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. See Appalachian Voices v. McCarthy , 989 F.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 26, 2021

Karl’s holistic vision of environmental management embraced essential, but conflicting, needs associated with waste disposal and community environmental protection. The general framework established by Karl serves as the foundation for Pennsylvania’s environmental protection programs to this day.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2024

Information provided by the Department of Environmental Protection in response to a Right To Know request shows DEP took enforcement action against 14 conventional oil and gas well operators that resulted in collecting $422,365 in penalties and bond forfeitures in 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Other violations like failure to manage drilling wastewater safely, not notifying DEP of spills, failure to submit annual well integrity and waste disposal reports, failure to operate the wells to meet environmental protection standards and many more go along with NOVs for failure to plug wells. Read more here. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Six kids in town besides Jacob were diagnosed with cancer from 2005 to 2013. In countries without proper waste disposal, untreated sewage is a factor. Environmental Protection Agency. The process introduces salts into the waste stream, which are detrimental for downstream waters. So does fossil fuel combustion.

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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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CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 31, 2022

County of Merced (2013) 216 Cal.App.4th Industries (dba Waste Management, or “WM”) sued City over the adequacy of the agenda item description under which the City Council considered and ultimately awarded a 15-year franchise agreement for solid waste disposal services to WM’s competitor, Athens, which was named as a real party.

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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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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013).

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013).

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. Dirty Profits 2: Report on Companies and Financial Institutions Benefiting from Violations of Human Rights (Facing Finance, 2013).

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2022

A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making Time and again, mining company Homestake and government agencies promised to clean up waste from decades of uranium processing. million tons of uranium waste left over from milling ore to supply power plants and nuclear bombs. It didn’t happen. Video, Mauricio Rodríguez Pons and Ed Ou.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 19, 2019

To make meaningful progress in lowering water pollution, the federal government should begin incentivizing agroecological practices that both allow farmers to keep their land in production and actively work to reduce excess nutrients, pesticide waste, and erosion. to reduce otherwise externalized wastes. MARY JANE ANGELO AND JAMES F.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

D&I Silica was sold to Hi-Crush Partners in 2013 for $125 million. In 2016, the conventional drillers killed final regulations that would have put in place a comprehensive update to environmental protection standards covering their oil and gas wells. Read more here.] Read more here. And even then it was tough. Million, 17.6%

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Here in Pennsylvania, a landfill applying for a permit with the state’s Department of Environmental Protection to evaporate liquid landfill runoff — called leachate — could create airborne radioactive material over people downwind. All this waste must be handled, transported, and disposed of.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

Organisms in the soil drive the planet’s metabolism, breaking down waste, as well as helping to provide food, energy, clean air and water. A technician at Yonker Environmental Protection Company in Hunan takes soil samples collected during the 2016 project to be analysed. Rapid acidification. Photo credit: Li Ga / Alamy.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

China requires its large livestock operations to treat manure, in some cases with engineered wastewater treatment plants, before spreading livestock wastes on farmland. Environmental Protection Agency approved $1.7 But the Platte Lake advocates did not rely on federal law. Joseph Fenslau, general manager of Plant Tuff Inc.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2024

Matthew Tejada, the senior official in charge of EPA’s EJ program from 2013-2023, shared with me that “failing to include some mechanism for transparency at multiple levels undermines the goal of Justice40 in several respects. This is problematic.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Meaningful Air Monitoring Results Difficult DEP’s Bureau of Air Quality did regional air quality sampling around shale gas facilities between 2010 and 2013 in Southwest, Northcentral and Northeast parts of the state. CNX installed two Particulate Matter 2.5 Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2023

Note: One of the three studies was DEP’s 2013/2016 TENORM study of naturally occurring radioactive material in oil and gas wastewater, drill cuttings and natural gas itself completed with the help of Perma-Fix Environmental Services.] All three reports support our findings.”

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Note: One of the three studies was DEP’s 2013/2016 TENORM study of naturally occurring radioactive material in oil and gas wastewater, drill cuttings and natural gas itself completed with the help of Perma-Fix Environmental Services.] All three reports support our findings.”

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2022

The requirements in the bill cover oil and natural gas facilities, including wells, pipelines, pumping stations, compressor stations, power plants, natural gas processing plants or plants processing waste streams from oil and gas operations. In March of 2013, in response to these concerns, Republican Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 25, 2021

Bloser said he’s heard producers say at DCED’s PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council meetings up to 25 percent of a conventional oil and gas driller’s waste stream is spread on roads. In 2013, Act 89 was passed increasing the funding for the Program from $5 Million to $35 Million annually in 2014-15. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

All three reports support our findings,” including DEP’s 2013/2016 TENORM study of naturally occurring radioactive material in oil and gas wastewater, drill cuttings and natural gas itself completed with the help of Perma-Fix Environmental Services. 28 to Feb. 4 [PaEN] -- DEP Posts 66 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

We Got A Problem “By April 2013, my girlfriend gives our son a bath. By November of [2013], Chevron did a big water sample and gave us this big booklet, "Your water's safe to drink now." Photo: L atkanich Farm and Chevron drill pad June 2012; View out the back door of the Latkanich home May 2013.) He's a toddler.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 14, 2022

She is a supporter of River friendly garden concepts, and implemented an addition to stream waste reduction by having weekly garden and yard waste collections as part of a recycling program to limit the amount of trash being incinerated or landfilled. Prior to PADEP, Collier served 19 years with BCM Environmental Engineers, Inc.,

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In 1996, the Department of Environmental Protection issued a report on the road “spreading” of wastewater from conventional oil and gas drilling to control dust. It concluded this practice does have the potential to result in environmental impacts to ground and surface water quality because of the contaminants it contains.

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E2 Law Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

And other schemes, such as the New York State hazardous waste cleanup laws, solid waste laws, and Brownfield Cleanup Program, surely are aimed at promoting a “healthful” environment. “It 2013)(setting forth a history of the Article I, section 27, jurisprudence); see also Pa. Envt’l Def. Commonwealth , 161 A.3d 3d 911 (Pa.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2023

While the PA Department of Environmental Protection has, on its face, a Permit Decision Guarantee policy, in reality the policy is not adhered to. But we did limp through that short crisis, but no one raised the issue of what will happen when we have a freeze longer than a few days like we did during the polar vortex of 2013-14.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water." [ Read more here.] page 9-11 ] A study done on the road “spreading” issue by the Department of Environmental Protection in 1996 said, “The results of this project show that there is a potential for brine to migrate from the roadway and impact ground or surface water quality.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

This includes emerging contaminants as well as substances identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for prioritization, risk evaluation, or regulation.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 26, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency recommends water quality standards for rivers and lakes to prevent death and damage to fish, mussels, insects, and other aquatic species. Mobility, cost, and environmental protection. A major emphasis is to minimize waste, or salt’s “bounce and scatter.”

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

This includes emerging contaminants as well as substances identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for prioritization, risk evaluation, or regulation. Protecting ecosystem health. Managing PFAS in waste.

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