Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

Utilities Commission (NCUC) to “take all reasonable steps” to achieve a 70% reduction in carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) emissions from electric generating units (EGUs) by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality for the utility generation system by 2050. January 22, 2023. A 2021 North Carolina law requires the N.C.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2021

The Inventory had shown a steady decrease from 2005 through 2016 from 289.62 The biggest factor in the decrease in emissions was from the electricity generation sector and the switch from coal to natural gas as a fuel source which alone accounted for a decrease from that sector from 120.97 million tons in 2005 to 73.09

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The agency estimates that in 2030, the proposal would reduce methane from covered sources by 87 percent below 2005 levels. Oil and natural gas operations are the nation’s largest industrial source of methane. Sharp cuts in methane emissions are among the most critical actions the U.S. million homes for the winter.

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Acoel

JULY 5, 2022

With low natural gas prices, combined-cycle natural gas plants have been dispatched and built to replace higher-emitting coal plants, so that the Clean Power Plan reductions have been achieved without the rule. Partial fuel switching to biogas and biodiesel could be applied to natural gas and diesel-fired power plants.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1]. million metric tons] of carbon pollution.”. [35]. emissions from the power sector. [3]. allowance auctions. [22].

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

Health First Pennsylvania is a dedicated bunch of health professionals, health advocates, parents, faith leaders, all dedicated to trying to make the use and extraction of fossil fuels, especially methane, in Pennsylvania, as safe as possible, and to limit the damage. So we wanted to look at what happened, and what went so wrong.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

New York City filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court against three oil and gas companies and American Petroleum Institute alleging that the defendants violated the City’s Consumer Protection Law (CPL) by systematically and intentionally misleading New York City consumers about their products’ role in causing climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Now comes the court’s crippling of the most important federal weapon available to avoid catastrophic climate change and its associated killing of tens of thousands of Americans every year with fossil fuel air pollution. The talks ended with no serious agreements and carbon dioxide levels soaring to new records.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

North Carolina today gets over half of its power from fossil fuels, about 25% from coal and 33% from natural gas. Nevertheless, the bill passed the state senate by a 42 to 7 vote and the state house by 90 to 20, before being signed by the Democratic governor. Solar is at 5% and wind is under 1l%.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2024

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The plaintiffs alleged that Peabody (and a number of other fossil fuel companies) caused greenhouse gas emissions that resulted in sea level rise and damage to their property. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) authorization of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from three facilities in Louisiana, Maryland, and Texas.

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