PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2023

DEP inspections in April found several of these wells venting natural gas. 30 Abandoned Conventional Wells On October 18 and 19, 2023 , DEP inspected 30 conventional wells operated by John B. Abandoned Shale Gas Well NOV On October 27, 2023 , DEP inspected the Hall 8423H shale gas well operated by XTO Energy Inc.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2023

. - Pennay G Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP issued an Air Quality Plan Approval covering multiple sources of air pollution, including compressors, pigging operations, at the well pad located in Brooklyn Twp., 14 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference [PaEN] -- Better Path Coalition: Nov. Susquehanna County. ( Westmoreland County. (

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2023

Related Articles: -- House Committee Holds June 5 Hearing On Bill Requiring Environmental Impact Reports On Certain Electric Generation, Waste, Major Air Pollution Sources Locating In Already Burdened Communities [PaEN] [Posted: June 1, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Hamm, Flick Address Concerns In Legislature, Including Extending Safety Zones Around Natural Gas Infrastructure -- Williamsport Sun: Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

[Note: The Fairmont Brine site is less than 20 miles south of the border with Pennsylvania and the counties in the Southwest part of the state that are prime shale gas drilling areas-- Washington, Westmoreland, Greene and Fayette counties.] The site was acquired by Fairmont Brine Processing in 2012 and has been inactive since 2017.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2024

Highlights of the environmental and energy notices in the January 27 PA Bulletin -- -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the January 27 PA Bulletin it is extending the deadline for conventional and unconventional natural gas facility operators to submit their first methane pollution emissions report to June 1, 2024.

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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. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Click Here To View Or Print The Entire December 25 PA Environment Digest 68 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA Weekly List Of PA Environment & Energy Articles & NewsClips By Topic PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. Click Here for a Calendar of Upcoming Events.

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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. Read more here.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

AB 32 authorized CARB to adopt a market-based compliance mechanism with “declining annual aggregate emission limits for sources or categories of sources that emit greenhouse gas emissions” through 2020. The market-based compliance mechanism deigned by CARB went into effect in 2012 in the form of the California Cap-and-Trade Program.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Worse, this hastily scheduled virtual meeting conflicted with one of only two in-person opportunities for Beaver County residents to discuss how to spend the money extracted from Shell following their 13 air quality violations in 2022 and 2023. This public outreach was a long time coming.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Vehicles powered by biomethane consume about one percent of California’s transportation fuel, but in the first three quarters of 2023, biomethane used to fuel these vehicles accounted for 17 percent of LCFS credit generation. But what about the rapidly increasing credits generated by biomethane?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 13, 2023

From May 6 to 12, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 449 inspection entries that resulted in reporting 65 violations of environmental regulations-- 49 violations by the conventional oil and gas industry and 16 violations by the unconventional shale natural gas industry.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

On April 7, 2023 , DEP posted an inspection report to document that it had requested Greylock to provide the pre-drill survey it had conducted prior to drilling the wells in 2011, along with all the water sample results associated with the site. [ Background There were six shale gas wells on Mohr A drilled in May, June and July of 2011.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Issued on: 17/11/2023 - 12:13 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. Issued on: 17/11/2023 - 12:13 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. for Illegal Payments to Iranian Official United States Securities and Exchange Commission | May 29, 2013 The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged France-based oil and gas company Total S.A.

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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. Issued on: 02/10/2023 - 14:20Modified: 02/10/2023 - 14:19 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. allegations that they underpaid royalties on natural gas from federal and Indian leases, the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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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. allegations that they underpaid royalties on natural gas from federal and Indian leases, the U.S.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The Maryland Department of the Environment has already begun drafting regulations and proposed regulations will first be circulated for public comment in winter 2023 with final regulations adopted in summer 2023. Make no mistake, natural gas will be out.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2023

By Laurie Barr, Save Our Streams PA Unfortunately during the recent House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee hearing on April 24, 2023 , committee legislators appear to have been mis-informed when a conventional oil well operator testified. In 2012 a friend told me about a well that was being plugged in Sabinsville, PA.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Mercenary hackers stole data that Exxon later cited in climate lawsuits -US prosecutors Yahoo News PaulaR Tue, 11/07/2023 - 17:23 Thursday, October 12, 2023 Read more Raphael Satter & Christopher Bing WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Private Empire: Exxon Mobil and American Power by Steve Coll (Penguin Press, 2012).

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Acoel

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Trisko Coal production and mining jobs over the past half-century have been influenced by several factors, principally demand from the utility sector, technological breakthroughs in natural gas production, railroad deregulation, and environmental regulation. DOE’s 2023 Annual Coal Report indicates that total U.S.

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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. DEP issued 1,360 NOVs to unconventional shale gas well operators in 2022 and 1,323 NOVs in 2021, according to DEP’s 2022 Oil and Gas Program Annual Report. Fayette County.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) announced he is the recipient of the 2023 Shale Gas Advocate Award from the Marcellus Shale Coalition. Yaw, Majority Chair of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, said he was instrumental in helping create legislation establishing the Marcellus Shale Impact Fee, now known as Act 13 of 2012.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012. According to the SCAQMD, “after considering all existing rules and regulations, an additional 45% reduction of NO x is needed by 2023, and a 55% reduction is needed by 2031 [to meet the standards].” [5].

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2023

PJM reported non-performance by natural gas-fired electric generation accounted for 70% of the total outages, coal 16% and the remainder were oil, nuclear, hydro, wind and solar. 1 Price Changes: Natural Gas (+149% to -64.2%); Electric (+18.8% 1 Price Changes: Natural Gas (+149% to -64.2%); Electric (+18.8%

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Unconventional, conventional, pipeline, storage and other oil and gas facilities have been self-reporting air emissions from their facilities since 2012 and do so regularly under Title V and other Air Quality permits issued by the Department of Environmental Protection. Methane emissions were reported as 165,793.87

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The PA League of Women Voters and the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health is now accepting registrations for the 11th Annual Shale Gas & Public Health Conference to be held in-person and online November 14 in Pittsburgh. Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Many More Conventional NOVs This Year DEP issued conventional oil and gas operators 6,586 notices of violation with two weeks left in 2023-- just short of 46% more than in 2021. The original notice of abandonment was issued on November 17, 2023. On December 12, 2023 , DEP inspected the Joseph N. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In 2018, the state Department of Health and DEP, with assistance from the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, released a public health evaluation of long-term air sampling data in the vicinity of natural gas operations in Washington County. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

These violations are the most frequent committed by unconventional shale gas operators, according to DEP’s 2021 Oil and Gas Program Annual report , which reported 196 NOVs for failing to report or correct casing and cementing violations in 2021 alone. percent with an annual average of 1 percent for wells drilled between 2000-2012.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

on December 19, 2023, the MSL Oil & Gas Corp well tender reported a fire in crude oil storage tanks at the Dutter 235 conventional oil well in Wetmore Township, McKean County. PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. At 5:50 a.m.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2023

NPDES Water Quality Permit -- Apollo Resources LLC - Scottdale Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facility: DEP invites comments on the renewal of the NPDES Water Quality Permit for the facility located in East Huntingdon Twp., PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec.

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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 Shell will also pay additional monthly civil penalties for the rest of 2023 for any further exceedances. So far, the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County is scheduled to receive a total of $130.9

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

The company has yet to publish a report for its grantmaking in 2022, let alone 2023. Since I wrote that column, my last one on ExxonMobil’s annual grants, the company’s Worldwide Giving Report in 2022 indicated that in 2021, ExxonMobil contributed another $150,000 to AEI and $150,000 to the GWU Regulatory Studies Center.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2023

Josh Shapiro signed Executive Order 2023-07 to improve the Commonwealth’s licensing, permitting, and certification processes, beginning a comprehensive review of how long it takes agencies to process applications and how workers and businesses apply online. In 2012, Gov. On January 31, Gov. Corbett said.

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