PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

Violations Increased Dramatically The number of total violations issued to conventional oil and gas well owners by DEPs Oil and Gas Program have increased dramatically since 2015-- -- 2024-- 7,294 Read more here. -- 2023-- 6,860 Read more here. -- 2022-- 5,416 Read more here. -- 2021-- 4,514 Read more here. -- 2015-- 1,024 Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 24, 2025

Quest Well Pad Experience Due to residents’ previous experience with Apex’s operations at the Quest well site in 2015 which caused silica dust, noise, light and air pollution to harm residents for months during operation, the Zoning Hearing Board denied Apex’s permits.

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The two most commonly reported concerns to the Department of Health are those related to air pollution and water contamination, specifically individuals on private well water. It is also an additional source of noise and light pollution. I also want to highlight fracking fluid and flaring from this list.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2025

Original violation issued October 23, 2015. LLC - Violations: Defective Casing/Cement (Nearly 10 Years) April 24, 2025 inspection of the Blye shale gas well pad 1H well located in Middletown Township, Susquehanna County to determine if gas was leaking from the annulus. The well casing vent was open and vented, but no new concerns were noted.

2025

Scientific American

JUNE 12, 2025

An about-face on the Clean Air Act The Clean Air Act provision that EPA uses to regulate power plant carbon — known as Section 111 — asks EPA to first determine whether a source category “causes, or contributes significantly” to harmful air pollution.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 7, 2025

Source: AirNow The Air Quality Index (AQI), EPA’s tool for reporting air quality, combines monitoring of five major air pollutants regulated by the Clean Air Act, including the particle pollution found in wildfire smoke. When combined with summer heat and ground level ozone, conditions can worsen further.

Ground-Level Ozone

Legal Planet

JULY 16, 2025

from restarting an offshore pipeline system that infamously ruptured and caused the massive Refugio oil spill in 2015. That’s good news for China because it will help curb local air pollution and oil imports. EVs only accounted for about 30% of sales in China last year so it’s a big jump.

Electricity

Breezometer

APRIL 12, 2022

300 annual traffic accidents threatened to overtake Central Park’s serene quality, driving New York City officials in 2015 to ‘return the park to the people’ and begin closing down some of the main roads. But a major threat still remains – NYC air pollution. Car Pollution: How Does Traffic Contribute to Air Pollution?

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015. It can, and must, start now to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 Data on the major carbon producers’ emissions have been published since 2014.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

A 2015 law, AB197, requires that the scoping plan discuss the following for each emission reduction measure: (a) The range of projected greenhouse gas emissions reductions that result from the measure. (b) b) The range of projected air pollution reductions that result from the measure. (c)

Greenhouse

Greenbuilding Law

JULY 4, 2021

However, despite the apparent irrefutable facts, all of this is very temporary and a 2015 NOAA study verifies there is a surge in fine particulate matter on the evening of July 4 (albeit at only 10 of 315 air quality monitoring stations nationwide). Levels drop back down by noon on July 5 (.

Air Pollution

Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Industry lobbyists weakened Europe's air pollution rules, say Greenpeace The Guardian PaulaR Fri, 02/16/2024 - 20:05 Thursday, March 5, 2015 Read more Arthur Neslen and Rob Evans Governments, including the UK, are allowing energy industry representatives to help draw up Europe’s air quality limits resulting in proposed standards on coal plant emissions (..)

Air Pollution

Legal Planet

MARCH 21, 2022

For example, natural gas production went up by around 50% from 2011-2015, displacing a lot of coal-fired generation. Another problem is that many coal-fired plants apparently found ways to comply without relying on the expensive new equipment assumed in EPA’s modeling.

2011

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

That is A LOT of EVs and A LOT less oil use, air pollution and climate emissions. Billions of dollars have been invested as a result of the VW settlement in 2015 which established Electrify America. For the first time ever, annual sales surpassed one million vehicles , accounting for more than seven percent of new vehicles sold.

Electricity

MGKF Law

MARCH 27, 2023

EPA’s Clean Air Act (“CAA”) rulemakings directed at power plants are often the target of regulatory challenges in federal court. 743 (2015). Read More » Tags: Air , Clean Air Act , EPA , HAPs , Hazardous Air Pollutants , Rulemaking 13956 (Mar. 6, 2023). EPA, 576 U.S.

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Section 111 employs a two-phase process where, once EPA moves to regulate pollution from a new source—here, power plants—(111(b)), it is then required to regulate that pollution from existing sources, too (111(d)). As a result, EPA will be updating standards for new plants and fully developing standards for existing plants.

Clean Air Act

Breezometer

MAY 5, 2021

Air Pollution Exposure Contributes to Asthma Development - True or False? The effect of air pollution on the development of asthma has been studied for many years and increasingly, evidence shows that both indoor and outdoor air pollution exposure can contribute to asthma development. Correct Answer: True.

Carbon Monoxide

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

More is needed to produce the same amount of energy compared with higher calorific coal, requiring more land for mining, and creating more air pollution per unit of energy produced. In 2015, Indonesia set itself the target of reducing emissions by up to 41% by 2030 with international assistance.

Air Pollution

Vorys Law

JANUARY 26, 2021

On January 20, 2021, the Ohio EPA’s Division of Air Pollution Control (DAPC) hosted a “Program Advisory Group” (PAG) meeting via Microsoft Teams to inform interested stakeholders of recent and upcoming DAPC activities. This post focuses on Ohio EPA’s anticipated regulatory changes to address non-attainment of the 2015 Ozone NAAQS.

Pollution Control

PA Environment Daily

JULY 5, 2024

Air Quality Permits -- Columbia Gas Transmission - Iowa Compressor Station: DEP invites comments on an Air Quality Plan Approval covering multiple sources of air pollution at the facility located in Pine Creek Twp., Greene County. ( Westmoreland County. ( Westmoreland County. ( Washington County. ( Beaver County. (

Air Pollution

Breezometer

OCTOBER 17, 2021

One France-based study found that hay fever prevalence in a particular region rose from 8% of the local population in 2004 to 12% in 2015, possibly attributed to rising allergenic ragweed pollen. At BreezoMeter, we often find that businesses integrate either pollen information or air pollution information.

Air Pollution

Legal Planet

JULY 14, 2023

After the County’s first attempt at adopting a streamlining ordinance in 2015, California’s Fifth Appellate District ruled that the County had violated CEQA by adopting an inadequate EIR. The County adopted a second, functionally identical ordinance in 2021 (“Ordinance”), purporting to have fixed the flaws in its EIR with a supplemental EIR.

Air Pollution

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

By Leigh Hartman When Son Nguyen lived in the US, he saw rapidly advancing electric vehicle technology and heard stories from back in Vietnam about air pollution. Since 2015, USAID support for new renewable energy generation capacity in Indonesia has brought clean energy to more than 3.3 Zul Kifli / AFP / Getty Images.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2022

Since this final-form rulemaking is being promulgated under the APCA [state Air Pollution Control Act] in Title 35, the requirements of Act 52 do not apply. In the executive summary of the revised regulation applying to only unconventional shale gas facilities DEP maintains “.Act

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

JULY 5, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the July 6 PA Bulletin announcing it has issued an Air Quality Permit Plan Approval to authorize the construction and operation of the Frontier LNG nat ural gas production facility at the Winner 4H Shale Gas Well Pad in West Keating Township, Clinton County. (

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2021

“The current proposal places this big source of pollution in a residential neighborhood near an elementary school. Since it was formed in 2015, Nacero has not built any of the nine plants it set out to build. Although Nacero says that its business is based on proven technology, little is known about the process.

Natural Gas

The Energy Law

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.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2023

. -- Bursts Of Intense Natural Gas Emissions From Pigging Unit: On December 27, CNX Gas Co LLC’s Oak Springs stand-alone pig launcher/receiver along Farmer Lane in South Franklin Township, Washington County released bursts of dangerous methane emissions into the air around homes 1,500 feet away for over an hour.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

During her career, she supported students who were frequently affected by asthma, which was worsened by air pollution. In 2015, he continued to push for a fossil fuel-free lifestyle by adding geothermal energy to his home as well. Church was an elementary school counselor in Philadelphia until 2014.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2024

Friel-Otten, Rep. Abney Introduce Gov.

2024

A Greener Life

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The smoke and air pollution, the Great Smog, killed thousands of people over the years with respiratory illnesses. A fazed shutdown began in 2015 when the UK government announced they would end coal power in the UK during the next decade. At the time coal accounted for almost 30% of the UK’s electricity generation.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

According to the Indictment presented to the court, from in and around October 2015 and continuing until in and around December 2019, Erie Coke Corporation and Nearhoof tampered with measurements on heating systems which emitted contaminants and pollutants into the air including volatile gases such as benzene, toluene, and xylene.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Additional impacts included noise and air pollution.” In a 2015 ATV Policy, “DCNR specifically reiterated its policy “not to expand the current system of ATV trails on state forest lands,” except for “limited development of connectors, as deemed appropriate by the Department.”

Natural Resources

Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In August 2015, the Obama administration announced the. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. Nevertheless, in December 2015, 195 countries adopted an. Air pollution generally has many proven. Air pollution also. jointly committed. Clean Power Plan.

Paris Agreement

CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The issues on appeal were limited to the adequacy of certain aspects of the project EIR’s analyses of GHGs and criteria air pollutants. Department of Fish & Wildlife (2015) 62 Cal. Tsakopoulos Investments, LLC v. County of Sacramento, et al. Mather South, LLC, et al, Real Parties ) (2023) Cal.App.5

2008

Acoel

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Pact also reset the target for achieving net-zero GHG emissions from the 2015 Paris Agreement’s focus on the end of the century to a much more aggressive goal of net-zero emissions “by about mid-century,” interpreted by most as 2050.

2030

CEQA Developments

JULY 7, 2022

While the project would create needed new housing and eliminate blight, it would result in significant unavoidable environmental impacts including air pollution emissions from increased traffic. City of Berkeley (2015) 60 Cal.4th Resources Code, § 21083.1; Berkeley Hillside Preservation v. 4th 1186, 1107.)

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