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. Read more here (2017-2021). Read more here. Read more here (2022).

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 9, 2023

From 2017 to 2022, shale gas operators sent a total of 911,006 cubic feet of radioactive TENORM waste to low-level radioactive waste facilities for disposal. That amount is down from the 236,150 cubic feet of TENORM (Technically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material) sent in 2021. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2023

The inspection reports note these violations at this location for these two wells have continued since they were first discovered on May 23, 2017. So far in 2023, DEP issued Repsol Oil and Gas 53 notices of violations at more than a dozen shale gas well pads, including several on DCNR State Forest drilling sites.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Reuters reports that Chile’s dry weather, which has now lasted for over a decade, has “already made 2023 the second worst year in terms of hectares burned after the so-called ‘fire storm’ that hit the country in 2017.”

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

On October 18, the FracTracker Alliance announced the winners of the 2023 Community Sentinel Awards to honor the leadership of individuals working to protect communities from the harms of the fossil fuel industry. Each winner receives $1,000 and the award, and will be recognized at the 2023 Community Sentinel Awards Ceremony.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 25, 2023

As of 2017, only 20 percent of Pakistan’s population has access to safe drinking water. The post The Stream, January 25, 2023: Sediment Buildup Will Shrink Reservoir Storage, UN Study Shows appeared first on Circle of Blue. 1,634 Square kilometers of peatlands, measured and mapped for the first time ever, in Angola.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 18, 2024

These are specifically the Atlantic humpback whale UME in 2017, the North Atlantic right whale (NARW) UME in 2017, and the Atlantic minke whale UME in 2018. The UMEs for the humpback and minke whales include deaths in 2016 and 2017, respectively. The change in vessel activity after 2015 coincided with the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2024

DEP said 1,230 wells (approximately 49%) appear to have been abandoned after January 1, 2017; 518 wells (approximately 21%) appear to have been abandoned prior to January 1, 2017; and 746 wells (approximately 30%) were identified after January 1, 2017 as having been abandoned, but the precise date of abandonment is unknown.

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HumanNature

MARCH 15, 2024

Guest Post by Emilia Ravetta , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at Colorado State University The 2023 was the warmest year on record of history (World Meteorological Organization 2023). 2023 “Raw Materials and Society in Latin America”. Catton Jr, W.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

Then came a crescendo: Solar and wind generated more than 5 percent of monthly electricity for the first time in 2013, passed the 10 percent point in 2017, and soared past 15 percent in 2021. Solar and wind hit their current peak on the graph in April 2023, at more than 21 percent. kilowatt-hours in 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

Twenty-one school, business and community projects were honored with the 2023 Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence. Posted: May 1, 2023] PA Environment Digest Collectively, the award-winning projects engaged hundreds of partners and achieved the following results: -- Grew and donated nearly 10,000 lbs.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2024

Since August 8, 2023, Roulette Oil and Gas LLC has failed to resolve abandoned well violations involving the Guardian B shale gas well pad in Hebron Township, Potter County , even after DEP met with the operator-- Jim Reynolds-- twice on the site, according to DEP inspection reports.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 26, 2024

President & CEO of Cenovus Energy: 2017-2023 TC Energy: 1990-2017 Chief Operating Officer of TC Energy: 2015-2017 VP and President Development of TC Energy Corp: 2006-2014 Villain Career Profile Alex Pourbaix has always gone above and beyond to advocate for pipelines and the oil and gas industry. million in 2015.

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The Energy Law Blog

MAY 5, 2023

21-0461, 2023 WL 3028100 (Tex. 2023), the Texas Supreme Court held that the lessee could not invoke a force majeure clause to save its oil and gas leases when it inadvertently scheduled its operations to begin after the requisite deadline. The actual deadline, however, was May 21, 2017. In Point Energy Partners Permian, LLC v.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Note: In 2023, DEP issued at least 512 notices of violation to 95 conventional oil and gas well operators for new or continuing well abandonment without plugging them. The well was inspected by DEP on October 1, 2017 and violations were issued, but the inspection report is not available. Read more here.] No violations were issued. [In

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

On April 7, 2023 , DEP posted an inspection report to document that it had requested Greylock to provide the pre-drill survey it had conducted prior to drilling the wells in 2011, along with all the water sample results associated with the site. [ No evidence of spills, stressed vegetation, or recent earth disturbance were observed.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

According to the latest seasonal outlook from the National Interagency Fire Center, the exceptionally rainy and snowy conditions the west experienced during the winter of 2022-2023 are translating to below-average to normal levels of wildfire risk across most western states at least through August.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption. Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. Feed-in tariffs are replaced by auctions for renewables. Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

PA Bulletin - April 8, 2023 Note: The Department of Environmental Protection published 67 pages of public notices related to proposed and final permit and approval/ disapproval actions in the April 8 PA Bulletin - pages 1950 to 2017.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Judges give go-ahead for class action against FPL in Irma outages WLRN PaulaR Mon, 11/06/2023 - 20:12 Wednesday, March 22, 2023 Read more Jim Saunders TALLAHASSEE — An appeals court said Wednesday that Florida Power & Light can face a class-action lawsuit stemming from power outages in Hurricane Irma, which barreled up the state in 2017.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Report: Alabama Power executives hire private investigator to spy on parent company CEO 1819 News PaulaR Tue, 11/07/2023 - 20:29 Thursday, June 29, 2023 Read more Caleb Taylor A private investigator was hired to spy on Southern Company CEO Tom Fanning in 2017 allegedly at the request of Alabama Power executives, according to a recent report in the (..)

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Brag

DECEMBER 7, 2023

On December 6, 2023, comments by Lynn L. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent proposal to overhaul its 2017 risk evaluation ‘framework’ rule. Bergeson and Richard E. Engler, Ph.D. were featured in Chemical Watch’s article on the U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

After working with gas companies in Canada and the US that became Enbridge through a series of mergers, he eventually landed the CEO spot at Enbridge at the start of 2023. Despite the OEB review and penalty, complaints to the OEB related to meter reading have more than doubled: from 42 in 2021, to 87 in 2023.

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Corp Watch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Rishi Sunak Boasts That Oil Funded Think Tank ‘Helped Us Draft’ Crackdown on Climate Protests DeSmog PaulaR Fri, 09/22/2023 - 20:33 Thursday, June 29, 2023 Read more Adam Barnett & Sam Bright The prime minister praised Policy Exchange, which received $30,000 from oil and gas giant ExxonMobil in 2017, for shaping laws that target green activists.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 22, 2023

As the House and Senate Agriculture Committees are busy working on their respective first drafts of the 2023 Farm Bill, farmers and advocates took an important opportunity to speak to Members of Congress about improved agriculture policy needs. Participants flew in from Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania.

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Real Climate

JANUARY 13, 2023

This isn’t a universally accepted notion – Hawkins et al (2017) for instance, suggest we should use a baseline from the 18th Century – but it is one that easier to operationalise. 2023 is starting the year with a mild La Niña, which is being forecast to switch to neutral conditions by mid-year. 1841-1856, 2017.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The survey, a nationwide initiative measuring K-12 students’ energy knowledge and behaviors, launched first in 2017 and again in 2022. Posted: November 2, 2023] PA Environment Digest How well prepared are Pennsylvania and New Jersey’s young people for the energy transition?

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

In 2023, in the middle of the most devastating fire season in Alberta on record, there was near radio silence on the subject of climate change, and what our political leaders were, or were not doing, to address the calamity. After the 2017 Kenow Fire. We all hope that 2024 is far less destructive than 2023. But talk we must.

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Climate Change Fossil Fuels Politics 2013 113

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2023

On March 23, Berks County-based Rodale Institute announced Jeff Tkach has been selected by the board of directors to lead the global nonprofit as its next CEO, effective April 21, 2023. Since 2017, Tkach has served as Chief Impact Officer for Rodale Institute. Posted: March 23, 2023] PA Environment Digest Upcoming Events.

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Real Climate

JULY 8, 2023

We looked at the coherence of different products, including the reanalyses, before and found that while they are highly correlated in terms of annual anomalies, they differ in their absolute magnitude (graphic from 2017). This is of course increasing the odds for 2023 to be a record year (I would estimate about 50% at this point).

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Corp Watch

AUGUST 18, 2023

USA: Nestlé pays $200 a year to bottle water near Flint – where water is undrinkable The Guardian PaulaR Fri, 08/18/2023 - 16:26 Friday, September 29, 2017 Read more Jessica Glenza While Flint battles a water crisis, just two hours away the beverage giant pumps almost 100,000 times what an average Michigan resident uses into plastic bottles by Jessica (..)

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 18, 2023

Several legislative hearings have documented the fact the state’s electronic waste recycling program just isn’t working, and that hasn’t changed since a 2017 Senate hearing. Read more here. In December 2021, DEP, in consultation with the agency’s Solid Waste Advisory Committee, released a white paper of what those changes in law should be.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 2017 ) Under state law, manufacturers of new covered devices-- such as televisions, laptop and desktop computers, tablets, etc.-- Several legislative hearings have documented the fact the state’s electronic waste recycling program just isn’t working, and that hasn’t changed since a 2017 Senate hearing. Read more here.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MARCH 28, 2024

Cattle graze in a field outside of Walcott, Iowa,2017. This year’s notice of funding opportunity (NFO) combines funds appropriated in fiscal years 2023 and 2024 for approximately $22 million for new cooperative agreements.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The site was acquired by Fairmont Brine Processing in 2012 and has been inactive since 2017. In May 2023, there was a fire and explosion at the site that led to increased concern about the potential release of contamination. FBP would treat fluids from the hydraulic fracturing process used to extract natural gas. Read more here.] [In

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Natural Gas 2017 Fossil Fuels Environmental Protection 86

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Vehicles powered by biomethane consume about one percent of California’s transportation fuel, but in the first three quarters of 2023, biomethane used to fuel these vehicles accounted for 17 percent of LCFS credit generation. But what about the rapidly increasing credits generated by biomethane? ii] O’Malley, J., Pavlenko, Y.H.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

It was published by The University of Pittsburgh Press in 2017. Posted: March 10, 2023] PA Environment Digest Her first book, titled Pathways to Our Sustainable Future – A Global Perspective from Pittsburgh explores positive pathways toward sustainability, based on 28 case studies in Pittsburgh. Doors open at 6:45 p.m.

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