Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

The report provides renewed evidence of the consequences for our health of using fossil fuels In 1970 the Clean Air Act and the newly formed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were given authority by Congress to regulate pollution from passenger cars and other forms of transportation. According to the report, 125.2

Ozone

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 6, 2025

Although the US government knew the risks of radiation to humans, many Navajo miners were still sent into mines with poor ventilation and safety regulations skirted. Furthermore, about six times more radiation than was released in the spill was released into the Puerco River from 20 years of mine dewatering.

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

DEP has tried for decades to regulate this practice but failed because the conventional industry simply does not comply. The 2010 DCNR study also found "radium values are high enough that a possible radiation hazard exists, especially where radium could be adsorbed on iron oxides and accumulate in brine tanks." [ Read more here.]

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

DEP has tried for decades to regulate this practice but failed because the conventional industry simply does not comply. The 2010 DCNR study also found "radium values are high enough that a possible radiation hazard exists, especially where radium could be adsorbed on iron oxides and accumulate in brine tanks." [ Read more here.]

Natural Gas

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Populations who live near sites storing and producing TENORM can experience direct gamma radiation, inhalation of contaminated dust, inhalation of downwind radon, ingestion of contaminated well water, ingestion of food contaminated by well water, and ingestion of food contaminated by dust deposition.

2011

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2025

On March 12, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced plans to reconsider EPAs 2009 endangerment finding for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, along with all regulations and actions that rely on the finding. In his remarks, Zeldin focused on the costs imposed by GHG regulations. EPA (2012).

2009

HumanNature

JANUARY 30, 2025

We breathe oxygen from the atmosphere, weather systems distribute water, and the ozone in the upper atmosphere protects us from harmful radiation. Regulations and technological innovations, such as the catalytic converter, have led to a decline in tailpipe emissions, reducing emissions of secondary organic aerosol precursors.[6]

Ozone

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2025

He pointed to a series of medical visits and diagnoses medical professionals called, hydraulic fracking/volatile hydrocarbon exposure, respiratory irritation from hydrocarbon exposure, neurotoxicity, and radiation exposure.

Natural Gas

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 15, 2025

Public health initiatives like nutrition education and assistance, tobacco regulation, and diabetes prevention programs also support the work of scientists and medical doctors working to tackle heart disease. The Center regulates the manufacture, distribution, and marketing of tobacco products and educates the public about their dangers.

Regulations

Legal Planet

MARCH 12, 2025

That finding forms the basis for virtually all of EPA’s regulations cutting greenhouse gases, including from the power sector, from oil and gas facilities, and from cars and trucks (for a more thorough explanation of what reversing the endangerment finding means, see my post here ). Who will do the work?

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2025

This reality necessitates laws and regulations capable of protecting those put at risk by fracking, and a government willing to enforce them. But if the activity is to be permitted, it still must be regulated appropriately, in ways that prevent reckless harms. since 2016 from 10,228 to 14,683. Read more here ]. Read more here ].

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2025

Silencing this office would stifle the lifesaving health research that underlies our nations environmental protections, and would result in weaker regulations and higher rates of cancer, birth defects, learning disabilities, and other devastating health consequences, especially for children. The so-called No IRIS Act (H.R. 1415 and S.

Toxic Substances Control Act

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

14 - Shale Gas Well Ordered Plugged After 8 Years; 20 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Shale Gas Well Leaking Gas For 23 Months And Counting [PaEN] -- Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Compliance With 2022 DEP Methane Reduction Regulation Put On Hold Pending Outcome Of Litigation [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan.

Air Pollution

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

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Zeldin has begun a rollback of Biden administration energy efficiency and water conservation regulations for home appliances and fixtures, and is asking Congress to repeal waivers for California to phase out new, gasoline-only vehicle sales and stricter emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2025

After doing their jobs of getting sorely needed money to communities, while complying with abundant government regulations on contracts and grants, employees were vilified, and their grantees were denied their rightfully executed funding agreements. Are you planning on taking EPAs Office of Air and Radiation back to the 1970s?

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 26, 2024

How did the EPA get its power to issue climate change regulations? The Supreme Court upheld EPA’s decision to regulate greenhouse gases. An executive order by President Obama gave EPA authority to regulate. An EPA regulation that banned strip mining. An Obama climate regulation applying to power plants.

Law

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

And when I assumed office in 2022, one of the things that I certainly articulated to my community in representing them is that this issue of our energy industry in Pennsylvania, it needs to be coupled with rigorous environmental regulation and certainly in sensitive areas relative to schools and parks and residential areas.

Fossil Fuels

Nanotech

JULY 25, 2025

The stated goal of the plan is to reduce budget expenditures, improve “science,” and have EPA’s research activities better support the work of the media offices, including the Office of Water (OW), Office of Air and Radiation (OAR), and Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP).

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In McKean County Until Hearing On Full Supersedeas [PaEN] -- TribLive: Environmental Groups Appeal CNX Slickville Pipelines Permits -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2025

On April 9, the President issued two new executive orders requiring agencies to adopt one year sunset dates on any existing regulations affecting energy. A second order requires agencies to identify regulations that limit competition. So if the federal regulations disappear, so could Pennsylvanias regulations.]

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2025

DEP Radiation Protection Advisory Committee meeting. Muhlenberg Township Building, 210 George Street, Reading. Click Here to watch online. April 30-- Agenda Posted. April 30-- In-Person. Delaware River Basin Commission Public Input Session On Climate Resilience Plan. Liberty, New York.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

This year, in addition to the trihalomethane notice, we received notices of exceeding lead levels and notices above radiation levels. Every quarter for the last 20 years, we receive notices stating that we are above total trihalomethanes.

Natural Gas

Physics World

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Louis have found that radiation may reverse heart rhythm disorders, such as arrhythmias, long-term by reprogramming damaged heart cells. What we’ve seen is that radiation therapy can modulate how fast the impulse travels by changing the expression of genes and proteins in the heart.”. There are many ways to stop an arrhythmia.

Radiation

Nature

JUNE 25, 2025

If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. Pacold Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York, NY, USA Dan R. To view a copy of this licence, visit [link].

2025

Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA) A. Nuclear power regulation D. FERC pipeline regulation (natural gas and hydrogen). California authority to regulate new vehicles D. Administrative law questions, including the major questions doctrine. Standing based on climate impacts C.

Law

Physics World

APRIL 22, 2021

however, radiation monitors in the building detected above-normal background radioactivity, consisting of fission fragments from the ruptured cladding of a fuel element. No indications of elevated radiation levels outside the building.” Shortly after 9 a.m., The reactor automatically shut down.

Radiation

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.

Radiation

Scientific American

MARCH 11, 2024

As the climate crisis intensifies, experiments to “cool the planet” by reflecting solar radiation proliferate. Without proper global and national regulation, they will worsen the crisis

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2021

A new NRDC report describes these risks and how weak regulations fail to appropriately protect workers and communities. Despite the clear health risks, there are no dedicated federal regulations to ensure comprehensive and safer management of radioactive oil and gas materials. What does this mean for workers and communities?

Waste

New Scientist

MARCH 15, 2022

Russian forces have threatened safety at several nuclear power plants in Ukraine including Chernobyl, but the risk of a serious radiation release is thought to be low

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Federal regulations-- 40 CFR 261-- which are followed by the state regulations, say any drilling fluids, produced waters or other waste from exploration, development or production of oil, natural gas or geothermal energy are exempt from hazardous waste regulations.

Waste

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 26, 2022

While this would not necessarily lead to a large, rapid release of radioactivity into the environment, it could result in a situation similar to that of Fukushima today, where damaged cores in the basements of the containment buildings continue to release radiation into the groundwater. How rapidly could this sequence of events begin?

Cooling

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

This authorization meets or exceeds the air quality regulations and includes a number of safeguards and conditions to be protective of public health and the environment.” Monitoring Radiation Risk Modeling and calculations using accepted scientific methods show any radionuclides emitted into the air will not pose a health risk.

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2024

Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2023

The webinar provides a unique opportunity for advocacy groups, legislators, government regulators, oil and gas industry workers, and residents and community members across the country to learn about this issue, the health concerns and the latest science. Haley, M.D.,

Radiation