PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

Wolf’s PFAS Action Team Report noted there is a concern wastewater plant sewage sludge also contains PFAS and policies are needed to properly manage this waste. Similar concerns would be present in oil and gas waste treatment facilities. Read more here. See Paragraph 71 in appeal.] Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2024

DEP issued violations for abandonment, venting and failure to submit annual production, waste generation and mechanical integrity reports on March 7, 2024. DEP issued violations for abandonment, venting gas and for failure to submit annual production, waste generation and disposal and well integrity reports.

2024

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

The Home Resource Guide Community Workshops are a series of trainings that cover topics surrounding oil and gas development, from extraction and production to transportation and waste issues. Click Here to register for these free training sessions.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Before being elected County Executive, Innamorato served in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 21st District, where she introduced several environmental bills, including one that closed the hazardous oil and gas waste loophole that endangers our drinking water. Prior to her involvement in environmental advocacy, Ms.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 25, 2021

The Center’s experts conduct research and develop best management practices to construct and maintain dirt and gravel roads in ways that reduce sediment and runoff causing water and air pollution. 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.

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

Firstly, it removes solid fish waste from the system, thus eliminating waste buildup in the grow beds. Secondly, it enables growers to decide whether to run the system either aquaponically, using liquid waste from the fish, or hydroponically through nutrient dosing. Decoupling offers two significant advantages.

2023

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. As for the two surveys of soil pollution, the first was of soil in general while the second focused on agricultural land. million km2 and its result were published in a report in 2014.

Atmosphere

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.

2017

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The OVEC coal bailouts, which the PUCO approved in 2014, were set to expire in 2024 and only applied to utility customers who had a stake in OVEC. 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. But thanks to H.B.

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Their disinformation apparatus is therefore starting to spin up in response , pushing out false and misleading narratives that aim to water down the pollution measures as much as possible. The 2014-focused study referenced above found that Black Americans were most affected by the toxic power plant emissions.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Dr. Steingraber noted similar conclusions were reached in 2014 when New York State banned fracking, saying “At the time, and again, this is nine years ago in 2014, there were 400 studies and investigations in the peer-reviewed scientific literature in government reports and by journalists that showed evidence for harm.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This legislation also follows the grand jury’s recommendation to further increase setbacks for schools and hospitals, to 5,000 feet. “As As then-Attorney General Josh Shapiro stated, “Our government has a duty to set, and enforce, ground rules that protect public health and safety. Read more here. ] Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

million cubic feet of natural gas and hazardous air pollutants. They also have an air shaft for an underground coal mine near them. She said DEP did set up a summa canister air sampler once in August of 2014 in an attempt to document air emissions from the pigging facility. So we are no longer having rashes.

Natural Gas

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.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 26, 2024

waiving papers with her written remarks] I typically just roll off the cuff because this topic has been a passion of mine since long before I was elected in 2014. Bartolotta said-- “I got a lot of words here, but you know what? We should be exporting freedom from Pennsylvania all around the world right now.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

Tom Corbett lifted it briefly in 2014. “We need to protect our unleased public lands from this rush because they are the most significant tracts of undisturbed forest remaining in the state,” he said in 2010. The moratorium remained until Republican Gov. Two years later, his Democratic successor, Gov. Tom Wolf, reinstated the ban.

Natural Gas

Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

Million tons/yr of waste: 7,600 industrial, 250 municipal, 25 hazardous. 1,900 landfills, 21 for hazardous waste. 100 nuclear reactors; 2,000 tons/yr nuclear waste. For example, most states now have optional “lookup tables” to look up the action trigger concentrations for groundwater and soils related to hazardous waste sites.

Clean Water Act

CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

City of Woodland (2014) 225 Cal.App.4th CEQA requires an EIR to analyze a project’s energy consumption, and to mitigate any significant impacts “due to wasteful, inefficient, or unnecessary use of energy, or wasteful use of energy resources[.]” (CEQA Guidelines, § 15126.2(b); a), (1), Appendix F.)

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

These reductions are greater than what was projected for the 2022 and 2021 proposals, thanks to changes that strengthen provisions to limit wasteful, polluting flaring of natural gas and analytical updates that better capture the impacts of this rulemaking. On December 2, the U.S.

Regulations

HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Outdoor air pollution accounts for approximately 3.7 – 4.8 These changes would lead to both climate benefits and improve the health of the surrounding community (US EPA 2014; Murmansk State Technical University 2020; Evans et al. Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease.” March 26, 2014.

Atmosphere

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.

Conservation

Vermont Law

AUGUST 7, 2023

Where to Watch: Texas & Louisiana Texas: With a history of locating hazardous waste facilities, industrial plants, and other polluting industries in low-income communities and communities of color, Texas is rife with environmental injustices. For instance, minority neighborhoods in Houston are burdened with waste facilities. [6].

2023

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. PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.

Fossil Fuels

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. PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.

Fossil Fuels

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. PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.

Fossil Fuels

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. PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.

Fossil Fuels

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. PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.

Fossil Fuels

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. PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.

Fossil Fuels

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. PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2024

Sewage leaks from nearby bombed homes, piling up waste everywhere near Rafah in Gaza, now hosting much of the population. The sewage and waste around the house are a major tragedy. Ongoing conflict and siege have destroyed Gaza’s infrastructure : waste disposal, sewage treatment, fuel supplies, and water management.

Waste

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 5, 2025

This EO is not simply a wasteful attempt to solve a problem that doesnt exist. In 2014, the US House of Representatives introduced and passed the so-called “Secret Science Reform Act.”

Politics

Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

California Federal Court Barred BLM from Enforcing Delay of Oil and Natural Gas Waste Prevention Rule; States, Trade Groups Asked Wyoming Court to Expedite Review of Rule and Suspend Deadlines. The court also denied motions to transfer the action to the District of Wyoming, where a challenge to the Waste Prevention Rule is pending.

2018

Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

EPA Sought Information to Inform Regulation of 1-Bromopropane as Hazardous Air Pollutant. In the second complaint, the Center alleged that a chemical importer, also headquartered in Akron, failed to report at least seven chemical substances that it imported during 2013–2014.

2021