 [12/16/2024]
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DEP Forms Internal Work Group To Develop Position On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater; Shapiro Administration Supports Legislative Ban On Road Dumping
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[12/16/2024]
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EPA, Justice Dept., DEP Settlement With PennEnergy Resources LLC Requires Payment Of $2 Million Penalty, $3.6 Million Investment In Reducing Oil & Gas Facility Air Pollution Emissions
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[12/16/2024]
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What The Shale Gas Industry Is Leaving Behind: DEP: Nucomer Energy LLC Fails To Restore Shale Gas Well Pad, Water Impoundment In Forest County For More Than 12 Years After Drilling Was Completed
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[12/16/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 7 to 14 - Failed To Restore Shale Gas Well Pad, Impoundment For 12 Years; Spills On Top Of Spills
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[12/9/2024]
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DEP Sees ‘Very Significant Budget Gap’ In Funding Oil & Gas Regulation Program Due To Reduced Permit Fee Revenue
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[12/9/2024]
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What The Shale Gas Industry Is Leaving Behind: DEP Issues 10 Violations To Big Dog Energy, LLC, Diversified Production LLC For Abandoning Shale Gas Wells; Violations For Shale Gas Abandonments More Than Doubled In 2024
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[12/9/2024]
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DEP Issues Abandoned Well Violation To Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well With Nearly Full Storage Tanks, Expired EPA Permit In Venango County
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[12/9/2024]
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DEP: Horizontal Exploration LLC Failed To Comply With State Court Order To Plug 6 Conventional Wells In McKean County
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[12/9/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 30 to Dec. 6 - Abandoned Shale Gas Wells Doubled From Last Year; Failure To Comply With Court Order To Plug Conventional Wells; Abandoned Waste Injection Well
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[12/9/2024]
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PUC Enforcement Bureau Files Complaint Against Philadelphia Gas Works Over 2021 Natural Gas House Explosion; Alleging The Company Failed To Properly Investigate, Address Leaking Gas Pipeline
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[12/9/2024]
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PUC To Seek Public Comments On Settlement With Columbia Gas Concerning Welding Issues At Regulator Station In Beaver County
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[12/9/2024]
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DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Hazardous Sites Cleanup Consent Order For Penn State Benner Township PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Contamination Site In Centre County
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[12/2/2024]
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Shell Falcon Pipeline LP Pleads No Contest To Criminal Charges For Violating The State Clean Streams Law In Allegheny, Beaver, Washington Counties; Will Pay $300,000 In Penalties
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[12/2/2024]
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DEP Discovers Evidence Of Continuous Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Release At McKean County Well Site During Routine Inspection
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[12/2/2024]
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CNX Gas Company Reports It Did Not Stop Pumping Shale Gas Wastewater Through A Punctured Pipeline For 24+ Hours During An Incident In Morris Township, Greene County In May
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[12/2/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 23 to 29 - 3 Wastewater Pipeline Releases; More Abandoned Shale Gas, Conventional Wells; Leaking Gas Storage Area Wells
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[11/25/2024]
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EPA, Justice Dept., DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4 Million In Abandoned Well Plugging Funding Against Shale Gas Drilling Companies-- XTO Energy, Inc., Hilcorp Energy Company For Federal, State Clean Air Act Violations
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[11/25/2024]
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DEP So Far In 2024: 6,907 Violations Issued To Owners Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wells - 153% More Than In 2021; 833 Violations For Abandoning Their Wells -- Exceeding All Of 2023
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[11/25/2024]
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Oil & Gas Wastewater Release At Bear Lake Properties Injection Well In Warren County Went Unreported For 109 Days; More Contamination Discovered Along Related Wastewater Pipeline Route
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[11/25/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 16 to 22 - $5.257 Million In Penalties; Conventional Well Owners Issued More Violations Than All Of 2023; More Abandoned Wells; Failure To Submit Shale Gas Reports
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[11/25/2024]
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Guest Essay: Protecting Public Health Means Enforcing Environmental Regulations While Helping Businesses Thrive
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[11/18/2024]
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Environmental Hearing Board Issues Temporary Supersedeas To Stop The Opening Of Catalyst Energy, Inc. Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In McKean County Until Hearing On Full Supersedeas
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[11/18/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 9 to 15 - Failed Well Pluggings; Leaking Gas Storage Area Wells; More Abandoned Conventional, Shale Gas Wells
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[11/11/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 2 to 8 - 8,800 Gallon Shale Gas Wastewater Spill; Failure To Comply With Plugging Order; Spills, Releases, Gas Leaks
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[11/4/2024]
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Low-Flow Water Conditions Trigger Big Jump In Susquehanna River Basin Water Withdrawal Restrictions, Most Shale Gas-related
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[11/4/2024]
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DEP Discovers Wastewater Release At Bear Lake Properties Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In Warren County During Routine Inspection
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[11/4/2024]
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PUC Approves Emergency Order Appointing Aqua Pennsylvania Temporary Operator For 6 Rhodes Estate Water Companies As Fallout Continues From Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill In Venango County
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[11/4/2024]
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Environmental Groups File Notice Of Intent To Sue The Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County For Air Pollution Violations: Similar Action In 2023 Resulted In $10 Million Settlement
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[11/4/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Oct. 26 to Nov. 1 - No Attempt To Contain, Cleanup Injection Well Spill; Gas Storage Area Well Release; More Abandoned Conventional Wells
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[10/28/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 19 to 25 - DEP Abandoned Conventional Well Violations Top 814; Conventional Owner Ignores Order; Gas Leaks & Spills
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[10/21/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 5 to 18 - Conventional Well Owners Issued 767 Violations For Abandoning Their Wells - So Far, More Than Double Number In 2019; Leaking Gas Storage Area Wells
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[10/21/2024]
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The Derrick: PUC Judge Issues Emergency Order Appointing Aqua Pennsylvania As Temporary Operator For 6 Rhodes Estate Water Companies [Serious Community Impacts Continue From Conventional Oil Well Spill In Venango County]
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[10/21/2024]
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Susquehanna River Basin Conditions Trigger Low-Flow Water Use Restrictions At 9 Shale Gas Water Withdrawals In Bradford, Susquehanna, Tioga Counties
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[10/21/2024]
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EPA Files $4.2 Million Settlement Of Air Pollution Violations For 2019 Philadelphia Refinery Explosion, Fire; Public Comments Invited
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[10/21/2024]
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EPA Settlement With Conemaugh Power Plant Over Coal Ash Violations Imposes $185,927 Penalty
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[10/21/2024]
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DEP Secures $1.62 Million Payment For American Zinc & Chemical Site Natural Resource Damage In Washington County; Invites Comments On Settlement
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[10/7/2024]
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DEP Issues Violations To 7 Shale Gas Drillers For Failure To Submit Monthly Waste Generation, Disposal, Production Reports - 1 Company For 3 Years; 2 More Drillers Fail To Disclose Fracking Chemicals
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[10/7/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 28 to Oct. 4 - Five More Abandoned Shale Gas Well Violations; Failure To Disclose Fracking Chemicals; Failure To Report Waste Generation & Disposal; Lawnmower Causes Conventional Pipeline Gas Leak
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[9/30/2024]
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DEP Issues Violations To 3 Shale Gas Drillers For Failing To Report Fracking Chemicals, Including At EQT’s Lumber Well Pad In Greene County
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[9/30/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - September 21 to 27 - Gas Storage Areas Wells Leaking; Failure To Comply With Orders, Failure To Report Fracking Chemicals; Bubbling Conventional Pipeline Leak
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[9/30/2024]
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EPA Issues Consent Order To Max Environmental Technologies For Clean Water Act Violations At Yukon, Westmoreland County Facility; Virtual Listening Session Set For Oct. 9
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[9/23/2024]
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Exploding Water Well Shed Triggers DEP Investigation Of 59+ Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In Cyclone, McKean County; Highlights Limits On Providing Temporary Water For Well Owners Impacted
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[9/23/2024]
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DEP Discovers Wastewater Spill From Conventional Oil/Gas Well That Could Be Seen From Google Earth In Armstrong County As A Result Of A Complaint
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[9/23/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 14 to 20 - Seeing Conventional Wastewater Spill From Google Earth; Emergency Well Plugging; Abandoned Shale Gas Wells; Leaking Gas Well Next To Baseball Field
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[9/16/2024]
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Cecil Township Supervisors Direct Solicitor To Prepare Ordinance Increasing Setbacks From Shale Gas Well Pads By At Least 2,500 Feet; Another Hearing, Vote Expected Nov. 4
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[9/16/2024]
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Southwestern PA Community, Health Organizations To Hold Sept. 17 Online Press Event - One Year After Pitt Shale Gas Health Impacts Studies And The Failure To Fulfill Essential Promises Made To Residents
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[9/16/2024]
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DEP Finds Shale Gas Wastewater Pipeline Sprayed & Leaked 12,600+ Gallons For Nearly 3 Hours In Gilmore Twp., Greene County
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[9/16/2024]
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DEP Reports Subsurface Release Of An Estimated 1,000 Gallons Of Wastewater At Hebron Gas Storage Field Conventional Well In Hebron Twp., Potter County; Water Supplies Impacted, Report Well Problems To DEP Near This Facility
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[9/16/2024]
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DEP Issues Violation To Apex Energy (PA) LLC For Failure To Submit List Of Fracking Chemicals For 37 Shale Gas Wells Over 6 Years In Westmoreland County
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[9/16/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - September 7 to 13 - 12,600+ Gallon Shale Gas Wastewater Pipeline Release; 1,000 Gallon+ Subsurface Conventional Wastewater Spill; 28+ Abandoned Wells; Stray Gas Investigation In Elk Viewing Area
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[9/16/2024]
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DEP Declares 21 Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Owned By Schreiner Oil & Gas Inc. Abandoned, Not Plugged In Erie, McKean Counties
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[9/16/2024]
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Susquehanna River Basin Conditions Trigger Low-Flow Water Use Restrictions At 7 Shale Gas Water Withdrawals In Bradford, Susquehanna, Tioga Counties
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[9/9/2024]
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US Dept. Of Interior Approves $76.4 Million To Plug Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In Pennsylvania; 1,234 Violations For Abandoning Conventional Wells In Last 20 Months
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[9/9/2024]
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Environmental Defense Fund, Moms Clean Air Force To Hold Public Meetings In 3 Northwest PA Counties On A Project To Test New Methods Of Locating Abandoned Conventional Oil, Gas Wells
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[9/9/2024]
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Source Of 19-Day-Old Oil Discharge Into Allegheny River In Venango County Still A Mystery; Recreators Asked To Avoid The Area
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[9/9/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Aug. 31 to Sept. 6 - Mystery Oil Leak Into Allegheny River; Holes In Shale Gas Casing; 65 Days Late In Plugging Conventional Well
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[9/9/2024]
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Center for Coalfield Justice Blog: Update On Underground Longwall Coal Mining In Greene, Washington Counties; Next DEP Report On Longwall Impacts Due… Soon
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[9/9/2024]
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DEP Invites Comments On 2 Proposed Hazardous Sites Cleanup Agreements On Gryphin Coatings, Inc. Site In Philadelphia
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[9/2/2024]
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Range Resources Shale Gas Water Pipeline Suffers Blowout In Washington County
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[9/2/2024]
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9-Year-Old Drives Tractor Into Conventional Well Causing Gas Leak
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[9/2/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 24 to 30 - Water Pipeline Blowout; 9-Year-Old Hits Conventional Gas Well; 5 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells
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[8/26/2024]
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Eureka Resources Shuts Down Standing Stone Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facility; DEP Wastewater, Waste Violations Continue From Feb. 2023
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[8/26/2024]
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Marcellus Drilling News: Eureka Resources Plans To Close/Sell 2 Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Plants In Williamsport: Not Enough Wastewater Volume To Keep Plants Open
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[8/26/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 17 to 23 - Failure Of Casing During Fracking; 46 Day Delay In Water Compliant Notice; Closing 3 Wastewater Treatment Facilities; 40 More Abandoned Conventional Wells
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[8/26/2024]
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DEP Bans Sale Of Teclast Electronics Products For Violating PA’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law; E-Waste Recycling Law Broken
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[8/19/2024]
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Attorney General Henry Announces Greylock Shale Gas Driller Will Pay $140,000, Plead No Contest To Multiple Criminal Charges For Environmental Violations In Greene County
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[8/19/2024]
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DEP Issues Violations To 16 Owners Of 5,374 Conventional Oil & Gas Wells For Failing To Submit Annual Production, Waste Generation/Disposal, Well Integrity Reports
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[8/19/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 10 to 16 - Failure To File Critical Annual Report Violations Sent To Owners Of 5,300+ Conventional Wells; Failure To Fix Leaking Wells
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[8/19/2024]
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CNX: 'Natural Gas Development Is Safe And Poses No Public Health Risks,' Based On CNX Air Quality Monitoring From 14 Sites, Most For Just 4 To 24 Weeks
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[8/19/2024]
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DEP Invites Comments On A Proposed $1.3 Million Cost Recovery Action At The Pool Doctor, Beaver Alkali Products Site In Beaver County
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[8/19/2024]
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Environmental Hearing Board Assesses $65,766.68 Penalty Against Venango County Man For Willfully Failing To Comply With DEP Order For Violations Of The Dam Safety & Encroachments Act
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[8/12/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 3 to 9 - Diversified Prod LLC Fails To Comply With Order To Plug Abandoned Shale Gas Wells; 700 Abandoned Conventional Well Violations
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[8/12/2024]
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Erie Times: How PA's Oil & Gas Industry Continues To Illegally Dump Wastewater On Roads Across The State
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[8/5/2024]
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DEP Issues Violations To D & B Gas Prod LLC For Abandoning, Not Plugging 110 Conventional Gas, Coalbed Methane Wells In Indiana County; Total Abandonment NOVs 697 In 2024
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[8/5/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 27 to August 2 - 120 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; 3rd Pipeline Construction Spill; 1,260 Gallon Conventional Oil Spill
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[7/29/2024]
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No One Warned A Cameron County Family Their Water Well Was Contaminated By A Seneca Resources Shale Gas Wastewater Pipeline Rupture
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[7/29/2024]
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Shell Petrochemical Plant Asks DEP To Classify Chemical Makeup, Flow Rate Of Gases Going To Be Burned Off By Flares, Air Pollution Sources, Control Equipment Operating At The Plant Confidential Business Information
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[7/29/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 20 to 26 - Abandoned Well Violations To Owner Of 727 Conventional Wells ‘Returned To Sender,’ More Wastewater Pipeline Spills; 2nd Attempt To Plug Shale Gas Well
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[7/22/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 13 to 19 - Pipeline Construction Spill; 9 Abandoned Conventional Wells; Failure To Comply With Order
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[7/22/2024]
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Protect PT Hosts Aug. 1 Training Session On Using Its App To Report Problems At Oil & Gas Infrastructure Sites
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[7/15/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 6 to 12 - Double Shale Gas Wastewater Pipeline Failure; 19 + 12 Abandoned Conventional Wells; Draining Water Impoundment By Spraying
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[7/8/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 29 to July 5 - Lots Of Conventional Wells Venting Gas; 12 + 6 More Abandoned Conventional Wells
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[7/8/2024]
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Spotlight PA To Host July 18 Panel Discussion On How Unreliable Small Private Water Systems Affect Quality Of Life In PA
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[7/1/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 22 to 28 - 12 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Failure To Comply With Cleanup Order
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[7/1/2024]
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DEP Soliciting Bids For Plugging 20 Conventional, Abandoned Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Wells Owned By Pennzoil In The Allegheny National Forest
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[7/1/2024]
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DEP Reviewing Shell Petrochemical Plant Title V Air Quality Operating Permit Application For Administrative Completeness
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[7/1/2024]
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Instead Of Fines, DEP Agrees To PA American Water Cleanup Of Silt In Roaring Brook, Lackawanna River; Creating Fish Habitat, Natural Enhancements Worth $300,000
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[6/24/2024]
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PUC To Hold July 15 Prehearing Conference On Future Of Venango Water Company, Related Companies As Follow-Up To Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill In Venango County
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[6/24/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 15 to 21 - More Failed Shale Gas Well Plugs; Landslides; Venting Gas; Injection Well Issue?
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[6/17/2024]
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House Committee Reports Out Bills To Ban Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater; Prohibit Use Of PFAS 'Forever Chemicals’ In Consumer Products
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[6/17/2024]
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House Hearing: Penn State Expert Says ‘Pennsylvania Should Ban Road Spreading Of Oil & Gas Wastewater;’ Contaminants Exceed Health, Environmental Standards
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[6/17/2024]
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House Hearing: Penn State Center For Dirt & Gravel Road Studies Says Road Spreading Oil & Gas Wastewater Is Not An Effective Dust Suppressant, Does Not Meet Environmental Testing Standards
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[6/17/2024]
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House Hearing: A First-Hand Account Of How Repeated, Unlimited Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Is Tearing Apart Dirt Roads And Creating Multiple Environmental Hazards
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[6/17/2024]
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House Hearing: Protect PT - Road Dumping Oil & Gas Wastewater ‘Is Disproportionately Responsible For Negative Impacts On Human Health,’ Especially From Radioactive Radium
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[6/17/2024]
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House Hearing: On Road Dumping Oil & Gas Wastewater - ‘We Studied This For Nearly 30 Years And The Conclusions Are The Same - The Wastewater Contains Harmful Contaminants’
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[6/17/2024]
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House Hearing: PA State Assn. Of Township Supervisors Opposes Ban On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Saying It’s Only Affordable Option For Dust Suppression [Plain Water Works Just As Well]
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[6/17/2024]
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House Hearing: Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Trade Groups Oppose Bill Banning The Road Dumping Their Wastewater Saying It’s ‘Effective And Safe’
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[6/17/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 8 to 14 - Abandoned Conventional Well Violations Now Top 512, Equaling All Of 2023
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[6/17/2024]
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DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Must Be In Compliance With PA Environmental Laws & Regulations To Be Eligible For New Federally-Funded Well Plugging Grants
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[6/10/2024]
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House Environmental Committee Hearing On Road Dumping Oil & Gas Wastewater Set For June 10; A Voting Meeting On Bill To Ban Road Dumping June 11
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[6/10/2024]
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Better Path Coalition: DEP Removes Co-Product Category From Conventional Oil & Gas Waste Reporting Database; Well Owners Continue To Fail To Report How They Dispose Of Their Waste
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[6/10/2024]
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DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets June 13 On Migration Of Waste From Injection Wells; E&S Permitting; Federal Plugging Programs; Updated Conventional Waste Regs; Financial Assurance To Prevent Well Abandonment
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[6/10/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 1 to 7 - 38 Conventional Wells Evaluated For Plugging; Spills; Failure To Comply With Cleanup Order; Failure To Notify DEP Of 121 Conventional Well Owner Transfers
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[6/10/2024]
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Clean Air Council: US Steel Complying With Lawsuit Settlement To Reduce Harmful Air Pollution At Clairton Coke [Coal] Works
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[6/10/2024]
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DEP Bans Sale Of Cocopar Electronics Products For Violating PA’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law; E-Waste Recycling Law Broken
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[6/3/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 25 to 31 - Shale Wastewater Pipeline Spill; Drill Cuttings Violations; More Abandoned Conventional Wells
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[6/3/2024]
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Protect PT Hosts 4 Virtual Workshops On How To Protect Yourself If You Live Near Shale Gas Facilities Starting June 11
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[5/27/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 18 to 24 - 3 Abandoned, Plugged Shale Gas Wells Still Leaking Gas; 480 Abandoned Conventional Well NOVs
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[5/20/2024]
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DEP Imposed $2.2 Million In Penalties Against Shale Gas Drilling, Pipeline Companies In 2023 For Violations Dating Back To 2018
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[5/20/2024]
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Illegal Wastewater Dumping Continues, Even on Mothers Day, Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners’ Campaign Of Intimidation Of Senate Witness; Now Dumping Before It Rains, On Paved Roads
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[5/20/2024]
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Environmental Hearing Board Clears Away More Attempts By Olympus Energy To Block Shale Gas Permit Appeal By Protect PT In Westmoreland County; Olympus Fails To Provide Info On PFAS ‘Forever Chemical’ Use
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[5/20/2024]
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The Derrick: PUC To Hold May 21 Prehearing On Future Of Venango Water Company; Water Source Contaminated By Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill
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[5/20/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 11 to 17; Lots Of Spills Week; 3 More Abandoned Shale Well NOVs; Well Shut In To Prevent Frack-Out
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[5/13/2024]
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We’ve Heard This Before: ‘We’re Providing Jobs - Stopping Pollution Threatens Jobs’ - A Brief Review Of Pennsylvania’s Conservation History
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[5/13/2024]
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Two Months: Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Continues To Surround The Home Of A Senate Witness Who Opposes The Illegal Practice
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[5/13/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 4 to 10 - 32 More Abandoned Conventional Well Violations; Failure To Cleanup Spills; Failure To Get Permits
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[5/13/2024]
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PUC Approves Settlement In Peoples Gas Pipeline Over-Pressurization Failure That Damaged Hundreds Of Furnaces, Water Heaters
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[5/6/2024]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Says It’s A ‘Terrific Lie’ To Say It Is Responsible For Abandoning Thousands Of Wells; Industry To Change Definition So They Can Avoid Responsibility
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[5/6/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 27 to May 3 - Hunting Abandoned Quaker State Wells; Conventional Well Dumpster Fire; Multiple Water Withdrawal Violations
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[5/6/2024]
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EPA Issues Consent Order To MAX Environmental Technologies To Ensure Compliance With Hazardous Waste Rules At Westmoreland County Facility
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[4/29/2024]
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Witness At Senate Hearing On Oil & Gas Wastewater Road Dumping Reports Her Home Has Been Surrounded By Dumping; Dumping Again On The Upswing In 2024
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[4/29/2024]
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DEP Reports ZERO Shale Gas Well Permits Under Review; DEP May Have Only 20% Of The Revenue Needed To Fund Its Oil & Gas Regulation Program
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[4/29/2024]
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Clean Air Council/Sierra Club: PA Falling Behind In Conventional Oil & Gas Well Plugging Bonding; Burden Falls On Taxpayers
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[4/29/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 20 to 26 - 2 Venting Shale Gas Wells; 16 More Conventional Abandoned Well Violations, 1 Shale Gas Well Abandonment
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[4/22/2024]
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Attorney General Henry Files Charges Against Shell Falcon Pipeline For Failure To Report Drilling Issues That Caused Industrial Waste, Potential for Water Pollution
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[4/22/2024]
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Senate Hearing: DEP Still Evaluating The Data On Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater; Asks Public To Report Road Dumping
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[4/22/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 13 to 19 - Oil & Gas Well Owners Actively, Repeatedly Ignoring DEP Notices Of Violation; 12 Abandoned Wells
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[4/15/2024]
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DEP Issues $1.1 Million Civil Penalty To Equitrans For Violations Related To The Uncontrolled Venting Of 1.1 Billion Cubic Feet Of Gas From The Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area In Cambria County
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[4/15/2024]
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The Derrick: State Intervenes In Venango Water Case [Fallout Continues From Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill]
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[4/15/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 6 to 12 - Rain Causes Multiple Landslides; Ignored Request To Clean Up Spill; Venting Gas
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[4/15/2024]
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DEP Bans Sale Of Eyoyo Electronics Products For Violating PA’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law; E-Waste Recycling Law Broken
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[4/8/2024]
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Spotlight PA: Little Information Made Public About Free Water Testing Ordered As Part Of Mariner East Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline Settlement To Criminal Charges By Attorney General
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[4/8/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 30 to April 5 - 19 Abandoned Well Violations; Venting Gas; Spills; No Containment; Erosion BMP Failures
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[4/8/2024]
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DEP, Keystone Landfill Sign Consent Order With $575,000 Penalty To Immediately Begin Mitigating Landfill Odors In Lackawanna County
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[4/1/2024]
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Republican Rep. Causer Blames DEP Database For Showing Conventional Oil & Gas Owners Abandoning, Not Plugging Their Wells; Industry Wants To Redefine Owner Responsibility For Their Abandoned Wells
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[4/1/2024]
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DEP: 89% Of Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Did Not Comply With Well Integrity Reporting For 34,455 Wells In 2023
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[4/1/2024]
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DEP: 86% Of Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Did Not Comply With Waste Disposal, Production Reporting For 33,505 Wells In 2023
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[4/1/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 23 to 29 - Plugging Abandoned Shale Gas Wells, Waste Injection Wells; Failure To Stop Gas Venting
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[4/1/2024]
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Federal Judge Approves Proposed Consent Agreement Between PennEnvironment, Clean Air Council, and U.S. Steel For Air Pollution Violations At Clairton Coke [Coal] Works, 2 Other Facilities
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[3/25/2024]
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DEP Reports The Number Of Methane Contaminated Water Supplies From Oil & Gas Drilling Is Up ‘Across The Board,’ ‘Not A Good Trend’
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[3/25/2024]
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DEP: Shale Gas Drilling Resulted In 54 Incidents Of New Wells Interfering With Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells, Water Wells Or Other Shale Gas Wells In Last 8 Years
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[3/25/2024]
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Fayette County Commissioners Unanimously Pass Ordinance Restricting Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Wells
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[3/25/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 16 to 22 - Truck Rollover; 12 More Abandoned Wells; Failure To Submit Annual Reports; Another Chewed Wastewater Line Leaking
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[3/25/2024]
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DEP Notified Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County It Can No Longer Operate Under An Air Quality Construction Permit And Has 120 Days To Submit A Full Title V Air Quality Permit Application
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[3/25/2024]
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DEP Issued Conventional Oil & Gas Operators 663 Violations For Abandoning, Not Plugging Wells In Last 15 Months; 392 In 2024 Alone
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[3/18/2024]
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DEP Cites Conventional Oil & Gas Well Operators For Abandoning, Not Plugging 140 More Wells Last Week; Total Now 380 Wells This Year
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[3/18/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 9 to 15 - Home Explosion; 140 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Methane In Water Supply; Porcupine Causes Wastewater Spill
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[3/18/2024]
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DEP Issues Violation To Blackhill Energy, LLC Shale Gas Driller For Contaminating Groundwater, 3 Water Supplies With Methane In Springfield Twp., Bradford County
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[3/18/2024]
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The Derrick: Public Utility Commission Starts Investigation Into Possible Order For Another Utility To Permanently Acquire Venango Water Company Impacted By Conventional Oil Well Spill
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[3/18/2024]
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DEP Issues Violation To CNX Gas Company For Withdrawing Over 1.8 Million Gallons Of Water For Fracking For 22 Days Without Permission
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[3/11/2024]
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DEP Imposed $422,365 In Penalties On 14 Conventional Oil & Gas Well Operators In 2023 For Abandoning Wells, Spills, Venting Gas; 93 Operators Cited For Abandoning 271 Wells
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[3/11/2024]
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New Reporting On The Uncontrolled Impacts Of Shale Gas Industry: The ‘Poisons Are Still Going Through My System;’ Roar, Fire From Gas Flares; Nothing Has Changed In 15 Years
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[3/11/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 2 to 8 - 119 Conventional Well Abandonment Violations; Pipeline Land Slips; Ignored Orders
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[3/11/2024]
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EPA Region III Issues Formal Notice With Instructions On Appealing Penneco Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Permit In Allegheny County
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[3/11/2024]
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DEP Publishes Appeal Notice For 2023 Consent Order With Stronghold Digital Mining On Removal Of Coal Ash, Imposing $28,800 Penalty At Waste Coal Power Plant In Venango County
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[3/4/2024]
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Latest DEP Inspection Shows No Progress By Petro Erie In Cleaning Up The Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill That Contaminated The Village Of Reno’s Water Supply In Venango County 7 Months Ago
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[3/4/2024]
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DEP: Clay-Like Material Polluting Marsh Creek Is Not Bentonite From Mariner East Pipeline Construction, But Naturally Occuring; Sunoco Cleanup Operation Finished
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[3/4/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 24 to March 1 - 11 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Field Of Leaking Wells; Voluntary Plugging; No Cleanup Progress In Reno Spill
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[3/4/2024]
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Chemstream Chemical Maker Agrees To Disclose Information About Its Proprietary Chemicals Used In Natural Gas Drilling
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[3/4/2024]
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Guest Essay: The Conventional Oil And Gas Industry Isn't Taking Responsibility For Their Wells
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[3/4/2024]
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DEP Bans Sale Of MTM Trading LLC (Tagital) Electronic Products For Violating PA’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law; E-Waste Recycling Law Broken
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[2/26/2024]
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Citizen Complaint Leads DEP To Breakout Of Mariner East Pipeline Drilling Mud That Contaminated The Lake At Marsh Creek State Park, Chester County; Sunoco Pipeline Starts Cleanup
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[2/26/2024]
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DEP Issues Chapter 105 Permit Correcting Violations By PA General Energy In Constructing The Shawnee Water Intake On The Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek, Lycoming County
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[2/26/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 17 to 23 -- 7 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Defective Casing From 2018; Mariner Pipeline Drilling Mud Breakout; Additional Shell Air Penalties; Water Supply Investigation
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[2/26/2024]
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DEP: Shell Petrochemical Plant Pays Additional $2,671,044.75 In Civil Penalties For 12-Month Air Quality Violations After May 2023 Consent Order
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[2/26/2024]
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Western PA Residents Comment After A Year Of Shell Petrochemical Plant Operations
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[2/26/2024]
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DEP Environmental Justice Office Taking Lead In Developing $8 Million Monsanto PCB Penalty Community Fund As Part Of $100 Million Settlement
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[2/26/2024]
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Protect PT Hosts Feb. 27 Online Lunch & Learn With Laurie Barr About Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells
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[2/19/2024]
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EPA Objects To Allegheny County's Air Quality Permit For The US Steel Edgar Thomson Plant
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[2/19/2024]
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PA Taxpayers To Give $130.9 Million In Tax Credits To Subsidize Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; Total Expected To Be $1.17 Billion Thru 2042; No Regard For Environmental Compliance Record
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[2/19/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 10 to 16 - 31 More Conventional Abandoned Well NOVs - 103 For Year; Pipeline Land Slips; Water Supply, Stray Gas Complaints
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[2/19/2024]
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Marcellus Drilling News: National Fuel Gas Lawsuit Alleges Fraud, Counterfeit Parts Used At Natural Gas Compressor Stations
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[2/19/2024]
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PUC Now Accepting Comments On $250,000 Penalty Settlement With Peoples Gas On Natural Gas Over-Pressurization Incident In Indiana County
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[2/12/2024]
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Just 14 Days: PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 27 to Feb. 9 -- More Abandoned Conventional, Shale Gas Wells; Spills, Venting Gas, Contaminated Water Supplies
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[2/12/2024]
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DEP Begins Emergency Project To Plug Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells In Scott Twp., Allegheny County; DEP Tried To Get Well Operators To Stop The Leaks For Nearly 9 Years
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[2/12/2024]
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DEP OKs Cameron Energy Applications For Plugging 3 Orphan Conventional Wells Under Blanket Bond Increase Waiver Program; Denied 1 Plugged Well Leaking Crude Oil
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[2/12/2024]
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Environmental Hearing Board Narrows, But Allows Protect PT Appeal Of Shale Gas Well Permit Renewals In Westmoreland County To Move Forward
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[2/5/2024]
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DEP Issues Equitrans Midstream Violation For Not Plugging 19 Abandoned Conventional Wells At The Swarts Natural Gas Storage Field In Greene County; Conflicts With Coal Mining
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[2/5/2024]
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Protect PT: Commonwealth Court Vacates Penneco Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Permit, Remanding It To Plum Boro For Additional Fact Finding In Allegheny County
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[2/5/2024]
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The Derrick: Aqua Pennsylvania Continues To Operate The Water System Serving The Village Of Reno After A Conventional Well Wastewater Release Contaminated Its Water Supply Last July In Venango County
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[2/5/2024]
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PUC To Seek Comment On $250,000 Penalty Settlement With Peoples Gas On Natural Gas Over-Pressurization Incident In Indiana County That Damaged Hundreds Of Appliances, Caused Distribution Pipeline Leaks
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[2/5/2024]
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What’s That Pink Stuff Spilled At Apex Energy Shale Gas Well Pad In Salem Twp., Westmoreland County?
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[2/5/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - February 3
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[2/5/2024]
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DEP Assesses $73,153 Penalty On 2 Contractors Building A Rutter's Store In Blair County For Water Quality Violations; Exactly The Kind Of Violations A Citizen Group Was Afraid Of
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[1/29/2024]
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5 Months Later, Roulette Oil & Gas Still Has Not Resolved Violations For Abandoning A Shale Gas Well Without Plugging It In Potter County
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[1/29/2024]
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XTO Energy Begins Plugging First Of 4 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells At Butler County Well Pad
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[1/29/2024]
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66 Months Later, DEP Worked With Conventional Well Owner, But Multiple Spills At A Well Site Have Still Not Been Cleaned Up; No Protections In Place For Operators Or Taxpayers
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[1/29/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 20 to 26 - 15 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Plugging Abandoned Shale Gas Wells; Revolution Pipeline Land Slip; Brief Compressor Fire; Crypto Mining? What's That Pink Stuff?
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[1/29/2024]
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Marcellus Drilling News: DEP Approves Catalyst Energy Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In McKean County [Jan. 26 Inspection Found Gas Bubbling From Well]
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[1/29/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - January 27
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[1/22/2024]
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DEP Hosts In-Person, Virtual Q/A Sessions On Applying For $5 Million Shell Petrochemical Plant Mitigation Grants In Beaver County
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[1/22/2024]
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4 Months Later, XTO Energy, Inc. Said They Will Plug 4 Shale Gas Wells DEP Found To Be Abandoned And Not Plugged In September
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[1/22/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 13 to 19; 9 Abandoned Conventional Wells; 4 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells; Freshwater Pipeline Break; Ice & Snow
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[1/15/2024]
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DEP Issued At Least 512 Violations To 95 Conventional Oil & Gas Operators For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them In 2023; 10 Shale Gas Operators Issued NOVs For Abandoning Wells
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[1/15/2024]
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DEP Issued Record 6,860 Notices Of Violation To Conventional Oil & Gas Operators In 2023-- Nearly 52% More Than In 2021; ‘Culture Of Non-Compliance’ Continues
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[1/15/2024]
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2023 Shale Gas Operator Compliance Report: 1,310 Violations; Explosions; Pad Fire, Evacuation; Uncontrolled Gas Venting; Frack-Outs; Polluting Water Supply; Spills; Pipeline Crashing Thru A Home; More
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[1/15/2024]
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Environmental Hearing Board Allows Protect PT Appeal Of Olympus Shale Gas Well Permits In Westmoreland County To Proceed; Olympus Was Trying To Deprive Protect PT Of Its Rights
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[1/15/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 4 to 12 - 9 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Leaking Wastewater Tanks; Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area Cleanup Continues; Pipeline Land Slips
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[1/15/2024]
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DEP Reviewing Equitrans Act 2 Soil Cleanup Report On Rager Mountain Gas Storage Area Conventional Well That Failed Venting 1.1 Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas In Cambria County
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[1/8/2024]
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DEP Announces Over $12 Million In Watershed Restoration, Stormwater Infrastructure Grants Funded In-Part By Mariner East Pipeline Penalties, Federal American Rescue Plan Funding
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[1/8/2024]
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DEP: Shale Gas Operator Found Responsible For Water Supply Contamination After Investigation Documents Chemical Contamination Spread Across 3 Townships In Greene County
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[1/8/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 30 to Jan. 3 - Saga Of Plugging Nancy 13; Conventional Well Emission Offsets; Venting Since June; Still No Well Integrity Reports
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[1/8/2024]
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Saga Continues For DEP Trying To Get A Conventional Operator To Plug Warren County Well Venting Gas Since At Least 2018
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[1/8/2024]
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DEP Accepting Project Applications For $5 Million Shell Petrochemical Plant Beaver County Environmental Mitigation Community Fund
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[1/8/2024]
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DEP Disapproves Land Recycling Risk Assessment For Dozens Of Chemicals At American Refining Group Refinery In Bradford, McKean County
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[1/8/2024]
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DEP Reviewing Act 2 Cleanup Reports For Trainer Refinery, Delaware County; Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refinery
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[1/1/2024]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 23 to 29 - Abandoned Conventional Wells; Shale Gas Wastewater Releases; Conventional Wells Venting Gas
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[1/1/2024]
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DEP Reviewing Final Act 2 Land Recycling Cleanup Report For Dozens Of Chemicals At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County
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[12/25/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 16 to 22 - 46% More Conventional NOVs; More Abandoned Wells; Conventional Well Fire; Shale Gas Venting, Spills, Plugging Mess
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[12/25/2023]
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Conventional Oil Well Storage Tanks Burn In McKean County, 6 Local Fire Companies Respond
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[12/25/2023]
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CNX Resources Begins Disclosing General Information On Fracking Chemicals, Air Monitoring Results Online At 2 Shale Gas Well Pads
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[12/25/2023]
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Oil & Gas Facilities Self-Reported 13,432,713 Tons Of Air Pollution In PA In 2022; 101,741,616 Tons Total Since 2012
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[12/25/2023]
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AP: Drilling Under Pennsylvania's 'Gasland' Town Has Been Banned Since 2010, It's Coming Back
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[12/25/2023]
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FERC Approves PJM $1.25 Billion Winter Storm Elliot Settlement With Non-Performing Natural Gas, Other Electricity Generators
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[12/25/2023]
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PUC Update On Investigation Of Dec. 12 Home Explosion In Sewickley Heights, Allegheny County
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[12/25/2023]
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PA Enviro Groups File Appeal For Removal Of Coal Ash 'Mountain’ At Stronghold Digital Mining Scrubgrass Cryptocurrency Power Facility In Venango County
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[12/18/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 9 to 15 - 500 Conventional Abandoned Well Violations; 25 Days Of Shale Gas Water Withdrawals Without Permission; Wastewater Pipeline Spill
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[12/18/2023]
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DEP Issues Violation Notice Against Keystone Landfill For Failure To Control Odors In Lackawanna County
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[12/18/2023]
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DEP Bans Sale Of Wiltronic Corp (IVIEW) Electronic Products For Violating PA’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law; E-Waste Recycling Law Broken
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[12/11/2023]
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DEP Plugs 132 Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells So Far; DEP Issued 499 NOVs For New Conventional Well Abandonments So Far In 2023
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[12/11/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 2 to 8 -- 9 Abandoned Conventional Wells; Failure To Restore Shale Gas Pad; No Progress In Spill Cleanups
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[12/11/2023]
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Roulette Oil & Gas LLC Withdraws Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Application In Potter County
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[12/4/2023]
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DEP- EQT Settlement Agreement Allows Fracking To Resume From 2 Shale Gas Well Pads In Area Impacted By Frack-Out In New Freeport, Greene County; Does Not Address Water Supply Issues Of Residents
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[12/4/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 25 to Dec. 1 - 13 More Abandoned Conventional Well NOVs; Failure To Report Water Supply Impact In July
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[12/4/2023]
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Shapiro Administration Provides Update On Norfolk Southern Train Derailment Response 9 Months After Derailment
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[11/27/2023]
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The Derrick: DEP: Little Headway In Reno Oil Well Wastewater Cleanup In Venango County
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[11/27/2023]
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The Daily Item Guest Essay: State Senator Calls Natural Gas infrastructure Public Health And Safety Bill 'Stupid'
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[11/27/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 18 to 24 - 5 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; 2nd Spill At Same Shale Gas Pad This Month; Village Of Reno Wastewater Cleanup Slow Going
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[11/20/2023]
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DEP Issued At Least 472 Violations To 90 Conventional Oil & Gas Operators; 20 NOVs To 10 Shale Gas Operators For Abandoning Their Wells Without Plugging Them So Far In 2023
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[11/20/2023]
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DEP Issues Record 5,653 Notices Of Violation To Conventional Oil & Gas Operators So Far In 2023; ‘Culture Of Non-Compliance’ Continues
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[11/20/2023]
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Shale Gas Operators On Track To Have More Violations In 2023 - Frozen Gas Infrastructure; Explosion; Pad Fire; Uncontrolled Gas Venting; Frack Outs; Major Spills; Pipeline Crashing Thru A Home Highlight 2023 So Far
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[11/20/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 11 to 17 -- 37 Conventional Abandoned Wells; 1,260+ Shale Gas Spill; 1,000 Gallon Conventional Oil Spill In State Park; Rager Mtn Gas Storage Still Not Cleaned Up
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[11/20/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - November 18
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[11/20/2023]
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Beaver County Residents Call For Accountability, Emergency Preparedness After Dozens Of Malfunctions, Pollution From Shell Petrochemical Plant
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[11/20/2023]
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DEP Collects $62,475 Penalty From Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill Under Agreement To Correct Violations, Improve Environmental Protections At The Facility
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[11/20/2023]
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DEP: Part Of $39,100 Penalty Imposed For Waste Violations Related To Implosion Of Smokestacks At Former Cheswick Power Plant In Allegheny County Will Benefit Community
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[11/20/2023]
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DEP: Penalties Collected From Air Pollution Violations At Webco's Oil City Facility Funds Local Park Projects In Venango County
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[11/13/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - November 4 to 10 - Eight More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Venting Gas; Improper Plugging, Failed To Restore Well Pads
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[11/13/2023]
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Environmental Health Project: Gov. Shapiro Must Acknowledge Health Risks Of Natural Gas Development And Take Meaningful Action To Protect The Public
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[11/13/2023]
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Physicians For Social Responsibility PA: Gov. Shapiro's Announcement With CNX Does Not Go Far Enough In Protecting Public Health And The Environment From Natural Gas Development
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[11/13/2023]
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TribLive Editorial: Is Shapiro's Voluntary Agreement With CNX The Right Move For Gas Well Safety? 'We Do Not Trust Foxes To Guard Henhouses'
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[11/13/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - November 11
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[11/13/2023]
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PUC Seeks More Information On Peoples Gas Over-Pressurization Incident In Indiana County That Damaged Hundreds Of Appliances, Caused Distribution Pipeline Leaks
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[11/13/2023]
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DEP To Hold Last 3 Hearings On Interim Final Environmental Justice Permit Review Policy
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[11/13/2023]
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Black Appalachian Coalition Urges Allegheny County Health Dept. To Hold US Steel Accountable, Protect Community Health, From Clairton Coke Works
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[11/13/2023]
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National Environmental Justice Art Campaign - We Refuse To Die - Launching In Pittsburgh Area
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[11/6/2023]
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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
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[11/6/2023]
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Attorney General Henry Announces Criminal Charges Against Equitrans For 2018 Natural Gas Explosion That Destroyed Home In Greene County
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[11/6/2023]
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Marcellus Drilling News: Mariner East 2X Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline Being Repaired After Dent Discovered In Chester County During Maintenance Check
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[10/30/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 21 to 27 -- Plugging 100th Well Tough Going; 30 Abandoned Conventional Wells Confirmed To 1 Operator
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[10/30/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - October 28
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[10/30/2023]
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Large Heating Oil Spill In Cumberland County Highlights A Hole In Storage Tank Act, Availability Of Voluntary Underground Tank Leak Cleanup Insurance
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[10/23/2023]
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Gov. Shapiro: We Need Stronger Laws To Deal With The ‘Corporate Greed’ That Let Oil & Gas Operators Get Away With Abandoning Wells For Far Too Long
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[10/23/2023]
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Gov. Shapiro Marks Plugging 100th Conventional Oil & Gas Well In 10 Months; New Initiative Allows Texting Abandoned Well Photos/Locations To Governor That Need Plugging
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[10/23/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 14 to 20 - 6 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Conventional Gas Migration Incident; Inactive Shale Gas Wells
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[10/23/2023]
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EPA, West Virginia Officials Working To Secure Fairmount Oil & Gas Wastewater Processing Facility To Prevent Release Of Radioactive, Hazardous Materials
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[10/23/2023]
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Encina Fort Union LLC Withdraws Stormwater Permit Application For A Facility That Chemically Recycles Waste Plastics In Northumberland County After It Could Not Respond To Major Deficiencies In 4 Months
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[10/23/2023]
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DEP Bans Sale Of Trexonic Electronic Products For Not Complying With PA’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law; E-Waste Recycling Law Broken
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[10/16/2023]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Still Fighting To Make Road Dumping Its Wastewater Legal; DEP Introduces Concepts Of A ‘Life Insurance Policy’ For Plugging Wells; Certified 3rd Party Inspectors
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[10/16/2023]
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The Derrick: Permanent Alternate Water Supply Being Considered For Village Of Reno, Venango County After Contamination By Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill
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[10/16/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 7 to 13 - More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Spills; Venting Gas; Emergency Well Plugging
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[10/16/2023]
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PJM Interconnection Formally Files Changes To Electric Capacity Market Rules With FERC Based Largely On Unreliability Of Natural Gas-Fired Power Plants During Winter Storm Elliot
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[10/16/2023]
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Sierra Club's Delaware County Team Hosts Oct. 16 Webinar On Lawsuit Challenging Law Preventing DEP From Protecting Public Health, Environment From Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
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[10/16/2023]
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DEP Extends Public Comment Period On Interim Final Environmental Justice Permit Review Policy To Nov. 30; Will Schedule Additional Hearings
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[10/16/2023]
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DEP Collects $500,000 In Penalties From DC Ambler Properties In Montgomery County For Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act Violations
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[10/9/2023]
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Repsol Gas USA Issued Violation For Denying DEP Right To Document Damaged Shale Gas Well Casing During Investigation Of Uncontrolled Gas Venting In Bradford County
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[10/9/2023]
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DEP Issues Violation To CNX Gas Company For Unauthorized Water Withdrawals For 17 Days From Beaver Run Reservoir In Westmoreland County
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[10/9/2023]
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Petro Erie Inc. Again Claims It Lacks The Financial Ability To Comply With DEP’s 2nd Order To Cleanup Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill That Contaminated The Village Of Reno’s Water Supply In Venango County
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[10/9/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 30 to Oct. 6 -- Company Tries To Limit DEP Investigation; Unauthorized Water Withdrawals; Can’t Pay For Reno Cleanup; Venting Gas Wells; More Abandoned Conventional Wells
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[10/9/2023]
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The Allegheny Front: Three Rivers Waterkeeper Citizen Monitoring Finds Plastics Maker Styrenics LLC Discharging Plastic Nurdles Into Ohio River, Threatens Lawsuit To Stop Them
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[10/9/2023]
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PUC: Focus Of Natural Gas Explosion In Port Richmond Section Of Philadelphia Now Inside The Buildings
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[10/2/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 23 to 29; More Abandoned Wells; Oil & Gas Doesn’t Typically Issue NOVs For ‘Routine’ Venting Of Natural Gas, Will Air Quality Under New Regs?
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[10/2/2023]
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Environmental Health Project: How DEP Issues Permits For Shale Gas Facilities Without Considering Cumulative Impacts - How New Facilities Will Add To Existing Pollution Loads And Impact The Area
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[10/2/2023]
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House Judiciary Committee Meets Oct. 3 To Consider Bill Against Lawsuits Aimed At Silencing Citizen Critics; Republicans, Democrats Introduced Similar Bills
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[9/25/2023]
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DEP Issues NOVs To Roulette Oil & Gas LLC For Abandoning Another Conventional Well In Potter County; Roulette Applying For Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Permit
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[9/25/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept. 16 to 22 - 2nd Abandoned Shale Gas Well Pad? 5 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Failure To Comply With Order
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[9/25/2023]
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Petro Erie, Inc. Appeals 2nd DEP Order Requiring The Operator To Restore The Village Of Reno’s Water Supply Contaminated By A Spill Of Conventional Oil Well Wastewater In Venango County
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[9/25/2023]
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DEP Hears Concerns, Some Support From Water Resources Committee On Draft Reg. On Reporting Unauthorized Spills, Releases
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[9/25/2023]
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PUC To Seek Public Comment On Proposed $100,000 Penalty Settlement With Mifflin Energy Corp. For Natural Gas Explosion Destroying Home/Business In Greene County
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[9/18/2023]
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Petro Erie, Inc. Says It Lacks The Financial Ability To Comply With DEP’s Order To Clean Up Conventional Oil Well Wastewater That Contaminated The Village Of Reno’s Water Supply; Will Taxpayers Be Stuck With Cleanup Costs Again?
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[9/18/2023]
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Oil & Gas Industry Spills, Releases Created Over 575 New Brownfield Sites So Far In Pennsylvania, With More Every Week
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[9/18/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - September 9 to 15; First Abandoned Shale Gas Well Pad? Another Leaking Equitrans Storage Well; Plugging Grant Twp. Injection Well
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[9/18/2023]
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Shapiro Administration Secures $100 Million From Monsanto Related To PCB Contamination That Damaged PA Waterways
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[9/18/2023]
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Delaware Highlands Conservancy Reaches Settlement With Timber Thieves On Preserved Property
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[9/11/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - September 2 to 8; Equitrans Issued NOVs For Failing To Provide DEP Inspectors Access To Facilities As Requested
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[9/11/2023]
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DEP Provides Oil & Gas Advisory Board With Updates On Well Plugging Financial Assurance; Pitt Health Studies; Funding Options For Program; Civil Penalty Policy
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[9/4/2023]
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DEP Expands Environmental Justice Protections With Updated Policy, Improved Mapping Tool; Enhanced Permit Reviews Start Sept. 16
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[9/4/2023]
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Scranton Times Editorial: Give Teeth To DEP Environmental Justice Policy
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[9/4/2023]
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DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets Sept. 5 On Proposed Permit Fee Changes; Well Plugging Financial Assurances To Prevent Abandonments; Environmental Justice Policy; Injection Well Primacy
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[9/4/2023]
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Between The Lines Podcast: Pediatrician Dr. Ned Ketyer Explains The Results Of New Studies Of The Health Impacts Of Natural Gas Development On Children And Adults
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[9/4/2023]
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The Center Square: State Dept. Of Health Invites Citizens To File Environmental Health Complaints Related To Natural Gas Development; Health Will Also Review Environmental Test Results
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[9/4/2023]
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DEP Responds To Emergency Notification Of Uncontrolled Venting Of Natural Gas For Over 10.5 Hours From A Repsol Oil Shale Gas Well; Temporary Evacuation Order Issued In Bradford County
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[9/4/2023]
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EQT Shale Gas Wastewater Truck Rolls Over Spilling More Than 4,600 Gallons Of Wastewater In Lycoming County
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[9/4/2023]
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Do Not Consume Water Advisory Lifted In Village Of Reno; Petro Erie, Inc. Barely Begins Cleanup Of Conventional Oil Wastewater Spill Site That Contaminated The Water Supply In Venango County
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[9/4/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Aug. 26 to Sept. 1-- Uncontrolled Venting Of Shale Gas Well; 4,600 Gallon Spill Of Shale Gas Wastewater; Cleanup Of Conventional Oil Wastewater Spill Barely Begins
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[9/4/2023]
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PUC Safety Division Continues Investigation Into Deadly House Explosion In Plum Borough, Allegheny County
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[8/28/2023]
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Petro Erie, Inc. Appeals DEP’s July Field Order To Clean Up Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Spill Contaminating Village Of Reno’s Water Supply In Venango County; 2nd Appeal May Be Coming
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[8/28/2023]
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DEP Finds 2 More Petro Erie, Inc. Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Tanks With A Pipe Leading To A Discharge Area In A Ditch In Sugarcreek Boro, Venango County
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[8/28/2023]
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Equitrans Determined Leak Of Over 1.1 Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas From Cambria County Storage Facility Was Caused By Corrosion In Conventional Gas Well Casing
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[8/28/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 19 to 25 - More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Gas Frack-Out; More Leaking Wastewater Tanks; Equitrans Cleanup Continues
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[8/28/2023]
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Republican Rep. Krupa To Introduce Bill To Ban Oil, Gas Wastewater Injection Wells To Protect The Public From Radioactive, Toxic Materials
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[8/28/2023]
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Republican Herald Editorial: Health Depends On Regulation Of Oil & Gas Development
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[8/28/2023]
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PUC Approves 2 Penalty Settlements With Columbia Gas Totaling $1.525 Million For A House Explosion In Washington County, 2 Natural Gas Pipeline Over-Pressurization Incidents In Franklin, Clarion Counties
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[8/28/2023]
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Shapiro Administration Secures Methane Detectors For Neighborhood In Plum Boro, Allegheny County Where Home Exploded
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[8/21/2023]
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The Derrick: DEP Issues Order To Petro Erie, Inc. To Restore Village Of Reno Water System, Cleanup Contamination Caused By Its Conventional Well Wastewater Release; 1 Month Without Clean Water
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[8/21/2023]
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DEP Investigating Other Possible Sources Of Methane As Part Of Response To Plum Borough Home Explosion, Including Nearby Conventional, Shale Gas Wells
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[8/21/2023]
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Public Utility Commission Safety Investigation Ongoing Following Deadly House Explosion In Plum Borough, Allegheny County
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[8/21/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 12 to 18; DEP Orders Restoration Of Water Supply; Conventional Wells Abandoned; Leaking Methane, Fluids
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[8/21/2023]
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DEP Grants Variance From Containment Standard For 10 Aboveground Storage Tanks At American Refining Refinery In Bradford, McKean County
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[8/14/2023]
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Mayor Of Sugarcreek Asks For Donations To Refill Village Of Reno Water Tank After Contamination In Venango County; Emergency Water Distribution Resumes; Contamination From Conventional Oil Wastewater Tanks Suspected
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[8/14/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 5 to 11; Routine Venting Of Conventional Wells, Shale Gas Wells; Major Conventional Spills; Pipeline Subsidence
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[8/14/2023]
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Hold Erie Coke Accountable Calls On EPA, DEP, Erie County & City To Form Erie Coke [Coal] Plant Community Working Group On Site Cleanup, Revitalization
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[8/7/2023]
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New Penn State Study: Brine Water Pumped From Played-Out Conventional Oil & Gas Wells And Used As Dust Suppressants, Winter Road Treatments Exceed Environmental, Health Standards, Just Like Conventional Oil & Gas Brine Water
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[8/7/2023]
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Guest Essay: Take A Deep Breath! Now Think What You Just Inhaled. If You Live Along A Dirt Road You Could Be Inhaling Oil & Gas Wastewater
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[8/7/2023]
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DEP Investigates Conventional Oil Well Wastewater Leak As Possible Source Of Village Of Reno Water Supply Contamination In Venango County; Customers Under Do Not Consume Advisory For 2+ Weeks
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[8/7/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 29 to August 4; More Abandoned, Leaking Wells, Reno Water Supply Contamination; Rager Mtn. Natural Gas Storage Area Spills
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[7/31/2023]
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DEP Signs $660,000 Penalty Agreement With Sunoco To Resolve More Violations During The Construction Of Mariner East Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline In 9 Counties; Penalties Now Total Nearly $31 Million Just From DEP
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[7/31/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 15 to 22; 8 More New Conventional Well Abandonments
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[7/31/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 22 to 28
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[7/31/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - July 29
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[7/24/2023]
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Marcellus Drilling News/The Allegheny Front: University Of Pittsburgh Study Finds At Least 800,000 Tons Of Fracking Waste Sent To Landfills Unaccounted For In One Year; Oil & Gas Waste Adds To Radiation Accumulation In Stream Sediments
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[7/24/2023]
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Steering Committee Releases Protocol To Allocate $5 Million Penalty Fund Related To The Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County
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[7/24/2023]
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Chesapeake Bay Journal: EPA Launches More Collaborative Water Quality Impact Assessments Of PA Farms
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[7/17/2023]
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DEP Secretary Negrin To Citizen Activists: ‘We Don’t Represent Chevron, We Don’t Represent Shell And I’ve Made That Absolutely Clear-- We’re Holding Those Leaders Accountable’
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[7/17/2023]
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DEP Held July 13 Local Steering Committee Meeting For $5 Million Shell Petrochemical Plant Community Fund
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[7/17/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 8 to 14; Failed Shale Gas, Conventional Well Plugging; Leaking Conventional Wells
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[7/17/2023]
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DEP: Risk Assessment Did Not Prove Chemicals Polluting Soil & Groundwater At American Refinery Group’s Bradford Petroleum Refinery Met Safe Environmental Cleanup Standards
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[7/17/2023]
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DEP Blog: Do You Know What’s Below? Gasoline Stations And Aging Underground Storage Tanks In Pennsylvania
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[7/17/2023]
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2nd Annual Marcellus Shale Water Business Update Conference Aug. 9 In Pittsburgh On Managing Shale Gas, Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater
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[7/10/2023]
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Community Demands Accountability From EQT Natural Gas On 1-Year Anniversary Of Greene County Frack-Out Incident; Families Still Without Clean Water; No DEP Investigation Results
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[7/10/2023]
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KDKA Investigation: Washington County Family Says Energy Transfer/MarkWest Natural Gas Processing Plants Turned A Peaceful Farm Into A Nightmare
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[7/10/2023]
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DEP Rejects MarkWest Act 2 Cleanup Notification For 10,000 Gallon Natural Gas Condensate Spill At Compressor Station In Robinson Twp., Washington County, Notice Is Re-sent
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[7/10/2023]
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DEP Invites Comments On Draft Shale Gas Well Emergency Response, Pollution Prevention Contingency Plan Guidance
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[7/10/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 1 to 7; New Brownfield Cleanups; Shale Gas Well Plugging Picks Up; New Conventional Well Abandonments
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[7/3/2023]
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House Democratic Leadership Blocks Environmental Committee Action On Bills Increasing Safety Zones Around Natural Gas Facilities, Cryptocurrency Permit Moratorium
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[7/3/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 24 to 30 - Radiation Levels Prompt Shale Gas Wastewater Tank Decontamination; Replugging Conventional, Shale Gas Wells
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[6/26/2023]
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3 Days That Shook Washington County: Natural Gas Plant Explosion; Pipeline Leak Of 1.1 Million Cubic Feet Of Gas; 10,000 Gallon Spill At Compressor Station
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[6/26/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 17 to 23 - Federal Well Plugging Project & Dimock Area Shale Gas Well Inspections; Leaking Plugged Conventional Wells; Frack Out Investigation
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[6/26/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - June 24
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[6/26/2023]
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Senate Environmental Committee Reports Out Bills Letting Polluters Decide When To Report Spills And CO2 Injection Well Primacy By Party-Line Votes
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[6/26/2023]
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Senate Republicans Pass Bill To Significantly Narrow The Grounds For Appealing DEP Environmental Permit Actions
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[6/19/2023]
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Citizens Advisory Council Presentations Highlight New Center Of Environmental Excellence At DEP To Improve Permitting Efficiency, Deliver Best In Class Service, Share Results; Environmental Justice; More
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[6/19/2023]
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Casey, Fetterman Announce $5.5 Million In Federal Funding To Plug Abandoned Conventional Oil/Gas Wells In The Allegheny National Forest
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[6/19/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 10 to 16 -- Leaking Conventional Wells; 5 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Using Tape To Repair Containment Liner
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[6/19/2023]
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Robinson Twp., Washington County Seeks Answers To Cleanup Of MarkWest Liberty Midstream 10,000 Gallon Spill Of Natural Gas Condensates After Company Sends Notice To Wrong Municipality
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[6/19/2023]
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DEP Finds PA General Energy Installed Its Shawnee Water Withdrawal On The Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek At Sizes Larger Than Authorized By Its SRBC, DEP Permits
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[6/19/2023]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Advises Water Withdrawal Permit Holders To Review Low Flow Water Restrictions And Begin Planning For Alternative Operations
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[6/19/2023]
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DEP Posts Solicitation For Bids To Plug 23 Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Waste Injection Wells Owned By ARG Resources, Inc. And Pennzoil Company In Elk County
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[6/12/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 3 to 9: Plugged Conventional Well Frack-Out; 10 More NOVs For Abandoning Conventional Wells
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[6/5/2023]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets June 13 To Hear Acting DEP Secretary Negrin Outline His Vision For Changing DEP; Enforcement, Customer Service Strategies; Permit Review Changes; Environmental Justice Plans; More
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[6/5/2023]
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DEP Moves To Enforce Order To Plug 4 Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells Leaking Methane In Allegheny County Owned By Michael Harju & Economy Natural Gas, Inc.
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[6/5/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 27 to June 2 -- Conventional Operators Fail To Start Plugging, Fail To Cleanup Spills; More NOVs For Abandoning Wells
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[6/5/2023]
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Attorney General Henry Files Civil Complaint Against DuPont And Affiliates For Manufacture Of PFAS 'Forever Chemicals,' Seeks Payment For Cleanup Costs
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[5/29/2023]
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Conventional Oil/Gas Industry Bothered By DEP Records Showing They Receive NOVs For Abandoning An Average Of 561 Oil/Gas Wells A Year
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[5/29/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 20 to 26; DEP Issues More NOVs For Conventional Well Abandonments
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[5/29/2023]
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Democrats On House Environmental Committee Report Out Bill To Help Prevent The Routine Abandonment Of 561 Conventional Oil/Gas Wells A Year
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[5/29/2023]
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Citizens Voice Editorial: Renew Bonds To Close, Cleanup Conventional Oil, Gas Wells
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[5/29/2023]
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Warren Times Editorial: Keeping A Natural Lifeline Pure With Environmental Rights Amendment - Environmental Quality A Right Not A Luxury [The Heart Of The Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Industry]
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[5/29/2023]
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Observer-Reporter Editorial: Court Drills Down On Environment - Environmental Quality A Right Not A Luxury [The Heart Of The Unconventional Shale Gas Drilling Industry]
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[5/29/2023]
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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
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[5/29/2023]
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EPA/DEP: Eastman Chemical Resins, Inc. To Pay $2.4 Million Penalty For Multiple Environmental Violations In Allegheny County
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[5/22/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 13 to 19: Struggle To Plug Tatonka Oil Co. LLC’s Nancy 13 Conventional Well Leaking Gas, Production Wastewater Since 2018; Citizen Complaint Finds ‘Bubbling’ Gas Well
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[5/22/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - May 20
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[5/15/2023]
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Groups File Federal Lawsuit Against Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County For Air Pollution Violations
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[5/15/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 6 to 12; Equitrans Gas Storage Area Issued New NOVs
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[5/15/2023]
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DEP: Seneca Resources Ignores NOVs On DCNR Shale Gas Well Pad Cleanup For 7 Months & Counting; Citizen Complaint Finds Homeowner Well Venting Gas; Multiple Tanker Truck Spills
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[5/15/2023]
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Triumph Township, Warren County Advertising For 100,000 Gallons Of ‘Salt Brine’ To Dump On Township Roads
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[5/8/2023]
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Center For Coalfield Justice: Nearly 11 Months Since An EQT Shale Gas Well Frac-Out Left Residents Near New Freeport, Greene County Without Clean Water; DEP’s Investigation Not Complete
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[5/8/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 29 to May 5; Major Shale Gas Wastewater Spill; 6 More Abandoned Well NOVs
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[5/8/2023]
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Citizen Complaint, Company Report Results In DEP Inspection Finding 63,000 Gallon Wastewater Spill At Seneca Resources Shale Gas Well On State Game Lands In Elk County; More Leaks, Spills
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[5/8/2023]
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Attorney General Henry Charges 2 With Criminal Risking Catastrophe Charges Related To Work On Natural Gas Pipeline In Lawrence County; Pipelines Have Worst Environmental Compliance Record In PA
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[5/8/2023]
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Earthworks Submits Video Evidence To DEP Of More Air Pollution Violations By Gas Flares At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County
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[5/1/2023]
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DEP Tentatively Sets May 18 Online Public Conference On Proposed Roulette Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Clara Twp., Potter County; Opponents Again Call For Robust Public Participation Process
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[5/1/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 22 - 28; Conventional Wells Venting Gas; Shale Gas Well Pad Spills
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[5/1/2023]
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Citizen Complaint Results In Finding 2 Abandoned Conventional Wells Owned By Prosperity Oil Co. Continuing To Vent Natural Gas In Washington County
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[5/1/2023]
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Chesapeake Appalachia: DEP Inspections Find Violations For Spills, Releases, Continuing Defective Casing/Cementing At Shale Gas Well Pads In Bradford, Susquehanna Counties
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[5/1/2023]
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Eyes On Shell Reports Shell Petrochemical Plant Fenceline Monitors Found Benzene Emissions Above Toxic Substances Limits; No Timeline For Restarting Plant; DEP Issued Another NOV For Air Violations
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[5/1/2023]
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House Environmental Committee Sets May 1 Hearing On Cryptocurrency And Climate Change; Background Brief
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[4/24/2023]
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PA Supreme Court Upholds DEP’s Authority To Protect Public Resources, Playgrounds From Adverse Impacts Of Shale Gas Well Operations; Do Not Mistake This Win For Adequate Protection
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[4/24/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 15 to 21; 10 Abandoned Well NOVs; New Crude Oil Leak; Defective Casing/Cementing
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[4/24/2023]
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Citizen Complaint Results In Discovery Of An Unreported Crude Oil Spill Affecting Over 2,400 Feet Of Stream At A Cameron Energy Conventional Well Site In Forest County
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[4/24/2023]
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CBF: Proposed Settlement Of Lawsuit Against EPA For Failing To Hold Pennsylvania Accountable For Meeting Chesapeake Bay Water Pollution Reduction Goals Focuses On Actions In 7 PA Counties
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[4/17/2023]
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Inside Climate News: Gov. Shapiro Provides Fresh Support To Key Changes Recommended In 2020 Grand Jury Report To Tighten Regulation Of The Natural Gas Drilling Industry To Better Protect Public Health, Environment
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[4/17/2023]
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Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 Million Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas; Same Facility Plagued Community With Blowdowns 3 Times A Day, 7 Days A Week For Nearly 10 Years Until Criminal Charges Brought Against CNX
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[4/17/2023]
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DEP/Equitrans Settlement: DEP, Preempted By Federal Law, Withdraws Order, Closes NOVs Against Equitrans For Cambria County Natural Gas Storage Leak Releasing 1 Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas
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[4/17/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 8 to 14; Shale Gas Drillers Create New Brownfields, 8 Wells Found With Defective Casing/Cementing
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[4/17/2023]
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How Chesapeake Appalachia Created Another New Shale Gas Brownfield In Bradford County; Timberline Energy Plugs Its Abandoned Conventional Gas Wells In Venango County
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[4/17/2023]
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The Express: Bechtel Corp Announced It Will Discontinue Development Of The 1,000 MW Natural Gas-Fired Renovo Energy Center In Clinton County
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[4/17/2023]
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DEP Issues Three More Air Quality Violations To Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County Related To Emergency Flaring, Exceeding 12-Month Air Pollution Limits
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[4/10/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - April 1 to 7; Leaking Gas Well On State Game Lands #87 Fixed
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[4/10/2023]
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DEP Inspection Finds Two Repsol Oil & Gas Shale Gas Wells Venting Natural Gas To Atmosphere, Defective Well Casing/Cementing In Susquehanna County; Violations Continue From May 2017
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[4/10/2023]
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Local Officials, Residents, Advocacy Groups Call On DEP To Conduct A Robust Public Participation Process For Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well Applications
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[4/10/2023]
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DEP Bans Sale Of Chuwi Electronic Products For Not Complying With PA’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law; E-Waste Recycling Program Broken
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[4/3/2023]
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PJM This Week Sends Penalty Assessments Of Up To $2 Billion To Electric Generators That Failed To Perform During December’s Winter Storm Elliot; Natural Gas Power Plants Had 63% Of Outages
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[4/3/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 25 to 31; More Violations At Equitrans Gas Storage Area; Spring Walk Yields Hissing Gas Well On State Game Lands
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[3/27/2023]
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DEP Projects Over $1.5 Million Deficit In Account Funding Oil & Gas Regulation Program In FY 2023-24
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[3/27/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 18 to 24; Continuing Violations At Equitrans Gas Storage Area; 6 More New Well Abandonments
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[3/27/2023]
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Guest Essay: Shell Petrochemical Plant Off To A Bad- And Dangerous- Start In Beaver County
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[3/27/2023]
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Shapiro Administration Announces Long-Term Presence In Beaver County To Assist Residents Affected By Norfolk Southern Train Derailment
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[3/27/2023]
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PA Senate Hearing: Norfolk Southern CEO: Ignition Of Rail Cars Following Ohio Trainwreck Was A 'Success'
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[3/20/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 11 to 17; Fracking 2 Wells Interfered With Another Shale Gas Well In Westmoreland County
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[3/20/2023]
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Allegheny County Health Dept. Issues $307,800 Stipulated Penalty Against U.S. Steel For Clairton Coke (Coal) Works For 2nd Quarter
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[3/13/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 4 to 10; Big Week For Spills
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[3/6/2023]
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Bay Journal: PA Conventional Gas Wells Routinely Abandoned, Left Unplugged
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[3/6/2023]
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PA Capital-Star Guest Essay: It’s Time To Hear Bold Leadership On Oil & Gas In Gov. Shapiro’s Budget Address
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[3/6/2023]
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Better Path Coalition, FracTracker Alliance Release Pennsylvania Is Worth Protecting, A Visual Reminder Of The People, Places & Natural Resources Worth Protecting From Environmental Devastation, Climate Change
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[3/6/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 25 to March 3; More Well Plugging Sites Inspected
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[3/6/2023]
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Dept. Of Agriculture Now Accepting Applications From Conservation Districts For Spotted Lanternfly Businesses, Residential Quarantine Compliance Program Grants
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[2/27/2023]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Failed To File Annual Production/Waste Generation Reports For 61,655 Wells; Attorney General Continues Investigation Of Road Dumping Wastewater
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[2/27/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 18 to 24; First Violations Noted At New Well Plugging Sites
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[2/27/2023]
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Scranton Times Editorial: Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells, Abandoned Responsibility
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[2/20/2023]
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DEP Issued 754 Notices Of Violation For Defective Oil & Gas Well Casing, Cementing, The Fundamental Protection Needed To Prevent Gas Migration, Groundwater & Air Contamination, Explosions
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[2/20/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 11 to 17
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[2/20/2023]
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Groups Urge DEP To Temporarily Halt Operations At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; File 2nd Notice Of Intent To Sue For Air Pollution Violations
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[2/20/2023]
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EPA: Capital Region Water Authority Agrees To Make Upgrades To Wastewater Treatment For Harrisburg Area
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[2/20/2023]
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Acting AG Henry Obtains Settlement With Eagle Disposal For Thousands Of Missed Trash, Recycling Collections In Lancaster County; Customers Must Apply For Restitution
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[2/20/2023]
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Environmental Hearing Board Chief Judge & Chairman Thomas W. Renwand Retires After 27 Years Of Service; Steven Beckman Named Chief Judge; Sarah Clark Added To Board
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[2/13/2023]
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Natural Gas Industry Tells House They Want Faster Permit Reviews, But Didn’t Say They Don’t Use 40% Of The Well Permits They Get From DEP; Industry Practices Keep Energy Prices High
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[2/13/2023]
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DCED Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Feb. 16 Meeting Agenda Includes Discussion Of Poor Compliance Record Of Industry, Status Of Regulations Updates, Challenge To VOC/Methane Regs
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[2/13/2023]
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Ohio/PA Train Derailment, Pipeline Explosions, Uncontrolled Releases Put Spotlight On Public Health, Safety Threats Posed By Petrochemical, Natural Gas Industrial And Pipeline Infrastructure In PA
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[2/13/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. 4 to 10 - 12 NOVs For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them
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[2/13/2023]
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Inside Climate News: DEP Took 9 Days To Inspect Natural Gas Liquids Plant That Caught Fire On Christmas Day In Washington County
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[2/13/2023]
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PUC Approves 48.9% Increase In Natural Gas Charges By Leatherstocking Gas Company In Susquehanna & Bradford Counties-- The Heart Of Shale Gas Drilling In PA
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[2/6/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 28 to Feb. 3
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[2/6/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Feb. 4
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[2/6/2023]
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Environmental Groups File Notice Of Intent To Sue Shell Chemical For Air Pollution Violations At Its Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County
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[2/6/2023]
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Attorney General Files Criminal Charges Against Dallas Area Authority, Luzerne County For Dumping Millions Of Gallons Of Untreated Wastewater Into Toby Creek
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[1/30/2023]
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Natural Gas Industry, Senate Republicans Launch Effort To Unleash The Industry, Reduce Regulation, Call For Automatic Approval Of Permits, Limit Public Comments
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[1/30/2023]
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House Republicans Name Advocate For Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Rep. Martin Causer Chair Of House Environmental Committee
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[1/30/2023]
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DCED’s Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Meets Feb. 16
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[1/30/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 21 to 27
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[1/30/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - Jan. 28
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[1/30/2023]
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DEP Issues Revised Air Quality General Permit For Natural Gas, Oil-Fired Small Combustion Units Up To 100 Million Btu/Hour; Benefits Oil & Gas Industry
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[1/30/2023]
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Keep PA Beautiful, PalmettoPride Present Multi-State Litter Law Enforcement Study
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[1/30/2023]
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DEP Bans Sale Of Electronic Devices Made By AWOW Tech For Not Complying With PA’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law; E-Waste Recycling Program Broken
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[1/30/2023]
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EPA Announces $1.35 Million Penalty, Settlement With Genesee & Wyoming Railroad Over Clean Air Act Violations
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[1/23/2023]
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What Can We Expect From Gov. Shapiro, Lt. Gov. Davis On Environmental, Energy Issues?
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[1/23/2023]
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Feature: 60 Years Of Fracking, 20 Years Of Shale Gas: Pennsylvania’s Oil & Gas Infrastructure Is Hiding In Plain Sight
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[1/23/2023]
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DEP 2021 Oil & Gas Program Annual Report Shows Conventional Oil & Gas Operators Received A Record 610 Notices Of Violation For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them
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[1/23/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 14 to 20
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[1/23/2023]
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York Daily Record Guest Essay: Low Blow By PA Lawmakers - Playing Politics With Kids Abused By Clergy, Harmed By Polluters
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[1/23/2023]
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WeConservePA Webinar: March 28 - Responding To Emerging Threats To Water Quality In The Poconos
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[1/16/2023]
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DEP Ongoing Explosion/Fire Investigation: Energy Transfer Reported An Uncontrolled Release Of Ethane For 9.5 Hours From Its Revolution Natural Gas Processing Plant In Washington County
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[1/16/2023]
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Fish & Boat Commission Investigation Of Pollution From PA General Energy Natural Gas Development Construction Site On Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek Results In Settlement Agreement
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[1/16/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan. 7 to 13
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[1/16/2023]
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Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Files Citizen Suit Against York County Landfill For Federal Clean Water Act Violations, Including PFAS Contamination
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[1/16/2023]
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FracTracker Alliance Hosts Jan. 17 Webinar On Exploring Oil & Gas Industrialization Impacts On Watersheds
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[1/9/2023]
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Guest Essay: Counties, PEMA Need To Include A Complete Vulnerability Assessment Of All Natural Gas Facilities In State, County Hazard Mitigation Emergency Plans
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[1/9/2023]
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DEP Releases Bid Solicitations To Plug 46 Conventional Natural Gas Wells In Armstrong, Washington Counties At Taxpayer Expense
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[1/9/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 31 to Jan. 6
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[1/9/2023]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Jan. 10 To Hear Overview Of Stream Redesignation Process, Including High Quality, Exceptional Value Streams; But What About Protection?
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[1/2/2023]
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PA Oil & Gas Industry Has Record Year: Cost, Criminal Convictions Up; $3.1 Million In Penalties Collected; Record Number Of Violations Issued; Major Compliance Issues Uncovered; Evidence Of Health Impacts Mounts
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[1/2/2023]
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DEP Report Finds: Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Routinely Abandon Wells; Fail To Report How Millions Of Gallons Of Waste Is Disposed; And Non-Compliance Is An ‘Acceptable Norm’
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[1/2/2023]
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Observer-Reporter: Explosion, Fire At Energy Transfer’s Revolution Natural Gas Cryogenic Plant Burned For Nearly 11 Hours On Christmas Day In Smith Twp., Washington County
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[1/2/2023]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 24 to 30
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[12/26/2022]
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Oil & Gas Industry Impacts: Navy Veterans Patrick & Helen Robinson Relate Their 7-Year Struggle Dealing With Impacts Of Mariner East Pipeline Construction In Indiana County, And They Continue
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[12/26/2022]
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Oil & Gas Industry Impacts: Cambria County Family Sues Sunoco After 3 Years Of Dealing With Damage To Home, Well, Septic System, Property From Mariner East Pipeline Construction
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[12/26/2022]
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Oil & Gas Industry Impacts: Families Affected By Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ In Greene County Have A Little Happier Holiday Thanks To Water Donated By Center For Coalfield Justice
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[12/26/2022]
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Republican Herald Editorial: Gas Industry Appeased Too Long
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[12/26/2022]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 17 to 23
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[12/26/2022]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
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[12/26/2022]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Approves Oil & Gas Development, Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Water Withdrawal Requests
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[12/26/2022]
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U.S. Attorney: Families Might Be Eligible For Crime Victims’ Compensation For Hardships Caused By The Indictment Of Former Erie Coke (Coal) Plant For Environmental Crimes
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[12/26/2022]
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CBF: Federal Court Vacates FERC Conowingo Power Dam License, Offering New Chance For Chesapeake Bay Protections
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[12/19/2022]
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Better Path Coalition: 65 Organizations, Businesses, 2,700+ Individuals Petition Gov.-Elect Shapiro To Ban Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater
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[12/19/2022]
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DEP Consent Agreement Allowing Shale Gas Drilling To Resume Under Dimock, Susquehanna County Sets New Drilling, Water Supply Protection Standards, Imposes $444,000 Penalty
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[12/19/2022]
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Republican Herald/Scranton Times Editorial: DEP Professes Unwarranted Faith In Shale Gas Drillers
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[12/19/2022]
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AG Shapiro: Free Water Evaluations Begin For Homeowners Affected By Construction Of Mariner East 2 Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline
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[12/19/2022]
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DEP Assesses $600,000 Penalty For Illegal Disposal Of Over 1,800 Truck Loads Of Oil & Gas Waste Drill Cuttings In Fayette County
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[12/19/2022]
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Citizen Complaints Result In DEP Issuing PA General Energy More Violations At Loyalsock Creek Gas Pipeline/Water Withdrawal Construction Site In Lycoming County
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[12/19/2022]
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DEP Issues Notice Of Violation To Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County For Air Quality Violations In Sept. - Oct.
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[12/19/2022]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 10 to 16
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[12/19/2022]
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EPA Fines Knouse Foods In Adams County $230,000 For 120 Violations Of Federal Clean Water Act
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[12/12/2022]
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DEP Issues Orders To Equitrans To Plug Additional Wells At Cambria County Underground Natural Gas Storage Facility, Bring Other Wells Up To Current Casing Standards And Take Other Actions
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[12/12/2022]
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Marcellus Drilling News: 3 Conventional Oil & Gas Industry Groups File Lawsuit To Block Rule Limiting VOC/Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities
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[12/12/2022]
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Sign Petition Urging Governor-Elect Shapiro To Prioritize Banning Roading Dumping Of Conventional Drilling Wastewater
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[12/12/2022]
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Bay Journal: Hellbender Habitat Slammed By Pollution From Shale Gas Development In PA's Loyalsock Creek
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[12/12/2022]
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PUC Approves $48,000 Refund To Sunoco Pipeline On A Penalty It Paid For Mariner East Pipeline Construction Violations
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[12/12/2022]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec. 3 to 9
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[12/12/2022]
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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment
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[12/5/2022]
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AG Shapiro: Coterra Energy, Formerly Cabot Oil & Gas, Pleads No Contest To A Criminal Charge Related To Polluting Water Supplies In Dimock, Susquehanna County
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[12/5/2022]
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DEP Has Ordered A ‘Top To Bottom Review’ Of How It Regulates Underground Natural Gas Storage Areas As A Result Of The Equitrans Gas Leak In Cambria County In Nov.
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[12/5/2022]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 26 To Dec. 2
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[11/28/2022]
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EDF Blog: What A Catastrophic Natural Gas Leak In Pennsylvania Means For Our Climate And Health
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[11/28/2022]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 19 To 25
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[11/28/2022]
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DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board To Hear Updates On Chapter 78 Regulation Changes; Federal Abandoned Well Plugging Program Dec. 1
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[11/28/2022]
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FracTracker Alliance Releases 4th Watershed Oil & Gas Drilling Impact Analysis In Susquehanna River Basin - Towanda & Schrader Creek Watersheds
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[11/21/2022]
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UPDATED: After 14 Days, Efforts To Stop A Natural Gas Leak At A Cambria County Underground Gas Storage Area Have Apparently Been Successful
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[11/21/2022]
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Center For Coalfield Justice Holds First Water Distribution Day Nov. 19 To Help Provide Families Drinking Water In Greene County Following Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ At Natural Gas Well Site In June
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[11/21/2022]
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Washington County Family Lawsuit Alleges Shale Gas Company Violated The Terms Of Their Lease By Endangering Their Health, Contaminating Their Water Supply And Not Protecting Their Land
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[11/21/2022]
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DEP Assesses $200,000 In Penalties For Drilling Wastewater Spills By CNX In Greene County
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[11/21/2022]
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Beaver County Residents, Allies Launch New Shell Ethane Plant Accountability Campaign With Nov. 21 Webinar
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[11/21/2022]
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Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 12 To 18
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[11/21/2022]
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Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: We've Got Enough Compelling Evidence To Enact Health Protective Policies For Families Now
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[11/21/2022]
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Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: When It Started, It Was Kind Of Nice, But What Happened Afterwards Really Kind Of Devastated Our Community
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[11/21/2022]
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Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Living Near Oil & Gas Facilities Means Higher Health Risks, The Closer You Live, The Higher The Risk
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[11/21/2022]
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Shale Gas & Public Health Conference: Economically, Socially Deprived Areas In PA Have A Much Greater Chance Of Having Oil & Gas Waste Disposed In Their Communities
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[11/21/2022]
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U.S. Dept. Of Justice Indicts Erie Coke (Coal) And Corporate Officer For Violating Federal Clean Air Act Over 4 Years
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[11/21/2022]
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EPA To Host Dec. 1 Virtual Community Meeting For Allentown Residents On Health Risks From Ethylene Oxide
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[11/21/2022]
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Pittsburgh's Group Against Smog & Pollution Hosts Dec. 14 Webinar: Making The Connection - What The Donora Smog Disaster Can Teach Us 74 Years Later
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[11/14/2022]
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What Can We Expect From Gov. Shapiro, Lt. Gov. Davis On Environmental, Energy Issues?
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[11/14/2022]
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Guest Essay: Stop Giving Handouts To Natural Gas Industry, Make Them Clean Up Their Own Messes And Protect Public Health
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[11/14/2022]
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Guest Essay: Our Leaders Need To Stop Negotiating With The Fossil-Fuel Industry Behind Closed Doors And Protect Public Health And Our Children
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[11/14/2022]
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Observer-Reporter: Ongoing Water Donation Drive Helping Dozens Of Greene County Families Who Haven’t Had Clean Drinking Water Since June Following Alleged ‘Frack-Out’ At Natural Gas Well Site
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[11/14/2022]
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NEW FEATURE: Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 5 To 11
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[11/7/2022]
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Gov. Wolf Signs Bill Creating Well Plugging Grant Program; Again Fails To Address Woefully Inadequate Conventional Well Plugging Bonding; Fails To Report On Bonding Petitions; Or Issue Conventional Drilling Compliance Report
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[11/7/2022]
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Protect PT Hosts 4-Part Online Living Near Shale Gas Community Training Workshops Starting Nov. 10 - Documenting Complaints
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[11/7/2022]
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On-Demand Webinar: Creating A Healthy Home And Community With Shale Gas Development In Your Neighborhood
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[11/7/2022]
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DEP Reports On 2021-22 Farmers’ Efforts To Improve Water Quality In Chesapeake Bay Watershed
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[11/7/2022]
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EQB Meets Nov. 15 On Final Radiation Safety, NPDES Compliance Schedule Regulations; Brodhead Creek Rulemaking Petition
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[10/31/2022]
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DEP: PA General Energy Cited For More Water Pollution Violations, Blocking The Whole Width Of Loyalsock Creek At Gas Pipeline/Water Withdrawal Construction Site In Lycoming County
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[10/24/2022]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Has No Exclusion Zones For Water Withdrawals From Any Streams, Including EV Or HQ Streams Subject To Water Quality Antidegradation Rules
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[10/24/2022]
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TribLive Editorial: State Fines Should Be Higher Than Tax Cuts To Penalize Environmental Leaks
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[10/24/2022]
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Republican Herald Editorial: State Lawmakers Should Adopt Rules That Preclude State Taxpayers From Subsidizing Pollution From Oil & Gas Industry
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[10/24/2022]
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Penn State's Jenn Baka Receives National Science Foundation Grant For A 5-Year Study Of The Shell Ethane Plant's Environmental And Human Impacts In Beaver County
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[10/24/2022]
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Southwestern PA Grassroots Town Halls Hosts Oct. 24 Virtual Program On Eyes On Shell Ethane Plant Campaign In Beaver County
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[10/24/2022]
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PA League Of Women Voters, University Of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health Host 2022 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference Online Nov. 15-16
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[10/24/2022]
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DEP Reinstates Sales Of Electronic Devices By 3 Manufacturers Now In Compliance With PA’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law
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[10/17/2022]
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DEP: Shell, Pipeline Contractor Assessed $670,000 Penalty For Falcon Ethane Pipeline Construction Violations In Allegheny, Beaver, Washington Counties
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[10/17/2022]
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Conservation Groups Urge DEP To Deny Transco Permits For Natural Gas Pipeline Thru Exceptional Value, High Quality Watersheds In Luzerne, Monroe Counties
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[10/10/2022]
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DEP Issued NOVs To Conventional Oil & Gas Companies For Abandoning 55 Wells Without Plugging Them During September Alone, A Dramatic Increase In New Well Abandonments
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[10/10/2022]
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Fall Visitors To Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Areas Urged To Report Illegal Road Dumping Of Drilling Wastewater
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[10/10/2022]
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Environmental Groups Raise Serious Compliance Issues With Olympus Energy-- Over 600 Violations On 13 DEP Permits-- In Comments On Proposed Shale Gas Drilling Pad In Allegheny County
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[10/10/2022]
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DEP Collects $147,250 Penalty From Rice Drilling B LLC For Erosion & Sedimentation Violations In Greene County; DEP Found Rice Had Hundreds Of Other Violations, Including Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them
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[10/3/2022]
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DEP Issues 2 NOVs Against PA General Energy For Water Pollution Discharges Into The Loyalsock Creek From Gas Pipeline/Water Withdraw Construction In Lycoming County
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[9/26/2022]
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DEP Tells Citizens Advisory Council Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Still Does Not Meet Residual Waste Regulations; Remains Illegal
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[9/26/2022]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Revises Enforcement, Penalty Policies
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[9/19/2022]
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DEP, Fish & Boat Commission Investigate Multiple, Continuing Water Pollution Discharges From PGE Natural Gas Pipeline Construction Site On Loyalsock Creek, Lycoming County
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[9/19/2022]
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Rare Eastern Hellbender Habitat In Loyalsock Creek, Lycoming County Harmed By Sediment Plumes From Pipeline Crossings, Shale Gas Drilling Water Withdrawal Construction Projects
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[9/19/2022]
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DEP Bans Sale Of Electronic Devices Made By 4 Manufacturers Not Complying With PA’s Electronic Waste Recycling Law
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[9/12/2022]
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Conventional Oil & Natural Gas Companies Accelerating Pace Of Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them Threatening To Put PA’s Taxpayer-Funded Well Plugging Program Even Further Behind
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[9/12/2022]
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Exceptional Value Water Quality Designation, State Forest Land, River Honors Were Not Enough To Protect Loyalsock Creek From Natural Gas Drilling & Pipelines In Lycoming County
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[9/12/2022]
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DEP Begins Hazardous Site Investigation Into Contaminants Left At Former Erie Coke (Coal) Plant In Erie
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[9/5/2022]
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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
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[9/5/2022]
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EPA Imposes $2.5 Million Penalty On PA Company For Selling Auto Parts That Avoid Vehicle Pollution Controls
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[8/29/2022]
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Bay Journal: New Abandoned Wells - More Concerns Emerge Over Pennsylvania’s Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
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[8/29/2022]
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Group Against Smog & Pollution: Special Report - Public Records Provide New Details Of July Power Outages At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works And What's Being Done To Remedy Electrical Issues
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[8/29/2022]
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PUC Approves Settlement With Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority Addressing Compliance Plan For Stormwater Issues
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[8/22/2022]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Want To Rewrite Penn State Study Showing Their Drilling Wastewater Dumped On Roads Is Bad For Human Health, Environment
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[8/22/2022]
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DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Driller Compliance Review Will Go Back At Least 5 Years; Whether It Will Be Public Document Not Decided
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[8/22/2022]
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DEP Suspending Enforcement Of Certain Vapor Leak Monitoring For Small Gasoline Storage Tanks In Philadelphia, Pittsburgh-Beaver Valley Areas
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[8/8/2022]
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AG Shapiro: Energy Transfer/Sunoco Convicted Of Criminal Charges Related To Construction Of Mariner East 2 & Revolution Natural Gas/Liquids Pipelines In PA
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[8/8/2022]
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Sunoco Fails To Meet July 1 Cleanup Deadline For Mariner East Pipeline Spill In The Lake At Marsh Creek State Park, Chester County
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[8/8/2022]
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DEP Collects $100,000 Penalty From Harsco Corp. For Improperly Disposing Of 375,618 Tons Of Metal Slag In Armstrong County
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[8/1/2022]
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Gov. Wolf Announces Evaluation Of How DEP Regulates Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling & The Industry’s Compliance With Environmental Safeguards
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[8/1/2022]
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Environmental Health Project: PA’s Natural Gas Boom - What Went Wrong? Why Does It Matter? What Can We Do Better To Protect Public Health?
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[8/1/2022]
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AG Shapiro: Southeast Directional Drilling Pleads Guilty To Contaminating Water Supply In Washington County, To Pay $15,000 Fine
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[8/1/2022]
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16 Oil & Gas Facility Spill, Soil, Water Contamination Cleanups Under Act 2 Land Recycling Program During July
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[8/1/2022]
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Penn State Study: Potential Pollution Caused By Road Dumping Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater Makes It Unsuitable For A Dust Suppressant, Washes Right Off The Road Into The Ditch
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[7/18/2022]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Invites Comments On Enforcement, Penalty Guidance; Info Webinar July 28; Hearing Aug. 11
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[6/13/2022]
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On-Site Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Waste Disposal Plans Making Hundreds Of Drilling Sites Waste Dumps
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[6/13/2022]
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Senate Republicans, At Request Of Natural Gas Industry, OK Bill To Take Away Protections In Erosion & Sedimentation Permitting For Oil & Gas Activities
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[6/13/2022]
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AG Shapiro Charges Energy Corporation Of America/Greylock, 2 Employees With Environmental Crimes Involving Leaks At Oil & Gas Well Sites In Clearfield, Greene Counties
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[6/6/2022]
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DEP Advises 18 Municipalities Where Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater Is Occurring The Practice Is Illegal And Considered Waste Disposal
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[5/30/2022]
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DEP Federal ‘Orphan’ Well Plugging List Includes 7,300 Active Conventional Wells With Identified Owners; DEP Says Cost Recovery A Priority
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[5/23/2022]
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Stroud Water Research Center: New Way To Trace Algae Origins Could ID Sources Of Water Pollution
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[5/23/2022]
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Three Rivers Waterkeeper Seeking Active River Users For New 3 Rivers Watch Program In Pittsburgh
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[5/23/2022]
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EPA: U.S. Steel To Pay $1.5 Million Penalty, Make Improvements To Settle Air Pollution Violations At Allegheny County Steel Plant
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[5/16/2022]
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Allegheny National Forest: Commercial Alternatives For Dust Suppression Makes The Practice Of Road Dumping Conventional Drilling Wastewater ‘Unnecessary’ On Roads
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[5/16/2022]
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Friends Of Allegheny Wilderness Issue Alert To Members About Possible Road Dumping Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wastewater In Allegheny National Forest
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[5/9/2022]
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Bay Journal: EPA Ramps Up Clean Water Inspections After PA's Plan Fails To Meet Chesapeake Bay Water Pollution Reduction Goals
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[4/25/2022]
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Attorney General’s Office Reported To Be Investigating Conventional Oil & Gas Operators For Illegally Road Dumping Drilling Wastewater
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[4/25/2022]
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DEP Update On United Refining Company Naphtha Storage Tank Roof Failure In Warren
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[4/18/2022]
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New Ohio River Valley Institute Report Shows Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owner Diversified Energy Lacks Resources To Plug Wells, Including 22,507 Wells In PA
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[4/18/2022]
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Environmental Health News: Public Health In PA Ignored During Fracking Rush - Report
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[4/18/2022]
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DEP Signed 2 Consent Agreements With PBF Petroleum Terminal On The Schuylkill River In Philadelphia For Storage Tank, Clean Streams Law Violations; Penalties Total $1,050,000
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[4/11/2022]
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Quarterly Report: DEP Issued 77 Notices Of Violations To Conventional Drillers, 8 To Shale Gas Drillers For Attempting To Abandon Wells Without Plugging Them
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[4/11/2022]
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DEP Approves Sunoco's Mariner East Pipeline Marsh Creek State Park Lake Restoration Plan
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[3/28/2022]
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AG Shapiro Files Criminal Charges Against Pike County Man For Illegally Disposing Of At Least 60 Tons Of Sewage Sludge Waste
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[3/14/2022]
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AP: PUC Judge: Sunoco/Energy Transfer Failed To Protect Delaware County Community During Construction Of Mariner East Pipeline, $51,000 Penalty Proposed
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[3/14/2022]
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PA Supreme Court To Decide If The Owner Of Mariner East Pipelines - Sunoco/Energy Transfer - Must Pay Attorneys Fees In Legal Challenges They Lost To Citizens Or Will Taxpayers
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[3/7/2022]
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12 Unconventional Shale Gas Drillers Issued DEP Notices Of Violation For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them At 35 Well Pads In 17 Counties
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[3/7/2022]
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Senate Budget Hearings: PA’s Experience With New Pipeline Construction Shows State Laws Not Strong Enough To Prevent Environmental Damage, Protect Public Safety
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[2/28/2022]
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New Abandoned Wells: DEP Records Show Abandoning Oil & Gas Wells Without Plugging Them Is Pervasive In Conventional Drilling Industry; Who Is Protecting Taxpayers?
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[2/28/2022]
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New Abandoned Wells: 256 Conventional Oil & Gas Companies Issued NOVs For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them
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[2/28/2022]
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New Abandoned Wells: 60 Conventional Oil & Gas Companies Issued 10 NOVs Or More For Abandoning Wells Without Plugging Them In One Year
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[2/28/2022]
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Hanover Foods Signs Consent Order With EPA Over Numerous Violations At Its Wastewater Treatment Facility
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[2/7/2022]
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DEP To Report $4.7 Million, 17.6% Deficit, In Funding Oil & Gas Regulatory Program To EQB Feb. 15; Conventional Drillers Only Pay 0.4% Of Their Regulatory Costs
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[2/7/2022]
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AG Shapiro Charges Energy Transfer Partners With Environmental Crimes Over Revolution Natural Gas Pipeline Explosion
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[2/7/2022]
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DEP To Hold March 8 Virtual Hearing On Sunoco Pipeline Mariner East II Pipeline Erosion & Sedimentation Permit For Marsh Creek Lake Remediation, Chester County
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[1/31/2022]
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York Conservation District Hosts March 4 Manure Management Plan Workshop; DEP Conducting Farm Compliance Inspections
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[1/31/2022]
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Republicans Move Bills Out Of Senate Committee To Redefine Water Pollution, Sell Off State Clean Energy Credits
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[1/24/2022]
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PA Conservation Districts Oppose Bill Redefining Water Pollution, Letting Polluters Decide When To Report Spills
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[1/24/2022]
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Senate Committee Set To Meet Jan. 25 On Bills To Redefine Water Pollution, Prohibit State From Owning Clean Energy Credits; Hold Hearing On Stormwater Fees
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[1/17/2022]
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DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Drillers Tried 813 Times To Abandon Wells Without Plugging Them; Failed To Report Waste Generated 836 Times Over 2 Years
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[1/17/2022]
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EQB Invites Comments On 2 Proposed Regulations: NPDES Water Quality Compliance Schedule; Municipal Waste Rural Transfer Facility Permit-By-Rule
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[1/17/2022]
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EPA: West Penn Power To Pay $610,000 Penalty In Federal-State Settlement Over Coal Ash Landfills Discharge Violations In Allegheny, Washington Counties
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[12/20/2021]
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House Republicans Pass Bill Making Fundamental Changes In Clean Streams Law, Letting Companies Decide When To Report Spills
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[12/13/2021]
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Sunoco/Mariner East Pipeline To Pay $4 Million In Damages And Restore Lake At Marsh Creek State Park Polluted By A Spill In Chester County
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[11/22/2021]
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EQB Accepts Petitions For Study To Increase Oil & Gas Well Bonding; DEP Has $15 Per Well Available In Bonds To Plug Conventional Wells
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[11/22/2021]
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PUC Imposes $1 Million Penalty On Energy Transfer Company For 2018 Revolution Pipeline Explosion In Beaver County
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[11/22/2021]
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PUC Orders More Than A Dozen Actions To Improve Safety In Construction, Operation Of Mariner East Pipelines; Sunoco Must Pay $2,000 Penalty
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[11/15/2021]
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PUC Seeks Members To Serve On PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee
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[11/8/2021]
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DEP Suspends Enforcement Of California Heavy-Duty Diesel Emissions Control Program; Federal Standards Will Still Apply
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[10/25/2021]
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How The Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Industry Eliminated Any Restrictions On The Disposal Of Millions Of Gallons Of Its Wastewater On PA’s Dirt & Gravel Roads
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[10/25/2021]
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EQB Adopts Proposed Regulation Setting Compliance Schedules For Communities With Combined Sewer Overflow Problems
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[10/11/2021]
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AG Shapiro Charges Mariner East Pipeline With 48 Counts Of Environmental Crimes In 11 Counties
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[10/11/2021]
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Attorney General Shapiro's Statement Announcing 48 Environmental Criminal Charges Against The Mariner East Pipeline In 11 Counties
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[10/11/2021]
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Sen. Comitta Calls For Halt To Mariner East Pipeline Construction In Light Of Criminal Charges By Attorney General
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[10/11/2021]
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EQB Meets Oct. 19 On Proposed Regulation Setting Compliance Schedules For Communities With Combined Sewer Overflow Problems
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[10/11/2021]
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Republicans On House Environmental Committee Report Out Bill Redefining Water Pollution, Letting Companies Decide When To Report Spills
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[10/4/2021]
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Keep PA Beautiful’s Surveillance Cameras Catch Illegal Dumping In Michaux State Forest, Franklin County
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[10/4/2021]
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House Committee Meets October 4 On Bill Redefining Water Pollution, Letting Companies Decide When To Report Spills
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[9/6/2021]
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PUC PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Imposes $62,650 In Penalties
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[9/6/2021]
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DEP Approves Methods For Land Application Of Food Processing Residual Waste From Clinton County Meat Processor
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[8/23/2021]
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DEP Collects $85,000 Penalty For Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction Violations In Blair, Cumberland, Juniata, Lebanon Counties
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[8/16/2021]
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Sen. Muth, Rep. Friel Otten: One Year After Mariner East Pipeline Spill 33 Acres Of Marsh Creek State Park Lake Is Still Off Limits, No Remediation Done
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[8/16/2021]
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DEP Collects $140,000 Penalty From ETC Northeast Field Services For Pipeline Construction Violations In Beaver County
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[8/9/2021]
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House Republicans Now Want To Take Away All DEP’s Application Fee Revenue To Further De-Fund Environmental Protection Programs
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[6/7/2021]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 505 More Permit Reviews, 1,741 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[6/7/2021]
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DEP: Olympus Energy Natural Gas Driller Fined $175,000 For Water Quality Violations In Allegheny County
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[6/7/2021]
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DEP Publishes Section 401 Water Quality Certification For Revolution Pipeline In Western PA
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[5/30/2021]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 928 More Permit Reviews, 1,724 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[5/30/2021]
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PUC PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Imposes $34,750 In Penalties For Violations
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[5/24/2021]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 631 More Permit Reviews, 1,968 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[5/24/2021]
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Federal Court Approves DEP, EPA, DOJ Settlement With Chesapeake Appalachia For Failure To Identify, Protect Wetlands At 76 Gas Well Drilling Sites, $1.9 Million Penalty
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[5/17/2021]
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DEP Completes Over 101,000 Inspections During Pandemic Office Closure; Processed Over 41,000 Permits
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[5/10/2021]
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Bay Journal: PA Natural Gas Industry Embarrassed By 3 Environmental Scandals In 15 Months
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[5/10/2021]
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DEP: June 16 Virtual Hearing On Mariner East Pipeline Water Quality Permit Changes In Chester County Related To Marsh Creek Lake Spill
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[5/10/2021]
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DEP Processes Nearly 41,000 Permits During Pandemic Closure - 93% On Time
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[5/10/2021]
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House OKs 4 Bills On Killing Regulations By Doing Nothing; Shielding Law Violators; Mandating Private Review Of DEP Permit Applications
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[5/10/2021]
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Senators Santarsiero, Collett To Reintroduce Bills To Give Attorney General Direct Jurisdiction Over Prosecuting Environmental Crimes
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[5/10/2021]
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Lower Susquehanna RiverKeeper, EIP File Complaint In Federal Court Over City Of Harrisburg 800 Million Gallon Sewage Overflows
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[5/3/2021]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 784 More Permits, 1,824 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[5/3/2021]
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DEP: Westmoreland Landfill, County Hauling Will Pay $25,000 Penalty, $25,000 In Lieu Of Penalty For Waste Transportation Violations
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[5/3/2021]
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PUC: Damage Prevention Committee Imposes $44,750 In Penalties For PA One Call Violations
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[4/26/2021]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 953 More Permits, 1,907 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[4/26/2021]
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Chester County District Attorney Files Civil Complaint Against Sunoco/Energy Transfer On Mariner East Pipeline To Address Environmental Violations
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[4/26/2021]
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Senate Committee Meets April 27 To Consider Bills To Kill Regulations By Doing Nothing, Repeal Regs Because They Have Too Many Words, Shield Law Breakers, And More
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[4/26/2021]
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Republicans On House Committee OK Bills Killing Regulations By Doing Nothing; Shielding Law Violators; Mandating Private Review Of DEP Permit Applications
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[4/19/2021]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 722 More Permits, 2,034 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[4/19/2021]
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PUC Judge’s Opinion Orders Sunoco To Improve Public Safety, Emergency Outreach Measures, Rebury Pipelines Related To Mariner East Pipeline Project, Full PUC Approval Needed
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[4/19/2021]
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House Committee Meets April 20 To Consider Bills Killing Regulations By Doing Nothing; Shielding Law Violators; Mandating Private Review Of DEP Permit Applications
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[4/19/2021]
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EPA, DEP: May 4 Virtual Meeting Set To Take Comments On Proposed Settlement With American Zinc Recycling On Its Palmerton, Carbon County Facility
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[4/12/2021]
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DEP: Seward Generating Coal-Waste Power Plant To Pay $108,000 Penalty For Air Pollution Control Act Violations In Indiana County
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[4/12/2021]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 865 More Permits, 2,122 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[4/12/2021]
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EPA Settles Alleged Clean Air Act Violations For Diesel Truck Aftermarket Devices With 3 Companies In Berks, Montgomery Counties
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[4/5/2021]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 807 More Permits, 2,014 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[4/5/2021]
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DEP: Proposed Metal Bank Superfund Site Hazardous Sites Cleanup Settlement Includes $950,00 For Natural Resource Damage Restoration
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[4/5/2021]
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DEP Accepting Applications For County Recycling Coordinator, Host Municipality Inspector Grants
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[3/29/2021]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 745 More Permits, 1,887 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[3/29/2021]
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DEP, EPA, DOJ Reach $1.9 Million Agreement With Chesapeake Appalachia For Failure To Identify, Protect Wetlands At 76 Gas Well Drilling Sites
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[3/29/2021]
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EPA Checking Up On PA Dentists To Ensure Compliance With Rules To Reduce Mercury-Containing Amalgam Waste
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[3/22/2021]
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DEP Finishes One Year Working Remotely Thru Pandemic: 703 More Permits, 2,062 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[3/15/2021]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 795 More Permits, 2,407 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[3/15/2021]
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AG Shapiro: $5.3 Million Natural Gas Royalty Restitution From Chesapeake Energy For PA Property Owners
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[3/8/2021]
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DEP Order Requires Payment Of $125,000 Penalty For Latest Revolution Natural Gas Pipeline Construction Violations In Beaver County
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[3/8/2021]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 946 More Permits, 2,170 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[3/8/2021]
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EPA: UCT Facility In Bucks County To Pay $44,880 Penalty For Hazardous Waste Violations
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[3/1/2021]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 698 More Permits, 1,762 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[3/1/2021]
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DEP Collects $497,000, Fish & Boat Commission Collects $25,855 In Penalties For Latest Violations Involving Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction In Lebanon County
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[3/1/2021]
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Bay Journal: Federal Judge To Fine Lebanon County Poultry Plant As 'Deterrent To Others' For Polluting Streams
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[3/1/2021]
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DEP/U.S. Dept. Of Justice Invite Comments On Proposed American Zinc Consent Decree For Facility In Palmerton, Carbon County
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[2/22/2021]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 702 More Permits, 1,696 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[2/15/2021]
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DEP: Range Resources Pays $294,000 Penalty For Delaying The Plugging Of 42 Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In 8 Counties
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[2/15/2021]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 755 More Permits, 1,979 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[2/8/2021]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 575 More Permits, 2,100 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[2/8/2021]
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EPA Settles With City Of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority On Stormwater Violations
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[2/1/2021]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 796 More Permits, 1,902 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[2/1/2021]
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House Republicans Introduce Bills To Raid Dedicated Environmental Funds, Cripple Solar Energy, Shield Violators From Enforcement
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[2/1/2021]
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DEP: Covanta Waste To Energy Plant In Montgomery County Pays $218,393 Penalty For Air Violations
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[1/25/2021]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 674 More Permits, 1,597 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[1/25/2021]
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Senate Republicans Add Bills To Kill Regulations By Doing Nothing, Shield Violators From Enforcement To Environmental Agenda
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[1/18/2021]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 663 More Permits, 1,903 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[1/11/2021]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 553 More Permits, 1,311 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[1/4/2021]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 297 More Permits, 1,149 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[12/28/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 853 More Permits, 1,705 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[12/21/2020]
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PUC Bureau Of Investigation Proposes $1 Million Penalty For Multiple Violations That Led To Explosion Of Revolution Natural Gas Pipeline In Beaver County
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[12/21/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 921 More Permits, 2,013 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[12/21/2020]
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DEP: CrossAmerica Partners To Pay $125,000 Penalty For Violations At 18 Underground Storage Tank Facilities In SE PA
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[12/21/2020]
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KPB Surveillance Cameras Catch Illegal Dumping In Michaux State Forest; Reports Of Illegal Dumping Up 212% In 2020
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[12/14/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 855 More Permits, 2,027 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[12/14/2020]
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Energy Transfer Partners Files Appeal Of DEP Order To Keep Natural Gas Out Of Unstable Section Of Revolution Pipeline That Exploded In 2018
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[12/14/2020]
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DEP Invites Comments On Energy Transfer Partners Erosion & Sedimentation Permits For Revolution Pipeline Slope Failure Fixes
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[12/14/2020]
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DEP Settles With Keystone Landfill In Lackawanna County For In-Lieu Of Penalty Project Over Water Pollution Caused By Leachate
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[12/7/2020]
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Bay Journal: How EPA, State Environmental Regulators Loosened Pollution Reins During Early Days Of COVID Pandemic
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[12/7/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 341 More Permits, 1,052 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[12/7/2020]
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Joint Conservation Committee: Spotlight On Organizations Fighting Illegal Dumping & Littering
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[11/30/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 686 More Permits, 2,052 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[11/23/2020]
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Republicans On House Environmental Committee Move Bill Redefining Water Pollution, Resolution Opposing Power Plant Carbon Pollution Reduction Reg
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[11/23/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 597 More Permits, 1,673 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[11/23/2020]
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Koppers, Inc. Settles With EPA For Alleged Violations Of Oil Spill Prevention Regs In PA, WV
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[11/16/2020]
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DEP Orders Energy Transfer Partners To Keep Natural Gas Out Of Unstable Sections Of Revolution Pipeline That Exploded In 2018
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[11/16/2020]
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House Environmental Committee Meets Nov. 17 On Bill Redefining Water Pollution, Letting Companies Decide When They Report Spills
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[11/16/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 623 More Permits, 1,935 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[11/16/2020]
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DEP Issues $266,987 Penalty Against Luzerne County Man For Violations At Waste Tire Site
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[11/9/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 879 More Permits, 2,161 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[11/9/2020]
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DEP: Penalty Agreement Calls For Grand Central Landfill To Clean Up Illegal Dump Site In Northampton County
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[11/2/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 737 More Permits, 2,088 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[11/2/2020]
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PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Imposes $120,000 In Penalties For Violations
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[10/26/2020]
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Conservation Districts, Join Wildlife, Environmental Groups In Opposing Bill Redefining Water Pollution, Letting Companies Decide When They Report Spills
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[10/26/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 946 More Permits, 1,572 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[10/19/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 548 More Permits, 1,228 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[10/19/2020]
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DEP: Westmoreland Landfill To Pay $59,000 Penalty To Address Multiple Violations
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[10/12/2020]
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DEP: Columbia Gas Will Pay $156,000 Penalty For Pipeline Construction Violations In Greene County
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[10/12/2020]
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Clean Air Council Files Intent To Sue Sunoco Over Mariner East II Pipeline Construction Permits
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[10/12/2020]
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28 Environmental Organizations Demand DEP Revoke Mariner East Pipeline Permit For Lebanon County Spills
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[10/12/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 872 More Permits, 2,594 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[10/5/2020]
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DEP Settlements Impose Total Of $427,650 In Penalties On EQM For Pipeline Construction Violations in Greene, Washington, Westmoreland Counties
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[10/5/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 633 More Permits, 1,815 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[10/5/2020]
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Trout Unlimited Opposes Senate Bill 619 To Redefine Water Pollution In PA Saying It Will Harm Aquatic Life, Human Health
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[10/5/2020]
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PA Environmental Council, EDF Oppose ‘Sweeping And Unwarranted’ Changes In Definition Of Water Pollution In Senate Bill 619
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[9/28/2020]
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DEP Collects $736,000 From TransCo For Atlantic Sunrise Pipeline Violations In 9 Counties
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[9/28/2020]
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PUC Orders Sunoco Pipeline L.P. To Conduct Public Education & Awareness Meeting In Cumberland County
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[9/28/2020]
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DEP OKs Permit Changes For Mariner East 2 Pipeline In Delaware, Chester Counties
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[9/28/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 758 More Permits, 1,404 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[9/28/2020]
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House Environmental Committee Holds Sept. 30 Info Meeting On Bill Redefining Spills, Discharges To Streams As No Longer Pollution
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[9/28/2020]
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EPA Settlement Requires MarkWest Natural Gas Processing Facility To Pay $150,000 Penalty For Air Violations In Butler County
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[9/28/2020]
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PUC's Damage Prevention Committee Imposes $72,750 In Penalties For PA One Call Violations
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[9/21/2020]
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DEP Reports Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Had Nearly Twice The Violations Of Shale Gas Wells; DEP To Develop New Conventional Drilling Regs
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[9/21/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 685 More Permits, 1,650 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[9/14/2020]
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DEP Orders Sunoco To Reroute 1+ Mile Of Mariner East Pipeline, Investigate Chester County Marsh Creek Lake Spill, Restore Impacted Resources
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[9/14/2020]
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Senate Republicans Report Out Bills Killing Regulations By Doing Nothing, Shielding Violators From Penalties
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[9/14/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 576 More Permits, 1,491 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[9/7/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 744 More Permits, 1,526 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[8/31/2020]
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Mariner East Pipeline Can Resume Construction In Chester County Under Temporary Supercedeas Granted By Environmental Hearing Board
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[8/31/2020]
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31 Environmental, Conservation Groups Demand DEP Revoke Mariner East Pipeline Permits
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[8/31/2020]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council Commends DEP Staff For Working Thru COVID-19 Pandemic
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[8/31/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 674 More Permits, 1,681 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[8/24/2020]
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DEP Assesses $355,000 Penalty On Sunoco For 2018, 2019 Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction Violations
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[8/24/2020]
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Legislators Issue Call For Revocation Of Mariner East Pipeline Permits In Chester County
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[8/24/2020]
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DEP: CNX Gas Company Agrees To Pay $175,000 Penalty For Uncontrolled Methane Leaks At The Shaw Well In Westmoreland County
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[8/24/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 676 More Permits, 1,660 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[8/17/2020]
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Mariner East Pipeline Drilling Stopped Indefinitely At Site Of Leak Into Marsh Creek State Park Lake, Chester County; Pipeline Company Will Be Held Accountable
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[8/17/2020]
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Clean Air Council: Another Spill From Construction Of Sunoco's Mariner East II Pipeline In Chester County
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[8/17/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 582 More Permits, 1,713 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[8/17/2020]
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PUC: PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Assesses $78,100 In Penalties For Violations
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[8/17/2020]
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DEP: Chestnut Valley Landfill To Play $25,000 Penalty In Fayette County
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[8/10/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 734 More Permits, 1,575 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[8/3/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 577 More Permits, 1,549 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[7/27/2020]
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DEP: CNX Gas Pays $310,000 Penalty For Violations During, After Pipeline Construction In Washington County
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[7/27/2020]
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AG Shapiro Charges National Fuel Gas Supply, Subcontractor With Environmental Crimes Related To Pipeline Construction In Washington County
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[7/27/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 582 More Permits, 1,392 More Inspections Since Last Week; Not Accepting New Reg Suspension Requests
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[7/27/2020]
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PUC: PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Assesses $80,750 In Penalties For Violations
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[7/27/2020]
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Regulation Lowering Sulfur Standard For Heating Oil From 500 To 15 ppm Now Final; Enforcement Suspended Until Feb. 28
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[7/20/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 770 More Permits, 1,560 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[7/20/2020]
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PUC: Pipeline Safety Investigation Underway Involving Sunoco Pipeline Under Construction In West Whiteland Twp., Chester County
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[7/20/2020]
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AG Shapiro Announces Settlement With Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority Over Lead Water Pipes
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[7/13/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 597 More Permits, 1,402 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[7/6/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 475 More Permits, 1,656 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[6/29/2020]
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AG Shapiro: Grand Jury Finds Pennsylvania Failed To Protect Citizens During Natural Gas Fracking Boom
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[6/29/2020]
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Reactions/Comments: Grand Jury Report On Regulatory Failures During Natural Gas Fracking Boom
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[6/29/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 621 More Permits, 1,164 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[6/22/2020]
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Attorney General Shapiro Files Criminal Charges Against Cabot Oil & Gas For Water, Methane Contamination In Dimock, Susquehanna County
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[6/22/2020]
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Washington County Watershed Alliance Receives $100,000 Donation From Range Resources As A Result Of Criminal Charges Settlement
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[6/22/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 645 More Permits, 1,494 More Inspections Since Last Week; DEP To Open Electronic Permit Application Dropbox
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[6/22/2020]
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Damage Prevention Committee Fines Underground Facility Owners, Excavators and Project Owners $119,000 For Violations
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[6/15/2020]
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Senate Republicans Move Bills To Block Regulations Because They Have Too Many Words; Promote Expensive 3rd Party Permit Reviews
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[6/15/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 638 More Permits, 1,680 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[6/15/2020]
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Attorney General Shapiro: Range Resources Pleads No Contest To Negligent Oversight Of Natural Gas Well Sites In Washington County; To Pay $150,000 In Penalties, Contributions
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[6/8/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 914 More Permits, 1,677 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[6/1/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 484 More Permits, 1,212 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[5/25/2020]
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PUC Approves 2nd Order On Reporting Integrity Of Sunoco's Mariner East 1 Pipeline, Leaves $200,000 Penalty In Place
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[5/25/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 537 More Permits, 1,582 More Inspections Since Last Week
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[5/25/2020]
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DEP Invites Public, Businesses, Local Governments To Rate Their Experience With The Agency During The Pandemic Shutdown
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[5/25/2020]
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PUC PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Assesses $39,250 In Penalties
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[5/18/2020]
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DEP Works Thru Pandemic: 1,343 More Permits, 3,317 More Inspections Over Last Week
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[5/18/2020]
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DEP Teaching Green Environmental Education Success Stories
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[5/11/2020]
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Inquirer.com Editorial: Bad Timing For Harrisburg's Anti-Environmental Efforts
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[5/11/2020]
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Op-Ed: Conservation District Week, Time To Reflect On The Real Economic, Environmental Benefits Of Districts
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[5/11/2020]
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DEP Works Through Pandemic: 506 More Permits, 1,576 More Inspections Over Last Week
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[5/11/2020]
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Newport Twp. Police, DCNR Take On 40 ATV Riders Illegally Riding, Littering On Reclaimed Land, Pinchot State Forest In Luzerne County
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[5/11/2020]
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AG Shapiro: Inflection Energy to Pay $40,000 To Conservation Groups For Polluting Lycoming County Water
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[5/11/2020]
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PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Holds May 12 Telephonic Meeting
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[5/4/2020]
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DEP Works Through Pandemic: 2,881 Permits, 5,525 Inspections, 42 Emergencies
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[4/27/2020]
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Chesapeake Bay Foundation-PA Urges DEP To Enforce All Environmental Laws
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[4/20/2020]
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DEP Will Continue To Enforce Environmental Laws; 10 COVID-19 Related Waivers Granted
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[4/20/2020]
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Rep. Metcalfe 'Demands' DEP Stand Down On Environmental Regulations During COVID-19 Shutdown
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[4/20/2020]
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House Republicans Find A New Way To Stop Environmental Regulations
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[4/20/2020]
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DEP Fines Range Resources $198,920 For Air Quality Violations In Washington County
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[4/13/2020]
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DEP Issues New Guidance On Inspections, Permit Enforcement, Waivers Of Permit, Regulatory Provisions During COVID-19 Pandemic
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[4/13/2020]
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The Last Line Of Environmental Defense Is You - Report Environmental Problems
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[4/13/2020]
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Keep PA Beautiful Urges Residents To Report Illegal Dumping Thru New Report It Webpage
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[4/13/2020]
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DEP Settlement With CNX For E&S Violations In Greene, Washington Counties Yields $180,000 Streambank, Fish Habitat Project
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[4/13/2020]
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DEP Extends Deadline For Host Municipal Inspector Grant Applications
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[4/6/2020]
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DEP Reports Conducting 1,750 Inspections, Investigations From March 16-31
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[4/6/2020]
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Allegheny County Health Dept. Air Pollution Enforcement Not Impact By Temporary EPA Enforcement Policy
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[4/6/2020]
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Post-Gazette: PA Faces New Wave Of Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells
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[4/6/2020]
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PUC PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Takes 51 Enforcement Actions For Violations
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[3/30/2020]
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EPA Announces Enforcement Discretion Policy Related To COVID-19 Pandemic
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[3/16/2020]
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GASP: Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Fined $13,000 For Air Pollution Violations In Allegheny County
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[3/9/2020]
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PUC Damage Prevention Committee Assesses $110,575 In Penalties For PA One Call Violations
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[3/2/2020]
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PUC Requires Remaining Life Study, Public Reporting On Integrity Of Sunoco's Mariner East I Pipeline; Issues $200,000 Penalty
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[2/24/2020]
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DEP Fines Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill $24,000 To Resolve Waste Violations; Drilling Waste Impacts On Leachate
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[2/10/2020]
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Senate Environmental Committee Reports Out Bills On Alternative On-Lot Sewage Systems, Waste Tire Dumping Fine Legislation
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[2/3/2020]
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PUC Enforcement Bureau Seeks $8.8 Million Penalty Against Texas Company For Deceptive Energy Marketing
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[2/3/2020]
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Keep PA Beautiful: Illegal Dumping Caught In Dauphin County; Free Surveillance Camera Loan Program Available
|
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[2/3/2020]
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PA Capitol Report: Wolf Makes Nearly $6 Billion In Pre-Budget Address Announcements
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[2/3/2020]
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Game Commission: Purple Paint Means No Trespassing
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[1/20/2020]
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DEP Issues $1.95 Million Penalty To Sunoco For Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction Violations At Raystown Lake, Huntingdon County
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[1/20/2020]
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DEP Orders Range Resources To Address Methane Leaking Into The Air, 12 Water Wells, Groundwater From A Marcellus Gas Well In Lycoming County Since 2013
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[1/20/2020]
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Bay Journal: Can EPA Enforce The Chesapeake Bay's Pollution Diet?
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[1/20/2020]
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GASP: Allegheny County Health Dept. Fines Clairton Coke (Coal) Works $743,625
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[1/13/2020]
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Game Commission: Deer Abuse Charges Filed Against 2 In Jefferson County
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[1/13/2020]
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Pittsburgh Water Authority Reports On 2019 Community Lead Response Program
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[1/6/2020]
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DEP Issues $30.6 Million Penalty Over ETC Revolution Pipeline Explosion Violations; Lifts Permit Bar
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[1/6/2020]
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PUC PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Imposes $124,725 In Penalties
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[12/30/2019]
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Act 54 Report Again Finds 40% Of Streams Suffered Loss Of Flow, Pooling, Reduction In Biological Activity Due To Impacts From Underground Coal Mining
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[12/30/2019]
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DEP Agreement Allows Hemp Facility To Resume Limited Operations, Pays $29.000 Fine In Westmoreland County
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[12/23/2019]
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DEP Orders Aliquippa Water Authority To Address Iron, Manganese Issue In Drinking Water
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[12/23/2019]
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Covanta Environmental Solutions, LLC Pays DEP $400,000 Penalty To Resolve Waste Violations In Lawrence County
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[12/16/2019]
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DEP Invites Comments On Proposed Policy On Radiation Protection Compliance & Enforcement
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[12/9/2019]
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Chester County DA Charges Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline, Security Firms With Bribery, Conspiracy Regarding Mariner East Pipeline
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[12/9/2019]
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PUC Work Group On Lead Water Line & Damaged Wastewater Line Replacement Meets Dec. 19
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[12/9/2019]
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DEP Orders Westmoreland County Hemp Drying Facility To Cease Operations Due To Air Pollution Violations
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[12/9/2019]
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PUC PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Imposes $83,975 In Penalties
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[12/2/2019]
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New Purdue Study: Serious Precautions Need To Be Taken To Prevent Pollution From CIPP Plastic Liner Pipe Repair Process Believed Cause Of Letort Spring Run Fish Kill
|
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[12/2/2019]
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DEP Obtains $229,950 Civil Penalty Against Clarion Boards, LLC For Air Pollution Violations In Clarion County
|
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[11/18/2019]
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AP: FBI Opens Corruption Investigation Into How Wolf Administration Approved Mariner East Pipelines
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[11/4/2019]
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DEP Reaches $650,000 Settlement With Greene County Gas Storage Field Operator For Oil & Gas Act Violations
|
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[11/4/2019]
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AFCO C&S, LLC In Chambersburg To Pay Over $1.4 Million In Penalties To EPA In Settlement Of Pesticide Violations
|
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[11/4/2019]
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Lackawanna County Company Pays DEP $75,000 Penalty For Environmental Violations
|
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[10/28/2019]
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New Trout Unlimited Report Documents Repeated Pollution Events During Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction In PA, Central Appalachia
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[10/28/2019]
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AG Shapiro, 22 Other AGs Oppose EPA’s Proposed Rule To Limit States’ Clean Water Act Oversight Of Pipelines, Other Projects
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[10/14/2019]
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DEP Reaches Settlement With CNX On Well Plugging Violations At 141 Conventional Coalbed Methane & Gas Wells, 5 Unconventional Gas Wells In 4 Southwest Counties
|
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[10/14/2019]
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Senate Bill Creates Higher Penalties For Trespass Involving Pipelines, Critical Infrastructure; Companion To Bill Making Protesters Responsible For Response Costs
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[10/14/2019]
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EPA Settles Federal Clean Air Act Violations At ARG Refinery In Bradford, McKean County
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[10/14/2019]
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DEP Suspends Xtreme Energy Natural Gas Well Permits For Failure To Pay Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee
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[9/30/2019]
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DEP Reaches $19,410 Penalty Settlement With Luzerne County Soap Manufacturer
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[9/22/2019]
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New Allegheny County Sanitary Authority Agreement With Feds Includes Green Infrastructure, $2 Billion Plan To Help Control 6.6 Billion Gallons Of Wet Weather Sewer Overflows
|
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[9/22/2019]
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Pittsburgh Water Authority 10 Months Ahead Of DEP Schedule In Replacing Lead Drinking Water Service Lines
|
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[9/22/2019]
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DEP Investigates High Concentrations Of Benzene Emitted In The Area Of Erie Coke (Coal) Plant
|
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[9/16/2019]
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EPA To Announce Approval Of Allegheny County Sanitary Authority’s Plan To Control Sewage Overflows Sept. 19
|
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[9/16/2019]
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PUC Investigating Subsidence Involving Several Pipelines Near Site Of Sunoco Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction In Delaware County
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[9/16/2019]
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DEP Orders Sunoco To Cover Exposed Natural Gas Liquids, Other Petroleum Pipelines At 43 Locations Across The State
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[9/16/2019]
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Court: Sen. Dinniman Did Not Have Standing To Bring A Complaint To PUC Over Mariner East Pipeline Construction Failures
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[9/16/2019]
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GASP: DEP Asks Hearing Board Judge To Certify Appealability Of Erie Coke (Coal) Plant Aug. 28 Ruling
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[9/9/2019]
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DEP Enters Agreement With Pittsburgh Water & Sewer Authority For Critical Upgrades To Highland 2 Reservoir
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[9/2/2019]
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DEP Issues Sunoco $319,461 In Penalties For Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction Violations In 2017, 2018; Fines Now Total $13 Million+
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[9/2/2019]
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Consol Longwall Coal Mining Damage Settlement Funds New Swimming Pool Complex At Ryerson Station State Park, Greene County
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[9/2/2019]
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GASP: EHB Judge Allows Erie Coke (Coal) Plant To Operate During Permit Appeal, With Conditions
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[9/2/2019]
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PUC PA One Call Compliance Committee Imposes $47,250 In Penalties For Violating Excavation Rules Near Pipelines, Other Underground Utilities
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[8/26/2019]
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DEP Terminates Some Permit Review, Inspection Authority Delegated To Beaver Conservation District
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[8/26/2019]
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Environmental Groups Praise DEP For Revoking Beaver Conservation District's Authority Over Pipeline Permits, Call For More Action
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[8/26/2019]
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DEP Issues Carlisle Notice Of Violation Related To Letort Spring Run Fish Kill; Pipe Repair Process Used Has Caused Contamination In Other States
|
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[8/19/2019]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission To Consider Mariner East 2 Pipeline Violations Settlement Agreement Sept. 6
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[8/19/2019]
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New PennEnvironment Report Highlights Clean Air Enforcement Challenges In Pittsburgh
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[8/19/2019]
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EPA: Librandi’s Plating Agrees To Settlement Of Pretreatment Violations, Pay $30,000 Penalty In Dauphin County
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[8/12/2019]
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PUC Appoints Receiver To Operate Indian Springs Water Company In Luzerne County
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[8/12/2019]
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DEP, Erie Coke (Coal) Plant Submit Final Arguments In Environmental Hearing Board Case
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[8/5/2019]
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Bay Journal: Brunner Island Power Plant In York County To Stop Coal Ash Pollution, Pay $1 Million Fine To DEP
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[8/5/2019]
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DEP Signs $750,000 Penalty Agreement With PQ Corporation For Air Violations In Chester, Delaware County
|
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[8/5/2019]
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Fish & Boat Commission Reports 200+ Fish Kill In Letort Spring Run, Cumberland County
|
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[7/29/2019]
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Addition Of Orthophosphate To Pittsburgh Water Authority System Reducing Lead In Water, But Lead Remains Above Action Level
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[7/29/2019]
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DEP To Conduct Air Quality Sampling Around Erie Coke (Coal) Plant
|
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[7/29/2019]
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PUC Seeks $4.533 Million Penalty Against Med-Ed For Fatal Electrocution In Northampton County
|
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[7/22/2019]
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PUC PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Assesses $44,150 In Penalties For Hitting Pipelines, Underground Utilities
|
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[7/8/2019]
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DEP Denies Erie Coke (Coal) Operating Permit; Files For Injunction To Close Plant Following Numerous Violations
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[7/8/2019]
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Environmental NewsClips - All Topics
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[7/1/2019]
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Senate Republicans Pass Senate Bill 619 Fundamentally Changing Definition Of Water Pollution Effectively Making Spills And Discharges To Streams No Longer Pollution
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[7/1/2019]
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CBF-PA Urges House Not To Act On Senate Bill 619 Redefining Water Pollution
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[7/1/2019]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Enters Into $18,500 Settlement With Sunoco Mariner East II Pipeline
|
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[7/1/2019]
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PUC PA 1 Call Damage Prevention Committee Imposes $180,850 In Penalties For Violations
|
|
[6/23/2019]
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Call To Action: Republican Bill Moves To Fundamentally Change Definition Of Water Pollution In Pennsylvania
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[6/23/2019]
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Great Lakes State Governors, Canadian Premiers Support Law Enforcement Efforts To Hold Invasive Species Offenders Accountable
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[6/17/2019]
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EPA: City Of Philadelphia To Pay $8.4 Million In Cleanup Costs For Delaware County Superfund Site
|
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[6/17/2019]
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EPA: Bemis Company, Inc. Settles Hazardous Waste Violations At Plastic Bag Manufacturing Facility In West Hazleton
|
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[6/17/2019]
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Electricity Marketer Astral Energy LLC To Pay PUC $6,000 Penalty
|
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[6/10/2019]
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Senate Environmental Committee Reports Out Bills Making Fundamental Changes To The Definition Of Water Pollution, Setting Up Costly Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Program
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[6/10/2019]
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House Committee Sends Bill On Enforcing Safety Warnings For Low-Head Dams To Full House
|
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[6/10/2019]
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AG Shapiro Makes Arrest In Case Of Falsified Water Sample Lab Results In Berks, Lancaster Counties
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[6/3/2019]
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Senate Environmental Committee To Consider Bills June 4 To Compensate Gas Rights Owners, Make Changes In Definition Of Pollution
|
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[6/3/2019]
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House Game & Fisheries Committee Meets June 5 On Enforcing Safety Warnings For Low-Head Dams
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[6/3/2019]
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EPA Issues Low-RVP Gasoline Waiver For Allegheny County Due To A Failure In The Buckeye Laurel Pipeline
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[6/3/2019]
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PUC Investigation Of Natural Gas Explosion In Clarion County Includes Nearby Pipelines
|
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[6/3/2019]
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PUC Underground Utility Damage Prevention Committee Imposes $78,700 In Penalties For Violations
|
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[5/20/2019]
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DEP Orders Energy Transfer To Restore Waterways Impacted During Construction Of Revolution Pipeline In 4 Counties
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[5/20/2019]
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Senators Santarsiero, Collett To Introduce Bill Giving Attorney General Concurrent Jurisdiction Over Certain Environmental Crimes
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[5/13/2019]
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DEP Collected $330,775 In Penalties For Violations At EQT Drilling Sites In Allegheny County
|
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[5/13/2019]
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DEP Cites Erie (Coal) Coke For Numerous Unresolved Air Quality Violations
|
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[5/6/2019]
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PUC's PA One Call Enforcement Committee Imposes $57,775 In Penalties For Hitting Pipelines, Underground Utilities
|
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[5/6/2019]
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DEP Oil & Gas Program Reported 94 Violations At 168 Conventional Well Facilities During 1 Week In April
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[4/22/2019]
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Sunoco/Energy Transfer Partners Gives PUC Notice It Will Restart Mariner East 1 Pipeline Monday
|
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[4/22/2019]
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PUC Investigation Finds No Petroleum Pipeline Leak In Berks County
|
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[4/15/2019]
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DEP: $25,000 Penalty In Settlement Dealing With Overfeed Of Fluoride In City Of Franklin Water System
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[4/15/2019]
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PUC Pipeline Safety Division Investigates Harrisburg House Explosion; Hershey Gas Line Hit Probe Continuing
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[4/15/2019]
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PUC Marks Safe Digging Month; Highlights Actions Of PA 1 Call Damage Prevention Committee
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[4/15/2019]
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PUC Seeks Comments On Proposed Settlement With Vista Energy Marketing
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[4/8/2019]
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$200,000 Penalty Proposed In PUC Settlement Of 2017 Mariner East 1 Pipeline Leak Case
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[4/8/2019]
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House Environmental Committee Meets April 9 To Consider Erosion Permit Review Deadlines, Requiring Municipal Notice Of Waste Violations
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[4/8/2019]
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PPG Industries To Pay $1.2 Million Penalty To DEP For Disposal Site Violations In Armstrong County
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[4/8/2019]
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Hold Erie Coke Accountable/GASP Community Update On April 16 In Erie
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[4/8/2019]
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PUC Safety Engineers Probe UGI Natural Gas Distribution Line Hit In Hershey
|
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[4/8/2019]
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PUC Outlines What Behavior Consumers Should Expect From PA's Retail Energy Marketing Companies
|
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[4/1/2019]
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PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Imposes $75,000 In Penalties
|
|
[3/25/2019]
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PUC Pipeline Safety Investigation Underway Involving Possible Sunoco Gasoline Pipeline Leak In Berks County On March 17
|
|
[3/18/2019]
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Attorney General, Delaware County DA Conducting Joint Investigation Into Mariner East Pipelines
|
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[3/18/2019]
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DEP Reaches Settlement On Diversified Gas & Oil Abandoned Conventional Wells
|
|
[3/18/2019]
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Vista Energy Marketing To Pay $52,700 Penalty To PUC In Door-To-Door Energy Sales Case
|
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[3/11/2019]
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House DEP Budget Hearing 2: Only 0.30% Of DEP Final Actions Were Appealed In 2018; 25 Fewer Attorney Positions
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[3/11/2019]
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DEP Assesses $1.5 Million Penalty Against Beta Trunk Pipeline For Unstable Slope, Construction Violations In Greene County
|
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[2/18/2019]
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Environmental Groups To Sue Over Federal Clean Air Act Violations At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works, Other Facilities In Western PA
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[2/11/2019]
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DEP Puts Indefinite Hold On Reviewing Permits For All Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline Projects In PA
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[2/11/2019]
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Gov. Wolf: Urges General Assembly To Fill Gaps In State Regulation Of Pipelines
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[2/11/2019]
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DEP Approves Report On 2017 Slope Failure At Advanced Disposal Services Greentree Landfill In Elk County
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[2/11/2019]
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DEP: Wayne Memorial Health System To Pay $15,600 Penalty Over High X-Ray Radiation Levels
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[2/11/2019]
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DEP Orders Erie (Coal) Coke Corp. To Submit Control Plan To Resolve Online Air Quality Violations
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[2/11/2019]
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CANCELED-UC Underground Utility Line, Pipeline Damage Prevention Committee Meets Feb. 12
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[2/4/2019]
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Attorney General Files 161 Criminal Charges Against Pittsburgh Water Authority Over Lead Water Lines
|
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[1/28/2019]
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PUC Investigation Of Mariner East 1 Pipeline Sinkhole In Chester County Shifts To Geological Testing
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[1/28/2019]
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Chester County DA Says His Investigation Of Mariner East Pipelines Is Widening And Deepening After Latest Sinkhole Found
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[1/28/2019]
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Rep. Comitta, Sen. Killion Host Public Meeting Jan. 31 On Mariner East Pipeline Safety Concerns
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[1/21/2019]
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Post-Gazette: PUC Rejects Emergency Shutdown Request For Mariner East Pipelines; Full Case Will Move Forward
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[1/21/2019]
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Post-Gazette: DEP Says Energy Transfer LP Not Complying With Order To Stabilize Beaver County Pipeline Explosion Site
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[1/21/2019]
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Pittsburgh Water Authority’s Latest Drinking Water Samples Show Lead Levels Above EPA Standard
|
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[1/14/2019]
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AG Shapiro: PA To Receive $8.4 Million Settlement For Fiat Chrysler, Auto Supplier Robert Bosch Emissions Test Cheating
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[1/7/2019]
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PA One Call Damage Prevention Committee Takes Enforcement Action Against 42
|
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[12/24/2018]
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Chester County District Attorney Opens Criminal Investigation Into Mariner East Pipeline Construction
|
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[12/24/2018]
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Illegal Trash Bag Dumper Fined In Reading With Help Of Keep PA Beautiful Camera Loan Program
|
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[12/17/2018]
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PUC Enforcement Bureau Proposes $225,000 Penalty For 2017 Ethane/Propane Leak From Mariner East 1 Pipeline In Berks County
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[12/17/2018]
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KPB: Two Men Cited In Crackdown On Illegal Dumping In Arnold, Westmoreland County
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[12/10/2018]
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CBF-PA: Farm Conservation Plans Are Important, But Farmers Struggle To Implement Those Plans
|
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[12/10/2018]
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DEP: New Water System Completed For 700 Residents Affected By Industrial Pollution In Lackawanna County
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[12/3/2018]
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Inspections Find 96% Of Small Farms In PA Making Good Strides To Improve Water Quality In Chesapeake Bay Watershed
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[12/3/2018]
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EPA Settles Lead Safe Renovation Violations With Chester County Contractor
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[11/26/2018]
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PUC Announces PA One Call Enforcement Actions For Hitting Pipelines, Utilities During Construction
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[11/19/2018]
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DEP Fines EQT $294,000 For Release Of 4 Million Gallons Of Abandoned Mine Drainage Into Monongahela River
|
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[11/12/2018]
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First Meeting Of PA One Call Underground Utility Damage Prevention Committee Held
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[11/5/2018]
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DEP Inspections Find Unreported Landslides On Right-Of-Way Of Newly Constructed Revolution Pipeline In Western PA, Compliance Order Issued
|
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[10/29/2018]
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EPA Settles Lead Safe Renovation Violations With Bucks County Contractor
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[10/22/2018]
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DEP: 61 Watershed Restoration, Stormwater Projects Totaling $12.6 Million Funded By Mariner East 2 Pipeline Penalty
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[10/22/2018]
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EPA: Philadelphia Sunoco Service Station Pays $22,080 For Underground Storage Tank Violations
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[10/8/2018]
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Dept. Of Agriculture Issues General Quarantine Order To Address Rabies In Domestic Animals, 217 Cases In Animals This Year
|
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[10/1/2018]
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House Environmental Committee Amends Critical Infrastructure Security Bill To Set Penalties For Intentional Vandalism
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[9/24/2018]
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DEP: $469,501 Settlement To Resolve Civil Penalties For United Refining Company Violations In Warren County
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[9/24/2018]
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Senate Environmental Committee Holds Sept. 25 Hearing On Foreign Influence On Natural Gas Development In PA
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[9/24/2018]
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House Environmental Committee Meets Sept. 25 On Controversial Critical Infrastructure Trespass Bill
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[9/17/2018]
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Commonwealth Court Upholds $1.1 Million Penalty Against EQT Drilling For Wastewater Impoundment Leaks
|
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[9/10/2018]
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EPA Settles Multi-Site Stormwater Case Resolving 209 Violations By PennDOT
|
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[9/3/2018]
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DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Well Violations More Than Triple Between 2015-2017
|
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[8/20/2018]
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DEP Allows Mariner East 2 Pipeline To Resume Construction In Chester County; PUC OK Still Needed
|
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[8/20/2018]
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Environmental Groups Release 2017-18 PA Environmental Voting Scorecard
|
|
[8/13/2018]
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DEP Assesses $148,000 Penalty Against Mariner East 2 Pipeline For Violations in Berks, Chester, Lebanon Counties
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[8/6/2018]
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Public Utility Commission Partially Lifts Mariner East 2, 2x Pipeline Construction Shut Down In Chester County
|
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[7/30/2018]
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DEP Orders Well Operators To Plug 1,058 Abandoned Oil & Gas Wells
|
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[7/30/2018]
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Environmental Groups Reach Settlement With DEP On Mariner East 2 Pipeline Appeals
|
|
[7/16/2018]
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CNX Gas Company Pays $250,000 Penalty For Marchland 3 Pipeline Violations In Indiana County
|
|
[7/2/2018]
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Patriot News: Tapped Out, How PA's Drinking Water Program Is Hurting You; Lack Of Resources Is Putting Drinking Water In PA At Risk
|
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[7/2/2018]
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Scavello Bill Cracking Down On Littering, Illegal Dumping Becomes Law
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[6/25/2018]
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Senate Bill Updating Littering, Illegal Dumping Penalties Goes To Governor
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[5/28/2018]
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PUC Judge Issues Order To Shut Down Mariner East 1, 2, 2x Pipelines, Sunoco To Appeal
|
|
[5/28/2018]
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Bay Journal: Exelon Sues Maryland Over Unfair Burden Posed By Conowingo Dam Requirements
|
|
[5/7/2018]
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DEP Fines Mariner East 2 Pipeline Additional $355,000 For Violations
|
|
[5/7/2018]
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PUC Allows Restart Of Mariner East 1 Pipeline Operations Following Compliance With Emergency Order
|
|
[4/30/2018]
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DEP Issues $20,750 Penalty Against Carbon County Property Owner For Waste Violations
|
|
[4/23/2018]
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DEP Establishes New Water Quality Project Grant Program With $12.6 Million Mariner East 2 Pipeline Penalty
|
|
[4/23/2018]
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DEP Suspends Accreditation Of Analytical Laboratory Services, Inc. For Violations
|
|
[4/16/2018]
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EPA Threatens PA With Sanctions For Failing To Submit A Plan On Time To Reduce Particulate Pollution In Allegheny, Delaware, Lebanon Counties
|
|
[4/2/2018]
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PA Supreme Court Rules DEP Penalty Against EQT Drilling Not Supported By Clean Streams Law
|
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[3/26/2018]
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DEP Completes Surveillance Effort To Keep Lead Solder Products Off Shelves, Away From Water Lines
|
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[3/19/2018]
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PUC Ratifies Emergency Order Suspending Operations Of Mariner East 1 Pipeline
|
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[3/12/2018]
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PUC Orders Shutdown Of Mariner East 1 Pipeline After Sinkholes Expose Bare Pipeline In Chester County
|
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[3/12/2018]
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EPA Acts To Reduce Manganese Emissions From S.H. Bell Plant On PA-Ohio Border
|
|
[3/12/2018]
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DEP Imposes $600,000 Penalty On Eurofins QC Lab For Water Testing Violations
|
|
[2/19/2018]
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Sunoco Satisfies Requirements To Resume Mariner East II Pipeline Construction At Chester County Site
|
|
[2/12/2018]
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Sunoco Mariner East II Pipeline Fined $12.6 Million, DEP Allows Construction To Resume
|
|
[2/5/2018]
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Brodhead Watershed Assn, PennFuture Intervene In EHB Case To Protect Exceptional Value Streams
|
|
[1/29/2018]
|
Penn State Extension: Is Your Farm Ready For Inspection In PA's Chesapeake Bay Watershed?
|
|
[1/22/2018]
|
DEP: Lackawanna County Water Treatment Operator Agrees To Surrender Certifications After 130 False Water Reports
|
|
[1/22/2018]
|
DEP Fines Energy Corp Of America $1.7 Million For Drilling Violations In Greene, Clearfield Counties
|
|
[1/15/2018]
|
House Bill 1960 Short Circuits Imposition Of Fines, Penalties For Environmental Violations
|
|
[1/15/2018]
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Settlement With DEP On 10 Coal-Fired Power Plants Will Require Updating Of Water Quality Discharge Permits
|
|
[1/8/2018]
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DEP Suspends Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction Permits
|
|
[1/1/2018]
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DEP Assesses CNX Gas Drilling $433,500 For Violations In Greene County
|
|
[12/25/2017]
|
Lancaster Agrees To Curb Discharge Of Sewage, Other Pollutants To Conestoga River In EPA, DEP Settlement
|
|
[12/25/2017]
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DEP Now Accepting Applications For Host Municipality Inspector Reimbursements
|
|
[12/25/2017]
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EPA, DEP $1.5 Million Penalty Settlement With ArcelorMittal Monessen Coke Coal Plant
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[12/25/2017]
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DEP Will Do An Estimated 2,000 More Oil & Gas Inspections In 2017
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[12/18/2017]
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Attorney General Files Charges Against Company President For Illegally Storing, Disposing Of Hazardous Waste
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[12/18/2017]
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DEP On Track To Complete More Oil & Gas Drilling Site Inspections In 2017 Than 2016
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[12/11/2017]
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DEP Issues Cabot Oil & Gas $99,000 Penalty For Numerous Well Site Air Quality Violations In Susquehanna County
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[12/4/2017]
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DEP Issues $600,000 Penalty To Greentree Landfill, Elk County For Waste Slope Failure Involving Employee Death
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[11/20/2017]
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DEP/Pittsburgh Water Authority Agreement Could Allow $1.8 Million Investment In Lead Line Replacement
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[11/20/2017]
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Keep PA Beautiful Held Regional Waste And Recycling Roundtable In Meadville
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[10/30/2017]
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Chester County Judge Issues Opinion Reaffirming Decision To Dismiss SLAPP Suit Against Environmental Group
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[10/23/2017]
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DEP Warns Public Not To Dispose Of Tires At Luzerne County Business That Has No Permit
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[10/16/2017]
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DEP Collects $220,000 Penalty From Ohio Laboratory For Violations
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[9/11/2017]
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Chesapeake Bay Watershed Farm Inspections Find 60% Of Farms In Compliance Covering 390,000 Acres Of Farmland
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[9/4/2017]
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DEP Holds Webinar Sept. 6 On Expanded Chesapeake Bay Watershed Farm Inspections
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[8/21/2017]
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DEP/Ag: Successful First Year For Expanded Farm Inspections In Chesapeake Bay Watershed
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[8/21/2017]
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Keep PA Beautiful: 4 Pittsburgh Men Cited For Illegal Dumping
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[8/7/2017]
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StateImpact: Mapping Mariner East 2 Pipeline Spills Across Pennsylvania
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[7/24/2017]
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GASP Files Notice Of Intent To Sue Armstrong Cement For Air Violations In Butler County
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[7/24/2017]
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DEP Investigating Mariner East 2 Pipeline Existing And Potential Violations During Construction
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[7/24/2017]
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Delaware County Residents Appeal County Zoning Code Ruling On Mariner East 2 Pipeline
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[7/3/2017]
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Post-Gazette: EQT Drilling Again Challenges The Way DEP Calculates Penalties In $1.1 Million Fine Appeal
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[6/19/2017]
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PA Attorney General, 10 Other AGs Sue U.S. DOE Over Stalled Energy Efficiency Rules
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[6/5/2017]
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EHB Issues $1.1 Million Penalty Against EQT Drilling In Controversial Penalty Case
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[5/22/2017]
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Observer-Reporter: Consol Agrees Not To Mine Near Kent Run, Ryerson Station State Park
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[5/22/2017]
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Times Leader: Wilkes-Barre, Kingston Fined $37,000 By EPA For Not Complying With MS4 Stormwater Program
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[5/22/2017]
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DEP Seeks Input On Use Of $118M Volkswagen Settlement Fund To Reduce Air Pollution
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[5/22/2017]
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DEP: Conventional Oil & Gas Well Violations Up Nearly 80 Percent In 2016
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[5/15/2017]
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Will Gas Drilling Company Overturn The Way DEP Has Calculated Penalties For Nearly 40 Years? We’ll See
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[5/15/2017]
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Delaware Riverkeeper Files Suit Against Sunoco Mariner East 2 Pipeline For Failing To Comply With Local Zoning
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[5/8/2017]
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Inspectors Find Most PA Farms Trying To Comply With Conservation Regs, But Not All
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[5/8/2017]
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AG Shapiro Appoints Steve Santarsiero Chief Deputy For Environmental Protection
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[5/1/2017]
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Seneca Resources Assessed $375K Penalty For Multiple Violations At Drilling Operations
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[5/1/2017]
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Drilling Company, Environmental Group Appeal Indiana County Drilling Waste Injection Well Permit
|
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[4/17/2017]
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Delaware County Refinery Pays $400K In Penalties For 3 Years Of Air Quality Violations
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[4/17/2017]
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DEP: EM Energy Pipeline Assessed $185,000 Penalty For Surface Water, Wetland Impacts
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[4/17/2017]
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DEP: New Marcellus Shale Wells Drilled In First 3 Months Up Over 60 Percent
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[4/3/2017]
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AG Shapiro: $30.4 Million Damage Settlement With Volkswagen Over Vehicle Emissions
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[3/27/2017]
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DEP Orders Nulife To Remove 17 Million Pounds Of Cathode Ray Tubes Not Recycled
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[3/6/2017]
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WPX Energy Assessed $1.2 Million Civil Penalty For Groundwater, Water Supply Impacts
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[3/6/2017]
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New iPad App Makes DEP Oil And Gas Site Inspections More Efficient
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[2/27/2017]
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Sen. Scavello Renews Push To Increase Fines To Reduce Littering
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[2/6/2017]
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DEP Lifts Boil Water Notice For Pittsburgh Water Customers
|
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[1/30/2017]
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EHB Stops Longwall Mining Under Ryerson State Park Until Appeal Can Be Heard
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[1/9/2017]
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Conventional Drillers Have 5 Times The Violations, 3.5 Times The Enforcement Actions
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[1/2/2017]
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DEP Accepting Applications For Host Municipality Waste Inspector Program Grants
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[12/26/2016]
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PG PowerSource: PA To Get $110M From VW Settlement To Reduce Air Pollution
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[12/19/2016]
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Help Wanted: Keep PA Beautiful Enforcement Support Program Coordinator
|
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[12/13/2016]
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DEP Fines Rice Energy Subsidiaries $3.5 Million At 10 Well Sites, 6 Pipeline Locations
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[12/13/2016]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission OKs Penalties On Natural Gas Power Plants
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[12/13/2016]
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Dec. 13 Webinar: You Can Help Develop The National Energy Efficiency Registry
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[12/13/2016]
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Proposed Great American Power Marketing Settlement OK’d By PUC For Comment
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[12/5/2016]
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Lockheed Martin, DEP Settlement: $500K In Quehanna Nuclear Site Cleanup Costs
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|
[12/5/2016]
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SRBC Considers $97K Penalties Against 3 Natural Gas Power Plants Dec. 8
|
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[12/5/2016]
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Help Wanted: Keep PA Beautiful Enforcement Support Program Coordinator
|
|
[11/28/2016]
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DEP Suspends Stage II Vapor Recovery Enforcement For New, Modified Gasoline Stations
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[11/21/2016]
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Susquehanna River Commission Considers $97,000 In Penalties Against Natural Gas Power Plants Dec. 8
|
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[11/14/2016]
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DEP Suspends Enforcement Of Stage II In Southeast Due To Diminishing Benefits
|
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[10/31/2016]
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DEP Fines JKLM Energy $472,317 For Drilling Surfactant Discharge In Potter County
|
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[10/24/2016]
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PennDOT Fined $26,066 By EPA To Settle Underground Storage Tank Violations
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[10/24/2016]
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AG, Consumer Advocate Urge Consumers To Cash Energy Supplier Restitution Checks
|
|
[10/3/2016]
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Conservation District Farm Inspections Can Help Get PA Back On Track To Clean Water
|
|
[9/19/2016]
|
Clark Summit Man, Engineering Firm Indicted On Federal Clean Water Act Charges
|
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[9/5/2016]
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Bruce Beemer Sworn In As Attorney General After Unanimous Senate Confirmation
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[8/29/2016]
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DEP To Review Compliance Of Selected Farms In Chesapeake Bay Watershed
|
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[8/29/2016]
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DEP Fines Pipeline Companies $174K For Changing Plans Without Approval
|
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[8/22/2016]
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DEP Assesses $1M Penalty Against Montgomery County Company For Air Violations
|
|
[8/15/2016]
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PUC Orders $5.2M In Refunds, Penalties Against Respond Power For Deceptive Practices
|
|
[8/15/2016]
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PUC Approves $1 Million Settlement In Propane Explosion Case
|
|
[8/8/2016]
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Conventional Oil & Gas Violations Far Exceed Marcellus Wells Again In 2015
|
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[8/8/2016]
|
EPA, DEP Settlement With Consol Requires $3M Penalty, Upgrades To Protect Ohio River
|
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[8/8/2016]
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XTO Drilling To Pay $400,000 In Settlement Of Wastewater Dumping Charges
|
|
[7/25/2016]
|
Fish & Boat Commission Funds Sinnemahoning Watershed Restoration Projects
|
|
[7/25/2016]
|
EPA: Johnstown Dairy Company Fined For Improperly Handling Hazardous Substance
|
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[7/25/2016]
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DEP: Stonehenge Appalachia Pipeline To Pay $1.5M Penalty For Environmental Violations
|
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[7/18/2016]
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DEP: Pittsburgh Water Authority Lead Results Above Action Level, More Steps Needed
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[7/18/2016]
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DEP Revokes Storage Tank Certification Of Mott Tank Inspection, Inc.
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[6/27/2016]
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EPA: Yuengling To Pay $2.8 Million Penalty For Clean Water Act Violations
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[6/27/2016]
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DEP Fines UPMC $451,000 For Medical Waste Disposal Violations
|
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[6/27/2016]
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AG Files Charges Against Scranton Man For Improperly Storing Hazardous Waste
|
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[6/20/2016]
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DEP Assesses $42,666 Penalty For Fuel Oil Leak Into Lackawanna River
|
|
[6/20/2016]
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DEP Assesses $42,500 Penalty Against CWM Cleveland Environmental Lab
|
|
[5/23/2016]
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County Audit Finds Allegheny County Health Dept. Allows Industry To Pay To Pollute
|
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[5/23/2016]
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PUC Imposes $72,500 Penalty On Public Power LLC For Deceptive Marketing
|
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[5/16/2016]
|
DEP Notice Of Enforcement Policy For 500 PPM Heating Oil Sulfur Limit
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[5/9/2016]
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DOJ, EPA, DEP: $6.8 Million Penalty Against Schneider Electric USA For Superfund Site
|
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[5/9/2016]
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DEP Reaches Settlement With Talen Generation Over 2005 Martins Creek Ash Spill
|
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[5/2/2016]
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DEP Requires Lead Testing Of Pittsburgh Water Authority Water Supply
|
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[5/2/2016]
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Keep PA Beautiful Welcomes New Staff To Fight Illegal Dumping Across Pennsylvania
|
|
[4/18/2016]
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DEP Announces Settlement To Resolve Violations At York County Farm + $20,000 Fine
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[4/18/2016]
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DEP Assesses $25,898 Penalty Against Brunner Island For January Fish Kill
|
|
[4/11/2016]
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DEP Fines Rice Drilling $393,000 For Violations In Greene, Washington Counties
|
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[4/4/2016]
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Vermont Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Suspended By DEP
|
|
[3/28/2016]
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DEP Cites Monster & Mom & Bobo’s Car Wash For Illegal Tire Dump In Allegheny
|
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[3/21/2016]
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DEP Samples Show Crystal Spring Water At Acceptable Lead Levels In Berks County
|
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[3/21/2016]
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PUC Orders PaG&E To Refund $6.8 Million, Pay Penalties For Deceptive Marketing
|
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[3/14/2016]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Fines Cabot Oil & Gas $11,000
|
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[3/14/2016]
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DEP: Notice Of Lead Exceedance In Drinking Water Served By Berks County Vendor
|
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[2/29/2016]
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DEP OKs Coudersport Water Well Use After Contamination By Drilling Pad Spill
|
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[2/15/2016]
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PUC Invites Comments On PA Gas & Electric Deceptive Marketing During Polar Vortex
|
|
[2/1/2016]
|
Vogel Waste Pays $682,500 Penalty, To Improve Facilities In Butler, Mercer Counties
|
|
[2/1/2016]
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PennFuture Files Intent To Sue DEP, EPA, U.S. Steel Over Clairton Coke Works
|
|
[1/18/2016]
|
KPB Surveillance Camera Program Results In Over 30 Convictions For Illegal Dumping
|
|
[1/11/2016]
|
DEP Assesses $745K In Penalties Against Pipeline Company For Storage Tank Violations
|
|
[12/21/2015]
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CNX Gas Pays $450K In Penalties For Washington County Water Withdrawal Violations
|
|
[12/21/2015]
|
Host Municipal Inspector Grant Applications Due To DEP March 31
|
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[12/7/2015]
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Keep PA Beautiful Surveillance Cameras Catch Dumpers In Erie County
|
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[11/30/2015]
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DEP: Chesapeake Appalachia Fined $1.4 M For Drill Pad Landslide In Greene County
|
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[11/23/2015]
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EPA Settles Safety Violations With Gas Processing Facilities In McKean, Warren Counties
|
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[11/23/2015]
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Keep PA Beautiful, Washington County Court Cleanup 100th Illegal Dump
|
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[11/23/2015]
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DEP: $1.7 Million Penalty On PQ Corp. For Air Quality Violations In Delaware County
|
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[11/16/2015]
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Sunoco Pipeline Fined $59K For Pipeline Wetlands Violations By DEP
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[10/19/2015]
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Attorney General Charges 2 With Dumping Sewage In Carbon County
|
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[10/12/2015]
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DEP Fines Microbac Laboratory, Inc. $125,00 In Lehigh County, 3rd Major Lab Action
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[9/28/2015]
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DEP Revokes Lab Accreditation For Cedar Grove Environmental, Inc. In Chester County
|
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[9/21/2015]
|
Fish Commission Reaches $2.5M Settlement Over Dunkard Creek Fish Kill
|
|
[9/21/2015]
|
Attorney General Charges Bucks County Man With Illegal Dumping
|
|
[9/21/2015]
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DEP Reaches Penalty Agreement With Research Laboratory REI Consultants
|
|
[9/21/2015]
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DEP: Keystone Cement Fined $197,203 For Air Quality Violations In Northampton
|
|
[9/7/2015]
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DEP Surveillance Program Shows Most Stores Complying With Lead Ban Act
|
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[8/31/2015]
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DEP Assesses $374,000 In Penalties For Methane Gas Migration Violations
|
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[8/31/2015]
|
DEP Returns Application For Clean Earth, Inc. Drill Cuttings Project In Tioga County
|
|
[8/24/2015]
|
EPA, Delaware County Authority Resolve Water Quality Violations Thru Settlement
|
|
[8/10/2015]
|
DEP Fines Waste Management $528,000 For Waste Violations At Bucks County Landfills
|
|
[8/10/2015]
|
3rd Attorney General Electric Supplier Settlement Yields $2.4 Million For Consumers
|
|
[8/3/2015]
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DEP Accepting Comments On Proposed Settlement For Ash Spill Into Delaware River
|
|
[7/13/2015]
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DEP: Conventional Wells Had 3 Times The Violations Of Unconventional Wells In 2014
|
|
[7/6/2015]
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Attorney General Announces Environmental Charges Against York County Man
|
|
[6/22/2015]
|
DEP Assesses $8.9 Million Penalty Against Range Resources For Leaking Gas Well
|
|
[6/22/2015]
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Attorney General Files Charges Against Former Steelton Water Plant Superintendent
|
|
[6/22/2015]
|
Keep PA Beautiful: 3 Allegheny County Men Convicted Of Illegal Dumping
|
|
[6/8/2015]
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DEP Reaches Agreement With Hyndman Boro To Resolve Safe Drinking Water Violations
|
|
[6/8/2015]
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DEP Fines Chevron Nearly $1 Million For Fatal Greene County Gas Well Fire
|
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[6/1/2015]
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Keep PA Beautiful: Cambria County Man Convicted Of Illegal Dumping
|
|
[5/25/2015]
|
Washita Valley Enterprises Inc. Fined $53,344 For Waste Violations In Bradford County
|
|
[5/25/2015]
|
DEP Fines Maryland Demolition Company For Illegal Waste Disposal In Bedford County
|
|
[5/18/2015]
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DEP Announces $20,750 Settlement Against Casella Waste Management
|
|
[3/2/2015]
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DEP: Newport Borough Water Authority Agrees To Address Drinking Water Violations
|
|
[2/16/2015]
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EPA, DEP Proposed Agreement To Resolve Some Harrisburg Clean Water Act Violations
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|
[2/16/2015]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Meets March 5 On Budget, Projects
|
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[1/16/2015]
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DEP: $1.75 M Range Resources Settlement To Fund Mine Reclamation Project
|
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[1/16/2015]
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DEP Publishes Final Enforcement Guidance For Oil And Gas Operations
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[1/16/2015]
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Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
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[1/12/2015]
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DEP Fines Leighow Oil $63,000 For Violations At 2 Facilities In Montour County
|
|
[12/29/2014]
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DEP Fines Vantage $999,900 For Landslide, Other Problems At Greene County Well Pad
|
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[12/29/2014]
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DEP: $800,000 Settlement Against Tennessee Gas Pipeline For Violations In 4 Counties
|
|
[12/15/2014]
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DEP Orders XTO To Cease And Desist Earth Disturbance In Butler County
|
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[12/15/2014]
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DEP Fines Fredericksburg Authority, Contractors $75,000 For Environmental Violations
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[12/15/2014]
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Settlement Of Threatened Lawsuit Results In $110,500 Penalty Against Tredyffrin Twp.
|
|
[12/8/2014]
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DEP Fines Cabot $120,000 For Susquehanna County Storage Tank Explosion, Spill
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[11/10/2014]
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PEC Urges DEP To Create A More Robust Oil & Gas Well Inspection Program
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|
[11/10/2014]
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Former Camp Hill Borough Manager Charged With Illegal Sewage Dumping
|
|
[10/27/2014]
|
Wilkinsburg-Penn Authority Fined $114,000 For Drinking Water Disinfection Violations
|
|
[10/27/2014]
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DEP Fines Regency Marcellus Gas More Than $300,000 For Pipeline Violations
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[10/27/2014]
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Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
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|
[10/20/2014]
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DEP Fines Lawrence County Company For Storage Tank Violations After Explosion
|
|
[10/13/2014]
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DEP Seeks $4.5 Million Penalty From EQT For Drilling-Related Pollution In Tioga County
|
|
[10/13/2014]
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EQT Drilling Company Files Counter-Complaint Challenging Clean Streams Law
|
|
[10/13/2014]
|
Review: DEP Proposes Tough New Policy For Enforcing Oil & Gas Violations
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[10/13/2014]
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DEP Citizens Advisory Council To Discuss Oil & Gas Enforcement Policy Changes
|
|
[10/6/2014]
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DEP Proposes Changes To Oil & Gas Program Enforcement Policy, Spill Reporting
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[10/6/2014]
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Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
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|
[9/29/2014]
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DEP Fines NFG Midstream $250,000 For Pipeline Construction Violations in Lycoming
|
|
[9/29/2014]
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PG PowerSource: Day In The Life Of DEP Oil & Gas Inspector
|
|
[9/22/2014]
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DEP Fines Range Resources $4.15 Million For Violating Environmental Regulations
|
|
[9/15/2014]
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EPA Fines Amerikohl Mining $140,000 For Violations At 22 Mining Sites
|
|
[9/1/2014]
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DEP Lists Water Supplies Damaged, High Hydrogen Sulfide Emissions From Gas Drilling
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[9/1/2014]
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DEP Assesses $250,000 Penalty Against 4 Gas, Oil Services Companies
|
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[8/25/2014]
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DEP Fines Cabot Oil More Than $76,000 For Susquehanna Well Control Incident
|
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[8/25/2014]
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PUC: West Penn Power Pays $1.3M Penalty For Missing Energy Conservation Target
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[8/18/2014]
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DEP Fines Southwestern Energy Production Co. For Unpermitted Gas Well Drilling
|
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[7/28/2014]
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DEP: Settlement With Pittsburgh Contractor, Associated Builders, Contractors
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|
[7/14/2014]
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Allegheny County Men Convicted Of Illegal Dumping
|
|
[6/23/2014]
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Commonwealth Sues Major Oil Companies To Recover MTBE Damage, Cleanup Costs
|
|
[6/23/2014]
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DEP Fines Carrizo Marcellus LLC $192,044 For Well Control Incident, Spill
|
|
[6/23/2014]
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Attorney General Files PUC Appeal On Variable Rate Electric Supply Contracts
|
|
[6/9/2014]
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AG: Minutemen Drilling Waste Hauler, Others Face Environmental Crimes Charges
|
|
[5/26/2014]
|
Washington County Contractor Guilty Of Illegal Dumping
|
|
[5/5/2014]
|
KPB Surveillance Supports Anti-Dumping Actions In Armstrong, Indiana Counties
|
|
[5/5/2014]
|
DEP Fines Erie Environmental Laboratory $220,000 For Violations
|
|
[4/28/2014]
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Senate Committee Hears Testimony Urging Adoption Of Anti-SLAPP Legislation
|
|
[4/28/2014]
|
DEP Revokes Waste Permit For Tire Recycling Operation In Franklin County
|
|
[4/21/2014]
|
DEP Publishes Final Community Environmental Projects Policy In PA Bulletin
|
|
[4/21/2014]
|
Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
|
|
[4/14/2014]
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DEP Fines Range Resources-Appalachia LLC $75,000 For Lycoming County Brine Spill
|
|
[4/7/2014]
|
DEP Invests $3.4 Million In Agricultural Outreach Program And Assistance
|
|
[4/7/2014]
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DEP Issues Permit Requiring Closure Of FirstEnergy’s Little Blue Run Impoundment
|
|
[4/7/2014]
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DEP Fines Steelton Borough Water Authority $55,200 For Drinking Water Violations
|
|
[3/17/2014]
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DEP Reaches Agreement With Bucks County Water And Sewer Authority
|
|
[3/17/2014]
|
DEP Fines Vogel Holding Inc. Subsidiaries More Than $1.2 Million
|
|
[3/10/2014]
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PA To Receive $4.1 Million From Settlement Of EPA Lawsuit Against Coal Companies
|
|
[3/3/2014]
|
AG Charges Hallstead Sanitary Services With Illegal Septic Waste Disposal
|
|
[2/24/2014]
|
DEP Fines Halliburton $1.8 Million For Repeated Waste Violations
|
|
[1/27/2014]
|
2012-13 State Performance Report Shows Increase In Environmental Compliance
|
|
[12/23/2013]
|
Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
|
|
[12/16/2013]
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Opinion: Legal Experts Support Attorney General’s Action Against XTO Energy
|
|
[12/2/2013]
|
DEP Announces Proposed Consent Decree With Drilling Wastewater Treatment Company
|
|
[11/25/2013]
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Citizens Advisory Council: DEP Adds Hearing To Review Period For Drilling Regs
|
|
[11/25/2013]
|
Sinnemahoning Watershed Grants Available For Cameron, Elk, McKean, Potter Counties
|
|
[11/11/2013]
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DEP Fines Ohio Company $12,000 For Illegal Open Burning In Lycoming County
|
|
[11/4/2013]
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DEP Fines Northampton County Company $192,85.78 For Air Quality Violations
|
|
[10/28/2013]
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DEP Proposes Changes To The Community Environmental Projects Guidance
|
|
[10/28/2013]
|
Regulations,Technical Guidance & Permits
|
|
[9/30/2013]
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Surveillance Cameras Funded By Keep PA Beautiful Key To Dumping Prosecution
|
|
[9/30/2013]
|
DEP Fines Environmental Laboratory $60,000 For Violations
|
|
[9/16/2013]
|
Attorney General Files Criminal Charges Against XTO Energy Drilling Company
|
|
[8/26/2013]
|
Collier Twp. Cracks Down On Illegal Dumping With Help Of Keep PA Beautiful
|
|
[8/26/2013]
|
Two Men Charged With Illegally Transporting, Storing Hazardous Waste In York
|
|
[7/22/2013]
|
EPA Fines XTO Energy For Lycoming County Drilling-Related Spills
|
|
[7/1/2013]
|
DEP Alerts Crystal Spring Vended Water Customers Of Drinking Water Violations
|
|
[6/17/2013]
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DEP Fines Northampton County Company For Air Quality Violations
|
|
[6/10/2013]
|
DEP Issues $150,000 Fine For Illegal Discharges During Lycoming Pipeline Construction
|
|
[5/27/2013]
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Drilling Waste Treatment Facility To Pay EPA Penalties
|
|
[5/13/2013]
|
DEP Fines Camp Hill Borough $140,000 For Illegally Discharging Sewage
|
|
[5/6/2013]
|
Attorney General Files Illegal Dumping Charges In Northampton County
|
|
[4/29/2013]
|
DCNR, CONSOL Agreement To Repair Mining Damage To Ryerson Station State Park
|
|
[4/29/2013]
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DEP Fines Gas Well Driller $125,500 For Violations In Lycoming County
|
|
[4/22/2013]
|
EPA: Companies Agree To Improve Safety At Natural Gas Operations
|
|
[11/19/2012]
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Surveillance Cameras To Curb Illegal Dumping In Washington County
|
|
[11/12/2012]
|
Attorney General-Elect Kane Promises To Use Laws To Protect Natural Resources
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[11/12/2012]
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DEP Fines Beaver County Man $137,800 For Wetlands Violations
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[10/22/2012]
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EPA Fines Atlas Resources $84,506 For Washington County Well Fire
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[10/8/2012]
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Attorney General Files Charges Against Elk County Treatment Plant Worker
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[10/1/2012]
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DEP, EPA Fine Mobile Home Park Owner More Than $1.3 Million
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[10/1/2012]
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EPA Fines Company For Illegally Disposing Of 228,000 Gallons Of Brine Waste
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[9/10/2012]
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Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
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[9/10/2012]
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Calendar Of Events
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[8/13/2012]
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DEP Fines EXCO Resources $47,500 For Operating Unpermitted Transfer Stations
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[8/6/2012]
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DEP Files Settlement To Close Little Blue Run Coal Ash Disposal Facility In Beaver
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[7/30/2012]
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EPA Fines Talisman Energy $62K For Violations At Natural Gas Facilities
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[7/30/2012]
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Shenango, Inc. Settles Air, Water Pollution Violations With EPA, PA, Allegheny County
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[7/2/2012]
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York County Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator Faces Criminal Charges
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[6/4/2012]
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Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
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[6/4/2012]
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Calendar Of Events
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[6/4/2012]
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Stories Invited
|
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[6/4/2012]
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Supporting Member PA Outdoor Writers Assn./PA Trout Unlimited
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[5/21/2012]
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DEP Fines Crawford County Sand, Gravel Producer $33,065 For Waste Violations
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[5/14/2012]
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DEP Fines Lackawanna County Laboratory $20,000
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[5/7/2012]
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DEP Fines RW Products $21,000 For Illegally Dumping Drilling Mud
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[5/7/2012]
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AG Charges Susquehanna County Business Owner With Illegal Sludge Dumping
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[4/30/2012]
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DEP Fines Ultra Resources $40,000 For Illegal Tioga County Transfer Station
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[4/16/2012]
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EPA Fines Clearfield County Brine Disposal Well Company $160,000
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[2/27/2012]
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DEP Fines Catalyst Energy $185,000 for Water Contamination, Erosion Violations, Spills
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[2/27/2012]
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DEP Fines Lawn Service Firm $160,000 For Stream Pollution
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[2/13/2012]
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DEP Fines Chesapeake Appalachia $565,000 For Multiple Violations
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[2/13/2012]
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Marcellus Drilling Violations Drop In 2011
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[1/16/2012]
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DEP Fines TerrAqua Resource Management For Frack Water Spill
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[1/9/2012]
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DEP Fines Talisman Energy For Tioga County Well Control Incident
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[12/26/2011]
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Wastewater Plant Operator Ordered To Surrender Certificate
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[12/26/2011]
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DEP Fines Appalachia Midstream Pipeline Company $20,000 For E&S Violations
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[12/26/2011]
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PennFuture Returns $138,000+ In Misspent State Grant Funds
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[11/21/2011]
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DEP Takes Steps To Improve Consistency In Marcellus Shale Enforcement
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[11/7/2011]
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Attorney General Charges Sewage Plant Operator With Environmental Crimes
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[10/17/2011]
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DEP Secretary Tours Susquehanna County Gas Pipeline Operation
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[10/10/2011]
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Corbett Expands Program To Deny State Licenses, Permits To Tax Delinquents
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[10/3/2011]
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Attorney General Files Charges Against Delaware County Sewage Plant Worker
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[9/12/2011]
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State Police Remove 163 Hazardous Material Trucks From Road For Safety Violations
|
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[8/22/2011]
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Opinion - Time For DEP To Put SEPS Back In Its Enforcement Toolbox
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[8/15/2011]
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Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
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[8/1/2011]
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DEP Orders Radon Contractor To Surrender Certification, Pay $58,875 Penalty
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[8/1/2011]
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State Agencies Changing Email Addresses For Employees
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[7/25/2011]
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EPA Orders Farmer to Provide Drinking Water To Nearby Residence
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[7/11/2011]
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CBF: Settlement With DEP Expands Drilling Permit Reviews In Special Protection Waters
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[7/4/2011]
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Sen. Pileggi: Local Communities To Receive Fair Share Of Air Pollution Fines
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[7/4/2011]
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DEP Fines Chief Oil & Gas $180,000 for Oil Spill, Waste Violations
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[7/4/2011]
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EPA Seeks $157,000 Penalty For Dumping Oil Well Brine
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[6/20/2011]
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DEP Fines Rorre Corp. $15,000 For Wayne County Septage Spill, Other Violations
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[6/13/2011]
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Foundation For PA Watersheds Receives $3.5 Million In Penalty Settlement
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|
[6/13/2011]
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180 Waste Trucks Put Out Of Service In May By State Police
|
|
[6/6/2011]
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Drilling Wastewater Has All But Stopped Going To Treatment Plants Not Meeting Standards
|
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[6/6/2011]
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DEP Announces $2.5 Million Penalty In Ivy Industrial Park Water Contamination Case
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[5/30/2011]
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Senate OKs Bill Sharing Air Pollution Penalties
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[5/23/2011]
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DEP Fines Chesapeake Energy Over $1 Million For Washington, Bradford Well Violations
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[5/9/2011]
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DEP Secretary Corrects The Record At House Environmental Committee Hearing
|
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[5/2/2011]
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Texas Company Pays $208,625 For Polluting Creeks In Clearfield County
|
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[4/18/2011]
|
Fish & Boat Commission Establishes Hotline To Report Suspected Pollution Incidents
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[4/11/2011]
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DEP Issues Corrected Well Drilling Permits To Lake Erie Partners
|
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[4/11/2011]
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DEP Orders Catalyst Energy To Stop Operations At 36 Non-Marcellus Wells
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[4/11/2011]
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DEP Orders McKean Resident To Plug 3 Abandoned Wells Near Site Of Explosion
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[4/4/2011]
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DEP Issues Corrected Well Drilling Permits To Lake Erie Energy Partners
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[3/28/2011]
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DEP Shuts Down Company Accused Of Dumping Drilling, Other Wastewater
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[3/28/2011]
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DEP Shuts Down Potter County Gas Well Construction Site
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[3/28/2011]
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Operation FracNET: 131 Trucks Placed Out Of Service By State Police
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[3/21/2011]
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AG Charges SW Business With Dumping Millions Of Gallons Of Drilling, Other Wastewater
|
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[3/21/2011]
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EPA, WV Fine Consol $5.5 Million For Dunkard Creek Water Violations
|
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[3/14/2011]
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Sunoco To Pay Fish & Boat Commission $99,000 Fine For Turtle Creek Spill
|
|
[2/28/2011]
|
Fish & Boat Commission In $25,000 Settlement For Illegal Drilling Discharge In Warren
|
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[2/7/2011]
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DEP Fines General Energy Company For Drilling Airfoam Discharge In Lycoming
|
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[1/31/2011]
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DEP Investigating Tioga County Marcellus Well Incident On State Forest Land
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[1/17/2011]
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DEP Fines Company Illegally Handling Drill Cutting Waste
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[1/10/2011]
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DEP Fines Talisman Energy $24,608 For Bradford County Diesel Fuel Spill
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[1/10/2011]
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Chief Oil & Gas Subsidiary Pays $34,000 Fine For Illegal Waste Discharge
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[1/10/2011]
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State Police Trash Hauler Enforcement Puts 113 Trucks, 22 Drivers Out Of Service
|
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[1/10/2011]
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EPA Settlement To Reduce Air Pollution From PA Prisons
|
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[1/10/2011]
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EPA Files Clean Air Act Complaint Against Homer City Power Plant
|
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[12/20/2010]
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Dimock Residents To Share $4.1 Million In DEP Settlement With Cabot Oil
|
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[12/13/2010]
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DEP Fines Drilling Wastewater Hauler For Having Illegal Transfer Station
|
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[11/29/2010]
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DEP Investigating 13,000+ Gallon Frack Water Spill In Lycoming County
|
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[11/29/2010]
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Fish & Boat Commission To Receive $1.3 Million To Help Restore Delaware River
|
|
[11/15/2010]
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PennVEST OKs Public Money For Drilling-Affected Water Supplies In Dimock
|
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[11/15/2010]
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SRBC Orders J-W Operating Drilling Company To Cease Operations In Cameron County
|
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[11/15/2010]
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State Police Cite 1,066 Drilling Water Trucks For Safety Violations
|
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[11/8/2010]
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Scarce Public Infrastructure Dollars To Replace Drilling-Affected Water Supplies In Dimock
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[11/8/2010]
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Gas Well Production, Compliance Information Available Thru DEP Website
|
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[11/1/2010]
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DEP Fines Huntley & Huntley Inc. For July 23 Gas Well Tank Explosion
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[11/1/2010]
|
Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
|
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[10/25/2010]
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DEP Sends Open Letter To Dimock Residents Affected By Drilling
|
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[10/11/2010]
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DEP Fines Marcellus Shale Driller For Illegally Filling Exceptional Value State Forest Wetland
|
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[10/11/2010]
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State Police Place 208 Trucks Out Of Service During Operation FracNET
|
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[10/4/2010]
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DEP: Dimock Residents Will Be Provided Permanent Replacement Water Supply
|
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[9/27/2010]
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EPA Takes Penalty Action Against Manheim Farm For Unpermitted Waste Discharges
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[9/27/2010]
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Cabot Refutes Reports Of Carter Road Water Contamination By Fracking Fluid
|
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[9/27/2010]
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PA Securities Commission Takes First Enforcement Action Involving Marcellus Shale
|
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[9/20/2010]
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DEP Orders Chesapeake Energy To Evaluate All 171 Wells For Stray Methane Releases
|
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[9/13/2010]
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DEP Investigating Source Of Methane Bubbles In Susquehanna River
|
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[9/6/2010]
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DEP, State Police To Step-Up Inspections Of Drilling Wastewater, Trash Haulers
|
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[8/23/2010]
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DEP: Marcellus Shale Drillers With Bad Compliance Records Will Get No More Permits
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[8/23/2010]
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DEP Fines Atlas Resources For Drilling Wastewater Spill In Washington County
|
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[8/9/2010]
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Marcellus Shale Drillers Amass 952 Violations Likely To Harm The Environment
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[8/9/2010]
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Allegheny Front: Report Finds 1,400 Plus Marcellus Violations
|
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[8/9/2010]
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DEP Fines Talisman Energy For Bradford County Drilling Wastewater Spill
|
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[8/9/2010]
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EPA Orders 4 PA Municipalities To Control Stormwater In Chesapeake Bay Watershed
|
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[8/2/2010]
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EPA Penalizes 10 Wastewater Plants, 9 Are In Chesapeake Bay Watershed
|
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[7/26/2010]
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EPA: Farmers In PA Need To Comply With Federal Clean Water Rules
|
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[7/26/2010]
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DEP Gives Cabot Oil & Gas More Time To Fix Water Supplies In Susquehanna County
|
|
[7/19/2010]
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Independent Report Faults Clearfield County Gas Well Operators For June 3 Blowout
|
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[7/19/2010]
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DEP Investigates Another Natural Gas Well Pad Fire, Susquehanna County
|
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[7/19/2010]
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PA League Of Conservation Voters Told To Stop Soliciting Donations
|
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[7/5/2010]
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Cattle In Tioga County Quarantined After Contact With Natural Gas Drilling Wastewater
|
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[7/5/2010]
|
Charges Filed Against Owner, Manager Berks County Water Testing Facility
|
|
[6/28/2010]
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Owner Of Clearfield County Gas Well Gets DEP OK To Resume Fracking
|
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[6/28/2010]
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Operation FracNET Focuses On Trucks Hauling Drilling Wastewater
|
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[6/28/2010]
|
Monroe County Man Charged With Dumping 6,700 Tons Of Contaminated Soil
|
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[6/14/2010]
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DEP Orders Owner Of Clearfield County Gas Well To Suspend Drilling Operations
|
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[6/14/2010]
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DEP Orders Fracking Contractor In Clearfield County Well Blowout To Halt Activities
|
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[6/7/2010]
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EPA Orders Manheim Farm To Cease Unpermitted Waste Discharges
|
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[5/17/2010]
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New Strategy For Chesapeake Launches Major Initiatives, Holds Government Accountable
|
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[5/17/2010]
|
Support Sponsors In Our Professional Services Directory
|
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[5/17/2010]
|
Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule
|
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[5/17/2010]
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DEP Meets With 90 Companies Involved In Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Development
|
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[5/17/2010]
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Range Resources Penalized $141,175 By DEP For Spill In High Quality Waterway
|
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[5/17/2010]
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DEP Fines Rex Energy Operating Corp. $45,000 for Environmental Drilling Violations
|
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[5/17/2010]
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Susquehanna River Basin Commission Opens Marcellus Shale Office In Northern PA
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[5/3/2010]
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EPA Launches Online Map Tracking Enforcement Actions In Chesapeake Bay Watershed
|
|
[5/3/2010]
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DEP Orders Cabot To Remove Well Pad Pit In Dimock, Susquehanna County
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[4/26/2010]
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EPA Orders 79 Southcentral PA Municipalities To Improve Stormwater Management
|
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[4/26/2010]
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DEP Meets With Drilling Companies May 13 To Improve Environmental Protection
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[4/26/2010]
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DEP Fines Company For Illegally Transferring Fracking Water In Lycoming County
|
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[4/19/2010]
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DEP Issues Cabot Oil & Gas Second Order To Correct Water Problems In Dimock
|
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[4/19/2010]
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PennDOT Revokes Permit For Chesapeake Energy In Bradford County
|
|
[3/8/2010]
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Senate Environmental Committee Meets March 9 On Gas Drilling, Mine Permit Fee Bills
|
|
[3/8/2010]
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Federal Jury Awards $6.5 Million In Damages For Improper Regulatory Conduct At DEP
|
|
[3/1/2010]
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Senate Environmental Committee Meets March 9 On Gas Drilling, Lease, Mine Permit Fee Bills
|
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[3/1/2010]
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DEP Orders Schreiner Oil & Gas To Restore Water Supplies In McKean County
|
|
[2/19/2010]
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CBF, Trout Unlimited Call For Ban On Marcellus Gas Wells In Floodplains After Incidents
|
|
[2/19/2010]
|
Did You Know You Can Search Nearly 6 Years Of Digests On Any Topic?
|
|
[2/19/2010]
|
Marcellus Shale Coalition Condemns Disregard For Environmental Laws
|
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[2/19/2010]
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DEP Investigation Faults Mining Activity In Ryerson Station Dam Damage
|
|
[2/12/2010]
|
DEP Issues Drilling Wastewater Treatment Permit In West Branch Susquehanna
|
|
[2/12/2010]
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PUC To Increase Motor Carrier Enforcement In Marcellus Shale Counties
|
|
[2/8/2010]
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DEP Plans New Office In Scranton To Improve Marcellus Shale Drilling Oversight
|
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[2/8/2010]
|
You Can Search Over 14,700 Articles In The Digest
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[2/8/2010]
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DEP Fines Fortuna Energy Inc. $3,500 For Well Drilling Violations In Bradford County
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[1/25/2010]
|
Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
|
|
[1/25/2010]
|
Calendar Of Events
|
|
[1/25/2010]
|
Stories Invited
|
|
[1/25/2010]
|
Supporting Member PA Outdoor Writers Assn./PA Trout Unlimited
|
|
[1/18/2010]
|
Susquehanna River Basin Commission Orders Tioga County Driller To Shut Down
|
|
[1/11/2010]
|
Environmental Groups Appeal DEP Dunkard Creek Mine Discharge Permit
|
|
[1/11/2010]
|
DEP Fines Atlas For Violations At 13 Well Sites In Fayette, Washington, Greene Counties
|
|
[1/4/2010]
|
EPA Releases Annual Enforcement Results, Mapping Tool
|
|
[12/7/2009]
|
Attorney General Files Criminal Charges Against Natural Gas Pipline Company From Ohio
|
|
[11/23/2009]
|
Fish & Boat Commission To Inspect Marcellus Shale Drilling Sites
|
|
[11/16/2009]
|
EPA Cites 12 Municipalities for Stormwater Violations In Pennsylvania
|
|
[11/9/2009]
|
DEP/Cabot Agreement To Prevent Natural Gas Migration, Restore Water Over 9 Square Miles
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|
[11/9/2009]
|
Regulations, Technical Guidance & Permits
|
|
[11/9/2009]
|
Calendar Of Events
|
|
[10/26/2009]
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DEP Fines Cabot Oil And Gas Corp. $56,650 For Susquehanna County Spills
|
|
[10/19/2009]
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DEP: Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. May Resume Hydro Fracking Gas Wells In Susquehanna County
|
|
[10/5/2009]
|
EPA Sues Scranton Sewer Authority For Combined Sewer Overflow Violations
|
|
[9/28/2009]
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DEP Orders Cabot Oil and Gas To Cease All Gas Well Fracking In Susquehanna County
|
|
[8/31/2009]
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DEP Fines Company Handling Gas Drilling Frack Water For Unpermitted Transfer Station
|
|
[8/17/2009]
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DEP Agrees To Allow U.S. Energy To Start Natural Gas Drilling After Violations, Penalty
|
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[7/13/2009]
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DEP Orders U.S. Energy To Cease Drilling Operations Throughout Pennsylvania
|
|
[6/26/2009]
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Gas Drilling Wastewater Banned From Jersey Shore Borough Treatment Plant
|
|
[6/19/2009]
|
Technical Guidance & Permits
|
|
[4/24/2009]
|
Attorney General Corbett Distributes $100,000 To Environmental Groups
|
|
[1/9/2009]
|
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Files Lawsuit Against EPA On Bay Cleanup - Video Blog
|
|
[12/26/2008]
|
Attorney General Charges Former Poultry Plant Owner With Environmental Crimes
|
|
[12/12/2008]
|
Sinnemahoning Creek Watershed Restoration Grants Due February 14
|
|
[12/12/2008]
|
EPA ‘Wanted’ List Website Aims to Track Down Environmental Fugitives
|
|
[12/5/2008]
|
EPA Environmental Policing Nets Gains for Pennsylvania Worth $1.4 Billion
|
|
[12/14/2007]
|
Penalty Settlement Provides $9 Million to Cleanup, Protect Wissahickon Watershed
|
|
[11/9/2007]
|
DEP Takes Action Against Seven Municipalities On Stormwater Regulations
|
|
[8/17/2007]
|
Attorney General Distributes More Than $25,000 to Benefit Environmental Projects
|
|
[3/16/2007]
|
Philadelphia Public Schools to Undergo Voluntary Environmental Review
|
|
[1/5/2007]
|
Senators White, Musto Work on Environmental Reform Legislation
|
|
[12/22/2006]
|
Recent EHB Ruling Makes Some DEP Letters Appealable Actions
|
|
[10/27/2006]
|
Companies Come Clean On Environmental Violations Under EPA Self-Audit Policy
|
|
[10/7/2006]
|
Attorney General Praises Senate Committee Approval of Tougher Penalties
|
|
[7/21/2006]
|
Technical Guidance & Permits
|
|
[4/28/2006]
|
House Committee Reports Bill Increasing Water Pollution Penalties
|
|
[4/14/2006]
|
Attorney General Corbett Provides Grants from Fines to Watershed Groups
|
|
[4/14/2006]
|
Clearfield County Environmental Groups Receive Grants from Penalties
|
|
[1/27/2006]
|
Technical Guidance & Permits
|
|
[1/27/2006]
|
Calendar of Events
|
|
[11/18/2005]
|
House Environmental Committee To Consider Legislation to Increase Penalties
|
|
[11/18/2005]
|
Bills Moving in Senate/House
|
|
[10/14/2005]
|
Bills to Increase Environmental Penalties Proposed by Reichley, Attorney General
|
|
[1/21/2005]
|
Attorney General Corbett Promises Aggressive Environmental Enforcement
|
|
[9/10/2004]
|
Technical Guidance & Permits
|
|
[9/3/2004]
|
Technical Guidance & Permits
|
|
[8/20/2004]
|
Report Environmental Problems
|
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[8/13/2004]
|
Technical Guidance & Permits
|
|
[6/1/2004]
|
90 % Comply with Violation Notice on Emergency Action Plans For Dams
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