PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2024

DEP said 1,230 wells (approximately 49%) appear to have been abandoned after January 1, 2017; 518 wells (approximately 21%) appear to have been abandoned prior to January 1, 2017; and 746 wells (approximately 30%) were identified after January 1, 2017 as having been abandoned, but the precise date of abandonment is unknown.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

percent of all conventional wells-- failed to submit their annual production and waste generation and disposal reports. A total of 520 conventional operators did submit their annual production/waste reports covering 45,614 wells. It covered violations from 2017 through 2021. Where did it go?

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

On April 7, 2023 , DEP posted an inspection report to document that it had requested Greylock to provide the pre-drill survey it had conducted prior to drilling the wells in 2011, along with all the water sample results associated with the site. [ No evidence of spills, stressed vegetation, or recent earth disturbance were observed.”

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 10, 2024

Tophole water could still be land applied at the well drilling site, according to DEP’s regulations. Attempts To Regulate Road Dumping Failed “There have been attempts to regulate the road dumping of conventional wastewater before to reduce its environmental and health impacts. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. “So

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane. California’s transportation fuel policy is knee deep in cow poop, and it’s not a good look.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2023

Additionally, the agency exceeded their workload capacity long ago and has not been able to enforce regulations in a manner that is protective of the environment. These communities are more vulnerable, having limited resources to defend against operators looking for destinations for the oil and gas industry's waste.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 5, 2024

The House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee is scheduled to hold a June 10 hearing on the issue of road dumping oil and gas wastewater as a waste disposal method. Tophole water could still be land applied at the well drilling site, according to DEP’s regulations. Greg Vitali (D-Delaware), Majority Chair of the Committee.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 20, 2024

On May 20, the Damascus Citizens for Sustainability alerted the public the PA Department of Environmental Protection has designated 84 municipalities in Pennsylvania and one county in New York as “disposal facilities” for wastewater from conventional oil and gas drilling because well owners indiscriminately dump their waste on public roads.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

This editorial first appeared in the Scranton Times on February 24, 2023 -- Many state lawmakers long ago abandoned their constitutional duty to preserve the environment by instead representing the natural gas industry. Now, a report by the state Department of Environmental Protection reflects that legislative malpractice. His successor, Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

On May 10, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund announced PA General Energy, LLC notified the Department of Environmental Protection that it intends to plug its proposed toxic frack-waste injection well in Grant Township after this Memorial Day. Grant Township has been fighting to keep out this frack-waste injection well since 2013.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2023

Pennsylvania’s dirt roads are haunted by their legacy as oil and gas waste dumping facilities*. The singular benefits to the oil and gas industry of cheap waste disposal and the convenience of road dumping products wastes anytime, anywhere, outweighed protests and concerns of dirt road residents held hostage by homes, mortgages and families.

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 27, 2023

On February 27, 2023, the Second District Court of Appeal (Division One) filed its published decision in Los Angeles Waterkeeper v. State Water Resources Control Board (2023) Cal.App.5th 5th , a case mainly focused on water law but which also has some significant CEQA implications.

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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. 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2023

From April 1 to 7, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 488 inspection entries that resulted in reporting 34 violations of environmental regulations-- 31 violations by the conventional oil and gas industry and 2 violations by the unconventional shale natural gas industry. Read more here. Center Twp.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2023

The operator, who accompanied DEP on the inspection, also failed to submit annual mechanical integrity and production and waste generation reports. The operator, who accompanied DEP on the inspection, also failed to submit annual mechanical integrity and production and waste generation reports. and found they were both abandoned.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Storage Tank Containment Permeability Variance: DEP issued a variance to replace one issued on August 19, 2023 related to excluding 13 aboveground storage tanks from certain emergency containment structure permeability requirements for the facility located in Bradford, McKean County. ( Fayette County. ( Bradford County. ( Allegheny County. (

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 17, 2023

From June 10 to 16, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 651 inspection entries that resulted in reporting 67 violations of environmental regulations-- 61 violations by the conventional oil and gas industry and 6 violations by the unconventional shale natural gas industry.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 16, 2023

DEP’s Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Compliance Report issued in December reported between 2017 through 2021, the agency issued 3,123 notices of violation for abandoning wells without plugging them. 17 Webinar On Exploring Oil & Gas Industrialization Impacts On Watersheds [Posted: January 16, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2024

Before April 4, Lawson said she did not have wastewater dumped on her road for more than six years after the Environmental Hearing Board case she brought a successful challenge to the DEP road dumping approval process in 2017-18. These are specific reactions to oil and gas waste, and it's painful. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2023

Indiana County Regulating Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well -- Utility Dive: Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant Owner Nautilus Power Seeks FERC Protection From PJM Nonperformance Penalties During Winter Storm Elliot -- Utility Dive: Four More Power Plant Owners Seek FERC Protection From PJM Nonperformance Penalties For Winter Storm Elliott -- WTAE: U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2023

The December report issued on conventional wells found between 2017 and 2021 conventional operators abandoned 2,246 wells without plugging them. Read more here. Unfortunately, DEP reports conventional operators continue to abandon wells faster than DEP can plug them. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

Homer City based its decision on several factors including the low price of natural gas, a dramatic spike in the cost of its ongoing coal supply, unseasonably warm winters and increasingly stringent environmental regulations. The current ownership group took over in April 2017.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2023

In response, Potter Township passed a resolution in 2017 requiring Shell to perform an exterior lighting study. Photos: Top- What Shell said the lighting would look like in 2017; Light scattering today at the Shell plan; Bottom: Orange glow from emergency flaring and close up of flaring glow.) What Happens With Study Results?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2024

DEP issued the original violation for abandonment on March 8, 2023. On April 24, 2023, DEP did a follow-up inspection of the Detwiler Unit 1 conventional well in Springfield Township, Fayette County owned by Oil & Gas Mgmt Inc. DEP issued the original violations for the spill on December 27, 2023. [

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

He was appointed as a mediator by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to work with the environmental community and industry to establish better regulations for water quality monitoring in areas impacted by coal ash. Minott's work emphasizes the importance of public policy.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 12, 2022

Unusually wet conditions lifted the lake to record levels in 2017 and 2019, damaging property and critical infrastructure across the St. Leaders expect funds to be disbursed starting in early 2023. The state agency moved to renew the plant’s permit, allowing 1 milligram per liter of effluent waste per month.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

DEP’s Water Resources Advisory Committee is scheduled to hear a presentation on DEP's new proposed regulation setting notification requirements for unauthorized discharges to waters of the Commonwealth at its meeting on September 21. Read more here.] 2015-011-L ). 2015-011-L ).

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 2006 ) Waste Permits -- PennEnergy Resources, LLC - W58 Tank Pad: Permit application withdrawn for the installation of 1 tank for oil and gas liquid waste under WMGR123 in Winfield Twp., You’ll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations. Susquehanna County. ( Butler County. (

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

Philadelphia The proposed regulation does not include the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County, according to Moms Clean Air Force. There is no time to waste in tackling this glaring injustice. The Pennsylvania plants include-- -- Croda Inc.,

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Air Pollution Natural Gas 2017 Atmosphere 71

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

In 2017, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources tried to ban road spreading of oil and gas wastewater based on concerns about levels of radioactivity found by the agency, but was blocked by the Ohio legislature. Because it's an oil and gas waste, nobody's required to carry these safety data sheets. Read more here. Read more here.]

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Nestlé, Mars among chocolate makers criticised in cocoa-sourcing report Just Food PaulaR Wed, 01/03/2024 - 15:20 Monday, December 4, 2023 Read more Simon Harvey Ferrero, Mondelez and Lindt also labelled as “inadequate” in Ethical Consumer’s assessment. Laid end to end, those bottles would stretch 5.6

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Canada: No Water to Waste Council of Canadians | 2021 Blue Triton, formerly Nestlé, would have enough groundwater to fill as many as 14  billion  plastic bottles.  Lakota People's Law Project | January 13, 2021 We stand arm in arm with our fellow global citizens who abstain from its lengthy list of products.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

Hosted By PA League Of Women Voters & University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health [PaEN] -- DEP Ongoing Explosion/Fire Investigation: Energy Transfer Reported An Uncontrolled Release Of Ethane For 9.5

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

The gathering pipeline is not regulated by the state Public Utility Commission, according to the PUC. In fact, the Oak Springs Pigging Station did not have a record in DEP’s eFACTS database as a regulated Air Quality facility until after the Attorney General began investigating the facility in 2019, according to Jodi. Read more here.

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Natural Gas Air Pollution 2012 2019 98

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

Two of the top 10 EQIP practices by total dollar amount spent are practices we identified as industrial, providing little to no conservation benefits, in our previous report: waste facility cover and waste storage facility. We discuss the need for better water use regulation across the country to lessen the strain on EQIP.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

On September 21, Water Resources Advisory Committee members gave DEP their initial reaction to a proposed regulation setting notification requirements for unauthorized discharges to waters of the Commonwealth and many of their comments pointed out concerns with the draft. We don’t need a vote at this time,” said Moses. 2015-011-L ).

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