PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

9 Household Chemical Collection Event Sponsored By PPG & Pittsburgh Penguins; Last Of The Season [PaEN] -- Environmental Quality Board To Consider Proposed Spill Notification Regulation; Blasting; NOx & VOC Corrections Nov. 12 [PaEN] -- PA Assn. Of Environmental Professionals Host Nov. 26 to Nov. 26 to Nov. Cents/kWH Up From 10.04

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2025

The Environmental Quality Board published notice in the April 5 PA Bulletin inviting comments on proposed regulation changes relating to spill notification and setting a May 15 virtual hearing starting at 1:00 p.m. This regulation applies to any person responsible for unauthorized discharges to waters of the Commonwealth.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 28, 2025

Erickson-A- 1H, violations issued June 26, 2023 [ DEP inspection report ] These wells have been out of compliance with inactive status regulations for more than 50 months. 2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 93 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

23 Hard-To-Recycle Collection Events In Allegheny County [PaEN] -- PennDOT Begins Accepting Applications For $80 Million In Grants To Improve Pedestrian, Cyclist Safety, Including Trail Projects, Deadline Oct. 7, 21, Sept. 7, 21, Sept.

Conservation

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. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2025

Hill also noted the company has been under investigation by the Office of Attorney General for possible state Solid Waste Management Act violations road dumping their wastewater under the co-product determination process in DEPs Residual Waste Regulations. Original violation issued December 14, 2020. Read more here. Read more here.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2025

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.

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

JULY 23, 2025

This is influenced by a combination of factors, including a slowdown in global steel production growth, increased recycling of scrap steel, and the potential for alternative steelmaking technologies, such as electric arc furnaces (EAF) powered by renewable energy. Background Timeline of Events Leading to Alberta’s $142.8

Waste

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 1377 ) On January 2, 2025 DEP issued a disapproval letter for an Act 2 Final Report on the remediation of a release from the Greenzweig shale gas wastewater impoundment covering releases first documented by DEP on February 3, 2020. Original violations issued on February 5, 2020. Read more here. Violations continued.

2025

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2025

DEP said Laurel Mountain Production also never complied with the basic requirement to register the impoundment with the agency since it was constructed in 2017 as required by state regulations. Original violation for abandonment issued October 6, 2020 and failure to report on October 25, 2021. Violations were continued. Read more here.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2025

2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 74 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. No action taken to correct the violations. Response requested by May 30. MTN Energy holds 44 permits. Read more here. Monitoring will continue. DEP inspection report.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

On April 3, 2020, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported DEP signed an agreement with a Canadian company-- AquaPower Chemicals-- to take over or plug 1,600 conventional wells owned by ARG Resources after the company shut down in 2019." ARG Resources holds 1,860 permits with at least 31 listed as abandoned wells, but not these three wells.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2025

Vitali Raises Concerns About Whether DEP Has The Resources To Fulfill Its Mission When Workloads Have Increased Dramatically [PaEN] -- House DEP Budget Hearing: Republican Rep. On Lowered Earnings Outlook -- Wall Street Journal: The A.I. On Lowered Earnings Outlook -- Wall Street Journal: The A.I.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 19, 2025

2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 102 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. No response requested of well owner. DEP inspection report. Big Dog holds 25 permits. Read more here. DEP inspection report. 10 [PaEN] NewsClips - PA Energy & A.I.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2025

2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 109 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. Critical equipment could fail, such as the regulators. New violations issued on top of the old violations. Response requested by August 7. DEP inspection report.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2022

Luckily, lithium-ion battery recycling research and development has been going on for years and there is an existing and growing repurposing and recycling system in North America for these components. Current lithium-ion battery collection, repurposing, and recycling network in North America. Slattery et al.

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

JULY 3, 2025

Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Coterra Energy, Inc. PA Bulletin, page 4603 ) 2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 96 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. . You’ll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

JULY 1, 2022

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.

Recycling

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Dernbach told Circle of Blue that these amendments act as a steadying force in state politics, because constitutions are more stable than policies and regulations, which can change from administration to administration. Rhode Island followed in 1987, and was the last state to do so. Senate race.

2021

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Shapiro’s office supporting “key recommendations” in a 2020 Grand Jury Report that concluded DEP’s oil and gas regulatory program failed to protect public health and the environment. On April 26 Inside Climate News published a comprehensive article by Stacey Burling on issues surrounding the disposal of 2.6 Read more here. 27 Released 1.1

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection reported their inspections found 4,386 violations of environmental regulations at conventional oil and gas operations during 2021 -- nearly two and a half times the violations reported just two years ago in 2019 and 337 more than in 2020. Read more here.] .: Read more here.]

Waste

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

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.

Nuclear Power

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.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

More batteries are being recycled through good policy , innovation, and corporate commitment. Our next post will then explore pathways to achieving a circular battery economy through battery repurposing and recycling. Explore some of UCS’s resources on electric vehicle (EV) battery recycling here , here , here, here and here.

Renewable Energy

Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The industry is trying to stop much-needed federal regulation of plastics, and we’ll be there to greet them. Introduced Saran wrap in 1953, helping to herald a long era of throwaway and virtually non-recyclable plastic packaging that continues to this day. NOVA lost two recent court cases against Dow Chemical in Canada. In Toronto?

Fossil Fuels

Energy & the Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

However, recycling technologies have made produced water a potentially valuable commodity. With the evolution of treatment and recycling technologies, this conflict was inevitable. – Gray Reed Insights, February 2020 Your musical interlude. In Cactus Water Services, LLC v. Produced Water Groundwater or Waste?

Waste

Circle of Blue

JULY 11, 2022

Federal energy regulators propose that electric transmission providers report on their actions to assess climate-related risks. Rosen and other western Democrats co-sponsored legislation to authorize an additional $500 million for large-scale water recycling projects. USGS researchers calculate the age of groundwater across the U.S.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 1, 2024

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

Natural Gas

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

recyclable materials, most notably plastic waste and unsorted paper. Recycling companies in high-income countries are scrambling to divert shipments. Towns across North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia are sending recyclable material to incinerators and reversing landfill bans. Recycling Is Not . contaminated.

Recycling

Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Lawmakers in Texas commissioned the Produced Water Consortium last year to examine how produced water could be recycled into local water supplies. Pfizer has asked Michigan state regulators to increase the amount of groundwater it withdrawals from wells at its pharmaceutical manufacturing facility near the city of Kalamazoo.

2022

Enviromental Defense

JULY 13, 2021

And if that’s not gross enough, Big Plastic is also suing the federal government to try to prevent regulations to reduce plastic pollution that is harming the environment and threatening human health. There were at least six spills of toxic substances reported at Sarnia-area NOVA plants between 2017 and 2020.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2024

Erosion & Sedimentation BMP Failure (2020) [ DEP Inspection Report ] -- Consent Order - $13,000 - RHl 13 Well Pad - Greene County, Richhill Twp. Erosion & Sedimentation BMP Failure (2020) [ DEP Inspection Report ] -- Consent Order - GH56 to Lightner Pipeline - Greene County, Center Twp.

2018

PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2023

Rules Could Stem Emissions From Coal, Gas Power Plants -- Bloomberg: EPA Plan To Cut Planet-Warming Pollution Spares Most Natural Gas Power Plants -- Reuters: White House Backs Faster Energy Project Permits, Joining Republicans -- AP: Court: EPA Must Regulate Perchlorate, Contaminant In Water -- Utility Dive: U.S.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Creating New Brownfields Spills, leaks and discharges from unconventional shale gas drilling sites make up nearly 55 percent of the pending cleanups-- 272 sites-- under the Land Recycling Program in DEP’s regional offices in the Southwest, Northwest, Northcentral and Northeast Regions as of last August. Read more here. Ridgebury Twp.

2016

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.” Apex exceeded water withdrawal limits from Little Sewickley Creek in Hempfield Township on 40 days between 2020 through 2023. Read more here.

2024

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- National Fuel Gas Distribution Corp. PA Bulletin, page 5665 ) 2024 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2024, DEP received or acted on 200 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. . Read more here. Adams County. ( Greene County. (

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2024

The co-product category was questioned by the Coalition because DEP has not approved any request from conventional oil and gas well owners to use the industry's wastewater under the co-product provisions of the Residual Waste Regulations. regulation with Co-product determination. I know this is hard to believe because D.E.P.

Waste