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Environmental Groups Seek Investigation Into Enbridge Gas for False Advertising

Enviromental Defense

Natural gas”, also known as methane gas or fracked fossil gas, is a potent greenhouse gas that pollutes the environment and causes climate change when it is burned and when it escapes into the atmosphere during extraction, production, and transportation.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

. -- WHYY: SEPTA Natural Gas Power Plant In Nicetown Still Faces Opposition As Philadelphia Weighs Permit Renewal -- York Dispatch: Local Groups Mobilize Opposition To $2.1

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Algorithm Helps Unlock Connections Between Stream Chemistry, Environment At NSF Susquehanna Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory In State College

PA Environment Daily

As its name suggests, unsupervised learning is a type of machine learning that can find patterns in data, such as the chemicals in the stream, that have not been tagged, or described. “In The model has also been used to understand complex relationships in fields as diverse as astronomy and e-commerce.

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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 10 to 16 - 31 More Conventional Abandoned Well NOVs - 103 For Year; Pipeline Land Slips; Water Supply, Stray Gas Complaints

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The Lumber and nearby Spleen Splitter shale gas well pad have been the subject of frack-out allegations that contaminated local well water supplies. Read more here. Million In Tax Credits To Subsidize Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; Total Expected To Be $1.17

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Lake Erie’s Failed Algae Strategy Hurts Poor Communities the Most

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After the 2014 Toledo water crisis, the binational International Joint Commission tried to put a price tag on the event. If severe blooms repeat year after year, the price tag rises to $1 billion over a decade. . Fishing guides have grown accustomed to an annual cough, consistent with health warnings.

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Bay Journal: PA Conventional Gas Wells Routinely Abandoned, Left Unplugged

PA Environment Daily

Read more here ] DEP looked at environmental compliance from conventional oil and gas operations— not from hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” — between 2017 and 2021. Violations for abandoning wells without plugging them was the most common infraction. There are about 100,000 active oil and gas wells in state.

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Fresh, April 18, 2023: Minnesota Lawmakers Debate Future of State’s Environmental Funding

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million price tag, CTV News reports. The group has raised 80 percent of funds needed to meet the $7.2 A plethora of vulnerable and endangered species — including gray wolf, black bear, and lake sturgeon — call the island home.

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