PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The legislation being considered is House Bill 170 (Otten-D-Chester) increasing setback safety zones from shale natural gas drilling sites and infrastructure from 500 to 2,500 feet or more, based on the latest science. At every phase of oil and gas production, harmful air pollutants are deliberately released.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

On December 27, 2022-- Christmas week-- a malfunction at the CNX Oak Springs Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Station in South Franklin Township, Washington County resulted in the release of an estimated 1.1 million cubic feet of natural gas and hazardous air pollutants. From approximately 10:14 a.m.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2022

On May 24, the Clean Air Council announced a six-year saga over air pollution from the Energy Transfer natural gas liquids processing plant and terminal at Marcus Hook ended with a voluntary legal settlement in which Energy Transfer agreed to drop its appeals of two air pollution permits.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

On November 30, the Environmental Quality Board voted 15 to 2 to approve the emergency regulation setting VOC/methane emission limits for conventional oil and gas facilities. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) voted no on the regulation. Representatives for Sen. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) and Rep. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As the region's premier low carbon intensive natural gas development, technology, and applications company, CNX is uniquely positioned to help revolutionize Appalachia, one of the world's most energy abundant regions, into an energy, manufacturing, and technology hub of the future. On December 12, CNX Resources Corp.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Now comes the court’s crippling of the most important federal weapon available to avoid catastrophic climate change and its associated killing of tens of thousands of Americans every year with fossil fuel air pollution. EPA decision where the Supreme Court said the EPA had the authority to regulate global warming gases.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2022

Echoing the report, a recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology shows that heart failure patients who live near shale gas development activity are more likely to be hospitalized than those who live further away. This is just one of many studies linking proximity to shale sites with health symptoms.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Mitchell Hescox is the president of the Evangelical Environmental Network ; Jacquelyn Omotalade , JD, Public Policy Manager, Environmental Health Project ; Melissa Ostroff , MPH - Pennsylvania Field Advocate, Earthworks NewsClips - Don’t Subsidize Natural Gas Pollution: -- Gov. Shapiro, Lt. Davis On Environmental, Energy Issues?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 2021, DEP reported 236,150 cubic feet of TENORM (Technically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material) was sent to LLRW facilities for disposal, while all other industries combined in the four state compact sent 46,546 cubic feet of traditionally defined low-level radioactive waste.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2022

million in annual taxpayer subsidies to manufacturing and other businesses that use natural gas and hydrogen in their operations for at least 20 years. The bill also more than doubles the tax credit for using natural gas to make petrochemicals or fertilizer from natural gas. billion in state tax incentives.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2024

. -- DCED’s Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Advisory Council will meet April 25 in State College (remote attendance options available). Air Quality Permits -- Chambersburg Energy LLC - Gas-Fired Power Plant: DEP invites comments on the renewal of a Title V Air Quality permit for the facility located in Guilford Twp.,

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

On Friday, November 22, the Sabin Center submitted comments opposing an Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposal to rescind regulations limiting methane emissions from new oil and natural gas facilities (the “Methane New Source Performance Standards” or “Methane NSPS”).

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

million in annual taxpayer subsidies to manufacturing and other businesses that use natural gas and hydrogen in their operations for at least 20 years. The bill also more than doubles the tax credit for using natural gas to make petrochemicals or fertilizer from natural gas. billion in state tax incentives.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2022

billion to plug oil and gas wells regularly abandoned by conventional oil and gas operators. The pipeline and oil/natural gas industry and several unions submitted comments to the PUC opposing the regulations saying they went impermissibly beyond federal law. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

A variety of studies have documented that radioactivity is brought to the surface with natural gas and oil production and travels through natural gas pipelines, oil refining systems, natural gas processing and liquid and solid waste disposal and treatment facilities.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 25, 2024

This blog post provides a brief history of BLM’s Fossil Fuel Waste Rule, and explains why and how the ancillary climate benefits vanished from the final regulation. As part of this leasing program, BLM collects royalties based on the volume and value of oil and gas produced on federal land. The Biden Administration’s U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The oil and gas industry had a record 2022 in many ways-- natural gas prices increased over 94.7 The industry generally had record LNG natural gas exports linking the U.S. DEP also ordered a “top to bottom” review of how it regulates underground natural gas storage areas. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2022

On March 15, the Environmental Quality Board voted 17 to 2 to approve the final regulation reducing VOC/methane emissions from oil and natural gas operations. Representatives of the conventional oil and gas industry voted against the regulation. Click Here for copies of handouts related to this final regulation.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2023

If you use natural gas in your home or business, you are connected directly to this sprawling infrastructure and are personally responsible for supporting it. Not Pretty Or Idyllic Do you believe drilling oil and natural gas wells is a clean business? Click Here to find oil and natural gas facilities near you.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Click Here for a summary of 2022 shale gas and conventional violations. Winter Storm Elliot Causes Natural Gas Infrastructure Failure Natural gas infrastructure failures during Winter Storm Elliot resulted in the proposed imposition of an unprecedented $1.8 Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It is ethylene oxide, also known as EtO, a gas spewing out of a facility run by Sterilization Services of Tennessee, which uses it to sterilize medical equipment. With the absence of adequate federal regulation over these years, the sterilization industry and its emissions have expanded in many densely populated areas.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

These higher costs are being driven by a major overreliance on natural gas, which has sharply spiked in price and is currently the dominant fuel source in the US for both home heating and electricity generation. Henry Hub is the national benchmark for wholesale gas prices (Source: US Energy Information Administration ).

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Vermont Law

APRIL 8, 2022

Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23) and Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 8, 2022 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) establishes air quality standards under the Clean Air Act. (1) 1) The EPA permits states to draft and execute regulations to satisfy national standards in most circumstances. (2)

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Wolf, Senate, House Republicans Again Fail To Hold Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Accountable For Protecting The Environment, Taxpayers On Hook For Billions [PaEN] -- Guest Essay: PA Politicians Capitalizing On Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine To Benefit Natural Gas Industry - By Lauren M. Williams, Esq., Williams, Esq.,

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

On October 12, the Environmental Quality Board vot ed 15 to 3 to approve Part II of the final-omitted regulation limiting volatile organic compounds and methane from conventional oil and gas facilities. The unconventional shale gas industry accounts for 20 percent because they have implemented some controls. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Visit Protect PT’s Living Near Shale Gas Community Training Workshops webpage to learn more about the series. Online Workshops The online workshops will be held from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Photos: Natural gas infrastructure across Pennsylvania, courtesy of Bob Donnan.) Related Articles: -- PA League Of Women Voters, University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health Host 2022 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference Online Nov. Why Does It Matter?

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

None of that means climate change isn’t, and won’t continue to be, a factor in global health, particularly if action to prevent it also reduces air pollution, or removes other health stressors. Carbon emissions are thus following the same trajectory as other air pollutants.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency announced it is strengthening its proposed standards to cut methane and other harmful air pollution. innovation and manufacturing of critical new technologies, all while delivering significant economic benefits through increased recovery of wasted gas. million homes for the winter.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 21, 2022

Pennsylvania is second only to Texas in natural gas production. Haney would reluctantly come to allege in a civil lawsuit that a fracker had sickened her and her two children, polluted her water, destroyed her farm and poisoned her neighbors’ farm animals. Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 27, 2023

The refinery was a major polluter, according to 2019 report by the City of Philadelphia it was the largest stationary source of air pollution and the largest single emitter of toxic pollutants in Philadelphia, accounting for 57% of total toxic emissions from larger sources in Philadelphia in 2016 including benzene and other known carcinogens.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The field teams also recorded natural gas leaks from compressor stations and natural gas processing facilities in the watershed. 30 To Consider Emergency Regulation Setting VOC/Methane Limits For Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities [PaEN] -- Delaware River Basin Commission Meets Dec. Williams, Esq.,

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

million toward a new regulated public water line as well as payment of 75 years of water bills for the impacted homeowners. Coterra entered a plea to Prohibition Against Discharge of Industrial Wastes, a violation of the Clean Streams Law. As part of the plea agreement, Coterra will pay $16.29

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

In an April 2023 DEP determination of whether natural gas drilling contaminated a Washington County family’s water well, DEP said the “widespread presence of PFAS” forever chemicals in fresh water may have led to “inadvertently” using contaminated water to frack a shale gas well. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

I invite anyone to come and get a firsthand account of what it is like to live and grow up in the shale fields of Southwestern Pennsylvania, where my family, friends and neighbors are negatively impacted by the natural gas infrastructure that surrounds us. We all want clean air so that our kids don’t get asthma or cancer.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Overview Of Non-Compliance DEP reports between 2017 through 2021, the agency did 63,026 inspections of wells belonging to 1,512 conventional oil and gas well owners operating 34,812 wells. Elect Shapiro to ban road dumping conventional wastewater just like DEP did for unconventional shale gas drillers in 2016. Read more here.]

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