PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

“Wells that are improperly abandoned may pose environmental and public health and safety threats such as gas migration into occupied structures, water supply impacts, surface water impacts, hazardous air pollutant emissions, methane emissions, and soil and groundwater contamination,” said Klapkowski.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

and 4 million gallons of their oil and gas wastewater a year to DEP as recently as 2017, although those numbers have never been audited by DEP and are likely to be much higher. The report looked at environmental compliance in the industry between 2017 and 2021. Conventional oil and gas well owners have reported road dumping between 3.5

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 17, 2025

Sales have now slowed such that the total sales since 2017 are just over 800 new locomotives—in other words, it’s taken 8 years to match what used to be sold in a single year. Prior to 2015, when Tier 4 standards were introduced, locomotive sales averaged just under 800 new locomotives per year.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 21, 2025

Decades of government vehicle standards to improve vehicle efficiency and cut down on tailpipe pollution have saved car and truck drivers trillions of dollars at the pump, saved countless lives from reduced exposure to toxic air pollution , and avoided the extraction and burning of billions of barrels of oil.

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

and 4 million gallons of their oil and gas wastewater a year to DEP as recently as 2017, although those numbers have never been audited by DEP and are likely to be much higher. The report looked at environmental compliance in the industry between 2017 and 2021. Conventional oil and gas well owners have reported road dumping between 3.5

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

MAY 5, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) withdrew the air pollution permit it had issued for the 2.6-GW Empire Wind, for its part, has been in planning and development since 2011; it has held an executed lease since 2017; and it has undergone multiple rounds of environmental review, including most recently a 2.5-year

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2025

Original violation for abandonment issued March 8, 2017. . - Violations: Abandoned Conventional Well (8+ Years) June 3, 2025 inspection of the Grancis Richards 1 conventional well located in Amity Township, Erie County as a result of a complaint found the well abandoned and not plugged. Violations continued. Response requested by July 1.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 24, 2025

[At a June 12 House Environmental Committee hearing, DEP reported 3,108 conventional wells were cited for abandonment in the eight years between January 2017 and December 2024-- only 17% appeared to be abandoned prior to January 2017. [In

2025

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The two most commonly reported concerns to the Department of Health are those related to air pollution and water contamination, specifically individuals on private well water. It is also an additional source of noise and light pollution. I also want to highlight fracking fluid and flaring from this list.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2025

DEP said Laurel Mountain Production also never complied with the basic requirement to register the impoundment with the agency since it was constructed in 2017 as required by state regulations. DEP classified the facility as abandoned. Photos from the April 15 inspection show the impoundment contains an unknown quantity of water.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2025

Repsol Oil & Gas USA LLC - Violations: Shale Gas Defective Casing/Cement March 12, 2025 inspection of the Camp Comfort shale gas well pad and O7 well in Middletown Township, Susquehanna County to monitor well pressures resulted in DEP continuing the defective well casing and cement violations originally issued on September 29, 2017.

2025

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

The Clean Air Task Force legal director told Reuters that the proposals “are bad for public health and bad for climate, all to prop up some of the highest polluting power plants in the nation.” ” EPA’s logic rests on the definition of “significant” as in emissions that “contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution.”

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

And we have done so since 2017 even as we have continued to grow. jobs, including 603,900 direct jobsup 51% since 2017. billion in federal, state, and local tax revenue in 2023, 146 % above 2017, highlighting its growing fiscal value. 4 In 2023, it supported 4.7 million U.S. Direct contributions added 231 billion to GDP.

Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

JULY 16, 2025

LAist climate reporter Erin Stone moderated this panel called “Six Months After the Fires: Stories Shared, Lessons Learned” with panelists affected by various fires from 2017 to now. That’s good news for China because it will help curb local air pollution and oil imports.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 15, 2021

for air pollution. Baltimore has two active trash incinerators and decades of pollution from both active and decommissioned industrial factories. A study by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation in 2017 found air quality in the region was ranked moderate or worse one of every three days, […].

Air Pollution

Physics World

MARCH 15, 2022

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.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2024

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.

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Meanwhile, on the West Coast, a 2017 PSE Healthy Energy study found that nearly half of California’s gas power plants are in communities that are among the state’s 25 percent most disadvantaged neighborhoods. As you said, there’s a legacy of racism when it comes to siting polluting infrastructure. First, there’s air pollution.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2024

When our family participated in the Science March at the Minnesota Capitol in 2017, one of our signs said, “What do we want – Science Based Policy! These Air Emission Reporting Requirements describe how, when, which, and how often air pollutant emissions are estimated and reported from polluting facilities.

Toxic Substances Control Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Switching from fossil fuels like gasoline to increasingly clean electricity sources is vital for hitting climate and air pollution goals. Gasoline consumption is down by more than two billion gallons per year since 2017, when 15.6 billion gallons were sold in the state.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

From 2014 through 2017, more than half of all EVs sold in the US were purchased in California, but that fraction has now fallen to one third. More EV models are now available, from small cars to pickup trucks, meaning more buyers have an electric option that meets their needs. More widespread adoption of EVs across the US is also a factor.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

This has been particularly true in your home state of California, which historically has set the clean car agenda for the rest of the country because of its waiver under the Clean Air Act to set its own air pollution standards. What is happening in California, and how quickly could that be replicated in other states?

Electricity

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Last year, Alex led a team of researchers in developing a policy report focused on lessons from California’s climate and air pollution policies. Since 2017, the project has produced more than 50 published outputs, including research and scholarly publications as well as legal, policy-oriented, and popular publications.

Law

Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 16, 2018

2017 will remain for me the year energy storage broke ground. Decarbonization and killing King Coal are priorities to combat global climate change and local air pollution. But wind works at a maximum 35% of the time for onshore and perhaps 45% for offshore wind. Solar PV is even lower, with 20 to 30% capacity factor.

2017

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Much to my dismay, emissions from California’s electricity sector haven’t really budged since 2017. Year after year, I’ve watched with increasing concern as the data comes in on the previous year’s global warming emissions.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The study-- Hazardous Air Pollutants In Transmission Pipeline Natural Gas: An Analytic Assessment -- was accepted for publication in Environmental Research Letters journal September 16. blowdowns and blowouts), which we now know not only contains methane, but also Hazardous Air Pollutants and other chemicals.

Air Pollution

Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

In it, the author makes this statement, in emphasizing how extreme the wildfire smoke has been in California over the past few years: I’ve lived in the Bay Area for nearly 30 years, but only since 2017 can I remember experiencing periodic episodes of bad air quality.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This spring, Sarah and Monica had the exciting opportunity to work with Earthjustice’s Community Partnerships program to prepare litigation enforcing state requirements for fenceline and community air monitoring near refineries. California, which is the third-largest refiner of crude oil in the U.S.,

Law

Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register. Clean Air Council v. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). June 29, 2017). State Air Resources Board , No.

2017

Inside Climate News

APRIL 23, 2023

By Emma Foehringer Merchant When wildfires spread through parts of Northern California wine country in 2017, they melted electronics, combusted cars and exploded propane tanks. Climate change portends ever more frequent fires, and the smoky haze is “not easy to run from anymore,” notes one of the study’s leaders.

2017

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2023

In response, Potter Township passed a resolution in 2017 requiring Shell to perform an exterior lighting study. Photos: Top- What Shell said the lighting would look like in 2017; Light scattering today at the Shell plan; Bottom: Orange glow from emergency flaring and close up of flaring glow.)

Air Pollution

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Such infill development reduces urban sprawl, long homeowner commutes (known in planning circles as “vehicle miles traveled”), and welcome reductions in both conventional air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions that those commutes generate.

Law

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency and Administrator Regan for their proposal strengthening safeguards against hazardous air pollutants under the life-saving Mercury and Air Toxics Standard. The MATS rule has been a proven success in slashing toxic air pollution, but medical research shows that no level of mercury is safe.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan released proposed standards for the chemical manufacturing sector to protect people from the hazardous air pollution emitted by more than 200 of the largest, most toxic chemical and plastic manufacturing facilities in the country with at least three located in Pennsylvania.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

barrel) for the period from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2042. million on the Shell Petrochemical Plant and associated pipeline for repeated air pollution and construction violations. Recently, the CEO of Shell said the plant cost $14 billion to build and would not be fully operational until 2025 or 2026. Read more here.]

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2023

. -- Peoples Natural Gas - Roaring Run Compressor Station: DEP issued a State Only Air Quality Permit covering multiple air pollution resources at the facility located in Kiskiminetas Twp., Armstrong County. ( PA Bulletin, page 6519 ) -- Graymont (PA), Inc. Centre County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Susquehanna County. (

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 6, 2024

Oil and gas production remains the largest source of climate pollution in Canada, at 31% of the whole country’s emissions. Cenovus CEO Mr. McKenzie falsely claimed that emissions from the oil and gas industry peaked in 2017 when in reality they have continued to rise. Suncor CEO Mr. Kruger, who pocketed $36.8

Fossil Fuels