The Energy Law Blog

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.

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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 10, 2021

It is unique to Pennsylvania, an industry-friendly substitute for the standard “severance” tax that every other gas-drilling state imposes on natural gas production. Pennsylvania is the second-leading gas-producing state, behind Texas. billion from its oil and gas severance tax, of which $1.57

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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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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

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Overview Of Non-Compliance DEP reports between 2017 through 2021, the agency did 63,026 inspections of wells belonging to 1,512 conventional oil and gas well owners operating 34,812 wells. “In

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2022

The reason looking at Waste Management Program enforcement actions is important is in December 2021, the Program determined the disposal of millions of gallons of conventional oil and gas wastewater by dumping it on dirt roads as a dust suppressant did not meet the requirements of DEP’s Residual Waste regulations. Read more here.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 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. *in SEC Charges Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 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. *in SEC Charges Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 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. *in SEC Charges Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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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. *in SEC Charges Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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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. *in SEC Charges Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 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. *in SEC Charges Total S.A. Total to pay $2.9

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Circuit Vacated EPA’s Administrative Stay of Methane Standards for Oil and Gas Facilities. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lacked authority to administratively stay portions of new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector for which it had granted requests for reconsideration. FEATURED CASE.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2022

On June 14, House Bill 1467 was introduced to establish an Oil and Natural Gas Facility Health Impacts Assessment Program in the Department of Health. The Department of Health is required to establish an Oil and Natural Gas Production Health Registry to track public exposures and health impacts from oil and natural gas facilities.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Steward also serves on DCED’s PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council and was the former owner and founder of D&I Silica, the largest independent provider of hydrofracking sand during the first 10 years of the Marcellus Shale natural gas boom in Pennsylvania. Read more here.] Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Click Here for a summary of 2022 shale gas and conventional violations. Winter Storm Elliot Causes Natural Gas Infrastructure Failure Natural gas infrastructure failures during Winter Storm Elliot resulted in the proposed imposition of an unprecedented $1.8 Read more here. Read more here. 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 particularly serious because both conventional oil and gas wells and unconventional shale gas wells are fracked with high pressure, high volume liquids, chemicals and sand to crack open the rock formations to allow the freer flow of oil and natural gas to the surface.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Most of these pieces were about the company’s support for a seemingly independent network of anti-regulation, “free-market” nonprofits that spread falsehoods about the reality and seriousness of climate change. See no evil I wrote more columns about ExxonMobil and its top executives than any other major source of climate lies.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2023

Shapiro said at the press conference, “The speed in which we will act on a barber license will be quicker than a Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) permit for a major construction project. “We We will sacrifice nothing when it comes to public health, public safety and environmental protection. “If In 2012, Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

No Environmental Compliance Requirement The PA Resource Manufacturing Tax Credit is awarded without regard to whether a facility receiving the tax credit is complying with the state’s environmental laws and regulations. So far, the Department of Environmental Protection has imposed penalties totalling over $10.6

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

On Friday, November 22, the Sabin Center submitted comments opposing an Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposal to rescind regulations limiting methane emissions from new oil and natural gas facilities (the “Methane New Source Performance Standards” or “Methane NSPS”).

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Then they came back with a new offer saying they found 40 to 60 times more natural gas on his farm. 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. Davis On Environmental, Energy Issues? Shapiro, Lt.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2023

Cumulative Impact Reports House Bill 652 (Bullock-D-Philadelphia) requiring environmental impact reports on certain major sources of pollution in communities already burdened by pollution was amended to more closely align with the new Environmental Justice Program of the Department of Environmental Protection.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

strongly assisted by low natural gas prices and competition in wholesale energy markets. In September 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to loosen methane regulations over the oil and gas industry that would have otherwise harnessed $30 million dollars of wasted energy.

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The Energy Law Blog

AUGUST 16, 2012

By Lesley Foxhall Pietras On August 7, 2012, in a 2-1 decision in Summit Petroleum Corp. Two years later, EPA withdrew that guidance, reemphasizing the criteria set out in the regulations. Environmental Protection Agency, No. Wehrum, Acting Assistant Administrator, EPA, to Regional Administrators I-X, at 3 (Jan.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1]. Through independent regulations, each state’s CO. emissions from the electricity generation sector. [21]. allowance auctions.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

We know that, for children living, and pregnant mothers living close by well pads or other natural gas facilities, that they suffer tremendous amount of health impacts, from birth defects, to lower birth weight, to exposure to cancer-causing VOCs and other toxins; it's a problem. Read more here.]

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Law Columbia

APRIL 20, 2021

Additionally, the executive order articulated a new federal policy of listening to science , prioritizing environmental justice, improving public health, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and bolstering climate resilience. The Biden administration is now poised to wield that tool to make a meaningful dent in greenhouse gas pollution.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a decision on Exxon’s application to renew the NPDES permit, which had expired in 2014. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2019 rule setting renewable fuel volumes in the Clean Air Act’s Renewable Fuel Standard Program. 2012 CA 008263 B (D.C. July 22, 2021).

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2022

The support came just a week after the Department of Environmental Protection reported a record 27,886 miles of Pennsylvania’s streams-- one-third-- do not meet water quality standards with agricultural pollution the second leading cause. In 2012, Rep. Read more here. This has been a worthy informational hearing.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The Department of Environmental Protection is now reviewing 17 conventional oil and gas drilling operators for their compliance with a self-certification program that allows the road dumping of drilling wastewater, according to Ali Tarquino Morris, Director of DEP’s Bureau Of Waste Management. of DEP’s regulations.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Circuit Declined to Speed Up or Slow Down Challenges to Withdrawal of California Waiver and Preemption of State Authority to Regulate Vehicle Greenhouse Gas Emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) orders granting three petitions for extensions of small refinery exemptions from renewable fuel standards.

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