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Public Statements

Environmental Health Project Written Testimony on the Public Health Impacts of Blue Hydrogen Submitted to the PA House Environmental Resources & Energy Committee Hearing on Hydrogen Hubs and Climate

June 17, 2024

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Environmental Health Project Comments at the Appalachian H2Hub (ARCH2) Listening Session Before the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED)

May 8, 2024

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Environmental Health Project Statement on Shapiro Administration and CNX Resources Collaboration

November 7, 2023

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Environmental Health Project Statement: Pennsylvania Health & Environment Studies (Pitt Study)

September 13, 2023

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Environmental Health Project Statement on Air Quality Concerns from Canadian Wildfires

June 6, 2023

 

Public Statement on Civil Penalty Levied on Shell Cracker Plant (Beaver County, PA) by PA DEP for Air Pollution Violations

May 26, 2023

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Public Statement on 2023 American Lung Association State of the Air Report

May 4, 2023 

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Letter to Members of the U.S. Congressional Energy and Environment Committee on Health Impacts of Shale Gas Development and Policy Recommendations

March 31, 2023

 

Public Comments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Supplemental Proposal to Reduce Pollution from Oil and Natural Gas Operations

February 10, 2023

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Environmental Health Project Statement on Train Derailment and Fire in East Palestine, Ohio (Updated 2/9 & 2/15)

February 8, 2023

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Public Comments to the PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Regarding MAX Environmental Yukon Hazardous Waste Landfill No. 7

January 20, 2023 

 

Environmental Health Project Statement on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27)

November 16, 2022

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Environmental Health Project Statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Proposed Methane Rule

November 15, 2022

 

Public Comments to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for Proposed Rule on Designation of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctanesulfonic Acid (PFOS) as CERCLA Hazardous Substances
November 7, 2022

 

Response to State Sen. Bartolotta’s 9/21/22 Letter to the PA Department of Health

October 14, 2022

 

Public Comments to the PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Regarding the Air Quality Plan (PA-65-00767C) for Proposed Leachate Evaporation System at Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill

(Makenzie White, EHP Public Health Manager, and Nathan Deron, EHP Environmental Data Scientist)

September 19, 2022

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Environmental Health Project (EHP) Statement on the Public Health Impacts of Blue Hydrogen Production 

August 3, 2022

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Public Comments to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Re: Updating Federal Guidelines Used by Public Health Agencies to Assess and Respond to Potential Cancer Clusters in Communities (With Organizational Sign-ons)

July 25, 2022

 

Public Comments on Pennsylvania’s Shale Gas Boom: How Policy Decisions Failed to Protect  Public Health Submitted to the Pennsylvania Senate - Democratic Policy Committee 
(Alison L. Steele, EHP Executive Director)

June 2, 2022

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Public Comments on Pennsylvania’s Shale Gas Boom: How Policy Decisions Failed to Protect  Public Health Submitted to the Pennsylvania Senate - Democratic Policy Committee
(Makenzie White, EHP Public Health Manager)

June 2, 2022

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Public Comments to the PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Regarding the Proposed Environmental Justice Policy Revision (Document Number 012-0501-002)

May 10, 2022

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Public Comments on Proposal for Safe Drinking Water PFAS MCL Rule Submitted to the PA Environmental Quality Board (EQB) 

March 25, 2022

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Comments on Proposed Rules on Importations of Water Into and Exportations of Water From the Delaware River Basin; Discharges of Wastewater from High Volume Hydraulic Fracturing and Related Activities

February 26, 2022

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Public Comments on Proposal to Reduce Methane and Other Harmful Emissions from the Oil and Natural Gas Industry Submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

January 28, 2022

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Proposed Rulemaking: Exclusion for Identification and Listing Hazardous Waste at MAX Environmental Technologies, Inc. Bulger & Yukon Facilities (#7-566)

January 26, 2022

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Public Statement on Pennsylvania DEP Final Methane/VOC Rules

December 9, 2021

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Public Statement on U.S. EPA New Draft Methane Rules

November 2, 2021

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PA DEP 2021 Annual Ambient Air Monitoring Network Plan - EHP Comments

July 19, 2021

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Public Statement on PSR Report on PFAS Used in Shale Gas Development

July 13, 2021

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Public Comments on Controlling Air Pollution from the Oil and Gas Industry Before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

June 15, 2021

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Comments to PA DEP Office of Environmental Justice Regarding Draft Environmental Justice Public Participation Policy

May 20, 2021

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EHP Comments on Tri-County Landfill Permit

April 30, 2021

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EHP Comments on Ohio EPA State Implementation Plan (SIP) of Clean Air Act

April 29, 2021

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Public Statement on 2021 American Lung Association State of the Air Report

April 21, 2021

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Public Statement on Gov. Wolf’s Announcement of the PULSE Solar Energy Initiative

March 25, 2021

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Public Statement on Environmental Health News Investigation to Determine Levels of Chemicals in SWPA Families Living Close to Shale Gas Development

March 1, 2021

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Public Statement on PA Department of Health Secretary Levine Being Tapped by Biden Administration As Assistant Health Secretary

January 19, 2021

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Public Statement on Governor Wolf’s Announcement of Research Partner for Shale Gas Development Health Studies in Southwestern Pennsylvania

December 23, 2020

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Public Comments on Ozone NAAQS before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by the Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project (EHP)

September 1, 2020

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Call to Action from Pennsylvania Health Care Providers to Better Protect Pennsylvanians from Health Effects of Shale Gas Development (with DOH Response and EHP Memo to HCPs)

August 20, 2020

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Comments on Proposed DEP Rulemaking: Control of VOC Emissions from Oil and Natural Gas Sources (#7-544)

July 27, 2020

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Letter to Range Resources: Ambient Air Monitoring at Augustine Well Site in Cecil Township

July 9, 2020

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Public Statement on “Report 1 of the Forty-Third Statewide Investigating Grand Jury” Regarding Shale Gas Operations

June 26, 2020

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Testimony for Control of VOC Emissions from Oil and Natural Gas Sources Before the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

June 23, 2020

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Public Statement on the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Oil and Gas Rule

May 27, 2020

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Public Statement on Rolling Stone Article Titled “America’s Radioactive Secret”

January 22, 2020

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Public Statement Regarding Governor Wolf’s Announcement Initiating Two Health Studies of Shale Gas Fracking in Southwestern Pennsylvania

November 22, 2019

 

EHP Response to 10/21 Marcellus Shale Coalition Letter to AQTAC

November 5, 2019

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An Open Letter to Dr. Rachel Levine, Pennsylvania Secretary of Health (and DOH response)

August 1, 2019

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Public Statement in Response to Gradient Report on Fort Cherry School Emissions as Commissioned by Range Resources

May 31, 2019

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An Open Letter to the Pennsylvania Department of Health Bureau of Epidemiology, Division of Community Epidemiology

May 1, 2019

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State Department Roundtable on Unconventional Natural Gas Development (Raina Rippel)

March 18, 2014

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Testimony to House Democratic Policy Committee Hearing (Jill Kriesky)

May 2, 2013

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