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I’m With Paul

Legal Planet

US emissions went down by around 15% between 2007 and 2019, while GDP per person went up around 25%. Another is that the costs of renewable energy and electric vehicles have declined so greatly in the past ten years, making them more or less competitive with their fossil-fuel alternatives.

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Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Continue To Push DEP To Legalize Road Dumping Their Wastewater

PA Environment Daily

Stewart again raised the issue of how a played-out conventional gas well owned by Seneca Mineral in Erie County got permission from DEP to use brine water from their wells as the commercial product-- LS-25-- for de-icing and dust control in 2007. Click Here for DEPs 2007 Seneca Mineral letter.]

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Senate Hearing: Body Of Evidence Is 'Large, Growing,’ ‘Consistent’ And 'Compelling' That Shale Gas Development Is Having A Negative Impact On Public Health; PA Must Act

PA Environment Daily

And there at Geisinger, I am the founding director of the Environmental Health Institute, which we founded in 2007. We founded the Environmental Health Institute in 2007. Work toward a quick and just transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energies. There's often large withdrawals of surface water.

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Opinion of the Court in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA Displays a Curious Alignment of Justices

Vermont Law

A facility is subject to new source review if it has potential emissions of 100 or 250 tons per year of an air pollutant, depending on the source. Such a facility must install BACT for each pollutant subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act. The holding reflects a moderation of the Court’s decision in.

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Ask a Scientist: The US Has to Do More to Meet Its Carbon Emissions Reduction Goals

Union of Concerned Scientists

It also will save US consumers money because they will spend less on fossil fuels. First, decarbonizing the electricity sector mainly with wind and solar to replace coal and fossil gas. Second, replacing fossil fuels with clean electricity in the transportation, building, and industrial sectors.

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Environmental Health Project Releases New White Paper: PA's Shale Gas - What We Can Do Now To Better Protect Public Health

PA Environment Daily

Read more here ] [ Read more here ] DEP field inspectors are historically understaffed, and though the DEP cited conventional and unconventional operators 102,652 times for violations between 2007 and 2023, these citations have not deterred operators from continuing to pollute, often at will. Indeed, Gov.

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Minnesota: Will This Be the Year for a 100-Percent Carbon-Free Electricity Policy?

Union of Concerned Scientists

The state-specific fact sheet, On the Road to 100 Percent Renewables for Minnesota , outlines how it could meet its electricity needs completely and equitably with renewable energy by 2035 and dramatically reduce fossil fuel use in vehicles and buildings.