Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

If signed, the state would have to withdraw Clean Air Act waiver requests already in process with the Environmental Protection Agency. These withdrawals could potentially put those waiver decisions into the hands of a hostile federal administration in 2025.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2025

On April 14, the Public Utility Commission released the agenda and additional information regarding its April 24 public hearing to explore the impact of data centers and other large load customers on the states electric grid. M-2025-3054271. The hearing is open to the public, though seating is limited.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

On March 21, 2025 surveillance cameras caught the latest incident of conventional oil and gas wastewater being dumped on a section of a dirt road paved with tar and stone chips at about 9:25 p.m. Read more here. Read more here. We wait to see what DEP says.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

On April 24, the Public Utility Commission held a public hearing to explore the impact of data centers and other large load customers on the states electric grid. Michael Fradette, Principal, Energy Service s The rapid growth of electricity demand presents both challenges and opportunities for the US energy infrastructure.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

4 Webinar: Our Work Helps The Allegheny River Thrive -- TribLive: Nature Focus Of Artwork Featured In Loyalhanna Watershed Association’s 40th Annual Auction -- Registration Now Open For PASA 2025 Sustainable Agriculture Conference Feb. 5-7 In Lancaster [PaEN] -- Wilkes-Barre Times: DEP Reduced Permit Backlog By 67% Under Gov. Shapiro -- Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

1 Pennsylvania Firefly Festival Lottery For 2025 Festival & Glow & Know Campouts Will Start January 1 Federal Highway Administration, Fish & Wildlife Service Host Dec. DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4 Million In Abandoned Well Plugging Funding Against Shale Gas Drilling Companies-- XTO Energy, Inc.,

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2025

On April 10, the PJM Interconnection announced a multiyear collaboration with Google and Tapestry to deploy AI-enhanced tools to further streamline PJMs planning process for connecting new generation resources to the nations largest electrical grid. Click Here for a video summary. Click Here for PJM/Google announcement.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 12, 2025

3 Abandoned Conventional Wells Diversified Prod LLC - Violations: 2 Abandoned Conventional Wells On April 8, 2025, DEP inspected the JH Weaver & Company 13 [ DEP inspection report ] conventional well in Grant Township, Indiana County and the Essie E. Violations originally issued March 5, 2025. Read more here. Violations continued.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2800 2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 49 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. Air Quality Permits - Comments -- Reed Oil Company, Inc. 18, 2025 (?). ( Susquehanna County. (

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2021

So if the plan were upheld by the Supreme Court next Spring, it would be 2025 before the state plans went into effect, and the 2030 target would be postponed until 2037. The architects of the Clean Power Plan failed to anticipate just how fast the power system would change due to other economic and regulatory forces.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2025

Reforming the PJM Interconnections broken electric generation project approval process would cut household energy costs, create hundreds of thousands of jobs, and supercharge local economies, according to a new independent report from Synapse Energy Economics. Electric bills are 20% higher than they should be. Mandy Steele.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2025

Related Articles This Week: -- President Signs Executive Orders Directing US Attorney General To Take Action Against States Impeding Domestic Energy Production; Rescinds Policies Transition Away From Coal; Lifts Toxics Standards For Coal Power Plants [PaEN] -- President Issues Executive Orders Requiring 1 Year Sunset Dates On Existing Regulations Affecting (..)

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

9 Webinar On PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' In Land-Applied Biosolids - Research Update And Discussion [PaEN] -- Registration Now Open For PASA 2025 Sustainable Agriculture Conference Feb. 12 [PaEN] -- PA Assn. . -- PA Forestry Assn. 138th Annual Symposium - What Makes A Healthy Forest; Awards Program Nov. Cents/kWH Up From 10.04

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2025

Resource Links - Bucks Pipeline Leak: -- Courier Times: PA State Attorney General Investigates Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline Leaks For Potential Environmental Crimes In Bucks County [Convicted Of Other Criminal Charges, Penalized Over $48.1

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2025

PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard- April 5 to 11 [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - April 12 [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Chapter 105 Permit For EQT ARO LLC 3 Mile Natural Gas Gathering Pipeline In Cascade Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2025

Executive Order - Sunset Dates The President signed an executive order requiring 10 federal agencies and subagencies with regulations covering energy and energy production to adopt a regulation by September 2025 inserting a one year expiration dates on existing regulations and a five year expiration date on all new regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2025

NewsClip: -- Patch.com: DEP To Hold Virtual Update On Upper Makefield Pipeline Leak Resource Links: -- Courier Times: PA State Attorney General Investigates Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline Leaks For Potential Environmental Crimes In Bucks County [Convicted Of Other Criminal Charges, Penalized Over $48.1

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Hilcorp Energy Company For Federal, State Clean Air Act Violations [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meets Dec. PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard- Nov. DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

Related Articles This Week: -- Environmental Quality Board Tables Vote On Accepting Petition For Study To Increase Setbacks From Shale Gas Wells Until Last Minute Comments Can Be Reviewed [PaEN] -- Conventional /Shale Oil & Gas Industry Association Acknowledges 1.4

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2025

Bartolotta contends the federal Natural Gas Act mandates the federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has exclusive jurisdiction over an appeal which challenges any state agencys action in either approving or denying a permit when the state agency acts on the basis of federal law. Read more her e.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 13, 2025

To Enhance Regional Planning, Generation Interconnection [PaEN] -- Reuters: Google Deploys A.I.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 13, 2025

Martin Doesnt Rule Out Potential Entrance Into 2026 Governors Race -- Budget 2025 -- Gov. Shapiro Joins 15 Other States In Lawsuit Against US Dept. To Enhance Regional Planning, Generation Interconnection [PaEN] -- Reuters: Google Deploys A.I. To Enhance Regional Planning, Generation Interconnection [PaEN] -- Reuters: Google Deploys A.I.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

4 In Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- PUC Commissioner Kathryn Zerfuss Appointed To EPA’s Farm, Ranch And Rural Communities Advisory Committee -- TribLive: Eureka, Citizens Gifted Eplugs To Fire Company To Thwart Electric Vehicle Dangers -- Moms Clean Air Force Nov. DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2025

The current compliance timeline of the Rule therefore raises the unacceptable risk of the shutdown of many coal-fired power plants, eliminating thousands of jobs, placing our electrical grid at risk, and threatening broader, harmful economic and energy security effects.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

. -- DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets Dec. 5 On Methane Emissions Reduction; Federal Plugging Program; Injection Well Primacy; Financial Assurance; Drilling & Permitting Activity Impacts On DEP Budget [PaEN] -- EPA, Justice Dept., DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4 24 Meadow Seeding For A Hands-On Stormwater Solution.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2025

GW Of New Electric Generation Capacity; Reviews To Be Completed By 2026; List Of Projects Not Available Now DEP Invites Comments On Waste Permit For Expansion Of Brunner Island Power Plant Waste Disposal Landfill In York County Apply Now! Email: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com [Posted: March 31, 2025] PA Environment Digest

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency finalized e missions standards for greenhouse gases from power plants under Clean Air Act, Section 111(d). Earlier this year, the U.S. The rule sets pollution limits for existing coal plants and some new gas plants based on carbon capture and sequestration. In West Virginia v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2025

This long struggle to get cleaner air in California is one of necessity; pollution from Californias millions of cars and trucks, combined with its unique climate and geography have led to the state having consistently the worst air pollution in the nation. Its unfair to set the bar lower and reward bad actors.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In 1970, Lee Iacocca, then Ford’s executive vice president, said that the Clean Air Acts limits on tailpipe pollution “could prevent continued production of automobiles” and “do irreparable damage to the American economy. Why would we blame the shoppers for the lack of Honda EV sales?

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The Project 2025 report is 920 pages long, but only a few portions have gotten much public attention. But does Project 2025 even matter, you might ask? With all that in mind, here are six Project 2025 proposals that you probably haven’t heard much about. Project 2025 is opposed to those consumer savings, apparently. #3.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

Regulating the carbon emissions of thousands of power plants is not a choice, it’s what’s required under the Clean Air Act and subsequent determinations and court decisions.  If this all feels like deja vu, that’s because we’ve been here before. million electric cars in use by 2025. It’s What’s Required.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2025

This funding includes repeal of the provisions in the federal Clean Air Act making funding available for Pennsylvanias MERP conventional oil and gas well plugging program. Any unobligated funding under this program would be rescinded, if the Committees proposal is approved.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 13, 2025

This funding includes repeal of the provisions in the federal Clean Air Act making funding available for Pennsylvanias MERP conventional oil and gas well plugging program. Any unobligated funding under this program would be rescinded, if the Committees proposal is approved.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In 1970, Lee Iacocca, then Ford’s executive vice president, said that the Clean Air Acts limits on tailpipe pollution “could prevent continued production of automobiles” and “do irreparable damage to the American economy. Why would we blame the shoppers for the lack of Honda EV sales?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

2025 is already off to a sobering start, with early estimates on the California wildfires ranging as high as $150 billion in damages. Supreme Court, not the wind or solar industries, that forced the EPA to act on the basis of existing law, the Clean Air Act. Wind and solar are clean energy.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2025

PA Master Naturalist Volunteer Fall Training In Allegheny, Butler, Cambria, Center/Huntingdon, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Montgomery, Westmoreland Counties Schuylkill Center For Environmental Education To Celebrate Earth Day With April 26 Naturepalooza 2025 In Philadelphia Brodhead Watershed Assn.

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