Corp Watch

JANUARY 25, 2024

Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied Natural Gas, Lubricants, Natural gas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005). In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Acknowledging that the United States is a leading contributor to carbon emissions, the Biden administration has committed to cutting US emissions 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. By contrast, the land-use impacts of wind and solar projects tend to be short-term and reversible.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 10, 2022

With all her other bills, waste is a luxury she can’t afford. . Since the mid-1980s, water prices grew at a higher rate than garbage, electricity, and natural gas, as well as the broader Consumer Price Index, which is a national measure of inflation. . She receives a fixed income from disability payments.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005). In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied Natural Gas, Lubricants, Natural gas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. Risky Business: The New Shell by WWF-UK (2005). In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Also see SOMO's 2008 report.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2024

My Administration is setting a new standard for Pennsylvania natural gas to be produced in a responsible, sustainable way and showing how we can bring people together to get things done. Making this information accessible will ensure communities understand the facts about natural gas development, according to the announcement.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Find state greenhouse gas emissions data and trends at: 2021 Pennsylvania Greenhouse Gas Inventory , a public report from the DEP Energy Programs Office covering the residential, commercial, industrial, transportation, electricity production, agriculture, waste management, and forestry and land use sectors.

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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. According to the IPCC, this greenhouse gas is 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a twenty-year period (and 34 times more potent over a century). Food waste from producers, retailers and consumers.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The companies behind the lawsuit will produce more than 4 million tonnes of polyethylene in Canada this year from oil and gas extracted in Alberta’s oil sands, North American natural gas wells and fracking. ExxonMobil and Dow are #1 and #3 on the latest Plastic Waste Makers Index of the world’s top plastic producers.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 10, 2021

Consistent with that goal, the OCSLA authorizes BOEM to issue leases on the OCS for activities that “support the exploration, development, production, or storage of oil or natural gas” (43 U.S.C. The 2005 amendment was intended to facilitate renewable energy development on the OCS, but also has implications for carbon storage therein.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2022

The following factsheet on asthma and air pollution from natural gas facilities was compiled by the Environmental Health Project -- Asthma is a chronic disease that affects breathing. Since 2005, shale gas development, also known as unconventional natural gas development (UNGD), has grown rapidly.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

I'll talk just a tiny bit about background on Marcellus [Shale gas], most people here probably don't need that, but just to get us started, and then I will talk a bit about distributive environmental injustice, the measure of deprivation that we use, community socioeconomic deprivation, and then results from this study. Likely not.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

formerly known as Cabot Oil and Gas, has pleaded no contest to 15 charges related to environmental crimes in Dimock, Susquehanna County. Between January 1, 2005 and November 1, 2022, DEP said it received and resolved 4,859 water supply contamination complaints for both conventional oil and gas and unconventional shale gas well drilling.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 25, 2023

RGGI states are also “on track to achieve reductions of GHG emissions of 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2020”, according to the study. Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas From Cambria County Storage Facility Was Caused By Corrosion In Conventional Gas Well Casing [PaEN] -- Petro Erie, Inc.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

Will your party commit to reducing the province’s greenhouse gas emissions by 60% from 2005 levels by 2030? Ontario New Democratic Party: Our commitment is to reduce emissions from 2005 levels by at least 50% by 2030 , and to achieve net-zero by 2050 or earlier. . Cut down waste. Did not answer the question.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2024

By Justin Nobel, Author of Petroleum-238: Big Oil's Dangerous Secret and the Grassroots Fight to Stop It Since the fracking boom began in the early 2000s, oilfield waste has been spilled, spread, injected, dumped, and freely emitted across America, with particularly worrisome problems in Pennsylvania.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

The elimination of coal-fired power plants and increased use of natural gas in power generation has led to historic emissions and air pollutant reductions equaling $450 billion to $1.04 trillion in public health benefits for Pennsylvanians, according to a Marcellus Shale [Gas] Coalition analysis. billion in NOx and $445.1

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2022

Conklin -- Centre Daily Times: Number Of PA Counties At High COVID Community Spread Jumps To 13 -- TribLive: Allegheny County Rises To Medium Level Of COVID Spread -- Inquirer: LGBTQ Leaders And Residents Angered Over Philly’s Monkeypox Vaccine Shortage -- AG Shapiro Announces $2.37

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

innovation and manufacturing of critical new technologies, all while delivering significant economic benefits through increased recovery of wasted gas. The agency estimates that in 2030, the proposal would reduce methane from covered sources by 87 percent below 2005 levels. million homes for the winter.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

Carolyn Comitta (D-Chester), Minority Chair of the Senate Environmental Committee, on her concerns about the dumping of conventional oil and gas wastewater on dirt and gravel roads , Jessica Shirley, Acting DEP Executive Deputy Secretary, said, “We do not allow any road spreading of brine for dust suppression or de-icing.”

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2024

Other industry observers, like Marcellus Drilling News , have looked at the bigger picture-- the impact of selling LNG gas on the fundamental interests of the United States-- “Selling oil and natural gas to China?” “It But selling oil and natural gas to China? It simply should not happen, period.” Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

“While the Build Back Better Act puts us on a solid trajectory to combat dangerous climate disruption, more is needed to achieve our national goals to reduce carbon emissions 50 percent by 2030 from 2005 levels and the ultimate goal of net-zero by 2050. “As It is time for serious, historic climate action.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

We know that, for children living, and pregnant mothers living close by well pads or other natural gas facilities, that they suffer tremendous amount of health impacts, from birth defects, to lower birth weight, to exposure to cancer-causing VOCs and other toxins; it's a problem.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 9, 2023

emissions to 32-51% below 2005 levels in 2035,” reads the latest “ Taking Stock” report from the Rhodium Group, an independent research firm. puts “natural gas” on par with coal. The full suite of current policies on the books as of June 2023 drives U.S. Reaching the 42 percent pathway depends on the herculean task of the U.S.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Embedded in the new statute are more than $140 billion in direct payments and tax incentives for renewable fuels and cleaner electrical generation to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 2005 levels by the end of the decade. But biodigesters don’t reduce the volume of waste. The statute also includes $19.5

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Wolf set Pennsylvania’s first greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals: a 26 percent reduction by 2025 and an 80 percent reduction by 2050, compared to 2005 baseline levels. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from fuel supply (e.g., by transitioning from oil or natural gas to electricity or biogas) and industrial sources (e.g.,

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

With respect to climate change, both the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the Blue Earth County Property and Environmental Resources Department commented regarding the absence of consideration of potential climate change effects and that the City failed to respond substantively. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , No.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2024

Of Agriculture Now Accepting Applications For Ag Conservation Research Grants; Ag Research Grants [PaEN] -- Agriculture Highlights Stroud Water Research Center Ag Conservation Research [PaEN] -- LancasterOnline: State Invests $1.5 Upcoming Events -- Republican Herald: Hegins Twp.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) authorization of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from three facilities in Louisiana, Maryland, and Texas. Finally, the court found that DOE adequately considered distributional impacts in its evaluation of “public interest” under the Natural Gas Act. Sierra Club v. 3:17 -cv-02824 (N.D.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

26 PA Bulletin [PaEN] -- The Nature Conservancy-PA: Emergency Dam Removal Completed At Eales Preserve In Lackawanna County [PaEN] -- PA Horticultural Society Online Garden Tenders Training Starts March 1 -- Western PA Conservancy: Growing Good With Native Species In Your Garden -- DCNR Blog: Maple Sugar Season Is Underway!

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