PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2022

On April 12, the Department of Environmental Protection and others submitted comments to the Public Utility Commission recommending ways to strengthen its regulations covering the safety of natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines. Photo: Site of 2018 explosion of the brand new Revolution Natural Gas Pipeline in Beaver County.)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 2, 2023

Donald McEachin, who co-led the inception of this legislation starting in 2018 and was a fierce champion for environmental justice all his life. McEachin, who passed away last November, was a lifelong advocate for social and environmental justice in my home state of Virginia. Raúl Grijalva and Barbara Lee, and Sens.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

By Nikki Buffa , Joshua Bledsoe , Jennifer Roy , Michael Dreibelbis , Brian McCall , Austin Wruble , and Sam Wong Louisiana has become the third state in the United States to receive primacy from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), allowing it to assume permitting authority for carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects.

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MGKF Law

JULY 6, 2023

United States Environmental Protection Agency , No. Sinclair applied for a hardship exemption from EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standards for compliance year 2018 and, when EPA did not immediately respond, submitted Renewable Identification Numbers (“RINs”) in compliance with the regulations. 22-9530 (10th Cir.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2023

On July 26, the Department of Environmental Protection and Sunoco Pipeline L.P. The violations occurred between 2018 and 2021 in Chester, Berks, Blair, Cambria, Chester, Cumberland, Delaware, Perry, and York Counties. million penalty to DEP for the 2018 Revolution Natural Gas Pipeline explosion in Beaver County.

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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

APRIL 5, 2023

On April 5, township supervisors, concerned residents, and advocacy organizations submitted a letter to the Department of Environmental Protection calling on the agency to conduct a proper Public Participation Process for an oil and gas waste injection disposal well in Potter County. Some listings include links to permit applications.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 14, 2022

Utah regulators have identified high numbers of toxin-producing algae in the southern reaches of Utah Lake , a water body notorious for summer algae outbreaks. California regulators passed an emergency order in June that took small steps to address the supply-demand imbalance. 3) Cutbacks Are Inevitable. Clunky, perhaps.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection issued a record 6,860 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas operators in 2023, according to DEP’s December 29, 2023 Weekly Workload Report. regarding the energy company’s failure to fix a natural gas leak that caused a house explosion in Greene County in 2018. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the February 24 PA Bulletin the final technical guidance on using trenchless technology to construct natural gas, other pipelines and underground utilities is now available and effective. A copy of the related Comment and Response Document is also available. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency announced a new proposed rule for comment that would hold companies accountable for controlling and cleaning up now inactive impoundments and historical coal ash disposal sites created by the disposal of coal combustion residuals (CCR or coal ash), which can cause serious public health risks and leak into groundwater.

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Brag

AUGUST 10, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is launching a webinar series in collaboration with the PETA Science Consortium International (PSCI), Institute for In Vitro Sciences (IIVS), and the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (CDPR). Bergeson and Carla N. Hutton The U.S.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 2, 2021

percent in 2018. percent in 2018. Regulators and public-interest groups were initially concerned about community-level affordability — whether a town’s residents, in aggregate, could raise enough money to operate and maintain their systems while meeting all water quality standards. percent of households in 1980 to 6.7

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 4, 2023

On August 5, the Department of Environmental Protection published the final Chapter 105 Environmental Assessment Alternatives Analysis technical guidance related to projects impacting waterways and wetlands in Pennsylvania [DEP ID:  310-2100-002 ].

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2024

On January 18, the Department of Environmental Protection presented the final version of technical guidance on using trenchless technology to construct natural gas, other pipelines and underground utilities to the DEP Water Resources Advisory Committee. Each project that proposes trenchless technology (e.g.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 29, 2022

The Sunday after Thanksgiving is usually quiet, but for those who live along Route 9 in New Castle, Delaware, it’s hard to forget the harrowing events that unfolded in November 2018. It is the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) responsibility to regulate chemical facilities appropriately.

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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. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

On February 15, the Department of Environmental Protection told the Environmental Quality Board conventional oil and gas drilling companies only paid $46,100 of the $10,600,000 it cost for DEP to regulate that industry in FY 2020-21. Overall, DEP expects an annual revenue deficit of at least $10.5 Read more here.]

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It has left Benton Harbor with a water treatment plant in such disarray that regulators say it can’t reliably produce clean water, even before that water is shunted into a delivery system that includes pipes made of toxic metal. Environmental Protection Agency flagged a host of new, alarming deficiencies.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2024

Information provided by the Department of Environmental Protection in response to a Right To Know request shows DEP took enforcement action against 14 conventional oil and gas well operators that resulted in collecting $422,365 in penalties and bond forfeitures in 2023. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Documents obtained through a Right-to-Know request submitted to the Bureau of Waste Management raise new concerns that road spreading of toxic, radioactive drilling waste may have gone unreported in the four years since the Department of Environmental Protection put a moratorium on the disposal method. Read more here. Read more here.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 2, 2021

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Inspector General identified a decline in enforcement activity within the agency from fiscal 2007 through fiscal 2018 in a report released Thursday. Read the full story in The Hill.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2022

This brings the total of untreated wastewater reported spread on roads by conventional operators from 2018 through 2021 to 3,259,405 gallons. In May, the Department of Environmental Protection sent letters to 18 municipalities informing them that 10 drilling companies had spread waste illegally. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Read more here ; -- Status of updating conventional drilling regulations; and -- Natural gas industry effort to reform permitting, limit public comments. The Council will be discussing their comments on the 2013-2018 report at this meeting. Read more here ; -- Conventional Oil & Gas Compliance Report issued in December.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection has issued a record 5,653 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas operators in 2023, with two months left in the year, according to DEP’s November 3, 2023 Weekly Workload Report. Environmental Protection Agency Underground Injection Well Program. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 6, 2021

In Uganda, national regulators are cracking down on the illegal destruction of wetlands in an attempt to reduce flood risk in the east African country. Regulators are keen to act because wetlands reduce flood risk by absorbing heavy rains. percent in 2018. Transcript. Now they face jail time. percent of households in 1980 to 6.7

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

For the first time since the Department of Environmental Protection’s 2018 moratorium on road spreading, the Bureau of Waste Management asked 17 drillers to provide determinations they were supposed to conduct before continuing road spreading using a loophole called Coproduct Determination. Click Here for a copy of the report.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 53 ) The report is intended to document remediation of the site to meet statewide health standards. PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

In the face of disappointing legislation and regulation, activists have increasingly turned to courts in the last fifteen years. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. To determine what this requires, the court turns to the 2018 Special Report on 1.5°C

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection reported their inspections found 4,386 violations of environmental regulations at conventional oil and gas operations during 2021 -- nearly two and a half times the violations reported just two years ago in 2019 and 337 more than in 2020. Read more here.] .:

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2023

That intentionally is a broad mandate, so it makes sense that Department of Environmental Protection regulations protecting the environment also must be broad. Josh Shapiro should implement recommendations by a state grand jury that he empaneled as attorney general in 2018.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Anderson also reported road spreading of waste, 240 barrels of it, for the first time since 2017, told regulators in August, “Per our conversation we have not been disposing brine for spreading for well over a year and are not in the future.” Meanwhile, conventional drillers have done everything they can to circumvent the 2018 moratorium.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2022

SRBC can include more stringent time of year water withdrawal limits in Exceptional Value watersheds if they believe that is necessary, but the Commission relies on state environmental agencies like DEP to regulate water quality issues. For natural gas industry operations, SRBC starts regulating water withdrawals from the first gallon.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 5, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the January 6 PA Bulletin announcing it has disapproved an Act 2 Land Recycling Risk Assessment December 21 on remediation of soil and groundwater contamination at the American Refining Group, Inc. Refinery in the City of Bradford, McKean County. (

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2023

Those that could stop the brine dumping, the Department of Environmental Protection and township officials, turned a deaf ear to residents. In 2018, road spreading was halted in many areas of Pennsylvania as a result of a settlement of an Environmental Hearing Board appeal with DEP’s Oil and Gas Program. Read more here.]

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Circle of Blue

MAY 22, 2023

The Rundown The EPA wants to expand the number of coal ash facilities regulated to protect water bodies from contaminants. The EPA orders Baltimore to protect its drinking water reservoirs from animal waste. Baltimore has not done that for two such reservoirs, despite agreeing to do so by the end of 2018.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The groups noted on the permit application Olympus Energy checked the box saying-- “Was/Is the facility owner or operator in violation of any DEP regulation, permit, order, or schedule of compliance at this or any other facility or project site within the past 5 years?”

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