in an effort to address natural gas waste in Louisiana.

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Natural Gas Natural Resources Law Waste 105

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2025

On April 7, the House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee amended and reported out House Bill 109 (Vitali-D-Delaware) establishing an environmental justice permit review program in DEP to consider cumulative impacts of pollutants on communities already burdened by pollution by a vote of 14 to 12-- Republicans opposing.

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Air Pollution Nitrogen Oxides Carbon Monoxide Natural Resources 57

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 17, 2024

They updated shareholders on the billions of dollars in profits they received in 2023, kicked off the new year with big plans to increase production, and wasted no time before lobbying against policies that would regulate their pollution. The first quarter of 2024 was a busy one for the oil and gas industry!

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2024 Fossil Fuels Natural Resources Climate Change 97