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Marcellus Drilling News: University Of Pittsburgh Study Finds At Least 800,000 Tons Of Drilling, Fracking Waste Sent To Landfills Unaccounted For In PA, OH, NY; Oil & Gas Waste Adds To Radiation Accumulation In Stream Sediments

PA Environment Daily

On July 20, 2023, the Marcellus Drilling News reported researchers from the University of Pittsburgh found there was an average 30% discrepancy between what conventional and unconventional oil and gas drilling companies said they sent to landfills and the amount of waste reported received by those landfills in Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York.

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National Energy Technology Lab, University Of Pittsburgh Studies Say Oil & Gas Wastewater Can Be Major Source Of Lithium For Rechargeable Battery Production

PA Environment Daily

Lithium is used in rechargeable batteries for products from mobile phones, laptop computers, and digital cameras to electric vehicles, heart pacemakers, toys and clocks. Justin Mackey, the lead investigator on the project, said “The drilling boom in Appalachia created large volumes of produced water that is considered a waste.

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

Today, he is a Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Napoleon Nelson with the Champion of the Environment Award for his commitment to environmental justice and green technologies in Philadelphia and across the state.

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Emerging Investigator Series – Kyoung-Yeol Kim

Water Research & Technology

Kim is now serving as an early career advisory board member for the Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters , and he was recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer in 2018 for Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology.

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How to Save the World, Part 1

Academy of Natural Sciences

From their respective disciplines, they’re converting industrial food waste into plastic, building electric vehicle batteries with domestic materials and helping vulnerable citizens adapt to extreme weather, to name a few. Each project is exciting in its potential and gives us hope for the future, because the No.

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Environmental Law: Government and Public Policy Towards the Environment

Environmental Science

Useful Environmental Law Terms. Commercial Waste : Any waste material produced as a byproduct of commercial or industrial activity. Filtration : Removing solid waste and material from water in the process of wastewater treatment. As it is a waste, it serves no purpose on its own. Sponsored Content.

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Physics: The Science of the Universe and Everything In It

Environmental Science

Today, it overlaps with many other sciences and has had a profound impact on the environmental sciences just as chemistry has. It also underpins the physical sciences by providing the theoretical framework on which it may base its own assumptions and basic theoretical models. How Physics Applies to Environmental Science.