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Opposition to CAFOs Mounts Across the Nation

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to issue new rules that limit discharges of CAFO wastes into waters. The petition asserts that because every CAFO discharges polluting wastes EPA has the authority and duty to require them to operate under wastewater permits. CAFOs, though, are the only industrial polluting facilities not required to treat their wastes.

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DEP Issued 754 Notices Of Violation For Defective Oil & Gas Well Casing, Cementing, The Fundamental Protection Needed To Prevent Gas Migration, Groundwater & Air Contamination, Explosions

PA Environment Daily

Improperly installed casing or ineffective cementing of wells will allow these liquids and chemicals to escape and damage well integrity, cause natural gas migration, groundwater and air contamination and create explosion hazards at wells and “frack-outs” in surrounding areas. PA Tract 8548H (2021) -- STL Resources LLC - Gallagher Twp.

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Budget Briefing: Senate, House Budget Hearings Should Talk About Once-In-A-Generation Investments In Cleaning Up The Environment; Oil & Gas Program At A Crossroads

PA Environment Daily

The departments of Environmental Protection, Conservation and Natural Resources and Agriculture appear before House and Senate budget committees starting February 28. DEP issued over 4,270 notices of violation to 256 conventional operators between 2016 and 2022 for abandoning wells without plugging them. Read more here.

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In A Year of Water Quality Reckoning, National Imperative is Impeded

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A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. clean water statute, though, give farmers and their wastes special treatment. The Clean Water Act also directs states to control waste from large concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs.

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Senate, House Pass Massive, 20-Year Taxpayer Subsidies For Natural Gas, Hydrogen And Petrochemical Industries In Hours With No Public Accountability Or Environmental Safeguards

PA Environment Daily

The first shale gas well was drilled in 2003 and that well was the first shale gas well fracked in 2004. This industry has been protected by politicians that continue to allow it to literally dump their waste and responsibilities on taxpayers to clean up. Shale Gas + 20 The first commercial oil well was drilled in Pennsylvania in 1859.

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USA: “The Coke Side of Life”—More Sugar, Less Science

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UK: Liverpool in drive to name and shame fizzy drink brands Denis Campbell | The Guardian | May 7, 2016 Liverpool city council is to start naming and shaming heavily sugared drinks, such as Lucozade and Coca-Cola, in a hard-hitting drive to warn parents about the health dangers they pose to their children.

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Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta

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Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. Behind the Shine: The Other Shell Report by Friends of the Earth and others (2003). References: The oil spills of Ogoniland Shell pays out $15.5m