PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

million to pay for DCNR operations from Oil and Gas Lease Fund; -- FY 2018-19 appropriations for Susquehanna and Delaware River Basin Commissions and Interstate Commission on the Potomac River cut by half - $477,000; and -- FY 2018-19 transfer of $48.7 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses. Total to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Individual Records & Summaries Click here for violation data on ExxonMobil Total Penalties $2,230,170,304 (September 29, 2022) Number of Records 527 Books Catch Me If You Can: Exxon's Complicity in Liberian Oil Sector Corruption and how its Washington Lobbyists Fight to Keep Oil Deals Secret (Global Witness, 2018). and Chevron Corp CVX.N

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses. Total to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses. Total to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses. Total to pay $2.9

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Frontiers

MAY 20, 2021

Of 19,868 PhD studentships awarded by all the research councils between 2016 and 2018, only 245, 1.2 % were awarded to black and mixed-race students and only 30 were awarded to black Caribbean students. For example, there are only 26 black female professors in the UK.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses. Total to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Individual Records & Summaries Click here for violation data on ExxonMobil Total Penalties $2,230,170,304 (September 29, 2022) Number of Records 527 Books Catch Me If You Can: Exxon's Complicity in Liberian Oil Sector Corruption and how its Washington Lobbyists Fight to Keep Oil Deals Secret (Global Witness, 2018). and Chevron Corp CVX.N

2017 52

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses. Total to pay $2.9

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In 2018, the company was denied drilling permits in Brazil's sensitive Foz do Amazonas basin. million in fines and upgrade pollution controls at its 240,000 b/d Port Arthur, Tex., In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses. Total to pay $2.9

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This map shows nitrate concentrations in drinking water between 2016 and 2018 for federally regulated water systems. But the fact that the facility exists, Corrigan said, is an indictment of the state’s pollution-control measures. “It’s It’s a cost that we shouldn’t have,” Corrigan said. “It’s

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 5, 2021

Senate/House AP: Judge Tosses Lawsuit Seeking End To Delaware Watershed Fracking Ban SpotlightPA: PA Lawmakers Are On Summer Break, Here Are 5 Issues They’ll Face This Fall Farewell To Joint Legislative Air and Water Pollution Control and Conservation Committee After 53 Years Air The Center Square: SW PA Family Urges Governor To Broaden Pending Rule (..)

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 23, 2021

All three landfills are operated by the County subject to oversight and permits by the County Department of Environmental Health Services, the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, the Regional Water Quality Control Board, and the Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2021

This score is lower than the previous assessment period (2016—2018), when Bay water quality standards attainment was estimated to be 38 percent. Experts mainly attribute this decline to unusually wet weather in 2018 and 2019.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

PVC plants operated by Formosa in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and in Point Comfort, Texas, have also been subject to numerous protests over pollution and elevated cancer rates. In 2018, the company announced plans to build a $10 billion complex named ‘The Sunshine Project,’ with 10 chemical manufacturing plants, in St.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

This disproportionate pollution burden causes high cancer risk, and is likely a leading reason for why Allegheny County is in the top 1% of all US counties for cancer risk from toxic air. Plant emissions have violated the Clean Air Act for years, and the company has been fined over $10 million since 2018.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The suit builds off of a 2018 law, passed by the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, that gave inherent legal rights to wild rice. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency announced in August that Enbridge caused 28 drilling mud spills, including 13 into a wetland, in violation of a federal environmental permit.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In 2018, the world entered a municipal waste management crisis. However, most of the world’s recycling is exported to lower-income countries, where recycling is cheaper to process due to weak law enforcement and informal sector recycling with no pollution controls. Exporting Recycling, Exporting Pollution. ? contaminated.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

USA: Coke and Pepsi sued for creating a plastic pollution ‘nuisance’ Erin McCormick | The Guardian | February 27, 2020 Coke, Pepsi, Nestlé and other large companies are being sued by a California environmental group for creating a plastic pollution “nuisance” and misleading consumers about the recyclability of plastic.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The company has also been criminally charged with violations of the Air Pollution Control Act in Washington County. CNX committed crimes in our county. Why should we believe or trust them now? How will they be protecting the health of citizens that live next to their facilities including pig stations?

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EPA

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The act gave the agency new tools to join with states, tribes, and communities to prevent pollution before it happens. It also marked a shift in the paradigm of environmental protection which had been mostly focused on end-of-pipe pollution control and clean-up strategies.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

In June 2018, DEP finalized an Air Quality General Permit to reduce methane emissions from new unconventional oil and gas operations. [The conventional regulations were challenged in Commonwealth Court by conventional oil and gas operators. There has been no announcement by DEP on how they are implementing their new regulations.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

billion spent in the past five years under the 2018 Farm Bill. Farmers who don’t agree to adopt the new pollution-control measures would lose the insurance subsidy. . As part of the Inflation Reduction Act enacted in August, Congress approved $18.05 billion to be spent on farmland conservation programs.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2022

Frustration in the ability of state law to prevent damage caused by pipeline construction related to the Mariner East Pipeline can be illustrated by a 2018 quote from Republican Sen. The Republicans that run the Senate and House have spent literally years ignoring legislation to improve natural gas and hazardous liquids pipeline safety.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Just a year later, however, the industry encountered a potentially major obstacle: A study conducted by the government’s National Air Pollution Control Administration found a link between outdoor NO2 exposure and childhood respiratory problems. Since May 2018, AGA also has spent more than $113,000 on 440 Facebook and Instagram ads.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Using a formula set forth in the 2018 TSCA Fees Rule, EPA calculated a fee increase of 18.9% over the fees set in the 2018 rule. N: Memorandum from Director, Pollution Control & Clean Up Directorate, EPA Office of Inspector Gen., Safety & Pollution Prevention (Oct. 26, 2021).]]

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2022

After inspecting the in-stream and bank work in August and September, DEP cited the company for the failure of a coffer dam, inadequate pollution controls on streambanks, illegally blocking the entire stream, failure to report sediment pollution and not following approved sediment control measures.

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

Supreme Court denied fossil fuel companies’ petition for writ of certiorari seeking review of the Ninth Circuit’s decision reversing the district court’s 2018 denial of Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change nuisance cases to California state court. On June 14, 2021, the U.S. June 25, 2021). 52952-1-II (Wash.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The rule took effect on January 17, 2017; on June 15, 2017, BLM issued a notice of postponement of January 17, 2018 compliance dates. The rule requires that measures be taken, beginning in January 2018, to reduce venting and flaring from oil and gas production on federal and tribal lands. Center for Biological Diversity v. filed Oct.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

In the final days of the Trump Administration, EPA issued final determinations to regulate PFOA and PFOS in drinking water under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), a process the Agency started in 2018. In addition, EPA requested nominations for the next CCL in 2018 but has not published the final.

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