Posted on November 25, 2022
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Ukraine has used the Cop27 climate talks to make the case that Russia’s invasion is causing an environmental as well as humanitarian catastrophe, with fossil fuels a key catalyst of the country’s destruction. Oliver Milman writes in The Guardian on November 13, 2022: Svitlana… Continue Reading “War vs. Nature”
Posted on November 6, 2022
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Funding came partly from federal Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Reid Frazier reports on November 4, 2022 in StateImpact Pennsylvania: EPA awards $4 million for new air monitoring in Pa. environmental justice areas The grants will pay for 11 projects around the state, totaling $4.27… Continue Reading “EPA awards $4 million for new air monitoring in Pennsylvania”
Category: Air pollution, air quality, Allegheny County PA, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, DEP violations, EPA, fossil fuels, gas infrastructure, Marcellus shale, natural gas, Ohio River Valley, Oil and Gas, Petrochemicals, Pittsburgh International Airport - PIT, Shell Cracker Plant, SW Pennsylvania, U.S. Climate Legislation, Washington County PATags: air emissions, air inversions, air pollution, air quality, air quality monitoring, Allentown, Burgettstown, Clairton, compressor stations, Delaware County, EJ, emissions, EPA, EPA Region III, FracTracker, GASP, MarkWest, New Castle County, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, ProtectPT, Revolution Gas Plant, Smith Township, Washington County Pennsylvania
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 October 15, 2022
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OPINION: Joseph Otis Minott | Clean Air Council | October 6, 2022 Big gas has throttled Pennsylvania’s economy and that of the wider Ohio Valley for the last fifteen years. While gas executives like Energy Transfer’s Kelcy Warren and Chesapeake’s Aubrey McClendon managed to… Continue Reading “MINOTT: Big Gas Will Throttle our Economy no More”
Category: natural gas, Ohio River Valley, Oil and Gas, Petrochemicals, plastic, Shell Cracker PlantTags: air pollution, Beaver County, Bloomberg Philanthropies, cancer, Clean Air Council, drilling, emissions, health care, health risks, heart disease, hydraulic fracturing, Joseph Otis Minott, lung disease, Marcellus Shale, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex, petrochemicals, public health, renewable energy, solar energy, tax breaks
Posted on October 5, 2022
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Methane Might Be a Bigger Climate Problem Than Thought, Study Finds September 29, 2022 story in The New York Times by Henry Fountain: The oil industry practice of burning unwanted methane is less effective than previously assumed, scientists said Thursday, resulting in new estimates… Continue Reading “RESEARCHERS: Flaring Doesn’t Always Work as Intended”
Category: Air pollution, methane, natural gas, Oil and GasTags: emissions, flares, flaring, fracking, GHG, greenhouse gas, methane, oil and gas, oil production
Posted on September 23, 2022
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Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg is putting his wealth into an effort to halt the expansion of petrochemical manufacturing in the Ohio River Valley, Texas & Louisiana. “Communities around the country are standing up to confront the petrochemical industry and defend their right to… Continue Reading “$85 Million Effort to Stop US Petrochemical Plants”
Category: Ohio River Valley, Petrochemicals, West VirginiaTags: asthma, cancer, cancer alley, carbon emissions, climate crisis, emissions, GHG, greenhouse gas, Louisiana, Ohio, Ohio River, People over Pollution, petrochemicals, plastic pollution, plastic production, plastics, Texas
Posted on August 4, 2022
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Hickory and Mt. Pleasant Township were ground zero when Marcellus Shale fracking began in Pennsylvania back in 2004. As with many communities, gas development became an extremely divisive issue among neighbors. Today’s story by Mike Jones in the Observer-Reporter, DEP investigating mysterious odor emitted… Continue Reading “What’s That Smell?”
Category: Pennsylvania, Washington County PATags: centralized impoundment dams, emissions, gas pipelines, gas wells, Hickory Pa, Marcellus Shale, methane, Mt Pleasant Township, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, pig launchers, radioactive waste, Radium 226, shale gas, shale waste, waste pits
Posted on July 28, 2022
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In this latest episode of ‘shock and awe’ we learn that West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin III has changed his mind. The $369 billion climate and tax package forged in a surprise deal by Senate Democrats on Wednesday would be the most ambitious action ever taken… Continue Reading “GOOD NEWS: U.S. Action on Climate Change is Close”
Category: Oil and Gas, renewable energy, U.S. Climate Legislation, West VirginiaTags: backup battery, carbon capture, climate change, electric vehicle, emissions, EV, gas pipelines, geothermal, global warming, oil drilling, renewable energy, solar energy, wind energy
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