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DEP Signs Consent Order Including $10 Million In Penalties, Local Payments With Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County To Resolve Air Quality Violations; Plant To Restart May 24

PA Environment Daily

Additionally, Shell will spend another $5 million for environmental projects to benefit the local communities. DEP’s Office of Environmental Justice will collaborate on this effort. Fines and payments do nothing to negate the impacts this facility has already had on residents.

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Only 15 Out Of 256 Conventional Oil & Gas Operators Who Abandoned Wells Without Plugging Them Were Fined By DEP; Small Penalties No Deterrent To Future Abandonments

PA Environment Daily

Total Conventional Operator Penalties Over the last five years, DEP reported conventional oil and gas operators were issued more than 17,000 notices of violation for dozens of different kinds of environmental and administrative violations. Read more here. Conventional Compliance Review On July 30, Gov. The evaluation was outlined by Gov.

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Effecting Change with a Fulbright Fellowship

Academy of Natural Sciences

For many of us, that looked like wading in creeks, playing outdoor games like tag and baseball, riding bikes and finding fireflies. I read a lot of applications as an adviser, and I can count on one hand the times that I’ve read something in a draft that stopped me short, that was just immediately impactful and gripping,” Gates says.

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Policy News: December 20, 2021

ESA

2773 ) is that the Senate bill funds the program through penalties paid for natural resources and environmental violations while the House bill does not specify a funding source. During the Senate hearing, Environment and Public Works Chairman Tom Carper (D-DE) expressed concerns that the revenues from environmental penalties are unreliable.

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Global Perspectives on a Global Pact for the Environment

Law Columbia

On May 10, 2018, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted Resolution 72/277 (“Toward a Global Pact for the Environment”) , which calls for the Secretary General to submit “a technical and evidence-based report” on “possible gaps in international environmental law and environment-related instruments” at the 73rd session of the UNGA.

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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Oct. 28 to Nov. 3 - Fire At PA General Energy Shale Gas Well Pad; 5 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Replugging Shale Gas Well

PA Environment Daily

to bring the fire under control, but the master values on all seven wells on the pad were shut in and the wells were locked out and tagged. Report Violations To report oil and gas violations or any environmental emergency or complaint, visit DEP’s Environmental Complaint webpage. It took until about 4:00 p.m. 28 to Nov.

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Evangelical Environmental Network: U.S. House Passage Of Build Back Better Budget Puts Us Closer To A Bright Inheritance For Our Children

PA Environment Daily

The York County-based Evangelical Environmental Network released this statement on the passage of the Build Back Better federal budget proposal by the U.S. While this bill bears a large price tag, it pales in comparison to the price tag of climate inaction, which carries unimaginable and inexcusable costs, in lives as well as dollars.