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. Pennsylvania needs to do better….

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

These violations are the most frequent committed by unconventional shale gas operators, according to DEP’s 2021 Oil and Gas Program Annual report , which reported 196 NOVs for failing to report or correct casing and cementing violations in 2021 alone. We now have 13,952 active unconventional shale gas wells drilled in Pennsylvania.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In the summer of 2003 , a culmination of seemingly small failures by the power grid, its monitoring software, and human operators quickly cascaded into the largest blackout to ever occur in North America. The first misstep in the 2003 blackout was an overloaded, sagging electrical line that touched a tree limb and short-circuited.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Many other provisions in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will also benefit Pennsylvania’s environment and public health, including-- -- Replacing lead pipes, addressing drinking water contamination by PFAS, wastewater facilities; -- Cleaning up Superfund and brownfield sites [ $38.7

Regulations

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.

Electricity

CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

California Clean Energy Committee v. League to Save Lake Tahoe, Mountain Area Preservation Foundation, and Sierra Watch (Sierra Watch) and the California Clean Energy Committee (Committee) filed separate writ petitions alleging numerous CEQA and TPA violations, which the trial court consolidated for hearing.

Renewable Energy

Environmental Progress

AUGUST 8, 2020

“These goals can be achieved by mid-century — but only if we remove the obstacles to cheap, reliable and clean energy.” Nuclear energy is that solution, Shellenberger has long advocated.” Kasprak either didn’t read Apocalypse Never, didn’t understand it, or chose to deliberately misrepresent it.

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