Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

The report provides renewed evidence of the consequences for our health of using fossil fuels In 1970 the Clean Air Act and the newly formed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were given authority by Congress to regulate pollution from passenger cars and other forms of transportation. These emissions, which in 2022 were 37.4

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

Since November of 2022, PA Environment Digest has reported from DEPs Oil and Gas inspection reports on the situations DEP uncovers in its inspections and from complaints filed by citizens. hours on Christmas morning 2022 in Smith Township, Washington County. Now it happens occasionally. No agency will help them. They were on their own.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

DEP has tried for decades to regulate this practice but failed because the conventional industry simply does not comply. The 2010 DCNR study also found "radium values are high enough that a possible radiation hazard exists, especially where radium could be adsorbed on iron oxides and accumulate in brine tanks." [ Read more here.]

Natural Gas

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Google attached generative AI to its search function in mid-2024; Siri has been embedded in the iPhone since 2011; ChatGPT, popular in education and business settings, was released to the public in 2022. As of August 2024, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is investigating regulating TENORM, but no regulations have been made.

2011

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2025

On March 12, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced plans to reconsider EPAs 2009 endangerment finding for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, along with all regulations and actions that rely on the finding. In his remarks, Zeldin focused on the costs imposed by GHG regulations.

2009

HumanNature

JANUARY 30, 2025

We breathe oxygen from the atmosphere, weather systems distribute water, and the ozone in the upper atmosphere protects us from harmful radiation. Regulations and technological innovations, such as the catalytic converter, have led to a decline in tailpipe emissions, reducing emissions of secondary organic aerosol precursors.[6]

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2025

Hosted By PA League Of Women Voters & University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health [PaEN] -- Fact Sheet: How Oil and Gas Operations Impact Your Babys Health -- Frackland Video Tour, with Lois Bower-Bjornson , Clean Air Council -- 3 Days That Shook Washington County: Natural Gas Plant Explosion; Pipeline Leak Of 1.1

2025

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2025

This reality necessitates laws and regulations capable of protecting those put at risk by fracking, and a government willing to enforce them. But if the activity is to be permitted, it still must be regulated appropriately, in ways that prevent reckless harms. since 2016 from 10,228 to 14,683. Read more here ]. Read more here ].

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

And when I assumed office in 2022, one of the things that I certainly articulated to my community in representing them is that this issue of our energy industry in Pennsylvania, it needs to be coupled with rigorous environmental regulation and certainly in sensitive areas relative to schools and parks and residential areas.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 26, 2024

How did the EPA get its power to issue climate change regulations? The Supreme Court upheld EPA’s decision to regulate greenhouse gases. An executive order by President Obama gave EPA authority to regulate. What was the subject of the 2022 ruling in West Virginia v. An EPA regulation that banned strip mining.

Law

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2025

DEP Radiation Protection Advisory Committee meeting. Muhlenberg Township Building, 210 George Street, Reading. Click Here to watch online. April 30-- Agenda Posted. April 30-- In-Person. Delaware River Basin Commission Public Input Session On Climate Resilience Plan. Liberty, New York.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

This year, in addition to the trihalomethane notice, we received notices of exceeding lead levels and notices above radiation levels. Every quarter for the last 20 years, we receive notices stating that we are above total trihalomethanes. Resources Links - Compliance: -- Criminal Convictions; Record Penalties, Restitution Of Over $158.3

Natural Gas

Frontiers

JULY 19, 2022

The post Frontiers ebook releases: July 2022 first appeared on Science & research news | Frontiers. All ebooks are free to download, share and distribute. Shape the future of your field — and publish your own ebook — by editing a special collection around your research area. See all ebooks.

2022

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 9, 2023

From 2017 to 2022, shale gas operators sent a total of 911,006 cubic feet of radioactive TENORM waste to low-level radioactive waste facilities for disposal. All four states in the Appalachian LLRW Compact-- Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia-- sent a total of 68,727 cubic feet of LLRW waste in 2022. Read more here.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Federal regulations-- 40 CFR 261-- which are followed by the state regulations, say any drilling fluids, produced waters or other waste from exploration, development or production of oil, natural gas or geothermal energy are exempt from hazardous waste regulations.

Waste

Circle of Blue

JANUARY 17, 2022

By Laura Gersony, Circle of Blue — January 17, 2022. Against the backdrop of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the Salar de Atacama Mine radiates with a futuristic blue light—its cerulean pools glow like tessellated computer screens, a stark contrast to the muted landscape that surrounds them.

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

EPA proposed changes to its MON rule in 2019, regulating toxic emissions for about 200 chemical plants that produce solvents, plastics, and pesticides across the country. The EPA also plans to issue a rule by the end of 2022 with strengthened emissions requirements for approximately 100 commercial sterilizer facilities across the country.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

JULY 22, 2023

On July 22, the Governor’s Office published an update to the Regulatory Agenda of regulations in development that included a new annual permit fee for unconventional shale gas operations and a schedule for the release of updated waste and other environmental standards for conventional oil and gas drilling. Read more here. [ Read more here.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

This authorization meets or exceeds the air quality regulations and includes a number of safeguards and conditions to be protective of public health and the environment.” Monitoring Radiation Risk Modeling and calculations using accepted scientific methods show any radionuclides emitted into the air will not pose a health risk.

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2024

Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2023

From June 24 to 30, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 435 inspection entries that resulted in reporting 23 violations of environmental regulations-- 8 violations by the conventional oil and gas industry and 15 violations by the unconventional shale natural gas industry. Coterra Energy Inc.

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The Environmental Quality Board is scheduled to meet November 15 on final radiation safety and NPDES Water Quality Compliance regulations. The final NPDES Water Quality regulation establishes a schedule of compliance for a permittee with combined sewer overflow discharges to meet state water quality standards.

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

Penn State research released in October 2022 found PFAS chemicals typically persist through public wastewater treatment systems at levels that may impact the long-term feasibility of beneficial reuse of treated wastewater. [See See Paragraph 71 in appeal.] See paragraph 78-98 of EHB appeal.] Read more here. Read more here.

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The section highlights actions related to regulations and PA Bulletin notices. -- On November 15, the Environmental Quality Board voted to approve final regulations updating safety requirements for radiation producing machines and compliance schedules for NPDES Water Quality Permits. All through its eNotice system.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Rich Janati, DEP Bureau of Radiation Protection, explained, “TENORM is mainly from fracking operations, a lot of it in Pennsylvania. The Appalachian LLRW Compact includes Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia. It contains radium with a 1,600 year half-life.” Read more here. Read more here.

2016

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 24, 2022

Scope The General Permit covers liquid wastewater generated by any oil and gas operation defined under the Unconventional Oil and Gas Regulations in Chapter 78a , including well sites, water withdrawals, residual waste processing and treatment operations, construction of pipelines, natural gas compressors and natural gas processing plants.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

On October 12, the Environmental Quality Board vot ed 15 to 3 to approve Part II of the final-omitted regulation limiting volatile organic compounds and methane from conventional oil and gas facilities. The regulation would affect 4,719 conventional well owners of approximately 27,260 facilities. Read more here. Read more here.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 14, 2022

On June 14, the Environmental Quality Board voted 15 to 3, with one abstention, to adopt Part I of a revised final regulation reducing volatile organic compounds and methane emissions from just unconventional (shale gas) wells and facilities. Representatives of Sen. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) and Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) and John St.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

To put these numbers in context, DEP just issued its 2022 Oil and Gas Annual Report that said 5,416 notices of violation were issued to conventional operators during all of 2022. Click Here to read the 2022 compliance report summary. Culture Of Non-Compliance’ On December 29, 2022. Read more here. Read more here.

2023

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Corbett when that Deputate was formed to focus more attention on regulating unconventional (shale) gas drilling in Pennsylvania. No replacement has yet been named. Perry was named Deputy for Oil and Gas Management in September 2011 by Gov. Read more here.] Read more here. Related Articles: -- DEP To Report $4.7 Million, 17.6%

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 25, 2025

Million People ‘Are Impacted By General Oil & Gas Operations’ In Pennsylvania [April 2025] -- Criminal Convictions; Record Penalties, Restitution Of Over $158.3 Million In CY 2024 Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Fees To Communities, Statewide Programs; $15 Million Less Than Last Year [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Hosts Aug. Million In Sen.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

His seven-year investigation took him across the United States where he found that the waste had been spilled, spread, injected, dumped, and freely emitted by an industry shielded by a system of lax regulations and legal loopholes. Justin Nobel writes on science and environment for US magazines, investigative sites, and literary journals.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2022

Not Allowed Under Oil & Gas Regulations, But They Still Can Klapkowski explained road dumping is “not allowed under our [Oil & Gas Regulations], and we don’t have any plans to allow it under our regulations, as far as I’m aware of, as of this date.” The attention is gonna be immediate and intense.” Read more here.

Waste

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. In addition, the report said, “The reclaimed area where impoundments were previously located looked vegetated and stable. Read more here.

2011

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Joseph – individually and doing business as Joseph Contracting, John Joseph Contracting, and Perry Stone Supply LLC – to settle violations of the Solid Waste Management Act and Pennsylvania regulations that occurred between 2012 and 2015 in Dunbar, Perry, and South Union Townships, Fayette County.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

2 Brown Bag Briefing On Fracking And PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' In Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- DEP 2024 Water Quality Report Shows 28,820 Miles Of Streams With Impaired Water Quality In PA (34%) - An Increase From 27,886 In 2022 [PaEN] [Posted: October 25, 2023] PA Environment Digest

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2023

The study included test results for 17 different dust suppressants for dirt roads and winter road treatments, including five different sources of brine water pumped from conventional oil and gas wells-- three conventional well brine waters regulated by DEP and two sources of brine water pumped from played-out conventional wells.

Waste