PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency is now accepting nominations for two environmental education awards until January 11-- -- President’s Environmental Youth Award: recognizes outstanding environmental stewardship projects developed by K-12 youth.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Hunters, hikers, fall foliage visitors and anyone going out to enjoy Penn’s Woods this fall are urged by former Department Of Environmental Protection Secretary David Hess to report the illegal road dumping of conventional oil and gas wastewater on roads.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2024

Information provided by the Department of Environmental Protection in response to a Right To Know request shows DEP took enforcement action against 14 conventional oil and gas well operators that resulted in collecting $422,365 in penalties and bond forfeitures in 2023. DEP inspection report ] -- EQT Production Co.:

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection has advised 18 municipalities where road dumping of oil and gas wastewater has occurred the practice is illegal and considered waste disposal. DEP prohibited the road dumping of shale gas drilling wastewater in 2016 regulations. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2021

This additional step of including radium in the list of contaminants to be measured will allow the Department of Environmental Protection to evaluate the presence of radium in landfills. We take seriously our responsibility and duty as an environmental steward,” said Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Environmental Protection Agency is now accepting nominations for the President’s Environmental Youth Award. The President’s Environmental Youth Award (PEYA) recognizes outstanding environmental stewardship projects developed by K-12 youth. The deadline for nominations is February 18.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

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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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 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.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Amy Mall, Natural Resources Defense Council , provided an overview of a report issued by NRDC in July-- A Hot Fracking Mess: How Weak Regulation of Oil And Gas Production Leads to Radioactive Waste in our Water, Air, and Communities. According to a 2016 U.S. Read more here. Read more here.] “The

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ESA

APRIL 1, 2024

2021 Virtual Annual Meeting (originally planned for Long Beach, California) Wade Crowfoot, California Secretary for Natural Resources, was recognized for his commitment to using science in creating nature-based solutions for building water and climate resilience across California. degrees Celsius. degrees Celsius.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2022

On December 1, Kurt Klapkowski, Acting DEP Deputy Secretary for Oil and Gas Management, said the schedule for considering updates to environmental protection standards for conventional oil and gas drillers will be up to the incoming Shapiro-Davis Administration. Read more here. Follow-Up At Dec. Follow-Up At Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Elect Shapiro to ban road dumping conventional wastewater just like DEP did for unconventional shale gas drillers in 2016. The report says, “CDAC vigorously opposed adoption of the majority of the environmental protection standards rulemaking and adopted a report detailing CDAC’s concerns with the proposed rulemaking.”

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It also would provide money to state agencies: $30 million for the Department of Environmental Protection, $25 million for the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, $11 million for the Department of Agriculture, and $5 million for Fish & Boat Commission. Sturla said. “I Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2022

Tom Wolf announced Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Patrick McDonnell will leave his position on July 2 after serving in the position from May 20, 2016 and a total of 25 years of service with the Commonwealth. Prior to becoming secretary in 2016, Patrick served as the department’s director of policy.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2024

Information provided by the Department of Environmental Protection in response to a Right to Know request shows DEP took major enforcement actions against 26 shale gas drilling and pipeline companies in 2023, including imposing $2,290,849 in penalties for violations going back to 2018. Potter County; -- Seneca Resources Co. .

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 8, 2022

O’Neill, on behalf of the organizations, issued the following statement regarding the denial of their intervention in these critical cases: “By denying our organizations the ability to participate in RGGI litigation, our important environmental interests have been improperly ignored by the Commonwealth Court.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Chapter 78 Updates For more than two years, DEP has been in the process of updating conventional oil and gas environmental protection and waste disposal and handling standards, after the last comprehensive update was killed by the General Assembly in 2016. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2024

Written Testimony The Department of Environmental Protection provided written testimony only. The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources bans road dumping oil and gas wastewater for any purpose on its over 6,500 miles of state forest roads. A video of the hearing will be posted on Sen. Muth’s website.

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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. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 24, 2024

From August 20 to 23, 2024 , DEP inspected these 27 conventional wells in three counties that appear to be abandoned and fall within the Environmental Defense Fund Project criteria so no violations were issued, but could be in the future. The wells include-- -- Clarion County , Perry Twp.: National Fuel Gas Supply Corp - Elisha K.

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The Energy Law

MAY 12, 2016

On May 4, 2016, environmental groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), seeking to compel EPA to “fulfill long-delayed nondiscretionary duties” under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) by issuing revised regulations governing oil and gas wastes.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Tioga County; -- Frontier Natural Resources: Winner Well Pad, Keating Twp., Report Violations To report oil and gas violations or any environmental emergency or complaint, visit DEP’s Environmental Complaint webpage. Bradford County; -- EQT Chap LLC: Basista-Dermotta Well Pad, Sewickley Twp., Read more here.

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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.

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 25, 2022

By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal In 2020, an employee for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection smelled crude oil while driving to work in the northwestern part of the state. Trusting his instincts, he asked agency crews to follow their noses. Some abandoned hundreds of wells, records showed.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

Reflecting its importance, the survey team will be headed by the vice premier of the State Council, Hu Chunhua, with deputy posts occupied by leaders of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. Photo credit: Li Ga / Alamy. Photo credit: Li Ga / Alamy. Changes in organic content.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lacked authority to administratively stay portions of new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector for which it had granted requests for reconsideration. New Jersey Appellate Court Affirmed State Authority to Take Easements for Coastal Protection Projects. 451962/2016 (N.Y.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Note: DEP has prohibited the road “spreading” of unconventional drilling wastewater on roads by regulation since 2016.] “In Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water." [ Read more here.] In some situations, it may be necessary to use a dust palliative other than brine.” Read more here. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

How is it possible that legislation billed as an environmental protection statute ends up as a primary threat to clean water and communities? In 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency identified phosphorus and nitrogen discharges from U.S.

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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.] Read more here - page 39.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The departments of Environmental Protection, Conservation and Natural Resources and Agriculture appear before House and Senate budget committees starting February 28. DEP issued over 4,270 notices of violation to 256 conventional operators between 2016 and 2022 for abandoning wells without plugging them.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

A career specialist in soils and forestry health, most of it with the Natural Resource Conservation Service, a unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Van Wagner has spent 38 years in Lenawee County promoting environmentally sensitive nutrient management and cultivation practices. . In 2016, under Republican Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Here’s a summary of that paper-- It started with a simple question: Are natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines required to have insurance to cover property damage, bodily harm or environmental cleanup and natural resource damage costs? Spoiler-- the answer is-- no.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Vitali, who serves as Majority Chair of the House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee, said this-- I'm going to direct my comments to Secretary Shirley. Editors Note: The complement for the Oil and Gas Program was frozen at 190 in December 2016. So, my questions are for you.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2021

Here’s a summary of that paper-- It started with a simple question: Are natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines required to have insurance to cover property damage, bodily harm or environmental cleanup and natural resource damage costs? Spoiler-- the answer is-- no.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 30, 2022

He has also served as a leader at World Jamborees in Chile and Thailand, and he received the District Award of Merit in 2004 and the Silver Beaver Award in 2016. He coached 175 scouts to their Eagle rank. He was finally considered cancer free in September 2021 and celebrated this achievement. “His It was a life well lived.”

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