PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2024

These pipelines run through many of our neighborhoods, exposing us and our loved ones to methane pollution. Methane, a potent greenhouse gas that is roughly 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, fuels extreme weather across the country by trapping heat in the atmosphere.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

The total civil penalty assessments include $350,000 for air quality violations, which is the maximum civil penalty assessment allowable under the Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act, and $764,000 pursuant to Pennsylvania’s oil and gas and solid waste laws.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 5, 2024

2024 Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups So far in 2024, DEP received or acted on 164 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. Greene County. ( Westmoreland County. ( Westmoreland County. ( Washington County. ( Beaver County. ( PA Bulletin, page 3829 ) Read more here. Jefferson County. (

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

b of the May 24, 2023 order [ page 25 ], Shell agreed to the assessment of civil penalties for future violations of 12-month air emission limitations occurring after April 2023 and before January 2024. on January 18, 2024” These penalties totaled $7,606,067.75. on January 18, 2024” These penalties totaled $7,606,067.75.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 3, 2024

The Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) program provides $5 billion in grants to states, local governments, tribes, and territories to develop and implement ambitious plans for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other harmful air pollution. billion for competitive implementation grants. When will enforcement begin?

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 5, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the July 6 PA Bulletin announcing it has issued an Air Quality Permit Plan Approval to authorize the construction and operation of the Frontier LNG nat ural gas production facility at the Winner 4H Shale Gas Well Pad in West Keating Township, Clinton County. (

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2024

Causer Blames DEP Database For Conventional Oil & Gas Operators Abandoning, Not Plugging Their Wells; Industry Wants To Redefine Operator Responsibility For Abandoned Wells [PaEN] -- Times Leader: Ohio Attorney General Charges PA Company Austin Master Services With Storing Excessive Quantities Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater, Threatening Ohio (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 19, 2024

Read more here. -- Equitrans LP - Compressor Station: DEP invites comments on an Air Quality permit covering multiple sources of air pollution at the facility located in Union Twp., LLC - Compressor Station: DEP issued a GP5 Air Quality Permit renewal for the facility located in Gaskill Twp., Washington County.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 4076 ) 2024 Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups So far in 2024, DEP received or acted on 166 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. PA Bulletin, page 4079 ) -- Repsol Oil & Gas USA, LLC : DEP issued a renewal of an Air Quality Permit for an Unknown facility in Apolacon Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 2, 2024

DEP Issued 763 Violations For New Well Abandonments So Far In 2024] DEP is aggressively going after operators who are walking away from wells and stepping in with emergency plugging contracts where needed to protect public health. [So

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Natural Gas Carbon Dioxide 2024 Greenhouse 112

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2023

Methane emissions are the second-largest cause of global warming after carbon dioxide, and controlling them is increasingly considered a key to arresting climate change. This is existential proof that making methane visible can lead to voluntary action,” said Riley Duren, Carbon Mapper CEO and founder.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Compiling this list has made me even more hopeful for what we can achieve together in 2024. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the California Air Resources Board (CARB) waiver request for the Ocean-Going Vessel At-Berth Regulation. Let’s do it again in 2024. Fortunately, we have much to celebrate in 2023.

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Law Columbia

MAY 31, 2024

Tokyo High Court On February 22, 2024, the Tokyo High Court ruled against an appeal in the Yokosuka climate case. This blog post introduces two judgments of the Yokosuka climate case, one issued in January 2023 and the second in February 2024. The case was filed by 45 residents in Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture in 2019.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 29, 2023

California has just enacted the Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosures Act which requires the disclosure of specified information about net zero claims, carbon offsets, and more by businesses, including by an untold number of companies located beyond the Golden State’s borders. All information documenting how.

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Acoel

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Posted on September 6, 2024 by Robert B. The Commonwealth Court then entered a preliminary injunction enjoining the RGGI regulation, holding that the regulation’s auction of emissions allowances was a tax not legislatively authorized under the Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act. McKinstry, Jr. and John C.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

Million Fine Over Clairton Coke [Coal] Works Air Pollution -- Post-Gazette: US Steel Fined $1.9 Million Fine Over Clairton Coke [Coal] Works Air Pollution -- Post-Gazette: US Steel Fined $1.9 Posted: March 3, 2024] PA Environment Digest Visit the PA Environment Digest Calendar Of Events for more opportunities.

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Greenbuilding Law

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

By imposing a daily fee on cars built before 2006, the LEZ changes behaviors encouraging the use of newer cleaner vehicles, and reducing tailpipe global warning gases which in turn reduces broader air pollution and its associated health risks. using 1,175 cameras to monitor which cars enter and exit the zone. Disadvantages: 4.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

XTO) [ExxonMobil] and Hilcorp Energy Company (Hilcorp) , agreed to resolve alleged Clean Air Act and Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act violations involving their oil and gas production operations in Pennsylvania. In separate agreements, XTO Energy Inc. Specifically, by Dec. million to plug or remediate them.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2132 ) Air Quality Permits - Issued -- Range Resources Appalachia, LLC - Laurel Hill Shale Gas Pad Compressor Station: DEP issued an Air Quality Plan Approval covering multiple sources of air pollution at the facility located in Jackson Twp., Received April 9, 2024. ( Received June 21, 2024.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Besides higher monthly bills, the two 1950s-era coal plants are responsible for significant air and climate pollution as well as toxic coal ash. 6 was enacted, the plants have emitted more than 29 million tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, 28,000 tons of nitrogen oxides (NOx), and 16,000 tons of sulfur dioxide (SOx).

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The request for an EIA was made by Ecojustice on behalf of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN) and several environmental and community organizations in May 2024, to ensure the $16.5-billion Since 2010, there have been 76 incidents involving carbon dioxide pipelines in the US.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule would require the largest, most profitable, and most polluting commercial fleets in the state to begin transitioning to electric trucks in 2024, eventually requiring that the state’s largest fleets purchase only 100 percent zero-emissions in 2042. The rule would also reduce NOx and PM2.5

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Risk Management Rules EPA is reconsidering the 2024 Risk Management Plan (RMP) rule. For example, road dumping conventional wastewater goes on illegally in most areas where there is conventional drilling. Read more here. Pennsylvania has independent authority to adopt its own methane limits under state law, if it so chooses.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2024

Of Revenue Reports 2023-24 Tax Collections $862.9 Million, 1.9%

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

. -- York Dispatch: Groups Take Proposed Susquehanna River Pump-Storage Hydroelectric Decision To Federal Court -- York Daily Record: Why The Drought In York County Could Get Worse In The Coming Months -- WillowGroveNow.com: DEP To Conduct Soil Testing At Site Of SPS Technologies Industrial Fire In Montgomery County -- Group Against Smog & Pollution: (..)

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Natural Gas Air Pollution Recycling Politics 53

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

Of Environmental Educators Announce 2024 Award Winners [PaEN] -- LancasterOnline: Outside Education, Experiences: Scovens Sisters Spark Students’ Stewardship Of Nature -- LancasterOnline: Mira Lloyd Dock Award Recognizes Marlisa Yoder-Bontrager For Tree Planting Efforts -- Energy Assn.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2024

To Host Electronics Waste Recycling Event April 27 In Schuylkill County -- Independence Conservancy Holds Community Tire Collections In Allegheny, Beaver Counties Starting April 27 [PaEN] -- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Allegheny CleanWays April 27 Event Needs Help To Clear Debris From Stormwater Grates -- Asbury Woods Environmental Center In Erie (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2024

According to a December 2022 DEP report : “Unplugged or improperly plugged wells can cause a myriad of problems, including gas migration into occupied structures, water supply impacts, surface water impacts, hazardous air pollutant emissions, methane emissions, and soil and groundwater contamination.

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Natural Gas 2023 Carbon Dioxide 2022 78

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 9, 2024

Million In Federal Funding To Support Abandoned Mine Reclamation [PaEN] -- The Center Square - Anthony Hennen: PA Has Third Year Of $244.7 Million For Reclaiming Abandoned Mine Lands -- US Dept.

Conservation 80

Conservation Waste Air Pollution Carbon Dioxide 80

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

Million Fine Over Clairton Coke [Coal] Works Air Pollution -- Post-Gazette: US Steel Fined $1.9 Million Fine Over Clairton Coke [Coal] Works Air Pollution -- Post-Gazette: US Steel Fined $1.9

Conservation 77

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 9, 2024

Posted: June 9, 2024] PA Environment Digest Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources. Visit the PA Environment Digest Calendar Of Events for more opportunities.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

DEP is requesting a written response by January 15, 2024 from the operator on how they plan to correct the violations and bring the site into compliance. tons, carbon dioxide- 13,222,354.96 6 [PaEN] [Posted: January 10, 2024] PA Environment Digest Read more here. Methane emissions were reported as 165,793.87 28 to Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

In June 2018, DEP finalized an Air Quality General Permit to reduce methane emissions from new unconventional oil and gas operations. EPA’s final rule leverages the latest cost-effective, innovative technologies and proven solutions to prevent an estimated 58 million tons of methane emissions from 2024 to 2038, the equivalent of 1.5

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Million Fine For Clairton Coke [Coal] Works Air Pollution Violations -- TribLive: ‘This Is What Money Smells Like;’ $2.2 Million Fine For Clairton Coke [Coal] Works Air Pollution Violations -- TribLive: ‘This Is What Money Smells Like;’ $2.2 Westmoreland County? Westmoreland County? Westmoreland County?

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Here are 139 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.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

In 2024, DEP issued 860 new or continued violations to conventional oil and gas well owners for abandoning and not plugging their wells. In 2024, 47 violations were issued or continued to 12 shale gas well owners for abandoning and not plugging their wells. .; Stockman LLC; Stonehaven Energy MGT Co. LLC; Andrew F. Vessels Coal Gas Inc.;

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