PA Environment Daily

JULY 21, 2023

On July 21, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the Environmental Mitigation Community Fund steering committee has finalized the protocol to allocate $5 million in penalty funding for community projects in Beaver County as a result of Shell Petrochemical Plant air pollution violations. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2023

The legislation includes-- -- Impact Statements: House Bill 652 (Bullock-D-Philadelphia) requiring environmental impact reports on certain electric generation, waste management, sewage treatment and other facilities that are a major source of air pollution proposed in already burdened communities.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

Twenty-one school, business and community projects were honored with the 2023 Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence. Firstly, it removes solid fish waste from the system, thus eliminating waste buildup in the grow beds. Posted: May 1, 2023] PA Environment Digest Decoupling offers two significant advantages.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Pursue Your Constitutional Right To A Clean Environment In Pennsylvania House next voting day Dec. 11, 12, 13 -- Committee Schedule Senate next voting day Dec. to -25.7%) ] -- PUC: Proposed Settlement With PPL To Resolve Widespread Consumer Billing Issues, $1 Million Penalty -- MCall: PPL To Pay Fines, Forgive Costs Totaling $17.2

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Storage Tank Containment Permeability Variance: DEP issued a variance to replace one issued on August 19, 2023 related to excluding 13 aboveground storage tanks from certain emergency containment structure permeability requirements for the facility located in Bradford, McKean County. ( Fayette County. ( Bradford County. ( Allegheny County. (

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 7434 ] Waste Permits -- Range Resources-Appalachia, LLC - Yonker George Tank Pad: DEP issued a WMGR123 General Permit for processing oil and gas wastewater at the facility located in Mount Pleasant Twp., PA Bulletin, page 7434 ] Air Permits -- Coterra Energy, Inc. Fayette County. [ Washington County. [ York County. [

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

These trucks, which move shipping containers and goods from ports and railyards, are among the dirtiest on the road and are a primary source of air pollution in disproportionately impacted communities. pollution from vehicles. A battery-electric waste truck operated by Recology, which services multiple cities on the West Coast.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 7073 ) Waste Permits -- Mon River Dock Company - Karen Dock Oil & Gas Liquid Waste Processing Facility : DEP revoked the WMGR123 General Permit for the facility located in East Bethlehem Twp., PA Bulletin, page 7075 ) Air Quality Permits -- Eastern Gas Transmission & Storage, Inc. Washington County.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Highlights of the environmental and energy notices in the February 3 PA Bulletin -- -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - February 3 -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the February 3 PA Bulletin inviting comments on proposed modifications to Residual Waste General Permit (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 21, 2023

The projects are intended to be scheduled for Commission action at its next business meeting, tentatively scheduled for September 14, 2023 The shale gas development-related projects include-- -- Project Sponsor and Facility: BKV Operating, LLC (East Branch Wyalusing Creek), Jessup Township, Susquehanna County , PA. Lycoming County. (

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2023

House holds Regular Session April 24, 25, 26 -- Committee Schedule -- Updated: House Budget Hearing Schedule - March 20, 21, 22 Senate holds Regular Session April 24, 25, 26 -- Committee Schedule -- Updated Senate Budget Hearing Schedule - March 20, 21, 22 TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- Independent Fiscal Office Posts Budget Hearing Documents -- KDKA: (..)

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We Do Not Trust Foxes To Guard Henhouses' [PaEN] [Posted: November 8, 2023] PA Environment Digest Read more here. House Bill 652 would give DEP the statutory authority to deny a permit application in any environmental justice area based on the “cumulative environmental impacts.”

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2023

Related Article: -- House Committee Holds June 5 Hearing On Bill Requiring Environmental Impact Reports On Certain Electric Generation, Waste, Major Air Pollution Sources Locating In Already Burdened Communities [PaEN] [Posted: May 31, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 12, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 2640 ) Waste Permits -- SWN Production Company - Odell Water Transfer Facility: DEP issued WMGR123 Waste General Permit for oil and gas waste processing facility in New Milford Twp., Jefferson County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Indiana County. ( Indiana County. ( Greene County. (

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 5565 ) Waste Permits -- Waste Management Disposal Service - Landfill Gas Collection: DEP invites comments on a waste permit authorizing the collection of landfill gas at the G.R.O.W.S. Susquehanna County. ( North Landfill and transmission to the off-site Fairless Renewable Natural Gas Plan in Falls Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Read more here. House Bill 652 would give DEP the statutory authority to deny a permit application in any environmental justice area based on the “cumulative environmental impacts.”

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Million For Environmental Justice Projects In PA Communities [PaEN] [Posted: October 28, 2023] PA Environment Digest Read more here. House Bill 652 would give DEP the statutory authority to deny a permit application in any environmental justice area based on the “cumulative environmental impacts.”

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The study looked at air pollution, blowouts and evacuations, and thermal modeling and found that “(C)urrent natural gas well setbacks in…the Marcellus Shale of Pennsylvania… cannot be considered sufficient in all cases to protect public health and safety.” Read more here. Santasiero and Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 176 ) Read more here. -- Repsol Oil & Gas USA, LLC - DCNR 010 Compressor Station: DEP issued an Air Pollution Plan Approval covering multiple air pollution sources at the facility located in Ward Twp., A public hearing has been scheduled for February 27 at 10:00 a.m. Harrisburg. ( Tioga County. (

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

20 Stroud Water Research Center Partners With Amazon Web Services On Watershed Restoration To Help Achieve Chesapeake Bay Pollution Reduction Goals Pike Conservation District: DEP Releases New Online Bridge & Culvert Maintenance & Repair Permitting Tool Penn State Extension Hosts Dec. 11; Sets Nov. 11; Sets Nov. 11; Sets Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 2, 2023

June 3, 2023 PA Bulletin, page 3031 ) Read more here. PA Bulletin, page 3019 ) Waste Permits -- EPP Renewable Energy, LLC - Landfill Gas Project: DEP issued WMGM055 General Permit for landfill gas project in Cumru Twp., PA Bulletin, page 3021 ) -- Waste Management Disposal Services Of PA, Inc. Wyoming County. ( Greene County. (

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Vermont Law

MARCH 31, 2023

The Drina River: Mankind Ruining the Helper of Mankind By Stephanie Piccininni , Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law March 31, 2023 Narrow, windy roads fill the mountainous landscape. The Drina River frequently holds enormous amounts of waste. Most of the garbage consists of plastic waste.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 13, 2023

Chesapeake Appalachia On January 24, 2023, DEP inspected the Chesapeake Appalachia Floydie Well Pad in Tuscarora Township, Bradford County and found multiple pools and puddles on the site contaminated with drilling wastewater and possible fracking chemical fluids. Click Here for Chesapeake’s Response To 1.24.23 Inspection. Inspection.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

A variety of studies have documented that radioactivity is brought to the surface with natural gas and oil production and travels through natural gas pipelines, oil refining systems, natural gas processing and liquid and solid waste disposal and treatment facilities. Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

Email: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com [Posted: April 17, 2023] PA Environment Digest Shapiro Provides Fresh Support To Key Changes Recommended In 2020 Grand Jury Report To Tighten Regulation Of The Natural Gas Drilling Industry To Better Protect Public Health, Environment Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

By Russell Zerbo, Clean Air Council This guest essay first appeared on the TribLive.com website September 22, 2023 -- Pennsylvania has an opportunity to receive $33,695,097 from the U.S. This funding gives gas drilling companies the opportunity to plug wells before they are required to monitor their air pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 19, 2023

“That's what bothers me most of all,” said one neighbor of the Shell Plastics Plant in Potter Township, Beaver County. IDA encourages businesses and residential property owners to use only International Dark-Sky Association certified outdoor lighting fixtures. What Happens With Study Results?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan released proposed standards for the chemical manufacturing sector to protect people from the hazardous air pollution emitted by more than 200 of the largest, most toxic chemical and plastic manufacturing facilities in the country with at least three located in Pennsylvania.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The only by-product is water from the chemical reaction of hydrogen with oxygen from air, a process that produces electricity to power the bus. The hydrogen for the buses is currently being produced at Air Liquide’s plant in Runcorn, harnessing waste hydrogen as a by-product from an industrial chlor-alkali plant.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 3267 ) Waste Permits -- Platinum Fluid Solutions, LLC - Kirby Produced Fluid Storage Facility: DEP received a revision to the WMGR123 General Permit for storage of oil and gas wastes updating name of company operating the facility in Whitely Twp., Susquehanna County. ( Greene County. ( McKean County. (

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 6, 2023

Harbison Walker 104 Well -- Failed to prevent potential pollution of Waters of Commonwealth -- Failed to report release of wastewater/brine -- Failed To Collect Brine And Properly Manage Wastewater -- Operated A Residual Waste Processing Or Disposal Facility Without A Permit Crawford County -- Diversified Prod LLC - Randolph Twp.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Repsol Oil & Gas USA LLC on a DCNR unconventional shale gas drilling tract in Ward Township, Tioga County was given multiple notices of violation for spills, failing to contain regulated substances and waste. Walker-Tract 6592 1 -- Failure To Plug The Well Upon Abandoning It Westmoreland County -- PA Mineral SVCS LLC - Loyalhanna Twp.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2023

Chesapeake Appalachia - New Brownfield, Defective Casing In three separate DEP inspections from January 24, 2023 to April 11, DEP found multiple pools and puddles on the site contaminated with drilling wastewater and fracking chemical fluids at the shale gas Floydie Well Pad in Tuscarora Township, Bradford County that the company failed to clean up.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2023

On October 6, the Environmental Hearing Board issued a decision saying it will hear key arguments on whether DEP should have considered soil contamination and air pollution resulting from drilling and operation of a shale gas well pad 500 feet away from a Washington County family's home that played a role in contaminating their water supply.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 6766 ) Waste Permits -- Eureka Resources, LLC - Oil & Gas Wastewater Processing Facility: DEP invites comments on an individual residual waste permit application to operate an oil and gas wastewater treatment facility located in Williamsport, Lycoming County. ( Luzerne County. ( Washington County. ( Weiss M. .

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 19, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 267 ) Air Quality Permit -- CNX Gas Company, LLC - MOR-10 Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP issued an Air Quality permit for the operation of 10 shale gas wells and other sources of air pollution at the well pad located in Morris Twp., Susquehanna County. ( Washington County. ( Schuylkill County. ( 30 to Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2023

New Tools To Detect Air Pollution In Pennsylvania, the use of this and other technology has energized a new breed of environmental activism aimed at detecting air pollution from the sky and from the ground. Now, armed with a $495,000 federal grant from the U.S.

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