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PA General Energy Announced It Will Plug Proposed Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Grant Twp., Indiana County

PA Environment Daily

On May 10, the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund announced PA General Energy, LLC notified the Department of Environmental Protection that it intends to plug its proposed toxic frack-waste injection well in Grant Township after this Memorial Day. Grant Township has been fighting to keep out this frack-waste injection well since 2013.

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Murray Edwards: The Fossil Fuel Fanatic

Enviromental Defense

Edwards was also a key player in the Mount Polley tailings dam disaster of 2014 , where Imperial Metals, of which he is a controlling shareholder, experienced a catastrophic breach to one of its tailings ponds that released billions of liters of toxic waste into nearby waterways. But Edward’s is not just an owner, he’s a giver.

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The Carbon Capture Boondoggle Begins To Unwind 

Enviromental Defense

Last week, Capital Power, a major energy company with natural gas, waste heat, wind, solar and, until this week, coal assets, announced that it’s scrapping plans for a $2.6 The Carbon Capture Facility at the Boundary Dam Power Plant in Saskatchewan went into service in 2014. Want proof?

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20 Years of Severe Drought Impede Huge Developments in Southwest

Circle of Blue

Similar concerns are buffeting Santolina, a 13,700-acre planned development proposed in 2014 by Western Albuquerque Land Holdings. Bernalillo County required the developer to install expensive wastewater treatment and recycling infrastructure to reduce water use and waste. billion gallons of water a year to serve its 90,000 residents.

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Rich Kruger: The Nightmare on Oil Street

Enviromental Defense

He then rose through the ranks at Exxon during the time when the company was successfully suppressing and denying climate science and spending big on climate denial and political obstruction. In April of 2023, Suncor dumped massive quantities of oil sands mine waste-water from its Fort Hills tailings pond into surrounding waterways.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

Mr. Minott holds two degrees in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. Church was an elementary school counselor in Philadelphia until 2014. Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable.

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Nature Directives ‘Fit for Purpose’: a turning point for EU policy dismantling?

Environmental Europe

This blog post reflects back on this two-year debate, raging since the beginning of the Juncker Commission in 2014, and what it tells us about the prospect for future EU-level environmental policy dismantling , that is, cutting, weakening or removing existing policy. The Nature Alert Saga. According to Bauer et al.

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