PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2024

At the time, the deal was touted by the agency, then led by Josh Shapiro, as a way to hold Energy Transfer and Sunoco accountable for leaking thousands of gallons of drilling fluid into groundwater, lakes, and streams from 2017 to 2021, and address residents’ concerns about whether their water was safe.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2022

The Department of Environmental Protection has issued 12 unconventional shale gas drillers notices of violation for abandoning gas wells without plugging them at 35 wells pads (each with multiple wells) in 17 counties between 2016 and 2022, according to DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Reporting system. Jordan 6 - Hempfield Twp.,

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The Energy Law Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), signed into law on November 15, 2021, amended Section 40307 of the Outer Continental Shelfs Act (OCSLA) to provide authority to the U.S. To receive information from Liskow & Lewis, your information will be kept in a secured contact database.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 20, 2024

On May 20, the Damascus Citizens for Sustainability alerted the public the PA Department of Environmental Protection has designated 84 municipalities in Pennsylvania and one county in New York as “disposal facilities” for wastewater from conventional oil and gas drilling because well owners indiscriminately dump their waste on public roads.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 10, 2024

Non-Compliance A Norm “Non-compliance with regulations and the law is not an isolated event with conventional well owners. “In Greg Vitali (D-Delaware) serves as Majority Chair of the House Environmental Committee and can be contacted by calling 717-787-7647 or sending email to: gvitali@pahouse.net. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

Yet the state law minimum “set-back” for well construction is only 500 feet. An increase in the setback, to 2,500 feet, is far from extreme, but would do a lot to protect residents from risk.” The bill was referred to the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee. That is dangerously close. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Other violations like failure to manage drilling wastewater safely, not notifying DEP of spills, failure to submit annual well integrity and waste disposal reports, failure to operate the wells to meet environmental protection standards and many more go along with NOVs for failure to plug wells. The law would have to be changed.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The bills were introduced at the request of Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation which was unhappy with an April 17, 2017 settlement with DEP over an appeal of a stormwater pollution prevention permit for its West Point, Montgomery County plant (Environmental Hearing Board Docket No. Read more here.] 2015-011-L ).

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 4, 2019

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it had finalized a voluntary disclosure program for new owners of upstream oil and natural gas exploration and production facilities. To receive information from Liskow & Lewis, your information will be kept in a secured contact database. On March 29, 2019, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 3, 2022

At the December 16 meeting of the PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council the conventional oil and gas drilling industry pressed DEP to reduce environmental safeguards for drilling and regulate their industry the same as solar or wind energy facilities. million gallons of wastewater in 2017; which is no small amount.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

While the term “environmental justice” is relatively new in Louisiana litigation, the court’s analysis roots this concept in the state’s long-established public trust doctrine. Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality , Docket No. In the seminal case Save Ourselves, Inc. Env’tl Control Com’n , 452 So. 2d 1152, 1156 (La.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The court rejected Exxon’s argument that it could withhold documents based on an accountant-client privilege under Texas law. and non-U.S. United States v.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2023

Note: DEP reported in December that between 2017 and 2021, current conventional oil/gas well operators abandoned without plugging 2,246 wells -- 561 a year, on average. Greg Vitali (D-Delaware) serves as Majority Chair and can be contacted by calling 717-787-7647 or sending email to: gvitali@pahouse.net.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

On December 29, DEP issued a report on conventional oil and gas operator compliance saying the most frequent environmental, health and safety violation between 2017 and through 2021 was new oil and gas well abandonments. Written By David Hess, former Secretary, PA Department of Environmental Protection. Read more here.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

VW Escapes Multiple Fines In EU Over Emissions Scandal Law 360 PaulaR Thu, 01/04/2024 - 17:26 Thursday, September 14, 2023 Read more Matthew Perlman Europe's top court ruled Wednesday that Volkswagen should not have to pay a €5 million ($5.3

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

VW's Slovak workers strike over pay, halt production lines Tatiana Jancarikova | Reuters | June 20, 2017 Volkswagen was hit by its first ever strike in Slovakia on Tuesday as workers began a walkout to demand a higher pay increase which could hurt the central European country's manufacturing output. Volkswagen of America, Inc.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

VW's Slovak workers strike over pay, halt production lines Tatiana Jancarikova | Reuters | June 20, 2017 Volkswagen was hit by its first ever strike in Slovakia on Tuesday as workers began a walkout to demand a higher pay increase which could hurt the central European country's manufacturing output. Volkswagen of America, Inc.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

VW's Slovak workers strike over pay, halt production lines Tatiana Jancarikova | Reuters | June 20, 2017 Volkswagen was hit by its first ever strike in Slovakia on Tuesday as workers began a walkout to demand a higher pay increase which could hurt the central European country's manufacturing output. Volkswagen of America, Inc.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

VW's Slovak workers strike over pay, halt production lines Tatiana Jancarikova | Reuters | June 20, 2017 Volkswagen was hit by its first ever strike in Slovakia on Tuesday as workers began a walkout to demand a higher pay increase which could hurt the central European country's manufacturing output. Volkswagen of America, Inc.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

VW's Slovak workers strike over pay, halt production lines Tatiana Jancarikova | Reuters | June 20, 2017 Volkswagen was hit by its first ever strike in Slovakia on Tuesday as workers began a walkout to demand a higher pay increase which could hurt the central European country's manufacturing output. By Jilil Kashgary for RFA Uyghur 2023.12.07

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

VW's Slovak workers strike over pay, halt production lines Tatiana Jancarikova | Reuters | June 20, 2017 Volkswagen was hit by its first ever strike in Slovakia on Tuesday as workers began a walkout to demand a higher pay increase which could hurt the central European country's manufacturing output. Volkswagen of America, Inc.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

VW's Slovak workers strike over pay, halt production lines Tatiana Jancarikova | Reuters | June 20, 2017 Volkswagen was hit by its first ever strike in Slovakia on Tuesday as workers began a walkout to demand a higher pay increase which could hurt the central European country's manufacturing output. Volkswagen of America, Inc.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

VW's Slovak workers strike over pay, halt production lines Tatiana Jancarikova | Reuters | June 20, 2017 Volkswagen was hit by its first ever strike in Slovakia on Tuesday as workers began a walkout to demand a higher pay increase which could hurt the central European country's manufacturing output. Volkswagen of America, Inc.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

The United States and the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection alleged that the company impounded streams and discharged dirt, sand, rocks and other materials into streams and wetlands without permits to construct well pads, pipeline stream crossings, surface impoundments, and other structures relating to natural gas extraction.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Daryl Metcalef (R-Butler), Majority Chair of the House Environmental Committee, voted against the regulation. DEP said it complied with Act 40 of 2017 by including what the law required at the proposed rulemaking stage of this regulation. Read More here. Posted: September 1, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2022

The change in law swept away 28 years of environmental protection for Pennsylvania waterways impacted by the consequences of acid mine drainage, and imposed additional testing, monitoring and treatment at public water supply operations along these waterways. Contact: Laura Griffin laurgriffi@pa.gov or 717-772-3277.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection has issued at least 435 notices of violation to 87 conventional oil and gas operators and 20 NOVs to 11 shale gas operators for abandoning their wells without plugging them so far in 2023, according to DEP’s Oil & Gas Compliance Reporting Database. Just one conventional operator-- John B.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection has issued at least 512 notices of violation to 95 conventional oil and gas operators and 20 NOVs to 11 shale gas operators for abandoning their wells without plugging them in 2023, according to DEP’s Oil & Gas Compliance Reporting Database. Just one conventional operator-- John B.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler), Majority Chair of the House Environmental Committee, voted against the regulation. DEP said it complied with Act 40 of 2017 by including what the law required at the proposed rulemaking stage of this regulation. Read More here. Posted: September 12, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Darren Woods, ExxonMobil CEO from 2017 to the present. In July 2015, after UCS discovered that Exxon (before it merged with Mobil) was aware of the threat posed by climate change more than 30 years earlier and had been intentionally deceiving the public for decades, reporters contacted ExxonMobil spokesman Richard Keil for comment.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2022

Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) on the Board expressed several concerns about the regulation, including whether the final regulation meets the requirements of Act 40 of 2017. DEP said it complied with Act 40 of 2017 by including what the law required at the proposed rulemaking stage of this regulation. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) and Sen.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Harmful algal blooms are the biological consequence of a riptide of bloom-generating nutrients allowed by law and timid regulation to run off the land, particularly farm fields. Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law. The waivers in the law reduced farmer costs for managing polluted runoff.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Two additional counts were added, after the Grand Jury had concluded, bringing the total to 48 counts in 11 counties, based on a criminal referral from Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection. Under our state laws, if convicted, this company will be sentenced to fines and restitution.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Two of these charges were able to be included because of information formally provided to our office yesterday by the Department of Environmental Protection. Every time those errors happen, the driller is required to report it under state regulation to the Department of Environmental Protection so DEP can then take action.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Daryl Metcalef (R-Butler), Majority Chair of the House Environmental Committee, voted against the regulation. DEP said it complied with Act 40 of 2017 by including what the law required at the proposed rulemaking stage of this regulation. Read More here. Posted: September 7, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency deadline for action is December 16 to avoid federal sanctions. Part II of the final regulation covering conventional oil and gas operations is expected to come before the Environmental Quality Board “soon,” according to the Department of Environmental Protection. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The Marcellus Drilling News reported both “Senate Republicans and the Marcellus Shale Coalition recently contacted the DEP, requesting the agency to pull back its new EJ policy regulation." In addition, the policy requires that the identification and mapping of environmental justice areas be updated every two years.”

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