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A bill speeding through the Legislature would further weaken landmark chemical tank safety rules â passed after the 2014 spill at Freedom Industries near Charleston that contaminated drinking water for 300,000 people (pictured) â by excluding the natural gas industry from the regulation. Another measure moving through the legislative process would update pollution standards to allow industries to release higher amounts of some types of chemicals.
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By Erin Beck
Mountain State Spotlight Mar 11, 2021
Mar 11, 2021
A bill speeding through the Legislature would further weaken landmark chemical tank safety rules â passed after the 2014 spill at Freedom Industries near Charleston that contaminated drinking water for 300,000 people (pictured) â by excluding the natural gas industry from the regulation. Another measure moving through the legislative process would update pollution standards to allow industries to release hi
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PITTMAN BLASTS DEP SECRETARY DURING BUDGET HEARING By Hometown1
Mar 12, 2021 4:32 AM
Senator Joe Pittman lit into Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Patrick McDonnell yesterday at a Senate Appropriations Committee budget hearing, blasting the Wolf Administration for failing to work with the communities that would be most affected by the loss of jobs that the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative would bring to Pennsylvania.
Pittman got McDonnell to admit that the only way for RGGI to generate revenue would be for coal-fired power plants to remain in operation, but the secretary also said the power plants would be closing anyway eventually, not because of RGGI, but because of market forces.
From Pennlive
LOGANTON A large family-owned meat processing business in Clinton County has reopened because, due to snow melt, food processing residuals (FPR) can again be spread on farm fields.
Nicholas Meat reopened fully on March 3, Jana McGuire, a spokesperson for the Loganton area company, said Wednesday.
The plant closed Feb. 23 after a state Department of Environmental Protection ordered a halt to the spread of FPRs on snow-covered fields.
The closing affected more than 350 employees and 150 contract workers.
Training was provided during the shutdown and employees were paid the entire time they were off work, McGuire said.
Nicholas maintains when the Environmental Hearing Board denied its appeal of DEP’s Feb. 9 compliance order it had no alternative but to shut down.