PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

Read more here ] DEP Banned Similar Shale Gas Wastewater Road Dumping The 2016 update to DEPs regulations for unconventional shale gas drilling bans the practice of road dumping wastewater from those operations because of the threats it posed. Customer Charge Increase By Wellsboro Electric; 18% Gas Increase + 13.4%

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

Read more here ] DEP Banned Similar Shale Gas Wastewater Road Dumping The 2016 update to DEPs regulations for unconventional shale gas drilling bans the practice of road dumping wastewater from those operations because of the threats it posed.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

Data Centers - By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania May Not Have Enough Electricity For A.I. Data Centers Share The Blame, States Feel Pressure To Act [PA Included] -- MCall: As Electric Bills Rise Due To A.I. How Is A.I. How Is A.I.

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 17, 2025

However, a rapid adoption by three major railroads caused the share of Class I railroad revenue from PSR-utilizing firms to increase from less than 7 percent in 2016 to 70 percent by 2019, where it remains today (privately owned BNSF is the only Class I carrier not yet to adopt PSR).

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2025

No Laws Or Regulations Have Changed In fact, since that report, no laws have changed, the regulations we have now have been in place for nine years and remain the same, and the number of DEP Oil and Gas Program staff dedicated to enforcement remain frozen at December 2016 levels, while the number of shale gas wells drilled grew 43.6%

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2025

You can see our 2016 Resolution on Fossil Fuel Infrastructure here. Addressing the impacts of polluting industry also connects to our commitment to environmental justice because not every Pennsylvanian experiences the impacts of fossil fuel pollution equally.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2025

Data Centers - By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania May Not Have Enough Electricity For A.I. Billion Pounds Of Air Pollution Since It Began Operation, During 80 Malfunctions, 43 Violation Episodes [PaEN] -- PA Senate Republican Policy Committee To Hold Aug.

2025

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2025

Air Quality Permits - Comments -- Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co., LLC - Buck Township Facility: DEP invites comments on the renewal of a Title V Air Quality Permit covering multiple sources of air pollution at the facility located in Buck Township, Luzerne County. ( Bradford County. Received June 26 Issued July 21. (

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

This shift has coincided with the nation’s rapid rise in LNG exports overall, surging from zero at the start of 2016 to becoming the largest global LNG exporter in 2022—and even more export projects are anticipated to come online over the next few years. Credit: U.S. Credit: U.S.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

These communities are often already exposed to lots of air pollution from things like other industries, airports, and nearby highways. Pollution data released from Canada’s newest waste incinerator, located east of Toronto, showed releases of dioxins and furans 12 times greater than permitted in 2016.

Fossil Fuels

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. The US Agency for International Development works with Vietnamese electric vehicle manufacturers, such as VinFast, to reduce emissions. © Dita Alangkara/AP.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 2126 ) - - Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining & Marketing, LLC - 2016 Release East of Former Tank PB 23: DEP received a Notice of Intent to remediate soil contaminated with petroleum constituents to the Statewide Health Standards and Site-Specific Standards for the site located on West Passyunk Ave., Philadelphia. (

Air Pollution

Edouard Stenger

MAY 16, 2017

China’s coal consumption declined over three consecutive years (2013 to 2016), and a continued slow decline is expected. As if this was not enough, the two Asian giants are also progressing on another part of the energy transition: electric vehicles. Recently India has unveiled working on having only electric cars on the roads by 2030.

Paris Agreement

Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Meanwhile, many forget that the flip side of local air pollution is global climate change. We have seen it many times over, pollution from our air, water and soil is killing nine million people every year. In 2016, the world added 138.5 Solving one will solve the other. trillion USD per year (12.6 Transportation.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

It complements Phoenix Contact’s Combined Cooling, Heating, and Power (CCHP) system, which generates about half of the facility’s electric requirements. Phoenix Contact estimates the solar power installation will reduce the company’s electricity costs by approximately $150,000 per year.

2023

Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 16, 2018

According to numbers from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), ion lithium batteries have gotten 20 percent cheaper year on year from 2010 to 2016 , going from $1,000 per kWh of energy stored in 2010 to $273 in 2016. Decarbonization and killing King Coal are priorities to combat global climate change and local air pollution.

2017

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

4 Hearing In Washington County [PaEN] -- Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Sept. 24 Program In Washington County On Increasing Setbacks From Oil & Gas Infrastructure [PaEN] -- Inquirer - Will Bunch: Everything You Know From TV About Pennsylvania And Fracking Is Wrong -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Aug. 31 to Sept.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution. The next logical question is why is there such an excess of flared gas?

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution. The next logical question is why is there such an excess of flared gas?

Climate Change

HumanNature

JANUARY 20, 2022

This is driven by a sentiment shared among rural residents that political decisions are often made by those outside of their communities who have differing values and access to more resources including money, time and power (Cramer 2016). electricity expenditures by 2080-2099 compared to today. This feeling is not untrue. Climate.gov.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Policy often relies too heavily on applications such as wind, solar, and electric vehicles that can present large life cycle carbon footprints, require supply chains stretching thousands of miles, are costly, and face serious challenges when scaling in regions like Appalachia. [See

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

Envirothon Team Get Hands-On Science Lessons In Canoes -- National Energy Technology Laboratory: Winners In Western PA, West Virginia Science Bowl Competed In National Science Bowl -- PA Solar Center Honors 5 Western PA Organizations Who Have Gone Solar [PaEN] -- Williamsport Sun: Eagle On The Mend Through Ashkar Students’ Efforts -- Reading Eagle: (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The PA Public Utility Commission warned consumers in November surging prices for natural gas were not only increasing the cost of gas provided by utilities by as much as 128 percent, but electric costs would be going up by as much as 34 percent in the state. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2023

Gathering pipelines for natural gas are connected to compressor stations that burn fuel that causes air pollution to push natural gas dozens of more miles further across the landscape. Pipeline routes that cross streams and wetlands have to be cleared of trees, dug up and restored as best they can.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 8, 2022

On July 8, Commonwealth Court granted a preliminary injunction to opponents of Pennsylvania’s RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants pausing the program. Section 5(a)(1) of the APCA specifically empowers EQB to “[a]dopt rules and regulations, for the prevention, control, reduction and abatement of air pollution.

Carbon Emissions

Law Columbia

MAY 31, 2024

This led to a considerable decrease in Japan’s overall electricity supply, leading to concerns about potential outages. This significantly improved air quality in the local area. The Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015 and entered into force the following year in 2016, with Japan also submitting its NDC.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

-- TribLive: Donations Exceed $875,000 For Those Affected By Plum Boro Natural Gas House Explosion -- TribLive Editorial: Plum Boro Neighborhood Where Natural Gas Home Explosion Occurred Emerges As Village Of Importance -- Scientific American: Gas Stove Pollution Lingers In Homes For Hours Even Outside The Kitchen -- Fortune: Gas Stove Pollution Harms (..)

Conservation

Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

EPA’s latest proposed rule targeting NOx emissions from fossil-fueled electric generating units (EGUs) is a classic study of diminishing returns. The downwind air quality benefits are minimal. The agency’s air quality modeling indicates that most areas would receive an ozone reduction of less than 0.1 ppb by 2025.

Ozone

CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Regulation targets emissions from auxiliary engines (which supply electricity for non-propulsive functions while a ship is berthed) and boilers (which power steam-driven pumps to offload crude oil from large tankers). The Court also rejected as unsupported WSPAs argument that the 2016 SIP EAs data was outdated or inaccurate.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2023

and Pennsylvania to high-priced, volatile LNG natural gas markets in Europe and Asia resulted in increasing natural gas costs to Pennsylvanians by up to 128%, and drove electricity prices up by as much as 34%. Bloomberg reported 70% of the almost 46 GW of electric generation outages were natural gas plants. Read more here.

Natural Gas

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. 451962/2016 (N.Y. The court indicated that the attorney general had broad power to propound the interrogatories. June 16, 2017).

2017

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 27, 2023

Car companies are quickly shifting their focus to electric vehicles (EVs), and as new EVs replace older gasoline cars, demand for gasoline and diesel will decline, slowly at first and then more quickly. The petroleum era is drawing inevitably to a close. Over the next few decades most of the oil refineries in the United States will close.

2016

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Million DOE Grant To Improve Siting Process For High-Voltage Electric Transmission Lines [PaEN] -- Appalachian Regional Commission Announced It Will Invest $16.9 13 -- Penn State Extension Offers 3-Part Webinar Series On On-Lot Septic Systems Starting Oct. 11 Webinar On $396.1 11 Webinar On $396.1

Conservation

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Since global and local pollutants are often byproducts of the same activities, mitigation policies for global warming emissions have the potential to simultaneously mitigate local air pollution 2. One good example of the nexus between global warming and local pollution is ground-level ozone. Bermix Studio/Unsplash PM2.5:

Ground-Level Ozone

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

million cubic feet of natural gas and hazardous air pollutants. From 2011 to 2016, DEP’s Air Quality Program only required oil and gas operators to maintain records of how frequently they conducted pigging operations. Yes, three times a day, seven days a week for nearly a decade.] Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

How Utilities And States Are Responding To PJM’s Record Electricity Capacity Prices [Part 1 of 3] -- PUC Awarded $4.6 Westmoreland County -- Tribune-Democrat: Somerset Twp. Of Agriculture Invests $1.5

Natural Gas