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Posted on July 2, 2022
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Today’s Pennsylvania Bulletin includes an “Intent to Issue an Operating Permit under the Air Pollution Control Act” for the Welling Compressor Station at 165 Carlisle Road, Claysville, PA 15323. The Welling is one of the largest compressor stations in our county, one of over… Continue Reading “AIR POLLUTION: Welling Compressor Station in Washington County, PA”
Category: air quality, climate change, PennsylvaniaTags: asthma, benzene, Buffalo Township, Code Orange, compressor stations, ethylbenzene, formaldehyde, fossil fuels, HAPs, methane, midstream, natural gas, NOx, ozone, Pennsylvania DEP, pipelines, PM10, shale gas, SOx, toluene, VOCs, Washington County, Welling Compressor Station, xylenes
Posted on June 11, 2022
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Allegheny County Council held a public hearing June 9, 2022 on legislation to prevent the leasing of additional county parks for gas production activities, following the non-surface oil and gas lease signed in 2014 for Deer Lakes Park, to allow hydraulic fracturing under the… Continue Reading “‘Protect Our Parks’ in Allegheny County, PA”
Category: Allegheny County PA, Pennsylvania, PittsburghTags: Deer Lakes Park, drilling, fracking, gas lease, gas wells, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus Shale, methane, oil and gas, Rich Fitzgerald
Posted on June 7, 2022
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Today’s PA Environment Digest Blog contained important testimony from the Pennsylvania Senate Hearing held last Thursday and seen in its entirety in this video. Brian S. Schwartz, MD, MS laid it out with crystal clarity in his June 2, 2022 testimony: “We’ve studied asthma… Continue Reading “Pennsylvania Must Act”
Category: Fracking Health Risks, PennsylvaniaTags: asthma, congestive heart failure, COPD, diagnoses, Dr Brian Schwartz, drilling, fracking, gas wells, Geisinger Health, health studies, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus Shale, Maryland, mental health, methane, New York, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, pregnancies, preterm births
Posted on May 26, 2022
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Have you fallen victim to the oil and gas industry’s disinformation campaign? Have a listen to this new Podcast, or read the transcript, to find out for yourself: New Research: Big Fossil’s Disaster Capitalist Response to Russia-Ukraine“In the response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,… Continue Reading “Oil and Gas Industry’s “Disaster Capitalism””
Category: climate change, fossil fuels, PennsylvaniaTags: API, climate policy, drilling, EarthWorks, frac sand, fracking, global warming, hydraulic fracturing, LNG, Marcellus Shale, methane, natural gas, Ohio, oil and gas, renewable energy, shale gas, Sharon Wilson, solar energy, Texas, Ukraine, US Chamber of Commerce, Utica Shale, West Virginia
Posted on May 17, 2022
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If you take a look at how much Texas nets from its severance tax on oil and gas production, you realize how badly Pennsylvanians are getting screwed with mere ‘chump change’ impact fees. There have been multiple efforts over the years, the latest by… Continue Reading “Pennsylvania’s Impact Fee is ‘Chump Change’”
Category: UncategorizedTags: Cross Creek County Park, drilling, ethane, exports, fracking, gas liquids, gas wells, Harrisburg, hydraulic fracturing, impact fee, LNG, Marcellus Shale, Mariner East, methane, oil and gas revenues, Pennsylvania, politicians, propane, resource curse, taxpayers, Washington County
Posted on May 5, 2022
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In addition to a tornado warning —that had us eating supper in our basement at 6:00PM Tuesday evening— the third segment of this PBS Frontline documentary aired later that same evening. I recognized a couple powerful allies in the oil & gas air pollution… Continue Reading “‘The Power of Big Oil: Part 3 – Delay’”
Category: climate change, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, water pollutionTags: acrylonitrile, air pollution, brominated trihalomethanes, BTEX, chloroform, drilling, drilling waste, FLIR, fracking, global warming, Hickory Pa, Marcellus Shale, methane, Monongahela River, Mt Pleasant Township, natural gas, NORM, NOx, oil and gas, Pennsylvania renewables, radioactive shale, radioactive waste, shale gas, tapwater, TENORM, trihalomethanes, VOC, water buffalo, water wells
Posted on May 1, 2022
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On April 28, the Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Concerned Health Professionals of New York released their Eighth Compendium of Scientific, Medical and Media Findings Demonstrating Risks and Harms of Fracking and Associated Gas and Oil Infrastructure. The Compendium is a collection of… Continue Reading “Risks and Harms of Fracking and Oil and Gas Infrastructure”
Category: Fracking Health Risks, PennsylvaniaTags: air pollution, drilling, ethane, frac, hydraulic fracturing, LNG, Marcellus Shale, methane, methane gas, natural gas, Ohio, radioactive shale, radioactive waste, Radium 226, Radium 228, Utica Shale, wastewater, water pollution, well pad, West Virginia
Posted on April 16, 2022
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The Environmental Health Project has just released its White Paper, “Pennsylvania’s Shale Gas Boom: How Policy Decisions Failed to Protect Public Health and What We Can Do to Correct It“ The Environmental Health Project recently presented its white paper at the Pennsylvania State Capitol… Continue Reading “Pennsylvania’s Shale Gas Boom – How Policy Decisions Failed”
Category: PennsylvaniaTags: BTEX, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, drill rig, EHP, Environmental Health Project, formaldehyde, fracking, Harrisburg, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus Shale, methane, public health, shale gas, Washington County, Washington County Pennsylvania
Posted on April 13, 2022
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Yesterday’s Zoom presentation by that same title was quite alarming, especially for those of us living in Pennsylvania, where Diversified Energy now owns over 22,000 oil and gas wells. Diversified actually owns more wells in the United States than Exxon, or any other oil… Continue Reading ““DIVERSIFIED ENERGY: Business Model Built to Fail Appalachia””
Category: climate change, PennsylvaniaTags: climate change, conventional wells, Diversified Energy, GHG, global warming, greenhouse gas, Kathy Hipple, London Stock Exchange, LSE, methane, methane emissions, Ohio, Ohio River Valley Institute, oil and gas, Pennsylvania, stripper wells, Ted Boettner, Tony Ingraffea, unconventional wells, West Virginia
Posted on April 11, 2022
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(UPDATED: FULL REPORT AND APPENDICES LINKED BELOW) In the big push by GOP candidates in the US Senate and Pennsylvania gubernatorial races for an accelerated amount of drilling and fracking in our Keystone state, these candidates are ignoring an existing problem with fugitive methane… Continue Reading “Pennsylvania has a Methane Problem”
Category: methane, PennsylvaniaTags: Bill McSwain, Dave White, Diversified Gas and Oil, Dr Oz, gas wells, GHG, global warming, Joe Manchin, Josh Shapiro, Lou Barletta, methane, methane emissions, Washington County Pennsylvania
Posted on April 4, 2022
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You really need this sort of birds eye view to fully realize the widespread oil and gas development that’s taken place in western Pennsylvania since 2004, when the first Marcellus Shale gas well was drilled in Westland, Mount Pleasant Township, Pennsylvania, followed by more… Continue Reading “Birds Eye View of Pennsylvania Gas Production”
Category: Marcellus shale, PennsylvaniaTags: cryogenic gas plant, drilling, ethane, gas liquids, gas production, Hickory Pa, McDonald Pa, methane, methane gas, propane, Smith Township, Washington County