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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2025

Allegheny County [PaEN] -- PennLive: Nature Conservancy Acquires 509 Acres Of Land In Dauphin County, Transfers To Game Commission -- DCNR State Parks Environmental Educator Newsletter Helps You Celebrate Earth Day!

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 26, 2024

Speakers from several public health, community advocacy and environmental groups will participate in a September 19 webinar -- A Year Later: Have Leaders Addressed Health Concerns From Natural Gas Development Raised In University Of Pittsburgh Public Health Studies? Shapiro's deal with natural gas developer CNX Resources.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 14, 2024

On August 14, CNX Resources issued a press release announcing the preliminary results of air emissions monitoring at 14 sites it said "indicate that CNX natural gas development poses no public health risk." Eleven of the sites were monitored for as little as just four weeks up to 24 weeks or less.

Natural Gas

Edouard Stenger

APRIL 4, 2023

Our current economic systems require waste, which is awful. I am convinced that just by tackling wasted energy, water and food seriously and meaningfully at a systemic level by the end of this decade, our journey towards sustainability would be much faster. Wasted energy is more pollution to our air, our water, our soil.

Waste

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Imagine cutting waste and energy consumption all in one go! By building components off-site, prefabrication can minimize waste and energy consumption during construction. In glass furnaces and oil refineries, dynamic optimization can prevent wasted energy and lower emissions, making industry leaner and greener.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

And that's getting parents and physicians very concerned that pollution and toxic waste from fracking operations may be to blame for this outbreak of rare childhood cancers. Doctors also need to understand that patients may live near a gas well, but also a pipeline or a compressor station or a processing facility where emissions also occur.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Visit the Department of Health’s Oil and Natural Gas Production Health Concerns webpage for more information. 19 Webinar - One Year After Pitt Shale Gas Health Impacts Studies And The Failure To Fulfill Essential Promises Made To Residents. Click Here to sign up for regular updates. Upcoming Events -- September 19-- Virtual.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

September 24-- Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Program In Washington County On Increasing Setbacks From Oil & Gas Infrastructure Resource Links- Oil & Gas Infrastructure Impacts: -- DEP Imposed $2.2 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

Two of the top 10 EQIP practices by total dollar amount spent are practices we identified as industrial, providing little to no conservation benefits, in our previous report: waste facility cover and waste storage facility. Despite these protective measures, animal waste often escapes and contaminates local water.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Josh Shapiro and CNX Resources, a shale gas extraction company based in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, announced a collaboration on environmental monitoring and chemical disclosures. The CNX report cited data monitoring associated with the collaboration and declared that its shale gas development “is safe and poses no public health risk.”

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2022

In 2021 Comcast Signs Agreement To Purchase 250 MW Of Solar Energy In Step Toward Carbon Neutral Goal U.S. PA Trout Unlimited Additional Tools-- Click Here to sign up to receive the Weekly Digest directly by email PA Environment Digest Twitter Feed : Update on PA environmental issues.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

MAY 15, 2024

New Act 14 Notices Of New Wells From Sarah Shale Gas Well Pad In Union Twp., Awarded $50,000 to organize a three-day educational film festival focused on environmental issues and solutions in the heart of Beaver Falls. Million In Tax Credits To Subsidize Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; Total Expected To Be $1.17

2023

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

These can be natural events or, as is the case at present, the result of industrial age actions in increasing greenhouse gases and reducing carbon sinks. Commercial Waste : Any waste material produced as a byproduct of commercial or industrial activity. As it is a waste, it serves no purpose on its own.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

29 DCNR Secretary: American Rescue Fund Dollars One Option To Address $1 Billion State Parks, Forests Maintenance Project Backlog, Paying Back Oil & Gas Fund NFWF Announces $11.5 1 Hearing On Solar Development In Rural PA At Shippensburg University The Feds Gov. Amped 2021: Learn The Benefits Of Electric Vehicle Use In Sept.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

The elimination of coal-fired power plants and increased use of natural gas in power generation has led to historic emissions and air pollutant reductions equaling $450 billion to $1.04 trillion in public health benefits for Pennsylvanians, according to a Marcellus Shale [Gas] Coalition analysis. billion in NOx and $445.1

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2024

On August 9, the Environmental Health Project announced it has contributed a chapter on Shale Gas Extraction in Pennsylvania to a new book by pioneering research investigator Michael Hendryx-- Sustainable Development and Rural Public Health: From Fossil Fuels to Greener Futures.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2024

This number is likely a vast undercount: About 86% of Pennsylvania’s smaller oil and gas drillers did not report how they disposed of their waste in 2023. The agency was attempting to "readily identify" which companies had already conducted waste toxicity assessments as a precursor to dumping their wastewater, Shader said.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2024

Related Articles This Week: -- Residents, Environmental Groups, Advocates To Hold A Stand With Dimock Day On Aug. 16 In Montrose, Susquehanna County [PaEN] -- Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Aug. Related Articles This Week: -- Residents, Environmental Groups, Advocates To Hold A Stand With Dimock Day On Aug.

2024

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 5150 ) -- Adelphia Pipeline - Quakertown Compressor Station: DEP issued an Air Quality Plan Approval extension for the temporary operation of a new natural gas compressor station located in West Rockhill Twp., York County. ( Bucks County. ( Bedford County. ( Adams County. ( Washington County. ( Susquehanna County. (

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2024

Other new violations included failure to submit production, waste generation and well integrity reports. and found the owner had failed to take steps to plug the abandoned well and stop leaking gas. and found the owner had failed to take steps to plug the abandoned well and stop leaking gas.

2024

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2022

Report Warns -- Bloomberg Green: Climeworks Raises $650 Million For Carbon Removal Startup -- Reuters: Accuweather Forecasts 2022 To Be 7th Straight Above-Average Atlantic Hurricane Season -- Reuters: Alaska Oil Field Natural Gas Leak Estimated At 7.2

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Of Health Apologizes For Not Listening To Communities Suffering Health Impacts From Shale Gas Development; New Health Study Results ‘Just The Tip Of The Iceberg’ [PaEN] -- State Dept. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

-- Natural Lands, Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership Host Feb. Mensch Introduces Bill To Encourage Development Of Clean Vehicle Infrastructure- Electric, Natural Gas, Hydrogen -- 35 Senate, House Democrats Urge Gov. Rural Communities On The Front Lines Of Solar's Growth -- Sen.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2024

-- Erie Times: How PA's Oil & Gas Industry Continues To Illegally Dump Wastewater On Roads Across The State [PaEN] -- Courier Times: How PA’s Oil & Gas Industry Illegally Dump Wastewater On Roads Across The State -- Residents, Environmental Groups, Advocates To Hold A Stand With Dimock Day On Aug.

Conservation

Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Even as the global poverty rate rose for the first time in two decades and more people in developing countries were thrust into poverty, utilities proved more resilient than expected. s Sustainable Development Goals for drinking water, sanitation, and water management slowed. . Progress toward the U.N.’s Brett Walton.

2021

Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

The plaintiffs said the defendants should have employed the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases or carbon budgeting to evaluate the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions. The plaintiffs also alleged a failure to take a hard look at methane waste, including by using an outdated global warming potential for methane. Thomas & De Freitas v.

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