PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

On Tuesday, US Environmental Protection Agency proposed to rescind the 2009 endangerment finding that increasing greenhouse gas emissions threaten the public health and the welfare of current and future generations. Data Center At Panther Creek Waste Coal-Fired Power Plant In Carbon County [PaEN] -- FracTracker Alliance Releases National A.I.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Nuclear Waste Dump Cleanup June 5 At Public Meeting In Armstrong County -- TribLive: US Army Corps Says Parks Twp. Is Nuclear The Hot New Clean Power Source? -- TribLive: US Army Corps To Give Update On Parks Twp.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

My work began when my daughter was born in 2009. This allows fracking waste labeled as residual waste to be disposed of in municipal landfills. Municipal landfills from toxic radioactive fracking waste. This landfill takes waste from the fracking industry.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 2006 ) Waste Permits -- PennEnergy Resources, LLC - W58 Tank Pad: Permit application withdrawn for the installation of 1 tank for oil and gas liquid waste under WMGR123 in Winfield Twp., Costello Compressor Station: DEP revoked the State-Only Air Quality Permit at the company’s request for the facility in Portage Twp.,

2013

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

So when this industry and its drilling took off in the late otss, you know, 2009, 2010, we were sort of in the right place at the right time. And also a disposing of the waste stream. Further, agencies should appropriately classify waste streams based on the toxics they contain. Then drilling and hydraulic fracturing.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2023

Natural gas development has added compressor stations, pig launchers/receivers to clean out pipelines, cryogenic/fractionation plants, cracker plants, injection wells, residual waste storage tanks and impoundments as well as frack water and freshwater impoundments, metering stations and miles of gas pipelines throughout rural Pennsylvania.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

This contamination led to multiple Dimock residents suffering from impacts to their own personal water supplies, including the explosion of Norma Fiorentino’s drinking water well in January 2009. Coterra entered a plea to Prohibition Against Discharge of Industrial Wastes, a violation of the Clean Streams Law.

Natural Gas

A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

Organisms in the soil drive the planet’s metabolism, breaking down waste, as well as helping to provide food, energy, clean air and water. By 2009, a study by Chinese scientists found that cadmium was going into China’s topsoil at around 0.004mg/kg per year. It is home to over a quarter of our planet’s biodiversity. meaning a 2.2-fold

Atmosphere

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

IRA clean energy investments also will protect public health by cutting key toxic air pollutants, such as nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide, by more than 50 percent by 2050, and drastically reduce fine particulate matter, which will save hundreds of billions of dollars in 2035 alone from avoided premature deaths.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These associations can be attributed to the environmental impacts of fracking, including air pollution, water contamination, noise, traffic, and community impacts." So these are all problems that are known to be related to exposure to toxic air pollution. But after 2009, the trends began to diverge.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

DEP also issued violations for failing to submit production and waste generation and well integrity reports. Violations were also issued for failing to submit production and waste generation and mechanical integrity reports. and found them to be abandoned and not plugged. DEP’s inspection report does not indicate any follow up actions.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Based on these assurances and promises to “take all steps necessary to abate and remediate” any harms they did cause, Bryan Latkanich signed a gas lease agreement with Chevron on December 7, 2009. The following is the story of Bryan Latkanich and his family, based on a November 15, 2022 interview.

Natural Gas

Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Coal also emits other air pollution factors such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter… All this causes smog and soot which in turn cause asthma, cancers of all sorts, cardiovascular diseases… Which brings us to its health effects: coal is a mass murderer and is responsible for immense suffering.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2022

From Mount Everest to the deepest oceans, vast amounts of plastic waste contaminate the entire planet. We inhale or ingest tiny, invisible plastic fibers floating in the air around us, fibers shed by our own clothes, carpets, and upholstery, etc. We recycle the plastic waste chemically back into its original monomers.

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

It creates extensive infrastructure in multiple stages and sites, and produces large amounts of liquid and solid waste. So when this industry and its drilling took off in the late otss, you know, 2009, 2010, we were sort of in the right place at the right time. And also a disposing of the waste stream. So the first is equity.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

-- Natural Lands, Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership Host Feb. 24 Organizing Black Birders Week Webinar With Tykee James -- Keep PA Beautiful Local Affiliates Recycle 1.1 24 Organizing Black Birders Week Webinar With Tykee James -- Keep PA Beautiful Local Affiliates Recycle 1.1 17; Loving The Land Thru Working Forests Conference Sept.

Conservation

Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company first attracted global attention when it was caught dumping 3,000 tons of toxic mercury-laden waste in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, that originated at a PVC plant in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. James successfully sued to subject Formosa to an environmental review over the 800 tons of toxic air pollutants as well as the 13.6

2016

Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

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. Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009).

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

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. Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009).

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

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. Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009).

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

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. Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009).

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

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. Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009).

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

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. Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009).

Fossil Fuels

Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

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. Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Shell’s Big Dirty Secret by Friends of the Earth Europe (2009).

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2024

In 2008–2009, IDF damaged one-third of Gaza’s farmland. Sewage leaks from nearby bombed homes, piling up waste everywhere near Rafah in Gaza, now hosting much of the population. The sewage and waste around the house are a major tragedy. Gaza’s municipality notes 70,000 tonnes of waste since October.

Waste

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Dismantling the EPA The Blueprint would institute a major reorganization at the EPA that would slash full time positions, cut entire departments and programs deemed “duplicative, wasteful or superfluous.” For one thing, many regulatory functions are delegated to the state, tribal, and local levels. 107 million symptomatic asthma incidents.

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