PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

Because of these findings, oil and gas produced waters fail to meet the EPA's [US Environmental Protection Agencys] criteria for beneficial reuse of industrial waste. Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water." [ Read more here.] Click Here for a copy of Dr. Burgos testimony.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

. - R.Bushnell Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP approved a Final Report on the remediation of soil contaminated with oil-based mud mixed with diesel fuel to meet the Statewide Health and Background Standards at the pad located in Springville Twp., PA Bulletin, page 2016 ) -- CNX Gas Co. Susquehanna County. ( PA Bulletin, page.2006

2006

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

On August 7, Department of Environmental Protection announced the award of $7,240,000 to 35 Marginal Conventional Well plugging projects covering 329 wells across the Commonwealth through the federally-funded Methane Emissions Reduction Program (MERP).

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2025

On August 7, 2025, the Department of Environmental Protection did a follow-up inspection of the Repsol Oil & Gas USA LLC Broadleaf Holdings shale gas well pad in Troy Township, Bradford County to assess the ongoing remediation activities.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

After the dumping incidents on dirt and paved roads around her home and throughout the region, Lawson provided photos and reports on the dumping to the Department of Environmental Protection to document the problems. Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water." [ Read more here.]

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency is considering a plan to terminate $7 billion in federal grants allocated to help an estimated 900,000 low- and middle-income households install rooftop solar panels. Related Articles This Week: -- Guest Essay: Paying The Price For Natural Gas And A.I. On August 6, the U.S.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The state Department of Health Bureau of Epidemiology and Penn State Project ECHO hosted two webinars in January and February for medical professionals and the public on Caring for Persons Living and Working in Communities Involved in Oil and Natural Gas Extraction. The next couple of slides are a selection of what we have covered.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

For example, in November 2016, the Obama administrations Bureau of Land Management (BLM) promulgated a regulation to reduce waste of natural gas from venting, flaring, and leaks during oil and natural gas production activities on public and Tribal lands. Courts have generally granted these requests.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2025

signed a Consent Order and Agreement requiring Coterra to pay a $299,000 penalty and submit a plan within 90 days to permanently restore or replace 13 private water supplies contaminated by shale gas drilling from the Housel R Well Pad in Lenox Township, Susquehanna County. Read more here. Coterra Energy holds 826 permits. Read more here.

2025

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. By Robert Hughes, Eastern PA Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation -- Physicians For Social Responsibility PA: The Harms And Impacts Of PA’s New A.I.

2025

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2025

Air Quality Permits - Comments -- Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co., Bachelder Shale Gas Well Pad. PA Bulletin, page 5759 ) -- Hickory Run Energy, LLC - Natural Gas Power Plant: DEP issued a Title V Air Quality Permit covering multiple air pollution sources at the facility located in North Beaver Twp., Bradford County.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

On September 18, Senators Steven Santasiero (D-Bucks) and Carolyn Comitta (D-Chester), Minority Chair of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, announced they were introducing legislation to increase setback safety zones from shale natural gas drilling sites based on the latest science. Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2024

On January 22, Senators Steven Santarsiero (D-Bucks) and Carolyn Comitta (D-Chester), Minority Chair of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, introduced Senate Bill 581 to increase setback safety zones from natural gas drilling sites and other infrastructure based on the latest science. Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

Is this what we should expect from the natural gas industrial infrastructure in Washington County and Pennsylvania? December 25 Christmas Morning Explosion Kasey Duran and her family live about 1,500 feet from the Energy Transfer Revolution Cryogenic Natural Gas Processing Plant in Smith Township, Washington County.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2022

Wolf directed the Department of Environmental Protection to conduct an evaluation of how it regulates conventional oil and gas wells to prevent new abandoned wells, tighten review of permit transfers, review compliance with environmental safeguards and make recommendations for changes and actions, including criminal sanctions.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2023

On January 20, the natural gas industry and Senate Republicans launched an effort to unleash the industry by reducing regulations, requiring automatic approval of permits and limiting opportunities for public review of permits at a hearing of the Senate Republican Policy Committee in Pittsburgh.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2022

In 2016 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology closed its Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies program because the 43 projects it was involved with had all been canceled, put on hold or converted to other things.” Related Articles - Health: -- Environmental Health Project: PA’s Natural Gas Boom - What Went Wrong?

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The pace of companies abandoning conventional oil and natural gas wells without plugging them continues to accelerate in 2022 threatening to put Pennsylvania’s taxpayer-funded well plugging program even further behind. What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health? Read more here. Read more here. Why Does It Matter?

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2024

In Pennsylvania, natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines have the worst environmental compliance record of any industry in the state. Natural gas pipelines have been penalized over $71 million in the last 10 years alone. Wolf’s 2016 Pipeline Task Force Report. Read more here. Read more here. PaEN] -- Gov.

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2022

The following factsheet on asthma and air pollution from natural gas facilities was compiled by the Environmental Health Project -- Asthma is a chronic disease that affects breathing. Since 2005, shale gas development, also known as unconventional natural gas development (UNGD), has grown rapidly.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

Highlights of the environmental and energy notices in the April 8 PA Bulletin -- -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the April 8 PA Bulletin inviting comments on its intent to issue a Title V Air Quality permit for the Monessen Coke (Coal) Plant in Monessen, Westmoreland County. (

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

On September 10, WESA reporter Lane Moore reported Pittsburgh-based oil and gas company EQT Corporation is facing accusations from Greene County residents in a class-action lawsuit filed this summer. Residents are being represented by Washington D.C.-based based Russell Law Firm and Waynesburg Pa.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

These violations are particularly serious because both conventional oil and gas wells and unconventional shale gas wells are fracked with high pressure, high volume liquids, chemicals and sand to crack open the rock formations to allow the freer flow of oil and natural gas to the surface.

2016

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. 24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. On October 26, 2016, the New York Supreme Court ordered Exxon Mobil Corporation (Exxon) and its accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), to comply with a subpoena issued by the New York Attorney General to PwC in August 2016.

2016

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Air Quality Permit -- Sandy Run Landfill, LLC - Renewable Landfill Gas Refinery: DEP invites comments on an Air Quality Plan Approval for the facility located in Broad Top Twp., Bedford County. ( Chester County. ( Butler County. ( Tioga County. ( Tioga County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Greene County. ( Greene County. ( Washington County. (

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The provisions in the regulation are identical to a final-omitted regulation applying to conventional oil and gas facilities approved by the Independent Regulatory Review Commission by a vote of 4 to 1 on November 17. Environmental Protection Agency deadline to finalize the regulation, so DEP had to move to the emergency rulemaking procedure.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2023

On April 19, the PA Supreme Court issued a ruling overturning a Commonwealth Court decision that blocked the ability of the Department of Environmental Protection to protect public resources and playgrounds from the adverse impacts of unconventional shale gas well operations.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

On September 9, 2024, the Department of Environmental Protection issued a notice of violation to Apex Energy (PA) LLC for failing to submit a list of fracking chemicals used to frack 37 shale gas wells in Salem and Hempfield Townships, Westmoreland County between March 20, 2018 and February 17, 2024.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2023

William Burgos, lead author of the Penn State study released in May on the environmental impacts of road spreading conventional drilling wastewater, wrote a memo to the Council on how the conventional industry misrepresented his positions on the study and its contents in a resolution it passed in August. 1 Monthly Eyes On Shell Meeting.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection has issued a record 5,653 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas operators in 2023, with two months left in the year, according to DEP’s November 3, 2023 Weekly Workload Report. billion cubic foot uncontrolled venting of natural gas in November 2022.

2023

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

On September 9, 2024, the Department of Environmental Protection declared 21 conventional wells owned by Schreiner Oil & Gas Inc. In Erie and McKean counties abandoned and not plugged, according to DEP’s Oil & Gas Compliance Database. The wells include-- Erie County -- Conneaut Twp.:

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

On September 12, the Environmental Defense Fund , in partnership with Moms Clean Air Force , the Department of Environmental Protection, the US Department of Energy, and McGill University, announced it has launched an ambitious project to identify and facilitate remediation of orphan and abandoned oil and gas wells across Western Pennsylvania.

Natural Gas

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.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2022

With that said, by revising and enforcing setback regulations to EHP’s recommended distances, people who live near shale gas operations could be less exposed to dangerous associated emissions — 20 to 40 times less exposed, according to inventory from the PA Department of Environmental Protection and EHP’s air exposure model.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Unconventional shale gas operators were issued a total of 1,103 notices of violation so far in 2023, which means they are on track to exceed the 1,234 violations DEP issued them in 2022, according to DEP’s newly released 2022 Oil and Gas Program Annual Report. Click Here for a summary of 2022 shale gas and conventional violations.

2023

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 19, 2021

Klapkowski said DEP would be looking to adopt regulations like those proposed in 2016 covering the road dumping of conventional drilling wastewater in Chapter 78, Section 78.70. 25 Webinar On Watersheds And Wilderness At Risk From Natural Gas Development [Posted: August 19, 2021] PA Environment Digest Read more here.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Road spreading of unconventional [shale gas] drilling wastewater was banned in 2016. Collectively, the documents reveal that not one conventional driller reporting road spreading of waste from 2018 to the present submitted a Coproduct Determination report that met the regulatory requirements of the program.

Natural Gas