PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2024

In Pennsylvania, 47 percent of nitrogen oxide emissions come from gasoline and diesel vehicles, and transportation contributes up to 22 percent of Pennsylvania's overall greenhouse gas emissions. This is the second round of 2023 AFIG funding, with each project building on Pennsylvania's clean energy economy.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Highlights of the environmental and energy notices in the February 25 PA Bulletin -- -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The grant recipients, ranging from a small borough to rental car, garbage truck, and school bus companies, will replace 88 old gasoline or diesel vehicles with 78 electric and 10 renewable natural gas vehicles and install 36 chargers for electric vehicles. Posted: February 28, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

million commercial trucks on California roads, and although they make up just seven percent of vehicles on the road, these trucks are responsible for more than one-quarter of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, more than 60 percent of smog-forming nitrogen oxides (NOx) and more than 55 percent of lung- and heart-harming fine particulate (PM2.5)

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2024

million in 2023 Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant funding to municipalities and businesses to improve air quality in communities through cleaner fuel transportation infrastructure. On January 18, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has awarded more than $1.28

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Nitrogen Oxides Electricity Natural Gas Waste 109

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2023

Yet, in 2022, almost 40% of electricity in the US was generated by power plants fueled by natural gas. Note: “Natural gas” is an industry misnomer; UCS considers methane, fossil gas, and gas to be much more appropriate terms. I’ll be using the term “gas” from here on out.) And now, as the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency announced the final Good Neighbor Plan , a rule that will significantly cut smog-forming nitrogen oxide pollution from power plants and other industrial facilities in 23 states. On March 15, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The two groups also filed a notice of intent to sue Shell for violating the chemical plant’s 12-month permit limit on nitrogen oxides (NOx), which contribute to asthma attacks, lung disease, and (in the environment) smog and acid rain.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2023

Shell will also pay additional monthly civil penalties for the rest of 2023 for any further exceedances. Following the COA, Shell plans to restart operations at the facility on Wednesday, May 24, 2023. On March 25, 2023 Shell suspended ethylene and polyethylene production to make repairs and perform maintenance.

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Air Pollution Nitrogen Oxides Carbon Monoxide 2023 97

Enviromental Defense

MAY 29, 2024

The Portlands gas plant was built in 2008 and was designed as a peaker gas plant, meaning that it would only operate a few hours per month when electricity demand was high. However, since fall 2023, it has been running almost 21 hours a day spewing harmful pollutants into the air that local residents have to breathe.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2023

The roughly $6 billion Shell Monaca plant transforms a product of natural gas (ethane), extracted through hydraulic fracturing in the region’s shale formations, into tiny plastic pellets used to manufacture single-use plastic goods like soda bottles and plastic packaging.

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Air Pollution Nitrogen Oxides Natural Gas Clean Air Act 98

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The action against Shell Chemical Appalachia’s plant, located in Potter Township, is for illegal emissions of volatile organic compounds (or VOCs), which contribute to smog and can cause nausea, nerve damage, and other health problems, as well as nitrogen oxides, which can trigger asthma attacks and respiratory illness.

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Air Pollution Nitrogen Oxides Clean Air Act Carbon Monoxide 98

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2023

By Joseph Minott, Clean Air Council This guest essay first appeared in the Beaver County Times on March 19, 2023 -- If the first three months of operations at Shell’s petrochemical plant are any indication, the next 30 years are going to be stressful and hazardous for nearby Beaver Country residents. tons in any consecutive 12-month period).

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

One of the most significant air quality challenges in the Basin is reducing emissions of the ozone precursor nitrogen oxides (NO x ) to meet the ozone standard attainment deadlines. According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In its first year of operations, Shell exceeded four air permits limits for Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, and hazardous air pollutants. These pollutants include things like benzene, a known cancer-causing agent.

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Air Pollution Nitrogen Oxides Carbon Monoxide Natural Gas 94

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In 2022, these facilities self-reported 13,432,713 tons of air pollution-- 47.93% came from mid-stream pipeline facilities; 30.18% from unconventional shale gas wells and 21.81% from main line natural gas compressor stations. In 2022, 5,458 oil and gas facilities at 3,692 sites in Pennsylvania reported-- -- 0.21

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

EN: I mentioned a 2020 UCS report in my introduction that estimated that that nitrogen fertilizer runoff into the Gulf of Mexico has caused as much as $2.4 billion in damages annually to gulf fisheries and marine habitat since 1980.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

The elimination of coal-fired power plants and increased use of natural gas in power generation has led to historic emissions and air pollutant reductions equaling $450 billion to $1.04 trillion in public health benefits for Pennsylvanians, according to a Marcellus Shale [Gas] Coalition analysis. billion in NOx and $445.1

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 28, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the January 28 PA Bulletin announcing the availability of a revised GP-1 Air Quality General Permit for Natural Gas and Oil-Fired Small Combustion Units. PA DEP Public Notice Dashboards: -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The Committee heard testimony from three citizens group representatives, including residents of Washington and Westmoreland counties, two physicians that studied health impacts of industry operations and a shale gas industry group and the PA Building and Construction Trades Council representing the industry. Read more here. Read more here.

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Natural Gas Air Pollution Regulations Law 123

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Ramirez [Equitrans Gas Leak, Keystone Oil Pipeline Spill] -- The Allegheny Front: ‘We Do Have Questions To Answer’ About Single-Use Plastic Waste, Shell Internal Emails Reveal -- Centre Daily Times: Centre County To Expand Curbside Recycling Program In 2023 -- U.S.

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Conservation Nitrogen Oxides Electricity Fossil Fuels 63

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Less known is the fact that the gas utility industry has been engaged in the same kind of deceit. That would of course include fossil gas, which consists of 85 to 90 percent methane, a significantly more potent heat-trapping gas than carbon dioxide.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2024

/DEP Publish New Go Solar And Save Toolkit For Schools [PaEN] -- LancasterOnline: Climate Summit At Millersville University Emphasizes Education, Empowerment -- NorthcentralPA.com: EQT Gas Invites Applications For PA Qrew Camps For Students Grades 9-11 To Teach about Natural Gas Industry, Careers -- Penn State Students Help PA Communities Track Carbon (..)

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

They also worry that the injections could touch off small earthquakes, similar to those that were triggered in Ohio and Texas by underground injections of wastewater from natural gas and oil drilling. Before natural gas is burned, hydrogen and CO2 can be separated out.

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Fossil Fuels Carbon Dioxide Natural Gas Nitrogen Oxides 98

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2022

23: With Edges In Place - How To Garden To Accommodate Human Interface With Natural Form, Function. 6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables [ There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay ] -- Bloomberg: U.S. 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.

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