PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 3955 ) 2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 79 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. PA Bulletin, page 3956 ) Air Quality Permits - Comments -- Eastern Gas Transmission & Storage, Inc. Washington County. (

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

A variety of studies have documented that radioactivity is brought to the surface with natural gas and oil production and travels through natural gas pipelines, oil refining systems, natural gas processing and liquid and solid waste disposal and treatment facilities. Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2023

This was a bad week for unconventional shale gas drillers who DEP inspectors found creating a new brownfield, unreported defective well casing or cementing on eight wells venting gas to the atmosphere and more spills. The site was not contaminated by industrial waste before the well pad was developed. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Nuclear Waste Dump Cleanup June 5 At Public Meeting In Armstrong County -- TribLive: US Army Corps Says Parks Twp. Over 1st Quarter 2024; Price Of Natural Gas Increased 218% Over 1st Quarter 2024 [PaEN] -- Erie Times Guest Essay: Understaffed DEP Can’t Uphold Law And Protect Public Health - By Rep. Responds To Rep.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Burning waste pollutes the air and warms the climate. What’s more, Emerald is planning a massive expansion of its incinerator in Peel, which is one of the biggest industrial polluters in Brampton. Instead, this false solution will foist more waste and air pollution on a community that is already overburdened with both.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan released proposed standards for the chemical manufacturing sector to protect people from the hazardous air pollution emitted by more than 200 of the largest, most toxic chemical and plastic manufacturing facilities in the country with at least three located in Pennsylvania.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

Two of the top 10 EQIP practices by total dollar amount spent are practices we identified as industrial, providing little to no conservation benefits, in our previous report: waste facility cover and waste storage facility. Despite these protective measures, animal waste often escapes and contaminates local water.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2024

The $180,000 will be deposited into the Solid Waste Abatement Fund, which is a statewide fund set up to eliminate potential hazards related to solid waste. A $575,000 civil penalty will be split between DEP and the boroughs of Dunmore and Throop. DEP will receive $180,000 from the COA, plus $35,000 for cost recovery.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

billion gallons of drilling wastewater generated every year in Pennsylvania-- where it does for disposal or recycling, waste injection well development, problems with the conventional and shale gas wastewater reporting system, road dumping of conventional drilling wastewater and much more. Click Here to read the entire article. 27 Released 1.1

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Natural Gas 2020 Regulations Air Pollution 97

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 14, 2024

Background CNX reported on air monitoring from two monitors at each site-- one upwind and one downwind-- for a limited number of parameters-- Particulate Matter 2.5 No information from CNX correlated well development, waste handling, spills or unanticipated air pollution releases or other activities at any of the well pads or other sites.

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Natural Gas Air Pollution Fossil Fuels Regulations 108

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 2006 ) Waste Permits -- PennEnergy Resources, LLC - W58 Tank Pad: Permit application withdrawn for the installation of 1 tank for oil and gas liquid waste under WMGR123 in Winfield Twp., Costello Compressor Station: DEP revoked the State-Only Air Quality Permit at the company’s request for the facility in Portage Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 13, 2023

inspection report ] No Well Integrity/Waste Reports Inspections this week found two companies or individual well operators failed to file required well integrity reports to DEP-- BCD Prop, Inc. (8 Mowry 2 101H -- Failed to Prevent Potential Pollution of the Waters of Commonwealth Clinton County -- XTO Energy Inc. & Shawn M.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

Over a 20 year period, methane is estimated to be more than 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide in terms of trapping heat in the atmosphere. Quick Acting Impact : Unlike carbon dioxide, which can persist in the atmosphere for centuries or maybe millennia, methane has a relatively short atmospheric lifespan of approximately 12 years.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 13, 2023

DEP issued notices of violation to the wells owners for-- -- Venting natural gas into the atmosphere; -- Failure to Notify DEP And Take Action To Repair, Replace Defective Well Equipment, Casing That Compromise Integrity Of Well; -- Failure To Submit Well Integrity Report; and -- Failure To Submit Well Production & Waste Management Report.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2023

Natural gas development has added compressor stations, pig launchers/receivers to clean out pipelines, cryogenic/fractionation plants, cracker plants, injection wells, residual waste storage tanks and impoundments as well as frack water and freshwater impoundments, metering stations and miles of gas pipelines throughout rural Pennsylvania.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 15, 2023

Although the operator did not submit a written report on how they plan to bring the well into compliance, they did submit production and waste generation and a mechanical integrity reports as requested. The operator remains in violation of well labeling and posting requirements, but not abandoning a well without plugging it.

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Natural Gas Waste 2023 Regulations 85

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

million of their product not leaking into the atmosphere, at current natural gas prices. DEP again repeated their legal position that Act 52 does not apply to regulations promulgated under the state Air Pollution Control Act like the one before the Board for the vote. The alternative for Rep.

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Environment Blog

JUNE 22, 2020

VOCs are known to contribute to air pollution, both during the paint’s production and then when it is being applied to a surface. Paint production also contributes to CO2 being released into the atmosphere, and we should all be aware by now of the impact that is having on the planet and global warming.

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Air Pollution Atmosphere 2019 Waste 52

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Pollution can rise into the air and be carried long distances before settling back to ground level. It can also collect in valleys or combine with other elements in the atmosphere to produce compounds harmful to humans at distances greater than the fence line. 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Erie County -- North East Intermediate Elementary School , for “Protect Our Lake”: This project enhanced the third-grade curriculum with new content on environmental issues plaguing the Great Lakes from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Bay Watershed Education & Training program.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

Organisms in the soil drive the planet’s metabolism, breaking down waste, as well as helping to provide food, energy, clean air and water. In China, cadmium in soil mainly comes from atmospheric deposition of the metal after it has been emitted from coal-burning, metallurgical facilities and animal-source fertilisers.

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

As ecosystems and biodiversity fall to cities, agriculture, infrastructure, climate change and pollution, nature’s ability to provide food, oxygen, clean water and climate regulation plummets. CO 2 levels in the atmosphere hit an all-time high in early May. This directly impacts human health and wealth. The tub is still filling.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

These potential intervenors alleged that the additional emissions during the stay period would harm their interest in protecting their residents from the effects of air pollution and climate change. Thirteen states, the District of Columbia, and the City of Chicago sought leave to intervene on behalf of the petitioners.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

Penn State studies found the amounts of at least 25 of the chemicals they tested for exceeded environmental and health standards and radioactive radium exceeded industrial waste discharge standards. The guidelines were administered by DEP under the Clean Streams Law, Solid Waste Management Act and the Oil and Gas Act. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2025

The owner also failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports since 2021. The owner failed to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. DEP said it “expects Shell to calculate the amount of these emissions, if any, and report its findings to DEP.” Read more here. .

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Nuclear Waste Dump Cleanup June 5 At Public Meeting In Armstrong County -- TribLive: US Army Corps Says Parks Twp. Is Nuclear The Hot New Clean Power Source? -- TribLive: US Army Corps To Give Update On Parks Twp.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2023

-- House Bill Would Expand Safety Zones Around Oil/Gas Wells, Infrastructure To Reduce Adverse Health, Environmental Impacts As Recommended By AG Shapiro’s Grand Jury Report [PaEN] -- Ohio Research Confirms Health, Environmental Hazards In Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Dumped On Roads, Just Like In PA [PaEN] -- New University Of Chicago (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The full lifecycle of fossil fuels, which includes exploration, extraction, processing, storage, transportation, combustion, and waste disposal, threatens the health of our planet and communities—with the burden disproportionately being borne by communities of color and low-income communities. Source: UCS.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2023

Otherwise it was a big week for spills, venting gas into the atmosphere, failure to submit production and waste generation and well integrity reports, failing to get a permit to drill and operate a well, etc. LLC (Allegheny County), Bear Lake Prop LLC (Warren County) and DJW Enterprises, Inc. Washington County). Burrell Twp. -

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Leaking methane is a powerful greenhouse gas 86 times more potent than CO2 in its first twenty years in the atmosphere. But more than the cost to clean up the oil and gas industry’s messes, what troubles us most is the price our kids and all of us pay for the damages to our health and lives.

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Natural Gas Fossil Fuels Waste 2022 98

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

million cubic feet of natural gas and hazardous air pollutants. They also have an air shaft for an underground coal mine near them. The potential hazards include methane, volatile organic compounds, EPA hazardous air pollutants, radioactive materials such as radon and radium as well as chemicals like ethane.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2023

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide for the first twenty years that it remains in the atmosphere. Methane pollution is also responsible for more than 25 percent of the climate change Pennsylvania experiences today.

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Natural Gas Climate Change Carbon Dioxide Ozone 98

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. Climate Change Mitigation.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 30, 2023

public and tribal lands wasted over $500 million worth of natural gas in 2019— 157 billion cubic feet— the most recent year of data available that is reflective of the industry. This waste occurs when gas is either flared, vented or leaked from oil and gas wells and infrastructure. “We Click Here for a copy of the new analysis.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

TODAY 10:00: House Local Government Committee meets to consider House Bill 620 (Isaacson-D-Philadelphia) would increase the state recycling fee from $2 to $5 per ton to support local recycling and waste disposal planning programs. Room 205 Ryan Building. Click Here to watch online. March 20-- Agenda Posted. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

DEP also issued violations for failing to submit production and waste generation and well integrity reports. Violations were also issued for failing to submit production and waste generation and mechanical integrity reports. and found them to be abandoned and not plugged. These violations were first issued on November 15, 2022.

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