Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In that decade, the federal government created the U.S. And state governments began to secure those same rights for individuals in their constitutions. NextEra operates a natural gas plant and several solar facilities in Maine, while Calpine and Vistra run natural gas plants in the state.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In the United States, government agencies in Hawaii are dealing with a water contamination crisis. Communities rich and poor bore witness to horrific devastation in 2021. federal government declared a first-ever Tier 1 shortage, requiring mandatory water cuts for Arizona and Nevada. Extreme events are happening more often.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Daryl Metcalfe, Majority Chair of the House Environment Resources and Energy Committee, announced a September 20 “Wellhead to Stovetop - Conveying Energy in PA” hearing on natural gas and pipelines in Pennsylvania. In a March hearing, Rep. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The hearing also did not tackle the issue of why Pennsylvanians, sitting on top of one of the richest natural gas reservoirs in the world, have been subjected to natural gas cost increases of as much as 154 percent over the last year from utilities. Or, why a Susquehanna County Gas Company is proposing to raise rates 33.2

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

On 26 September 2021 general elections in Germany concluded with a tricky result. Negotations to form a coalition government are complicated. This is not a particular or new policy, given that this aim has already been installed in the new Climate Protection Act by the late-Merkel government earlier this year.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

On December 27, 2022-- Christmas week-- a malfunction at the CNX Oak Springs Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Station in South Franklin Township, Washington County resulted in the release of an estimated 1.1 million cubic feet of natural gas and hazardous air pollutants. From approximately 10:14 a.m. to at least 11:55 a.m.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

The report illustrates why including ‘natural’ gas under the sustainable finance label would undermine the tool’s credibility, invalidating the efforts to date. Methane is responsible for 30 per cent of the current global temperature rise to date globally, and over 14 per cent of Canada’s annual greenhouse gas emissions. “A

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 2, 2023

By Cat (Cathy) Lodge, Washington County Resident My family’s home is in Washington County and we have more Marcellus and Utica Shale natural gas industrial facilities than any other county in Pennsylvania. Counties across the state have witnessed harm from the heavy industrial activity associated with natural gas exploration.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

As predicted back in July and with thanks to the friends of oil and gas in our General Assembly, it’s only getting worse. Our kids and all Pennsylvanians deserve more from our legislature than more gas industry handouts. Shapiro, Lt. Davis On Environmental, Energy Issues?

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

A natural gas company in Canada says they won’t generate enough electricity due to drought this summer. Manitoba Hydro, a natural gas company in Canada, said it doesn’t expect to generate enough electricity this winter to meet its export budget, thanks to dry conditions over the last several months across the Lake Winnipeg watershed.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Sandra Steingraber, Senior Scientist with the Science and Environmental Health Network , provided an overview of findings from the newly published 9th Compendium of Scientific, Medical, Media Findings Demonstrating Risk, Harms of Natural Gas Development and Infrastructure during a briefing hosted by the Better Path Coalition.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

In February 2021, the DRBC banned high-volume hydraulic fracking within the Delaware River Basin. The Court concluded that the fracking ban “promotes the purposes of the trust and protects its corpus by preventing Pennsylvania’s natural gas reserves, part of the Commonwealth’s ‘public natural resources,’ from being depleted.”

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 2, 2024

Statement from Keith Brooks, Program Director Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Huron-Wendat – New data released today by the Government of Canada shows that Canada is finally starting to bend the curve when it comes to climate pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2021

On December 21, sixteen local and statewide environmental groups expressed their opposition to a proposed natural gas to gasoline refinery to be built in Luzerne County by Texas-based Nacero. Nacero Blue relies on fracked gas inputs. Since it was formed in 2015, Nacero has not built any of the nine plants it set out to build.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2022

million in annual taxpayer subsidies to manufacturing and other businesses that use natural gas and hydrogen in their operations for at least 20 years. The bill also more than doubles the tax credit for using natural gas to make petrochemicals or fertilizer from natural gas. Read more here. Much better.

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A Greener Life

MARCH 15, 2022

The energy analysts found that despite all the efforts to curb emissions, in 2021 global energy-related CO2 emissions rose to their highest ever level as the lockdowns put in place by many governments due to the pandemic were eased. Emission from natural gas also rose well above 2019 levels to 7.5 billion tonnes.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The PA Environment Digest prepared a policy paper in August of 2021 on the issue of requiring natural gas and hazardous liquid pipelines to have insurance or financial assurance in place to cover property damage, bodily harm and environmental cleanup resources if a leak or explosion happens. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

The Grand Jury Report was released by then Attorney General Shapiro in June 2020 after what he said then was a two-year investigation uncovered systematic failure by government agencies in overseeing the fracking industry and fulfilling their responsibility to protect Pennsylvanians from the inherent risks of industry operations.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2023

New Fortress Energy, which in March 2022 suspended its plan to construct a plant in Wyalusing, Bradford County, to liquefy vast amounts of Marcellus Shale natural gas, has informed the Securities and Exchange Commission that it plans to seek new permits. Those activists filled in for sleepwalking government regulators.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 7, 2022

This editorial was first published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on January 7, 2021 -- One of the most remote municipalities in Allegheny County, rural West Deer Township, is also one of the most conservative. The township commission and its constituents have, historically, favored natural gas drilling within West Deer.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 3, 2022

government took steps last week to release 180 million barrels of oil from reserves over the next six months in an attempt to reduce the price of oil on foreign energy markets. drillers added just three oil and gas rigs amid slow growth in drilling last week. FYI: There Is No Limit On What Oil/Natural Gas Companies Can Charge You.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

PGE will attempt to use new underground “micro-tunneling” technology for the natural gas pipeline, down steep slopes on both sides the Creek. During DCNR’s last meeting with residents in March 2021, Deputy Secretary Norbeck asked neighbors to submit the rest of their questions and concerns in writing.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

The European Commission proposes replacing natural gas from any source in key sectors of its energy economy, dramatically expanding energy efficiency, renewables “instead of funding the fossil fuel industry elsewhere.” They want energy jobs in the EU. Russia also accounts for around 25% of oil imports and 45% of coal imports.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 6, 2021

A new report calls for more transparency from Australia’s government in regard to water distribution in the Murray-Darling Basin. which “guarantees the uninterrupted transit of light crude oil and natural gas liquids between the two counties,” has been invoked.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2022

Pennsylvania is squarely in the middle of a national debate over “unleashing” our considerable reserves of natural gas to help supply the parts of Europe now dependent on natural gas from Russia. And natural gas is the most valuable commodity Russia has – for now.” And they meant all natural gas imports.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

Even so, it compares favorably with the national governments in places like the U.S. Two thirds of generation capacity is based on fossil fuels, split evenly between coal and natural gas, with 17% nuclear, and 14% hydro and other renewables. 50% coal, 26% gas, and 25% nuclear. and Australia.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

million in annual taxpayer subsidies to manufacturing and other businesses that use natural gas and hydrogen in their operations for at least 20 years. The bill also more than doubles the tax credit for using natural gas to make petrochemicals or fertilizer from natural gas. Read more here. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

We are praying for help because the government has yet to send relief.” – Santosh Mandal, who moved his family to a sandbank in Bihar’s Supaul district after their village was flooded. The post The Stream, September 2, 2021: Brazil’s Energy Crisis Worse Than Previously Anticipated, Officials Say appeared first on Circle of Blue.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Higher prices for oil, natural gas, coal, and electricity are all pushing up inflation across the economy, dampening consumer demand, canceling out wage gains, and compounding the burdens facing working families and the poor as they seek to recover from the pandemic. In the U.S.,

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

The motion asks the company to produce a report examining how Enbridge’s governance systems are functioning. The motion asks the company to produce a report examining how Enbridge’s governance systems are functioning. Greg Ebel has been vying to expand gas infrastructure in Canada and lock-in our reliance on gas for decades.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Given that heightened awareness, a Commerce Department advisory committee of electric and gas utility executives acknowledged at a meeting in the fall of 1970 that their industry needed “to show what they are doing about pollution [and] suggested that the gas industry take a look at the NOx [nitrogen oxides] problem.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

Later in the hour, Tillerson told Rose that the federal government should end subsidies for renewable energy. “I Likewise, they understate the potential consequences, contend that we can easily adapt to them, and fight government efforts to curb carbon emissions and promote renewable energy.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2021

On July 29, the Ohio River Valley Institute released a new poll of Pennsylvania voters which found by wide margins they support tougher regulation of the natural gas drilling industry, community regulation of drilling and the development of clean energy sources.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2023

The court overturned a District Court ruling to invalidate a Berkeley, California, prohibition on natural gas infrastructure in newly-constructed buildings. Berkeley’s so-called “natural gas ban” was the first local ordinance in the country to effectively require all-electric construction of new buildings.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The agreement also allows countries to continue to export liquefied natural gas. The bill repels section 20001 of the 2017 Tax Act, which required the Bureau of Land Management to offer oil and gas lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and cancels the leases sold in January 2021.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 29, 2024

The world is going through an energy transition yet the Ontario government is stuck in the past. When the Ontario government came to power in 2018, they cancelled 750 renewable energy projects at a cost of over $230 million. This is not the work of a fiscally responsible government.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 18, 2021

On August 17, the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee held a hearing on the “environmental and economic benefits of pipelines” which failed to even acknowledge the over $55 million in penalties imposed by DEP and the Public Utility Commission for the failure of natural gas and hazardous liquids pipelines over the last five years.

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