PA Environment Daily

JULY 24, 2025

On July 24, the PJM Interconnection continued its Maximum Generation Alert and Load Management Alert into July 25 across its footprint to ensure the reliable delivery of electricity for customers in 13 states, including Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia. PJM’s record summer peak is 165,563 MW, set in 2006.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JULY 23, 2025

On July 23, the PJM Interconnection issued a Maximum Generation Alert and Load Management Alert for July 24 across its footprint to ensure the reliable delivery of electricity for customers in 13 states, including Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia. PJM’s record summer peak is 165,563 MW, set in 2006. As of 1:30 p.m.

Electricity

Energy and Climate Law

OCTOBER 22, 2020

By Ceciel Nieuwenhout, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability; Lead Author of WP 1 T1.2 Report to the H2020 POCITYF-project A substantial part of energy in the EU is consumed by households , for powering electric appliances and for heating and cooling. The answer depends on the type of energy.

Electricity

Physics World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Learn how to use the formalism to obtain new conservation laws. Asher was a postdoctoral fellow (1998) in the Department of Electrical Engineering of Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK, during 2005–2006, 2008 and 2012. Understand how MHD can be simplified mathematically.

2006

Physics World

JUNE 14, 2021

The gravity law of human migration says that the movement between two urban areas decrease with distance and increases with population size or importance of the areas. The data were collected during different periods between 2006 and 2013. Gravity and radiation. Predictable and universal. The one scale that rules them all.

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Dawes was instrumental in the reauthorization of the federal Abandoned Mine Lands Fund in 2006 and served as Chair of the campaign that led to Pennsylvania receiving $1 billion to address Pennsylvania’s mining legacy of more than 185,000 acres of unsafe, mine-scarred lands. from Villanova University School of Law.

Climate Change

Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 29, 2023

This blog post is a compilation of responses to the top 10 questions from our webinar last week, “ Does Your Lease Address New GHG Laws? ” The top 10 questions we received were: How does a building owner count its greenhouse gas emissions to report to the government under this new Maryland law ? That Alternative Compliance Fee (i.e.,

Law

Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 17, 2022

With legislation that became law last week, without the Governor’s signature, Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. only days from now). only days from now).

Greenhouse

Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

2030

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

In striking down Act 13 [of 2012] that removed local government's constitutional obligations and constitutional rights afforded to all Pennsylvania citizens , the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held, “ [ n ] o principle of law permits us to suspend constitutional requirements for economic reasons, no matter how compelling those reasons may seem.

Regulations

Physics World

MAY 11, 2022

Indeed, this machine provided a vital glimpse of the fundamental laws of the universe, supplying some of the first evidence that particles and their antiparticle counterparts can behave differently. Once particles start to reach relativistic speeds, the beam goes out of phase with the electric field and cannot be further accelerated.

Electricity

Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

Part Three, below, explores preemption questions in the context of other domestic frameworks: California’s climate-disclosure laws and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s GHG emissions reporting regime. Preemption of a state law arises under the Supremacy Clause in the Constitution. See, e.g. , Rice v.

Law

Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. The statute explicitly requires the State to reduce statewide GHG emissions by 60% from 2006 levels by 2031, a near term target unmatched by any other state.”.

Regulations

Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2015

The Southwest Nuclear Project Electric Generating Station (SNPEGS) near Bay City, TX is right along the Colorado River and uses water from the river to power each unit and cool the reactors. In 2006, the Department of Energy warned that consumption of water for electricity production could more than double by 2030 to 7.3

Cooling

CEQA Developments

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Project construction entails workers digging trenches or drilling tunnels in the public right-of-way (streets and alleys) for the underground wires and cables, boring or trenching lateral lines to individual buildings’ electrical meters, installing underground conduit, backfilling the soil, and pulling the cable through.

Law

Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The 2022 Act sets the big, hairy, audacious goal of dramatically reducing statewide GHG emissions by 60% below 2006 levels by 2031, arguably the strictest state standard in the nation (i.e., although disproportionately burdening privately owned buildings by exempting nearly all government buildings, including schools from the law).

Greenhouse

Greenbuilding Law

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

By imposing a daily fee on cars built before 2006, the LEZ changes behaviors encouraging the use of newer cleaner vehicles, and reducing tailpipe global warning gases which in turn reduces broader air pollution and its associated health risks. using 1,175 cameras to monitor which cars enter and exit the zone. Disadvantages: 4.

Greenhouse

CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Regulation targets emissions from auxiliary engines (which supply electricity for non-propulsive functions while a ship is berthed) and boilers (which power steam-driven pumps to offload crude oil from large tankers). Citing to the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006; and to Pub. Citation omitted.) Resources Code, 21080.5(c);

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

Energy Transfer has told neighbors to the facility since then information related to the explosion is confidential under Act 156 of 2006 the state Public Utility Confidential Security Information and Disclosure Protection Act and DEP should not be releasing copies of its inspection reports on the facility. the same day. Read more here.

Natural Gas

Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The infrastructure act’s use of taxpayer dollars to finance the AML fund marks an abandonment of the intention of the mine cleanup law. The original law made coal companies pay for the industry’s past environmental harms. In recent years, the closing of coal-power electric plants contributed to the deficit of the AML program.

2008

Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Each month, Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP (APKS) and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. A number of different parties had lined up on either side of the issue of whether EPA’s stay was lawful. and non-U.S. United States , No.

2017

Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 26, 2023

There is a move toward all electric buildings as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change. The state of Maryland is leading the way in this movement, including several local jurisdictions adopting all electric building code laws. So, the change to all electric buildings is not a simple issue.

Electricity

Frontiers

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

After losing a celebrated court case, local abolitionists bought their freedom instead, and Massachusetts soon passed a new state law to protect escaped slaves. His service helped to get him a job at a patent law firm in Boston as an “office boy,” as it was called. In 2006, Latimer was added to the U.S.

Electricity

Clean Energy Law

MAY 16, 2022

Originally, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

Since 2016, EPA has generally shown restraint in setting targets for biodiesel and related fuels, insofar as the law allows, and biodiesel consumption has actually fallen. Net vegetable oil imports grew by about 4 MMT between 2006 and 2022, especially canola oil and palm oil, which have replaced soybean oil in food uses.

Biofuels

Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. emphasis added) [4].

2030

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

Bush’s words from his January 2006 State of The Union message, “America is addicted to oil.” From World War II to the two Wars in Iraq to Putin’s war on Ukraine, control and access to fossil fuels have been center-stage. With so many conflicts being financed and inflamed by fossil fuels, we would do well to remember President George W.

Fossil Fuels

Vermont Law

MAY 11, 2020

In 2006, Congress, seeking to increase renewable generation on the U.S. electrical grid, passed the Solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC). [5]. Residential customers are largely attracted to solar, not for the environmental benefits, but to lower their electricity bill. Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. appeared first on.

Renewable Energy

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

3] California has long led the nation in adoption of environmental rules, including the first motor vehicle emission standards in 1966, energy efficiency standards for appliances in the 1970s, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, and many others. [4] 4] The new corporate climate disclosure bills may well continue that tradition.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Republicans said the final regulations will increase the cost of electricity for individuals and businesses, have a negative impact on jobs and will not significantly reduce carbon pollution. While electricity rates are already rising across the country, during the first 10 years that RGGI was in place, rates dropped nearly 6% in RGGI states.

Natural Gas

Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

For example, the IPCC notes that France had 4,000 fewer deaths than anticipated from a heat wave in 2006 thanks to improved health care, an early-warning system and greater public consciousness in response to a deadly heat wave three years earlier. By 2019, German household electricity prices were 45 percent higher than the European average.

2020

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

VW Escapes Multiple Fines In EU Over Emissions Scandal Law 360 PaulaR Thu, 01/04/2024 - 17:26 Thursday, September 14, 2023 Read more Matthew Perlman Europe's top court ruled Wednesday that Volkswagen should not have to pay a €5 million ($5.3 labor costs than not only its Detroit rivals but its Japanese competitors on American soil.

2019

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

USA: Volkswagen Agrees to Settle Age Discrimination Suit for $995K Brianna Smith | Law Reader | February 7, 2020 Earlier this week, Volkswagen agreed to settle an age discrimination lawsuit for $995,000. Germany: VW Presses for Increased Work Week at Same Pay DW | June 13, 2006 Extending the work week from the current 28.8

2019

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

USA: Volkswagen Agrees to Settle Age Discrimination Suit for $995K Brianna Smith | Law Reader | February 7, 2020 Earlier this week, Volkswagen agreed to settle an age discrimination lawsuit for $995,000. Germany: VW Presses for Increased Work Week at Same Pay DW | June 13, 2006 Extending the work week from the current 28.8

2019

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

USA: Volkswagen Agrees to Settle Age Discrimination Suit for $995K Brianna Smith | Law Reader | February 7, 2020 Earlier this week, Volkswagen agreed to settle an age discrimination lawsuit for $995,000. Germany: VW Presses for Increased Work Week at Same Pay DW | June 13, 2006 Extending the work week from the current 28.8

2019

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

USA: Volkswagen Agrees to Settle Age Discrimination Suit for $995K Brianna Smith | Law Reader | February 7, 2020 Earlier this week, Volkswagen agreed to settle an age discrimination lawsuit for $995,000. Germany: VW Presses for Increased Work Week at Same Pay DW | June 13, 2006 Extending the work week from the current 28.8

2019

Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

USA: Volkswagen Agrees to Settle Age Discrimination Suit for $995K Brianna Smith | Law Reader | February 7, 2020 Earlier this week, Volkswagen agreed to settle an age discrimination lawsuit for $995,000. Germany: VW Presses for Increased Work Week at Same Pay DW | June 13, 2006 Extending the work week from the current 28.8

2019