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

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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Indeed, the OVEC coal plants have been selling electricity for less than it costs to generate for a decade, operating at a loss since 2012. The PUCO needs to be less concerned with tone and more concerned with holding utilities accountable and ensuring utility consumers are not paying for wasteful spending.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Outdoor air pollution accounts for approximately 3.7 – 4.8 2011), and the World Health Organization has recommended evaluating a separate health standard for black carbon exposure independent of other particle concentration measurements (World Health Organization 2012). link] Climate & Clean Air Coalition.

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

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

At every phase of oil and gas production, harmful air pollutants are deliberately released. These air pollutants include such things as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, formaldehyde, naphthalene. “I Unconventional gas development cannot happen without significant air pollution, even under the best of circumstances.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 13, 2023

inspection report ] No Well Integrity/Waste Reports Inspections this week found two companies or individual well operators failed to file required well integrity reports to DEP-- BCD Prop, Inc. (8 Mowry 2 101H -- Failed to Prevent Potential Pollution of the Waters of Commonwealth Clinton County -- XTO Energy Inc. & Shawn M.

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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

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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

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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.

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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 ).

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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. These violations were first issued on November 15, 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The Day That Changed Everything “Then by December 2012, I got my first check in. It was December 17th, 2012, remember that day explicitly, it was $148 bucks. The day I showed up there on December 17th, 2012 with a camera was the day everything changed.” “I So that's how we got off onto a bad footing,” said Latkanich.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Offers Free Solar Sprint Student Competition Teacher Training Jan.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

EPA’s efforts to regulate vinyl chloride as a hazardous air pollutant under section 112 of the Clean Air Act also went on for more than a decade and was ultimately a big part of the reason why Congress overhauled that section of the statute in the 1990 amendments.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Chesapeake contacted Waste Management to decontaminate the production tank and remove it from the site after decon on July 3. An environmental contractor on the site detected readings of radioactivity above background levels in the area of the spill and the tank-- 50 to 70 uR/hour. DEP’s inspection report noted background is 10 uR/hour.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The yellow-colored pollution emanated from long-abandoned deep coal mines of the early 1800s, as well as from waste coal piles on the surface and strip mines on a nearby ridge. Acid rain was once a factor, too, though federal air pollution laws have largely ended it. We have to get another generation involved.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 24, 2020

The successes and failures of international regulation of ocean waste provide a basis for developing a model for effective regulation of orbital debris. Like earth’s orbits, earth’s oceans are a global common where externalities from marine debris are typically not experienced by the producer of the pollution. 7, 2019). [4].

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

OSHA Proposed First Updates to Hazard Communication Standard Since 2012. OSHA Proposed First Updates to Hazard Communication Standard Since 2012. EPA said specific identities of the 390 chemicals were reported as non-confidential in the 2012, 2016, or 2020 reports submitted under the Chemical Data Reporting rule.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

These potential intervenors alleged that the additional emissions during the stay period would harm their interest in protecting their residents from the effects of air pollution and climate change. Thirteen states, the District of Columbia, and the City of Chicago sought leave to intervene on behalf of the petitioners.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

So starting in Act 13, passed in 2012, which I know lots of people are familiar with, that was really an act of deference to the oil and gas industry. It creates extensive infrastructure in multiple stages and sites, and produces large amounts of liquid and solid waste. And also a disposing of the waste stream. Read more here.]

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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.

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