PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

On August 31, the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, the Pennsylvania Trails Advisory Committee , and WeConservePA released the 2022 Pennsylvania Trails Annual Report. Over 480 youth were trained at 8 ATV events and over 180 youth were trained at 3 Dirt Bike events.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

and Michael Harju (who actually share the same address in Armstrong County)-- to stop the gas leaks and plug the wells for nearly nine years, according to DEP inspection reports. [DEP This well was inspected by DEP on January 29, 2018 and issued notice of violation for being abandoned - inspection report not available.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 29, 2021

CBC reports that the city’s nearly 8,000 residents have been under a state of emergency since October 12, when staff confirmed evidence of a fuel contamination at the local water treatment plant. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. In Canada , officials in the city of Iqaluit discover the source of a fuel leak that contaminated the town’s water supply.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection issued a record 6,860 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas operators in 2023, according to DEP’s December 29, 2023 Weekly Workload Report. more than in 2022 and 569.9% Click Here to read the 2022 compliance report summary. Culture Of Non-Compliance’ On December 29, 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Read this week’s Oil & Gas Compliance Report to get a real feel for what’s happening with Oil & Gas enforcement in the field and the challenges faced by DEP’s inspectors and the public-- From January 27 to February 9, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 1,672 inspection entries. EHB Docket 2023074.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

DEP also issued fresh violations for failure of the operator to comply with a Commonwealth Court order issued on August 16, 2023 requiring remediation of the sites for releases of wastewater based on violations issued on October 24, 2022. LLC and found the wells to be abandoned and not plugged. No follow-up actions were requested.

2018 115

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2024

Information provided by the Department of Environmental Protection in response to a Right To Know request shows DEP took enforcement action against 14 conventional oil and gas well operators that resulted in collecting $422,365 in penalties and bond forfeitures in 2023. Click Here for the list of 93 operators and their wells in violation.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection has issued a record 5,653 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas operators in 2023, with two months left in the year, according to DEP’s November 3, 2023 Weekly Workload Report. Click Here to read the 2022 compliance report summary. Culture Of Non-Compliance’ On December 29, 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

So far this year-- as of September 8 -- -- NOVs Issued In Last Week: 19 conventional, 24 unconventional -- Year To Date - NOVs Issued: 4,561 conventional and 913 unconventional -- Inspections Last Week: 300 conventional and 378 unconventional -- Year To Date - Inspections: 10,821 conventional and 16,639 unconventional Abandoned Shale Gas Well Pad?

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Natural Gas 2023 Waste 2019 119

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2024

Click Here for more photos & maps Recent DEP Inspections DEP’s eFACTS database file for the Mohr A and B lists the sites as “active” and the last onsite inspection was conducted on September 8, 2022. Click Here for a copy of DEP’s inspection report. No evidence of spills, stressed vegetation, or recent earth disturbance were observed.”

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

By Danielle Rhea, Penn State Extension Educator Over 430 private wells, springs, and cisterns were tested in 2022 as part of educational webinars helping private water supply owners identify and solve health-related drinking water problems. 39% failed sodium, 31% failed Total Coliform bacteria, 12% copper, 11% manganese, 5% E.

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2022 Environmental Protection 59

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2024

On March 29, the PA Association of Environmental Educators announced the winners of its 2024 awards. The PAEE annual awards play a vital role in the environmental education community in Pennsylvania by providing a platform for educators to acknowledge and honor each other's contributions.

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2024 Natural Resources Environmental Science Conservation 72

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 13, 2022

On August 12, the Game Commission reported 2022 was another year of “firsts” for federally and state endangered piping plovers at Presque Isle State Park in Erie County. For the first time, since they returned as breeding birds in 2017, after a more than 60-year absence, two piping plover pairs fledged a total of five chicks!

2017 72

2017 2022 Conservation 72

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The Village of Reno’s water supply is owned by the Venango Water Company which is being operated by Aqua Pennsylvania under an emergency order issued by the Public Utility Commission on August 12. and the 550 people in Reno have been getting emergency supplies of make-up water ever since. Click Here to read the article. [ Read more here.

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Waste 2023 2017 Natural Gas 109

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

According to a new national report on schools’ adoption of solar published last week by nonprofit Generation180 , Pennsylvania ranked 11th in the nation for the amount of solar installed by its K-12 schools, climbing up from 13th place two years ago. The report found that 87% of solar power installed at U.S.

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Natural Gas Solar Power Carbon Dioxide Clean Energy 52

Renewable + Law

APRIL 27, 2022

Together, the two areas total 1,158,400 million acres located at least 12 miles offshore Coos Bay and Brookings, respectively. Once the Call is published in the Federal Register (anticipated for April 29, 2022), the public will have 60 days to submit comments. 3375 last year.

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Renewable Energy 2030 Ocean 2022 52

Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

On August 28, 2023, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) published General Comment No. 26 (GC26) on children’s rights and the environment with a special focus on climate change. The CRC is the most widely ratified human rights treaty, with 196 parties. Background Sacchi et al. Argentina et al. Argentina et al. ).

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Physics World

JUNE 1, 2022

When the idea for a year-long celebration of glass was first proposed in 2018, at the annual meeting of the International Commission on Glass (ICG) in Yokohama, Japan, few could have foreseen the global calamity that would soon befall. Today, the UN exists to address global problems – be it climate change, energy, education or communication.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In its Nationally Determined Contributions ( NDCs ), updated in 2022, India has made three major promises: a 45% reduction in its carbon emissions intensity (CO2 emissions per unit of electricity) based on 2005 levels, by 2030; 50% of installed electricity coming from non-fossil-fuel sources by 2030; and national carbon neutrality by 2070.

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Fossil Fuels Carbon Emissions Paris Agreement Renewable Energy 52

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

From November 11 to 17, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 774 inspection entries. Some of the wells were leaking natural gas to the atmosphere. Some of the wells were leaking natural gas.

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Natural Gas 2023 Carbon Dioxide Atmosphere 77

PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2023

Ryan, when he was nine years old, had a toxicology test done and those reports detected carcinogens like benzene in his urine at nine years old.” “Ryan, when he was nine years old, had a toxicology test done and those reports detected carcinogens like benzene in his urine at nine years old.” Read more here. “I

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

Here’s what happened on December 25, 26 and 27, 2022 in Washington County. According to an article in the Observer-Reporter newspaper , Kasey said she and her family were opening presents on Christmas morning 2022 when they heard a “jet noise” from the plant followed by a loud bang that rattled the house about 7:30 in the morning.

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Natural Gas 2022 2012 Environmental Protection 98

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2022

The state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources has awarded millions of dollars in grants for land-preservation projects through the years. Revitalizing nearly 70 river towns forged during now-played-out industrial eras was another main goal.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2023

On April 25, the Eyes On Shell citizens initiative reported fenceline air pollution monitoring data at Shell's Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County reported benzene levels of over 185 µg/m3 and 89 µg/m3 they said was above the 29 µg/m3 minimum risk level established by the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

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Air Pollution Clean Air Act Natural Gas 2022 93

PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2022

The following articles appeared first in the Butler County-based Slippery Rock Watershed Coalition July, 2022 newsletter -- Passing The Internship Torch The use of conductivity dataloggers is the most cost-effective and efficient method to collect water quality data on a continual basis.

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2003 2004 2022 Conservation 52

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

On December 27, 2022-- Christmas week-- a malfunction at the CNX Oak Springs Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Station in South Franklin Township, Washington County resulted in the release of an estimated 1.1 million cubic feet of natural gas and hazardous air pollutants. From approximately 10:14 a.m. to at least 11:55 a.m. to at least 11:55 a.m.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2022

On May 24, the Clean Air Council announced a six-year saga over air pollution from the Energy Transfer natural gas liquids processing plant and terminal at Marcus Hook ended with a voluntary legal settlement in which Energy Transfer agreed to drop its appeals of two air pollution permits. Posted: May 24, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Oil Giant's AFCON Sponsorship Denounced as Plot to Set Off Carbon Bombs Across Africa Common Dreams PaulaR Wed, 01/17/2024 - 14:46 Friday, January 12, 2024 Read more Brett Wilkins "As Africans, we need to show TotalEnergies the red card," said one climate campaigner. BRETT WILKINS Jan 12, 2024 4 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2022

The amount of solar energy at K-12 schools in Pennsylvania doubled since 2020, according to a new statewide report on schools' adoption of solar published by Generation180 , a clean energy nonprofit. Despite the pandemic, the solar capacity on K-12 schools rose from 14.5 MW to nearly 29 MW in a two-year period.

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2020 Carbon Dioxide Solar Power Clean Energy 52

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Mercenary hackers stole data that Exxon later cited in climate lawsuits -US prosecutors Yahoo News PaulaR Tue, 11/07/2023 - 17:23 Thursday, October 12, 2023 Read more Raphael Satter & Christopher Bing WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. The case was still ongoing in 2022. It was founded in the 1870s as part of the Standard Oil group.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

billion, down 6% compared to 2022. In recent years, the company has come under fire for a number of drugs such as the contraceptive Yasmin that has been associated with blood clots; and for hiking the price of Betaseron, which is used to treat multiple sclerosis, from $11,500 to over $100,000.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The pace of companies abandoning conventional oil and natural gas wells without plugging them continues to accelerate in 2022 threatening to put Pennsylvania’s taxpayer-funded well plugging program even further behind. Wolf allowed to become law blocking any attempts to increase the bonding amounts for 10 years. Read more here.

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Natural Gas Law Regulations Waste 98

Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Humanitarianism, Capitalism, and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott by Tehila Sasson (2016) Rigged: Supermarket Shelves for Sale by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) (2016) Nutrition Scientists on the Take from Big Food: Has the American Society for Nutrition lost all credibility?

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 3, 2024

Humanitarianism, Capitalism, and the Moral Economy of the Nestlé Boycott by Tehila Sasson (2016) Rigged: Supermarket Shelves for Sale by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) (2016) Nutrition Scientists on the Take from Big Food: Has the American Society for Nutrition lost all credibility?

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Deforestation 2016 2019 2018 52

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

Nationally, 12 states have permitted the practice. By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal A long-anticipated health study commissioned by Pennsylvania environmental officials examined the practice of spreading wastewater from conventional gas– and oil-drilling on thousands of miles of rural dirt roads in the state.

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2018 Waste 2017 Natural Gas 98

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

A significant change in the culture of non-compliance as an acceptable norm in the conventional oil and gas industry will need to occur before meaningful improvement can happen.” The report looked at environmental compliance in the industry between 2017 through 2021.

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Waste 2017 Regulations Environmental Protection 98

Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Issued on: 17/11/2023 - 12:13 Corporation TotalEnergies S.E. in 2022 References: Gigantic sleaze scandal winds up as former Elf oil chiefs are jailed - Total to pay $15 mln to settle US false claims case Six Texas Oil Refineries Are Among the Nation’s Worst Benzene Polluters, Data Shows Total to pay $2.9 In the U.S. million in 2013.

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