Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Toxic waste holding ponds now contain 1.36 Edmonton, AB — The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) quietly released a report on its web site last week showing that oil sands tailing ponds grew another 90 million cubic meters in 2020, despite a drop in oil production. ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE and KEEPERS OF THE WATER.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Here are the basics: The Pledge aims to achieve a collective goal of reducing global methane emissions by at least 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030. California’s 2016 law, SB 1383 , requires a 40 percent reduction from 2013 levels, which is comparable to the 30 percent reduction from 2020 levels identified in the Global Methane Pledge.

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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 against Halliburton Energy Services for 255 violations of the state Solid Waste Management Act; -- $1.5

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Vermont Law

MARCH 23, 2022

Why the Waste? A Step Towards Environmentally Conscious Pet Waste Disposal. Picking up after your pet is the first step, but what happens to the waste after it is picked up? Picking up after your pet is the first step, but what happens to the waste after it is picked up? Dangers of Pet Waste in Landfills.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The tide of waste was generated by animals from 132 CAFOs in Indiana and Ohio. million gallons of liquid manure and nearly 100,000 tons of solid manure on 14,650 acres of farmland in 2020, according to the most recent manure management reports filed with the Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy. million in 2020 and $5.1

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2024

On June 7, the Better Path Coalition reported the Department of Environmental Protection has removed the co-product category from its waste disposal reporting database for conventional oil and gas well owners, according to documents the Coalition received in response to a Right-To-Know request. have gotten easier.

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Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Between 1995 and 2020, BMW reduced its CO2 emissions by 53%. Also, in 2020, all the electricity it purchased to run its plants worldwide came from renewables. The aim is to cut its CO2 levels by 40% by 2030 and to be carbon neutral by 2050.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 21, 2022

What GAO Found To remove household hazardous waste—some items that can catch fire, react, or explode under certain circumstances or that are corrosive or toxic—after the 2018 and 2020 California wildfires, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took steps that followed its emergency response policy. Download the document.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Other violations include leaking gas and failure to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Many were leaking gas and failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Food waste refers to material that is safe and suitable for human and animal consumption, yet not consumed. The food waste and loss problems reveal inefficiencies in the food system that have consequential, permanent environmental impacts. This global problem of food waste is related to consumer behaviors (e.g., References FAO.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 24, 2023

Since 2020, the company has diverted 22 million pounds of food waste from landfills, achieving 88% of their goal, which is to divert 25 million pounds of food waste.

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Much of that effort was wasted. 2024 ), but no recent analyses (that I’ve seen) support the large claims made in the original paper (see also Blackport and Screen (2020) ). 1065-1066, 2020. With the corrected data, a multi-model ensemble does a very creditable job at tracking the trends in minimum temperature: Fig.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 12, 2023

New research finds that Canada’s electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) has more than tripled in the last two decades, the equivalent of filling the CN tower 110 times and generating close to a million tons in 2020 alone.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2024

[In October 2022, DEP assessed a $670,000 against Shell Pipeline Company, LP and its contractor Minnesota Limited LLL for violations of its permit and other laws and regulations that occurred in 2019 and 2020 during pipeline construction. Read more here.] All charges are accusations.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 22, 2023

On July 22, the Governor’s Office published an update to the Regulatory Agenda of regulations in development that included a new annual permit fee for unconventional shale gas operations and a schedule for the release of updated waste and other environmental standards for conventional oil and gas drilling. Read more here. [

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 7, 2022

But when river temperatures climb too high, the water is too warm for cooling purposes and the waste heat expelled by the facility endangers fish and other aquatic life. The wheat harvest in 2020 was just over 6 million tons. Most inland facilities cool their power-generating equipment with river water.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

These penalties are in addition to a $670,000 civil penalty DEP accessed against Shell Falcon Pipeline and its contractor Minnesota Limited LLC for violations of its permit and other laws and regulations that occurred in 2019 and 2020 during pipeline construction. Read more here. 1 Electricity Price Changes; Rates Will Vary From 8.4%

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 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. 30 Webinar - It’s Scary Out Here!

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

Where We Are With The Issue At a June 10, 2024 hearing on House Bill 2384 (Vitali-D-Delaware) that would ban road dumping by the House Environmental Committee, DEP said, The Administration is supportive of this clear ban on the practice and views the Solid Waste Management Act as a sound vehicle for such statutory language. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2022

On April 13, the Department of Environmental Protection advised 18 municipalities in four counties the road dumping of conventional oil and gas drilling wastewater is illegal and considered waste disposal. Disposal of waste without approval from DEP is unlawful conduct under the Solid Waste Management Act, Act of July 7, 1980, P.L.

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The Energy Law

AUGUST 4, 2023

COG also entered into surface use compensation agreements and right-of-way agreements to facilitate its use of the surface when it transported products and waste from the property. In 2019 and 2020, the property’s surface owners transferred all of their water rights to Cactus, including the right to any water produced from oil and gas wells.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Residents started complaining about the contaminated air around the landfill over a decade ago, and we got involved in 2020 when the PA DEP proposed this ridiculous solution to WSL’s leachate problem,” said Gillian Graber, Executive Director of Protect PT. “We

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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

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

million gallons of toxic, radioactive drilling waste on unpaved roads in the Commonwealth. Feridun’s attempt to use the Oil and Gas Division’s Oil and Gas Reporting Electronic (OGRE) system to track where the waste has gone revealed many problems with the system’s design and entries that should set off alarms but don’t.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

It is wasteful by design. According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), global lithium consumption increased 33% from 2020 to 2021, due largely to battery demand (for both EVs and the power sector). The study documents how waste from the small mines and industrial cobalt mines can degrade the local environment and impact food security.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Michigan counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. Michigan now counts nearly 11,000 agricultural wells, 3,800 of them installed from 2010 to 2020. In 2020, farmers and livestock operations used 187 billion gallons of water, double the amount in 2009. Is the state prepared for more?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

Injection Wells There are the waste drains. So, Penneco [Environmental] Solutions started the first injection well in Allegheny County back in 2020. We heard a lot about the waste from the site. The industry needs to find a way to dump their waste. But this is a great depiction of the Oil and Gas Waste Club.

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

At a meeting on Wednesday 23 September 2020 the German government decided to propose to the parliament (Bundestag) a so called EEG Novelle 2021 , featuring the new 2030 and 2050 goals for renewable electricity. Wind Farm Waste – Emerging Issues with Decommissioning and Waste Regulation in the EU, Denmark and the United Kingdom.

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Energy & the Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

And what is produced water anyway – oil and gas waste and part of the mineral estate, or groundwater and part of the surface estate? Produced Water Groundwater or Waste? – Gray Reed Legal Alert, August 2023 Produced Water in Texas – Waste or Groundwater? Who Owns It?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2022

EV batteries currently represent about half of the lithium-ion batteries (by mass) that are being recycled, which also includes consumer electronics and waste from battery manufacturing. Recycling is key to making EVs greener. These recycling companies are securing a battery stream by partnering with auto manufacturers.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 28, 2025

DEP estimated total 2020 methane emissions from conventional sources to be 365,103 tons and 102,297 tons from unconventional shale gas sources, according to the Regulatory Analysis Forms. DEP expected up to a 175,788 ton reduction of methane from conventional sources [ Read more here.] Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Five other violations involved illegal disposal or handling of liquid or solid waste. Failure To Report Waste Disposal Over 56 percent of conventional well operators-- 1,886-- failed to report not only their oil and gas production, but also how much liquid and solid waste they produced and how it was disposed of as required by state law.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

million litres of industrial waste into the environment. The Alberta Energy Regulator has shown us over and over that it is willfully neglecting to keep us safe from toxic waste and pollution. million litres of industrial waste. One of the incidents spilled 5.3 The tar sands’ tailings “ponds” now contain over 1.4

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

Nobel’s book explores the question of where all of the toxic, radioactive waste the oil and gas industry produces goes. Resource Links - Radioactive Oil & Gas Waste: -- DEP: Potential For Environmental Impacts From Spills Or Leaks Of Radioactive Oil & Gas Waste Materials Is Real; Health Dept.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Sara Innamorato (D-Allegheny) co-chaired a hearing by the Senate Democratic Policy Committee on the environmental and health dangers associated with oil and gas drilling waste in Pennsylvania. We are concerned because radium-226 and radium-228, both present in oil and gas waste, can cause bone and connective tissue cancer.

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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.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

A new report released by Oil Change International reveals that governments worldwide have already wasted over $40 billion on carbon capture and hydrogen projects. That’s why we say the money was wasted. Even worse, these governments are gearing up to waste billions more – over $300 billion more!

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