PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2022

From 2016 to 2021, DEP approved 752 plans for the permanent disposal of drill cuttings at oil and gas well drilling sites through the decades-old practice of “dusting”-- forcefully blowing drill cuttings on the ground around their drilling sites, according to DEP’s response to a Right To Know request. Environmental Protection Agency.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2022

The plans are authorized under DEP’s existing oil and gas regulations and approved by the agency. Ph and conductivity will be tested and reported according to regulations.” Environmental Protection Agency. Read more here. Read more here. Drill cuttings will be incorporated into the soil. “Ph Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2021

This additional step of including radium in the list of contaminants to be measured will allow the Department of Environmental Protection to evaluate the presence of radium in landfills.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Hess, Former Secretary Department of Environmental Protection The information submitted to DEP’s Bureau of Waste Management from eight conventional oil and gas companies to justify allowing them to dispose of millions of gallons of wastewater by spreading it on dirt roads fails to meet the requirements of DEP’s 25 Pa Code Chapter 287.8

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the January 13 PA Bulletin it has received and is reviewing the Act 2 Land Recycling Final Report by Equitrans on the cleanup of soil around the conventional gas well that failed and resulted in the uncontrolled venting of 1.1 PA Bulletin, page 213 ) Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

. -- Auditor General DeFoor should audit DEP’s management of oil and gas wastewater and the OGRE waste reporting data system - In 2014, Auditor General DePasquale concluded that the DEP was “woefully unprepared" to monitor and regulate the shale gas boom after his office’s audit of the agency. Click Here for a copy of the report.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

On January 10, the Environmental Hearing Board denied a motion by Olympus Energy, supported by the Department of Environmental Protection , to declare an appeal of two shale gas permits in Westmoreland County filed by Protect PT as moot because the wells have already been drilled and fracked. Read more here. 30 to Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

On February 15, the Environmental Quality Board will hear a presentation from DEP that will show a $4.7 percent deficit-- in FY 2022-23 funding needed to support the Oil and Gas Program that regulates both conventional and unconventional wells. Also on the EQB agenda is a fee report for Radiation Protection Programs.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 27, 2022

A previous 2021 study , also conducted by Penn State researchers, indicated otherwise. This new study, partly funded by the DEP, reinforced those conclusions in the 2021 study, while also finding that the rain runoff from roads treated by any dust suppression method contained contaminants that could pollute nearby water sources.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But, as noted in a 2021 National Academies of Sciences (NAS) report , key questions remain about their efficacy, benefits, and risks. Parties to those instruments are set to meet in London next week—from October 2 to 6—to discuss the regulation of so-called “marine geoengineering activities” (among other things).

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

More than 60 environmental and citizen groups, along with the Green Party of Pennsylvania , expressed their opposition to the road dumping of oil and gas drilling wastewater on rural Pennsylvania roads by signing on to a letter to the Department of Environmental Protection. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2022

State and federal regulators knew the mill was polluting groundwater almost immediately after it started operating, but years passed before they informed residents and demanded fixes. In the 1980s, Homestake promised residents groundwater would be cleaned within a decade, locals told the Environmental Protection Agency and ProPublica.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

DEP’s Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board is scheduled to have a meeting September 9 with several critical issues on the agenda, including road dumping of conventional drilling wastewater, radiation monitoring of drilling and other wastes, and review of draft conventional drilling regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2022

The bill would establish an Interdepartmental Coordinating Task Force in the Department of Health, with the Department of Environmental Protection, to oversee the collection and analysis of baseline health and environmental data related to the impact of oil and natural gas facilities on public health and safety. Read more here.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

What the DEP staff did not address or mention was another office in DEP-- DEP’s Bureau of Waste Management-- allows the road dumping of conventional oil and gas drilling wastewater as a dust suppressant under its co-product regulations and this practice continues. Avoid tweaking the regulations that exclude public participation.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

DEP also reported the percentage of wastewater recycled or reused in production and fracking at other natural gas wells dropped from 93% in 2021 to 88% in 2022. DEP arrived at the facility January 3, 2023 to start its investigation.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 4, 2023

But state environmental regulators have done little to address the problems at the plant. The state Department of Environmental Protection cited the company in 2021 for failure to prevent visible emissions, and the company agreed to pay $15,000 in fines.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 25, 2021

“There are also concerns from the environmentally sensitive standpoint about what is in those brines,” said Chase. “We We know there are some heavy metals [lead, arsenic], some radiation, oil and gas residues in them. It’s not something we would be willing to put on our roads anyways,” said Chase.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A new study released November 2 by authors from the University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University shows constant exposure of residents living next to and using roads spread with conventional oil and gas drilling wastewater results in higher levels of exposure to radiation in the wastewater when the appropriate exposure scenarios are used.

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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. Davis On Environmental, Energy Issues? Shapiro, Lt.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 3, 2021

This includes emerging contaminants as well as substances identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) under the 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for prioritization, risk evaluation, or regulation. 13, 2021).]] Regulatory Developments. N:Alaska Cmty. Action on Toxics v.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Read more here ] [Note: DEP changed its regulations to ban the road spreading of unconventional shale gas drilling wastewater on roads in 2016, but conventional oil and gas drillers are not included in the ban.] of the Residual Waste Management Regulations. This program falls under Chapter 287.8 2] According to Chapter 287.8

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The study was not funded by the Department of Environmental Protection. Funding for the study was provided by the National Institutes of Health and Penn State University’s Seed Grant Program. Read more here.] Click Here for an audio recording of Dr. Warner’s presentation.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

On December 11, former employees of the Eureka Resources oil and gas wastewater treatment company based in Williamsport wrote a letter to Lycoming County District Attorney Ryan Gardner requesting him to undertake a “criminal misconduct” investigation of alleged workplace and environmental violations by the company. They posted it up.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Read more here ] After a study of treated roads, the DEP concluded there was “limited potential” from people hiking or biking on the roads to be affected by radiation exposure. But the study recommended further review of radiological environmental impacts.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Shouldn’t someone regulate that? Note: DEP has prohibited the road “spreading” of unconventional drilling wastewater on roads by regulation since 2016.] “In Environmental Protection Agency for drinking water." [ Read more here.] Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Amy Mall, Natural Resources Defense Council , provided an overview of a report issued by NRDC in July-- A Hot Fracking Mess: How Weak Regulation of Oil And Gas Production Leads to Radioactive Waste in our Water, Air, and Communities. Radiation can be present in materials that are spilled or leaked from pits, tanks, or landfills.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The Department of Environmental Protection is now reviewing 17 conventional oil and gas drilling operators for their compliance with a self-certification program that allows the road dumping of drilling wastewater, according to Ali Tarquino Morris, Director of DEP’s Bureau Of Waste Management. of DEP’s regulations.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2021

And that was the attempt, with working with Penn State, that's what we were attempting to do was to develop that data to be able to have a program that we could go to the Environmental Hearing Board and the Commonwealth Court and Supreme Court under the constitution and under the statutes that we administer, that would be defensible.”

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ESA

JUNE 28, 2021

Congress funded the DOE Office of Science at $7 billion in FY 2021. The full Committee also approved amendments adding solar radiation management and wildfire science to the list of climate change research topics funded by the bill. The Senate voted to overturn this rule in April 2021. billion by 2026. billion from $5 billion.

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