PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Comments due March 8. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the February 3 PA Bulletin inviting comments on proposed 2024 Ozone Season Nitrogen Oxide Emission Limits for Nonelectric Generating Units.

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Nitrogen Oxides Environmental Protection Ozone Regulations 100

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

for air quality, waste, and oil and gas violations related to the uncontrolled gas release from Equitrans’ Rager Mountain natural gas storage field and George L Reade 1 storage well in November 2022. VOCs are a precursor to ozone, which is known to cause adverse health effects.

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Natural Gas Carbon Dioxide Pollution Control Air Pollution 111

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2023

Beginning in the 2026 ozone season, EPA is setting enforceable NOX emissions control requirements for certain sources at existing and new industrial facilities that have significant impacts on downwind air quality and the ability to install cost-effective pollution controls.

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Nitrogen Oxides Ozone 2026 Pollution Control 73

Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Green buildings reduce negative effects on the natural environment and improve the human condition by using less water, energy, and other natural resources; employing renewable energy sources, eco-friendly and responsibly sourced materials; and reducing emissions and other waste.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the February 24 PA Bulletin inviting comments on its determination that 57 major industrial facilities across the state meet Air Quality RACT II and RACT III requirements and the 2015 national ozone pollution standard. Martin, at ramartin@pa.gov or (717) 772-5828.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

For the first time at any Olympics, China is using CO2, collected from industrial waste gases, to cool ice rinks in its four ice sports venues. This is replacing the traditional hydrofluorocarbons which have been found to damage the ozone layer. Cooling ice rinks.

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Renewable Energy Technology Technology Cooling 98

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2024

. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the April 20 PA Bulletin inviting comments on five draft stream evaluation reports for watersheds located in Chester, Fulton, Greene, Lancaster, Lycoming and Sullivan counties, including Loyalsock Creek. Blair County. ( Berks County. ( PA Bulletin, page 2128 ) Read more here.

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Nitrogen Oxides Environmental Protection Ozone Regulations 103

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Read more here. House Bill 652 would give DEP the statutory authority to deny a permit application in any environmental justice area based on the “cumulative environmental impacts.”

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Natural Gas Air Pollution Waste Ozone 115

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 17, 2023

Read more here. House Bill 652 would give DEP the statutory authority to deny a permit application in any environmental justice area based on the “cumulative environmental impacts.”

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

And also a disposing of the waste stream. They experience truck traffic and their diesel exhaust emissions, transient workforces, air pollution, including volatile organic compounds, particulate matter, ozone, oxides of nitrogen and fugitive methane emissions. Then drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Sending the gas through pipelines.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Read more here. House Bill 652 would give DEP the statutory authority to deny a permit application in any environmental justice area based on the “cumulative environmental impacts.”

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Air Pollution Waste Natural Gas Ozone 83

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Read more here. House Bill 652 would give DEP the statutory authority to deny a permit application in any environmental justice area based on the “cumulative environmental impacts.”

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Air Pollution Waste Natural Gas Ozone 82

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Krupa Introduces HB 1656 To Ban Oil, Gas Wastewater Injection Wells To Protect The Public From Radioactive, Toxic Materials [PaEN] -- Inside Climate News: New PA Legislation Aims To Classify Oil & Gas Wastewater As Hazardous Waste -- State Dept.

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Natural Gas Ozone 2023 Law 107

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Read more here. House Bill 652 would give DEP the statutory authority to deny a permit application in any environmental justice area based on the “cumulative environmental impacts.”

Air Pollution 81

Air Pollution Waste Natural Gas Ozone 81

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Read more here. House Bill 652 would give DEP the statutory authority to deny a permit application in any environmental justice area based on the “cumulative environmental impacts.”

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Air Pollution Waste Natural Gas Ozone 79

Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Recent science doesn’t support this optimism, as new studies show that the increased release of Black Carbon, one of the most potent climate change forcers—as well as soot, carbon dioxide, methane and ozone from more traffic in the Arctic—could lead to a 20% increase in the global heating that is causing warmer ocean temperatures.

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Environment, Law, and History

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Its theoretical contribution lies foremost in the thick narratives of the development of our major international environmental conventions – including reversing the depletion of the ozone layer, regional seas pollution, chemicals and waste, climate change, as well as tackling land degradation, and the loss of biodiversity and forests.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Waste Coal In July of 2021 a company by the name of Stronghold Digital Mining (Stronghold) filed an S-1 report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing plans to purchase three waste coal fired power plants and install 57,000 Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) dedicated to mining bitcoin.

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Nuclear Power Fossil Fuels Waste Air Pollution 74

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Waste Coal In July of 2021 a company by the name of Stronghold Digital Mining (Stronghold) filed an S-1 report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing plans to purchase three waste coal fired power plants and install 57,000 Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) dedicated to mining bitcoin.

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Climate Change Nuclear Power Fossil Fuels Waste 72

Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

yes, each year, a single cow will belch more than 220 pounds of methane] to rice cultivation), followed by solid waste management (decay of food and other organic waste in landfills). Co Benefits for Human Health : Methane is a key precursor of tropospheric ozone (ground level), a harmful air pollutant.

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Climate Change Carbon Dioxide Atmosphere Ozone 52

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2023

The changes made by the amendment to the bill include-- -- Facilities/Permits Covered: A more specific definition of facilities covered by the process includes-- -- NPDES Water Quality Permits with a discharge of 50,000 gallons per day or more; -- Air Permits for any new major source of hazardous air pollutants or criteria pollutants; -- Air Permits (..)

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Natural Gas Air Pollution Waste Natural Resources 87

Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 7, 2022

Organic waste sent to landfills emits CH4. Waste management. When solid waste decomposes in landfills, it creates landfill gas, which is primarily comprised of CO2 and CH4. Emissions from natural gas consumption represent 79% of the direct fossil fuel CO2 emissions from the residential and commercial sectors in 2020.

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Greenhouse Fossil Fuels Waste Carbon Dioxide 52

Physics World

OCTOBER 20, 2021

They do this by analysing the electromagnetic absorption spectra of an exoplanet’s atmosphere as it transits its sun, seeking the presence of gases such as oxygen, methane, water vapour and ozone (a proxy for oxygen).

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone. Commercial Waste : Any waste material produced as a byproduct of commercial or industrial activity.

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Acoel

JUNE 21, 2022

For that project, Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio entered into an agreement with BQ Energy Development, LLC, to lease the approximately 173-acre property that once served as the landfill to design, build, operate and maintain a solar facility. These indexes take various environmental factors (ex: ozone, PM, Superfund, etc.)

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Ozone Renewable Energy Clean Energy Government 52

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The boundary for ozone depletion, for example, while not transgressed globally, was headed for increasing regional transgressions. Katherine Richardson from the University of Copenhagen, a lead author of the report, further explains: “We can think of Earth as a human body, and the planetary boundaries as blood pressure.

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Climate Change Ozone Deforestation 2009 52

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2022

NOx and VOCs mix in the presence of sunlight to form ground level ozone (smog). Exposure to shale gas air pollution and resulting ground level ozone may impair lung function and trigger asthma attacks. -- In a case-control study conducted by Rasmussen et al.

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Air Pollution Natural Gas Ground-Level Ozone Nitrogen Oxides 57

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 14, 2022

Krishnan Ramamurthy, DEP Deputy Secretary for Waste, Air, Radiation and Remediation, explained it this way-- “Conventional wells [were] pretty much exempted from any permitting requirements, regulatory requirements. For the first time we are addressing those. The Preamble to the revised rulemaking says “.

Regulations 52

Regulations Radiation Ozone Pollution Control 52

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 5, 2023

On June 5, the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee held a hearing on House Bill 652 (Bullock-D-Philadelphia) requiring an evaluation of the cumulative impacts of certain electric generation, waste management, sewage treatment facilities and major sources of air pollution proposed in communities already burdened by pollution.

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Natural Gas Environmental Protection Natural Resources Law 98

PA Environment Daily

JULY 21, 2022

Krishnan Ramamurthy, DEP Deputy Secretary for Waste, Air, Radiation and Remediation, told the EQB in order to have a complete SIP [State Implementation Plan] revision meeting the mandatory requirements of EPA, Pennsylvania must cover both conventional and unconventional oil and gas facilities sources.

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Radiation Regulations Ozone Pollution Control 40

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Up until now, the main justification for initiatives to control leaks from oil and gas infrastructure from the wells through the distribution system has been because those leaks contain methane-- a potent greenhouse gas-- and volatile organic compounds-- a precursor to the formation of ozone air pollution. Read more here.

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Air Pollution Natural Gas Nitrogen Oxides Carbon Monoxide 52

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

Bakersfield, Fresno, and Visalia are consistently ranked as cities with the worst particulate and ozone pollution , according to the American Lung Association. and ozone concentrations highlighting air quality issues in the Central Valley. Annual average PM2.5 Graphics from CalEnviroScreen 4.0

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Climate Change Ozone Air Pollution Particle Pollution 347

Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Clean Air Council, and Clean Wisconsin filed a petition seeking review of EPA’s administrative stay of performance standards and emission guidelines for municipal solid waste landfills. The standards and guidelines were published on August 29, 2016. They asserted that “[r]oughly 40 percent of U.S.

2017 40

2017 Clean Air Act Climate Change Renewable Energy 40

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Unfortunately, not all the changes were so great—one notable revision would delay the electrification of thousands of natural gas-fueled waste trucks by several years. A battery-electric waste truck operated by Recology, which services multiple cities on the West Coast.

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Nitrogen Oxides Electricity Fossil Fuels Regulations 278

Greenbuilding Law

JUNE 5, 2022

volume mixing ratio), together with a number of trace gases, such as argon (0.93% volume mixing ratio), helium, radiatively active greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (0.035% volume mixing ratio), and ozone. Fluorinated gases are sometimes used as substitutes for stratospheric ozone-depleting substances (e.g., Greenhouse Gas (GHG).

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Greenhouse Carbon Dioxide Atmosphere Fossil Fuels 98

Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Some background — As required by the Clean Air Act, North Carolina has a State Implementation Plan (SIP) for ozone pollution describing how the state will meet the federal ozone standard. ’s current ozone SIP based on vehicle emission inspections in 19 N.C. SOLID WASTE Disposal of lithium- ion batteries.

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2023 Ozone Clean Air Act Air Pollution 98

Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 13, 2024

There is no time to waste on false climate solutions like Liquified Natural Gas (LNG)—a fossil fuel with serious global warming and public health implications. Methane emissions, which can result from the production and consumption of LNG, are linked to significant impacts on air quality by influencing concentrations of ground-level ozone.

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