PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

So if somebody happened to have driven through a pool of this radiated de-icing stuff, you necessarily didn't have to have driven through this, it's now on your car. The same Penn State study also found conventional oil and gas wastewater was no more effective than water in suppressing dust on roads. It's too cold in your garage.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

The groups got a printout from DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database showing between February 21, 2018 and March 11, 2022 showing 601 instances of non-compliance (unique Violation IDs) reported for 13 unique DEP permits (unique Site Names) associated with Olympus as the Operator. “It Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 26, 2022

Unit 1 at Three Mile Island continued to operate until it was shut down in September, 2019 as a result of competition with natural gas-fired electric generation. Yet in spite of the 2018 explosion of a brand new Revolution Pipeline in Beaver County, we’ve done little to change our laws or protect people. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 27, 2022

times above the standard). -- Manganese: The DEP Regulated Substances in Groundwater Standard for manganese is 0.3 This new proposed regulation could address the issue of road dumping conventional oil and gas wastewater like the ban on road dumping wastewater from unconventional shale gas wells. mg/L Fe (up to 2.7-times

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

times above the standard). -- Manganese: The DEP Regulated Substances in Groundwater Standard for manganese is 0.3 This new proposed regulation could address the issue of road dumping conventional oil and gas wastewater like the ban on road dumping wastewater from unconventional shale gas wells. mg/L Fe (up to 2.7-times

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

Unit 1 at Three Mile Island continued to operate until it was shut down in September, 2019 as a result of competition with natural gas-fired electric generation. Natural Gas Infrastructure Threats It is naive and dangerous to not do everything we can to prevent and prepare for environmental accidents. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Several new regulations controlling methane emissions have been adopted recently, including two new rules for the US oil and gas sector announced last week. We most often encounter methane as the largest component of natural gas: methane makes up 75 – 95% of the gas coming to your stove and furnace.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Environmental law, or sometimes known as environmental and natural resources law, is a term used to explain regulations, statutes, local, national and international legislation, and treaties designed to protect the environment from damage and to explain the legal consequences of such damage towards governments or private entities or individuals (1).

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2022

On June 14, House Bill 1467 was introduced to establish an Oil and Natural Gas Facility Health Impacts Assessment Program in the Department of Health. The Department of Health is required to establish an Oil and Natural Gas Production Health Registry to track public exposures and health impacts from oil and natural gas facilities.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 4, 2023

KDKA in Pittsburgh posted a report July 3, 2023 about the impact of the December explosion at the Energy Transfer natural gas processing plant and the plant’s continuing operations on a nearby Washington County farm family. million cubic feet of natural gas from a pipeline pigging station). Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Click Here for a summary of 2022 shale gas and conventional violations. Winter Storm Elliot Causes Natural Gas Infrastructure Failure Natural gas infrastructure failures during Winter Storm Elliot resulted in the proposed imposition of an unprecedented $1.8 Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Unconventional shale gas operators were issued a total of 1,103 notices of violation so far in 2023, which means they are on track to exceed the 1,234 violations DEP issued them in 2022, according to DEP’s newly released 2022 Oil and Gas Program Annual Report. Click Here for a summary of 2022 shale gas and conventional violations.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The PA League of Women Voters and the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health is now accepting registrations for the 11th Annual Shale Gas & Public Health Conference to be held in-person and online November 14 in Pittsburgh.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

The original spill violations were issued on July 18, 2018-- nearly 6 years ago-- with no action by the well owner. Revenue from the 2023 Act 13 impact was already down 25%-- $105 million-- from the year before. Benko and found nothing was done to clean up multiple spills at the site since the last inspection on January 12.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

“I had a certain expectation that my water wouldn't be damaged, my house wouldn't be damaged, that this gross negligence wouldn't go on, that they wouldn't get fines from the DEP, that I wouldn't be exposed to radiation, I wouldn't be exposed to chemicals,” said Latkanich. That's the first approach,” said Latkanich. So I suffer with the pain.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

FirstEnergy Encourages Customers To Shop For Best Energy Deals As Fuel Costs Rise; Natural Gas Costs Driving Electric Rates Up Evangelical Environmental Network: U.S. Million In Environmental Improvement Projects Funded By Act 13 Drilling Impact Fees NFWF, EPA Announce $2.5

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Securities & Exchange Commission] filing where they warn investors in graphic detail about blowouts and cratering, explosions, uncontrollable flows of natural gas or well fluids polluting surface and groundwater fires, pipe and cement failures, pipeline ruptures, spills, and releases of toxic gases. Look at their annual SEC [U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2023

LLC’s Nancy 13 Conventional Well Leaking Gas, Production Wastewater Since 2018; Citizen Complaint Finds ‘Bubbling’ Gas Well [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - May 20 [PaEN] -- Heinz Endowments Awards Nearly $11.1

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Shapiro Provides Fresh Support To Key Changes Recommended In 2020 Grand Jury Report To Tighten Regulation Of The Natural Gas Drilling Industry To Better Protect Public Health, Environment [PaEN] -- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2021

of DEP’s regulations. Unconventional (shale) oil and gas drilling companies are prohibited by DEP’s regulations from disposing of their drilling wastewater on dirt and gravel roads, even though conventional wastewater is very similar and comes from the same source-- deep underground rock formations. From 1991 to 2017 over 240.4

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2021

This is a blatant example of how poorly our captured environmental regulators are serving the public’s interests. Our environmental regulators are only now starting to assess how much waste is being spread on our roads, and has been since 2018, and our public health officials don’t know about any of it.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Is your story being told? -- In Memoriam: Louise Dunlap A Leading Force Behind Coal Mine Reclamation, Regulation -- In Memoriam - Dr. Jim Finley, Fmr. Mensch Introduces Bill To Encourage Development Of Clean Vehicle Infrastructure- Electric, Natural Gas, Hydrogen -- 35 Senate, House Democrats Urge Gov. Support Local Journalism!

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