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EPA Releases White Paper For Comment On Reducing Climate Pollution From New Natural Gas-Fired Electric Generation

PA Environment Daily

The draft white paper presents information on the performance of state-of-the-art combustion turbine technologies and describes additional opportunities for GHG emission cuts. States and the public may also find the white paper useful to inform state-level actions to combat climate change and individual permitting considerations.

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EQB Adopts Part I Of Final Regulation Reducing Oil & Gas VOC/Methane Emissions; DEP Documents 80% Of Methane Emissions Come From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities

PA Environment Daily

Krishnan Ramamurthy, DEP Deputy Secretary for Waste, Air, Radiation and Remediation, explained it this way-- “Conventional wells [were] pretty much exempted from any permitting requirements, regulatory requirements. For the first time we are addressing those. It is applied equally to both, not making it a substantively different rulemaking.

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IRRC Unanimously Approves Part I Of Final Reg. Reducing VOC/Methane Emissions From Unconventional Shale Gas Facilities; DEP Moves To Avoid Federal Highway Funding Sanctions

PA Environment Daily

Krishnan Ramamurthy, DEP Deputy Secretary for Waste, Air, Radiation and Remediation, told the EQB in order to have a complete SIP [State Implementation Plan] revision meeting the mandatory requirements of EPA, Pennsylvania must cover both conventional and unconventional oil and gas facilities sources.

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Environmental Health Project: CNX Resources Claims Shale Gas Drilling Poses No Public Health Risks Are ‘Misleading, Irresponsible, Dangerous’

PA Environment Daily

EPA standards do not reflect “safe” levels of exposure to harmful pollutants. Instead, they are agreed-upon measures that attempt to balance the protection of as many people as possible, the limits of pollution detection and control technology, and industry’s opportunities to reduce costs.

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CNX CEO Tells DEP’s Citizens Council Their Monitoring Shows ‘No Material Impact’ To Air Or Water Quality From Natural Gas Development; Citizens Said CNX Lacks Scientific Rigor, Offers Misleading Greenwash

PA Environment Daily

We came up with the concept of applying state-of-the-art technology on pad, so not from distant monitoring stations, but basically on pad, to monitor, record these type of data-- PM2.5, BTEX, and then obviously expanding that into water quality and chemistry with respect to what we're putting downhole. 27 Released 1.1

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Environmental Perspectives

Environmental Science

Congress toyed with water pollution control since 1948, but 2 years after Earth Day it passed the first comprehensive federal law, ever, to control water pollution, the 1972 Clean Water Act. Through this law, water pollution is managed by controlling wastewater discharges. Clean Water Act.

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The Chemical Compound—December 2021

Arnold Porter

N: Memorandum from Director, Pollution Control & Clean Up Directorate, EPA Office of Inspector Gen., Safety & Pollution Prevention (Oct. to Ass’t Adm’r, EPA Office of Chem. 26, 2021).]] Directive 2021-8 (Oct. 27, 2021).]]

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