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Nesquehoning residents prepare legal arguments to challenge the Commonwealth and a cryptocurrency company.
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Protecting the Chesapeake Bay starts in small streams in Pennsylvania. Just over 2.2 miles of those streams are no longer considered impaired. Representatives from the state and Northcentral Pa. celebrated that milestone near a babbling Turtle Creek at the Griffin Farm in Union County.
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Stronghold Digital Mining was sued along with Governor Josh Shapiro on allegations of environmental pollution and fraudulent tax credits.
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Dump trucks lined up in Luzerne on Monday. Crews dumped clean fill into Toby Creek to close a mine subsidence that opened on Sunday along the waterway near Luzerne Lumber. It’s stifling the downstream flow of water and forcing it underground.
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The Keystone Sanitary Landfill in Lackawanna County will pay over half a million dollars to two municipalities and the DEP after more than a year of odor complaints from residents. The $575,000 civil penalty is the largest penalty the Department of Environmental Protection has issued to the landfill in the last decade, according to the agency.
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Save Carbon County, a grassroots environmental organization, sued a cryptocurrency plant and Governor Josh Shapiro this week.
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Save Carbon County, a grassroots environmental organization, sued a cryptocurrency power plant and Governor Josh Shapiro on March 26.Panther Creek Electric Generating Facility wants to burn tires to generate electricity for its cryptocurrency mining operations. Their permit to use tire-derived fuel (TDF) to supplement 15 percent of its monthly electricity use by weight is in review by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).The lawsuit names Shapiro, the DEP, Interim DEP Secretary Jessica Shirley, the PA Public Utility Commission, the Commonwealth as defendants, alongside the power plant and its parent company, Stronghold Digital Mining.Save Carbon and its lawyers at Freiwald Law argue Stronghold already pollutes Carbon County. They cite Stronghold’s current emissions at Panther Creek, which are four times the amount of emissions at Panther Creek pre-2020, before Stronghold acquired the property. Their data comes from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).They also claim the Commonwealth, DEP, PUC incentivised Stronghold to mine cryptocurrency by giving them tax breaks for using alternative fuels. Stronghold received over $29 million in renewable energy credits from the state over the last two years.Save Carbon and Freiwald Law will hold a Community Meeting on the lawsuit at the Nesquehoning Recreation Center at 335 W. Railroad Ave. on Tues. March 26 at 7PM.
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Pennsylvania American Water (PAW) acknowledged what the company is calling an “unanticipated discharge” of sediment into Roaring Brook in Lackawanna County. That’s in a response letter to a notice of violation of the state’s Clean Streams Act.
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Pennsylvania American Water violated the state’s Clean Streams Law during dam upgrades in Dunmore. The state’s Department of Environmental Protection officially notified the water company of the violation on Thursday.