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

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Davenport, Iowa, is used to such floods — waters reached similar levels in 2019, 2014, and 2008. In releasing this wastewater the facility violated a national permit, though according to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the majority of the release was “clear storm water” and the threat to public health is “slim.”

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

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million put into budgetary reserve in 2008-09 from the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; -- $5 million reduction in Resource Enhancement and Protection (REAP) farm conservation tax credit program in FY 2009-10; -- $102.8 million from DEP, $1.5 million; DCNR: $1.5

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Environmental, Health Groups Submit Petition To Environmental Quality Board For More Protective Setbacks From Shale Gas Wells For Schools, Daycares, Hospitals, Buildings, Drinking Water Wells, Surface Water

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Pennsylvania agencies have a constitutional duty to heed the overwhelming evidence and require minimum setbacks to protect the Commonwealth’s residents and natural resources from further peril.” “20 Click Here for a copy of the rulemaking petition.

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Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 3.28.25

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The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Noon to 1:00 p.m.

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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 RGGI auction proceeds are payments for use of public trust resources.

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

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The Pennsylvania-based natural gas producer is building a water withdrawal point on the stream and laying a 20-inch pipeline across it to connect up to 80 fracked gas wells that will be developed on mountaintops on opposite sides of the stream in Loyalsock State Forest. Tom Wolf placed a moratorium on fracking leases in state forests in 2015.

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EPA, Justice Dept., DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4 Million In Abandoned Well Plugging Funding Against Shale Gas Drilling Companies-- XTO Energy, Inc., Hilcorp Energy Company For Federal, State Clean Air Act Violations

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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.