Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2025

This long struggle to get cleaner air in California is one of necessity; pollution from Californias millions of cars and trucks, combined with its unique climate and geography have led to the state having consistently the worst air pollution in the nation.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2025

Defective Casing/Cement Chesapeake Appalachia LLC (Shale Gas) May 29, 2025 inspection of the Schlapfer 2H shale gas well in Albany Township, Bradford County is part of a regular gas pressure monitoring program put in place since defective casing/cement violations were issued on August 31, 2012. DEP inspection report. Responds To Rep.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

DEP was notified Wise passed away on May 16, 2012. Ronald Wise - Violations: 4 Abandoned Conventional Wells March 12, 2025 notices of violation sent to the owner of record for the Vanderzer 2, 3, 5 and Ron Wise 1 conventional wells in Summit Township, Butler County were returned in the mail. DEP inspection report example.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

Read more here ] Currently, shale gas facilities are permitted for air pollution emissions as stand-alone entities, but emissions from a new facility, when combined with other existing emission sources nearby, may result in dangerous exposure levels in the ambient air, which may cause adverse acute and chronic health impacts.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

Two coal-fired units at the plant were retired in 2012 because these aging units are no longer efficient enough to compete with newer resources. DEP just renewed the Title V Air Quality permit for the Eddystone power plant on April 17. Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 27, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 4408 ) Air Quality Permits - Comments -- Laurel Mountain Midstream Operating, LLC - Brown Compressor Station: DEP invites comments on the renewal of a State Only Air Quality Permit for the facility located in Greene Twp., Bucks County. ( Greene County. ( Lycoming County. Received May 13, Approved June 9. (

Natural Gas

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. tons - 1,3 Butadiene [EPA Hazardous Air Pollutant] -- 55.68

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2024

Emissions from electricity generation (and for using EVs) have dropped dramatically The first UCS analysis of the emissions from EV driving in 2012 showed promise for EVs, but the emissions for some parts of the country were equal to the efficient non-hybrid gasoline cars of the time.

Electricity

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The passage of the 1970 Clean Air Act and its major 1990 Amendments don’t show up at all in a graph of coal use. Coal began to really plunge in 2012, three years before Obama’s Clean Power Plan was issued. Regulation may have made a difference, since coal requires more extensive pollution controls than competing fuels.

2012

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

b) The range of projected air pollution reductions that result from the measure. (c) The 2012 scoping plan was challenged in court but upheld because of the painstaking process that the Board had followed. c) The cost-effectiveness, including avoided social costs, of the measure.

Greenhouse

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Last year, Alex led a team of researchers in developing a policy report focused on lessons from California’s climate and air pollution policies. Parson, Dan and Rae Emmett Professor of Environmental Law, has served in the Emmett Institute’s faculty leadership since he joined UCLA Law in 2012.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

That is A LOT of EVs and A LOT less oil use, air pollution and climate emissions. In January 2012, at a hearing of the California Air Resources Board I attended, the board considered updates to the Zero Emission Vehicle standards through model year 2025. I don’t feel like I’m sticking my neck out here.

Electricity

The Energy Law

AUGUST 24, 2012

Wiegand On August 21, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR). Specifically, only states that contributed a threshold amount to the air pollution in a downwind state were subject to the provision. By Stephen W.

Air Pollution

The Energy Law

JULY 1, 2013

Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and the American Lung Association in the litigation involving EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (“CSAPR”). On August 21, 2012, in a 2-1 decision, the D.C.

Air Pollution

The Energy Law

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Specifically, the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) requires 27 states, including Louisiana and Texas, to make dramatic cuts in power plant emissions. Emissions reductions will take effect quickly, starting January 1, 2012 for SO2 and annual NOx reductions, and May 1, 2012 for ozone season (May-September) NOx reductions.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2023

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- TribLive: DEP Declares TODAY Code Orange Air Quality Alert For Liberty/Clairton, Allegheny County = -- FERC Approves PJM $1.25 Gas Explosions -- WPXI: Major Natural Gas Leak At Ross Twp.,

Natural Gas

The Energy Law

OCTOBER 8, 2012

By Lesley Foxhall Pietras On October 5, 2012, EPA filed a petition for en banc rehearing of the D.C. Circuit’s August 21, 2012 panel decision vacating EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR).

Air Pollution

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., Susquehanna County. ( Westmoreland County. ( Greene County. ( Washington County. ( Bradford County. ( Warren County. (

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2023

The legislation includes-- -- Impact Statements: House Bill 652 (Bullock-D-Philadelphia) requiring environmental impact reports on certain electric generation, waste management, sewage treatment and other facilities that are a major source of air pollution proposed in already burdened communities. Click Here to watch online.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

million on the Shell Petrochemical Plant and associated pipeline for repeated air pollution and construction violations. The Shell Petrochemical Plant is the only facility that has qualified for this tax credit. So far, the Department of Environmental Protection has imposed penalties totalling over $10.6

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2023

PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. Billion Winter Storm Elliot Settlement With Non-Performing Natural Gas, Other Electricity Generators [PaEN] NewsClips This Week: -- The Allegheny Front: Environmental Groups Pressure Gov.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 25, 2023

8 Hearing On RACT 3 Air Quality Permit For Magnesita Refractories Facility In York County Dept. Billion Winter Storm Elliot Settlement With Non-Performing Natural Gas, Other Electricity Generators PUC Update On Investigation Of Dec.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

In 2002, Scientific American named Dr. Mann one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology, and in 2012, he received the Hans Oeschger Medal of the European Geophysical Union. During her career, she supported students who were frequently affected by asthma, which was worsened by air pollution.

Climate Change

CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

All three landfills are operated by the County subject to oversight and permits by the County Department of Environmental Health Services, the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, the Regional Water Quality Control Board, and the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District. County of Alameda (2012) 54 Cal.4th

Law

PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

The shale gas wells were drilled and fracked between September 2011 and August 2012. Johnson said DEP’s letter of determination does not say whether DEP directly asked if Chevron used PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ at the drilling site in 2011-2012, but the Department instead stated it relied on a “review of documents related to the well site.”

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2023

1 Price Changes: Natural Gas (+149% to -64.2%); Electric (+18.8% to -25.7%) [PaEN] PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Robinson Center on Climate & Environmental Policy Related Article This Week: -- House Environmental Committee To Hold Oct. 30 Hearing On Bill Increasing Setback Safety Zones From Shale Natural Gas Drilling Sites, Infrastructure Based On Latest Science, Grand Jury Report [PaEN] -- Better Path Coalition: Nov.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2023

23 PA Bulletin [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Invites Comments On Cooperative Fish Nursery General Permit; Hearing Set For Feb.

2010

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2023

A hearing was held on the bill June 5. Room 140 Main Capitol. Click Here to watch online. Read more here. TODAY 9:00: House Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities Committee holds a hearing on House Bill 791 (Isaacson-D-Philadelphia) establishing measures to prevent the theft of vehicle catalytic converters ( sponsor summary ).

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 5, 2023

TUESDAY 9:00: House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets to consider House Bill 652 (Bullock-D-Philadelphia) requiring environmental impact reports on certain electric generation, waste management, sewage treatment and other facilities that are a major source of air pollution proposed in already burdened communities.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Shell Polymers Monaca started operating just over a year ago but has since stumbled through continued production delays, blown past air pollution limits, and racked up more than two dozen technical malfunctions. Since 2012, when the facility was first announced, Beaver has lost GDP, businesses, population, and up to 10% of its jobs.

2023

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Shapiro To Crack Down On Shale Gas Industry -- ABC27: PA Environmental Groups Hold Press Conferences Asking Shapiro To Take Action On Fracking -- WNEP: Residents Awaiting Water React To Return Of Shale Gas Drilling In Dimock, Susquehanna County: ‘Stab In The Back’ -- AP: Drilling Under Pennsylvania's 'Gasland' Town Has Been Banned Since 2010, It's (..)

Conservation

The Energy Law

AUGUST 20, 2012

Moreno On August 16, 2012, EPA published a new rule that revises the NESHAP Subpart HH standards for the oil and gas industry. The Final Rule wassigned on April 17, 2012, but publication in the Federal Register did not occur until August 16, 2012, making the rule effective on October 15, 2012. 16, 2012.

2012

The Energy Law

APRIL 20, 2012

By Stephen Wiegand On April 17, 2012, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) and National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for natural gas wells that are hydraulically fractured.

Natural Gas

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.

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

Gas plants are also big industrial facilities that create air pollution for surrounding communities. The Aamjiwnaang First Nation is exposed to high levels of pollution from Sarnia’s Chemical Valley. A polluting gas-fired electricity plant was moved to this area by the Ontario government in 2012.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2023

Major oil and gas infrastructure facilities could be covered by the amended legislation if they are considered a major source of hazardous air pollutants, criteria pollutants or are subject to prevention of significant deterioration or nonattainment new source review under existing regulations.

Natural Gas