PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

Because it's an oil and gas waste, nobody's required to carry these safety data sheets. 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. They're not even required to tell you. Kids put everything in their mouth.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Among the issues raised by the appellants in their original appeal were-- concerns the landfill’s operation would attract birds and interfere with the operation of the nearby Grove City Airport; that the oil and gas drilling wastes the landfill was allowed to accept presented a radiation hazard; and the landfill’s compliance history.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2023

2018) determined that between 2008 and 2014, spreading OGPW on roads in Pennsylvania released 4-times more radium than centralized treatment facilities and potentially 200-times more than accidental spill events.” Operators reported road dumping a total of 3,259,405 gallons of their wastewater from 2018 through 2021. Read more here.

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Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

That means much less waste and a better deal for the environment. That’s why gas-powered cars need complex and expensive radiator systems with their associated belts, pipes, and heat exchangers. Both have much less environmental impact than coal, oil, or natural gas. In 2018, eighty-two dams were removed.

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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

JULY 25, 2022

Background On Road Dumping From Penn State’s new study -- Using oil and gas wastewater from conventional wells to control dust was considered a beneficial use of the residual waste on the state’s 25,000 miles of dirt and gravel roads, since it was thought to have a chemical composition and behavior similar to commercial dust suppression products.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 27, 2022

“The ineffectiveness and potential pollution of wastewater spreading make the practice an unsuitable alternative for dust suppression on Pennsylvania roads, the team reported to the DEP’s Office of Oil and Gas Management. million gallons from 2018 to 2021. Read more here.] Read more here. 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

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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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

These can be natural events or, as is the case at present, the result of industrial age actions in increasing greenhouse gases and reducing carbon sinks. Commercial Waste : Any waste material produced as a byproduct of commercial or industrial activity. As it is a waste, it serves no purpose on its own.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

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. Natural gas” was a marketing term for this then-new, safer gas pumped through urban distribution pipes starting in the 1940s. the absence of air.

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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

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

DEP’s inspection report also includes violations for failure to submit production and waste generation and well integrity reports. On April 29, 2024 , DEP inspected the James Burns 3074 gas well in Rose Township, Jefferson County owned by Diversified Prod LLC as a result of a complaint of gas contaminating a private water supply.

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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 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

JANUARY 10, 2024

Dietz Gas & Oil, Inc. Diversified Prod LLC [36 NOVs] DJW Enterprises Eastern Gas Transmission & Storage, Inc. Economy Natural Gas, Inc. Fortress Energy Corp Fyrerock Reservoir Consulting Go Energy LLC H&S Gas & Oil Hyde Park Foundry Iron PA Land LLC Jeanne B. EXCO Resources PA, Inc. Petro Erie, Inc.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Pecora Enterprises Pennfield Energy [10 NOVs] Penn View Exploration Peoples Natural Gas Co. Range Resources Appalachia Rannuff Oil & Gas Co. Reel Resources Rice Drilling B LLC Riverstone Farm Roulette Oil & Gas LLC Schenker, John Schrecengost, Fred M. 16 to 22 - 2nd Abandoned Shale Gas Well Pad? 28 to Nov.

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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

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. of DEP’s regulations. Read more here.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

-- Natural Lands, Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership Host Feb. Mensch Introduces Bill To Encourage Development Of Clean Vehicle Infrastructure- Electric, Natural Gas, Hydrogen -- 35 Senate, House Democrats Urge Gov. Rural Communities On The Front Lines Of Solar's Growth -- Sen.

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