PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 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.”

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Pursue Your Constitutional Right To A Clean Environment In Pennsylvania Senate next voting day Nov. 13, 14, 15, Dec. 11, 12, 13 -- Committee Schedule House next voting day October 30, 31, Nov. 1, 13, 14, 15, Dec. 11, 12, 13 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- DEP Secretary Negrin Resigns Effective Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The Coalition said Section 3225(a)(1) Act 13 of 2012 set bond amounts for oil and gas wells, but did not differentiate between conventional and unconventional wells. The operative language links these Fiscal Code provisions to Section 3225(a)(1) of Act 13 of 2012 and says-- “Section 1606-E. Conventional oil and gas well bonding.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 21, 2023

MiningWatch Canada and Environmental Defence Canada, represented by Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA); Nature Canada, represented by West Coast Environmental Law (West Coast); and the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) are intervening in the hearings to defend environmental protections in the IAA.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The site was acquired by Fairmont Brine Processing in 2012 and has been inactive since 2017. On October 19, the U.S. FBP would treat fluids from the hydraulic fracturing process used to extract natural gas. In May 2023, there was a fire and explosion at the site that led to increased concern about the potential release of contamination.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

The Department of Environmental Protection confirmed as of February 11, Scott Perry, Deputy Secretary for Oil and Gas Management, is no longer an employee of the agency. No other comments on personnel actions were made. No replacement has yet been named. Perry was named Deputy for Oil and Gas Management in September 2011 by Gov.

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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.”

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2022

On December 15, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has executed a $600,000 consent assessment of civil penalty (CACP) with John A.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

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] US Environmental Protection Agency. link] US Environmental Protection Agency. March 26, 2014.

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ESA

APRIL 1, 2024

representative for Kentucky’s 3rd congressional district, was recognized for his commitment to environmental stewardship, science-based environmental protection and natural resource management. Of note is the application of the model approach focusing on to the reciprocity between people and the “First Foods.” degrees Celsius.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 2, 2023

On September 21, the Department of Environmental Protection issued a notice of violation to Repsol Oil and Gas USA, LLC for denying the agency’s right to document damaged shale gas well casing during its investigation of an incident of uncontrolled natural gas venting in Bradford County in August.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

The market-based compliance mechanism deigned by CARB went into effect in 2012 in the form of the California Cap-and-Trade Program. 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.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million; -- FY 2012-13 budget eliminates $11.8

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Circle of Blue

JULY 12, 2021

In China, the vice premier has called for greater environmental protections along the Yellow River, the country’s second-longest waterway. Reuters reports that the call came after state media and the environmental ministry made unannounced visits to cities and prefectures in the watershed and secretly shot footage.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Since 2012, when the facility was first announced, Beaver has lost GDP, businesses, population, and up to 10% of its jobs. These injustices are incalculable. Far from the economic boom we were promised, federal data show that Beaver County has actually fallen behind the state and nation in nearly every measure of economic activity.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2022

Prior to his appointment as Acting Deputy, Klapkowski served as Director of the Bureau of Oil and Gas Planning and Program Management since March of 2012. Read more here. -- Conventional Drilling Regulations: Drafting proposed regulations setting environmental protection standards for conventional oil and gas well drilling.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In an interview Friday, DePaoli said her organization is continuing to ask for donations of drinking water because no one else is providing the families water-- not EQT, the Department of Environmental Protection, local townships or Greene County officials.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2021

According to the state Public Utility Commission, which regulates the fee, it has produced just over $2 billion since 2012. Pennsylvania is the second-leading gas-producing state, behind Texas. Texas, in fiscal 2020 alone, realized $3.45 billion from its oil and gas severance tax, of which $1.57 billion was from gas.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

On February 15, the Department of Environmental Protection told the Environmental Quality Board conventional oil and gas drilling companies only paid $46,100 of the $10,600,000 it cost for DEP to regulate that industry in FY 2020-21. Overall, DEP expects an annual revenue deficit of at least $10.5

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

The Borello Family was very familiar with this sound because from 2012, when the facility was first built, through mid-2019 the Pigging Station was doing deliberate blowdowns-- releases of natural gas, liquids and hazardous air pollutants-- three times a day, seven days a week. Yes, three times a day, seven days a week for nearly a decade.]

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In 2012, the Coalition was formed with the mission to obtain national and federal recognition for the Delaware River Watershed. The Delaware River Watershed Forum’s focus on environmental justice was a great opportunity to showcase the power of EPA’s EJScreen 2.1, Environmental Protection Agency.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Appeals have been filed by 40 individuals with the Environmental Hearing Board over DEP’s permit for the Catalyst Energy, Inc.’s On January 25, Marcellus Drilling News reported the Department of Environmental Protection issued a permit to Catalyst Energy, Inc. for an oil and gas wastewater injection well.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

Duran said she also contacted the Department of Environmental Protection about the incident and was told they planned to send inspectors to tour the plant Tuesday (January 3). Click Here for video/sound of a typical release from 2012 to 2019. Written by David Hess, Former Secretary, PA Department of Environmental Protection.

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Brag

JANUARY 4, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the release of a draft document entitled Biofuels and the Environment: Third Triennial Report to Congress (External Review Draft) for public comment. billion gallons per year) in the growth of corn ethanol in the United States from 2002-2012 and may have played a more important role (0-2.1

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency flagged a host of new, alarming deficiencies. The state forced Highland Park, another majority Black, low-income city surrounded by Detroit, to shut its decrepit water plant in 2012, in what was supposed to be a temporary move. The lead problems only created new expenses.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

When funding for the Lancaster enrichment program didn’t happen, an award of $15,000 from the Women for Social Innovation a year later allowed the sisters to move LGO forward in Philadelphia in 2012.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2023

These fields have been regulated since 1955 by state law and most recently by specific provisions in the 2012 Oil and Gas Act (Act 13) and state regulations to avoid conflicts with underground coal mining. Photo: View of Rager Mountain natural gas leak from space, courtesy of Environmental Defense Fund.)

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Routine Well Abandonments “Most disturbingly, the most frequent “environmental/health/safety” violation that DEP has noted is the violation of requirements in the 2012 Oil and Gas Act and Chapter 78 for the proper abandonment of oil and gas wells.” Read more here. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2022

Limits On Civil Penalties The 2012 Oil and Gas Act (Act 13) sets the penalty amounts DEP can impose for violations of the law and regulations -- Sections 3255 & 3256. General violations for conventional oil and gas operators may not exceed $1,000 and the fine jumps to up to $5,000 if the violation is willful.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Moreno On October 1st, 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) released the final NPDES general permit for discharges from oil and gas facilities in the western and central portion of the Outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico (the “final permit”). By Robert E. Holden and Carlos J.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 12, 2012

Moreno On March 7, 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published in the Federal Register a proposed NPDES general permit for discharges from oil and gas facilities in the western and central portion of the Outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico (the “proposed permit”). 7, 2012), available at [link].

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Academy of Natural Sciences

JANUARY 13, 2023

After the agreement was signed and we became the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, researchers at the Academy came together with faculty members already here on campus and we created the Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science in 2012. Our students go all over the place for their co-ops.

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 21, 2012

Moreno On August 13, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) disapproval of revisions to the Texas State Implementation Plan (“SIP”) dealing with the state’s Flexible Permits program. Environmental Protection Agency , No. State of Texas v.

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 25, 2013

United States Environmental Protection Agency , 526 F.3d If stormwater permitting is required, we suggest a careful review of NPDES stormwater delegation and the potential applicability of the 2008 Multi-Sector General Permit (“MSGP”) or the 2012 Construction General Permit (“CGP”). See Natural Resources Defense Council v.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 12, 2016

On May 4, 2016, environmental groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), seeking to compel EPA to “fulfill long-delayed nondiscretionary duties” under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) by issuing revised regulations governing oil and gas wastes. 1:16-cv-00842-JDB, and was filed in the U.S.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

By: Lesley Foxhall Pietras On August 8, 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a far-reaching Clean Air Act rule intended to address the interstate transport of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from upwind to downwind states. See 76 Fed. 48208 (Aug.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency, which earlier threatened to scuttle the plan, signed off in July on the “phased approach” to address the problem created as the dam lost its capacity to trap sediment and nutrients flowing downstream. But research in 2012 showed that the Conowingo reservoir was essentially already filled.

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