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Shell Falcon Pipeline LP Pleads No Contest To Criminal Charges For Violating The State Clean Streams Law In Allegheny, Beaver, Washington Counties; Will Pay $300,000 In Penalties

PA Environment Daily

Shell Falcon Pipeline will pay $300,000 in penalties-- a $25,000 fine to the Department and $275,000 to the Independence Conservancy to support environmental restoration efforts. and nitrogen oxides in violation of the federal Clean Air Act, the state Air Pollution Control Act and the plant's permit. Read more here.

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General Assembly Diverted $3.602 Billion From Environmental Infrastructure Projects And Programs Into State Budget Black Hole

PA Environment Daily

Year after year environmental groups, conservation districts, farmers, local governments oppose the cuts and outline the critical environmental infrastructure needs communities have. This, in spite of the fact the PA Supreme Court has specifically declared $1.3 Read more here. million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5 million; and DEP: $4.2

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Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 11.15.21

PA Environment Daily

13, 14, 15 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY 11:00: House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets to consider House Bill 2075 (Knowles-R- Schuylkill) abrogating DEP’s air pollution control regulations covering heavy-duty trucks [Note: DEP already suspended enforcement of these regulations November 6 - Read more here.];

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Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 3.28.25

PA Environment Daily

Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT HOLDS STATE’S LEGAL REPRESENTATION LEGALLY INADEQUATE FOR FAILURE TO ARGUE ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT

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The Commonwealth Court then entered a preliminary injunction enjoining the RGGI regulation, holding that the regulation’s auction of emissions allowances was a tax not legislatively authorized under the Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act. Thus, the state has a duty to limit greenhouse gas emissions where authorized by statute.

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Bay Journal: Hellbender Habitat Slammed By Pollution From Shale Gas Development In PA's Loyalsock Creek

PA Environment Daily

The company obtained leases to create the wells from the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources before Democratic Gov. The hellbender was named by the state legislature as Pennsylvania’s state amphibian in 2019 and promoted as “Pennsylvania’s clean water ambassador.”

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Bay Journal: EPA Says PA’s Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Plan Falls Short, Again

PA Environment Daily

After the state submitted a plan in 2019 that failed to meet 2025 cleanup goals, Maryland, Virginia and Delaware, along with the District of Columbia, Chesapeake Bay Foundation and others filed suit against the EPA for failing to press the state to make greater progress. The dispute has found its way into court.