PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2024

On April 19, Attorney General Michelle Henry announced the filing of charges against Shell Falcon Pipeline LP for violations of Pennsylvania’s Clean Streams Law regarding construction of a 45-mile pipeline in western Pennsylvania. The case will be prosecuted by the Office of Attorney General’s Environmental Crimes Section.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 13, 2022

On April 13, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has reached two agreements with PLPT Logistics Products Terminals, LLC (PLPT), for violations of the Storage Tank and Spill Prevention Act and the Clean Streams Law. Posted: April 13, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency issued a proposed settlement in a lawsuit over Lake Erie nutrient pollution, a move that would set binding deadlines for state and federal agencies to set pollution limits for the lake. The action stems from a 2019 lawsuit by the Environmental Law and Policy Center, a public interest group.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2023

On January 31, the Department of Environmental Protection and the Professional Recyclers of Pennsylvania collaborated on a School Recycling Study Survey that shows Pennsylvania K-12 students have increased their knowledge and awareness of recycling over the past fiscal year. In 2019, the most recent year available, 5.25

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

More than 20,000 Americans died prematurely in 2015 from tailpipe emissions, according to a 2019 study. At the end of 2022, there were more than 283 million. Even after the pandemic hit, when more people were working at home, US commuters on average still spent nearly an hour to get back and forth to work in 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency. This funding is in addition to the federal well plugging program established in the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which is expected to bring Pennsylvania up to $395 million for conventional oil and gas well plugging over the next 15 years. Read more here. Read more here. On July 18, Gov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

According to the nonpartisan National Association of Attorneys General, a state attorney general’s job is to represent the public interest—not private, special interests—by, among other things, “enforcing federal and state environmental laws.” But he became even more entwined with the industry after becoming AG.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Toxicology Program, and the International Association of Research on Cancer classify EtO as a substance that can cause certain cancers. What are the health impacts associated with breathing it?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

With all the subtlety of a jackhammer, he asserted, “Until the latter part of the 20th century, there was no support in American law for a constitutional right to obtain an abortion. In his draft ruling, Alito conferred credibility and salience to British anti-abortion laws of the 17 th and 13 th centuries. Broader implications.

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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 (2022). Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2024

On January 26, 2024, the Department of Environmental Protection issued a notice of violation to Equitrans Midstream for abandoning and not plugging 19 conventional gas wells at the Swarts Natural Gas Storage Field in Greene County. 2019 Violations The environmental compliance record of Equitrans Midstreams is not encouraging.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

But a study published in the December 2022 issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health calculated that gas stoves are responsible for 12.7 A 2022 study found that gas stoves leak methane, and more than three-quarters of the emissions occurred when the stoves were off.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2022

Comments made at two Senate budget hearings last week again put the spotlight on how Pennsylvania’s environmental and pipeline safety laws are not strong enough to prevent environmental damage and protect public safety in new pipeline construction. It has become a cost of doing business. Read more here. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

September 8, 2022 . Harmful algal blooms are the biological consequence of a riptide of bloom-generating nutrients allowed by law and timid regulation to run off the land, particularly farm fields. Clean Water Act, a pivotal piece of American environmental law. By Keith Schneider, Circle of Blue. Photographs by J.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

laws governing the cross-border transport of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) for sequestration, and how such transportation fits into broader climate and environmental protection regimes, including the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, carbon markets and emissions trading. Her work explores international and domestic (U.S.) and a J.S.D.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2022

The original air quality permit for a proposed LNG plant in Wyalusing Township, Bradford County was issued by DEP on July 24, 2019. Posted: March 21, 2022] PA Environment Digest O’Neill, PennFuture Senior Attorney. An unlawfully issued permit for a dangerous facility is being set aside, and residents can breathe easier as a result.”

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

DEP issued 605 NOVs against unconventional shale gas operators and 149 to conventional oil and gas drillers for defective casing or cementing from 2016 through 2022, according to DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database. Written By David Hess, former Secretary, PA Department of Environmental Protection. Ridgebury Twp.

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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. Click Here to read the 2022 compliance report summary. That’s 25% more than in 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

15, 2022, and unsealed today, named Erie Coke Corporation, now permanently out of operation, and Anthony Nearhoof, 41, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as the defendants. The law provides for a maximum total sentence of not more than five years in prison, a fine of $250,000,00, and a term of supervised release of not more than three years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 3, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), stripping federal protections from countless wetlands and leaving these critical ecosystems exposed to devastating pollution and other damage from agriculture and other industries. In 2019, under the Trump administration, the EPA and the Army repealed the Obama-era definition of WOTUS.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Clark was appointed to the Environmental Hearing Board by Governor Tom Wolf in October 2022 and began serving on November 19, 2022, after confirmation by the Senate. Senior Counsel Maryanne Wesdock, who served as law clerk to Judge Renwand, stated, “Chief Judge Renwand loved serving on the Board. In January 2019, Ms.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

page D-6 ] The Budget Book says in FY 2022-23 Shell received $5 million in tax subsidies; in FY 2023-24 Shell will get $60.9 million; and in FY 2024-25 Shell will get another $65 million-- the maximum amount available by law. So far, the Department of Environmental Protection has imposed penalties totalling over $10.6

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In January 2022, the Fourth Circuit US Court of Appeals ruling on a Sierra Club lawsuit stripped the Mountain Valley Pipeline of construction permits in the Jefferson National Forest. In contrast, V-SCI is the passion project of an all volunteer group of graduate students, formed in 2019.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

ExxonMobil spent at least $39 million on some 70 of these organizations from 1998 through 2020, more than any funder besides Charles Koch and his brother David, co-owner of Koch Industries until his death in 2019. The company has yet to publish a report for its grantmaking in 2022, let alone 2023. The annual temperature was 1.48

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency fined Koch $30 million in 2000, the largest civil penalty on a company at the time, for over 300 oil spills from company pipelines in Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas including a 12­ mile-long oil slick off the coast of Texas. The fine was $30 million.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2022

On March 10, the Associated Press reported PUC Administrative Law Judge Joel H. Bad Compliance Record Actions by the PUC against Sunoco/Energy Transfer for violations related to Mariner East Pipeline construction are just the tip of the iceberg on compliance with state laws.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] This piece previously appeared in the CLS Blue Sky Blog.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 28, 2022

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law has given us a great opportunity, and I'm proud of the progress that we – along with our partners – have made to prepare Pennsylvania for a future filled with electric vehicles.” There are more than 31,000 EVs registered in Pennsylvania, nearly triple the roughly 9,700 that were registered in March 2019.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2022

The Department of Environmental Protection has issued 12 unconventional shale gas drillers notices of violation for abandoning gas wells without plugging them at 35 wells pads (each with multiple wells) in 17 counties between 2016 and 2022, according to DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Reporting system. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The groups said the company attached a table showing 32 instances of non-compliance for dates ranging from 2/21/2018 to 3/11/2022 for eight unique project names/permits. Of the 601 non-compliances, 75 are specifically violations of the state Clean Streams Law (CSL). "A DEP Inspection Record No. 3363279 (IR) is included as Exhibit 2.

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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. more than in 2022 and 569.9% Click Here to read the 2022 compliance report summary. more than in 2021 and 26.6% Read more here.

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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. L-2019-3010267. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2023

Before serving in the Thornburgh administration, Seif led the legal branch at the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Region 3 in Philadelphia. After leaving the governor’s office, he went on to head EPA Region 3 in 1985 and became the first Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in 1995.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

However, in January 2021, President Biden passed two Executive Orders (EO) ( EO 13985 and EO 14008 ) which focus on racial equity and supporting underserved communities as it pertains to environmental health. Additionally, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) also recently released a report on cumulative impacts as well.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 20, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency requirement to control emissions from oil and gas operations. From November 6 to 19, 2022 a leaking conventional gas well at the Equitrans Rager Mountain Storage Area in Cambria County vented an estimated 1 billion cubic feet of natural gas that could be seen from space. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2022

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the March 19 PA Bulletin inviting comments on a proposed technical guidance on Trenchless [Horizontal Drilling] Pipeline Construction. To help develop the guidance, DEP formed a Work Group that has issued a draft report and recommendations as background on the guidance.

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