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| Cambria Coke |
Challenge to the air quality permit granted by DEP for a proposed coke plant. / Soon after the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) set a hearing date for this appeal, Cambria Coke announced it had decided not to build the plant, at least for now. The company apparently made this decision based on the downturn in the world market for coke. The parties stipulated that the air permit challenged by PennFuture was void and the ALJ dismissed the appeal. (More Details)
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| Capital Area Greenbelt |
SUCCESS!
Protect a recreationally and historically significant portion of the Capital Area Greenbelt just outside Harrisburg. / (More Details)
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| Citizens for Pennsylvania s Future v. Mallory |
Reduce smog in Pennsylvania by requiring the Department of Transportation to implement a federally-required vehicle testing program. / (More Details)
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| Conectiv Delta Power Plant |
Reduce emissions and other risks to neighbors in air quality permit for new natural gas-fired power plant. / PennFuture filed detailed technical comments on proposed permit in December, 2005, asking for pollution protections in final permit. No action yet by DEP on the permit application. (More Details)
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| Dauphin Meadows Landfill |
Stop the re-opening of a municipal waste landfill served by two-lane roads, in a rural, historic Central Pennsylvania valley. / (More Details)
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| Duquesne Light Base Rate Case |
Case seeks to increase funding for renewable energy programs in utility rate case. / (More Details)
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| Eagle Rock Resort Company |
Ensure enforcement of state law requiring correction of erosion and sediment control violations at existing Eagle Rock Resort before issuing permit allowing expansion of the Resort. / (More Details)
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| Hanover Foods Corp. |
Stop ongoing violations of a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) discharge permit by a food processing operation resulting in pollution and massive fish kill in Sinking Creek, a wild trout stream and a significant tributary to Penns Creek. / (More Details)
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| Harveys Lake Dredging Permit |
Protecting endangered plant species and requiring accurate measurement and adequate mitigation of wetland disturbance by challenging a DEP water obstruction and encroachment permit that allows dredging of inlet. / (More Details)
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| Hatfield s Ferry Coal Plant |
SUCCESS!
PennFuture filed an action to enforce federal and state limits on dangerous soot air pollution from the Hatfield s Ferry coal plant. / (More Details)
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| Kaiser Refractories Potato Ridge Mine Discharges |
SUCCESS!
Protect local water resources by challenging the renewal of Kaiser Refractories NPDES wastewater discharge permit. / (More Details)
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| Kreider Dairy Farms |
Protection of water from manure-related pollution at Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO or factory farm)site. / PennFuture filed comments challenging the permit renewal based on manure-related pollutants detected in ground water monitoring wells at the facility. Still waiting for DEP final action. (More Details)
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| Laurel Run Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Water Permit |
Protecting Laurel Run by seeking changes to proposed amendment to 2003 Final TMDL for Laurel Run. / (More Details)
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| Mandamus Action regarding Odor Regulations |
Seeks to compel the State Conservation Commission to promulgate interim and final regulations regarding odor management at certain agricultural operations for barns and manure storage facilities as required under the ACRE legislation. / PennFuture filed Petition for Review in the Nature of a Petition for a Writ of Mandamus with the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania on July 11, 2007.
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| Marple Township Land Use Appeal |
Ensure that Pulte Homes develops its planned residential community in central Delaware County in a manner that protects the valuable natural resources on and around the site, including several exceptional value streams.
Hold Pulte and Marple Township to the conditions that they agreed to as part of earlier conditional use proceedings.
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| Mercury Pollution from Coal-fired Power Plants |
SUCCESS!
In August 2004, PennFuture formally filed a petition with the Pennsylvania Environmental Quality Board (EQB) on behalf of public health, sporting, women s rights and environmental and conservation organizations asking the EQB to enact a regulation requiring coal-fired power plants to reduce their mercury emissions by 90 percent. / (More Details)
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| Met-Ed Penelec Cases |
Secure funding for renewable energy and related programs in consolidated rate and merger cases before the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission. / After hearing, the Administrative Law Judge denied our requests for various clean energy programs. PennFuture appealed this ruling to the full Commission, which ruled against our position in January. (More Details)
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| Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs (Downs Racing, L.P.) |
Downs Racing, L.P doing business as Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs has failed to apply for and obtain an NPDES CAFO permit under the Clean Streams Law. PennFuture filed a 60-day notice letter for violations of the Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law. The action is an attempt to ensure proper permitting of the existing horse barns at the facility. / PennFuture has filed a 60-day notice letter. (More Details)
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| Mount Pocono Municipal Authority Water Permit Renewal |
Challenge delay in renewing NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) wastewater discharge permit that expired in September 2001, and comment on draft NPDES permit to ensure that degradation of stream segment is alleviated. / (More Details)
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| PECO Energy Company’s Petition to purchase Alternative Energy Credits for Banking under the AEPS Act |
This case is the first instance of a company seeking to purchase 450,000 non-solar Tier I alternative energy credits annually, for a five-year period to be banked for future compliance with the AEPS Act. The Office of Small Business Advocate opposed PECO’s proposed plan by urging the PUC to adopt two narrow interpretations of the Act. PennFuture intervened and filed a brief supporting PECO’s proposal. At stake is not only important interpretations of the statute, but also a significant procurement of credits that will promote development of alternative sources of energy in the PJM territory / The parties reached a stipulation that submits three legal interpretations of the statute to the PUC for determination. PennFuture filed a brief that effectively supports PECO’s proposal. We are awaiting a Recommended Decision from the Administrative Law Judge.
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| PECO/PSE&G Merger |
Seek renewable energy benefits from merger which would result in the nation s largest utility. / In January of 2006, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission approved a settlement between the merging companies, PennFuture, and other parties that provided $19.2 million for renewable energy programs. However, in September of 2006, PECO announced that it was abandoning the merger and withdrawing from the settlement and its obligation to fund renewable energy programs. (More Details)
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| Petrolia Water Contamination |
PennFuture filed actions to protect citizens from contaminants that leaked from a number of old industrial waste piles and polluted public and private water supplies. / (More Details)
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| Pocono Township Sewage Treatment Plant Discharge Permit Appeal |
Protect the Brodhead Creek, a cold water fishery, from potentially degrading wastewater discharges, and the Pocono and Cranberry Creeks, high quality, cold water fisheries, from potentially degrading stormwater discharges, authorized under NPDES Permit No. PA006515 / (More Details)
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| PPL Brunner Island Power Plant Water Permit |
Ensure that revised NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) permit for large power plant will adequately protect water quality in the Susquehanna River, and in particular will alleviate adverse impacts of the plant s heated wastewater discharge on the river s biological community. / (More Details)
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| Red Knob Farm |
Obtain compliance with NPDES CAFO permit conditions that require installation of monitoring wells and monitoring of water quality. / Sent notice letter to Andy Young on July 31, 2008. (More Details)
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| Ridley Creek Developments (Henderson Elwyn Office Campus, Creighton Properties, Riddle Estates) |
Comment on and oppose issuance of NPDES Permits for discharges of stormwater associated with construction of developments adjacent to Ridley Creek, a high quality watershed that serves as a recreational trout fishery and public water supply. / (More Details)
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| Rohrer Farms, LLC |
Ensure proper permitting and remediation of existing swine bars. PennFuture filed comments on the application for a Water Quality (WQM) Permit. / While DEP issued the WQM permit for this operation, PennFuture continues to closely monitor this facility. (More Details)
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| Sechan Landfill |
Stop proposed construction of a residual waste landfill immediately adjacent to McConnell s Mill State Park. / (More Details)
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| UMCO Energy, Inc. v. DEP and PennFuture |
UMCO appealed, to the Commonwealth Court, the Environmental Hearing Board’s decision that refused to allow the mining company to longwall mine beneath a perennial stream because mining would permanently harm the hydrologic balance of the stream. UMCO contests three legal issues that implicate the Clean Streams Law and Bituminous Mine Subsidence and Land Conservation Act.
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| UMCO/High Quality Mine |
SUCCESS!
PennFuture intervened to support the Department of Environmental Protection s decision to protect a perennial stream that would be irreparably harmed by longwall mining. / (More Details)
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| UMCO/Maple Creek Mine - Public s Right to Know |
SUCCESS!
Challenge DEP s decision to allow longwall or full extraction mining beneath a stream without public notice or comment. / (More Details)
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| Weisbecker Farm Condemnation |
SUCCESS!
Oppose eminent domain procedures proposed by the township to take part of a preserved family farm in Montgomery County s Agricultural Security Area. / (More Details)
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