This Week’s Examples Of Going The WRONG WAY On Environmental, Energy Issues

Below are examples of going the WRONG WAY on environmental and energy issues from last week’s articles and NewsClips--

-- Marcellus Drilling News: New Fortress Energy Reapplying For Wyalusing LNG Natural Gas Plant Permits In Bradford County  [PaEN]

-- Reuters: Wave Of New LNG Natural Gas Export Plants Threatens To Knock Down Prices 

-- U.S. DOT Misses Deadline To Suspend Rule Allowing Shipping LNG Natural Gas By Rail, Including A Proposal In PA  [PaEN] 

-- Environmental Health Project: 75% Of Hazardous Waste Accepted At MAX Environmental Yukon Facility In Westmoreland County Comes From Shale Gas Industry; Sludge Proposed To Be Delisted As Hazardous Waste  [PaEN]

-- Shell Petrochemical Plant Had 3-Hour Emergency Flaring Event To Burn Off Flammable Gases In Beaver County  [PaEN] 

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Shell Petrochemical Plant Using Water Hoses ‘To Assist In Cooling External Areas Of Ground Flares’ That Need To Be ‘Reinforced’ 

-- Beaver County Times: Shell Petrochemical Plant To ‘Reinforce’ Ground Flare Stack, Using Water In Meantime To Cool The Flare Burning Off Natural Gas

-- KDKA: Residents Want Answers About Loud Bang, Orange Glow At Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County

-- The Allegheny Front - Reid Frazier: More Emergency Flaring At Shell’s Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County After Compressor Problem 

-- Allegheny County Health Dept. Issues $307,800 Stipulated Penalty Against U.S. Steel For Clairton Coke (Coal) Works For 2nd Quarter  [PaEN]

-- WESA: Allegheny County Levees $307,000 In Fines On US Steel For Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Air Pollution Violations

-- Courier Times: DEP Can’t Test ‘Horrible Odor’ Coming From Bucks County Farm Commercial Composting, Mulching Operation Because Of State Law

-- Erie News Now: U.S. Cities Are Cracking Down On Climate Emissions, PA Republicans Want To Get Ahead Of Bans Phasing Out Fossil Fuels

-- Financial Times: Is 1.5C Still Realistic?  The Crumbling Consensus Over Key Climate Target; Limit Appears Increasingly Unachievable 

-- Williamsport Sun: Muncy Borough Denies Property Owners Buyouts For Flooded Homes

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[Posted: March 19, 2023]  PA Environment Digest