PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2024

That means they are going to politicians with their hand out to receive more of your tax dollars with nothing to show for it except receipts from past failures like leaking pipelines, harmful air pollution, and dangerous explosions. Million Settlement Over 2019 South Philly Refinery Explosion, Fire -- AP: EPA Reaches $4.2

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

Its a daily litany of spills, polluted water supplies, smell of natural gas in the air, noise, air pollution, explosions, landslides, truck traffic, radioactive waste, gas flares, erosion problems, dust, lights, road dumping waste, abandoned equipment and wells. 30 to Dec. 26 to Nov. 28 to Oct. 31 to Sept.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Million Settlement, Largest Of Its Kind, Over 2019 Philadelphia Refinery Explosion [Includes Copy Of Proposed Settlement] -- WHYY - Sophia Schmidt: EPA Reaches Historic $4.2 Million Settlement Over 2019 South Philly Refinery Explosion, Fire -- AP: EPA Reaches $4.2

Toxic Substances Control Act

Law Columbia

MAY 30, 2025

Last Thursday, May 22, the New York State Court of Appeals the States highest court issued a decision upholding New York Citys Local Law 97 of 2019. The City Council is also considering a bill that would require the Department of Environmental Protection to promulgate a rule to regulate indirect sources of air pollution.

Law

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Japan ) and a second in Yokosuka in 2019 ( Yokosuka Climate Case ). In the 2019 case, the judgments focused on the procedural aspect of the replacement of the coal-fired power plant and discussion of the climate issues was limited. The court viewed climate change as an uncertain future danger.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

penalty and $5 million restitution from the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County for air pollution violations; -- $1.4 Million Investment In Reducing Oil & Gas Facility Air Pollution Emissions [December 2024] -- EPA, Justice Dept., DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties [Shared Equally], Plus $1.4

2014

Enviromental Defense

JULY 9, 2025

The number of jobs in the industry as well as the wages for those jobs that remain are still lower than 2019 levels. Oil and Gas Pollution is Costing Canadians Money Beyond direct costs, oil and gas pollution has widespread economic consequences.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

XTO) [ExxonMobil] and Hilcorp Energy Company (Hilcorp) , agreed to resolve alleged Clean Air Act and Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act violations involving their oil and gas production operations in Pennsylvania. The EPA identified the alleged violations through field investigations conducted in 2018 and 2019.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2025

However, both the text of the Clean Air Act and prior case law make it clear that EPA cannot consider costs when making scientific determinations regarding the effect of air pollutants on public health and welfare. The Supreme Court explicitly held in Massachusetts v. 7521(a)(1).

2009

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4% As of 2020, the three largest sources of emissions in Pennsylvania are: -- Electricity Generation (29% of gross emissions) -- Transportation Fuel Consumption (22% of gross emissions) -- Industrial Emissions (19% of gross emissions) Emissions from electricity generation decreased 10.4% from 2005 to 2020.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 17, 2025

However, a rapid adoption by three major railroads caused the share of Class I railroad revenue from PSR-utilizing firms to increase from less than 7 percent in 2016 to 70 percent by 2019, where it remains today (privately owned BNSF is the only Class I carrier not yet to adopt PSR).

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

Benefits Outweigh Costs 3-12 Times] Between 1970 and 2019 , emissions of common air pollutants decreased 77 percent while our economy more than tripled. Another credible analysis found the benefits of the Clean Air Act exceeded its costs by more than 30 to one.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2025

Mercer County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On 401 Water Quality Certification For Rover Pipeline Rover-Bulger Compressor Station, Harmon Creek Meter Station Expansion In Smith Twp., Washington County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Chapter 105 Permit For A MarkWest Liberty 4.5

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

4 In Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- PUC Commissioner Kathryn Zerfuss Appointed To EPA’s Farm, Ranch And Rural Communities Advisory Committee -- TribLive: Eureka, Citizens Gifted Eplugs To Fire Company To Thwart Electric Vehicle Dangers -- Moms Clean Air Force Nov. DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Million Settlement Of Air Pollution Violations For 2019 Philadelphia Refinery Explosion, Fire; Public Comments Invited [PaEN] [Posted: October 11, 2024] PA Environment Digest

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2025

17 Abandoned Conventional Wells Amer Natural Resources LLC - Violations: 7 Wells, Failed to Comply With Plugging Order (63 Months) March 20, 2025 inspections of 7 conventional wells in Allegheny County found them abandoned and not plugged and as a result the owner failed to comply with a DEP order issued on December 12, 2019 to plug the wells.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

In 2019, DEP issued a $319,461 penalty to Energy Transfer/Sunoco for environmental violations related to construction of the Energy Transfer/Sunoco Mariner East Pipelines in 11 counties-- Berks, Blair, Cambria, Cumberland, Delaware, Lebanon, Perry, Washington and Westmoreland County. In 2020, DEP issued a $1.95 Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2025

Air Quality Permits - Comments -- Philadelphia Air Management Services: Constellation Richmond Electric Generating Station (fuel oil/kerosene) : Comments invited on the renewal of the Title V Air Quality Permit for the facility located at 3901 North Delaware Ave., Philadelphia. ( Butler County. Received Dec. 27, Issued Dec.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

.] -- The Allegheny Front: Advice From A Youth Climate Organizer; Preview Of Pittsburgh Youth Climate Summit -- StateCollege.com Guest Essay: Youth Know The Direction America Should Take - Im Listening - By Peter Buck, Director of Education At Penn State Sustainability -- Criminal Convictions; Record Penalties, Restitution Of Over $158.3

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2025

Pollution has impacted your air quality, making it hard to breathe and causing asthma in many places, like in Philadelphia after the oil refinery explosion in 2019 and in Pittsburgh near the Clairton Coke Works US Steel plant after a fire and ongoing concerns of pollution.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

Mercer County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On 401 Water Quality Certification For Rover Pipeline Rover-Bulger Compressor Station, Harmon Creek Meter Station Expansion In Smith Twp., Washington County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Chapter 105 Permit For A MarkWest Liberty 4.5

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2024

22 In Washington County -- Mon Valley Clean Air Fund Sets 3 Outreach Sessions Starting Oct. Million Settlement Of Air Pollution Violations For 2019 Philadelphia Refinery Explosion, Fire; Public Comments Invited [PaEN] -- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: EPA Reaches $4.2

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

Data Centers Impacts On Electricity Grid -- PJM Interconnection Reliability Initiative Attracts 94 Applications For 26.6

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

[Editors Note: The Independent Fiscal Office reported in February Pennsylvania exported 87 million MW hours of electricity to other states and net exports increased by 24% from 2019 to 2024 and produced 18% of the total generation of the PJM region in 2024. Read more here.] Read more here.

Natural Gas

Yale E360

MAY 28, 2025

For the study, researchers amassed data on breast, ovarian, cervical, and uterine cancer across North Africa and the Middle East from 1998 to 2019. Researchers said that increasingly extreme heat is making air pollution worse, weakening our immune systems , and putting additional strain on hospitals.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

. -- LehighValley-Based Wildlands Conservancy Highlight December Activities, Programs -- Dickinson College To Host Atmospheric Scientist Katharine Hayhoe To Discuss Finding Hope In The Face Of Climate Change During Public Talk Dec. 4 In Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- Federal Highway Administration, Fish & Wildlife Service Host Dec.

Conservation

New Scientist

JANUARY 5, 2022

million new childhood asthma cases were linked with exposure to nitrogen dioxide in 2019, 8.5 A US and Canadian team have estimated 1.85 per cent of all new cases that year.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency announced the federal government has settled its final federal Clean Air Act (CAA) claim against Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining and Marketing, LLC pertaining to the June 21, 2019 fire and explosion at its former South Philadelphia refinery. NewsClip: -- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: EPA Reaches $4.2

2019

Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

This is an historic effort though it falls short of the broader ‘ Green New Deal ‘ goals that were proposed in 2019, and doesn’t include all of the elements that were in the proposed 2021 reconcilliation package (the American Jobs Plan in “ Build Back Better “) that ultimately floundered.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Delhi, 2019: Don’t Breath The Air. For several years, India’s capital of Delhi has been synonymous with awful air quality: just living there is the equivalent of smoking nearly 2,000 cigarettes a year. So it shocked me when the Indian Express reported that last week, Bombay’s air was even worse than Delhi’s.

Air Pollution

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

US emissions went down by around 15% between 2007 and 2019, while GDP per person went up around 25%. They also reduce air pollution and benefit public health. He could have added that economic growth and quality of life don’t necessarily go together. In short, maybe we can have our cake and eat it too.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2024

District Court on Monday a proposed consent decree in settlement of their federal Clean Air Act lawsuit against United States Steel Corporation. Clean air is a right, not a privilege, for all Pittsburghers,” said David Masur, executive director of PennEnvironment , the citizen-based non-profit and state group for Environment America.

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

EPA proposed changes to its MON rule in 2019, regulating toxic emissions for about 200 chemical plants that produce solvents, plastics, and pesticides across the country. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has also acknowledged that it has a role to play in identifying alternatives to EtO for sterilizing medical equipment.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It’s immediately clear how fully-electric battery electric vehicles (BEVs) can help reduce emissions; eliminating gasoline and tailpipes in favor of increasingly clean electricity helps limit both climate change and air pollution. Plug-in hybrids are a bit more complicated. BEV or PHEV? Not necessarily.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Smaller vehicles and big fleets are leading the charge Where just a handful of zero-emission trucks and buses were deployed annually in the US just a few years ago (around 600 total in 2019), over 27,500 zero-emission MHDVs were deployed in 2023. While this represents a small fraction of the national MHDV sales (around 2.5

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Investing in transportation electrification would not only reduce climate impacts from Minnesota’s largest source of global warming emissions, but would reduce particulate matter air pollution, which disproportionately harms Black, Latinx and low-income Minnesotans. $4 In 2019, Minnesota Gov.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The FDA, which is part of HHS, regulates approved methods for medical device sterilization and initiated a process to identify alternative sterilization methods in 2019. Yet, over the last five years, the agency has offered few updates on this process.

Clean Air Act