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DEP: Widespread Non-Compliance With Environmental Laws Continues In Conventional Oil & Gas Industry; 3,108+ Abandoned Wells; At Least 85% Conventional Well Owners Fail To Submit Production, Waste, Well Integrity Reports

PA Environment Daily

However, during the 2018-2020 time period, NWDO [Northwest District Office] staff became aware that the operator had stopped operating the wells and had started another business venture. That we are still leaving this up to taxpayers and political whims. Click Here for written testimony.

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Wednesday PA Environment & Energy Articles/ NewsClips - 7.2.25

PA Environment Daily

23 Hard-To-Recycle Collection Events In Allegheny County [PaEN] -- PA Capital-Star: PA House Passes Bill To Ban Sale, Use Of Firefighting Foam With PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ -- WHYY: Philly Schools Delayed Asbestos Inspections And ‘Knowingly’ Failed To Make Repairs: US Dept. Million -- PA Resources Council To Hold Aug.

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California Adopts Nation-Leading Legislation to Cut Plastic Pollution

Legal Planet

Less than 10 percent of the world’s plastic waste is recycled. The law will affect just about every type of plastic packaging you see walking down the supermarket aisle in California, and it’s a major step in the fight to reduce plastic waste, over 90 percent of which does not get, and much of which cannot currently be, recycled.

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Drought’s Spillover Effect in the American West

Circle of Blue

These “mega-watersheds” have redrawn the map, helping cities and farms to grow large and productive, but also becoming political flashpoints with steep environmental costs. “It The issues there are both environmental and political or social.”. On the other hand, it has consequences. They have depleted water for native fish.

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What’s Up With Water – November 1, 2021

Circle of Blue

In the Nile River basin last week, a political power shift in Sudan could turn up the heat on a long-simmering dispute over a major dam in the region. According to the Bangor Daily News, Maine’s transmission line referendum is the second-most expensive election campaign in state history, behind the 2020 U.S. Senate race.

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Is Russia Helping China Expand Its Nuclear Weapons Program? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

In 1992, after five years of research, China decided to cooperate with Russia on the construction of an experimental fast reactor (CEFR), with the ultimate goal of pursuing a closed nuclear fuel cycle —a process in which spent nuclear fuel is reprocessed and recycled to extract usable materials for further energy production.

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Monday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 1.1.24

PA Environment Daily

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- January 1 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec.