PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 2575 ) -- Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining & Marketing LLC - 860 Unit Cooling Tower & Point Breeze South Yard: DEP received a Final Report on remediation of soil and groundwater contaminated with petroleum to meet Statewide Health Standards for a project located at 3144 Passyunk Ave., Indiana County. (

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Natural Gas Air Pollution 2024 Recycling 95

Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

It was filed by the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union and the Green League, who object to a 30-year groundwater pumping permit given by state regulators. Other studies have shown that Black Americans are more likely to have lower quality drinking water and higher exposure to air pollutants.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 2683 ) Air Quality Permits -- Texas Eastern Transmission LP - Gas Pipeline Compressor Station: DEP invites comments on a renewal of a State Only Air Quality Permit for a compressor station located in Bedford Twp., You’ll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations. in Philadelphia. (

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 21, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 3862 ) Air Quality Permits -- Hamilton Liberty LLC - Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant: DEP invites comments on proposed renewal of a Title V Air Quality Operating Permit for the facility located in Asylum Twp., You’ll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations. Lycoming County. (

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 176 ) Read more here. -- Repsol Oil & Gas USA, LLC - DCNR 010 Compressor Station: DEP issued an Air Pollution Plan Approval covering multiple air pollution sources at the facility located in Ward Twp., You’ll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations. Harrisburg. (

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Physics World

OCTOBER 6, 2021

And how are they linked to wildfire, air pollution and other hazards? Extreme heat is not just an abstract notion: if we can’t cool our bodies enough, we’re in danger of neurological failure, organ failure and even death, with the risks highest for children and the elderly. Where are they most likely?

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2023

Natural gas cryogenic plants take natural gas and cool it to sub-zero temperatures-- minus 120 degrees Fahrenheit-- in order to condense and separate out liquids like butane, ethane and propane from the gas. Black smoke is an incomplete combustion and that’s a [air pollution] violation. Click Here for more.

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Natural Gas Air Pollution Cooling 2018 96

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2023

[PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: As Shell Shuts Down New Beaver County Petrochemical Plant For Repairs, And Burns Off Natural Gas In Flares, Company Says It Hasn’t Exceeded Air Emission Limits -- Shell Petrochemical Plant Beaver County: Bad And Dangerous Start; Shell Shut Down Part Of Plant For Repairs, Beings Full Natural Gas, Flammable Gases (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2023

As an example of a recent enforcement action, he pointed to the $10 million penalty settlement with the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County on air pollution violations that included a $5 million community fund. Read more here. “We Washington County; Notice Is Re-sent [PaEN] -- Robinson Twp.,

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Natural Gas Air Pollution Waste Radiation 95

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

Everybody’s health stands to gain from reducing local air pollution from tailpipes: communities located near roads, families getting into a car in their garage, children boarding a school bus, and anybody in the vicinity of an idling vehicle.

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Electricity 2020 Air Pollution Technology 208

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. This directly impacts human health and wealth. Meanwhile, the climate emergency has not gone away. But what does this actually mean?

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 20, 2023

As directed by a state law enacted in 2021, as HB 1286, the Colorado Health Department’s Air Pollution Control Division developed the newly finalized standards. However, the regulation is being applauded for providing flexibility for building owners and various pathways for meeting the standards.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2023

The community is locked into a lasting and significant source of plastics production and dirty air pollution that will degrade the Commonwealth’s air quality and our environmental legacy for decades to come. Our organizations have filed a notice of intent to sue Shell for the consistent violation of air pollution limits.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2022

As the state moves toward all-electric buildings, replacing older gas-powered furnaces and air conditioning units with heat pumps can reduce carbon emissions and indoor air pollution while increasing efficiency, comfort and resiliency, especially as extreme heat events increase.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Here are the options going forward for regulating existing power plants. Switch to another legal basis for regulation. The Clean Power Plan was based on section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act. Fossil fuel plants — coal-fired power plants in particular — cause serious air pollution problems. Download as PDF.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 1754 ) -- Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining & Marketing, LLC - 860 Unit Cooling Tower and Hartranft Street, Point Breeze South Yard: DEP received a Final Report on the remediation of soil and groundwater contaminated with petroleum to the Statewide Health Standard for the facility located at 3144 Passyunk Ave.,

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2023

Of Health Establishes Community-Based Health Resource Network To Provide Long-Term Assistance To Residents Impacted By Norfolk Southern Train Derailment [PaEN] -- TribLive Editorial: Norfolk Southern Lawsuits Are Necessary Enforcement Of Railroad’s Promises -- WESA/The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: U.S.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

“Job-killing regulations” is a longtime conservative meme. In fact, we might need even stricter environmental regulations to help cool the economy and cut inflation. In fact, we might need even stricter environmental regulations to help cool the economy and cut inflation. billion to $197.4

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Wolf Announced PA Received The Initial $244.9 Siegel, Esq., Barley Snyder [PaEN] -- The Green Cities: 6 Black Philadelphians Leading The Environmental Movement -- PA Cap-Star: Philly Playground Exhibit Honors City’s Black Leaders, Legends -- PG: Allegheny Health Dept.

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Acoel

JULY 5, 2022

The opinion can point EPA toward regulation that will be both far more effective in addressing the existential threat of climate change and consistent with the law and past practice. Even within that limited universe, adopting regulations on a source-category-by-source-category basis will stretch on for decades.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

What’s Your Community Doing?

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Natural Gas Fossil Fuels Air Pollution Conservation 63

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

It’s due to a combination of factors, including tremendous demand for clean energy from states, utilities and consumers; federal regulations to reduce toxic air pollutants; and—most important—the simple fact that renewables and natural gas are now the cheapest options to meet our electricity needs. How cool is that?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Republicans said the final regulations will increase the cost of electricity for individuals and businesses, have a negative impact on jobs and will not significantly reduce carbon pollution. Visit DEP’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative webpage for more information on the final regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 15, 2022

Natural Gas Prices; High Natural Gas Prices Drive Inflation And Electricity Cost Spikes - Connect The Dots] “Natural gas has been a big driver of inflation this year, with the highest prices in years adding to the cost of heating, cooling and powering homes and businesses as well as manufacturing steel, cement, glass, plastics and fertilizer.

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Natural Gas Nuclear Power Fossil Fuels Electricity 63

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 24, 2022

Weighs Lifting Summer Smog Rules To Lower Gasoline Prices -- WSJ: Cost Of Ethanol Gasoline Additive Outpaces Crude Oil This Quarter -- Reuters: Texas Repeatedly Raises Air Pollution Limits For Cheniere LNG Natural Gas Terminal American Rescue Plan Funding -- Lancaster County Approves $3.4

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