PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2025

The amendment would cover pollution from major oil and gas infrastructure and pipelines, power plants and many other facilities that emit these air pollutants. The amendment would cover pollution from major oil and gas infrastructure and pipelines, power plants and many other facilities that emit these air pollutants.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Read more here ] The Grand Jurys two-year investigation uncovered systematic failure by government agencies in overseeing the fracking industry and fulfilling their responsibility to protect Pennsylvanians from the inherent risks of industry operations. million in restitution for Pennsylvania landowners. Read more here.]

2014

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

“Wells that are improperly abandoned may pose environmental and public health and safety threats such as gas migration into occupied structures, water supply impacts, surface water impacts, hazardous air pollutant emissions, methane emissions, and soil and groundwater contamination,” said Klapkowski. Read more here. Read more here.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Here are 108 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Thank you for your leadership! -- Penn State Ag Council Recognizes Cong.

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 18, 2024

EPAs answer to this EO was their 2022 Equity Action Plan , where they set out an ambitious goal to release a Cumulative Impacts Framework document by September 23, 2023. In April 2023, Executive Order 14096 , Revitalizing Our Nations Commitment to Environmental Justice for All included the phrase cumulative impact nine times.

Environmental Protection

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

Over 156 million people in the US are exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollutants, according to the recently published 2025 State-of-the Air report from the American Lung Association (ALA). For 25 years the report has helped people across the country understand the quality of the air in their communities.

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2025

CCJ has over three thousand members and supporters and is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors. However, it is clear that additional burdens are likely to be imposed anyway, and the DEP did not choose to opt this permit into their Environmental Justice Policy, finalized in 2023.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The case involves EPAs 2024 Vehicle Standards that set new air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for model year 2027 through 2032 Light- and Medium-Duty Vehicles, which have been challenged by states and industry groups. In 2007, the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

JANUARY 13, 2025

Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar delivered the federal governments official response in December. Shell on behalf of all the companies responded that the Solicitor General had effectively reversed the governments position that the Clean Air Act preempts claims in these climate cases. In September 2023, Gov.

Clean Air Act

Physics World

JUNE 3, 2025

In 2023 a team led by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) did a large-scale analysis of the potential for CO 2 removal in the US. As an incentive to remove carbon from the atmosphere, trading mechanisms exist whereby individuals, companies and governments can buy and sell carbon emissions.

Waste

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2025

They all spoke to me on the condition that they were talking as members of their union, Local 704 of the American Federation of Government Employees. Cruel for the sake of being cruel Butler wonders if whole communities will become remote islands, surrounded by rising tides of pollution. And I was like Wow this is real!

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

4 - Repurposing Underutilized Lands For Energy - Marginal Farmlands, Abandoned Mine Sites, Brownfields [PaEN] -- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Highlights Upcoming Events, Programs In November -- PA Resources Council To Hold Nov. 12 [PaEN] -- PA Assn. . -- PA Forestry Assn. 138th Annual Symposium - What Makes A Healthy Forest; Awards Program Nov.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Here are 156 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

On one day in June 2023, 4,084 trucks and buses rolled through the intersection, according to data collected by the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization and the Center for Neighborhood Technologywith one passing through every 10 seconds during the busiest parts of the day. Heres what governments can do.

Electricity

Acoel

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The truth is far different: the wood pellet industry has induced logging, spewed air pollution, and harmed human health in the Southeastern United States for over a decade. Making industrial wood pellets releases hazardous air pollutants, wood dust, and fine particles that harm the health of local people and communities.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

After an experience dealing with air pollution issues in her own home, she has first-hand knowledge of the health impacts that pollution can have on a family and how government agencies often ignore residents in distress. She equips residents with the tools to feel empowered to fight against the fossil fuel industry.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

Here are 192 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

Conservation

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

Let’s take a hike through three jurisdictions, each with a conservative-leaning government, and see how they are approaching this issue. Not all conservative-leaning governments treat the development of renewable energy the same. MT in 2020, or 13.5 per cent of all the emissions in the US. (

Government

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 16, 2025

There is overwhelming evidence that communities of color and low-income communities are living with the realities of disinvestment , more sources of pollution , more exposure to hazardous facilities , and higher climate vulnerability. We see this for air pollution , water pollution , enforcement of environmental laws , and hazardous waste.

Air Pollution

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. Instead, we believe that our government often ignored the costs to the environment and to the health and safety of the citizens of the Commonwealth, in a rush to reap the benefits of this industry.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Here are 189 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Here are 204 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

Conservation

Law Columbia

APRIL 28, 2025

And regulatory decisions cannot be based on political factors at odds with the governing statutes. Here, we offer a few initial observations on the administrations deregulatory agenda: First , this administration is moving much more quickly than the first Trump administration.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

Drawing the proper line between the citizens property rights and the mandates of Article I, Section 27 should remain left to the legislature as the policy making branch of Pennsylvania government.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2025

Here are 172 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 24, 2025

In April 2023, the On April 24, the Environmental Defense Fund announced the results of a new study that found 55,000 oil and gas wells owned by operators in Pennsylvania are at high risk of becoming abandoned leaving state taxpayers holding the bag for $3.7 Read more here. [In billion in well plugging and cleanup costs. “So

2025

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

Here are 146 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2025

The increase in loading docks is of particular importance when looking at the air and climate pollution impacts from warehouses. Additionally, heavy-duty trucks are responsible for over half of fine particulate pollution emitted from on-road vehicles as well as a growing share of climate-warming emissions.

Ground-Level Ozone

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

Here are 111 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Thank you for your leadership! -- Guest Essay: March 28, 1979 At 3:53 a.m.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Here are 141 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

In 2023, DEP issued 512 violations to conventional well owners for abandonment. In 2023, DEP issued or continued 20 violations to 10 shale gas well owners for abandoning and not plugging their wells. In 2024, DEP issued 860 new or continued violations to conventional oil and gas well owners for abandoning and not plugging their wells.

Technology

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

This is despite the agencys own analysis showing the rules would save consumers $23 billion in fuel costs and result in annual health costs benefits of $13 billion from reduced air pollution. In 2023, he said the the hype over wildfires is just hype to justify climate policies. billion backlog for deferred maintenance.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

Any call for more studies should not preclude swift and meaningful action on the part of our government. Shapiro and his administration to recognize the preponderance of evidence that already exists and take reasonable steps to defend the health of our residents from oil and gas pollution. Now is the time for Gov.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

NewsClips - Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline Leak: -- WHYY: Bucks County Residents Continue To Press For Shutdown Of Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline; Bucks County District Attorney Referred Incident To State Attorney Generals Office -- Courier Times: PA State Attorney General Investigates Potential Environmental Crimes Amid Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline (..)

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

Unfortunately, since January 1, 2023, DEP has issued 1,426 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas well owners for abandoning and not plugging wells they own-- including 54 so far in 2025. In 2023, DEP issued 512 violations to conventional well owners for abandonment. Read more here. Read more here.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

He’s right: The nonpartisan Senate parliamentarian and an independent government watchdog literally said it couldn’t be done, because Congress can’t use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to revoke EPA waivers. Wildfires across Canada are devouring land at a pace unseen in any year other than the historic 2023 season.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Inclusivity, transparency, and protection from inappropriate influence are hallmarks of scientific integrity What do Scientific Integrity policies in government do? The science that governments carry out on our behalf shouldnt be subject to that pressure. They achieve this in four ways. Science is constantly evolving.

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