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

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Venango Water Company supplying water to the Village of Reno is already operated by Aqua Pennsylvania under a PUC receivership order issued on August 11, 2023 due to contamination of one of its water sources by a wastewater spill from a conventional oil well owned by Petro Erie, Inc. M-2023-3042180 and I-2023-3042312.

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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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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Suncor Energy Inc: 2023-Present Imperial Oil Ltd: 2013–2019 ExxonMobil Corp: 1981-2013 Villain Career Profile Rich Kruger has a long and storied career in oil. In April of 2023, Suncor dumped massive quantities of oil sands mine waste-water from its Fort Hills tailings pond into surrounding waterways.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2024

On June 7, the Better Path Coalition reported the Department of Environmental Protection has removed the co-product category from its waste disposal reporting database for conventional oil and gas well owners, according to documents the Coalition received in response to a Right-To-Know request. regulation with Co-product determination.

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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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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 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

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

JUNE 10, 2024

On June 10, a representative of the PA State Association of Township Supervisors said the Association continues to support a resolution passed by its members in 2019 favoring the use of conventional oil and gas wastewater as a dust suppressant on dirt roads saying it is effective and affordable. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Act 54 Assessment Of Longwall Mining Damage The 6th 5-year assessment of Act 54 (2018-2023) is due to be released this year. However, the 6th version is being done internally by the Department of Environmental Protection itself. Read more here. The final report was completed and is being routed for public release.

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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

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

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

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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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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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

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

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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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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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

OCTOBER 17, 2023

While that may have been the early objective of the “responsibly sourced” movement, Project Canary provided a description of how they and the concept has evolved in response to the development of more federal and state regulations that limit methane emissions from natural gas facilities. Applegate noted the U.S. So that is a concern.”

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2023

Department of Environmental Protection in 2021. The case resolved in the affirmative the question of whether state permits issued for operations which are part of interstate natural gas pipelines can be appealed at the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board (EHB).

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 4, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 4499 ) Read more here. -- 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 ) Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2023

In 2019, the Department of Environmental Protection signed a settlement with Diversified that requires over 1,400 of the company’s wells be plugged. Diversified Energy owns over 22,500 conventional oil and gas wells in Pennsylvania. [In Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

The Borello Family was very familiar with this sound because from 2012, when the facility was first built, through mid-2019 the Pigging Station was doing deliberate blowdowns-- releases of natural gas, liquids and hazardous air pollutants-- three times a day, seven days a week. Yes, three times a day, seven days a week for nearly a decade.]

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

The bill was referred to the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee. Greg Vitali (D-Delaware) serves as Majority Chair and can be contacted by calling 717-787-7647 or sending email to: gvitali@pahouse.net.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

Duran said she also contacted the Department of Environmental Protection about the incident and was told they planned to send inspectors to tour the plant Tuesday (January 3). Click Here for video/sound of a typical release from 2012 to 2019. Written by David Hess, Former Secretary, PA Department of Environmental Protection.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels. million gallons of oil a day and produces up to 3.33

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Issued on: 02/10/2023 - 14:20Modified: 02/10/2023 - 14:19 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. *in refinery to settle federal charges that it violated the Clean Air Act, the US Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency said May 1. Total to pay $2.9 agreed to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Issued on: 17/11/2023 - 12:13 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. *in million fine New Gas Plant Threatens Indigenous Livelihoods in Russia’s Far North Total oil project hurts 'tens of thousands' in rural Uganda: watchdog NGOs Brazil environment regulator denies Total permit to drill Foz do Amazonas basin Total settles U.S.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2022

This is because the most widely-used emissions figures comes from the Environmental Protection Agency greenhouse gas inventory, which estimates that agriculture is responsible for only about 10% of the country’s total GHG emissions. Yet changes to agricultural and food policies will have a far bigger impact than this figure suggests.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Climate of fear: TotalEnergies implicated in repression of land and environmental defenders in East Africa Global Witness PaulaR Thu, 12/14/2023 - 13:39 Monday, December 4, 2023 Read more Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. million, upgrade Port Arthur refinery Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75 Total to pay $2.9

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