PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 1753 ) Waste Permits -- EQT CHAP LLC - Herminie North Centralized Water Facility: DEP approved General Permit WMGR123 for the facility in Sewickley Twp., You’ll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations. Greene County. ( Greene County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Westmoreland County. (

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

29; No Information Yet On Whether Oil & Gas Development Health Risks Will Be Included Health Department Distributing Free Potassium Iodide Tablets To Pennsylvanians Near State’s Four Active Nuclear Power Plants Sept.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Grid Safety: How Cost-of-Service Ratemaking Creates Tension Between Regulators and Utilities and Slows Grid Hardening By: Michael Murphy and Professor Genevieve Byrne The number of wildfires each year is increasing, which cost billions of dollars in damage and take hundreds of lives. In Maine, it is.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Here are 52 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about 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. Thank you for your leadership! -- EQB To Meet Nov.

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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

JANUARY 18, 2022

The revenue projections done for the unconventional fee regulation were based on DEP receiving 2,000 permits a year. In calendar 2021, DEP received 741 unconventional well permits , far less than half the number needed to adequately support the program. Related Article: -- IFO: 2021 Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue $233.8

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2022

A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making Time and again, mining company Homestake and government agencies promised to clean up waste from decades of uranium processing. million tons of uranium waste left over from milling ore to supply power plants and nuclear bombs. It didn’t happen. Video, Mauricio Rodríguez Pons and Ed Ou.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

13 Hearing [If Needed] On RACT II Air Quality Plan For Keystone Station Coal-Fired Power Plant, Armstrong County Dept. Of Health Distributing Free Potassium Iodide Tablets Near State's 4 Active Nuclear Power Plants Sept. Wildfires; Six 20-Person PA Crews Directly Fought Fires DEP Sets Oct. Wolf Calls On U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2023

Steel Clairton Coke (Coal) Works] -- Post-Gazette: FirstEnergy Seeking Ratepayer Surcharge To Keep Two Coal-Fired Power Plants Open In West Virginia -- PennLive - Letter: We’re At An Energy Crossroads - By Karen Feridun, Better Path Coalition -- PennLive Guest Essay: How Nuclear Power Saved Christmas And The PJM Electric Grid - By Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2023

Of PA [Natural Gas Prices Tripled] -- DCNR Blog: DCNR Building A Network Of Rural Electric Vehicle Charging Stations In State Parks, Forests -- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: PA Begins Accepting Applications For $62 Million In Federal EV Charging Station Funding March 27 -- UnionProgress.com: West Mifflin, Allegheny County Stays Current With EV (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2023

The article on Pennsylvania also highlights the lack of tough laws, regulations and penalties to prevent environmental problems, including inadequate well plugging bonds. Million In Penalties Collected; Record Number Of Violations Issued; Major Compliance Issues Uncovered; Evidence Of Health Impacts Mounts [PaEN] -- Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

This editorial first appeared in the Scranton Times on March 10, 2023 -- As regulators investigate and lawmakers lament the Feb. Josh Shapiro and the Legislature should beef up the DEP’s ability to regulate methane emissions and related public safety concerns. In November, the 13-day leak at an Equitrans Midstream Corp.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

You’ll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations. Yaw Proposes Independent Energy Office To Promote Development Of PA’s Diverse Energy Portfolio - Natural Gas, Nuclear Power, Coal [PaEN] -- U.S. This is the only way you can get notified of when oil and gas-related permits are submitted to DEP.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2022

The production and waste report is critical to understanding how much wastewater and other waste those wells generated and where it was disposed of. In calendar year 2021 , DEP issued 4,386 violations to conventional operators and 1,000 violations to unconventional shale gas operators.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 23, 2022

For example, the IRA extends and expands existing tax credits for renewable electricity production, and creates a new credit for electricity production at certain nuclear power plants. Nevertheless, to date, federal regulation of methane emissions from the oil and natural gas sector has been fairly limited.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

Six years ago, in 2017, electricity generation was 35% coal, 35% nuclear, 23% natural gas, 6% renewable, biomass and other. Read more here In 2021, 53% of electricity generation came from natural gas, 31% from nuclear, 12% from coal and 4% from renewables and other sources, according to the U.S. Yaw praised.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2023

From March 4 to 10, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 545 inspection entries that resulted in reporting 87 violations of environmental regulations-- 54 violations by the conventional oil and gas industry and 33 violations by the unconventional shale natural gas industry. Washington County). Amwell Twp.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2023

It is a financial problem, an environmental problem and the waste of a natural resource. DEP reported in December that between 2017 and 2021, conventional operators abandoned without plugging 2,246 wells -- 561 a year, on average. They frequently use “alternative” methods. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2022

Wolf to “unleash PA’s full potential to power the free world” and “end his job-killing, punitive crusade against the production and exportation of Pennsylvania natural gas and other abundant fossil fuels.” “You The Independent Fiscal Office reported during the fourth quarter of 2021, 10,322 horizontal gas wells were producing natural gas.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

-- Republican Herald: West Nile Virus Monitoring Starts In Schuylkill County -- Shapiro Administration Commends 3 PA Schools For Environmental Efforts As Green Ribbon Schools -- National Energy Technology Laboratory: Winners In Western PA, West Virginia Science Bowl Competed In National Science Bowl -- Wildlife For Everyone Foundation Announces 5 Recipients (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2022

John Yudichak (I-Luzerne), who Senate Republicans appointed as Majority Chair of the Senate Community, Economic and Recreational Development Committee, called opponents of natural gas infrastructure projects “radical environmentalists” and arguments by supporters of the RGGI carbon pollution reduction regulations covering power plants “hysteria.”

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Limiting Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities; And A First-Ever State MCL For PFOS/PFOA [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette: DEP Races To Finish Regulations To Limit Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Facilities With $450 Million In Federal Highway Funds At Stake -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: DEP Moves Reg.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 22, 2022

What’s Your Community Doing? Army - Disinterred Remains Do Not Match Native American Boy Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: June 22, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2021

House Resolution 106 (Benninghoff-R-Mifflin) is on the House Calendar that would, they say, terminate some, but not all the provisions of the declaration and extend it to October 1, 2021. The Arizona “audit” has also been called a “clown show,” a “waste of taxpayer money” and an “audit in name only” as well as a study in “disinformation.”

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