PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 7073 ) Waste Permits -- Mon River Dock Company - Karen Dock Oil & Gas Liquid Waste Processing Facility : DEP revoked the WMGR123 General Permit for the facility located in East Bethlehem Twp., PA Bulletin, page 7075 ) Air Quality Permits -- Eastern Gas Transmission & Storage, Inc.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

In late April, California air regulators are poised to pass one of the most meaningful regulations to reduce pollution from commercial trucks, vans, and buses. The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule, which I’ve blogged about in detail before, will phase out fossil-fueled trucks over the next several decades.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 1892 ) 2024 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups -- So far in 2024, DEP received or acted on 93 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP issued an Air Quality Plan Approval for a Caterpillar engine at the pad located in Springville Twp.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Fossil fuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We’ve heard these lazily disingenuous narratives before.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2023

On October 6, the Environmental Hearing Board issued a decision saying it will hear key arguments on whether DEP should have considered soil contamination and air pollution resulting from drilling and operation of a shale gas well pad 500 feet away from a Washington County family's home that played a role in contaminating their water supply.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

This presentation will be a comprehensive Natural Gas 101. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1 Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Chesapeake Appalachia LLC - Ward Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP approved Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated by production wastewater at the facility located in West Burlington Twp., PA Bulletin, page 7197 ) -- Peoples Natural Gas Company - Replacing 2.43 Bradford County. (

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Public Participation -- DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets Sept. 12 Public Meeting On Bishop Tube Hazardous Site Cleanup Plan In Chester County [PaEN] -- TribLive: Public To Weigh In On Proposed Olympus Energy/Hyperion Leto Natural Gas Compressor Station In West Deer Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2024

On May 2, 2024 , DEP did a follow-up inspection of the Anderson 1 conventional gas well in Allegheny Township, Westmoreland County owned by C & D Gas Co and found it was still venting gas and was still abandoned and not plugged. The well is also located within a few feet of a People Gas pipeline.

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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 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 5840 ) Waste Permits -- EQM Gathering OPCO, LLC - EQM Marlin AST Facility: DEP invites comments on a WMGR123 General Permit for the modification of piping design at the oil and gas wastewater facility housing eight - 1 million gallon wastewater processing tanks located in Jackson Twp., Erie County. ( Greene County. (

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Thank you for your leadership! -- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2023

More young people are being diagnosed with rare cancers in the studied communities, all the while the state continues to grant permits for pollution-emitting fossil fuel projects. We all need to work together to ensure our children grow up free from preventable disease. Of Health Awards $2.5 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Take for example Ontario’s plans to expand gas infrastructure into rural and northern communities and build more gas plants. Instead of ramping up fossil gas (aka natural gas) consumption, we need to bring it down. The gas subsidy alone amounts to $26,000 per home! BONUS – COOL TECH ALERT!

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Both the United States and the European Union electricity generations have 25-30% coal (historically much higher, hence its title of King), natural gas 35%, nuclear 20-25% and renewables make up 15% on both markets. It is worth remember that overall, air pollution accounts for 7 million deaths per year (WHO).

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Shell’s reckless divestment from Niger Delta SOMO PaulaR Fri, 03/01/2024 - 15:21 Tuesday, February 27, 2024 Read more Audrey Gaughran Shell cannot be allowed to divest from the onshore oil industry in the Niger Delta before it takes responsibility for its toxic legacy of pollution and the safe decommissioning of abandoned oil infrastructure.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied Natural Gas, Lubricants, Natural gas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied Natural Gas, Lubricants, Natural gas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied Natural Gas, Lubricants, Natural gas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company.

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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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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

These can be natural events or, as is the case at present, the result of industrial age actions in increasing greenhouse gases and reducing carbon sinks. Commercial Waste : Any waste material produced as a byproduct of commercial or industrial activity. As it is a waste, it serves no purpose on its own.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

Emission Sources : Anthropogenic methane emissions are widely associated with fossil fuel (natural gas, oil, and coal production and transportation), although the largest sources are agriculture (from livestock farming [. Carbon dioxide emissions, on the other hand, arise almost exclusively from burning fossil fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Just months after the massive, taxpayer-subsidized Shell petrochemical refinery in Butler County began operations, the state Department of Environmental Protection has cited it for substantial air pollution. The plant uses ethane, a byproduct of Marcellus Shale natural gas extraction, to produce plastic.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Shapiro made as Attorney General to advance commonsense measures that prioritize public health and safety and ensure the natural gas industry is performing its work in line with the highest standards. The Governor's Office said the agreement helps further a promise Gov. Those grand jurors, they did incredible work.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Capturing and putting to good use these methane emissions from our many waste streams could limit climate change drastically. According to the IPCC, this greenhouse gas is 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a twenty-year period (and 34 times more potent over a century). Food waste from producers, retailers and consumers.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Sandra Steingraber, Senior Scientist with the Science and Environmental Health Network , provided an overview of findings from the newly published 9th Compendium of Scientific, Medical, Media Findings Demonstrating Risk, Harms of Natural Gas Development and Infrastructure during a briefing hosted by the Better Path Coalition.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

CEQA requires an EIR to analyze a project’s energy consumption, and to mitigate any significant impacts “due to wasteful, inefficient, or unnecessary use of energy, or wasteful use of energy resources[.]” (CEQA Guidelines, § 15126.2(b); City of Woodland (2014) 225 Cal.App.4th 4th 173, 209, my 4/14/14 post on which can be found here.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

On September 13, the Pittsburgh-based Environmental Health Project issued a review of the University of Pittsburgh studies released on August 15 showing links between natural gas development and Lymphoma cancer, worsening asthma conditions and lower birth weights. "We

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Read more here. House Bill 652 would give DEP the statutory authority to deny a permit application in any environmental justice area based on the “cumulative environmental impacts.”

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Note: In December, 2022, DEP finalized regulations reducing volatile organic compounds and methane from existing conventional and unconventional oil and gas facilities. In June 2018, DEP finalized an Air Quality General Permit to reduce methane emissions from new unconventional oil and gas operations. On December 2, the U.S.

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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. Issues $307,800 Stipulated Penalty Against U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2024

Air Quality Permits -- Philadelphia Gas Works - Richmond LNG Gas Plant: Philadelphia Air Management Services invites comments on the renewal of the Title V Air Quality Permit for the natural gas liquefaction facility located at 3100 East Venango Street in Philadelphia. ( Lancaster County. (

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2022

Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) As Russian bombs fall on Ukraine, Pennsylvania refineries refine Russian crude oil and oil and natural gas prices are locked to every word said by Russian despots, Sen. The new essay outlines what the coal and natural gas industries want to happen in Pennsylvania-- If Gov. Army Veteran & Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 25, 2023

The letter, spearheaded by Protect PT , has been signed by Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania , FracTracker Alliance , Group Against Smog & Pollution , the Breathe Project , Allegheny County Clean Air Now , and Sunrise Movement Pittsburgh , among others. billion in health savings and other benefits.”

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