PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Of Environmental Professionals Annual Conference Sept. Of Environmental Professionals Annual Conference Sept.

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

Flooding is currently the highest-risk hazard facing Pennsylvania, and flood risks are projected to increase. -- Increasing temperatures will continue to alter the growing season and increase the number of days that people need to cool their homes and workspaces, but will also decrease the number of days that people will need to use heating.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 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

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 18, 2025

Type your email Subscribe Top Posts & Pages Want climate solutions in Indigenous territories? Better get consent. 447) Local government (438) Public lands (54) National parks & forests (45) State government (182) U.S. 447) Local government (438) Public lands (54) National parks & forests (45) State government (182) U.S.

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2025

I am encouraged by and most interested in localized geothermal, which might alleviate the use of expensive electricity for home heating and cooling. "That means ensuring a stable regulatory environment that gives industry the confidence to invest in this game-changing technology." Williams. “I 11 Hearing On A.I.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Greg Vitali (D-Delaware), Majority Chair House Environmental & Natural Resources Committee [ PDF of Article ] -- House Committee OKs Increase In Per Ton Recycling Fee To Support Local Recycling Programs, Waste Disposal Planning [PaEN] -- NextPittsburgh: Is Hyperlocal Recycling The Future?

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2025

The videos are also listed here-- Research & Health Studies -- Mary Willis, PhD : Early Epidemiological Results into Oil and Gas Development from a Prospective Preconception Cohort Study -- Cyndhia Ramatchandirane, MS , Fighting back against the blue hydrogen buildout in Cancer Alley, Louisiana -- Eric Lebel, PhD : Emissions Assessment of (..)

2025

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

This comes on top of federal actions to prop up expensive coal plants ; plans to eliminate greenhouse gas emission limits for power plants and allow increased emissions of mercury and other toxins; and relax regulation of coal ash. Another unacknowledged issue is that data centers can require millions of gallons of water a day for cooling.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2024

[PaEN] -- Community Advocates For Clean Energy Host Nov. 13 Webinar On EPA Clean School Bus Grant Program [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Hosts Nov. 26 Conservation Cornerstone Webinar: Ag Best Management Practices Value [PaEN] -- Nov. 14 -- Delaware Highlands Conservancy Eagle Watch Bus Tours Start Jan.

Clean Energy

HumanNature

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

When organic waste is packed into landfills, a lack of aeration (introducing oxygen) renders it unable to decompose, causing it to emit larger quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Therefore, finding ways to reduce food waste is essential in neutralizing climate change. What happens when you compost?

Waste

Circle of Blue

MARCH 13, 2025

East Coast to the North Atlantic, where it cools, sinks and then moves south. It heats the oceans waters so there is less cool water to sink and motivate the cycle. Fish and Wildlife Service, called it a waste of money and destructive to the environment. This exchange plays a key role in weather and climate.

2018

Law Columbia

APRIL 30, 2025

In collaboration with the Department of Governmental Efficiency, EPA has attempted to cancel nearly 800 grant awards , variously citing wasteful federal spending and wasteful DEI and environmental justice initiatives. In other words, the Endangerment Finding serves as the legal and scientific basis for EPAs greenhouse gas regulations.

Government

PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2025

The application includes seven (7) 633 MWe combined cycle combustion and ten (10) 25 MWe simple cycle aeroderivative natural gas turbines, three (3) 67 MMBtu/hr auxiliary boilers, emergency generators, emergency fire water pump engines, cooling towers and fuel gas heaters. There is a 30 day public comment period from this publication.

Natural Gas

Acoel

JANUARY 17, 2025

Carlston With the incoming Trump administration poised for an attack on federal environmental regulations, states are quickly emerging with actions on climate change. The money collected under the chemical tax was deposited into a Superfund to clean up abandoned or uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. Jaffe , and Daniel T.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2025

Advocate for stronger regulations by writing to your representatives, demanding accountability for harmful environmental decisions. The rollbacks pose an existential threat to our planet and the livelihoods of those protecting it.

Endangered Species Act

PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2025

The application includes seven (7) 633 MWe combined cycle combustion and ten (10) 25 MWe simple cycle aeroderivative natural gas turbines, three (3) 67 MMBtu/hr auxiliary boilers, emergency generators, emergency fire water pump engines, cooling towers and fuel gas heaters.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

Moreover, data centers routinely require a large water supply for cooling purposes, which could impact system pressures and water source dependability, especially given the recent history of droughts and usage restrictions in Pennsylvania.

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The gas is then cooled with the help of cold water to form liquid ammonia, which forms the basis for manufacturing various other nitrogen fertilizer formulations. Toxic waste discharged from fertilizer manufacturing facilities affects both water and air quality and has a significant impact on human health.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Luzerne County [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension: Using Live Stake Nurseries To Engage Communities In Stream Health [PaEN] -- Volunteers Needed! 2 Pittsburgh Companies Say Yes -- Volunteers Needed!

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Supervisors Outline Solar Energy Facility Regulations In Luzerne County -- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: Solar Program For Lower-Income Homeowners Could Be ‘In Jeopardy’ Under Ex-President -- DEP Invites Comments At 4 Public Input Sessions To Help Develop PA Home Energy Rebate Programs Starting Oct.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2025

The application includes seven (7) 633 MWe combined cycle combustion and ten (10) 25 MWe simple cycle aeroderivative natural gas turbines, three (3) 67 MMBtu/hr auxiliary boilers, emergency generators, emergency fire water pump engines, cooling towers and fuel gas heaters. Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations?

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

AUGUST 13, 2025

Currently the EPA is on its way to cancel the Democrats CARBON FEAR Program by reversing the rules and regulations on Carbon emissions. This massive tax dollar-wasting infrastructure reform is based on the false premise that CO2 greenhouse emissions cause climate change,” another person wrote. It is a hoax.”

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2025

Currently, Lancaster officials are in negotiations over a potential Community Benefit Agreement as part of the approval process for the CoreWeave data center project." -- Resource Needs, Potential Burdens: "It is well known that large data centers require large amounts of electricity and cooling capacity to operate.

Cooling

Physics World

MAY 5, 2025

This approach lets us make highly intricate components with far less waste than conventional techniques, in which a block of material is machined away. We’re also developing innovative lean-burn combustion technologies, such as novel cooling and flow strategies, to reduce NOx emissions.

Technology

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 30, 2024

Some SMR designs, such as NuScale, are modified versions of operating water-cooled reactors, while others are radically different designs that use coolants other than water, such as liquid sodium, helium gas, or even molten salts. SMRs will not reduce the problem of what to do with radioactive waste.

Nuclear Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2022

They connect multiple EV batteries together, along with battery monitoring and cooling technology, to create a larger battery that is about the size of a shipping container. This is not unlike how mattress, paint, and carpet disposal is currently regulated within California. Recycling is key to making EVs greener.

Recycling

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

“Some of the earliest memories I have are of protestors standing in the road, blocking semi-trucks hauling nuclear waste.”. — Mikhail Childs, Prairie Island Indian C ommunity member. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has declared the plant to be safe, tribe members remain worried about their proximity to nuclear waste. While the U.S.

2022

Environmental News Bits

MAY 31, 2023

The union has set renewable energy targets across numerous industries to be achieved by 2035, which includes making the heating and cooling sectors carbon … Continue reading Europe wants more cities to use data center waste heating

Waste

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2024

For space heating and cooling, as well as water heating, heat pumps are a great solution for replacing fossil fuel appliances such as gas boilers—even in wintery parts of the country, thanks to new cold-climate heat pumps. AAS: If we can do all of the above, how close is the United States to a 100% clean grid?

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2024

In March, DEP said conventional well owners not in compliance with state oil and gas regulations and law will not be eligible for methane emission reduction well plugging funding, including failure to submit production, waste generation and well integrity reports. [In Read more here. [89%

Waste

Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

In order to steer investment toward environmentally sustainable activities, the European Union launched the Taxonomy Regulation framework to define activities deemed sustainable. The following elements of the Regulation proposal are dealt with in this review. of the proposal) and for existing installation only until 2040 (see §4.28).

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2023

Of PA [Natural Gas Prices Tripled] -- Shell Petrochemical Plant Had 3-Hour Emergency Flaring Event To Burn Off Flammable Gases In Beaver County [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Shell Petrochemical Plant Using Water Hoses ‘To Assist In Cooling External Areas Of Ground Flares’ That Need To Be ‘Reinforced’ -- Beaver County Times: Shell Petrochemical (..)

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2023

. -- DCNR Posts FY 2023-24 Budget Proposal Documents -- Shell Petrochemical Plant Had 3-Hour Emergency Flaring Event To Burn Off Flammable Gases In Beaver County [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Shell Petrochemical Plant Using Water Hoses ‘To Assist In Cooling External Areas Of Ground Flares’ That Need To Be ‘Reinforced’ -- The Allegheny Front (..)

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

destroys many of the existing “green” building standards that municipalities use to make new homes that are cheaper for tenants or purchasers to heat and cool – and which are vital to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. . million homes would be created there, province-wide . It does this through Section 7 of the Bill, which would amend s.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 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. hours on Christmas Day. Ethane and other vapors were what caught fire. 11 [PaEN] -- DEP Posts 57 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In Feb.

Natural Gas

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.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

JULY 19, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 4191 ) -- Monroe Energy LLC - Trainer Refinery: DEP issued an extension of an Air Quality Plan Approve to replace three cooling towers at the facility located in Trainer Borough, Delaware County. ( You’ll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations. Adams County. ( Jefferson County. (

Air Pollution