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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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

The Treasury Department’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) provides definitions of key terms in the statute, including lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions, qualified clean hydrogen, and qualified clean hydrogen production facility. Click Here for the complete announcement and supporting analysis. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

While he does not mention climate change, there is a brief nod to climate solutions through emissions reductions: Come on electric utilities, don’t tell me you are just passing along those high natural gas prices to the ratepayer and at the same time ask the taxpayers to subsidize it more. Let me be clear about this.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

On April 7, the Department of Environmental Protection appealed the April 6 Commonwealth Court order blocking publication of the final regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to the PA Supreme Court. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Read more here. -- September 19 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Not Registered For Global Clean Energy Action Forum In Pittsburgh? Trillion Tons Of Greenhouse Gas -- The Guardian: Fury Over PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ As U.S Room 461 Main Capitol. Click Here to watch live.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2022

Wolf’s veto of Senate Regulatory Resolution #1 that blocks the final DEP regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. ushering in years of cheap oil and gas. Read more here. Read more here. At least $12.5

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

But what you probably haven’t heard is that our grid is getting dirtier again, with fossil fuels increasing in our electricity supply from burning natural gas. TAKE ACTION : Tell Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) that you support the phase-out of polluting gas powered electricity by 2030.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2022

On March 30, the House voted 126 to 72 to pass House Bill 637 (Struzzi-R-Indiana) designed to block the final DEP regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants that’s consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Read more here. At least $12.5 Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2022

Natural Gas Prices Jump 7% As Heat Wave Boosts Air Conditioning Use -- Bloomberg: Summer Blackout Fears Fuel 300% Jump In U.S. Power Plant Profits -- Bloomberg: EUs Simson: Natural Gas Situation Likely To Get Worse -- Reuters: Factbox: Could The U.S. Ship More LNG To Europe? What’s Your Community Doing?

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

29; No Information Yet On Whether Oil & Gas Development Health Risks Will Be Included [PaEN] -- DEP Posts 59 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In Sept. 29; No Information Yet On Whether Oil & Gas Development Health Risks Will Be Included [PaEN] -- DEP Posts 59 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In Sept. KTA Trail Challenge Sept.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. 30] By contrast, today’s energy system requires just 0.5 5] The U.S.

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Introduction Hydrogen has been dubbed the “Swiss army knife” of clean energy, given its potential to become a tool to cut emissions in key sectors, as well as to assert U.S. global energy leadership and increase our nation’s competitive edge. DOE’s National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap sets a target of increasing U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

million is to be used for methane abatement projects from plugging abandoned gas wells. -- $62.5 Over the last decade 19 coal-fired power plants shutdown as a result of competition from natural gas, yet the communities and workers were left on their own to deal with the consequences by the people that presently run the General Assembly.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2023

16 On Cryptocurrency Mining Moratorium Bill; Resolution To Study Potential Of Geothermal Energy From Abandoned Mine Pools [PaEN] -- Sierra Club's Delaware County Team Hosts Oct. Julia O’Brien, Lancaster Theological Seminary [PaEN] -- PA Interfaith Power & Light Religion & Environment Webinar Series: Nov. 24] And Dauphin [Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

-- Republican Herald: West Nile Virus Monitoring Starts In Schuylkill County -- Shapiro Administration Commends 3 PA Schools For Environmental Efforts As Green Ribbon Schools -- National Energy Technology Laboratory: Winners In Western PA, West Virginia Science Bowl Competed In National Science Bowl -- Wildlife For Everyone Foundation Announces 5 Recipients (..)

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Law Columbia

JUNE 27, 2023

Direct pay – which is already in effect as of January 1, 2023 – allows tax-exempt entities, including local governments, to claim the value of certain clean energy and other tax credits as a cash payment, rather than as an offset to tax liability that they do not have.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

Envirothon Team Get Hands-On Science Lessons In Canoes -- National Energy Technology Laboratory: Winners In Western PA, West Virginia Science Bowl Competed In National Science Bowl -- PA Solar Center Honors 5 Western PA Organizations Who Have Gone Solar [PaEN] -- Williamsport Sun: Eagle On The Mend Through Ashkar Students’ Efforts -- Reading Eagle: (..)

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

In developing the plan, the law directs the Utilities Commission to follow existing state law with respect to least-cost generation of power and maintain system reliability. So the law requires a balancing of consumer costs/system reliability and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

Through the IRA, there are also many opportunities for climate change mitigation through cleaner vehicles, homes that are more energy efficient, and reductions in greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane. Plugging the abandoned oil and gas wells helps get us there by reducing 8% of the methane emissions from Pennsylvania.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

Forming Work Group On Climate/Clean Energy, Co-Chairs Announced In response to a question from Sen. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming), Majority Chair of the Senate Environmental Committee, on DEP’s final regulation reducing carbon pollution from power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Acting Secretary Negrin said Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2021

Wolf withdraws his proposal to reduce carbon pollution from power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Coal-fired power plants were the biggest losers in the auction market clearing 8,175 MW less power than during the last auction. Read more here. In response, Gov. Read more here.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

The Regulation’s proposed criteria for gaseous fossil fuels (which includes both conventional natural gas, and synthetic gas derived from coal gasification) allow investment in their consumption without restriction in function, scale, or time period, as long as greenhouse gas emissions are no higher than 100 gCO2eq/kWh (see §4.29-31

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The attorney general said that PwC also served from at least 2008 to 2013 as global advisor and report writer for the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit organization that functions as a global disclosure system for environmental information, including greenhouse gas emissions, from companies including Exxon. 451962/2016 (N.Y.

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