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DEP Imposed $2.2 Million In Penalties Against Shale Gas Drilling, Pipeline Companies In 2023 For Violations Dating Back To 2018

PA Environment Daily

Information provided by the Department of Environmental Protection in response to a Right to Know request shows DEP took major enforcement actions against 26 shale gas drilling and pipeline companies in 2023, including imposing $2,290,849 in penalties for violations going back to 2018. Read more here. Read more here. Fayette County.

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What’s Up With Water – January 10, 2023

Circle of Blue

Between 2019 and 2021, groundwater depletion was five times higher than average over the previous 60 years. The post What’s Up With Water – January 10, 2023 appeared first on Circle of Blue. In wet years, irrigation water comes from rivers. In dry years, though, farmers pump water from underground.

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Fresh, May 2, 2023: Mississippi River Flooding Reaches Historic Levels Along Illinois-Iowa Border

Circle of Blue

May 2, 2023 Fresh is a biweekly newsletter from Circle of Blue that unpacks the biggest international, state, and local policy news stories facing the Great Lakes region today. Davenport, Iowa, is used to such floods — waters reached similar levels in 2019, 2014, and 2008.

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The Stream, May 17, 2023: Morocco Boosts Funding, Ambitions for 30-Year Water Plan

Circle of Blue

Amidst these weather disruptions — “Trinidad’s average temperature has risen two and half times above the global average from 1946 to 2019,” according to the New York Times — citizens are reckoning with the government’s decision to pursue oil and gas. 4 Number of Category 5 storms experienced so far in 2023, Yale Climate Connections reports.

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Good News—and Bad—about Fossil Fuel Power Plants in 2023 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Solar power is expected to make up about half of all additions of US electric generating capacity in 2023, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Compiled by UCS from Energy Information Administration data as of January 2023. In 2019, air pollution more broadly was responsible for about 6.7

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IFO Reports 2023 PA Natural Gas Production Up 1.0% Over 2022, Thanks To Strong Q4 Production; Fewest New Wells Drilled In Last Decade

PA Environment Daily

On February 26, the Independent Fiscal Office reported 2023 Pennsylvania natural gas production was up 1.0% Total annual production was 7,520 billion cubic feet in 2023; 7,441 billion cubic feet in 2022; 7,563 billion cubic feet in 2021; 7,077 billion cubic feet in 2020; and 6,816 billion cubic feet in 2019.

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BOEM Slated to Act on Two Gulf of Maine Offshore Wind Activities in 2023

Law and Environment

Beginning in 2019, following a request from New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu, BOEM convened a Gulf of Maine Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force to identify opportunities for leasing and development on the Outer Continental Shelf in the Gulf of Maine. The agency is slated to act on both Requests in 2023.

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