PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2023

StreamWatch Volunteer Training May 20 In Monroe County [PaEN] -- CBF: Proposed Settlement Of Lawsuit Against EPA For Failing To Hold Pennsylvania Accountable For Meeting Chesapeake Bay Water Pollution Reduction Goals Focuses On Actions In 7 PA Counties [PaEN] -- New State Health Plan Identifies Health Issues Related To Natural Resource Extraction, (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2024

18-20 In WV Registration Open For Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council Level 1 Certification Training Beginning July 30 Join Master Watershed Stewards In Lancaster County For June 13 Waterways On Wheels Bike Tour A Dozen Nonprofit, Agency, Municipal Environmental Experts Team Up To Tackle Stormwater Runoff In The Lake Erie Watershed Dept. /DEP

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2023

House holds Regular Session April 24, 25, 26 -- Committee Schedule -- Updated: House Budget Hearing Schedule - March 20, 21, 22 Senate holds Regular Session April 24, 25, 26 -- Committee Schedule -- Updated Senate Budget Hearing Schedule - March 20, 21, 22 TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- Independent Fiscal Office Posts Budget Hearing Documents -- KDKA: (..)

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2023

Steel’s Clairton Coke (Coal) Plant - By Mayor & Council Member of Clairton City -- DEP Blog: Air Quality Awareness Week: Particulate Matter 101 -- PPL Electricity Price To Compare To Drop June 1 For Customers Who Don’t Shop For Suppliers -- Altoona Mirror: Blair Conservation District Offering $1.6

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2023

Steel For Clairton Coke (Coal) Works For 2nd Quarter [PaEN] -- WESA: Allegheny County Levees $307,000 In Fines On US Steel For Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Air Pollution Violations -- TribLive: U.S. Steel Ready To Close 3 Of 10 Batteries At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works -- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: U.S.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2023

Leib, Pittsburgh -- PA Capital-Star: Environmentalists, Advocates Urge Shapiro To Stay The Course On RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan -- Scranton Times Editorial: Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan Serves Economy, Environment [RGGI] -- TribLive: Pittsburgh To Get $1.5

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

-- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2024

Complain About Noise From Allshouse Oil Well Compressor -- Marcellus Shale Gas Coalition Official Joins Pittsburgh-based EQT In Saying We Have A 'Duty’ To Provide LNG Gas To China, Our Economic, Military Competitor [PaEN] -- The Energy Age Blog: Gas Profiteers: It’s Our ‘Duty’ To Provide Gas To China -- DEP Issues $1.1

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

-- TribLive: Donations Exceed $875,000 For Those Affected By Plum Boro Natural Gas House Explosion -- TribLive Editorial: Plum Boro Neighborhood Where Natural Gas Home Explosion Occurred Emerges As Village Of Importance -- Scientific American: Gas Stove Pollution Lingers In Homes For Hours Even Outside The Kitchen -- Fortune: Gas Stove Pollution Harms (..)

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

The highest level the Sierra Club’s air quality monitor detected when my oven and two burners were on was 103 ppb, but even at low concentrations, NO2 irritates the upper respiratory tract and lungs, and longtime exposures have been associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and childhood asthma.

2013

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2023

Details Plan To Draw Clean Energy Facilities Into Oil, Coal Communities -- PA-Based Evangelical Environmental Network Celebrates Stronger Proposed EPA Mercury, Air Toxics Safeguards For Coal-Fired Power Plants [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Title V Air Quality Permit For Monessen Coke (Coal) Plant, Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- Moms Clean (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

Data Show -- Bloomberg: EPA Set To Propose Toughest-Ever Rules On Car Pollution To Spur EVs -- Bloomberg: One-Minute Battery Swaps Are Spurring EV Adoption In Asia PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Erie Times: New Poll: Who Are Most Popular/Unpopular State Officials In PA? How Healthy Soils Grow Better Veggies.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2024

Improves Western PA Region’s Air Ratings, But Says More Needs To Be Done -- PennLive: American Lung Assn. Report Harrisburg Area’s Air Quality Is Among Worst On East Coast -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: Harrisburg, Lancaster Get F Grades For Air Pollution In American Lung Assn. Report -- TribLive: American Lung Assn.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2024

in Somerset County -- WHYY: My Climate Story: Philly Students Take Science From Abstract To Personal -- Reading Eagle: Berks Nature Nonprofit Has Evolved Over Its 50-Year History -- MCall: C.F.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2024

Million Civil Penalty To Equitrans For Violations Related To The Uncontrolled Venting Of 1.1 Billion Cubic Feet Of Gas From The Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area In Cambria County [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Cambria County Gas Storage Well Blowout Brings $1.1 Million Penalty For Equitrans -- WJAC: DEP Fines Equitrans Gas Company $1.1

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

NewsClips: -- Responsible Decarbonization Alliance: Happy Earth Day! “They have ecological value, including just knowing that they are there.” ( Photo: Shale gas drill pad in Loyalsock State Forest , Lycoming County.) Reprinted from Chesapeake Bay Journal.)

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2022

Casey: Announces $2.1 EIA: Ban On New Natural Gas Pipelines Would Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Natural Gas Combustion 4.4% Lower In 2050 PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- City & State PA: Sen.

Natural Gas

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. Through this law, water pollution is managed by controlling wastewater discharges. Sponsored Content. 1 - Interesting Facts.

Clean Water Act

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Mensch Introduces Bill To Encourage Development Of Clean Vehicle Infrastructure- Electric, Natural Gas, Hydrogen -- 35 Senate, House Democrats Urge Gov. Rural Communities On The Front Lines Of Solar's Growth -- Sen. Wolf To Investigate Health Impacts Associated With Natural Gas Fracking -- EPA Honors Energy-Efficient Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 7, 2023

of Health, University Of Pittsburgh For Update On Studies Of Health Impacts Of Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities [PaEN] -- Physicians For Social Responsibility PA Host May 10 Webinar: Imagine A More Natural PA - How We Use Methane Gas, What It's Doing To Us [PaEN] -- DEP Environmental Justice: State Dept.

Conservation

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Being located in a non-attainment area, where air pollution requirements are especially rigorous, does impact jobs, resulting in the loss of about 40,000 jobs a year in those areas (out of a 17 million total U.S. In short, Labor Day and Earth Day don’t have to be at odds. manufacturing jobs.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2025

Shapiro: FERC Approves Settlement With PJM To Prevent Unnecessary Prices Hikes, Save Consumers Over $21 Billion On Electric Bills North American Electric Reliability Corp. Rate Increase For Philadelphia Gas Works PUC To Investigate Proposed 11.4% 14-16 In State College; Sponsorships, Exhibit Space Available Sen.

Earth Day