PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2022

More complete DEP records now show conventional oil and gas drillers reported spreading 977,671 gallons of untreated drilling wastewater on Pennsylvania's roads in 2021, according to an updated report by the Better Path Coalition released Wednesday. Fracking waste is fracking waste. Read more here. There’s no difference.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Proposed regulations in California could fine residents for wasting water. The Year in Water, 2021: Water Crises Take Center Stage. Proposed emergency regulations in California could charge residents $500 a day for wasting water. IN RECENT WATER NEWS. Too little. Too polluted. Too frequent.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2022

Randomly selected individual on-site drill cutting and wastewater disposal plans submitted by conventional oil and gas drillers call for drilling wastes to be “dispersed directly to the environment,” according to a review by PA Environment Digest. Ph and conductivity will be tested and reported according to regulations.”

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

On January 5, the Department of Environmental Protection reported their inspections found 4,386 violations of environmental regulations at conventional oil and gas operations during 2021 -- nearly two and a half times the violations reported just two years ago in 2019 and 337 more than in 2020. Read more here.] .: Read more here.]

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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

APRIL 28, 2023

The Delaware River Basin Commission has clarified regulations it adopted in December to regulate wastewater to make clear they ban the road spreading and disposal of fracking wastewater from conventional as well as unconventional shale gas drilling operations. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2022

Wolf directed the Department of Environmental Protection to conduct an evaluation of how it regulates conventional oil and gas wells to prevent new abandoned wells, tighten review of permit transfers, review compliance with environmental safeguards and make recommendations for changes and actions, including criminal sanctions.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Britain is launching an investigation into sewage treatment after several water companies admitted to potentially releasing illegal waste into waterways. The post The Stream, November 19, 2021: Flooding Devastates British Columbia appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The Environmental Quality Board is scheduled to meet in-person and virtually on September 21 to consider air quality, hazardous waste and other agenda items. Click Here to register to join the meeting online via Webex. The meeting is also available via conference call: 1-415-655-0003 Access code: 2633 041 5303.

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E2 Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

8, 2021, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“ ANPRM Notice ”) addressing possible future regulation of pyrolysis and gasification units under the federal Clean Air Act (CAA). 8, 2021, as the deadline to submit public comments. The EPA set Nov.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The law mandates availability of protective equipment during poor air quality events, and directs Cal/OSHA, the state’s labor regulator, to consider additional high heat protections. SB 1205 protects water access by requiring the state to develop regulations considering climate change effects on water availability for water rights permits.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2023

The DCED PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council is scheduled to meet on May 25 to discuss a variety of issues including well plugging, proposed waste management regulations, methane emission court challenge, road dumping drilling wastewater and more.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

Conventional oil and gas operators just filed annual reports with DEP documenting their disposal of over 580,000 gallons of drilling wastewater by dumping it on dirt and gravel roads during 2021, according to DEP’s Oil & Gas Waste Reporting Database. million gallons from 2018 to 2021. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

more than in 2021 and 26.6% DEP’s 2022 Oil and Gas Annual Report said 5,416 notices of violation were issued to conventional operators in 2022 and 4,514 violations in 2021 and in 2015, DEP issued just 1,024 violations to conventional operators. more than in 2022 and 569.9% more than in 2015. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2024

On January 8, 2024, the Environmental Hearing Board issued an adjudication denying the 2021 appeal of a DEP permit for the Tri-County Landfill in Mercer County brought by Liberty Township and the Citizens Environmental Association of Slippery Rock Area. Only two percent of the landfill’s total waste can be composed of TENORM waste.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2023

Elder Vogel (R-Beaver) at the March 22 Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on DEP’s budget request , the Department of Environmental Protection said it is projecting a $1,581,000 deficit in funding for the Oil and Gas Regulation Program. The claims that Pennsylvania has the toughest oil and gas regulations in the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

We wasted the hell out of the water.” – Tim Black, a cattle farmer in the Texas Panhandle. Most coastal desalination facilities discharge their waste back into the ocean. According to Al Jazeera , fishing permits can cost up to $1,200 a year—plus thousands of dollars to build a fishing rig that meets government regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The report looked at environmental compliance in the industry between 2017 through 2021. Overview Of Non-Compliance DEP reports between 2017 through 2021, the agency did 63,026 inspections of wells belonging to 1,512 conventional oil and gas well owners operating 34,812 wells.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Minister Freeland lied, giving Big Oil exactly what they want When Minister Freeland first talked about the CCUS tax credit back in 2021 and 2022, she explicitly stated that projects planning to use captured carbon for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) would not qualify for the tax break. But those rules are very, very, very delayed.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

percent of all conventional wells-- failed to submit their annual production and waste generation and disposal reports. A total of 520 conventional operators did submit their annual production/waste reports covering 45,614 wells. It covered violations from 2017 through 2021. Where did it go?

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

[This is one of a series of actions DEP has taken related to leachate generated in part by shale gas drilling waste deposited in the landfill and the refusal of the Belle Vernon Municipal Authority to accept the leachate for treatment because the leachate was “upsetting” the wastewater treatment process. Click Here for more.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 16, 2023

The 2021 Oil and Gas Program Annual Report issued by DEP in December shows conventional oil and gas operators received a record 610 notices of violation for abandoning wells without plugging them and unconventional shale gas operators received 27 NOVs. Click Here for DEP’s summary of violations for 2021. Read more here. Read more here.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 19, 2023

The proposal to regulate PFAS as a class of chemicals allows the government to more effectively address the human health and environmental harms associated with these thousands of chemicals in products. Additional information: The government signalled in 2021 that it would be proposing a class-based approach to PFAS regulation in Canada.

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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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2023

Additionally, the agency exceeded their workload capacity long ago and has not been able to enforce regulations in a manner that is protective of the environment. These communities are more vulnerable, having limited resources to defend against operators looking for destinations for the oil and gas industry's waste.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 19, 2022

State regulators shuttered the AltEn plant in 2021 after years of environmental violations. Read the full story at Grist. Residents are just beginning to grapple with its toxic legacy.

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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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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The Department of Environmental Protection’s Current List Of Oil And Gas Waste Facilities identifies 84 municipalities in 13 counties where conventional oil and gas wastewater is disposed of by road spreading. These reports show how liquid and solid waste is disposed of in general terms and where. in the Residual Waste Regulations.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 7, 2021

All the things that go down the drain and end up at the waste water treatment plant are not removed there. Dealing with chemicals seems more complicated for regulators. The post The Stream, July 7, 2021: Study Finds Planting Forests in Europe Could Offset Drought There appeared first on Circle of Blue. It’s a soup of chemicals.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2021

On October 28, the Delaware River Basin Commission posted draft changes to its Water Code regulating wastewater from high volume hydraulic fracking oil and gas drilling operations. Visit DRBC’s Natural Gas Drilling webpage for more information on its regulations covering this activity. Click Here to sign up for regulator updates.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

At RePlanet Nederland, we are delighted that the European Commission has proposed, on December 31, 2021, to include nuclear energy in the sustainable finance taxonomy. The following elements of the Regulation proposal are dealt with in this review. of the proposal) and for existing installation only until 2040 (see §4.28).

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Regulations to ban single-use plastics in Canada are welcome, but improvements are needed . The draft regulations require strengthening before they are finalized in the new year, but are an important step in addressing the crisis of plastic pollution. That means Canadian companies can continue to make these harmful products for export.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

HotSpots H2O: ‘Global Indigenous Agenda’ Calls for Water, Land, and Resource Governance at 2021 IUCN World Conference — Indigenous activists and organizations from around the world met virtually this week for the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Zoom-based World Conservation Congress.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 7, 2022

The Environmental Quality Board is inviting comments on a proposed regulation change delisting sludge filter cake as a hazardous waste that is derived from liquid wastes managed by MAX Environmental Technologies at their Bulger waste facility in Washington County and the Yukon waste facility in Westmoreland County. (

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

EPA’s Class VI Regulations Section 1421 of the Safe Drinking Water Act mandates that EPA establish Underground Injection Control (UIC) program regulations to protect underground sources of drinking water (USDW) from risks associated with underground fluid injections.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

From February 18 through 24, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 309 inspection reports that resulted in reporting 26 violations of environmental regulations-- 13 violations by the conventional oil and gas industry and 13 violations by the unconventional shale natural gas industry. NOCK 1 -- Ohio Twp.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

increase in carbon dioxide pollution from the Commonwealth’s power plants between 2020 and 2021. In the pandemic’s wake, facilities that run on waste coal are ramping up output to meet demand from cryptocurrency speculators. By Josh Raulerson, PA Environmental Council Data published in February by the U.S.

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