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Criminal Convictions; Record Penalties, Restitution Of Over $158.3 Million Highlight Big Shale Gas, Related Petrochemical Industry Compliance History In Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

penalty and $5 million restitution from the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County for air pollution violations; -- $1.4 million penalty against Halliburton Energy Services for 255 violations of the state Solid Waste Management Act; -- $1.5 DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties [Shared Equally], Plus $1.4

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Nearly Half of US Breathes Unhealthy Levels of Pollution—Cars and Trucks Largely to Blame

Union of Concerned Scientists

Over 156 million people in the US are exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollutants, according to the recently published 2025 State-of-the Air report from the American Lung Association (ALA). For 25 years the report has helped people across the country understand the quality of the air in their communities.

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Late Night Road Dumping: Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Continues To Be Dumped On Dirt, Gravel, Paved Roads; DEP Expected To Provide Update At April 24 Meeting

PA Environment Daily

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

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Railroads Are Running Dirty Diesel Trains Through Communities and No One Is Doing Anything About It

Union of Concerned Scientists

We can rebuild it—we have the technology (and lax regulations) Under the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency sets emissions standards for engines in new locomotives. Prior to 2015, when Tier 4 standards were introduced, locomotive sales averaged just under 800 new locomotives per year.

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Rolling Back Vehicle Standards is Bad for Drivers, the Auto Industry, and Anything that Breathes

Union of Concerned Scientists

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.

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Immigration Raids are an Attack on Climate

Legal Planet

That same day, Trump signed a trio of congressional resolutions that improperly seek to vaporize California’s long-standing authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate vehicle pollution to clean our air. That last one got less coverage than it deserves.

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PUC Hearing On Data Center Growth Impacts Finds 30-40% Of Utility Demand Could Be From Data Centers; Concerns About Stranded Costs; Major Commitments To Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Energy Use

PA Environment Daily

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.