PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2023

Funding for the program that does permit reviews, inspections and enforcement of state laws and regulations covering conventional and unconventional shale gas drilling and natural gas infrastructure is based on permit review fees and an occasional $6 million transfer to DEP from the Marcellus Legacy Fund supported by Act 13 drilling impact fees.

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

December 14, 2023. General Assembly returned to a very aggressive effort to influence environmental rules in 2023. Farm Act of 2023 (Senate Bill 582) and the Regulatory Reform Act of 2023 (House Bill 600) all contained provisions weakening existing environmental protections and in some cases preventing adoption of new standards.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

On February 5, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has begun an emergency project to plug two leaking abandoned natural gas wells along Scrubgrass Road in Scott Township, Allegheny County. DEP has been trying to get the operators of the wells-- Economy Natural Gas Inc. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

Shapiro Provides Fresh Support To Key Changes Recommended In 2020 Grand Jury Report To Tighten Regulation Of The Natural Gas Drilling Industry To Better Protect Public Health, Environment Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

By Reid Frazier The following article was first published by The Allegheny Front on October 3, 2023 -- Captain Evan Clark of Three Rivers Waterkeeper started trawling the shores of the Ohio River in Beaver County in September 2022 to monitor Shell’s newly opened ethane cracker for water pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Deluzio Pushes For Passage Of Rail Safety Legislation In Congress [PA Bill Stuck In Senate] 6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables [ There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay ] -- AAA Gasoline Prices: Pennsylvania $3.85; National $3.82 ; Ohio $3.52 -- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drill Rigs Same (..)

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The 2020 Grand Jury investigating shale gas development recommended the following guideline for aggregating industry emissions: “If air-polluting fracking facilities are stationed in close proximity, treat them as one source, and regulate accordingly. According the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2023

“An unconventional gas well near spaces used by the public for recreational purposes could threaten the ambient air quality and cause significant noise pollution.” The Court also held changing a regulation between proposed and final does not violate the Commonwealth Documents Law in this circumstance. In fact, Gov. Read more here. [In

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Jessica Shirley Jessica Shirley was named Acting Executive Deputy Secretary at DEP in February 2023. Prior to joining DEP she worked in the Department of Labor and Industry on workforce development, labor law compliance and unemployment compensation issues from 2010 to 2011. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

These higher costs are being driven by a major overreliance on natural gas, which has sharply spiked in price and is currently the dominant fuel source in the US for both home heating and electricity generation. The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2023

28, 2023 for the facility in Potter and Center Townships, Beaver County. ( 28, 2023 for the facility in Potter and Center Townships, Beaver County. ( 28, 2023 for the facility in Potter and Center Townships, Beaver County. ( 28, 2023 for the facility in Potter and Center Townships, Beaver County. ( Susquehanna County. (

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

On September 27, Bryn Hammarstrom, from the Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group , expressed concerns with locating a Seneca Resources shale gas well pad on State Forest Land to accommodate taking natural gas from private land in Tioga County. their obligation is to benefit both state and private property owners equally.”

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2023

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported in November 2021 DEP had only $15 per well available to plug the number of active conventional oil and gas wells now on the books with DEP and estimates are state taxpayers are financially responsible for $5.1 billion or more of well plugging costs due to woefully inadequate well bonding requirements.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: April 17, 2023] PA Environment Digest Million Pounds Of Industrial Air Pollutants Discharged In Pittsburgh Area In 2021 Came From U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2023

On January 19, DEP released two more bid packages to plug 43 more abandoned conventional natural gas wells in Clarion County at taxpayer expense under the new federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law well plugging program. Click Here for more information. -- Venango County: 19 abandoned natural gas wells in Cornplanter Township.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

On April 13, House Bill 170 (Otten-D-Chester) was introduced to expand safety zones around oil and gas wells and related natural gas infrastructure to help reduce their adverse impacts on public health and the environment. Yet the state law minimum “set-back” for well construction is only 500 feet. Read more here.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

The 2023-2028 SHIP was developed in collaboration with the Healthy Pennsylvania Partnership (HPP), with support from Harrisburg University. In 2018, “the name of the program was changed to Oil and Natural Gas Production to cover potential health impacts from both conventional and unconventional oil and gas production.”

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The Energy Law Blog

JUNE 30, 2023

As of June 7, 2023, a bill aiming to prohibit entities controlled by “foreign adversaries” from buying, leasing, or otherwise acquiring immovable property in the state has passed both the Louisiana House and Senate and is now awaiting the Governor’s approval. billion dollars’ worth of holdings in 2020. Sponsored by Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

DEP also issued fresh violations for failure of the operator to comply with a Commonwealth Court order issued on August 16, 2023 requiring remediation of the sites for releases of wastewater based on violations issued on October 24, 2022. The shale gas well on the pad was drilled in February 2023 and fracked in June 2023.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Issued on: 17/11/2023 - 12:13 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. Issued on: 17/11/2023 - 12:13 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. In the U.S. Total’s refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was told to pay $39.9 million in 2013.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

An April 5 webinar hosted by Truthdig will feature a panel discussion on Radioactivity and Oil and Gas Development from Noon to 2:00 p.m. on YouTube. Justin Nobel, science journalist, will moderate the panel discussion. Nobel writes on issues of science and the environment for U.S. magazines, investigative sites and literary journals.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 20, 2023

Forest Service] in Mead Township, Warren County on March 23, 2023. [ DEP is now monitoring cleanup efforts in the areas affected by the spill. Cameron Energy had a similar release due to a crude oil gathering pipeline failure at the USFS KL2 Well [U.S. DEP inspection report with photos.]

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2023

From April 15 to 21, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 465 inspection entries that resulted in reporting 50 violations of environmental regulations-- 46 violations by the conventional oil and gas industry and 4 violations by the unconventional shale natural gas industry.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2023

The emergency flaring of natural gas at the plant triggered when there are malfunctions, caused a separate light problem. When it snows, the light scatter is appalling. That's what bothers me most of all,” said one neighbor of the Shell Plastics Plant in Potter Township, Beaver County.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Issued on: 02/10/2023 - 14:20Modified: 02/10/2023 - 14:19 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. Issued on: 02/10/2023 - 14:20Modified: 02/10/2023 - 14:19 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation. In the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 16, 2023

The 2021 Oil and Gas Program Annual Report issued by DEP in December shows conventional oil and gas operators received a record 610 notices of violation for abandoning wells without plugging them and unconventional shale gas operators received 27 NOVs.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Climate of fear: TotalEnergies implicated in repression of land and environmental defenders in East Africa Global Witness PaulaR Thu, 12/14/2023 - 13:39 Monday, December 4, 2023 Read more Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. Civil society believes that this decision is contrary to the spirit of this law and harmful to its implementation.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

The change in Governors will mean these regularly packages will not be finalized for public comment until sometime in 2023. Wolf in a formal statement published in the July 30 PA Bulletin and came in the wake of the Governor allowing House Bill 2644 to become law without his signature. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 21, 2023

These rights are supported by a relatively sophisticated set of environmental laws, with a long-awaited Climate Change Bill in the pipeline. It also recognised that South Africa had international law obligations flowing from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. million in 2013.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. million in 2013.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

In light of this case’s potential to break new ground on the judicial interpretation of the CLCPA, it’s worth examining how the state’s administrative agencies have interpreted or applied the statute since it became effective in 2020. Outside of DEC, agency engagement with Sections 7(2) and 7(3) has varied greatly.

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Natural Gas Clean Air Act Law Greenhouse 58

Renewable + Law

MAY 24, 2022

The Commission solicited proposals for a new RA framework starting in 2020, and in 2021 it tentatively adopted Pacific Gas and Electric’s (PG&E) slice-of-day proposal in decision 21-07-014. The Commission ordered a series of workshops to further develop the proposal, culminating in a workshop report submitted March 1, 2022.

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Renewable + Law

MAY 24, 2022

The Commission solicited proposals for a new RA framework starting in 2020, and in 2021 it tentatively adopted Pacific Gas and Electric’s (PG&E) slice-of-day proposal in decision 21-07-014. The Commission ordered a series of workshops to further develop the proposal, culminating in a workshop report submitted March 1, 2022.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Mercenary hackers stole data that Exxon later cited in climate lawsuits -US prosecutors Yahoo News PaulaR Tue, 11/07/2023 - 17:23 Thursday, October 12, 2023 Read more Raphael Satter & Christopher Bing WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. org Summary ExxonMobil is a fossil fuel company headquartered in Irving, Texas.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Shell campaign IndustriALL Global Union | May 22, 2020 IndustriALL is calling on Shell to engage with unions on a global level in a campaign to limit precarious work, improve health and safety, and ensure that Shell applies the same high-level standards at its operations everywhere, including suppliers.

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