Legal Planet

APRIL 25, 2024

Opponents are sure to legally challenge EPA’s new rule to limit carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. First, EPA’s preferred technology to limit carbon emissions — carbon capture and storage (CCS) — isn’t just pie in the sky. energy mix.

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MAY 27, 2024

But the fact remains that, even with reductions of recent years, the United States, which produced one quarter of the world’s global warming gases two decades ago, still produces between 13 percent and 14 percent of the world’s carbon emissions, more than triple our share of the world’s population. But the benefit has expired.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2024

With 2024 Lifetime Conservation Leadership Award [PaEN] -- Delaware Highlands Conservancy Holds 30th Anniversary Foods Of The Delaware Highlands Event May 4 [PaEN] -- WVIA: Bernie McGurl, Lackawanna River Conservation Assn. - Schiffman, Esq.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 2, 2024

Anti-regulatory conservatives favored this doctrine in the Reagan days, but not so much since Democrats showed their own ability to make use of this agency discretion. The Biden Administration has issued important regulations to cut carbon emissions and air pollution from trucks and cars. Will the D.C. Circuit uphold them?

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

His administration attempted to eliminate every regulation limiting carbon emissions, promoting energy efficiency, or expanding renewable energy. Finally, many conservatives seems crazed by the thought that the private sector might voluntarily try to cut emissions. One website cites 176 climate-related rollbacks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 28, 2023

to integrate food and farm policy in a way that addresses climate change and helps farmers reduce their carbon emissions. Agriculture needs to be a part of the climate solution, given that it is responsible for about 11 percent of heat-trapping carbon emissions in the United States.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

played a crucial role in negotiating the Kyoto Protocol, which required developed countries to cut their carbon emissions 5% below 1990 levels. The Kyoto Protocol may have led to emission reductions in Europe, but there was never any real prospect that the Senate would ever ratify the agreement. Under Clinton, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

19 EarthTalks Webinar: The Economic Impact Of Carbon Emission Trading Scheme On Building Retrofits [PaEN] -- Utility Dive: Grid-Enhancing Technologies Could Facilitate 6.6 Million In Tax Credits To Subsidize Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; Total Expected To Be $1.17 Smucker Joins State, Local Officials To Oppose $2.5

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The question, posed recently to 714 likely Pennsylvania voters, shows their support for the state to participate in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a multi-state effort to reduce harmful carbon emissions. The survey, conducted by Susquehanna Polling & Research from Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

On November 2, The Nature Conservancy in Pennsylvania released new results and analysis of a federally-funded community science study that produced Philadelphia’s highest-resolution heat map to date. For more information, visit TNC-PA’s Urban Conservation in Pennsylvania webpage. Click Here to become a member.

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Cresforum

AUGUST 22, 2023

To kick off August recess, Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES) Forum took part in the Conservative Climate Foundation ’s (CCF) 2nd Annual Communicators Retreat in Charleston, South Carolina. In attendance were over 70 U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

Signs Off On Solar Energy Facility -- USDA Funds 31 Local Projects Totaling $5.69

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 13, 2022

Today, the Court’s conservative Justices split the difference in two cases involving vaccine mandates, striking down OSHA’s mandate but upholding a more limited mandate for healthcare workers. Today, however, I’m going to focus instead on the conservative split and what it might mean for environmental law.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 18, 2023

Acre Waterfront Park Over I-95 Along Philadelphia Riverfront -- DCNR State Parks June Environmental Education Newsletter - Take A Hike! 23 to Oct.

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Legal Planet

MAY 23, 2022

The Liberal Party — conservative in everything but name — lost control of the federal government to Labor. Polling showed broad public support for more aggressive cuts in carbon emissions. Labor’s climate policy calls for a 43% reduction in carbon emissions by 2030. Australia has had a change of government.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 29, 2022

The issue in that case is what, if anything, EPA can do to regulate carbon emissions from power plants and factories. Yesterday, conservative states asked the Court to intervene in another climate change case. The social cost of carbon is an estimate of the harm done by the emission of a single ton of carbon.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 19, 2022

Michigan officials relaunch a $40 million watershed conservation program. A Pennsylvania judge blocks the governor’s attempt to put a price on carbon emissions. CARBON PRICING: A Pennsylvania judge has blocked a state regulation that would charge power plants for their carbon emissions. Looking Ahead.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Central American nation has won praise for its conservation efforts, including in reforestation, and continues to attract international finance to support its initiatives. The Central American nation has secured more than US$135 million in finance for nature in recent years, another leaf in its conservation success story.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2023

It’s probably enough to say that the case would certainly go to the Supreme Court, with its conservative supermajority. The lawsuit claims that EPA must do far more about climate change, but the six conservative Justices have the contrary view. Why is there no chance of success? I’ll unpack that a little. Download as PDF

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

According to the Economist , by 2040 about three-quarters of global sales will be EV even under conservative assumptions. The question is whether conservative ideologues and their fossil fuel allies will succeed in slowing down the movement. In the twenty years since Tesla arrived, EVs have gone from 0.2% Download as PDF

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Electricity-generating rooftop solar cells not only save on planet-warming carbon emissions, they also save a significant amount of water, say a pair of Duke University researchers who have done the math.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

Initially, Chevron was hailed by conservative judges and commentators. Since Obama, EPA has used this authority to regulation carbon emissions from vehicles and power plants. Industry and conservative states are trying to use this decision as a weapon against all but the most trivial regulations. Michigan v. EPA, 142 S.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 14, 2022

These are people with real money at stake, unlike conservative politicians and talking heads. In 2019, it signed an agreement with a Chinese steelmaker to find ways to reduce emissions from steel making. Still, it remains responsible for 31 Gigatons of carbon emissions per year. In 2021, it release plans to spend $7.5

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The case is a challenge by the coal industry and coal states to EPA’s power to limit carbon emissions by power plants. A: In practical terms, the question is what EPA can do to reduce carbon emissions from the power industry. Here’s what to look for today. Q: What is the case about? Download as PDF.

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Throughout the presentation, the speakers emphasized conservative priorities that are key to strengthening America’s energy leadership: reliability, affordability, domestic security and innovation. . like renewables and hydrogen – and how the increased deployment of nuclear energy will help meet future energy demand and climate goals.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2022

million square feet, released its 2021 Progress Report detailing efforts by partners who have committed to a dramatic reduction in energy use and carbon emissions in their buildings by the year 2030. The District also announced a new focus on carbon emissions. below the baseline (compared to 13% in 2020), amounting to $4.6

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2023

The Department of Conservation and Natural Resources Acting Secretary Cindy Adams Dunn prepared this written testimony to submit to the Senate and House Appropriations Committees outlining Gov. Thank you for this opportunity to discuss the Governor’s 2023-24 proposed budget for the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR).

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2023

Million EPA Loan For Water Infrastructure Improvements -- Pittsburgh 2030 District Announces Significant Progress In Reducing Carbon Emissions - 44.8% Host 2023 Forest Products Equipment & Technology Exposition June 9-10 In Centre County [PaEN] -- Delaware Highlands Conservancy Permanently Preserves 63.5

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 30, 2023

But the result would surely be a surge in carbon emissions, dooming us to even more severe climate change. The federal government has gotten a late start in cutting US emissions anyway, due to Republican resistance. And of course, he would flood the federal courts with more ultra-conservative judges.

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New Scientist

APRIL 12, 2023

A lighting device that reuses its infrared light to conserve energy is as efficient as some LED lights, which could contribute to fewer carbon emissions while retaining a natural glow

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The rule will be good for everyone except the oil and gas operators who waste the gas, increasing methane and carbon emissions while giving the public nothing in return. The other is that the rules have different purposes, since the Interior rule is designed to conserve gas rather than emission reduction as such.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 17, 2022

In a Friday post, I sketched some thoughts about how the Supreme Court’s vaccine mandate rulings might impact EPA’s power to control carbon emissions. The idea that agencies need especially clear authority for really important regulations is one that the Court’s conservatives invented. That brings us to the West Virginia case.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2024

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2023

On a per capita basis, Australia’s carbon emissions are even higher than the United States. In the past two years, however, the things have started trending upward after years of inaction by conservative governments. A decade ago, Australia had a climate tax. That was repealed in 2014, and the ensuing period saw little progress.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Here’s an embarrassing confession: Though I had taught environmental law for 25 years at that point, I had never heard of section 111(d) until it was discussed as possible tool to limit carbon emissions. And apparently for good reason, since it had rarely been used and only in relatively insignificant cases.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 20, 2022

He took the US back into the Paris Agreement, and pledged to slash 2005 carbon emissions in half by 2030. Along with the EU, he also pledged to cut global methane emissions in half. The Supreme Court has signaled that it will narrow EPA’s authority to regulate carbon emissions from power plants.

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