PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2023

DCNR worked quickly with a special grant round this fall so that we could get this money on the ground helping Pennsylvania communities.” New Grant Rounds Opening The 2023 grant round will open on January 17 and close April 5. The next ATV/Snowmobile grant round will open February 1 and close March 31.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Yet it can seem daunting to stay up to date on every current issue important in our democracy, especially when it comes to the ever-changing landscape of scientific information. And to participate fully in today’s democracy requires being knowledgeable on certain scientific topics, and how science and policy intersect.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The process requires the government to assess past progress, project future emissions, and come up with a strategy to meet its climate goals. The remainder of the post will take a closer look at the scoping process and at the current round of planning. b) The range of projected air pollution reductions that result from the measure. (c)

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Getting more zero- and low-emission vehicles on the road in Pennsylvania helps reduce harmful air pollutants, including nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, and volatile organic compounds. The transportation sector makes up 22 percent of Pennsylvania’s total greenhouse gas emissions. The deadline is December 15.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2024

18-20 In WV Registration Open For Chesapeake Conservation Landscaping Council Level 1 Certification Training Beginning July 30 Join Master Watershed Stewards In Lancaster County For June 13 Waterways On Wheels Bike Tour A Dozen Nonprofit, Agency, Municipal Environmental Experts Team Up To Tackle Stormwater Runoff In The Lake Erie Watershed Dept. /DEP

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2022

million in Alternative Fuels Incentive Grants to municipalities and businesses for 99 electric vehicles and more clean fuel transportation projects to improve air quality in their communities. Transportation is one of the biggest sources of air pollution in Pennsylvania.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2023

On April 25, the Eyes On Shell citizens initiative reported fenceline air pollution monitoring data at Shell's Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County reported benzene levels of over 185 µg/m3 and 89 µg/m3 they said was above the 29 µg/m3 minimum risk level established by the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 19, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 267 ) Air Quality Permit -- CNX Gas Company, LLC - MOR-10 Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP issued an Air Quality permit for the operation of 10 shale gas wells and other sources of air pollution at the well pad located in Morris Twp., Click Here to sign up for DEP’s eNOTICE today ! Susquehanna County. (

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

20 Stroud Water Research Center Partners With Amazon Web Services On Watershed Restoration To Help Achieve Chesapeake Bay Pollution Reduction Goals Pike Conservation District: DEP Releases New Online Bridge & Culvert Maintenance & Repair Permitting Tool Penn State Extension Hosts Dec. 11; Sets Nov. 11; Sets Nov. 11; Sets Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 29, 2024

28 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For Keystone Station Coal-Fired Power Plant In Armstrong County DEP Will Hold A Hearing Feb. 28, If Requested, On Air Quality Permit For Conemaugh Coal-Fired Power Plant In Indiana County DEP, If Requested, Will Hold Feb. Of Environmental Professionals Host Feb. Penn State Extension Hosts Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Visit DEP’s Chesapeake Bay Watershed webpage to learn more about cleaning up rivers and streams in Pennsylvania's portion of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Click Here to sign up for regular updates on Pennsylvania’s progress. Click Here to attend the free virtual grant workshop on Nov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Many of the flaws in the last round of regulation have led to changes in the test procedures likely to be finalized by the end of 2022 to help tighten up the wiggle room granted to manufacturers. Indefinite delay of more effective emissions technology could permanently impede the path towards cleaning up the diesel truck fleet.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The cost of living crisis can feel overwhelming and all consuming at times, as prices somehow keep continuing to go up. Fossil fuel price volatilities continue year-round, and energy prices are unaffordable. While the cost of living crisis rages on, the climate crisis does too. Public transit is convenient, affordable and reliable.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 14, 2023

Everybody’s health stands to gain from reducing local air pollution from tailpipes: communities located near roads, families getting into a car in their garage, children boarding a school bus, and anybody in the vicinity of an idling vehicle. with passenger cars in the lead. What is to be done to address this adoption gap?

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For Natural Gas Explosion Destroying Home/Business In Greene County Clean Air Council, FracTracker Alliance Sept. Million In Funding For 6 Abandoned Mine Reclamation Projects In 5 Counties; Next Round Of Applications Due Dec. 25 Hearings On NPDES Stormwater Permits For Two Warehouse Projects In Lowhill Twp., Lehigh County Register Now!

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Breezometer

AUGUST 16, 2021

In Canada, by July 20th, 2021, smoke pollution from around 900 active Canadian wildfires dramatically worsened air quality across 7 provinces: A 2021 study showed respiratory hospitalizations can increase by up to 10% with just a 10??g?m?3 3 increase in daily average PM2.5 from wildfire smoke. million acres (!)

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Breezometer

JANUARY 3, 2022

The CDC recommends improving ventilation and HVAC infrastructure and boosting circulation with air from the outside, provided it doesn’t put workers at risk from external environmental contaminants such as air pollution or pollen. and CO 2 pollution. The Cost Benefits of Cleaning Up Our Indoor Air.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 30, 2022

His love for the environment started young while going camping with his family and in Boy Scouts while growing up. CBS reported, and not all its foundries had installed air pollution control equipment. But Pomeroy told reporter Hughes Rudd that he had arranged meetings with the local polluters to promote dialogue. “We

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

That is A LOT of EVs and A LOT less oil use, air pollution and climate emissions. But it shouldn’t be surprising that the transition to electric vehicles might not be a straight line up, up and up. The bipartisan infrastructure law provided up to $7.5 Many other automakers are investing in charging as well.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

They drive, bicycle, cross-country ski or snowshoe — whichever is necessary — 4 miles into Pennsylvania’s second-largest roadless area, where they take turns hurling 160 shovelfuls of limestone gravel into two round, grate-covered holes in the ground. Acid rain was once a factor, too, though federal air pollution laws have largely ended it.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Fill ‘er up at the bank It is hard to see that happening when banks like HSBC remain filling stations for the oil and gas industry. million people die prematurely from the ambient air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels. But it is not even close to enough. trillion per year by the 2030s.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The alternative fuel infrastructure credit has been around for a while, through several rounds of expiration and extension. Electric cars , trucks , and buses are a key technology to reduce climate-warming emissions as well as health-harming local air pollution, and those vehicles need readily available charging infrastructure.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Failure to get a permit to drill or operate an oil and gas well-- 216; failure to plug a well to prevent the vertical flow of fluids or gas-- 217; failure to comply with erosion and sediment control requirements-- 197-- round out the top ten list. Read more here.]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Fossil fuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We’ve heard these lazily disingenuous narratives before. degrees Celsius.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

They’re smelly and take up a lot of space. It may seem like waste takes up less space if you burn it, but all we’re really doing is transforming that waste into something else that’s just as bad…and sometimes worse. They do have filters, but filters don’t eliminate pollution entirely. We’re here to answer them.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 20, 2023

As directed by a state law enacted in 2021, as HB 1286, the Colorado Health Department’s Air Pollution Control Division developed the newly finalized standards. It’s a major step forward in protecting both public health and clean air.” Last week, Colorado established mandatory energy performance standards for large buildings.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

By strengthening the annual health-based national ambient air quality standard for fine particulate matter (PM2.5) Environmental Protection Agency’s updated standard will save lives — preventing up to 4,500 premature deaths and 290,000 lost workdays, yielding up to $46 billion in net health benefits in 2032.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. We launched the first round of Ports and Community Grants. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the California Air Resources Board (CARB) waiver request for the Ocean-Going Vessel At-Berth Regulation.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. These potential intervenors alleged that the additional emissions during the stay period would harm their interest in protecting their residents from the effects of air pollution and climate change.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 6, 2022

So you go look at the legal system or you look at our institutions of government and you ask yourself, “Well, where did this relationship with the landscape, relationship with geography,” which in a sense is what also Parag has been thinking about for many years, “Where does that actually show up and how obvious is it?”

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

Sometimes a sampling event can be designed to be appropriately representative the first time around; sometimes it takes a first round to yield poor statistics which motivate a more representative second round. Pollution release or transport rates or distance. Time trends (up or down). We call this “representativeness.”

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 16, 2023

In PA To Speed Up Battery Charging -- US Dept. Gasoline Stations And Aging Underground Storage Tanks In Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- TribLive: Protect PT Seeks Support For Proposed Ordinance Regulating Shale Gas Wells In Penn Twp., Issued $301,725 In Stipulated Penalties To U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The 100th well was plugged at Hillman State Park under an emergency contract with Yost Drilling after DEP followed up on reports from local residents concerned about the risks abandoned wells pose to public health and safety.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

29; Start Planning Your Trip To Experience PA's Colorful Autumn Now DCNR Blog: Be Part Of A Citizen Science Project To Help Track Bird Migration During The Fall Migration Round-Up In State Parks DCNR Conservation & Natural Resources Council Meets Sept. PA Environment Daily Blog : Update on PA environmental issues.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 16, 2023

In PA To Speed Up Battery Charging -- US Dept. Of Energy Awards $906,965 Grant To DCNR PA Geologic Survey/WV Geologic Survey For Central Appalachian Partnership For Carbon Storage -- US Dept. Of Energy Awards Funding For Small Business Research, Development, Including To EC Power Group, Inc.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Grants -- Cornell Ornithology Lab Begins Accepting Land Trust Bird Conservation Grant Applications In January [PaEN] Upcoming Events -- Better Path Coalition: Dec. 6 Virtual Brown Bag Briefing On Chemical Recycling , Noon. Read more here ] -- Penn State Extension In-Person Private Water Supply Education & Water Testing Workshop Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

So in that position, I was taking it very seriously because I had learned through Lois Bjornson [Clean Air Council] and several others about fracking and what it actually does, and I became really curious. So I started to go to some of the communities where fracking was already up and running. But I wanted to go one step further.

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