What Is A “Sustainable Battery”?
Legal Planet
DECEMBER 19, 2024
As the market for the electric buses, cars, trucks, and trains that help curb the climate crisis continues to grow globally, the battery supply chain faces increased scrutiny.
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A Greener Life
APRIL 10, 2025
A 100 year journey The journey began in 1925, and it is a hundred years to the day since the first electric train ran in India, a suburban service running into Mumbai. It was in 2014 that the government ramped up ambitions and committed the funds for a fully electric railway. The pace of change doubled and then doubled again.
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Penn State PA Technical Assistance Program Hosting 2-Part Metals Manufacturing Pollution Prevention Training Series
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 24, 2024
This webinar showcases Benton Foundry’s green initiatives that have significantly reduced energy consumption and waste. Join PennTAP for an exclusive, in-person tour of Benton Foundry, winner of the 2022 Green Foundry “Sustainability & Stakeholder Engagement” Award from the American Foundry Society.
Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Compliance With 2022 DEP Methane Reduction Regulation Put On Hold Pending Outcome Of Litigation
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 28, 2025
On January 28, the Department of Environmental Protection said compliance with a 2022 state Air Quality regulation to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas facilities was put on hold for the conventional oil and gas industry as a result of an agreement to stay a legal challenge to the regulations in Commonwealth Court. Read more here.
The Animal Agriculture Industry Undermines Climate Action
Legal Planet
JULY 31, 2025
These effects were further recognized in the 2022 Global Methane Assessment from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). For comparison, the International Energy Agency estimates that converting one-third of all vehicles on the road worldwide to fully electric would reduce emissions by only 2.0 Gt CO₂ per year. Gt CO₂ per year.
Stronghold Digital Mining, DEP, Environmental Groups Settle Appeal, Require Removal Of Unpermitted Scrubgrass Power Plant's Coal Ash Pile 14 Months Faster In Venango County
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 7, 2025
Flagged as a permit violation DEP site inspection in 2022 , the coal ash pile had surpassed the approved size, enveloping parts of the surrounding area. The size of the toxic ash pile at the Scrubgrass cryptomining facility had turned waste coal into an even riskier form of pollution, said Patrick McDonnell, President and CEO of PennFuture.
DEP: Widespread Non-Compliance With Environmental Laws Continues In Conventional Oil & Gas Industry; 3,108+ Abandoned Wells; At Least 85% Conventional Well Owners Fail To Submit Production, Waste, Well Integrity Reports
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.]
River of the Anthropocene
Circle of Blue
JULY 24, 2025
This river system is the basis of millions of livelihoods, enabling transportation, agriculture, fishing and electricity generation. Due to the increasing availability of electricity, Cambodia’s power consumption per capita more than tripled between 2012 and 2022. Unfortunately, the expansion of hydropower has its downsides.
Daily Grind Living Next To Oil & Gas Industry: Spills, Polluted Water Supplies, Smells Like Gas, Noise, Air Pollution, Explosions, Truck Traffic, Erosion, Radioactive Waste, Gas Flares, Dust, Lights, Road Dumping Waste, Abandoned Wells
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 27, 2025
Its a daily litany of spills, polluted water supplies, smell of natural gas in the air, noise, air pollution, explosions, landslides, truck traffic, radioactive waste, gas flares, erosion problems, dust, lights, road dumping waste, abandoned equipment and wells. Now it happens occasionally. No agency will help them.
Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rig Count Down To 12, Lowest In More Than 17 Years; Community Support Drops; Big Hole In DEP Budget
PA Environment Daily
OCTOBER 25, 2024
The IFO projects another $100 million drop in revenue in calendar year 2024 fee revenue from 2022 to $170 million. Expect Much Less Community Support In June, the Ind ependent Fiscal Office issued a report on the latest projections of revenue from the Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fee showing a drop in calendar 2023 revenue to $179.1
July 28 - Weekly PA Environment Digest Now Available
PA Environment Daily
JULY 28, 2025
DeFrank, Chairman, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission PUC: Brace For Higher Electric Bills As A Result Of Soaring Power Use; Consumers Should Review Energy Options PJM Electricity Capacity Auction Bids For 134,311 MW Come It At Highest Price Allowed Under FERC-Approved Cap What The A.I. 6 Hearing, Sept. 6 Hearing, Sept.
107 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 17, 2024
Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In McKean County Until Hearing On Full Supersedeas [PaEN] -- TribLive: Environmental Groups Appeal CNX Slickville Pipelines Permits -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. PaEN] -- Alliance For The Chesapeake Bay Video: PA Riparian Forest Buffer Projects Plants Its 1,000th Acre!
Attorney General Sunday Files Criminal Charges Against Equitrans For 2022 Leak Of 1.1 Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas From Its Rager Mountain Gas Storage Field In Cambria County
PA Environment Daily
JULY 24, 2025
billion cubic feet of natural gas in 2022 across southern Pennsylvania and into several states, while also contaminating nearby ground and waters. Bloomberg News called the Rager Mountain gas leak the worst US climate disaster in 2022. Read more here.] Equitrans was purchased by EQT Corporation in July 2024.]
Utility Dive Guest Essay: We At PJM Need Realistic Solutions, Not Politics To Take On Energy Challenges
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 7, 2025
When the job is to ensure reliable electricity for 67 million people, being largely invisible is often a sign that the system is working as it should. We act like an air traffic controller, maneuvering electricity through outages and storms across a multistate grid to match supply and demand in real time.
Late Night Dumping II: Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Dumping Continues On Roads, This Time With Bigger Trucks; New Research On Harmful Wastewater Impacts
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.
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Circle of Blue
JULY 24, 2025
This river system is the basis of millions of livelihoods, enabling transportation, agriculture, fishing and electricity generation. Due to the increasing availability of electricity, Cambodia’s power consumption per capita more than tripled between 2012 and 2022. Unfortunately, the expansion of hydropower has its downsides.
Beyond the Cloud: What’s AI’s True Environmental Cost? Part 2
Enviromental Defense
JULY 2, 2025
2 Energy The electricity required to power and cool date centres represents another significant environmental concern. per cent of the world’s electricity consumption in 2024, while this is set to more than double by the end of the decade. AI-induced electricity demand can lead consumers to pay significantly more for electricity.
To harness AI potential, Canada needs to first mitigate its environmental footprint
Enviromental Defense
AUGUST 7, 2025
In 2019, noticing AI was straining land and electricity resources, Singapore imposed a moratorium on new data centre construction. Several governments around the world have already begun to address the environmental impact of AI and data centres. Singapore used this pause to develop comprehensive sustainability standards.
DEP: XTO Energy Failed To Restore 5 Multi-Million Gallon Shale Gas Water Impoundments In Butler County
PA Environment Daily
MAY 31, 2025
14, 2022, Deadline for restoration August 2023 DEP inspection report. -- Ambrose Freshwater Impoundment: Last use Nov. 13, 2022, Deadline for restoration August 2023 DEP inspection report. . -- Summit Township-- -- Kozik Centralized Freshwater Impoundment: Last use was Nov. DEP requested a response to the violations by June 12.
Environmental Defense Fund Blog: Another Study Identifies Health Risks During Unconventional Oil & Gas Production Even For Those Living Within 1,000 Feet Or More Of Wells
PA Environment Daily
MAY 14, 2025
Washington County [January 2025] -- Cecil Township Supervisors Direct Solicitor To Prepare Ordinance Increasing Setbacks From Shale Gas Well Pads By At Least 2,500 Feet; Another Hearing, Vote Expected Nov.
Guest Essay: Rewriting The Energy Story — Together
PA Environment Daily
JULY 23, 2025
At the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC), our job is to make sure that essential utility services-- electric, natural gas, water, wastewater, telecommunications, and transportation-- remain safe, reliable, and affordable for Pennsylvanians. That’s wasteful, costly, and increasingly unsustainable. Let’s lead.
PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - January 1 to 10 - First 4 Abandoned Conventional Wells Of 2025; Methane Reduction Grant Inspections; Well Leaking Gas For 27 Months
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 11, 2025
Eva Wilkinson et al 2, failed to submit production, waste generation reports for 4 years. Hannah & Kathryn Marvin 6, failed to submit production, waste generation reports for 4 years. Original violations issued October 20, 2022. . : J.Ross 105-1, Response by Feb. DEP inspection report ] -- Peters Twp. : Response by Feb.
Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults
PA Environment Daily
JULY 27, 2025
12-14; July Forest Snapshot; Hope For Our Forests; Woodland Stewardship Webinar Series -- PUC Sets Hearings On Proposed Wellsboro Electric, Valley Energy Natural Gas, Citizens Electric Of 11% to 37.5% 19-21, Sept. 16-18 [PaEN] -- Registration Open! 19-21, Sept. 16-18 [PaEN] -- Registration Open! 19-21, Sept. 21 [PaEN] -- DEP Sets Aug.
153 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA
PA Environment Daily
JUNE 29, 2025
Jim Gregory, Justin Mason, Conservative Energy Network Pennsylvania -- PennTAP Hosts July 17 Webinar On Funding & Incentives To Support Pollution Prevention and Energy Efficiency Projects [PaEN] -- York Dispatch/AP: Consumers Rely On Energy Star Ratings President Wants To End -- PennDOT Opens 6 More New Federally Funded Electric Vehicle Charging (..)
DEP Releases 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update; 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report
PA Environment Daily
APRIL 25, 2025
As of 2020, the three largest sources of emissions in Pennsylvania are: -- Electricity Generation (29% of gross emissions) -- Transportation Fuel Consumption (22% of gross emissions) -- Industrial Emissions (19% of gross emissions) Emissions from electricity generation decreased 10.4% from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4% from 2005 to 2020.
Protect PT, Partners To Host June 25 Webinar: 5 Years Later - A Progress Report On PA's Grand Jury Report On Fracking
PA Environment Daily
JUNE 12, 2025
Data Centers Could Overwhelm The Electric Grid, Unless They Are Required To Run Their Facilities On New Power Sources, Market Analytics Says -- Reuters: Data Center Demand To Push US Power Use To Record Highs In 2025-26, EIA Says [Posted: June 12, 2025] PA Environment Digest
116 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 6, 2025
Thank you for your leadership! -- PUC Urges Pennsylvanians To Prepare Now For Winter Storms [PaEN] -- Utility Dive: North American Electric Reliability Corp. Issues Electric Grid Reliability Warning Ahead Of Expected Winter Storm In Eastern US Starting Jan. 13 -- Pike Conservation District: Pike/Wayne Counties Contractors Workshop Feb.
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PA Environment Daily
JULY 29, 2025
Training On Managing PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Contaminated Water, Waste. 10-11 Navigating Chance Policy Conference [PaEN] -- WESA - Rachel McDevitt: Electric Road Trip Makes Pit Stop At Allegheny County Electric Vehicle Mechanic Training Program -- EPA: Liberty-Clairton In Allegheny County Makes Progress In Meeting PM2.5,
Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Gillian Graber, Protect PT -- We Need To Work Together, Pool Our Knowledge To Push Back Against This Industry That's Harming Our Communities
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 7, 2025
Injection Wells There are the waste drains. And in, actually, 2022, we participated in local hearings for this foray, which was the second of the well pads slated. We heard a lot about the waste from the site. The industry needs to find a way to dump their waste. They responded when they saw people were impacted.
DEP: US Interior Dept. Withdraws Orphan Oil & Gas Well Regulatory Improvement Grant Program To Help Prevent Future Well Abandonments, A Severe Problem In PA
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 27, 2025
Wolf signed into law legislation in July 2022 that took away the EQBs authority to increase bond amounts for conventional oil and gas wells for 10 years. GW Of New Electric Generation Capacity; Reviews To Be Completed By 2026; List Of Projects Not Available Now [PaEN] [Posted: March 27, 2025] PA Environment Digest Read more here.
108 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
12 On Oil & Gas Methane Emissions Reductions; Hydrogen Hubs [PaEN] -- WHYY: ‘No Seat At The Table:’ Why Environmental Justice Activists Like Zulene Mayfield Fear Republican Presidential Win -- Environmental Quality Board To Consider Proposed Spill Notification Regulation; Blasting; NOx & VOC Corrections Nov. Shapiro -- Gov.
Guest Essay: Paying The Price For Natural Gas And A.I. Data Centers
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 7, 2025
So, I want to look at these four areas: the overall electricity situation in PJM; market forces; policy forces; and A.I. PJM Overview Electricity prices in PJM, which serves all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia, are rising dramatically due to a failure to transition to clean energy. frankly can make things worse.
125 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 22, 2024
20 RiverWatch Video Report -- Post-Gazette: PA Farmers Turning To No-Till Farming Focusing On Bottom Line, Human Health -- Penn State Extension Conservation Cornerstone: Jan. 20 RiverWatch Video Report -- Post-Gazette: PA Farmers Turning To No-Till Farming Focusing On Bottom Line, Human Health -- Penn State Extension Conservation Cornerstone: Jan.
PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 1 to 7: Cryptocurrency Facility, 9 More Shale Gas Wells Abandoned; Attorney General Investigates Conventional Wastewater Spill; Pipeline Ordered To Provide Clean Water
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 8, 2025
Failed to submit production, waste generation and well integrity reports. Owner failed to submit production, waste general and well integrity reports. DEP inspection report -- Peoples Natural Gas 1: Leaking gas in a way that threatens health and the environment (since November 22, 2022). Drilled in 1800. Violations issued.
Late Night Road Dumping: Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Continues To Be Dumped On Dirt, Gravel, Paved Roads; DEP Expected To Provide Update At April 24 Meeting
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. The guidelines were administered by DEP under the Clean Streams Law, Solid Waste Management Act and the Oil and Gas Act. Read more here.
DEP Sets 8th Hearing July 22 On State Plan To Implement Federal Rule Requiring Methane Emissions Reductions From Conventional Oil & Gas, Shale Gas Facilities
PA Environment Daily
JUNE 27, 2025
Existing Oil & Gas Methane Rule The Environmental Quality Board adopted regulations in December 2022 requiring methane pollution reductions from conventional oil and gas facilities in response to a federal rule then in effect. Read more here. Only 27 conventional facility owners submitted reports in June 2024 as required. Read more here.
DEP Invites Comments On State Plan To Implement Federal Rule Requiring Methane Emissions Reductions From Conventional Oil & Gas, Shale Gas Facilities; 7 Hearings Set
PA Environment Daily
MAY 30, 2025
Existing Oil & Gas Methane Rule The Environmental Quality Board adopted regulations in December 2022 requiring methane pollution reductions from conventional oil and gas facilities in response to a federal rule then in effect. Read more here. Only 27 conventional facility owners submitted reports in June 2024 as required. Read more here.
Oil & Gas Methane Pollution Reduction Testimony: Kim Anderson, Evangelical Environmental Network - Rager Mountain Leak Of 1.1 Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas
PA Environment Daily
JULY 10, 2025
In 2023, oil and gas operations in our commonwealth wasted $178 million-worth of natural gas – That was enough gas to serve the heating and cooking needs of 820,000 households – more than enough gas for every household in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh combined for one year. But all of this data shows this is simply not true.
PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 26 to May 2: Contaminated Livestock Water Supply; Ruptured Gathering Pipeline; Failure To Comply With Shale Gas Well Plugging Order
PA Environment Daily
MAY 3, 2025
Hill also noted the company has been under investigation by the Office of Attorney General for possible state Solid Waste Management Act violations road dumping their wastewater under the co-product determination process in DEPs Residual Waste Regulations. Read more here. Original violations issued March 7, 2025. No response requested.
Balancing Environmental Protection with Economic Development: The Greenland Mining Dilemma
Vermont Law
APRIL 9, 2025
Those fears of toxic waste contaminating drinking water and harming the areas agriculture, especially sheep farming, underpin opposition to the mining activity. Over the past five years, the market for minerals vital to electric vehicles, wind turbines, and solar panels reached $320 billion.
Marcellus Drilling News: Federal And State Lawmakers Tour Facilities Extracting Lithium From Oil & Gas Wastewater In Susquehanna County
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 1, 2025
The Avonlea/Kendra II facility in Springville and the Gradiant/C2G facility in Montrose showcased groundbreaking technologies that recover lithium from fracking brine—reducing environmental waste while strengthening America's energy independence. manufacturing, and turning existing waste into valuable supply chain inputs.
PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 11 to 17 - More Abandoned Shale Gas, Than Conventional Wells So Far In 2025; Failed Act 2 Cleanup; Acid Forming Rock; Expired Permits
PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 18, 2025
Original violations issued October 18, 2022 for abandonment, failing to obtain a bond, failure to submit production, waste generation and mechanical integrity reports. Original violation issued May 24, 2022. Inspection noted a controller unit has been sleeping since January 3, 2022. Request response by January 28.
PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 14 to 20 -- Shale Gas Wells Abandoned For 42 Months; Failure To Cleanup Conventional Well Spill For 19 Months; Gas Pipeline Land Slump
PA Environment Daily
DECEMBER 21, 2024
EQT Prod Co - Violations: Failure To Cleanup Waste, Spill December 16, 2024 follow-up inspection of the CS Day 661 conventional well pad in Morris Township, Greene County found releases and waste discovered on December 10 have still not been cleaned up and violations were not addressed satisfactorily. Sheen found on flowing water.
192 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA
PA Environment Daily
AUGUST 10, 2025
Data Centers - By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania May Not Have Enough Electricity For A.I. Data Centers Share The Blame, States Feel Pressure To Act [PA Included] -- MCall: As Electric Bills Rise Due To A.I. How Is A.I. How Is A.I. 11 Hearing On A.I.
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