PA Environment Daily

APRIL 12, 2023

On April 3 and 6, the Department of Environmental Protection issued a total of three more Air Quality notices of violation to the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County. Shell's repeated pollution releases due to malfunctions demonstrates that self-regulation does not protect people living in surrounding communities like mine.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the January 13 PA Bulletin it has received and is reviewing the Act 2 Land Recycling Final Report by Equitrans on the cleanup of soil around the conventional gas well that failed and resulted in the uncontrolled venting of 1.1 PA Bulletin, page 213 ) Read more here.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

When proposing a new regulation or investment project, they often have to present a regulatory impact analysis showing that its environmental benefits outweigh the financial costs. What about the cost of energy for heating and cooling? What is the cost of living with, versus adapting to, sea level rise?

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

Natural gas cryogenic plants take natural gas and cool it to sub-zero temperatures-- minus 120 degrees Fahrenheit-- in order to condense and separate out liquids like butane, ethane and propane from the gas. Written by David Hess, Former Secretary, PA Department of Environmental Protection. Here’s a recent example.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 26, 2022

The cooling down process, however, took a month and the radioactive plant would take years to decontaminate. Gerusky , the late Director of the Bureau of Radiation Protection at the then-Department of Environmental Resources on March 28, 1979, and who was in charge of the state’s technical response to the accident; and - - James M.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] This piece previously appeared in the CLS Blue Sky Blog.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 12, 2012

Moreno On March 7, 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published in the Federal Register a proposed NPDES general permit for discharges from oil and gas facilities in the western and central portion of the Outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico (the “proposed permit”). By Carlos J. See 77 Fed. 13601 (Mar.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2023

The third item I wanted to talk about was with respect to the reception that people get from the Department of Environmental Protection ,” said Johnson. “It It is extremely disturbing for residents to interact with government officials who are supposed to be protecting them, who disrespect them and mock them. “I

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2022

Applications were evaluated for their degree of environmental protection, innovation, partnership, economic impact, consideration of climate change, sustainability, and environmental justice, as well as outcomes achieved. Each of the projects awarded this year will leave a positive lasting legacy for Pennsylvania.”

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

As ecosystems and biodiversity fall to cities, agriculture, infrastructure, climate change and pollution, nature’s ability to provide food, oxygen, clean water and climate regulation plummets. Now is not the time to set aside environmental laws and norms in the name of recovery, as we have seen done in some places.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2023

The community is locked into a lasting and significant source of plastics production and dirty air pollution that will degrade the Commonwealth’s air quality and our environmental legacy for decades to come. The Shell Polymers Monaca plant in Potter Township officially began operations in November of last year.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 28, 2022

Regulators in New York require utilities to perform climate risk assessments. Canada ’s House of Commons considers a bill addressing environmental racism. Supreme Court could transform federal climate regulation. The Chicago City Council makes new cooling rules after a heat wave killed three people in an apartment building.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

The flare structures were so hot they had to be cooled with water hoses and will need to be reinforced, according to the company. The cooling down process, however, took a month and the radioactive plant would take years to decontaminate. DEP's investigation is ongoing. Read more here. Read more here. The TMI Accident At 3:53 a.m.,

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

It also incorporates both a warm and a cool period during the oscillation - both of which impact upper atmospheric winds (10). In more recent times, Krakatoa in the East Indies cooled the planet's temperature rise and halted sea level rise for at least two decades, and that was one volcano - albeit an intense one (20). Deforestation.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

“Job-killing regulations” is a longtime conservative meme. In fact, we might need even stricter environmental regulations to help cool the economy and cut inflation. In fact, we might need even stricter environmental regulations to help cool the economy and cut inflation. billion to $197.4

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2023

21 For Pittsburgh Region -- PUC Stresses Ways To Stay Cool During Late-Summer Surge In Temperatures -- The Center Square: Solar Power Comes To University Of Pittsburgh Campus -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: What Can One Person Do About Climate Change? Edward Ketyer, Physicians For Social Responsibility PA -- Marcellus Drilling News: Gov.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Doing research on environmental issues or responses is usually an easy call for policy-makers and gets wide political support, even if there’s disagreement what to do about the issue. SG would cool the Earth, temporarily and imperfectly offsetting some of the climate effects of elevated greenhouse gases, by reflecting a bit (around 0.5%

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Brett Walton 2021-09-22 04:00:14 2021-11-29 20:37:05 Toxin Levels Spike, Prompting Drinking Water Emergency in Northern California ‘Eyes in the Sky’ Help Police California Water Use 0 Comments / September 9, 2021 Satellite data is one monitoring tool regulators turn to in this very dry year. Brett Walton. Brett Walton.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2024

The agenda for the April 25 meeting of DCED’s PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council features a discussion dumping conventional oil and gas well wastewater on public roads for disposal, an update on taxpayer funded well plugging grant programs and DEP regulations limiting methane emissions from conventional wells. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

The agenda for the April 25 meeting of DCED’s PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council features a discussion dumping conventional oil and gas well wastewater on public roads for disposal, an update on taxpayer funded well plugging grant programs and DEP regulations limiting methane emissions from conventional wells. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Republicans said the final regulations will increase the cost of electricity for individuals and businesses, have a negative impact on jobs and will not significantly reduce carbon pollution. Visit DEP’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative webpage for more information on the final regulations.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Financial regulators say they need a better understanding of climate risks to the U.S. Biden officials want to protect the area from environmental damage due to the potential for sulfide mining. Environmental Protection Agency already had a PFAS “action plan,” released in 2019. financial system. News Briefs.

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