Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

According to an October 2023 report by the Climate Investigations Center (CIC), a nonprofit watchdog organization, the industry has been gaslighting us by promoting the idea that “cooking with gas” is a good thing, despite knowing as far back as 1970 that gas stoves pose a threat to public health and the environment.

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ESA

MAY 4, 2023

In this issue: ESA Graduate Student Policy Award Recipients Visit Capitol Hill Fifteen ESA members and graduate students visit Congressional offices for the first in-person Graduate Student Policy Award event since 2019. Nominations must be received by June 15, 2023. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced a bill ( S.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection issued a record 6,860 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas operators in 2023, according to DEP’s December 29, 2023 Weekly Workload Report. more than in 2021 and 26.6% more than in 2022 and 569.9% more than in 2015. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Unconventional shale gas operators were issued a total of 1,103 notices of violation so far in 2023, which means they are on track to exceed the 1,234 violations DEP issued them in 2022, according to DEP’s newly released 2022 Oil and Gas Program Annual Report. DEP arrived at the plant on January 3, 2023 to start its investigation.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Unconventional shale gas operators were issued a total of 1,310 notices of violation in 2023, according to DEP’s December 29 Workload Report. Abandoning Wells Without Plugging DEP issued 10 unconventional shale gas operators 20 notices of violation at 11 well pads during 2023 for abandoning wells without plugging them. .:

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Montrose

MAY 23, 2023

May 23, 2023 — Montrose Environmental Group, Inc. Montrose”) (NYSE: MEG), a leading environmental services company, today announced a global collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations. LITTLE ROCK, Ark.,

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

Gas pipeline companies like Adelphia Gateway and the Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line have argued, with the support of the Department of Environmental Protection which is defending permits it issued, the federal Natural Gas Act gives the federal Third Circuit Court exclusive jurisdiction in appeals of DEP permits for gas pipeline facilities.

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ESA

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The subcommittee funds the Interior Department, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Forest Service. The $425 million amount would represent a $57 million increase over FY 2023 levels. The United Arab Emirates is set to host the United Nations Framework on Climate Change Conference of Parties 28 (COP 28) in November 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

The agenda for the December 1 DEP Oil & Gas Technical Advisory Board meeting includes updates on Chapter 78 regulation changes, the new federal abandoned well plugging program and more. The last draft of the waste handling regulation update was posted by DEP in September, 2021. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2023

The following editorial was published in the Warren Times Observer on May 25, 2023 which publishes in the heart of the conventional oil and gas drilling industry-- Breathe easy. The state constitution’s Environmental Rights Amendment is not a gratuitous statement.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2023

By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue – January 26, 2023 In a dim hangar outside of Traverse City, towering piles of white crystals cast a glow in the twilight. The state issued its first water quality standards for chloride in 2019. The law exempts most sources of such pollution from regulation and oversight.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection was awarded $44,457,220 from this program. The Environmental Defense Fund has estimated conventional wells leaked over 6 billion cubic feet of methane in the Allegheny National Forest of Pennsylvania in just 2019.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2023

The following editorial was published in the Observer-Reporter on May 23, 2023 which publishes in the heart of the conventional oil and gas drilling industry in Washington and Greene counties-- Breathe easy. The state constitution’s Environmental Rights Amendment is not a gratuitous statement.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Most of these pieces were about the company’s support for a seemingly independent network of anti-regulation, “free-market” nonprofits that spread falsehoods about the reality and seriousness of climate change. The company has yet to publish a report for its grantmaking in 2022, let alone 2023. Is the day of reckoning coming?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 20, 2023

On April 20, the Independent Regulatory Review Commission voted 3 to 2 to approve the final EQB emergency regulations setting emission limits on conventional oil and gas operations and the regulation now becomes effective. There is a legal challenge to these regulations pending in Commonwealth Court (see below). Read more here.

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ESA

JANUARY 23, 2023

Mike Simpson (R-ID) is leading the Interior and Environment Subcommittee, which funds the Interior Department, the US Forest Service and the Environmental Protection Agency. The Trump administration amended the plans in 2019. The Bureau is now expected to release new proposed resource management plan revision during summer 2023.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] This piece previously appeared in the CLS Blue Sky Blog.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

page D-6 ] The Budget Book says in FY 2022-23 Shell received $5 million in tax subsidies; in FY 2023-24 Shell will get $60.9 No Environmental Compliance Requirement The PA Resource Manufacturing Tax Credit is awarded without regard to whether a facility receiving the tax credit is complying with the state’s environmental laws and regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2023

The Independent Regulatory Review Commission is scheduled to meet April 20 on final EQB emergency regulations setting emission limits on conventional oil and gas operations. The regulation was adopted by the Environmental Quality Board on November 30 and delivered to the IRRC on the same day. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2023

On January 20, the natural gas industry and Senate Republicans launched an effort to unleash the industry by reducing regulations, requiring automatic approval of permits and limiting opportunities for public review of permits at a hearing of the Senate Republican Policy Committee in Pittsburgh. Dan Laughlin (R-Erie) said. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2023

On July 26, the Department of Environmental Protection and Sunoco Pipeline L.P. see list below) [The Public Utility Commission and the Susquehanna River Basin Commission have imposed millions more in penalties of their own laws and regulations for this project. Sunoco agreed to pay $660,000.00 Read more here. [In

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2023

Before serving in the Thornburgh administration, Seif led the legal branch at the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Region 3 in Philadelphia. After leaving the governor’s office, he went on to head EPA Region 3 in 1985 and became the first Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in 1995.

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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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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Farms collectively are the largest source of nitrate pollution in rivers and groundwater, and the penalty for contaminated water — meaning stricter and more costly standards in order to protect public health — is paid by the people who drink it. It comes at a time when the U.S. A Standard Under Scrutiny. If 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

MARCH 15, 2023

Last month, tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians testified in support of strong oil and gas methane rules as the Environmental Protection Agency wrapped-up a public comment period on its draft proposal. The EPA is expected to finalize its oil and gas methane rules by the end of the summer.

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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. EPA Health Advisories are not enforceable regulations. Drinking Water Standards Because of growing concern over the health effects from PFAS chemicals, the U.S.

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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

From July 29 to August 4, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 702 inspection entries that resulted in reporting 68 entries of environmental regulation new and outstanding violations-- 67 violations by the conventional oil and gas industry and 1 violation by the unconventional shale natural gas industry.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Read more here ; -- Status of updating conventional drilling regulations; and -- Natural gas industry effort to reform permitting, limit public comments. Read more here ; -- Conventional Oil & Gas Compliance Report issued in December. Read more here ; -- Conventional Industry challenge to the final VOC/Methane regs. Read more here.

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Brag

JUNE 6, 2023

On May 31, 2023, the U.S. According to EPA’s May 25, 2023, press release , this rule will reduce costs for the regulated community and result in increased research and development activities, consistent with Executive Order 14081 on advancing biotechnology. The final rule will be effective on July 31, 2023.

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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 ).

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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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Power companies will therefore have to pay more for the fuel, but utilities are generally allowed by state regulators to pass those cost increases onto their customers in the form of higher electricity rates. Solar was actually the leading capacity addition from 2019 through 2021 if you include smaller-scale systems such as rooftop solar.

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