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DEP Invites Comments On A Proposed Declaration Of An Exceptional Air Pollution Event Due To 2023 Wildfire Smoke Impacts

PA Environment Daily

EPA has specific guidance on declaration of Exceptional Events for events caused by natural or uncontrollable events, like wildfires and the handling of air quality data from those events. Report Harrisburg Area’s Air Quality Is Among Worst On East Coast -- TribLive: American Lung Assn.

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Solar energy output of India is reduced significantly by air pollution

Physics World

Air pollution in India is reducing the energy output of some solar panels as much as 52%. That is the conclusion of researchers who have modelled the effects of particulate pollution on solar irradiance in 2001–2018. This aims to reduce aerosol pollution by 20–30% (compared to 2017 levels) by 2024.

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PA Taxpayers So Far Give $130.9 Million In Tax Credits To Subsidize Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; Total Expected To Be $1.17 Billion Thru 2042; No Regard To Environmental Compliance Record

PA Environment Daily

million in tax subsidies from the PA Resource Manufacturing Tax Credit , according to the Governor’s FY 2024-25 Budget proposal. million; and in FY 2024-25 Shell will get another $65 million-- the maximum amount available by law. barrel) for the period from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2042. Read more here.]

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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 27

PA Environment Daily

Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups So far in 2024, DEP received or acted on 111 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. PA Bulletin, page 2281 ) -- Anegada Energy LLC - Drake Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP issued an Air Quality Permit covering multiple air pollution sources at the well pad located in Worth Twp.,

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

He retired in January 2024. Acid Mine Drainage remains Pennsylvania's largest source of water pollution, impairing more than 5,500 miles of streams. His fourth conference is scheduled for Friday, April 19, 2024. During her career, she supported students who were frequently affected by asthma, which was worsened by air pollution.

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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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Week 10: Illegal Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Continues Unabated On Paved, Dirt Roads, Before It Rains, It Doesn’t Matter In Warren County

PA Environment Daily

Before April 4, Lawson said she did not have wastewater dumped on her road for more than six years after the Environmental Hearing Board case she brought a successful challenge to the DEP road dumping approval process in 2017-18. Read more here.

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