PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection has advised 18 municipalities where road dumping of oil and gas wastewater has occurred the practice is illegal and considered waste disposal. DEP prohibited the road dumping of shale gas drilling wastewater in 2016 regulations. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2023

On April 5, township supervisors, concerned residents, and advocacy organizations submitted a letter to the Department of Environmental Protection calling on the agency to conduct a proper Public Participation Process for an oil and gas waste injection disposal well in Potter County.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Toxicology Program, and the International Association of Research on Cancer classify EtO as a substance that can cause certain cancers. What are the health impacts associated with breathing it? How can I get involved to raise concerns about ethylene oxide in my community?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2024

As a result of the accident, emergency planning and response programs at the local, state and federal level were dramatically improved around nuclear plants and state efforts to monitor radiation and provide direct oversight at these facilities also underwent significant changes. The nuclear regulators in Washington? Dick Thornburgh.

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E2 Law Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

When your neighbor’s property is contaminated, the environmental regulators may want access to your property to investigate whether the contamination has affected your property. Environmental Protection Agency , No. The property adjoined a site contaminated with radiation in the last century.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

The Department of Environmental Protection confirmed as of February 11, Scott Perry, Deputy Secretary for Oil and Gas Management, is no longer an employee of the agency. Corbett when that Deputate was formed to focus more attention on regulating unconventional (shale) gas drilling in Pennsylvania. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 15, 2022

On December 15, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has executed a $600,000 consent assessment of civil penalty (CACP) with John A. As part of this civil penalty settlement, DEP and Joseph have agreed to settle litigation related to other actions taken by the DEP in response to the disposal incidents. - Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2022

By avoiding landfills, oil and gas operators also avoid having to comply with the waste disposal regulations that go along with it. One prominent issue is the fact that drill cuttings going to landfills have triggered radiation monitoring equipment meant to catch sources of radiation in waste going to facilities for disposal.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection has issued a record 5,653 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas operators in 2023, with two months left in the year, according to DEP’s November 3, 2023 Weekly Workload Report. Environmental Protection Agency Underground Injection Well Program. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2022

The plans are authorized under DEP’s existing oil and gas regulations and approved by the agency. Ph and conductivity will be tested and reported according to regulations.” Environmental Protection Agency. Read more here. Drill cuttings will be incorporated into the soil. “Ph Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2021

This additional step of including radium in the list of contaminants to be measured will allow the Department of Environmental Protection to evaluate the presence of radium in landfills.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Hess, Former Secretary Department of Environmental Protection The information submitted to DEP’s Bureau of Waste Management from eight conventional oil and gas companies to justify allowing them to dispose of millions of gallons of wastewater by spreading it on dirt roads fails to meet the requirements of DEP’s 25 Pa Code Chapter 287.8

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Administered by the Office of Air and Radiation, this program is $4.6 During my more than two decades of federal service, I learned many things about the function of government. EPA’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG) On September 20, 2023, EPA announced the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants (CPRG).

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection issued a record 6,860 notices of violation to conventional oil and gas operators in 2023, according to DEP’s December 29, 2023 Weekly Workload Report. Environmental Protection Agency Underground Injection Well Program. more than in 2021 and 26.6% more than in 2022 and 569.9%

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

. -- Auditor General DeFoor should audit DEP’s management of oil and gas wastewater and the OGRE waste reporting data system - In 2014, Auditor General DePasquale concluded that the DEP was “woefully unprepared" to monitor and regulate the shale gas boom after his office’s audit of the agency. Click Here for a copy of the report.

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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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency issued for public input a draft white paper on control techniques and measures that could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from new stationary combustion turbines. On April 21, the U.S. These turbines, which are currently projected to be a significant part of U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

On February 15, the Environmental Quality Board will hear a presentation from DEP that will show a $4.7 percent deficit-- in FY 2022-23 funding needed to support the Oil and Gas Program that regulates both conventional and unconventional wells. Also on the EQB agenda is a fee report for Radiation Protection Programs.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 7, 2023

Read more here. -- The Department of Environmental Protection is inviting comments on proposed RACT 3 revisions to the Title V Air Quality Permit for the Artemas Natural Gas Compressor Station operated by the Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC in Mann Township, Bedford County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Greene County. ( Greene County. (

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EPA

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Children’s Health Protection (OCHP) leads the agency’s work regarding children’s environmental health and aims to ensure that all EPA actions and programs address the unique vulnerabilities of children. the Safe Drinking Water Act , the Clean Air Act , and. Read more.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 27, 2022

times above the standard). -- Manganese: The DEP Regulated Substances in Groundwater Standard for manganese is 0.3 This new proposed regulation could address the issue of road dumping conventional oil and gas wastewater like the ban on road dumping wastewater from unconventional shale gas wells. mg/L Fe (up to 2.7-times Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

On January 10, the Environmental Hearing Board denied a motion by Olympus Energy, supported by the Department of Environmental Protection , to declare an appeal of two shale gas permits in Westmoreland County filed by Protect PT as moot because the wells have already been drilled and fracked. Read more here. 30 to Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 26, 2022

As a result of the accident, emergency planning and response programs at the local, state and federal level were dramatically improved around nuclear plants and state efforts to monitor radiation and provide direct oversight at these facilities also underwent significant changes. The nuclear regulators in Washington? Dick Thornburgh.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

More than 60 environmental and citizen groups, along with the Green Party of Pennsylvania , expressed their opposition to the road dumping of oil and gas drilling wastewater on rural Pennsylvania roads by signing on to a letter to the Department of Environmental Protection. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In this, my third post on the recently released report of the Climate Overshoot Commission , I’ll discuss their treatment of the most challenging and controversial part of their mandate, Solar Geoengineering or Solar Radiation Modification (SRM).

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Parties to those instruments are set to meet in London next week—from October 2 to 6—to discuss the regulation of so-called “marine geoengineering activities” (among other things). Both the LC and LP require parties to adopt domestic laws to regulate the “dumping” of “waste and other matter” at sea. Many haven’t yet done so.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2023

“During the permitting process, the permittee misrepresented a lot of things in the application, specifically ongoing water pollution, the fact that this would include oil and gas waste, and it would be a radiation source,” said Johnson “That's just the tip of the iceberg on the permitting issues we've seen in this one case.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are voluntary regulations rather than law conducted for the good of the environment and the local population.

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Vermont Law

JANUARY 18, 2016

According to the US Environmental Protection . Correspondingly, in the US, land use laws aim at environmental protection after urban development but no specific regulation addresses the UHIE. Third, current building regulation is opaque, inconsistent, and unpopular with developers. gency (EPA). ,

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 1, 2024

. -- Appeals have been filed by 40 individuals with the Environmental Hearing Board over DEP’s permit for the Catalyst Energy, Inc.’s You’ll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations. s oil and gas wastewater injection well near Cyclone in Keating Township, McKean County. McKean County. Allegheny County. (

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

Residents like Cat (Cathy) Lodge in Washington County, living surrounded by natural gas infrastructure that grew up around her and her family, have been calling for an evaluation of the health and safety risks and the adoption of appropriate emergency prevention and tougher regulations for these facilities for years. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2022

State and federal regulators knew the mill was polluting groundwater almost immediately after it started operating, but years passed before they informed residents and demanded fixes. In the 1980s, Homestake promised residents groundwater would be cleaned within a decade, locals told the Environmental Protection Agency and ProPublica.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 4, 2021

DEP’s Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board is scheduled to have a meeting September 9 with several critical issues on the agenda, including road dumping of conventional drilling wastewater, radiation monitoring of drilling and other wastes, and review of draft conventional drilling regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2022

The bill would establish an Interdepartmental Coordinating Task Force in the Department of Health, with the Department of Environmental Protection, to oversee the collection and analysis of baseline health and environmental data related to the impact of oil and natural gas facilities on public health and safety. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection introduced several new concepts for discussion, including providing well plugging financial assurance through a “life insurance policy” for wells and establishing a certified well inspector program modeled on the certified storage tank inspector program it already operates.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

They also requested an “internal audit” of the Department of Environmental Protection, the Wilkes-Barre OSHA Office, and the Williamsport Bureau of Codes for “willful neglect related to these matters.” DEP arrived at the facility January 3, 2023 to start its investigation. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

What the DEP staff did not address or mention was another office in DEP-- DEP’s Bureau of Waste Management-- allows the road dumping of conventional oil and gas drilling wastewater as a dust suppressant under its co-product regulations and this practice continues. Avoid tweaking the regulations that exclude public participation.

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