More than 65 environmental groups from across the United States have appealed to the Biden Administration to protect the public from toxic and radioactive materials that are present in oil and gas waste.
DEP acknowledged areas needing more research included: continued sampling of landfill leachate, further investigation of roads treated with oil and gas brines, and sampling during gas pipeline pigging operations from its 2016 TENORM study.
The House State Government Committee is scheduled to meet September 27 to consider Senate Bill 533 would prohibit any public participation in state agency rulemaking and policy making processes during a declared state emergency.
The Clean Air Council appealed an effort by Pennsylvania to resurrect a defunct air pollution control permit that would allow construction of a large gas-fired power plant proposed for Robinson Township.
Environmental groups submitted rulemaking petitions to the Environmental Quality Board asking the Board to adopt regulation changes requiring full-cost bonding to cover the costs of plugging conventional and unconventional oil and gas wells.
DEP's Oil and Gas Management Program told the Oil and Gas Technical Advisory Board they plan to continue the process of determining if it is appropriate to develop a regulation covering the road dumping of conventional oil and gas drilling wastewater.
The facility would take shale gas from Pennsylvania, compress it to LNG, then truck or train it across communities in Pennsylvania to be loaded onto ships at a proposed facility in Gibbstown, New Jersey, before being shipped for overseas markets.
