PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Shell Polymers Monaca started operating just over a year ago but has since stumbled through continued production delays, blown past air pollution limits, and racked up more than two dozen technical malfunctions. Since 2012, when the facility was first announced, Beaver has lost GDP, businesses, population, and up to 10% of its jobs.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In 2018, the state Department of Health and DEP, with assistance from the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, released a public health evaluation of long-term air sampling data in the vicinity of natural gas operations in Washington County. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2023

On April 14 the Environmental Hearing Board issued an order based on the settlement to terminate the Equitrans appeal without prejudice. Equitrans appealed DEP’s actions because it said the Rager Mountain facility was an interstate facility regulated by the U.S. Click Here for a copy of the settlement agreement. 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

The shale gas wells were drilled and fracked between September 2011 and August 2012. Johnson said DEP’s letter of determination does not say whether DEP directly asked if Chevron used PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ at the drilling site in 2011-2012, but the Department instead stated it relied on a “review of documents related to the well site.”

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2023

Cumulative Impact Reports House Bill 652 (Bullock-D-Philadelphia) requiring environmental impact reports on certain major sources of pollution in communities already burdened by pollution was amended to more closely align with the new Environmental Justice Program of the Department of Environmental Protection.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Routine Well Abandonments “Most disturbingly, the most frequent “environmental/health/safety” violation that DEP has noted is the violation of requirements in the 2012 Oil and Gas Act and Chapter 78 for the proper abandonment of oil and gas wells.”

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 20, 2012

By Stephen Wiegand On April 17, 2012, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) and National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for natural gas wells that are hydraulically fractured.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2012, the company became infamous again when it unsuccessfully sued Ben-Jei Tsuang, a professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Chun Hsing University, who published a paper linking high cancer rates in Mailiao, Taiwan, to toxic dioxin and heavy metals air pollution from the Six Naphtha Cracking plant.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 8, 2017

of the Clean Air Act requires the Environmental Protection Agency to address this through emissions standards for air pollution from cars and trucks. that is responsible for regulating the CAFE standards, which were originally created in the 1970s to reduce dependence on foreign oil. 27 percent. Section 202.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

They also requested an “internal audit” of the Department of Environmental Protection, the Wilkes-Barre OSHA Office, and the Williamsport Bureau of Codes for “willful neglect related to these matters.” DEP arrived at the facility January 3, 2023 to start its investigation. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 million in 2013. Total settles U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The Day That Changed Everything “Then by December 2012, I got my first check in. It was December 17th, 2012, remember that day explicitly, it was $148 bucks. The day I showed up there on December 17th, 2012 with a camera was the day everything changed.” “I Davis On Environmental, Energy Issues? I about rolled over.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

This includes emerging contaminants as well as substances identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for prioritization, risk evaluation, or regulation. OSHA Proposed First Updates to Hazard Communication Standard Since 2012.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

It then discusses the potential to use a cap-and-invest approach to mitigate GHG emissions from transportation in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic and addresses two key policy considerations: the type of fuels to be covered and the point of regulation. Through independent regulations, each state’s CO. RGGI is composed of individual CO.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lacked authority to administratively stay portions of new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector for which it had granted requests for reconsideration. FEATURED CASE. Circuit Vacated EPA’s Administrative Stay of Methane Standards for Oil and Gas Facilities. A divided D.C.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

Released from a lot of federal oversight, it left this big, blank slate for states to regulate the industry in whatever manner suited them. So the feds modeled extensive industry deference at the expense of public health protections, and then the states fell in line after that. Read more here.]

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

6, 2012). [7]. In the chapter on climate change, the CEI calls for Congress to repeal or defund virtually every federal effort enacted by Obama to target climate change, ranging from the ability of the EPA to regulate CO. Environmental protection, what they do is a disgrace; every week they come out with new regulations.”. [34].

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders granting three petitions for extensions of small refinery exemptions from renewable fuel standards. Chao , No.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a decision on Exxon’s application to renew the NPDES permit, which had expired in 2014. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2019 rule setting renewable fuel volumes in the Clean Air Act’s Renewable Fuel Standard Program. 2012 CA 008263 B (D.C.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Is your story being told? -- In Memoriam: Louise Dunlap A Leading Force Behind Coal Mine Reclamation, Regulation -- In Memoriam - Dr. Jim Finley, Fmr. Of Environmental Professionals Award Scholarships To Isaac Nulton, Poppy Northing; Conference Starts Oct. Thank you to local news media for publishing these stories!

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