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Late Night Road Dumping: Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Continues To Be Dumped On Dirt, Gravel, Paved Roads; DEP Expected To Provide Update At April 24 Meeting

PA Environment Daily

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. Read more here. We wait to see what DEP says.

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President Issues Executive Orders Requiring 1 Year Sunset Dates On Existing Regulations Affecting Energy; Identifying Regulations Limiting Competition

PA Environment Daily

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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Nearly Half of US Breathes Unhealthy Levels of Pollution—Cars and Trucks Largely to Blame

Union of Concerned Scientists

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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Who Benefits from Dismantling EPA Science?

Union of Concerned Scientists

laws, including: the Clean Air Act; the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) also known as Superfund; the Clean Water Act; the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA); the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA); and the Safe Water Drinking Act.

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Attribution Science and EPA’s Reconsideration of the GHG Endangerment Finding

Law Columbia

The 2009 endangerment finding has played a foundational role in Clean Air Act regulation of GHG emissions from both mobile and stationary sources. As the court noted, the Clean Air Act only requires a finding that the air pollution at issue may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.

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President Trump’s Cabinet of Polluters, Frackers and Climate Crisis Deniers Rushes to Gut Protections

Union of Concerned Scientists

Project 2025 , the blueprint organized by the Heritage Foundation to guide this White House, calls for an update to the endangerment finding. Many other states in recent years have decided they would follow Californias standards, as they are allowed to under the Clean Air Act.

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What Happens If EPA Revokes the Endangerment Finding?

Legal Planet

’s climate policy: a finding under the Clean Air Act that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. The Clean Air Act tasks EPA with regulating “pollutants” from numerous sources. And Project 2025 has the endangerment finding in its sights. First, some background.