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Posted on January 15, 2023
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Rep. Greg Vitali is chairman of the Environmental Resource and Energy Committee January 15, 2023 – Letter to the Editor The article “Pa. gas drilling report criticizes industry for failing to report abandoned gas wells” (Jan. 5, TribLIVE) outlines a recent Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)… Continue Reading “LTE: DEP Needs More Resources”
Posted on November 24, 2022
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There were stark differences between the positions taken by Governor-elect Josh Shapiro and his opponent during the gubernatorial campaign just concluded. Photo: Governor-elect Josh Shapiro and Lt. Governor-elect Austin Davis By David E. Hess | PA Environment Digest Blog During the campaign Shapiro outlined… Continue Reading “Expectations from PA Gov Shapiro, Lt Gov Davis on Environmental, Energy Issues?”
Category: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Election 2022, environment, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania ElectionsTags: AG, air quality, Austin Davis, clean energy, criminal jurisdiction, Dimock, drilling, drilling violations, fracking spills, gas infrastructure, gathering pipelines, Governor Shapiro, Harrisburg, hydraulic fracturing, Josh Shapiro, Lt Gov Davis, renewable energy, revolving door, RGGI, Shapiro-Davis, violations, weatherization, zero-carbon
Posted on November 4, 2022
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Photo by Governor Tom Wolf from Harrisburg, PA Governor Wolf Portrait, CC BY 2.0, Source In one of his final acts as Pennsylvania’s governor, Tom Wolf signed a huge, multi-billion dollar taxpayer giveaway, in large part to the oil and gas industry. Stephen Caruso… Continue Reading “Governor Tom Wolf’s Fracking Legacy”
Category: Pennsylvania legislature, SW Pennsylvania, Utica shale, Washington County PATags: blue hydrogen, climate change, drilling, fracking, Governor Wolf, Harrisburg, HB1059, hydraulic fracturing, hydrogen, hydrogen hub, Marcellus Shale, methane, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Legislature
Posted on November 4, 2022
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Environmental Health Project Blog (Note: Images and Bob’s comments have been inserted into the original blog found here) If you’re like most people, you want to be healthy. You want pure drinking water and clean air. You want rivers, streams, and oceans that are… Continue Reading “7 Questions to Ask Candidates about Gas Development & Public Health”
Category: Election 2022, environment, Fracking Health Risks, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus shale, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania air quality, Pennsylvania legislature, Washington County PATags: 2022 election, Dr Oz, drilling, Environmental Health Project, fracking, Harrisburg, hydraulic fracturing, John Fetterman, Mehmet Oz, oil and gas, public health, US Senate race
Posted on October 27, 2022
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Passed in Hours with No Public Accountability or Environmental Safeguards By David E. Hess | PA Environment Blog | October 27, 2022 On October 26, the Senate Appropriations Committee reported out House Bill 1059 (Hickernell-R-Lancaster) after amending it to provide $106.6 million in annual… Continue Reading “PA Senate, House Pass Massive, 20-Year Taxpayer Subsidies for Fracked Gas, Hydrogen & Petrochemicals”
Category: Petrochemicals, Pipelines, Shell Cracker PlantTags: air pollution, Beaver County, biomedical, blue hydrogen, climate change, David E Hess, drilling, fertilizer, fracking, Governor Wolf, Harrisburg, hydraulic fracturing, hydrogen, Marcellus Shale, methane, milk, natural gas, oil and gas, PA Edge, PA Environment Digest Blog, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Petrochemicals Complex, Pennsylvania taxpayers, petrochemicals, semiconductor, Shell Cracker Plant, taxpayer subsidies, water pollution
Posted on October 20, 2022
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As a Keystone State legislator, Franklin L. Kury drafted the Environmental Rights Amendment (ERA) and was a principal co-author of the Clean Streams Law. By B.J. Small, Chesapeake Bay Foundation-PA When the federal Clean Water Act was established 50 years ago to regulate pollution… Continue Reading “Franklin Kury: 2 Jars of Water and a Lasting Environmental Legacy for Pennsylvania”
Posted on October 18, 2022
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Media Advisory from the EHP Communications Manager Scott Smith: Please be aware of a 10/14/22 letter EHP sent to Acting Secretary Johnson of the PA Department of Health (DOH) regarding mischaracterizations PA Sen. Camera Bartolotta made in a 9/21/22 letter urging the DOH to… Continue Reading “EHP Addresses “Mischaracterizations” by Senator Bartolotta with PA Dept of Health Secretary”
Category: Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Dept of HealthTags: 46th District, Camera Bartolotta, Denise Johnson, DOH, drilling, EHP, Environmental Health Project, fracking, Harrisburg, health studies, hydraulic fracturing, oil and gas, PA Dept of Health, public health
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 Legislature, VOC
Posted on October 10, 2022
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Senator Gene Yaw of northeastern PA is at it again! Promoting climate changing fossil fuels, while kneecapping renewables. He’s joined by another political shill for the Oil & Gas industry from western PA, Senator Camera Bartolotta. Here’s the latest: Bills Establishing Incentives for Using… Continue Reading “PA Bills Establish Incentives for Fossil-Fuel Vehicles While Eliminating Hybrids and EVs”
Category: electric vehicles, fossil fuels, Legislation, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania legislatureTags: alternate fuels, biomass, blue hydrogen, Camera Bartolotta, electric vehicle, EV, Gene Yaw, Harrisburg, hybrid vehicle, hydrogen, Pennsylvania, propane
Posted on September 30, 2022
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Seriously though. The utter shame of it all. The Pennsylvania DOH (Department of Health) has shunned those suffering with health issues in the shale gas patch in the past, so their latest withdrawal comes as no surprise. But the PITT withdrawal was a big… Continue Reading “D’OH! …as Homer Simpson would say”
Category: Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Dept of HealthTags: Act 13, buzzwords, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, DOH, drilling, Environmental Health Project, fracking, Harrisburg, health study, health threat, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus Shale, oil and gas, Pa. Dept. of Health, public health