PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

Where We Are With The Issue At a June 10, 2024 hearing on House Bill 2384 (Vitali-D-Delaware) that would ban road dumping by the House Environmental Committee, DEP said, The Administration is supportive of this clear ban on the practice and views the Solid Waste Management Act as a sound vehicle for such statutory language. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

These new violations are separate from violations covered in a 2017 consent order and agreement DEP signed with Energy Corporation of America-- now Greylock-- covering pollution incidents at the 17 well sites. Read more here. Read more here. The last active well completed fracking on May 2, 2012. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

All this waste must be handled, transported, and disposed of. If the radiation levels in the sludge decrease enough, the waste can be trucked to the same local landfills that handle household trash instead of being shipped by rail to radioactive waste disposal sites out west — a more expensive but safer option.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

Nobel’s book explores the question of where all of the toxic, radioactive waste the oil and gas industry produces goes. Resource Links - Radioactive Oil & Gas Waste: -- DEP: Potential For Environmental Impacts From Spills Or Leaks Of Radioactive Oil & Gas Waste Materials Is Real; Health Dept.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2024

By Kara Holsopple, The Allegheny Front This article was first posted on The Allegheny Front website May 3, 2024 -- Waste from the oil and gas industry plays a central role in science journalist Justin Nobel‘s new book Petroleum-238: Big Oil’s Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 10, 2024

On June 10, the Department of Environmental Protection told the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee the Shapiro Administration supports legislation banning the practice of road dumping oil and gas wastewater and prohibiting its consideration as a coproduct under Residual Waste Regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2024

By Justin Nobel, Author of Petroleum-238: Big Oil's Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It Since the fracking boom began in the early 2000s, oilfield waste has been spilled, spread, injected, dumped, and freely emitted across America, with particularly worrisome problems in Pennsylvania.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Researchers, using DEP data, found an average 30 percent discrepancy between the waste numbers reported by the oil and gas industry and the waste received by landfills. The study noted landfills must test leachate for radioactive radium and other markers of oil and gas waste, but wastewater plants don’t. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The site was acquired by Fairmont Brine Processing in 2012 and has been inactive since 2017. The shale gas industry also shipped over 138,000 cubic feet of TENORM waste to secure low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities in 2022 and over 911,000 cubic feet since 2017. Read more here.] [In

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2023

TODAY 3:00 : Webinar Features Panel Discussion On Radioactivity And Oil & Gas Development, University Of Pittsburgh Radiation Oncologist 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. TODAY 7:30: Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community Monthly Eyes On Shell Meeting.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Hess, Former Secretary Department of Environmental Protection The information submitted to DEP’s Bureau of Waste Management from eight conventional oil and gas companies to justify allowing them to dispose of millions of gallons of wastewater by spreading it on dirt roads fails to meet the requirements of DEP’s 25 Pa Code Chapter 287.8

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

What the DEP staff did not address or mention was another office in DEP-- DEP’s Bureau of Waste Management-- allows the road dumping of conventional oil and gas drilling wastewater as a dust suppressant under its co-product regulations and this practice continues. From 1991 to 2017 over 240.4 Read more here. Read more here.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 1, 2021

In 2011 I returned to Australia to work at Curtin University and in 2017 moved to China to the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) in Beijing. In 2004 I moved to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics before heading to University College London in 2008. Why did you decide to move to China?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Krishnan Ramamurthy, Deputy Secretary for Waste, Air, Radiation, and Remediation, said the need to gather information on the previously largely unregulated conventional oil and gas industry air emissions and changing EPA handling of the oil and gas requirement over time, caused much of the delay. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The videos cover these topics and more-- -- Exploring Risk Factors of Human Exposure to Environmental Risk Factors - Birth Impacts, Radiation & Waste -- 9th Compendium of Scientific, Medical and Medial Findings on Risks and Harms of Fracking and Associated Gas and Oil Infrastructure -- Blue Hydrogen Click Here to view and share the videos.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2023

This weekly listing also includes some individual stories about significant environmental and energy events during 2023 you may have forgotten. -- January - -- DEP Report Finds: Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Routinely Abandon Wells; Fail To Report How Millions Of Gallons Of Waste Is Disposed; And Non-Compliance Is An ‘Acceptable Norm’ [PaEN] (..)

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Read more here ] The NOVs covered 2,246 conventional wells. Read more here ] DEP’s newly released 2022 Oil and Gas Program Annual Report said conventional operators were issued 671 notices of violation in 2022 for abandoning wells without plugging them. Additional inspection reports may be added to DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database.] 28 to Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Read more here ] The NOVs covered 2,246 conventional wells. Read more here ] DEP’s newly released 2022 Oil and Gas Program Annual Report said conventional operators were issued 671 notices of violation in 2022 for abandoning wells without plugging them. Additional inspection reports may be added to DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database.] 30 to Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

Penn State studies found the amounts of at least 25 of the chemicals they tested for exceeded environmental and health standards and radioactive radium exceeded industrial waste discharge standards. The guidelines were administered by DEP under the Clean Streams Law, Solid Waste Management Act and the Oil and Gas Act. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Radiation In Oil & Gas Wastewater A study released in May 2022 by Penn State University found conventional drilling wastewater spread on roads in Pennsylvania contains concentrations of barium, strontium, lithium, iron, manganese that exceed human-health based criteria and levels of radioactive radium that exceed industrial discharge standards.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The Department of Environmental Protection is now reviewing 17 conventional oil and gas drilling operators for their compliance with a self-certification program that allows the road dumping of drilling wastewater, according to Ali Tarquino Morris, Director of DEP’s Bureau Of Waste Management. From 1991 to 2017 over 240.4

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The letter comes in the wake of concerning comments made by DEP representatives at a recent PA Grade Crude Development Advisory Council meeting indicating that the agency is seeking data to support the reinstatement of the road spreading of toxic, radioactive drilling waste. Read more here ] From 1991 to 2017 over 240.4 Read more here.]

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 22, 2022

Crop damage radiates inward gradually from the edges of a field, where the salt hits first. In Maryland’s Somerset County, an area facing both high rates of sea level rise and land subsidence, 2 percent of farmland was lost to salt between 2009 and 2017 , totaling over 1400 acres. .

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

In 2017, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources tried to ban road spreading of oil and gas wastewater based on concerns about levels of radioactivity found by the agency, but was blocked by the Ohio legislature. Because it's an oil and gas waste, nobody's required to carry these safety data sheets. Kids put everything in their mouth.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Later reports found from 1991 to 2017 over 240.4 The 2010 DCNR study also found "radium values are high enough that a possible radiation hazard exists, especially where radium could be adsorbed on iron oxides and accumulate in brine tanks." [ Read more here.] “The Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. “It

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2023

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- Stroud Water Research Center Hosts 4 Workshop Series On Becoming A PA Certified Meaningful Watershed Education Experience Ambassador Starting April 19 [PaEN] -- Ohio Research Confirms Health, Environmental Hazards In Conventional Oil (..)

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

And no one should be surprised when workers and residents who are exposed to fracking’s toxic chemicals and radioactive waste start getting sick with a variety of sometimes common, sometimes weird, and sometimes, often debilitating and deadly illnesses. Doctors, nurses, and other health professionals aren't surprised.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

“What I was trying to say earlier was that because produced fluids are waste material, we have to treat them, regulate them as waste material. We've got to figure out a way that we can justify the use of these materials as a waste product for beneficial reuse. “I I'm going to take this back. 30 to Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Approximately 240 million gallons of drilling wastewater were spread on Pennsylvania roads from 1991–2017, according to records, though the practice started before that. Twenty-one of the state’s 67 counties, mainly in northwestern parts of the state, have used the water.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The findings of these most recent studies corroborate a 2017 study, for example, that examined birth certificates for all 1.1 The deep earth is not just full of hydrocarbon vapors, but also full of radiation. So these are not one-off studies. million infants born in Pennsylvania between 2004 and 2013.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A 2017 study led by geographer Camilo Mora from the University of Hawaii found that around 30% of people around the world are already exposed to climatic conditions above this deadly threshold for at least 20 days a year ( Nature Climate Change 7 501 ). Spend too long in a wet-bulb temperature above 35?°C C and you’ll be in trouble.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2022

A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making Time and again, mining company Homestake and government agencies promised to clean up waste from decades of uranium processing. million tons of uranium waste left over from milling ore to supply power plants and nuclear bombs. Still, the cleanup target date continued shifting, to 2017, then 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

-- Natural Lands, Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership Host Feb. 24 Organizing Black Birders Week Webinar With Tykee James -- Keep PA Beautiful Local Affiliates Recycle 1.1 24 Organizing Black Birders Week Webinar With Tykee James -- Keep PA Beautiful Local Affiliates Recycle 1.1 17; Loving The Land Thru Working Forests Conference Sept.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 56 (6): 709–42. This is because of black carbon’s enhanced ability to absorb visible light; it actually absorbs nearly a million times more energy per unit mass than CO 2. Compounds that can absorb energy are important because they alter the radiative balance of our Earth’s atmosphere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

ICBMs certainly waste billions of dollars, but what makes them unique is the threat that they pose to all of humanity.” When asked in a 2017 interview about their role, Butler replied: “I would have removed land-based missiles from our arsenal a long time ago. Cartwright’s coauthor for that 2017 column was William J.

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