PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 13, 2021

2021 Virtual Watershed Congress In Southeast PA [PaEN] -- DEP: Issues Air Pollution Warning For Friday, August 13 In Southeastern PA Counties -- DEP: Notice Of Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 4, 2023

The state ordered the company to pay $30 million dollars in fines for an explosion at its Revolution Pipeline in Beaver County in 2018, and $20 million for more than 100 violations for leaks in its Mariner East pipeline, which polluted wetlands and private wells.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

The 2010 DCNR study also found "radium values are high enough that a possible radiation hazard exists, especially where radium could be adsorbed on iron oxides and accumulate in brine tanks." [ Read more here.] The report looked at environmental compliance in the industry between 2017 and 2021. Read more here. Read more here.

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Breezometer

MAY 23, 2022

Much like big volcanic eruptions, the smoke from fire tornadoes can block radiation from the Sun and potentially cause temporary climatic cooling. In June 2021, during the Northern California Tennant Fire that burned over 10,000 acres of land, a terrifying video captured by firefighters went viral. Air Pollution Tracking.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 23, 2023

When Do You Evacuate? PA Statewide Abandoned Mine Reclamation Conference Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

15 On Final Radiation Safety, NPDES Compliance Schedule Regulations; Brodhead Creek Rulemaking Petition DEP Citizens Advisory Council, Environmental Justice Advisory Board Hold Joint Meeting Nov. Million In Federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Funding For Abandoned Mine Reclamation Federal Office Of Surface Mining Awards PA $26.63

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 25, 2021

The Center’s experts conduct research and develop best management practices to construct and maintain dirt and gravel roads in ways that reduce sediment and runoff causing water and air pollution. We know there are some heavy metals [lead, arsenic], some radiation, oil and gas residues in them.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

[PaEN] -- PennLive: PA Senate Republicans Pass Bill Allowing Large-Scale Energy Projects To Bypass State Agencies -- Bill Reported Out Of Senate Committee Would Allow Pipelines Like Mariner East To Apply For Waivers Of Any PUC Regulation, Law Or Policy [PaEN] -- PA Capital-Star: PA Senate Committee Advances Bill To Allow Utility Companies To Request (..)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

. -- Address cumulative emissions when permitting sites: As part of its permitting process, the DEP should cumulatively analyze emissionsall sources of air pollution in a given areato accurately assess air quality and to limit shale gas development in airsheds that are already burdened with pollution.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 30, 2025

We breathe oxygen from the atmosphere, weather systems distribute water, and the ozone in the upper atmosphere protects us from harmful radiation. Clearing the Air: A Review of the Effects of Particulate Matter Air Pollution on Human Health. 7 (2021). [5] 21 1120111224 (2021). [6] 19 7511 (2022). [2]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Since global and local pollutants are often byproducts of the same activities, mitigation policies for global warming emissions have the potential to simultaneously mitigate local air pollution 2. One good example of the nexus between global warming and local pollution is ground-level ozone. Bermix Studio/Unsplash PM2.5:

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

These associations can be attributed to the environmental impacts of fracking, including air pollution, water contamination, noise, traffic, and community impacts." So these are all problems that are known to be related to exposure to toxic air pollution. And I'm going to quote now from that study.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

The 2010 DCNR study also found "radium values are high enough that a possible radiation hazard exists, especially where radium could be adsorbed on iron oxides and accumulate in brine tanks." [ Read more here.] The report looked at environmental compliance in the industry between 2017 and 2021. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2025

Daily Grind Of Living Next To Oil & Gas Industry Continues The daily grind of spills, polluted water supplies, smell of natural gas in the air, noise, air pollution, explosions, landslides, truck traffic, radioactive waste, gas flares, erosion problems, dust, lights, road dumping waste, abandoned equipment and wells continues.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 30, 2022

CBS reported, and not all its foundries had installed air pollution control equipment. But Pomeroy told reporter Hughes Rudd that he had arranged meetings with the local polluters to promote dialogue. “We He was finally considered cancer free in September 2021 and celebrated this achievement.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

This year, in addition to the trihalomethane notice, we received notices of exceeding lead levels and notices above radiation levels. Every quarter for the last 20 years, we receive notices stating that we are above total trihalomethanes. Resources Links - Compliance: -- Criminal Convictions; Record Penalties, Restitution Of Over $158.3

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Up in flames After recording Canada’s highest ever temperature on 29 June 2021, Lytton in British Columbia had to be evacuated as wildfires engulfed the town and destroyed most of its buildings. As air sunk through the atmosphere, it got squeezed and heated. And how are they linked to wildfire, air pollution and other hazards?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

“I had a certain expectation that my water wouldn't be damaged, my house wouldn't be damaged, that this gross negligence wouldn't go on, that they wouldn't get fines from the DEP, that I wouldn't be exposed to radiation, I wouldn't be exposed to chemicals,” said Latkanich. They] found benzene, styrene, and other fracking chemicals in us.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Read more here ] In fact, geologists have known for many decades that the Marcellus Shale is highly radioactive, and that bringing up all that radiation to the surface and allowing it to contaminate the air and water isn't such a good idea after all.

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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. Unconventional shale gas operators were issued a total of 1,310 notices of violation in 2023, according to DEP’s December 29 Workload Report.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

Whether air or water, public health or land conservation, years of academic research and independent analyses confirm the safe and responsible nature of Pennsylvania’s natural gas production.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

Over 156 million people in the US are exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollutants, according to the recently published 2025 State-of-the Air report from the American Lung Association (ALA). For 25 years the report has helped people across the country understand the quality of the air in their communities.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 23, 2023

When Do You Evacuate?

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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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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Guest Post By Erin Boedicker , 2020-2021 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. Outdoor air pollution accounts for approximately 3.7 – 4.8 Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease.” link] Climate & Clean Air Coalition. Short-Lived Climate Pollutants. link] Brook Robert D.,

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2022

Hescox, Evangelical Environmental Network-PA [PaEN] -- 2 Republican Senators Lay Out Agenda For Deregulating Oil & Gas Industry, Power Plants In PA [PaEN] -- DCNR Designates September 11th National Memorial Trail As A Statewide Major Greenway [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Draft Environmental Justice Policy For Permit Reviews, 3 Virtual Hearings (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2025

Resources Links - Compliance: -- Criminal Convictions; Record Penalties, Restitution Of Over $158.3 GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2 GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Nichols Campus in Riverside in December 2021. For decades, Mary has been one of the country’s leading contributors to local, state, and federal action on air pollution, first as an attorney for the Center of Law in the Public Interest, where she was one of the first advocates to file a suit under the Clean Air Act.

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