PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2023

18 Webinar Launching 9th Compendium Of Scientific, Medical Findings Demonstrating Risks, Harms Of Natural Gas Development, Infrastructure Sierra Club's Delaware County Team Hosts Oct. 30; Will Schedule Additional Hearings EPA Awards Penn State Hershey Medical Center $1.19

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2023

DEP inspection report - Lot 8 32 ] On October 10, 2023 , DEP inspected two conventional gas wells-- Warren State Hospital 2 & 3 in Conewango Township, Warren County operated by William Southwell & Son Oil due to a concern about possible natural gas emission leaking into the atmosphere. No violations were issued. [

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2022

More radioactivity is expected from the other sources because they include nuclear power plants. Currently, many conventional oil and gas drilling operations dispose of their waste, including drill cuttings which often meet the definition of TENORM waste, right on the drilling site. Read more here.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. The law also requires future working groups, including a Building Energy Transition Implementation Task Force.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

Thank you for your leadership! -- Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen [PaEN] -- PennLive - Charles Thompson: 45 Years After Infamous Accident, Why Are They Still Cleaning Up Three Mile Island?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

Forty-four years ago on March 28, 1979, Pennsylvanians woke up to a much different world -- the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Dauphin County. Unit 1 at Three Mile Island continued to operate until it was shut down in September, 2019 as a result of competition with natural gas-fired electric generation.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 27, 2023

Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued temporary and proposed rules for the “direct pay” mechanism enabled by the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and codified under Section 6417 of the Internal Revenue Code. On June 14, 2023, the U.S.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

A 2021 North Carolina law requires the N.C. More below on the requirements of Session Law 2021-165 (also referred to as House Bill 951) and NCUC action in response. The law limits offsets to 5%. First, the law is directed to the Utilities Commission rather than the electric utilities. The Reduction Goal.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

The Regulation’s proposed criteria for gaseous fossil fuels (which includes both conventional natural gas, and synthetic gas derived from coal gasification) allow investment in their consumption without restriction in function, scale, or time period, as long as greenhouse gas emissions are no higher than 100 gCO2eq/kWh (see §4.29-31

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2023

On March 6, The Guardian published a two-part series revealing the 1,000 worst super-emitting methane leaks around the world in 2022 that are increasing the risk of triggering climate tipping points. They were mostly from oil and gas facilities. Meanwhile, the article said, the natural gas industry is pushing for further deregulation.

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Energy & the Law

AUGUST 5, 2021

An example: After Fukushima, Germany voted to phase out nuclear energy altogether by 2022. And Nature appears to be pretty much against nuclear as an energy source. Katie Tubb, at the Heritage Foundation , as you would expect, champions America’s domestic nuclear energy industry, crediting economic freedom.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

Casey Backs Abortion Rights Bill -- TribLive: Casey Says He Supports Codifying Abortion Rights Into Federal Law -- York Dispatch: ‘ Devastating’ Death Leads Dallastown H.S. Team To Join Suicide Prevention Battle -- MCall - Paul Muschick: Why Don’t More PA Towns Have ‘Do Not Knock’ Solicitation Laws -- City & State PA: Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

On April 7, the Department of Environmental Protection appealed the April 6 Commonwealth Court order blocking publication of the final regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to the PA Supreme Court. ushering in years of cheap oil and gas.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

And if a company that has a disaster like the Norfolk Southern derailment, you can rest assured that we will hold them accountable to the fullest extent of the law. That law is providing hundreds of millions in funding for plugging orphaned and abandoned wells, which are the source of 8% of the methane emissions in Pennsylvania.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 22, 2022

Will Hash Out Clean Energy Details With Global Leaders In Pittsburgh Sept. Will Hash Out Clean Energy Details With Global Leaders In Pittsburgh Sept. What’s Your Community Doing? Montgomery County -- TribLive: Changing Agricultural Landscape Leaves Fewer Farmers To Work Larger Farms -- MCall: Lehigh Valley Drought?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2022

Pennsylvania is squarely in the middle of a national debate over “unleashing” our considerable reserves of natural gas to help supply the parts of Europe now dependent on natural gas from Russia. And natural gas is the most valuable commodity Russia has – for now.” And they meant all natural gas imports.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2022

Constellation Energy, which is an owner of the Limerick and Peach Bottom nuclear power plants and the Muddy Run hydroelectric plant in Pennsylvania, is seeking to intervene to defend the rules. The plaintiffs argue the rules amount to an unauthorized tax and go beyond the scope of the state’s air pollution law.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2022

Natural Gas Prices Jump 7% As Heat Wave Boosts Air Conditioning Use -- Bloomberg: Summer Blackout Fears Fuel 300% Jump In U.S. Power Plant Profits -- Bloomberg: EUs Simson: Natural Gas Situation Likely To Get Worse -- Reuters: Factbox: Could The U.S. Ship More LNG To Europe?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 20, 2022

House returns to session April 25, 26, 27 -- Committee Schedule Senate returns to session May 23, 24, 25 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY 11:30: DEP To Announce 2022 Environmental Education Grants at Kulpmont Veterans Memorial Park, Kulpmont, Northumberland County. THURSDAY 10:00: Agenda Posted.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2022

million is to be used for methane abatement projects from plugging abandoned gas wells. -- $62.5 Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) said opponents of natural gas infrastructure projects “just need to be ignored and politically ran over.” Visit DEP’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative webpage for more information on the final regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2022

John Yudichak (I-Luzerne), who Senate Republicans appointed as Majority Chair of the Senate Community, Economic and Recreational Development Committee, called opponents of natural gas infrastructure projects “radical environmentalists” and arguments by supporters of the RGGI carbon pollution reduction regulations covering power plants “hysteria.”

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2023

She told the conventional industry advisory group PA Grade Crude Development Advisory Council in February how residents in Bradford County have to live with the constant threat of leaking, abandoned natural gas wells located right next to their homes. These wells are real threats to the real people who live near them. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2023

The damage that has been inflicted by the petrochemical industry is a disgrace to this country and to the agencies that are mandated by law to protect peoples’ health. Despite only having come online in the fall of 2022, the plant has already exceeded its annual pollution allowances several times.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2023

16 Webinar On Lawsuit Challenging Law Preventing DEP From Protecting Public Health, Environment From Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells [PaEN] -- Better Path Coalition: Oct. Julia O’Brien, Lancaster Theological Seminary [PaEN] -- PA Interfaith Power & Light Religion & Environment Webinar Series: Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2023

25 to March 3; More Well Plugging Sites Inspected PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - March 4 Independent Fiscal Office Reports 4th Quarter 2022 Natural Gas Production Decreased 1.6%; Average Price Increased By 82.5%

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

[PaEN] -- PennLive: PA Senate Republicans Pass Bill Allowing Large-Scale Energy Projects To Bypass State Agencies -- Bill Reported Out Of Senate Committee Would Allow Pipelines Like Mariner East To Apply For Waivers Of Any PUC Regulation, Law Or Policy [PaEN] -- PA Capital-Star: PA Senate Committee Advances Bill To Allow Utility Companies To Request (..)

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 17, 2022

Senate Climate, Energy Bill -- New Federal Climate, Energy, Healthcare Bill Signed Into Law; PA Groups React [PaEN] -- White House: Climate, Energy, Healthcare Law - By The Numbers -- AP: What’s In New Federal Climate, Energy, Healthcare Law? -- Financial Times: A Guide To The U.S. Contact: John Brakeall jbrakeall@pa.gov.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Don Ritter -- Post-Gazette: Canadian Nuclear Fuel Firm Buying Into Westinghouse Electric Co. Nuclear Power] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Mawson Infrastructure Group To Sell Georgia Bitcoin Mining Facility And Focus On Beaver County Bitcoin Facility -- Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Allowance Auction On Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2022

Million [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette: Below The Surface, Pittsburgh’s Water System Getting A Massive Makeover -- EPA Announces Brownfields Cleanup, Assessment Funding; 8 Grants In PA Totalling $7.3 Penn’s Cave & Wildlife Park , Centre Hall, PA. to 4:00 p.m. Penn’s Cave & Wildlife Park , Centre Hall, PA. to 4:00 p.m.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Amen Brown To Announce Campaign For Philly Major -- MCall - Paul Muschick: How Political Greed Backfired For PA House Democrats -- Post-Gazette Editorial: Governor Needs To Tell Public Where He Spent $400,000 On Private Law Firms -- Spotlight PA: Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2022

Of Human Services Announces Supplemental Payments For LIHEAP Households To Cover Existing Utility, Fuel Bills -- PUC To Investigate Proposed 32% Natural Gas Rate Increase By Leatherstocking Gas Company -- PUC Aug. Rate Increase For Valley Energy Natural Gas -- Bloomberg: U.S. 11 Hearing On Proposed 11.8%

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

.] -- PG - Laura Legere: DEP To Study Raising Oil And Gas Well Plugging Bonds; DEP Has Less Than $15 Per Well Available To Plug Conventional Wells -- Marcellus Shale Coalition Challenges EQB Authority To Increase Bond Amounts For Conventional Oil & Gas Wells; Majority Of 100,508 Conventional Wells Not Required To Have Any Bonds [PaEN] -- NFWF, (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2022

Exported 74% Of LNG Natural Gas To Europe During First 4 Months Of 2022; Total Exports Increased 18% -- Reuters: Oil Prices Advance Despite U.S. Inventory Rise American Rescue Plan Funding -- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2022

TODAY 1:00: House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee holds a to consider a number of bills and resolutions wanted by the natural gas industry. Senate Race A Bellwether For Democrats In 2022 And Beyond -- WESA: Part Of PA’s Persistent Unemployment Compensation Backlog? Room 515 Irvis Office Building.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 22, 2022

House Republicans Pass Bill Exempting Conventional Oil & Gas Wells From Plugging Bonds Sticking Taxpayers With $5.1 Billion In Cleanup Liability [PaEN] -- Independent Fiscal Office Projects Up To $24.3 Billion In Cleanup Liability [PaEN] -- Independent Fiscal Office Projects Up To $24.3 What’s Your Community Doing?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2023

Mastriano, After Big Defeat To End 2022, Climbs Back Onto Political Stage -- PennLive: Republican Sen. Mastriano, After Big Defeat To End 2022, Climbs Back Onto Political Stage -- PennLive: Republican Sen. Fetterman ‘Is Alive And Well’ -- Inquirer: Report: Republican Sen. Mastriano Considering Run For U.S.

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