Showing posts with label DEP. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DEP. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

The hidden truth behind existing sources (of methane pollution)

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Over the past year, the chatter on methane pollution from oil and gas operations has gotten much louder—and that's a good thing. This ha...
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Let's do this: Time to enact proposed revisions to PA oil and gas rules

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While Pennsylvania's Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board (TAB) said YES on October 27 to moving proposed revisions to the state's o...
Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Does a coal-to-gas switch = bad to worse?

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On August 3, 2015, President Obama announced the final rule for the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Clean Power Plan, which aims...
Wednesday, July 8, 2015

W-B attorney named to pipelines task force

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Mike Helbing, a PennFuture staff attorney since June 2013, was recently appointed to the new Pennsylvania Pipeline Infrastructure Taskforce....
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

A Range of violations on shale gas drilling in PA

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Natural gas driller Range Resources, which has substantial operations in the Marcellus Shale region, has been fined $8.9 million by the Penn...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Seeing is believing: PublicSource and the DEP Air Emissions Inventory

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The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) recently released its Air Emissions Inventory, and our Rob Altenburg took the ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Speak up at public hearings on oil and gas regulations

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On April 4, 2015, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) issued a “Notice of Final Rulemaking” regarding the state’s ...
Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Proposed revisions to state oil and gas regulations announced by DEP

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We offered our support this week for proposed revisions to Pennsylvania's oil and gas regulations in the following statement:  P...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

PA must tackle well construction, methane emissions

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From the Associated Press: PITTSBURGH (AP) — The final report from a landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, found ...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

State audit criticizes DEP's handling of drilling industry

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Yesterday, state Auditor General Eugene DePasquale released his report on the Special Performance Audit of the Pennsylvania Department of En...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Say it ain't so: Corbett's budget calls for more gas leasing of public lands

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Governor Tom Corbett delivered his annual budget address this week, along with his proposed FY 2014-15 budget. The headline : The governor...
Monday, January 6, 2014

Speak now: Public hearings on new oil and gas regulations

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The Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board (EQB) has scheduled seven public hearings in January throughout the state on new regulations a...
Monday, September 9, 2013

VICTORY: In addition to saving a stream, UMCO set important legal precedent

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This post is one in a month-long series speaking to 15 of PennFuture's significant victories. It was 15 years ago this September that ...
Monday, April 8, 2013

A primer on the Center for Sustainable Shale Development (CSSD)

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PennFuture and four other environmental groups - the   Group against Smog and Pollution , Pennsylvania Environmental Council , Clean Air...