PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2024

Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas In Cambria County DEP Issued Air Quality Permit For Leachate Evaporation System At Westmoreland Landfill With Special Radiation Monitoring Due To The Disposal Of Shale Gas Drilling Waste DEP Sets Feb. Email: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com [Posted: January 15, 2024] PA Environment Digest 22 DEP Awards $39.6

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 2, 2024

Help Wanted -- Shapiro Administration Celebrates 2024 DCNR Ranger Trainee Graduates At Little Buffalo State Park -- Help Wanted: Upstream Pittsburgh Water Equity Director -- Adult Mentors Needed! 1-31 Grants -- EPA Awards $55.7 1-31 Grants -- EPA Awards $55.7 to 5:00 p.m. 28 to Oct. 6 [PaEN] Background On Issues -- Lt.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 14, 2024

Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas In Cambria County [PaEN] -- DEP Issued Air Quality Permit For Leachate Evaporation System At Westmoreland Landfill With Special Radiation Monitoring Due To The Disposal Of Shale Gas Drilling Waste [PaEN] -- DEP Sets Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

On August 14, 2024, CNX Resources released a report titled “ Initial Results are in: Radical Public-Private Collaboration Demonstrating CNX Natural Gas Development Poses No Public Health Risks.” At the end of August 2024, there were 13,098 active shale gas wells in the state on 3,360 well pads, with an average of 50 wells added each month.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

By Council To Modernize Governance -- The Allegheny Front: New Book Takes On Radiation Dangers In Oil & Gas Industry [PaEN] -- ABC27: Environmental Advocacy Groups Rally At Capitol For Action On Gas, Oil Industry -- Sen. Posted: May 5, 2024] PA Environment Digest

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Real Climate

MARCH 19, 2025

When rock surfaces are exposed, isotopes such as carbon-14 and beryllium-10 form due to bombardment by cosmic radiation. If, however, the rock is covered by an ice sheet, it is shielded from this radiation, and these unstable isotopes gradually disappear through radioactive decay (with half-lives of 5,700 and 1.4 Source: Gorin et al.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

1 Deadline -- Penn State Extension, PA Sea Grant Host June 7 Webinar On Aquatic Invasive Species [PaEN] -- The Nature Conservancy-PA: Return Of Bog Events; Explore TNC Preserves; Federal Funding Benefits Philly Trees; Much More!

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

Read more here ] -- Prioritizing DEP: During budget hearings in 2024, DEP estimated that the staff of its Oil and Gas Program, which oversees permitting and regulating the industry, was operating at about 75% capacity due to staffing shortfalls. In his first two years as Pennsylvanias governor, Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The Tioga County-based Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group devoted most of its Winter 2024-25 newsletter to providing an update on industrial shale gas development in the Tioga State Forest. How this section of the TSF was virtually handed over to the shale-gas industry for exploration and fossil-fuel development is beyond explanation.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Posted: November 17, 2024] PA Environment Digest Greene County [PaEN] -- DEP To Hold Dec. 17 Hearing On Chapter 105 Permit For Pocono Mountains Corporate Center North Warehouse In Monroe County [PaEN] -- DEP Sets Dec. Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources.

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HumanNature

JANUARY 30, 2025

Guest Post by Tucker Melles , 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. We breathe oxygen from the atmosphere, weather systems distribute water, and the ozone in the upper atmosphere protects us from harmful radiation. As fossil fuel emissions continue to decline, the fraction of SOA from VCP sources will likely increase.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

In July, the PJM Interconnection auction for wholesale electricity generation capacity to be delivered in 2025-26 resulted in a 933% increase in electricity costs over 2024-25. Read more here. Read more here. MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2023

Could Be Reactivated -- Schuylkill Action Network Oct. 20 Stormwater Operation & Maintenance Workshop, Montgomery County [PaEN] -- Delaware RiverKeeper Aug. 6, 2025 -- DEP Took Action On 812 Permits, 94% Within Permit Decision Guarantee Deadlines; Conducted 1,733 Inspections; Responded To 1 Environmental Emergency Week Ending Aug.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2024

By Jake Bolster, The Grist This article was originally published by The Grist and appeared in multiple news media outlets, most recently in the Erie Times Opinion Section on August 8, 2024 -- Siri Lawson and her husband live on a stamp of wooded, hilly land in Warren County, Pennsylvania, nestled in the state's rural northwest corner.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2025

DEP Radiation Protection Advisory Committee meeting. Muhlenberg Township Building, 210 George Street, Reading. Click Here to watch online. April 30-- Agenda Posted. April 30-- In-Person. Delaware River Basin Commission Public Input Session On Climate Resilience Plan. Liberty, New York.

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Real Climate

DECEMBER 28, 2024

Starting with FourCastNet (from NVIDIA in 2022), and followed by GraphCast (2023) and NeuralGCM (2024) , these systems have shown remarkable ability to predict weather out to 5 to 7 days with skill approaching or even matching the physics-based forecasts. 1060-1066, 2024. 84-90, 2024. Elsaesser et al. Sanchez-Gonzalez, F.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2023

Air -- Olympus Energy Shale Gas Driller Expresses Fear Municipalities Will Use Their DEP Compliance Record With Hundreds Of Violations To Help Make Local Land Use Decisions On Oil & Gas Infrastructure Projects [PaEN] -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Methane Leaks From Natural Gas Pipelines Targeted By Proposed Federal Rule -- TribLive: Upgrades (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2025

4 [September 2024] [Hearing Summary] -- House Committee Hearing On Increasing Safety Setbacks Zones Around Natural Gas Facilities Heard About First-Hand Citizen Experiences On Health Impacts, From Physicians On Health Studies And The Gas Industry On Job Impacts [October 2023] -- Sen. Click Here for a copy of the white paper. Approximately 1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 6, 2025

Although the US government knew the risks of radiation to humans, many Navajo miners were still sent into mines with poor ventilation and safety regulations skirted. And with the fossil fuel-related pollution that comes with mining, climate change and air quality will be worsened as well for multiple communities in the region.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 7524 ) 2024 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2024, DEP received or acted on 247 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. Received June 27, 2024. ( Received July 29, 2024, Issued October 31, 2024 (?). ( Susquehanna County. ( York County.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Violations - Abandoned Well, Leaking Fluid November 5, 2024 inspection of two conventional wells in Concord Township, Erie County as a result of a complaint found Stoltzfus 1 well abandoned and not plugged [ DEP inspection report ] and Stoltzfus 3 well leaking fluid from defective casing [ DEP inspection report ]. EQT Production Co.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

Proposed bans on something no one is doing Since early 2024, dozens of bills have been introduced in US state legislatures to ban solar geoengineering. Both the supporters and opponents of SG research worry about fossil fuel interests pushing to develop and use SG, and to over-rely on it, to keep the fossil party going longer.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2025

Zeldins unprecedented assault on the EPAs ability to deliver on its mission is entirely designed to prop up big polluters , including fossil fuel interests while the rest of us pay the price. Are you planning on taking EPAs Office of Air and Radiation back to the 1970s? Read this fact sheet for more information.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Through our Science Hub for Climate Litigation, we’re providing research and expertise to inform legal cases in the United States and around the world that seek to hold Chevron, ExxonMobil, and other powerful fossil fuel companies and their allied organizations accountable for fraud and for climate damages.

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ESA

MARCH 6, 2023

International United Nations report cautions against solar radiation management and calls for international regulations for the use of this technology. The commission will share its findings by the NSB’s May 2024 meeting. 8, 2022) CNSF – FY 2024 Letter to White House OMB and OSTP (Oct.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Holding high-level positions in the Office of Air and Radiation are Abigale Tardif and Alex Dominguez. Aaron Szabo has been nominated to be assistant secretary for Air and Radiation. The obvious goal is to plunder more public land and water for private profit for the fossil fuel and mining industries.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Holding high-level positions in the Office of Air and Radiation are Abigale Tardif and Alex Dominguez. Aaron Szabo has been nominated to be assistant secretary for Air and Radiation. The obvious goal is to plunder more public land and water for private profit for the fossil fuel and mining industries.

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