PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2024

This article by Lilly Riddle was first published by Spotlight PA on April 4, 2024 -- As part of its 2022 plea deal with the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, natural gas company Energy Transfer agreed to fund the testing and remediation of residential water supplies polluted by the construction of its Mariner East II pipeline.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

At a February 6 hearing of the House Republican Policy Committee , members and the natural gas industry recommended the need to remove roadblocks to faster permit reviews by DEP they said stand in the way of economic growth and lower natural gas prices. Read more here. They don’t want to sell their products on the cheap.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2023

On January 20, the natural gas industry and Senate Republicans launched an effort to unleash the industry by reducing regulations, requiring automatic approval of permits and limiting opportunities for public review of permits at a hearing of the Senate Republican Policy Committee in Pittsburgh. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The PA Environment Digest prepared a policy paper in August of 2021 on the issue of requiring natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines to have insurance or financial assurance in place to cover property damage, bodily harm and environmental cleanup resources if a leak or explosion happens. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2022

Wolf in a formal statement published in the July 30 PA Bulletin and comes in the wake of the Governor allowing House Bill 2644 to become law without his signature. You can help DEP’s evaluation too by sending the problems you’ve had with conventional oil and gas drilling operations to DEP’s Oil & Gas Program email: ra-epoilandgas@pa.gov.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In 2017, environmental advocates and some states like New York who have long been concerned with the climate change impacts associated with new liquefied natural gas (LNG) pipelines had reason for optimism. FERC reviews proposals to build interstate LNG pipelines and terminals pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 5, 2023

On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection released three more requests for bids to plug 46 conventional natural gas wells in Armstrong and Washington County through the website BidExpress.com. Washington County: 14 orphan conventional natural gas wells in Cecil, North Franklin, Buffalo, and Canton Townships.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

It’s a testament to the industry’s innovative nature, dedication to continuous improvement, and collaborative approach that we are producing and transporting the energy that powers modern life while adhering to world-class standards. Natural gas generation grew rapidly, driven by the shale gas revolution and low fuel prices.”

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 18, 2021

On August 17, the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee held a hearing on the “environmental and economic benefits of pipelines” which failed to even acknowledge the over $55 million in penalties imposed by DEP and the Public Utility Commission for the failure of natural gas and hazardous liquids pipelines over the last five years.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1 Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health? 27 Released 1.1

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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. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2022

Comments made at two Senate budget hearings last week again put the spotlight on how Pennsylvania’s environmental and pipeline safety laws are not strong enough to prevent environmental damage and protect public safety in new pipeline construction. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The number of power plants switching from coal to natural gas is increasing, and sulfur dioxide emissions in Pennsylvania and across the United States are decreasing dramatically,” said Xianzeng Niu , assistant research professor in Penn State’s Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI). percent.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

PGE will attempt to use new underground “micro-tunneling” technology for the natural gas pipeline, down steep slopes on both sides the Creek. From 2014 into 2017, they worked in Plunketts Creek Township to put good zoning protections in place for residents. The freshwater pipeline will be constructed aboveground.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

On March 7, the Independent Fiscal Office issued its latest Pennsylvania Electricity update that reports the electricity grid is dependent on one fuel for 59% of the state’s electricity generation-- natural gas-- followed by nuclear power-- 31.9%, coal-- 5.4% In 2010, the mix was 48% coal, 34% nuclear, 15% gas and 2% renewables.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Take Action: Tell Enbridge shareholders that you care about climate change and want Enbridge to stop lying about the cost and climate pollution associated with gas. He’s perfected the art of spinning “natural” gas, a fossil fuel, and liquified natural gas (LNG) as transition fuels, despite a thorough debunking.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 4, 2023

Christian Thorsberg, Interim Fresh Editor This Week’s Watersheds A new bill introduced in the Ohio House would prevent the removal of oil and natural gas from beneath Lake Erie. Between 2017 and 2022, Canada spent just $33 million US dollars on Great Lakes cleanup efforts, compared to U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2021

The PA Environment Digest prepared a policy paper on the issue of requiring natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines to have insurance or financial assurance in place to cover property damage, bodily harm and environmental cleanup resources if a leak or explosion happens. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2024

Yaw, Republican Chair Of Senate Environmental Committee, Calls Bill To Reduce Shale Gas Industry Impacts On Health, Environment ‘Stupid’ [PaEN] -- State Dept. Why Does It Matter?

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 13, 2023

On January 12, DEP released bid packages to plug 38 more abandoned conventional natural gas wells in Venango County at taxpayer expense under the new federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law well plugging program. Click Here for more information. -- Venango County: 19 abandoned natural gas wells in Cornplanter Township.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Besides getting a favorable ruling in what may prove to be a pivotal case, gas utilities have succeeded in lobbying legislators in at least 24 states to pass laws blocking cities and counties from banning or restricting new gas hookups. percent of childhood asthma cases in the United States “is attributable to gas stove use.”

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2023

On January 26, DEP released another bid package to plug 19 more abandoned conventional natural gas wells in Forest County at taxpayer expense under the new federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law well plugging program. The conventional oil and gas drilling industry doesn’t pay a dime. Click Here for more information.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. Peabody, a coal company, filed for bankruptcy in April 2016 and emerged from bankruptcy under a plan that became effective on April 3, 2017.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2023

On January 19, DEP released two more bid packages to plug 43 more abandoned conventional natural gas wells in Clarion County at taxpayer expense under the new federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law well plugging program. Click Here for more information. -- Venango County: 19 abandoned natural gas wells in Cornplanter Township.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2023

By Michael Rubinkam, Associated Press [On December 20, 2023, the Associated Press published this update on the resumption of shale gas drilling in the Dimock area of Susquehanna County after criminal charges against Coterra Energy, Inc. Coterra Energy Inc. Coterra Energy Inc. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

On February 5, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has begun an emergency project to plug two leaking abandoned natural gas wells along Scrubgrass Road in Scott Township, Allegheny County. DEP has been trying to get the operators of the wells-- Economy Natural Gas Inc. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2022

It was the second time the Republican Senators have been thrown out of federal court on the same issue when they previously tried twice to intervene in similar litigation brought by the Wayne Land and Mineral Group in 2017. For more information on natural gas fracking moratorium, visit DRBC’s Natural Gas Drilling webpage. (

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Just how bad is fossil “natural” gas? And, as it turns out, the infrastructure used to produce, store, distribute, transmit, and burn gas leaks like a sieve , making gas as bad as coal for the climate. Its primary component is methane. EN: US infrastructure planning has a long history of discrimination.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

School District In Violation Of Clean Streams Law After Chemical Leak Into Stream, DEP Says -- LancasterOnline: Long’s Park Adding Wetlands To Improve Water Quality -- Marcellus Drilling News: Shale Gas Companies Play ‘Dirty Pool’ By Reactivating Expired Leases By Claiming They Are Part Of Back-dated Pooling Declarations [PaEN] -- PUC Approves 48.9%

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

On September 27, Bryn Hammarstrom, from the Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group , expressed concerns with locating a Seneca Resources shale gas well pad on State Forest Land to accommodate taking natural gas from private land in Tioga County. It includes part of the annual Green Monster trail. “We

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2023

The Marcus Hook Terminal is a hub for the transportation, storage and shipment of natural gas liquids coming through the Mariner East Pipelines. Natural Gas Facility: DEP authorized de minimis increases in emissions from multiple air pollution sources at the facility located in Spring Twp., Washington County. (

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 16, 2017

By Michael Hervey, 3L Staff Editor, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. Lots of environmentalists have difficulty balancing our need to provide efficient energy with reducing the effects of climate change. Consider natural gas as a source of energy. Compared to coal, natural gas is certainly a.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

These violations are the most frequent committed by unconventional shale gas operators, according to DEP’s 2021 Oil and Gas Program Annual report , which reported 196 NOVs for failing to report or correct casing and cementing violations in 2021 alone. Read more here. Click Here for a list of cleanups in progress.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2024

More articles this week on the uncontrolled impacts of the shale gas industry on people and their communities-- -- WTAE: Concerns Over Flaring, Fracking In Cecil Twp., Of Health Pushing For Changes To Reduce Adverse Health Impacts From Natural Gas Development [PaEN] -- State Dept.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In March, a PUC Administrative Law Judge Joel H. Over Last Year [PaEN] -- Centre County Recycling & Refuse Authority Moves To Renewable Natural Gas, Away From Shale Gas To Power Vehicles [PaEN] [Posted: December 7, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. June 29, 2017). Pruitt , No.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Increase In Natural Gas Charges By Leatherstocking Gas Company In Susquehanna & Bradford Counties [The Heart Of Shale Gas Drilling In PA ] [PaEN] -- U.S EIA Forecasts Natural Gas Prices Will Drop Nearly 50% In 2023 -- Reuters: 46% Drop In U.S. Monday] -- U.S.

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