PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources. 4 - Repurposing Underutilized Lands For Energy - Marginal Farmlands, Abandoned Mine Sites, Brownfields [PaEN] -- Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Highlights Upcoming Events, Programs In November -- PA Resources Council To Hold Nov. 26 to Nov. 26 to Nov.

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Legal Planet

JULY 20, 2023

As we have already noted past waivers and modifications issued under the Act have been extremely modest and narrow in scope.” The Secretary’s interpretation of the statute would provide “virtually unlimited power to rewrite the Education Act.” EPA does not claim “virtually unlimited power to rewrite” the Clean Air Act.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4 Million In Abandoned Well Plugging Funding Against Shale Gas Drilling Companies-- XTO Energy, Inc., 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

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Board of Supervisors Meeting. Click Here to watch live. 26 to Nov. 1 - No Attempt To Contain, Cleanup Injection Well Spill; Gas Storage Area Well Release; More Abandoned Conventional Wells [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: As Fracking Turns 20 In Pennsylvania, Towns Consider New Regulations For Distance Between Homes And Well Pads [Cecil Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

-- UnionProgress.com: Environmental Groups Give Beaver County Shell Petrochemical Plant ‘F’ Grade For First 100 Days In Operation -- Beaver County Times: Shell Petrochemical Plant Hit With Air Violations; Activists Call For Operations Halt -- PennLive Guest Essay: Air Pollution Is Killing Us, We’ve Got To Act Now To Stop It - By Carolyn Heckman, Evangelical (..)

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

The 4 big ones are the 1972 Clean Water Act , the 1970 Clean Air Act , the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act , and 2 hazardous waste laws having the acronyms CERCLA and RCRA, which I will explain later. Clean Water Act. The stated goal of the Clean Water Act is “zero discharge.”

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The NAAQS (pronounced “knacks”) are supposed to be the maximum amount of air pollution consistent with protection of public health and welfare. Air pollution is the biggest threat to poor communities and communities of color.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

On July 21, the Environmental Health Project and HealthFirstPA held an educational webinar entitled-- Pennsylvania’s Shale Gas Boom: How Policy Decisions Failed to Protect Public Health and What We Can Do to Correct It. Wastewater can also have various heavy metals and radioactive materials present that can harm health.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 27, 2022

To take just one example, to estimate the proportion of students of color near major freight routes, EPA used an Education Department database covering all U.S. The analysis drew upon numerous published studies, but also included evidence that the agency itself had assembled.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2023

Million In Funding For Clean Water Infrastructure To Protect Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Delaware River Basin -- Brodhead Watershed Assn. Million In Funding For Clean Water Infrastructure To Protect Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Delaware River Basin -- Brodhead Watershed Assn.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

1 [PaEN] Upcoming Events -- Moms Clean Air Force Nov. 20 Webinar On Clean School Buses Funding For Pennsylvania, Noon to 1:00 p.m. -- PA Solar Center, Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services Release New Guidebook For PA Municipalities On Development Of Large-Scale Solar Facilities; Nov.

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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

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

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2025

Cascading Failures Combined To Produce The Worst Nuclear Power Accident In US History At Three Mile Island PennDOT, DEP, Keep PA Beautiful Invite Public To Be Part Of Pick Up Pennsylvania Litter Cleanup By Organizing Or Volunteering For Local Cleanup Events Criminal Convictions; Record Penalties, Restitution Of Over $158.3

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 14, 2021

On September 30, 2021, the EPA once again signaled a policy change on what provisions a state can include in its Clean Air Act State Implementation Plan (“SIP”) for exemptions and affirmative defenses during periods of startup, shutdown, and malfunction (“SSM”). Johnson , 551 F.3d 3d 1019 (D.C.

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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. This includes harms from pollution from carbon-based energy, which medical research finds is the leading environmental threat to childrens health.

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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. This includes harms from pollution from carbon-based energy, which medical research finds is the leading environmental threat to childrens health.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. While the Clean Air Act (CAA) has been amended multiple times since 1970, this basic requirement has remained untouched. EPA , 549 U.S.

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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 26, 2021

EPA Sought Information to Inform Regulation of 1-Bromopropane as Hazardous Air Pollutant. The bill also would establish a grant program under the Safe Drinking Water Act for assistance to community water systems affected by PFAS to pay for capital costs associated with treatment technologies. The House bill ( H.R.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

The business coalition is made up of ski resort companies, a hunting and fishing apparel and education business, a biking outfitter, a ranch, and a farm. Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 24, 2024

Now, instead of deferring to the expertise of agencies that, for instance, set specific pollution limits under the Clean Air Act, courts can substitute their own judgment about what the one true meaning of the statute is and strike down regulations that don’t align with their interpretations of what the “best” reading is.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

million civil penalty and to implement procedures and educational and outreach projects to resolve alleged violations of TSCA Title IV, the EPA Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule, and corresponding state and tribal regulations (the RRP Rules). Home Depot) to pay a $20.75

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