Latest Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Stories
Cleanup Supplies Available to Participating Organizations HARRISBURG, Pa., April 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is encouraging all Pennsylvanians to join in a statewide effort to clean up communities and the environment. The Great American Cleanup of PA is an annual event that urges Pennsylvanians to voluntarily clean up trash and litter from roadways, streams, parks, forests and neighborhoods. This year's event began March 1 and...
HARRISBURG, Pa., April 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Acting Secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection Michael Krancer today congratulated the Lancaster Northwest Gateway Project, one of only ten recipients nationwide of the 2010 Phoenix Awards. Lancaster Northwest Gateway Project, a $120 million redevelopment project in Lancaster City, was the product of collaboration between area business, residents, government and Franklin & Marshall College. "The Lancaster...
Effort Focuses on Trucks Hauling Wastewater from Natural Gas Drilling Sites HARRISBURG, Pa., March 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Pennsylvania State Police, working with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, placed 131 trucks out of service during a two-day enforcement effort focusing on commercial vehicles hauling waste water from Marcellus shale natural gas drilling...
MORRISTOWN, N.J., March 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Covanta Energy Corporation, an internationally recognized owner and operator of large-scale Energy-from-Waste and renewable energy projects, announced today that John G. Waffenschmidt, vice president of environmental science and community affairs, has been appointed to the Pennsylvania Environmental Justice Advisory Board (EJAB) by Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Acting Secretary Michael L. Krancer. The EJAB is charged...
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Environmental Protection continues to investigate the cause of a Feb. 23 tank fire at a natural gas drilling site on the Joseph Powers Farm in Independence Township, Washington County. Chesapeake Energy workers were flow-testing at the active well site, which includes separating wet gas constituents and transferring water from tanks to trucks, when the fire started at 6:15 p.m. The incident was contained to the tank area...
EBENSBURG, Pa., Jan. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- L.R. Kimball (www.lrkimball.com), one of America's leading providers of architecture, engineering and communications technology services, has engaged J. Scott Roberts, P.G., former Deputy Secretary for Mineral Resources Management at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection as an advisor. L.R. Kimball is part of CDI Engineering Solutions, a division of CDI Corp. (NYSE: CDI). Mr. Roberts will support L.R. Kimball's efforts to...
HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Integrated Water Technologies, Inc. has opened its first DEP approved FracPure(TM) Treatment and Recycling Facility in North Fayette Township, southwest Pennsylvania. The facility currently provides phase one of the FracPure(TM) treatment process, using chemical treatment and filtration to recycle 250,000 gallons per day providing 100% re-use of flowback. No water will be discharged into rivers and streams in the process, helping the natural...
NEW YORK, Dec. 21, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorneys of Napoli Bern Ripka & Associates, LLP, representing plaintiffs in Dimock, Pennsylvania who have sued Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation (Fiorentino v. Cabot Oil & Gas Corp., USDC-Middle District of PA., Docket No.: 3:09-CV-02284) for contamination of their drinking water announced today that Cabot and its attorneys have attempted to use a consent order entered with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to...
Additional $500,000 to Reimburse DEP for Investigative Costs; DEP to Drop Montrose Water Line Plan Given Uncertain Prospects HARRISBURG, Pa., Dec. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Residents of Dimock Township, Susquehanna County, who have had their drinking water supplies contaminated by natural gas will each receive a share of $4.1 million that Cabot Oil and Gas Co. will pay under a settlement negotiated by the Department of Environmental Protection and the company. The settlement,...
Regulations Move to Attorney General for Approval HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 18, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A set of new standards that will make natural gas wells safer were approved unanimously today on a vote of 5-0 by the state's Independent Regulatory Review Commission, Environmental Protection Secretary John Hanger said today. Hanger praised the IRRC vote, saying the new regulations will, among other things, impose more stringent construction standards on gas wells, making them less...
