PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

85% of conventional well owners with 23,708 wells failed to submit production and waste generation and disposal reports-- 19,644 of these wells are not required to have a plugging bond. 89% of well owners failing to submit production/waste reports have at least one well not required to have a bond. First recommended in December 2022.]

Waste

PA Environment Daily

JULY 28, 2025

Holds July 30 Training On Managing PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Contaminated Water, Waste In Washington County Center For Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training Hosts In-Person Workshops On Identification Of On-Farm Resource Concerns & Implementing Conservation Practices Aug. 6 Hearing, Sept. 6 Hearing, Sept. 19-21, Sept.

Natural Gas

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 13, 2025

Rescinds unobligated Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) funds for the Conservation Stewardship Program, the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, the Regional Conservation Partnership Program, and the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program, building them into the farm bill baseline.

Conservation

Circle of Blue

MAY 20, 2025

Wasted energy, pollution and the noise. While Microsofts 2024 Environmental Sustainability Report references goals around construction waste and air filtration at its data centers, there is no reference to efforts to conserve the use of water. There are environmental and security and management issues. Think about the traffic.

Cooling

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

11 Hearing On How PA Should Subsidize The Remediation Of Waste Coal Piles [PaEN] -- Bitfarms Announces Partnership To Develop A.I. Data Center At Panther Creek Waste Coal-Fired Power Plant In Carbon County [PaEN] -- FracTracker Alliance Releases National A.I. Data Centers Tracker; Public Invited To Submit Information [PaEN] -- Gov.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

Where We Are With The Issue At a June 10, 2024 hearing on House Bill 2384 (Vitali-D-Delaware) that would ban road dumping by the House Environmental Committee, DEP said, The Administration is supportive of this clear ban on the practice and views the Solid Waste Management Act as a sound vehicle for such statutory language. Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

19 & 21 -- Center For Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training Hosts In-Person Workshops On Identification Of On-Farm Resource Concerns & Implementing Conservation Practices Aug. 19-21, Sept. 16-18 [PaEN] -- Registration Open! 19-21, Sept. 16-18 [PaEN] -- Registration Open! 19-21, Sept. 16-18 [PaEN] -- Registration Open!

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

The agency's duties under the Pennsylvania Constitution to conserve and maintain Pennsylvania resources further bolster this authority. The [state] Oil and Gas Act, Clean Streams Law and Air Pollution Control Act give EQB the authority and mandate to promulgate regulations to protect health and the environment.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

million penalty against Halliburton Energy Services for 255 violations of the state Solid Waste Management Act; -- $1.5 Here are j ust a few examples of the penalties imposed by DEP against Big Shale Gas and related industries include-- -- $939,553 penalty against Chevron related to fatal gas well fire in Greene County; -- $1.1

2014

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

Data Center Infrastructure; Amazon Told PUC It Has Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Goal By 2040 [PaEN] -- PA Trout Unlimited, 17 Other Environmental, Conservation Organizations Expressed Opposition To Proposed DEP Changes To Spill Reporting Requirements [PaEN] -- Republican Sen.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

PaEN] -- Williamsport Sun: State Of The Susquehanna River - A Closer Look At Our River -- Western PA Conservancy: Dec. Thank you for your leadership! -- Penn State Ag Council Recognizes Cong. 5-7 In Lancaster [PaEN] -- Wilkes-Barre Times: DEP Reduced Permit Backlog By 67% Under Gov.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

-- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Anti-Nuke Activists Use 46th Anniversary Of Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident To Protest Restart -- Post-Gazette: Anti-Nuke Activists Use 46th Anniversary Of Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident To Protest Restart -- PennDOT, DEP, Keep PA Beautiful Invite Public To Be Part Of Pick Up Pennsylvania (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2025

Training On Managing PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Contaminated Water, Waste. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Penn State Extension Webinar On $100/Well Bounty For Reporting Previously Unknown Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Abandoned By Their Owners.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 23, 2025

Just last month, the Commission approved Phase V of Pennsylvania’s Act 129 energy efficiency and conservation programs — building on more than 15 years of progress that has already delivered more than $4.9 That’s wasteful, costly, and increasingly unsustainable. So let’s not waste this moment. billion in consumer savings.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

Penn State studies found the amounts of at least 25 of the chemicals they tested for exceeded environmental and health standards and radioactive radium exceeded industrial waste discharge standards. Read more here. The bill was reported out of Committee by a party-line vote, but went no further. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

Natural Gas

Physics World

JUNE 3, 2025

One idea to prevent this CO 2 being released back into the atmosphere is to bury the waste biomass under conditions that prevent or slow decomposition, thereby trapping the carbon underground for centuries. Based in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, the firm dries and compresses waste biomass into blocks before storage. “We

Waste

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Here are 189 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.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

GT Thompson, Chair of the US House Agriculture Committee; Members Of The PA In The Balance Farm Conservation Initiative Team; Student Jessica Herr [PaEN] -- Penn State Master Watershed Steward Jane Cook Leads By Example In Lehigh Valley [PaEN] -- PA Assn. 16 In State College [PaEN] -- Western PA Conservancy: Dec. 26 to Nov.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2025

PA House Environmental and Natural Resource Protection Committee hearing on how Pennsylvania should subsidize the remediation of waste coal piles. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. August 11-- Agenda Posted. Room G-50 Irvis Building. data center development.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

-- PA’s Penncrest High School Envirothon Team From Delaware County Takes 7th Place In International NCF-Envirothon In Canada! Miles Of 4 Texas Eastern Natural Gas Pipelines To Allow For Longwall Coal Mining In Greene County [PaEN] -- PA Independent Oil & Gas Assn. 5 -- Guest Essay: Rewriting The Energy Story — Together - By Stephen M.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Thank you for your leadership! -- PA Conservation Heritage Project Profile: Jack Winieski Dedicated His Professional Career To Improving Trees Through Genetics - By Wayne W. DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4 Million In Abandoned Well Plugging Funding Against Shale Gas Drilling Companies-- XTO Energy, Inc.,

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Nuclear Waste Dump Cleanup June 5 At Public Meeting In Armstrong County -- TribLive: US Army Corps Says Parks Twp. Is Nuclear The Hot New Clean Power Source? -- TribLive: US Army Corps To Give Update On Parks Twp. Million Water Main, Lead Service Line Replacement Projects -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Pittsburgh Water Authority Launches $75.4

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

We will get stuff done by getting rid of eyesores like coal waste piles and orange streams and help to revitalize these communities,” said DEP Acting Secretary Jessica Shirley. Reclaiming these abandoned mine lands improves our environment and makes Pennsylvania a more beautiful place. 24 Meadow Seeding For A Hands-On Stormwater Solution.

Conservation

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Instead, Congress could remove the climate-smart requirement and expand the funding for current Farm Bill conservation practices that do not necessarily have a clear impact on emissions or sequestration. This Article provides an overview of where the 2024 Farm Bill got stuck in the weeds regarding conservation spending.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2025

Some existing criteria pertain to washing your car, pet waste, pesticides, and proper storage of potential toxins. The certification program received the 2022 Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence through the Department of Environmental Protection. Why should you or your property be certified as watershed-friendly?

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2025

-- Sand County Foundation: Troy Firth Receives Pennsylvania Leopold Farm Conservation Award [PaEN] -- Inquirer: Charles D. Yaw Re-Elected Chair Of PA Delegation To Chesapeake Bay Commission, Maryland To Chair Commission In 2025 [PaEN] -- Reminder: Center For Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training Hosts Jan.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2025

26-28: Field Trips; Awards; Holly Merker Co-Author Of Ornitherapy Keynote [PaEN] -- WITF: Why Pennsylvania Is Removing Dams And How It’s Helping Fish, Rivers And Communities -- Scranton Times: Lackawanna Conservation District Seeks School For Trout In The Classroom -- PA iMapInvasives Program To Hold 2025 Invasive Species Scavenger Hunt Aug.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2025

Of Rural Conservation Spring Fling Bird Watch Walk In Washington County 6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables -- Financial Times: China Says It Can Live Without US Farm, Energy Goods [PA Exported $3.1

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2025

. -- DCNR published notice in the April 12 PA Bulletin announcing the approval of the Juniata Forward: Building on 25 Years of Conservation, An Update to the Juniata Watershed Management Plan and is updating the Juniata River Watershed (Bedford County) portion of the Plan under the Rivers Conservation Program. Cumberland County. (

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

. -- John Morrow, nominated by Keep Northeastern PA Beautiful : John is an indispensable asset to community conservation efforts in Northeastern Pennsylvania (NEPA). has been building community engagement through education and working to clean up illegal dumping 'Hot Spots' within Harrisburg since the summer of 2022. All You Can Inc.

2024

PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2025

Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. 19 & 21 -- The Center Square: Extended LIHEAP Energy Assistance Proposed In PA [In Face Of Proposed 100% Federal Cut] -- Williamsport Sun: Muncy Creek Twp. -Sr.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Susquehanna County [PaEN] -- Scranton Times: PA American To Provide Clean Drinking Water In Dimock To Replace Fracking-Contaminated Private Wells [ PDF of Article ] -- WVIA: PA American Water: Dimock Twp. Million In Growing Greener Plus Grants From DEP -- Volunteers Needed! Million In Growing Greener Plus Grants From DEP -- Volunteers Needed!

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

To Adopt More Stringent Rules For Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Wells In Westmoreland County -- Observer-Reporter: EQT Shale Gas Driller Sues Morgan Twp., 7, 21, Sept. 7, 21, Sept.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2025

Dauphin County -- PennDOT Focus On Innovations, Including Using Environment-Friendly Products, EV Charging Build Out -- LevitttownNow.com: Waste Management Opens $131 Million Landfill Gas Facility In Falls Twp., Megawatts -- PennLive: 22 Bay Electric Vehicle Charging Station Opens In Lower Swatara Twp.,

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

The cost of new gas plants has tripled since 2022. In December 2022, Coterra pleaded no contest to criminal charges filed by the Office of Attorney General and paid a penalty of $444,000 for contaminating 21 water supplies in Dimock in 2002. There's a backlog on turbines and power transformers that stretch into the 2030s.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2025

Waste Permits - Issued -- Highland Field Services, LLC - Seven Mile Minerals: DEP issued a Residual Waste Operating Permit for the facility located in Sergeant Twp., Millard shale gas well pad 9.17.24 Susquehanna County. ( McKean County. Received Feb. 15, Issued. Jefferson County. ( PA Bulletin, page 3639 ) -- Peoples Natural Gas Co.,

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2025

So this school year, Bentz made chronic wasting disease , a contagious, fatal brain infection in deer, the focus of the ecosystem unit. She showed her students video clips of old news reports tracking the rise of chronic wasting disease in the Commonwealth. Even better, they were talking about chronic wasting disease outside of class.

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