PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2021

On October 14, the Department of Environmental Protection presented a proposed regulation that would adopt California’s existing Zero Emission Vehicle Program that requires 22 percent of the new passenger and light duty vehicle fleets offered for sale in the state be zero emission vehicles starting in model year 2025.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

One critical tool for forcing that reckoning comes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Supreme Court clipped the agency’s wings in its 2022 West Virginia v. In June 2022, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision in West Virginia v. EPA decision, but it did not ground EPA. Despite the West Virginia v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Fossil fuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). For gas, the leading cause of plant outages was fuel supply issues.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2022

On January 21, the Department of Environmental Protection announced funding for more than $2.7 million in Alternative Fuel Incentive Grants (AFIGs) to 18 cleaner fuel transportation projects statewide that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2022

The following factsheet on asthma and air pollution from natural gas facilities was compiled by the Environmental Health Project -- Asthma is a chronic disease that affects breathing. Since 2005, shale gas development, also known as unconventional natural gas development (UNGD), has grown rapidly.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The study-- Hazardous Air Pollutants In Transmission Pipeline Natural Gas: An Analytic Assessment -- was accepted for publication in Environmental Research Letters journal September 16. This includes new regulations in Pennsylvania. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency wrote a letter to DEP accepting DEP’s final regulations setting VOC/methane limits on conventional and unconventional oil and gas facilities for evaluation which “stops the imposition of federal highway funding sanctions that were set to take effect in Pennsylvania on December 16, 2022.”

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2023

Shapiro Plans To Use Fake Pitt Studies To Push BIG Drilling Setbacks -- Republican Herald Editorial: Health Depends On Regulation Of Oil & Gas Development [PaEN] -- TribLive Editorial: Studies Of Natural Gas Development Point To Health Costs -- Republican Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2023

Of Health, Pitt Study Of Natural Gas Development Health Impacts -- Inquirer - Will Bunch: Does Anyone Care About The Study Linking PA Natural Gas Development To Cancer In Kids? 24-26 In Altoona [PaEN] -- Federal Office Of Surface Mining Provides $100,000 Grant To Schuylkill Headwaters Assn.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

The following testimony on unconventional shale gas development and health impacts was given to the Senate Democratic Policy Committee on June 2, 2022 by Brian S. Professor of Environmental Health and Engineering, Epidemiology and Medicine at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Schwartz, M.D.,

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Hydrogen is an indirect greenhouse gas that can lead to the formation of ozone and methane. For hydrogen that is produced from natural gas, an additional recommendation is for state establishment of a performance standard that requires that lifecycle emissions remain below a certain level per kilogram of hydrogen produced.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2023

Oil and gas operations in Pennsylvania release hundreds of thousands of tons of methane pollution each year alongside smog-forming volatile organic compounds as well as toxic and cancer-causing air pollutants like benzene. The EPA is expected to finalize its oil and gas methane rules by the end of the summer.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency announced it is strengthening its proposed standards to cut methane and other harmful air pollution. If finalized, these critical, commonsense standards will protect workers and communities, maintain and create high-quality, union-friendly jobs, and promote U.S. million homes for the winter.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2023

As far back as 1986, scientists at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) warned the CSPC about gas stoves’ potential health risks. According to the study, gas stoves trigger more than 20 percent of childhood asthma cases in California and Illinois, and nearly 19 percent in New York. in just one day.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

We know that, for children living, and pregnant mothers living close by well pads or other natural gas facilities, that they suffer tremendous amount of health impacts, from birth defects, to lower birth weight, to exposure to cancer-causing VOCs and other toxins; it's a problem.

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