PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The jobs did not come, and while the price of gas didn’t go up, air and water pollution sure did. That means they are going to politicians with their hand out to receive more of your tax dollars with nothing to show for it except receipts from past failures like leaking pipelines, harmful air pollution, and dangerous explosions.

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

JULY 9, 2025

While multiple factors contribute to this financial strain, a significant yet often overlooked culprit behind the affordability crisis is the fossil fuel industry. Fossil fuels are making life unaffordable for Canadians Fossil fuel prices are volatile, and they have a pronounced impact on inflation.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2025

Families like mine are in danger because of MarkWests Harmon Creek facility, which has a history of violating protective air pollution regulations while processing fracked ethane gas for use in the overproduction of plastics.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Human-driven sources of methane, including fossil fuels, agriculture, and waste, account for about 60% of emissions. While technologies exist to reduce emissions from fossil fuel sources cheaply and efficiently, agricultural emissions and natural emissions are often diffuse. Methane has contributed 0.5°C C of the 1.1°C

Atmosphere

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2025

Act 214 regulates the drilling and plugging of oil and gas wells where they intersect underground coal mining operations. Use DEPs Oil and Gas Mapping Tool to map this well by using the Latitude 39.992686 and Longitude -80.25862600000001 from the inspection report.

Air Pollution

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 28, 2025

The expansion would mean a steep increase in highly toxic pollution linked to serious health problems. Brampton, a community of workers and immigrants with a large proportion of people whose first language is not English, is already exposed to high levels of air pollution from transportation and industrial emissions.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2025

The Public Utility Commission does not have jurisdiction over this pipeline to regulate it for safety, construction or operations because it is related to gas production. The PUC estimates there are between 60,000 and 100,000 miles of gas gathering pipelines in 33 counties, many not mapped.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

MAY 30, 2025

By the time the case reached the State Court of Appeals, the key issue to be resolved was whether New York States Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), preempts local regulation in the field of GHG emissions regulationand therefore Local Law 97. And, the language of CLCPA 10 and 11 does not require a different result.

Law

Environmental News Bits

APRIL 25, 2025

The Centennial State may become first in the nation to require retailers to warn consumers that burning fossil fuels releases air pollutants and greenhouse gases, known … Continue reading In Colorado, gas for cars could soon come with a warning label

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Greg Vitali (D-Delaware), Chair House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee -- PennLive Guest Essay: Pennsylvania Failing To Properly Regulate Its Oil & Gas Industry - By Rep. Responds To Rep.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2025

Our mission is to improve policy and regulations for the oversight of fossil fuel extraction and use; to educate, empower and organize coalfield citizens; and to protect public and environmental health. CCJ has over three thousand members and supporters and is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

A quick refresher: Automobiles and trucks are among the leading causes of climate- and lung-destroying air pollution worldwide, and shifting from gasoline-powered to electric vehicles is a key strategy (among many) to cut these emissions. This is terrible news for the climate and for air quality, of course.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Its a much dirtier fuel than natural gas, let alone renewables, in terms of climate change and air pollution. Increased deployment of renewables has undoubtedly contributed to the problem, and coal plants have had to contend with tougher pollution regulations over the years. It was fracking.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2025

The air monitoring study is set to begin today, May 1, marking the start of a multi-year air monitoring campaign designed to comprehensively assess the air emissions of gas well development from construction through production. will be monitored close to the well pad through the duration of the air monitoring project.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

Over 156 million people in the US are exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollutants, according to the recently published 2025 State-of-the Air report from the American Lung Association (ALA). For 25 years the report has helped people across the country understand the quality of the air in their communities.

Ozone

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2024

They involve reduced protection for endangered species, eliminating energy efficiency rules, blocking new transmission lines, changing electricity regulation to favor fossil fuels, weakening air pollution rules, and encouraging sale of gas guzzlers. #1. Abolish energy markets or adjust them to favor fossil fuels.

2025

Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2025

It’s a tribute to the significance of state climate policies that Trump devoted an entire executive order to excoriating them as “fundamentally irreconcilable” with his own, fossil-fuel promoting, energy policy. NEW YORKState regulators approved a program to provide 1.5 Yet, despite all the drama in D.C.,

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Scientific input critical to laws and regulations that keep us healthy and safe A second reason we need federally funded research is because empirical evidence plays a key role in developing laws and regulations that keep us healthy and safe.

Fossil Fuels

HumanNature

JANUARY 30, 2025

isoprene, carbitol, benzyl alcohol) to secondary organic aerosol are emitted from trees, fossil fuels, and an assortment of industrial and personal care compounds collectively known as volatile chemical products (VCPs). There has been progress in improving air quality over the past several decades. Image modified from [8].

Ozone

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2025

On March 12, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced plans to reconsider EPAs 2009 endangerment finding for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, along with all regulations and actions that rely on the finding. In his remarks, Zeldin focused on the costs imposed by GHG regulations. EPA (2012). 7521(a)(1).

2009

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

After an experience dealing with air pollution issues in her own home, she has first-hand knowledge of the health impacts that pollution can have on a family and how government agencies often ignore residents in distress. She equips residents with the tools to feel empowered to fight against the fossil fuel industry.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2025

Hill also noted the company has been under investigation by the Office of Attorney General for possible state Solid Waste Management Act violations over road dumping of their wastewater under the co-product determination process in DEPs Residual Waste Regulations. Read more here. I've got brine from that well." Its the same stuff.]

Waste

PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2025

. -- New Castle Power, LLC - New Castle Natural Gas Power Plant: DEP invites comments on the renewal of a Title V Air Quality Permit for the facility located in Taylor Twp., Youll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations. Lawrence County. ( Lycoming County. Received March 26, Issued April 21. (

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

UCS has also worked for many years to clean up trucking pollution, and our work now encompasses other parts of the freight system. All of this activity makes ports surrounded by dangerous levels of air pollution. The freight rail industry has stymied attempts to clean up locomotives, abusing loopholes in federal regulations.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2025

Hill also noted the company has been under investigation by the Office of Attorney General for possible state Solid Waste Management Act violations road dumping their wastewater under the co-product determination process in DEPs Residual Waste Regulations. Read more here.

2025

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

The latest auction resulted in this generation mix —with 67% of the generation in PJM being from fossil fuels, with gas being the largest source. So besides ceding the clean energy future to other nations, we are paying for fossil foolishness with more than money—with our health and with our safety. 11 Hearing On A.I.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

Both large and independent producers have gone on record  in support of federal methane regulation and major oil and gas producing states including Colorado, Wyoming, Pennsylvania and New Mexico have already been implementing the standards. Circuit Court  declined to stay the deadlines for oil and gas companies to meet the standards.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Resource Links - Harmon Creek Hearing: -- Community Speaks Out Against Expansion Of Harmon Creek Natural Gas Processing Plant In Washington County [PaEN] -- Washington County Resident To DEP: Harmon Creek Natural Gas Plant Expansion Will Result In A Huge Increase In Air Pollution, It Should Be Required To Have A Major Air Quality Permit, It Is Not (..)

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2025

This long struggle to get cleaner air in California is one of necessity; pollution from Californias millions of cars and trucks, combined with its unique climate and geography have led to the state having consistently the worst air pollution in the nation.

Air Pollution

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency, agreeing to decide whether fossil fuel manufacturers have legal standing to challenge an EPA decision under the federal Clean Air Act. That court ruled that the fossil fuel company plaintiffs had failed to establish their legal authority (i.e., “standing”) to bring the action.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Endangerment Finding establishes that heat-trapping emissions harm people and the environment, and it forms a core legal basis for the agencys subsequent actions to set standards to limit global warming pollution from vehicles and power plants, as well as methane pollution from oil and gas operations.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2025

McKean County [PaEN] -- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: Fracking Gas-Powered Cryptocurrency Mining Operation In PA Shuts Down Without A Word To Regulators, Site Found Abandoned -- Gov. Greene County [PaEN] -- Conventional Oil Well Storage Tank Rupture Causes 2,100 Gallon Spill Of Wastewater, Crude Oil In Upper Burrell Twp.,

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Greg Vitali (D-Delaware), Chair House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee -- PennLive Guest Essay: Pennsylvania Failing To Properly Regulate Its Oil & Gas Industry - By Rep. Companies To Take Root In PA [Pushing Legislation To Drop Regulations] -- Observer-Reporter Guest Essay: How PA Can Best Support The A.I.

Conservation

Legal Planet

JUNE 26, 2025

Although it doesn’t say so, one of the strategies it brushes aside as useless is the very strategy the Trump Administration itself adopted in a previous regulation, the Affordable Clean Energy rule. Emission reduction measures would be permanent, so benefits of a single regulation would accrue year after year.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Yaw, Republican Chair Of Senate Environmental Committee, Calls Bill To Reduce Shale Gas Industry Impacts On Health, Environment Stupid [PaEN] -- Senators Santarsiero, Comitta Introduce SB 581 Increasing Setback Safety Zones From Natural Gas Drilling Sites, Other Infrastructure, Based On Latest Science [PaEN] -- Environmental Health Project: Setback (..)

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The Advanced Clean Cars II rule would require 100% EV sales in California by 2035 and strengthen tailpipe emissions standards, resulting in an estimated 1,200 fewer deaths fro m air pollution by 2040. The rule required a waiver because it’s stronger than the federal Clean Air Act, and 13 states have already approved similar standards.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 7, 2025

These include rolling back EPA standards to cut power plant carbon emissions, expanding fossil fuel production and use, and also undermining our ability to prepare for and respond to events like Hurricane Helene which devastated Western North Carolina last year. These are astoundingly shameful proposals.

Climate Change