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Commonwealth Court Issues Preliminary Injunction Pausing PA’s RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Program Covering Power Plants

PA Environment Daily

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. which shall be applicable to all air contamination sources,” including the establishment of “maximum allowable emission rates of air contaminants from such sources.”

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Climate Chronicles: Reflections from TNC Washington's Director of Climate Action and Resilience

Washington Nature

Historically, many PWIs have not reflected on how they can best support frontline community partners, or how their access to resource is rooted in a long history of erasure of Indigenous peoples from the landscape in the name of “preservation of wilderness” and traditional conservation. Near Pilchuck Creek on the Stillaguamish Reservation.

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EDF: Conventional Natural Gas Wells In Allegheny National Forest Leaked Over 6 Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas In 2019; Conventional Operators Seek To Block Methane Limits

PA Environment Daily

“This new reporting further confirms that hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of natural gas is being lost each year,” said Taxpayers for Common Sense Vice President Autumn Hanna. The groups included the PA Independent Oil and Gas Association , PA Independent Petroleum Producers and the PA Grade Crude Oil Coalition.

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US oil company ExxonMobil sues to block investors’ climate proposals

Corp Watch

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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Mercenary hackers stole data that Exxon later cited in climate lawsuits -US prosecutors

Corp Watch

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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DEP: Widespread Presence Of PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Fresh Water May Have Led To ‘Inadvertently’ Using Contaminated Water For Fracking Gas Wells In Washington County

PA Environment Daily

Radiation monitoring of oil and gas wastes have resulted in unconventional shale gas operators sending nearly 236,000 cubic feet of radioactive TENORM [naturally occurring radioactive materials] to low-level radioactive waste facilities for disposal in 2021. Since 2016, 811,070 cubic feet have been sent to low-level disposal facilities.

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French company to coordinate carbon capture project in Brazil

Corp Watch

million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million in 2013. Violations at Port Arthur refinery bring $8.75

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