PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

The total civil penalty assessments include $350,000 for air quality violations, which is the maximum civil penalty assessment allowable under the Pennsylvania Air Pollution Control Act, and $764,000 pursuant to Pennsylvania’s oil and gas and solid waste laws. Related Articles - Rager Mountain: -- Equitrans Determined Leak Of Over 1.1

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Indiana regulates the underground storage of carbon dioxide. Wisconsin ’s environment agency once again begins drafting rules to limit PFAS pollution. . The company is seeking powers of eminent domain from state regulators. Wisconsin faces difficulty enforcing pollution control from small farms. billion annually.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2024

A malodor is defined by DEP regulation as: “[A]n odor which causes annoyance or discomfort to the public and which the Department determines to be objectionable to the public.” During complaint investigations, staff also determined that Keystone had created odors, including strong malodors, from its facility, impacting the community.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Burning waste—especially plastic waste—generates toxic and climate-warming gases that fill our air, our lungs and our atmosphere, warming the climate and making people sick. Pollution control is expensive and air pollution regulations are not strict enough. But is burning waste cheaper than landfill?

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Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 25, 2021

Maryland has been described as having more pages of environmental statutes and regulations on a per capita basis than any other state. A person who violates the prohibition against knowingly and intentionally releasing, or causing to be released, a balloon into the atmosphere must watch a re-educational video and/or perform community service.

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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. The conventional regulations were challenged in Commonwealth Court by conventional oil and gas operators. Read more here. “The

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