PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Million To Settle Lawsuit By Investors Who Claimed EQT Overstated The Benefits Of Its Rice Energy Merger In 2017 -- Marcellus Drilling News: Integrated Lithium Production Plant Coming To PA In 2026 Using Oil & Gas Production Wastewater [PaEN] -- Marcellus Drilling News: Avonlea Lithium Corp.

Conservation

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 16, 2025

Of all the sources of culture shock I might have anticipated after my partner and I bought a home in 2022 in northern Italy, trash collection never crossed my mind.

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2025

A vac truck driver said he had collected 16,800 gallons from the sumps just that day and the water was recycled back as frack water. Tioga County [PaEN] Related Articles This Week: -- Attorney General Sunday Files Criminal Charges Against Equitrans For 2022 Leak Of 1.1

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

For available handouts and more information, visit the Environmental Quality Board webpage. Questions should be directed to Laura Griffin, laurgriffi@pa.gov or (717) 772-3277.

Natural Gas

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!

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

JULY 2, 2025

E-waste generation increased 82 per cent between 2010 and 2022, reaching 62 million tonnes annually. The materials in AI hardware include heavy metals, forever chemicals (PFAS), and various plastics – many of which cannot be safely recovered with current recycling technologies. The environmental justice implications are severe.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Million To 126 Municipalities To Support Local Recycling Programs [PaEN] -- DEP To Hold Nov. Million To 126 Municipalities To Support Local Recycling Programs [PaEN] -- DEP To Hold Nov. 138th Annual Symposium - What Makes A Healthy Forest; Awards Program Nov. 138th Annual Symposium - What Makes A Healthy Forest; Awards Program Nov.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 7, 2025

Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Permit In McKean County CNX Resources Challenges Environmental Hearing Board Authority To Add Conditions To Permits For Shale Gas Wells At The Drakulic Well Pad In Penn Twp.,

Natural Gas

Circle of Blue

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Colorado River, shrinking due to a warming climate, has been in shortage condition since 2022, a situation that has cut Arizonas allocation from the river by at least 18% annually. Wastewater will be reclaimed and recycled for park irrigation. Buckeye is about as far removed as it currently gets.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2025

. -- Penn State Extension Home Garden News: Houseplant Master Class Webinar Series Available; Treen Tenders Training; Good Gardening Saturday Series -- Pike Conservation District: From Source To Sink - Groundwater Education Workshop Series Starts Jan. 13 -- Pike Conservation District: Pike/Wayne Counties Contractors Workshop Feb.

Conservation

A Greener Life

APRIL 3, 2025

In a 2022 analysis, McKinsey Battery Insights projected that the entire lithium-ion battery chain, from mining through recycling, could grow by over 30% annually from 2022 to 2030, when it would reach a value of more than $400 billion.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2025

2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 3 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. Original violations issued October 20, 2022. Violations continued for pipe and other equipment left on the site. DEP inspection report. Read more here.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

Hutchinson Introduces Bill To Abolish DEP Climate Change, Recycling Fund, Coastal Zone Advisory Committees [PaEN] NewsClips: -- MCall: Is Ban On Fracking In Delaware Watershed At Risk?

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Now 55 years later, the same type of arguments are being recycled to attack Californias ACCII standards. In 2022 and 2023, Honda effectively offered no EVs at all in California. Note: table excludes 4 model year 2021 Honda Clarity PHEVs that were registered in 2022. And that one BEV was actually manufactured by General Motors.

2026

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2025

DEP inspection report -- Peoples Natural Gas 1: Leaking gas in a way that threatens health and the environment (since November 22, 2022). 2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 24 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. Violations issued.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

First recommended in December 2022.] The passage of Act 96 in 2022 made the situation even worse by taking from the Environmental Quality Board its never-exercised authority over well bonding. Template” orders and standard processes will reduce review time for compliance and legal personnel.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Bear Lake Properties, LLC - Violations: Wastewater Injection Well Cleanup December 19, 2024 follow-up inspection of the Bittinger 4 oil and gas wastewater injection well site spill in Columbus Township, Warren County found cleanup of a spill discovered on October 25 by DEP continues under the Act 2 Land Recycling Program standards.

Natural Gas

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. Original violation issued November 23, 2022.

2025

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

19 Public Meeting On Blythe Recycling & Demolition Site Landfill Permit Renewal In Schuylkill County [PaEN] -- DEP To Hold Dec. 19 Public Meeting On Blythe Recycling & Demolition Site Landfill Permit Renewal In Schuylkill County [PaEN] -- DEP To Hold Dec. 26 to Nov. 26 to Nov. Cents/kWH Up From 10.04

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Kober [PaEN] -- Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group Update: Industrial Shale Gas Development In Tioga State Forest Prioritizes Industry Profit Over Constitutional Mandate To Preserve, Protect State Forest Land s [PaEN] -- EPA, Justice Dept., DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

He began volunteering at the townships recycling day and also volunteers for our Annual Hard-to-Recycle event. Dave is a faithful, dependable volunteer and rarely misses a recycling day. They have participated in both hard-to-recycle collection events and roadside cleanups. tons of household recyclables, 16.67

2024

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

High School As Renovation Work Continues -- DEP Sets Aug. 6 DCNR C2P2 Grants Workshop; Dickson City Turns Car Storage Into River Access; PennDOT Funding Available; PRPS Speaker Proposals -- DCNR Begins Accepting ATV/Snowmobile Project Grant Applications Aug.

Conservation

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.

Air Pollution

Scientific American

JULY 14, 2025

The bacteria also recycle nutrients such as carbon and nitrogen by breaking down organic material. What alarmed us most was clear evidence of a long-term increase in Vibrio abundance throughout the Chesapeake Bay between 2009 and 2022. For those organisms, the bacteria can often be harmless or even beneficial.

Ocean

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Thank you for your leadership! -- Reading Eagle: Reading Church Powered By Solar Panels In Berks County -- TribLive: As Plastics Waste Grows Globally, Latrobe Worshippers Put Faith In Recycling Efforts -- WNEP: Schuylkill Countys Kaye Shwenk Wins Keep PA Beautiful Affiliate Volunteer Of The Year Award -- Saint Vincent College: Angela Belli Receives (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 28, 2025

2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 93 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. Original violations issued October 13, 2022. New violation issued for failure to repair a damaged containment. Response requested by July 16. DEP inspection report.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2025

27; Hire A LandForce Crew [PaEN] -- Lock Haven Express: Penn State, DCNR Forest Health Briefing, Forest Landowners Conference March 6-8 In State College -- WeConservePA Hosts Feb.

Conservation

Circle of Blue

APRIL 2, 2025

An ordinance adopted in 2022 established siting and noise-reduction requirements, but it did not mention water. In December, Microsoft, a computing giant, announced a similar operational innovation for its data centers: a closed-loop cooling system that recycles water, effectively cutting water consumption to zero.

Cooling

Law Columbia

MAY 13, 2025

The reconciliation process for the fiscal year 2025 federal budget is underway and, unsurprisingly, various provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA) are at risk. Despite the relative uncertainty, the Sabin Center estimates that $9.65

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2024

20: Using Land From Cities To Farms To Increase Sustainability , 4:00 p.m. -- North Branch Land Trust: Jan.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

17 Webinar On Glass For A Sustainable Future PA Resources Council Spearheading Effort To Establish Permanent Recycling Center In Allegheny County; Asking Public To Sign Support Letter Reminder: Keep PA Beautiful Accepting Nominations For Litter Hawk Youth Award Thru January 31 PA Dept. DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2025

. -- Attorney General Sunday Files Criminal Charges Against Equitrans For 2022 Leak Of 1.1 19 & 21 -- The Center Square: Extended LIHEAP Energy Assistance Proposed In PA [In Face Of Proposed 100% Federal Cut] -- Williamsport Sun: Muncy Creek Twp.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2025

-- PennLive Editorial: Texas Flood Tragedy Should Be A Wake-Up Call For Pennsylvania -- TribLive Editorial: Prediction, Prevention Critical To Natural Disaster Response -- Republican Herald Editorial: Government And Citizens Share Responsibility For Emergency Preparedness [ PDF of Article ] -- Inquirer Editorial: President’s Continued Denial Of Climate (..)

Conservation

HumanNature

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

An article in the Ballard Brief Research Library reported in 2022 that the average American throws out over 400 pounds of food annually, translating to 40% of the United States food supply. But once that banana peel has been composted, your plants can uptake the potassium because it’s been recycled into a form they can use.”

Waste

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

23 Hard-To-Recycle Collection Events In Allegheny County [PaEN] -- PennDOT Begins Accepting Applications For $80 Million In Grants To Improve Pedestrian, Cyclist Safety, Including Trail Projects, Deadline Oct.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2025

Inactive status expired on July 1, 2022. Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 29 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. Inactive status expired July 1, 2021. Drilled in 2011 but not produced. [ DEP inspection report] -- Lycoming County, Cummings Twp.:

Waste

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2025

2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 41 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. DEP said the pipeline route kept changing starting with permit applications submitted in 2022. Requested to respond by April 11. DEP inspection report.

2025