PA Environment Daily
MAY 6, 2022
On May 6, Laura Legere of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported the Department of Environmental Protection is re-evaluating the final regulation to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas operations over a 2016 law requiring separate regulations for conventional oil and gas operations. Read more here.
Circle of Blue
DECEMBER 1, 2022
Court of Appeals issued a ruling that lends legal muscle to a five-year old petition that Food & Water Watch and 36 allies filed to compel the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to update CAFO permitting regulations. CAFOs, though, are the only industrial polluting facilities not required to treat their wastes.
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PA Environment Daily
MAY 18, 2022
On May 18, the Department of Environmental Protection will present a revised final oil and gas methane emission reduction regulation to the EQB in June that it hopes will address objections raised to the regulation that could have resulted in a disapproval of the regulation and delaying final adoption.
PA Environment Daily
MAY 18, 2022
On May 17, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Allegheny County Health Department announced the U.S. million penalty and make extensive improvements at its steel production facility in Braddock, Pennsylvania, as part of a settlement covering longstanding air pollution violations. Steel Corporation will pay a $1.5
Legal Planet
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
Herzog (former Emmett/Frankel Fellow at UCLA School of Law 2012-2016) and Sean H. The argument concerned four applications from industrial polluters and allied States (consolidated under Ohio v. EPA’s latest Rule finalizes federal plan requirements for 23 upwind States. The Rule is already working to reduce dangerous smog.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 15, 2022
Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler), expressed a concern DEP did not follow the provisions of Act 52 of 2016 which requires the EQB to adopt separate rulemakings covering conventional oil and gas wells. Yaw have supported legislation rolling back environmental protection standards for conventional oil and gas operators. Metcalfe and Sen.
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 28, 2021
This score is lower than the previous assessment period (2016—2018), when Bay water quality standards attainment was estimated to be 38 percent. Only then will we meet the 2025 Watershed Implementation Plan Outcome of having all practices in place to meet our pollutant reduction targets.” Click Here for the complete announcement.
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