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The Department is the executive agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with the authority and duty to administer and enforce the Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act, the Act of July 7, 1980, P.L. 380, as amended, 35 P.S. §§ 6018.101 -6018.1003 (“Solid Waste Management Act”); Section 1917-A of the Administrative Code of 1929, Act of April 9, 1929, P.L. 177, as amended, 71P.S.§510-17 (“Administrative Code”); and the rules and regulations (“rules and regulations”) promulgated thereunder. {B3302246.l) 1

No shipments of toxic waste through December

DRAFT Exhibit A to Consent Adjudication (B3269782xAB63C) Earthjustice

After 40 years without effective pollution controls, a scrubbing system was recently installed at the Hatfield’s Ferry power plant in Masontown, Penn., limiting the amount of sulfur dioxide and other pollutants the plant pumps into the air. But the plant’s failure to install a scrubbing system for its discharged wastewater means that the dangerous pollutants…

First step to securing cleaner water for 750,000 people

Reducing air pollution from coal-fired power plants is an absolutely essential environmental aim, but it’s a red herring if the pollutants just end up in another waste stream. At the Hatfield’s Ferry coal plant in Pennsylvania, new air pollution scrubbers remove pollutants from the plant’s smokestack emissions, but Allegheny Energy Supply Co.—the plant’s owners—propose to…

Hatsfield Ferry Notice of Appeal

Move aimed at protecting drinking water for more than 350,000 people