PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Of Environmental Professionals Annual Conference Sept. Million In Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fees; $25.1 Million In Sen.

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

The selected response involved containment of the landfill in place with a two-foot soil cap by consolidation of waste material DEP said the response addressed threats to the environment, human food chain and nearby populations from direct contact to contaminants on Site and prevented surface water migration and air migration.

2012

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 26, 2025

Contact: Ian Irvin, Executive Director, iirvin@pa.gov or (717) 787-8171 -- Senate Confirms Jessica Shirley To Lead The Department Of Environmental Protection; Committee Questions On Environmental Justice, RESET Energy Board [PaEN] -- PA Resources Council Receives 2025 Governor's Award For Environmental Excellence For Hard-To-Recycling Collection Events (..)

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Since 2012, the American Water Charitable Foundation has invested over $20 million in funding through grants and matching gifts that positively benefit the communities where American Water and its employees live and work. As an organization, we strive to prevent waste and conserve the environment.

2025

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The fourth step is the flowback and waste management step. Drill cuttings are the waste that comes off of the drill and often contains toxic metals and naturally occurring radioactive materials such as lead, radium and uranium. This waste may be left at landfills that may or may not be qualified to handle this type of waste.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

Circuit in a 2012 decision, Citizens for Responsible Regulation [CARE] v. Overall, this effort by the Trump EPA is a long shot that is likely to waste a good deal of its time and energy. The Endangerment Finding was challenged in court and upheld by the D.C. The Supreme Court reversed another portion of the D.C. Download as PDF

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2024

During the period from 1956 to 1970, chromium wastes were disposed of in an unlined lagoon at the northern end of the facility. regarding the Precision National Plating Site in Abington Township, Lackawanna County. ( PA Bulletin, page 8345 ) From 1958 to 1999, the Precision Facility was used as a chrome-plating facility.

2012

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 27, 2025

For example, DEP said 86% of conventional oil and gas well owners failed to submit annual production, waste generation and waste disposal reports for 2023. The non-compliance even extends to annual reports the industry has to submit to the Oil and Gas Program. Million In Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fees; $25.1 Million In Sen.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 28, 2025

. - Violations: 42 Abandoned Conventional Wells June 11, 2025 inspections of 42 conventional wells in Clinton Township, Venango County found them all abandoned and not plugged with no annual production, waste, well integrity reports on file. Owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2025

The owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports since 2021. The owner failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Original violation for abandonment issued March 8, 2017. Violations continued. Response requested by July 1. DEP inspection report.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 1, 2025

Owner also failed to submit production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Drilled in 2012. [ Drilled in 2012. Drilled in 2012. [

2012

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The wells were drilled in the first waves of shale gas development in 2007 and 2012. Other violations included failure to have emergency plans onsite, failure to submit production, wastes generation and disposal and well integrity reports. DEP requested a response from the well owner by March 10. Violations were issued -- Dunkard Twp.:

2012

Circle of Blue

MAY 29, 2025

reactors that have closed since 2012. All the activity has not invalidated the standard and sturdy safety, cost, and waste management critiques of nuclear power. Reactors produce radioactive waste that requires permanent disposal, but political opposition in Nevada has prevented the U.S. and globally.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

Also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Owner failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Violations issued, continued for failure to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Violations issued. Crude A Co - Randy L.

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

The owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. The owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports have never been submitted. The well was drilled in 2012.

2025

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. Units 3 and 4 were installed in 1967 and 1970 and are old steam units that are less efficient [therefore more costly] to operate than newer natural gas power plants.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2950 ) The facility was used as a chrome-plating facility from 1958 to 1999 and chromium wastes stored on the site leaked from an unlined lagoon and were absorbed into the soils.

2012

Physics World

MAY 5, 2025

This approach lets us make highly intricate components with far less waste than conventional techniques, in which a block of material is machined away. While unobtanium can never be reached, it’s worth trying to get there to drive technology forward A further example is the single crystal turbine blade developed by Rolls-Royce in 2012.

Technology

Scientific American

JULY 24, 2025

Mark Wilson/Getty Images “Can you imagine eating toxic waste for breakfast?” He pointed to two 2012 studies, also published by Science, that suggested the Mono Lake microbe, dubbed GFAJ-1 , merely sequestered arsenic extraordinarily well internally and didn’t rely on it for its metabolism or reproduction.

2010

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

They saw counselors, psychologists and psychiatrists; wasted thousands of dollars on brain scans; got diagnoses of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and Asperger’s syndrome; and tried medications, therapies and special education. By the time he was five, she’d married her now husband, who adopted Alex.

2012

Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 31, 2022

In 2012, the Mandarin Oriental set out to make a lasting impact — sustainability-wise. The company has been striving to reduce its environmental footprint by setting bold energy, emissions, waste, and water targets. Its goal has been to reduce its overall footprint by 20–25% across these targets.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 27, 2025

Waste Permits - Comment -- Waste Management of PA, Inc. Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- BP Terminal - 4556 Property: DEP received a Notice of Intent to remediate soil and groundwater contaminated with leaded gasoline to meet the Site-Specific Standard at the terminal located in Monroe Twp., Cumberland County. ( Potter County. (

Natural Gas

Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 31, 2022

In 2012, the Mandarin Oriental set out to make a lasting impact — sustainability-wise. The company has been striving to reduce its environmental footprint by setting bold energy, emissions, waste, and water targets. Its goal has been to reduce its overall footprint by 20–25% across these targets.

Waste

Real Climate

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Much of that effort was wasted. 3d,f,h showing a shift towards more cold extremes in the northern mid-latitudes (20-50ºN) from the mid-1990s to 2012. It is clear that the data drop out impacts the 1995-2012 trend, turning a slight positive trend into a large (and spurious) downward trend in line with the results shown by Cohen et al.

2013

HumanNature

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Food waste refers to material that is safe and suitable for human and animal consumption, yet not consumed. The food waste and loss problems reveal inefficiencies in the food system that have consequential, permanent environmental impacts. This global problem of food waste is related to consumer behaviors (e.g., Henderson, A.

Waste

New Scientist

JUNE 11, 2025

At least, that’s what Harvard behavioural scientist Francesca Gino found in a 2012 study. However, if you have to sign your name at the start of a form, rather than the end, you’re more likely to be honest, because you’ve effectively promised to tell the truth. Gino has conducted many interesting studies on honesty.

Law

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In addition to this uptick in production, at the same time, we had a big increase in waste production. So actually about 98% of waste production from fracked wells is in the form of produced water. Where does this waste actually go? Are There Disproportionate Exposures From Waste? It has several different outlets.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2021

On August 12, the PA Resources Council announced the appointment of Sarah Alessio Shea as Deputy Director who will focus her efforts on the expansion of PRC’s recycling, composting and other waste reduction programming statewide. In 2012 she launched ReuseFest as a collection of gently used items to benefit local nonprofits.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Joseph – individually and doing business as Joseph Contracting, John Joseph Contracting, and Perry Stone Supply LLC – to settle violations of the Solid Waste Management Act and Pennsylvania regulations that occurred between 2012 and 2015 in Dunbar, Perry, and South Union Townships, Fayette County.

Waste

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

Consider what happened in New York City and northern New Jersey when Hurricane Sandy struck in 2012. There is no time to waste in preparing for a reliable system that recognizes the expanding role of renewables. That can prove disastrous. Modernizing grid planners’ measurements of reliability will help, too.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The prime ones are erosion and flood control, waste treatment, water purification, recreation, and tourism. The buffering effect of the wetlands spared many communities in the area the worst of flooding from Superstorm Sandy in 2012. The Hackensack Meadowlands in New Jersey, from which New York City skyscrapers are visible.

Carbon Dioxide

Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

trillion litres of toxic industrial waste to accumulate for over five decades, but now wants us to believe a steering committee with no decision-making power can resolve the issue. This includes the Joint Oil Sands Monitoring Program (JOSM) set up in 2012 and the Oil Sands Advisory Group (OSAG) set up in 2016.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Five other violations involved illegal disposal or handling of liquid or solid waste. 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.”

Waste

PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2022

Proclamation Text The text of the proclamation follows-- WHEREAS, In accordance with the Pennsylvania Municipal Authorities Act, the Centre County Commissioners created the Centre County Solid Waste Authority in 1971. The Authority would become the implementing agency for the management of solid waste generated in Centre County.

Recycling

Frontiers

JULY 11, 2021

Then, they analyzed and compared the carbon reduction progresses of the cities based on the emission inventories recorded in different years (from 2012 to 2016). For 30 cities, there was a clear emission decrease between 2012 and 2016. Lastly, they assessed the cities’ short-, mid-, and long-term carbon mitigation goals.

Greenhouse

HumanNature

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Yet, amid these advancements, we often overlook the simplest and most immediate solution: reducing food waste. Food waste occurs at every stage of the production and supply chain, from agricultural fields to supermarket shelves to consumer households. These alarming statistics highlight the urgent need for action to combat food waste.

Waste