Posted on October 17, 2022
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The regulation meets 2016 standards set by the federal government, and if the rule isn’t finalized by December 16th, Pennsylvania faces around $500 million in highway funding sanctions in the next year. (See YouTube video below) DEP estimates the regulation could reduce VOC emissions… Continue Reading “PA Moves Gas Well Emissions Rule to Beat Costly Federal Deadline”
Category: Leaking gas wells, methane, natural gas, ozone, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania air quality, PFAS, SW Pennsylvania, Well pluggingTags: conventional gas wells, conventional wells, emissions, gas wells, Harrisburg, legislation, methane emissions, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Legislature, VOC
Posted on August 9, 2022
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GUEST POST: An Industrial Machine Moving Across the PA Countryside Leaving Behind Big Liabilities and Spreading Pollution Everywhere It Goes By David E. Hess – PA Environment Digest – August 3, 2022 On July 30, Gov. Wolf directed the Department of Environmental Protection to… Continue Reading “Conventional Oil & Natural Gas Drilling”
Category: Oil & Gas ContaminationTags: abandoned wells, brine, chemical spills, conventional gas wells, conventional wells, diesel fumes, drill cuttings, drill rig, drilling, drilling waste, environmental impacts, forest fragmentation, fracking, gathering lines, hydraulic fracturing, hydrogen sulfide, industrial pollution, national forest, natural gas, oil tanks, Pennsylvania, road spreading, taxpayers, waste dump, waste pits, wastewater, well plugging
Posted on July 13, 2022
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You can thank ‘frac happy’ Republican legislators like Yaw and Metcalfe for keeping our Commonwealth in the ‘stone ages’ when it comes to promoting a healthy environment. Also, their latest ‘gas buddy’ enabling efforts will likely cause Pennsylvania to lose federal highway funds. David… Continue Reading “Backwards Pennsylvania”
Category: energy, fossil fuels, Pennsylvania legislatureTags: air pollution, climate change, conventional gas wells, Daryl Metcalfe, drilling, emissions, environment, federal highway funds, fracking, Gene Yaw, GOP, Harrisburg, Marcellus Shale, methane, oil and gas, Pennsylvania Constitution, unconventional gas wells, VOCs