PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In August of 2020 when the last permit fee increase was put in place, DEP estimated it would need the revenue from 2,000 unconventional shale gas permits a year to adequately support the regulatory program for both conventional and unconventional oil and gas drilling. In 2023, DEP received just over 663 shale gas permit applications.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2024

As new trees go into the ground this fall, the Partnership is looking ahead to 2025. “As Related Articles - Watersheds: -- Environmental Quality Board To Consider Proposed Spill Notification Regulation; Blasting; NOx & VOC Corrections Nov. PaEN] -- Registration Now Open For PASA 2025 Sustainable Agriculture Conference Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

DEP has told a series of agency advisory committees they do not plan to adopt new regulations incorporating the EPA rule because state regulations automatically adopt federal requirements. Click Here for DEPs presentation slides on the federal regulation. Click Here to register to attend via Microsoft Teams. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

DEP Compliance Response Klapkowski said, “In response to this non-compliance, DEP has undertaken significant efforts to compel compliance with Pennsylvania’s rules and regulations or penalize operators. Governor Shapiro’s 2025-26 budget proposes $19 million to continue finding and plugging wells and the important mission of this office.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Read more here ] In June 2020, Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced the findings and recommendations of Pennsylvanias 43rd Statewide Investigating Grand Jury report on the unconventional oil and gas industry. million penalty and restitution in Beaver County; Third- Equitrans $1.1 million penalty for uncontrolled release of 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2025

The wells were plugged in 2020. Of Health, Penn State Medical Webinars On Caring For Persons Living & Working In Communities With Oil & Natural Gas Extraction [January 2025] -- Part II - Health Impacts: State Dept.

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National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

The decision, issued on May 29, 2025, stemmed from a lawsuit filed by a landowner in 2024 who claimed that Swampbuster was both an unconstitutional violation of the Commerce Clause and served as an unconstitutional taking of private land. Iowa, May 29, 2025) was initially filed by a landowner in Iowa on April 16, 2024. 3822 (a)(5).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Earlier this year, the MPSC approved a settlement agreement on Consumers Energy’s integrated resource plan that commits the company to retire all its remaining coal-fired power plants by 2025, construct no new fossil gas infrastructure, and build large amounts of new solar power between now and 2040. What’s in DTE’s proposed plan?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

On May 8, 2025 surveillance cameras again caught the latest incidents of conventional oil and gas wastewater being dumped on a section of a dirt road paved with tar and stone chips in Warren County-- this time at about 1:43 a.m. in the morning. Read more here. Read more here. Forest Service. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2025

LLC On April 22, 2025, DEP was notified of a well plugging incident at the Brown 1447 conventional well site in Morris Township, Greene County that resulted in contaminating a livestock water supply, two springs and a small stream. Original violations issued March 7, 2025. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2022

This increase will result in vehicle batteries comprising a much higher percentage of the recycling stream; retirements are expected to be 6 to 7 times higher in 2025 than in 2020 and 20 to 40 times higher in 2030. This is not unlike how mattress, paint, and carpet disposal is currently regulated within California.

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National Law Center

JUNE 12, 2025

3, Issue 11, from June 12, 2025. 3, Issue 11 (June 12, 2025). Click below to sign up for The Feed, and also read the PDF for Vol. To sign up for The Feed, click here. Click here to view Vol. Share: Recent Posts The Feed: Vol.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

Tesla market share used to be even higher (60% in 2020 vs 45% in 2023), and they’ve been trying to maintain it with lower pricing—to the benefit of prospective buyers but the chagrin of competing manufacturers and Hertz ( declining prices on new Teslas was a key factor for downsizing their EV fleet). Tesla dominates the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2024

On December 5, DEP told the Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board there is a “very significant budget gap” in the funding needed for the Oil and Gas Regulatory Program again this year and that how to fund the program will be a serious topic of discussion in 2025.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The state plans to reduce heat trapping emissions 28 percent by 2025 and 52 percent by 2030 below 2005 levels, and to become carbon neutral by 2050. Other state regulators are setting an example. In 2020, Hawaii’s Public Utility Commission implemented an expedited process for pilot approvals.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Related Articles - Watersheds: -- Environmental Quality Board To Consider Proposed Spill Notification Regulation; Blasting; NOx & VOC Corrections Nov. PaEN] -- Registration Now Open For PASA 2025 Sustainable Agriculture Conference Feb. How Dry Is It In Western Pennsylvania? 5-7 In Lancaster [PaEN] -- PA Forestry Assn.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2025

That system includes Pennsylvanias 2025 Trail of the Year, the Path of the Flood Trail in Johnstown, as well as the 49 -mile Ghost Town Trail , designated Trail of the Year in 2020. Posted: May 23, 2025] PA Environment Digest Visit PECs Audio Room for the latest podcasts. Click Here to receive regular updates from PEC.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

20 Webinar [PaEN] -- Environmental Quality Board To Consider Proposed Spill Notification Regulation; Blasting; NOx & VOC Corrections Nov. PaEN] -- Registration Now Open For PASA 2025 Sustainable Agriculture Conference Feb. 5-7 In Lancaster [PaEN] -- PA Forestry Assn. 16 In State College [PaEN] -- PA Assn.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2021

Last spring, we released a report – Paying Polluters: Federal Financial Support to Oil and Gas in 2020 – that revealed the federal government announced a minimum of nearly $18 billion to the oil and gas sector in 2020. billion in 2020 through CEWS. This measure resulted in $20 million in foregone revenue in 2020.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

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 2019 to 2020 and 44.4% from 2005 to 2020.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

Gas prices: Without a cap, the flood of bio-based diesel into California will continue, requiring a rapid increase in stringency to stabilize LCFS credit markets, sending 2030 stringency from the 30 percent proposed in the regulation to 34.5 In 2020, every state except Alaska blended at least 9.5 billion gallons.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 28, 2025

Michigan and its neighbors have missed a 2025 deadline to curb the farm pollution that feeds toxic algal blooms in western Lake Erie, despite 10 years of work and millions of dollars spent on the effort. The farm lobby has also routinely sued state regulators when theyve attempted to better regulate farm pollution.

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National Law Center

JUNE 4, 2025

Grain dealer statutes exist at the state level to regulate businesses that purchase grain from producers. In the Express Grain case, then-CEO John Coleman was sentenced by a federal judge in March 2025 to 10 years in prison, plus five years of supervised release, and ordered to pay over $69 million in restitution.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Notably, citizens residing in our Nations capital voted to decriminalize adult use in 2020, making psilocybin among the lowest law enforcement priorities for the District of Columbia. Oregons Proposition 109the Psilocybin Services Actpassed in 2020 and centers began offering their services in the summer of 2023.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2025

Successful projects with community interest and available funding may be eligible for ongoing support in subsequent years. Washington County -- Cecil Township Supervisors Direct Solicitor To Prepare Ordinance Increasing Setbacks From Shale Gas Well Pads By At Least 2,500 Feet; Another Hearing, Vote Expected Nov.

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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 24, 2025

The county began its Water Quality Monitoring program in 2020, following a 2019 report from the Department of Environmental Protection that claimed York County was the second-highest contributor to key pollutants of nitrogen, phosphorous and sediment entering the Susquehanna River and the Chesapeake Bay. to Noon -- Williamsport Sun: Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2022

On March 30, the House voted 126 to 72 to pass House Bill 637 (Struzzi-R-Indiana) designed to block the final DEP regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants that’s consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. One of the stated reasons Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2025

Washington County -- Cecil Township Supervisors Direct Solicitor To Prepare Ordinance Increasing Setbacks From Shale Gas Well Pads By At Least 2,500 Feet; Another Hearing, Vote Expected Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

In June 2020, Attorney General Josh Shapiro released the two-year investigation by a Statewide Grand Jury that uncovered systematic failure by government agencies in overseeing the fracking industry and fulfilling their responsibility to protect Pennsylvanians from the inherent risks of industry operations. Read more here.]

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

A first draft shows that more than two billion Euros in total shall be invested into hydrogen development until 2025. In July 2020 the German government is taking over the rotating presidency of the European Union. Moreover, a list of Projects of Common Interest (PCIs) for hydrogen shall be elaborated.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 20, 2024

” The ruling explained that future emissions should have been assessed as part of the approval process, in line with a Supreme Court decision in 2020 and stated: “An impact assessment ensures that dissenting voices are heard and considered and that the decision-making basis is verifiable and available to the public.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

On February 13, 2025, the Second District Court of Appeal (Div. On February 13, 2025, the Second District Court of Appeal (Div. California Air Resources Board (2025) Cal.App.5th. 93130 et seq). Western States Petroleum Association v.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

So, Penneco [Environmental] Solutions started the first injection well in Allegheny County back in 2020. Visit the PA League of Women Voters Shale Gas and Public Health in 2025 - New Directions webpage for videos of the Conference presentation [when posted]. Local people got involved. They spoke out.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Despite a slight improvement from previous years, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation said more than two-thirds of the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal rivers and streams did not meet clean water standards between 2020 and 2022, according to an assessment by the EPA’s Chesapeake Bay Program released October 31. 10 in Annapolis, Maryland.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Recently, the CEO of Shell said the plant cost $14 billion to build and would not be fully operational until 2025 or 2026. No Environmental Compliance Requirement The PA Resource Manufacturing Tax Credit is awarded without regard to whether a facility receiving the tax credit is complying with the state’s environmental laws and regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

DEP originally issued the violation for abandonment on October 27, 2020. In 2020, EQT responded to the violation by saying “they intended to add this well to its plugging program.” DEP’s inspection report said EQT responded to a DEP on May 2, 2024 saying “they added the well to their plugging schedule for 2025.”

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