PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

The assessment further identified rising health issues related to natural resource extractions [defined by the Health Department as oil and gas development ] and the health impacts resulting from climate change as two of the top five threats affecting health outcomes of Pennsylvanians. within one-half mile).

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By: Deborah Klenotic, Deputy Communications Director Climate change is a major challenge facing Pennsylvania, and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is leading many efforts to fight back and protect communities. Find more materials at DEP’s Climate Change webpage.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2023

said, “Laura is an inspiring example of how a can-do attitude, backed up with hard work and optimism, can bring change to our toughest environmental challenges. Please join me in using your individual superpowers for the planet. Together, our greatest legacy can be safeguarding our life support systems for future generations.”

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 16, 2019

The escalating costs of damages from extreme weather events, many exacerbated by climate change, makes poignant a question with a serious price tag: who will be on the hook to pay for climate damages? These leaks are only a fraction of the 90,000 barrels spilled in Louisiana in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina. By Dena Adler.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The issues on appeal were limited to the adequacy of certain aspects of the project EIR’s analyses of GHGs and criteria air pollutants. Tsakopoulos Investments, LLC v. County of Sacramento, et al. Mather South, LLC, et al, Real Parties ) (2023) Cal.App.5 Department of Fish & Wildlife (2015) 62 Cal.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

But we had data from 2005 to 2019, and so information here was at the well level. Here's a map of which county subdivisions did and did not receive waste between 2005 and 2019. More deprived communities were more likely to receive any well waste, as well as a larger cumulative volume of waste from 2005 to 2019 in Pennsylvania.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 20, 2014

But it found no reason to do so absent a legislative or executive delineation of state rights and obligations regarding climate change. air pollution. , In other words, atmospheric trust plaintiffs need a statute or administrative rule providing a remedy for any state failure to reduce its contribution to climate change.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

Those who work on soil issues have long hoped for a new study, with well-known soil scientists calling for one as early as 2005, at the government’s annual Two Sessions meetings. Reducing soil emissions and increasing carbon sequestration is therefore of huge importance for mitigating climate change. Rapid acidification.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, the United States voluntarily pledged to reduce its global warming emissions at least 50 percent below their 2005 levels by the end of this decade and reach net-zero emissions no later than 2050. trillion in avoided climate change-related damages. What are the main solutions? Your thoughts?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 7, 2024

California has a Mediterranean climate, which, like other parts of the world, is becoming more extreme: wildfires, unbearable heat waves, and water shortages are just a few of the recurring problems that have worsened due to climate change. This reflects the consequences of climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2024

We’ve made progress The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and the Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) contribute significantly towards the US’s 2030 climate targets (50-52% reduction of global warming emissions below 2005 levels) and exceed these targets by 2035.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2023

Those scenarios showed that the IRA would accelerate solar and wind deployment and reduce carbon emissions to 80 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

GHG Emissions by Sector Climate changes pollution and pollution changes climate Another reason to look at the global warming impacts of refineries from a health perspective is that there is an important link between global warming and local pollution. See the pie charts below. have a diameter of 2.5

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

Beginning January 1, 2005, DEP started receiving drinking water complaints related to the shale gas drilling over a nine square mile area. [In

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution. Exxon's three largest refineries in Louisiana and Texas topped the 2021 list of emitters of small particulate matter air pollution in the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2022

For the first time since 2005, we'll add three new parks to our national award-winning system to bring our total to 124. Cleaner trucks, buses, and trains are reducing air pollution in the state, and more than 1,500 electric vehicle charging plugs have been installed, many of them in environmental justice communities.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Capturing and putting to good use these methane emissions from our many waste streams could limit climate change drastically. The World Health Organization estimates that four million people die every year from indoor air pollution from cooking on inefficient and unhealthy stoves using firewood, coal, kerosene, or animal dung.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In 2005 the company paid out €5.2 million for air pollution in 2007, and then $8.75 million fine for violating a 2007 air pollution settlement over emissions at its Port Arthur refinery, the Justice Department said Friday. million to eight Burmese villagers who sued the company for human rights abuses.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

Natural gas is the sharpest tool that we have to solve climate change,” MSC President Dave Callahan said on WPHT Philadelphia’s Labor-Energy show. In addition to carbon dioxide emission reductions, sulfur and nitrogen pollutants also declined and improved public health. fell from 38,000 in 2005 to 3,100 in 2020 (a?91%

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

They experience truck traffic and their diesel exhaust emissions, transient workforces, air pollution, including volatile organic compounds, particulate matter, ozone, oxides of nitrogen and fugitive methane emissions. And so all of these have very significant impacts on climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Here’s why the claims are wrong: UCS has pointed out that while gas burns cleaner than coal at a power plant, it is far from a “clean” fuel because it still results in significant toxic air pollution. Methane is also a fast-acting greenhouse gas in terms of its impact on the climate. There’s a better way forward.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

As background, I am an invited expert reviewer of the next assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment.” My name is Michael Shellenberger, and I am Founder and President of Environmental Progress, an independent and nonprofit research organization.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

Beginning January 1, 2005, DEP started receiving drinking water complaints related to the shale gas drilling over a nine square mile area. Read more here. Governor Marks Plugging 300th Abandoned Conventional Well On March 12, Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency announced it is strengthening its proposed standards to cut methane and other harmful air pollution. The updates would provide more comprehensive requirements to reduce climate and health-harming air pollution, including from hundreds of thousands of existing oil and gas sources nationwide.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

New Shell documents could aid climate cases, attorneys say Follow the Money PaulaR Thu, 01/25/2024 - 16:59 Thursday, January 18, 2024 Read more Matthew Green, Merel de Buck & Birte Schohaus Latest Shell-files show that the company reflected on climate change caused by fossil products as early as the 1970s.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 26, 2024

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Nigeria: Petroleum, Pollution and Poverty in the Niger Delta by Amnesty International (2009). Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005). PERI Pollution Indexes Based on United States Environmental Protection Agency data ranking the top 100 worst polluters. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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