Law Columbia

MARCH 26, 2025

Buy Clean was designed to leverage the federal governments buying power to help grow the low carbon building materials industry. The Buy Clean program, created by President Biden in an Executive Order , broadly sought to catalyze the development of low carbon buildings.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2025

. -- Secured $171.5 Holding Polluters Accountable -- Secured a $10 million agreement with Shell Chemicals for excessive air contamination, with $6.2

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2025

Marti Haykin -- TribLive Guest Essay: Drain The Swamp, Bring DOE's Fossil Energy Office To Pennsylvania - By Athan Koutsiouroumbas, Long Nyquist Lobbying Firm -- Mountain Watershed Association Files EHB Appeal Of DEP's Approval Of The 1,452 Acre Expansion of the Rustic Ridge #1 Coal Mine In Fayette, Westmoreland Counties [PaEN] -- Guest Essay: Remembering (..)

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

2025 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups So far in 2025, DEP received or acted on 29 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. Violations issued. Response requested by March 14. DEP inspection report. Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

School Campus Could Save $10 Million -- Scranton Times: Renewable Natural Gas Plant Operator At Keystone Landfill Begins Test Drilling For Underground Carbon Dioxide Storage -- Protecting Clean Water Together: Starting To Think About The Garden? Of Environmental Professionals Inviting Presentation Proposals For Annual Conference Sept.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

My family is fighting food and plastic waste using a pair of recycling subscription services. In Fall 2023, our family of three signed up for a Mill thats a food recycling bin thats billed as odorless and effortless. So, this month we finally signed up for Ridwell , which aims to s ustainably reuse and recycle most non-foodstuffs.

Waste

Environmental News Bits

JULY 21, 2025

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Recycling

Environmental News Bits

JULY 28, 2025

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Recycling

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2025

Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Received -- Eureka Resources LLC - Standing Stone Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facility: DEP received a Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated with oil and gas wastewater to meet nonresidential Statewide Health Standards at the facility located in Standing Stone Township, Bradford County.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

TODAY 10:00: House Local Government Committee meets to consider House Bill 620 (Isaacson-D-Philadelphia) would increase the state recycling fee from $2 to $5 per ton to support local recycling and waste disposal planning programs. Click Here to watch online. Room 205 Ryan Building. Click Here to watch online. March 20-- Agenda Posted.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Pennsylvania has been a leader in pushing the shale gas industry to recycle and treat its production wastewater and bans the disposal of shale gas wastewater through methods like road dumping and through most public wastewater treatment systems. Many changes have occurred in the oil and gas extraction industry since then.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

10-12 In State College [PaEN] -- TribLive: From Brownfield To Crown Jewel: Piatts $740 Million Esplanade Project Aims To Spur Ohio River Revival -- PA Recycling Markets Center Hosts March 11 Webinar Update On Recycled Paper Commodities Markets, Including Impacts Of Tariffs [PaEN] -- Dept. Of Agriculture Invests Nearly $6.7

Conservation

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 16, 2025

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Recycling

Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 1, 2025

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Recycling

New Scientist

JUNE 19, 2023

By combining a solar fuel cell that converts carbon dioxide into fuel with a plastic recycling system, researchers can create sustainable fuels and useful chemicals

Carbon Dioxide

New Scientist

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

A chemical reaction that recycles carbon dioxide into fresh oxygen could provide more sustainable life support for astronauts on the moon or Mars – and as a bonus, it also produces carbon nanotubes

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

On November 15, the Department of Environmental Protection released a simple guide to help residents and businesses understand recycling in Pennsylvania called “ Guidelines for Recycling in Your Community.” Environmental Benefits Recycling generates tremendous environmental and financial benefits for Pennsylvania.

Recycling

Environmental News Bits

MARCH 15, 2022

Researchers at the Institute for Chemical Reaction Design and Discovery (ICReDD) at Hokkaido University have formulated a technique that has the potential to assist in the recycling of waste carbon dioxide (CO2) while also creating molecules beneficial for drug development. Read more →

Recycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Still, over their lifetimes, solar panels emit 25 times less carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt hour than coal-powered electricity. How can we recycle solar panel materials and create a lower-waste circular supply chain? Solar Panels Should Be Reused and Recycled. Chemistry break! Click the links for answers!

Carbon Monoxide

Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 21, 2022

New research in the journal ACS Sustainable Chemistry Engineering shows a way of constructing a carbon recycling plant (CRP) to create methanol using the developing electrochemical reduction (ER) of carbon dioxide. Read the full story at Azo Materials. Read more →

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

House Increasing Recycling Fee On Municipal Waste: House Bill 223 (Isaacson-D-Philadelphia) increasing the recycling fee on municipal waste disposed in the state to $5/ton from $2/ton ( sponsor summary ) was reported out of the House Local Government Committee by a vote of 21 to 4 and was Tabled on the House Floor [normal procedure].

Recycling

Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 24, 2021

The PaktoEarth RAWS-Tech additive decomposes to water, carbon dioxide (CO2), and less than 1% biomass. The additive-blended plastic, which is suitable for food packaging, can be recycled. But for… Read more →

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Plus, their batteries can be recycled, similar to that of electric car batteries. Shifting 12% of those miles to an e-bike in California would result in the equivalent of 1,000 pounds of avoided carbon dioxide emissions. And it won’t surprise you that electric bikes have much lower emissions than even electric cars.

Electricity

Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

On the other hand, advocates for the transmission line say it is a vital springboard to a low-carbon future. They anticipate annual reductions of 3 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, equivalent to 700,000 vehicles. Boise’s population grew by nearly 15 percent in the last decade.

2021

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 26, 2022

Looking again at the deceptive practices of the oil industry, this inquiry will try to determine whether the industry broke any laws by allegedly misleading the public on whether plastic products can be recycled. This is a new approach exploring accountability mechanisms for the fossil fuel industry’s role in the climate crisis.

Fossil Fuels

Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 14, 2023

Everywhere I’ve lived, I’ve had two options for where to put my trash: a blue bin for things like newspapers, beverage bottles and other recyclables, and a not-blue bin for everything else. But there were many bags and buckets full of “residual” items that could not be recycled—things like plastic bags, food wrappers and sachets.

Ocean

PA Environment Daily

JULY 5, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the July 6 PA Bulletin it approved a Final Report on remediation of soil and groundwater contamination by certain chemicals to meet Site-Specific Standards under the Land Recycling Program at the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Porter Township, Beaver County. (

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2024

Council will also hear a presentation on critical and rare earth minerals recycling. The move to carbon sequestration and hydrogen technology will require the development of new or repurposed pipelines to carry carbon dioxide and hydrogen. Click Here for the complete agenda.

Recycling

Physics World

MARCH 10, 2022

According to the International Energy Agency, the chemical production sector is the single largest industrial consumer of oil and gas and the third-largest carbon emitter, putting out just short of a gigatonne of carbon dioxide emissions in 2020. kg of carbon dioxide, respectively. kg and 1.85 kg and 1.17

Greenhouse

Physics World

JUNE 24, 2021

Indeed, gypsum plasterboard produced in Europe has an average carbon dioxide equivalent of 1967 g/Kg. Wood products, on the other hand, tend to have a lower carbon footprint. More significantly though, they act as a carbon sink throughout their lifetimes and can be recycled into paper afterwards.

Carbon Dioxide

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 18, 2021

New technologies that capture and recycle carbon dioxide from industrial processes such as steel and cement making will be vital if the EU is to meet its goal of slashing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030 and down to zero by 2050. Read the full story in Horizons.

Recycling

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 27, 2022

Read the full story at Construction & Demolition Recycling. The study was conducted to determine how much carbon dioxide (CO2) … Continue reading Liebherr reveals results of greenhouse gas study.

Greenhouse

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 15, 2022

Old Lycoming Township was in danger of closing its recycling center due to persistent and very costly illegal dumping of non-recyclable materials at our recycling drop-off bins,” said Matt Aikey, township manager. “Old

Recycling

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 13, 2022

The argument in favor of underground carbon sequestration has become even more difficult to prove with the advent … Continue reading Carbon capture and sequestration loses ground to carbon recycling.

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

JULY 5, 2024

Resource Links - Shell: -- DEP Notified Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County It Can No Longer Operate Under An Air Quality Construction Permit And Has 120 Days To Submit A Full Title V Air Quality Permit Application [PaEN] -- DEP Extends Temporary Air Quality Permits For Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; Shell Said It Will Submit Full (..)

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

JULY 3, 2024

Resource Link: -- 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 [4.11.24] Related Article This Week: -- DEP Citizens Advisory Council To Discuss Carbon Sequestration-Hydrogen Hub Pipelines; Critical/Rare Earth Mineral Recycling At July 9 Meeting (..)

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2024

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Carbon Dioxide