PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2023

Extreme Scenarios Following the lessons of Winter Storm Uri in early 2021, PJM models now incorporate more extreme scenarios that have no historical precedent, including the combination of multiple unlikely conditions occurring at the same time. “We

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Guest Post By Erin Boedicker , 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Figure 1: Size reference for atmospheric particles (US EPA 2016) and a general structure of freshly created black carbon. Outdoor air pollution accounts for approximately 3.7 – 4.8 link] Climate & Clean Air Coalition.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

Completed in December 2021, the county installed a 2.5-acre Firstly, it removes solid fish waste from the system, thus eliminating waste buildup in the grow beds. Secondly, it enables growers to decide whether to run the system either aquaponically, using liquid waste from the fish, or hydroponically through nutrient dosing.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Gas plants proposed as of the close of 2021 were estimated to result in up to $74 billion in health costs over their lifetime, and that’s just from the burning of gas at the power plant, ignoring all of the polluting upstream impacts from drilling and transporting gas.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Waste Coal In July of 2021 a company by the name of Stronghold Digital Mining (Stronghold) filed an S-1 report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing plans to purchase three waste coal fired power plants and install 57,000 Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) dedicated to mining bitcoin.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Waste Coal In July of 2021 a company by the name of Stronghold Digital Mining (Stronghold) filed an S-1 report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing plans to purchase three waste coal fired power plants and install 57,000 Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) dedicated to mining bitcoin.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

Strong federal standards to reduce pipeline leaks are critical for delivering on the Biden administration's commitment to curb climate-warming methane pollution while increasing public health and safety.” Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is a potent greenhouse gas over 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in the near-term.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

These state-level “Climate Superfund” bills are modeled on the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), commonly known as Superfund, which imposes liability on multiple parties, including the generators of waste, for the cleanup of contaminated sites.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

In June 2018, DEP finalized an Air Quality General Permit to reduce methane emissions from new unconventional oil and gas operations. billion metric tons of carbon dioxide – nearly as much as all the carbon dioxide emitted by the power sector in 2021. On December 2, the U.S. Read more here.]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Runoff from these applications, as well as from soil erosion and livestock manure, is the leading cause of river and stream pollution, the second leading cause of wetland pollution, and the third leading cause of lake pollution. In 2021, a US district court vacated the Trump rule, but the fight against clean water continued.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Methane is particularly dangerous because it is up to 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide – warming our planet and contributing to air pollution that damages our lungs and our hearts. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2023

Steel For Clairton Coke (Coal) Works For 2nd Quarter [PaEN] -- WESA: Allegheny County Levees $307,000 In Fines On US Steel For Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Air Pollution Violations -- TribLive: U.S. Steel Ready To Close 3 Of 10 Batteries At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works -- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

DEP issued 1,360 NOVs to unconventional shale gas well operators in 2022 and 1,323 NOVs in 2021, according to DEP’s 2022 Oil and Gas Program Annual Report. Chesapeake contacted Waste Management to decontaminate the production tank and remove it from the site after decon on July 3. DEP’s inspection report noted background is 10 uR/hour.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

And also a disposing of the waste stream. They experience truck traffic and their diesel exhaust emissions, transient workforces, air pollution, including volatile organic compounds, particulate matter, ozone, oxides of nitrogen and fugitive methane emissions. Then drilling and hydraulic fracturing.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency announced it is strengthening its proposed standards to cut methane and other harmful air pollution. innovation and manufacturing of critical new technologies, all while delivering significant economic benefits through increased recovery of wasted gas. in 2020.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 25, 2024

Image by Maxim Tolchinskiy (Unsplash) In November of 2022, when the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) proposed new rules to control venting, flaring, and leaks from oil and gas leases on federal land (the “Fossil Fuel Waste Rule”), they noted that these leasing rules would have an enormous ancillary climate benefit.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 15, 2021

Adopts New Mon Valley Air Pollution Episode Rule -- Reuters: Sweden’s EQT To Buy Covanta Waste Management Company In $5.3 Adopts New Mon Valley Air Pollution Episode Rule -- Reuters: Sweden’s EQT To Buy Covanta Waste Management Company In $5.3

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2024

Unless the DEP’s Oil and Gas Program is given adequate staffing to properly police conventional drillers and the ability to increase bonding amounts to ensure drillers fulfill their well plugging obligations, taxpayer money — both federal and state — will continue to be wasted on DEP ‘s well plugging efforts. Taxpayer dollars will be wasted.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Here are 1,198 articles published in local news media and in the PA Environment Digest during 2021 that tell the stories of thousands of individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 7, 2022

Street Introduces Bill To Set A New Clean Energy Standard And Support Carbon Capture To Eliminate All Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Power Plants By 2050 [PaEN] -- Chester County Residents Protest Mariner East Pipeline Construction [PaEN] -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editorial: West Deer Twp. . -- DEP Water Resources Committee Meets Jan.

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