Nanotech

OCTOBER 19, 2023

On October 16, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of reporting instructions for entities required to report on their use of asbestos under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2023

HECA intends to pursue the following items to fill remaining information gaps as it prepares to convene a public forum in fall 2023 on the status and future of the Erie Coke site." Photo: Department of Environmental Protection.) There is much the public needs to know. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2023

After graduating from Franklin & Marshall College, Dunn embarked on a 35-year career with the Senate of Pennsylvania, culminating in his retirement in 2019 as Chief of Staff to state Sen. Posted: December 5, 2023] PA Environment Digest John Gordner.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

On September 19, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it is ramping up monitoring and plans to develop a surface water standard for PFAS 'forever chemicals' after a DEP/U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s PFAS Guidelines -- Association of State and Territorial Health Officials’ PFAS Risk Communications Hub -- U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2024

Since it was discovered in July 2018 as a result of a complaint investigation, the Department of Environmental Protection has not been able to get a conventional oil well owner to clean up multiple spills and releases at the well site. Read more here. Not all impacted material has been removed from the site's surface at this time.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

On September 19, 2023, DEP inspected the Contant 1 conventional well operated by Roulette Oil and Gas LLC in Harrison Township, Potter County and issued notices of violation for failure to plug the well upon abandoning it. It was granted inactive status on April 24, 2014 which expired on April 24, 2019 without a request for extension.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2024

On January 26, 2024, the Department of Environmental Protection issued a notice of violation to Equitrans Midstream for abandoning and not plugging 19 conventional gas wells at the Swarts Natural Gas Storage Field in Greene County. 2019 Violations The environmental compliance record of Equitrans Midstreams is not encouraging.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

These GPs have been repeatedly extended without change since April 2, 2019 The 2019 Pennsylvania PFAS Action Team Initial Report found, experts say the use of contaminated biosolids applied on farm fields is likely a primary source of food contamination. Posted: November 17, 2023] PA Environment Digest Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency links proximity to agricultural land to high levels of toxic algal blooms in Midwestern lakes. million gallons of water during 2020, only one million less than during 2019, when tourism peaked on the island. A study from the S. The neighborhood of Waikiki reportedly consumed 2.5 369 LAKES .

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2024

In the 2019 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan, the Department of Environmental Protection rolled out a “local and specific” strategy to reduce its pollution burden on the Chesapeake Bay by 2025. Click Here for a tutorial on using the viewer.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In an April 2023 DEP determination of whether natural gas drilling contaminated a Washington County family’s water well, DEP said the “widespread presence of PFAS” forever chemicals in fresh water may have led to “inadvertently” using contaminated water to frack a shale gas well. In December 2019, Gov. Read more here on USGS/DEP study.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 20, 2023

On July 20, 2023, the Marcellus Drilling News reported researchers from the University of Pittsburgh found there was an average 30% discrepancy between what conventional and unconventional oil and gas drilling companies said they sent to landfills and the amount of waste reported received by those landfills in Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the July 1 PA Bulletin inviting comments on a proposed new General Permit Plan Approval covering Coal-Mine Methane Enclosed Flares (BAQ-GPA/GP-21). Currently, permits for coal-mine methane are published individually for comment. million metric tons.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2023

On July 26, the Department of Environmental Protection and Sunoco Pipeline L.P. DEP also imposed a nearly a year-long permit bar on Energy Transfer Partners from receiving any new DEP permits between February 2019 and January 2020 because of its poor compliance record. Sunoco agreed to pay $660,000.00 Read more here. [In

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 4, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection invites comments on a proposed Section 401 Water Quality Certification related to an Equitrans proposal to drill two new horizontal natural gas storage wells in the Swarts Complex and Hunters Cave Storage Fields in Center, Franklin, Morris and Washington Townships, Greene County. (

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

On February 5, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has begun an emergency project to plug two leaking abandoned natural gas wells along Scrubgrass Road in Scott Township, Allegheny County. DEP previously performed an emergency mitigation project in 2019 to address stray soil gas in the area. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the September 23 PA Bulletin announcing the availability of the new General Permit Plan Approval covering Coal-Mine Methane Enclosed Flares (BAQ-GPA/GP-21). million metric tons, just behind natural gas production at 12.33 million metric tons. million metric tons in 2005.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection has scheduled a February 13 hearing and comment period on the proposed Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act response plan for the Newberry Township PFAS ‘forever chemical’ contamination site in York County. ( 9 Meeting [PaEN] [Posted: December 29, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the March 9 PA Bulletin inviting comments on the draft NPDES General Permit for Discharges of Stormwater Associated with Construction Activities (PAG-02). Three options would be available to demonstrate that a person is qualified.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

On September 20, the departments of Education, Environmental Protection, and Conservation and Natural Resources honored U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools across Pennsylvania in recognition of their environmental sustainability efforts. For more information, visit the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

In an April 2023 DEP determination of whether natural gas drilling contaminated a Washington County family’s water well, DEP said the “widespread presence of PFAS” forever chemicals in fresh water may have led to “inadvertently” using contaminated water to frack a shale gas well. In December 2019, Gov. Read more here on USGS/DEP study.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The study was originally released in July 2023 and reported by Marcellus Drilling News and The Allegheny Front at that time. An article was published most recently by Environmental Health News on October 10. The study noted, “While reporting is required, PADEP does not confirm the accuracy of the reported information.” Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

On January 10, the Environmental Hearing Board denied a motion by Olympus Energy, supported by the Department of Environmental Protection , to declare an appeal of two shale gas permits in Westmoreland County filed by Protect PT as moot because the wells have already been drilled and fracked. Read more here. 30 to Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2023

Conventional Wastewater Leak Potentially Contaminated Reno Water Supply In response to a complaint on July 20, 2023, the Department of Environmental Protection has been investigating whether a leak from production wastewater tanks operated by Petro Erie, Inc. Read more here. Click Here for DEP’s inspection report and photos.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2023

In response to a complaint on July 20, 2023, the Department of Environmental Protection has been investigating whether a leak from production wastewater tanks operated by Petro Erie, Inc. Sugarcreek Borough is also working with residents and the Department of Environmental Protection to respond to the emergency.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 4, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection invites comments at a September 19 public meeting and hearing on the expansion of the Marcus Hook Terminal’s ethane chilling capacity in Marcus Hook Borough, Delaware County. ( PA Bulletin, page 4456 ) The meeting/hearing will be held from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2023

The following editorial first appeared in the Citizens Voice on May 17, 2023 -- Breathe easy. The state constitution’s Environmental Rights Amendment is not a gratuitous statement. The Commonwealth Court ruled partially in favor of the drillers in 2019, leading to the state government’s appeal that the Supreme Court ruled on April 19.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 15, 2023

The case involves an Olympus Energy land use application for the Dionysus shale gas well pad submitted to West Deer Township, Allegheny County in 2019. The first and the most important is the issue of the admissibility and probative value of Department of Environmental Protection notices of violation. 991 CD 2022).

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 22, 2023

Environmental Protection is now doing a risk assessment for PFAS in biosolids to determine if federal regulatory action is warranted that is expected to be completed in December 2024, according to the report. Posted: June 22, 2023] PA Environment Digest Read more here.] Read more here. Click Here for a summary.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

On December 19, 2019 the Department of Environmental Protection released the 2013-2018 Act 54 Assessment Report, the fifth in a series of reports required by Act 54 documenting the impacts of underground coal mining on surface structures, water supplies, streams, land damage, groundwater and wetlands.

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ESA

APRIL 1, 2024

2019 Annual Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky Congressman John Yarmuth, U.S. representative for Kentucky’s 3rd congressional district, was recognized for his commitment to environmental stewardship, science-based environmental protection and natural resource management. degrees Celsius.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 23, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency in 2016 established a federal lifetime drinking water health advisory limit of 70 parts per trillion (ppt) for both PFOA and PFAS. Pennsylvania's PFAS Rule Independent of the ongoing federal rulemaking process, Pennsylvania finalized its own enforceable MCLs for PFAS chemicals in drinking water in 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

On February 11, Jon Hurdle of Inside Climate News reported the Department of Environmental Protection took nine days to inspect the Energy Transfer Revolution Cryogenic Natural Gas Processing Plant in Washington County after an explosion and fire on Christmas Day. hours on Christmas Day. 22 Webinar On How Green Is Blue Hydrogen?

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

On February 13, the York County-based Evangelical Environmental Network submitted 103,436 comments from individual pro-life Christians calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to strengthen supplemental rulemaking for Existing and New Source Standards for Reducing Methane and Toxins from the Oil/Gas Section (Docket # ID No.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And Eversource Energy’s New Hampshire utility won approval from the state Public Utilities Commission over the summer to increase electric rates by a whopping 53 percent through the end of January 2023 to account for high gas prices in New England.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2022

On October 7, the Department of Environmental Protection partnered with local leaders in Luzerne Borough in a litter cleanup on Toby Creek and called on all Pennsylvanians to join in the “ Pick Up Pennsylvania ” statewide fall campaign to clean up streams, rivers, and lakes in their community.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 3, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency is concerned. After the state submitted a plan in 2019 that failed to meet 2025 cleanup goals, Maryland, Virginia and Delaware, along with the District of Columbia, Chesapeake Bay Foundation and others filed suit against the EPA for failing to press the state to make greater progress. “We

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