PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Grist said, "These leaders have pushed back against harmful industries (and won), cut carbon emissions from hospitals, advanced wildfire solutions from Hawaii to California, and brought together unlikely coalitions to break ground on clean energy networks. Prospectors have been drilling in Pennsylvania since the late 1850s.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

It was also mentioned recently by Senator Casey, who proposed that natural gas — fitted with CCS technologies — be used, along with renewables, to increase clean electricity. percent annually of total global fossil fuel emissions. At this time, only 28 CCS plants are in operation across the world, capturing only 0.1

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Last week, I joined my colleagues at COP28 in Dubai , as negotiators and civil society push for a fossil fuel phaseout to meet climate goals. The industry is pushing a narrative that misleadingly calls out emissions , not fossil fuels as the problem. Source: IPCC Sixth Assessment Report.

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Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2015

Summary: Nuclear energy is one of the most debated subjects in the environmental policy and legal world. Can it serve as a bridge to moving away from fossil fuels? Many leading energy experts often deem nuclear an acceptable form of sustainable energy. Two proposed additional units in 2010 were turned down due to.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 8, 2024

Some years ago, I began to feel the most important thing I could do was learn how to replace fossil fuel with renewable energy. For 30 years I have been an advocate for offshore wind development off New England’s coast and for the creation of institutions to support a transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

Yaw did not mention renewable energy in this announcement.] Yaw noted the IEO would be modeled after Pennsylvania’s Independent Fiscal Office , which was created by Act 120 of 2010, and Act 100 of 2016. So it seems to me, and I love it when people say, oh, well by 2035 we're going to have totally clean energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2022

This is exacerbating a crisis in energy insecurity that has only worsened during the pandemic, leaving many more families struggling to pay their bills, facing disconnection, or already shut off from their utility service. And such action cannot be influenced by fossil fuel interests and their policy proposals that we are seeing in Congress.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Fossil fuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We’ve heard these lazily disingenuous narratives before.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

9] That $50 billion, and future money, is money that could have gone to making the grid more resilient to extreme weather events, whether from climate change or not, but instead went into subsidizing the integration of variable renewable energy sources. We can see the same impact of variable energies in Germany. 354 (Bankr.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The legislation committed nearly $400 billion to support, among other things, wind and solar power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and other clean energy technologies that will make a significant dent in US heat-trapping emissions. It also will save US consumers money because they will spend less on fossil fuels.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

by 2020 against a 2010 baseline. The original NDC considered an unrealistic 5% GDP growth and an energy growth based entirely on fossil fuels – which is extremely unlikely in a country with a significant representation of clean energy. of primary energy demand met by clean energy.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Healey issued the CID in connection with an investigation into unfair or deceptive acts or practices in trade or commerce with respect to fossil fuel products and securities. The appellate court agreed with the Superior Court that the students had failed to demonstrate special standing to challenge management of charitable funds.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Lest one thinks this disconnect is a failure of the global climate architecture, the failure lies much closer to home—in the domestic politics in the US and many other countries that continue to favor the interests of the rich and powerful , and fossil fuel companies, at the expense of the health and safety of everyone else and the planet.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 18, 2023

A proposed offshore wind procurement bill in Maine would go a long way to enable the state to meet its climate and clean energy targets and become a national leader in floating offshore wind technology. That said, offshore wind development will be critical to meet state and regional climate and clean energy requirements.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen The British oil and gas giant BP , which, until recently, has been one of the oil and gas giants with the most ambitious clean energy plans, has joined the chorus of fossil fuel giants moving away from net zero. Why are fossil fuel giants abandoning net-zero? Image generated by AI.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

As we now know, fossil fuel companies lied about it for decades to protect their profits. Now that there is a desperate need to slash global warming emissions worldwide to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, it is critical to rapidly phase out the use of all fossil fuels. What accounts for that?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

We’re witnessing an increase in costly damages thanks to fossil-fueled climate change , which has increased the intensity and frequency of some extreme events , and also thanks to more buildings and people in risky areas. inches during that same period (1981-2010). Families were rescued from rooftops and some “lost everything”.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Last year, the Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based research organization, counted 476 harmful blooms in 41 states, five times higher than in 2010. . In Michigan the number of reports about blooms received by the state Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has increased six-fold since 2010.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2022

On March 25, the United States and the European Commission came to an agreement on how to address Europe’s need for natural gas through the next two winters by diversifying liquefied natural gas supplies “in alignment with climate objectives” to end Europe’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2022

The natural gas industry has also not developed 65 percent of the State Forest land it leased from DCNR for drilling in 2008 and 2010. Thompson Introduces Resolution Highlight PA’s Energy Capabilities -- Business Insider: Republican Cong. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

We are at a crossroads between a more affordable and climate safe future, and one that entrenches our reliance on dirty fossil fuels, increases the rift between the highest and lowest earners and puts profit over people. The cost of electricity generated from solar panels fell by 89 per cent between 2010-2022.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2023

There are 5 older Marcellus wells at this site that were drilled in 2010. “Repsol finished drilling the 6 new Marcellus wells at this site in April 2023. ProFrac hydraulically fractured the 6 new Marcellus wells at this site June 21, 2023 - July 24, 2023. 4 are in production and 1 is plugged.”

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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2024

In 2010, a major climate change law passed by the House died in the Senate, but 12 years later, a major climate law passed both Houses. In the meantime, there had been a revolution in energy economics. In 2010, the cost of onshore wind was almost twice that of the cheapest fossil fuel generation. GW to 18.8

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

On March 7, the Independent Fiscal Office issued its latest Pennsylvania Electricity update that reports the electricity grid is dependent on one fuel for 59% of the state’s electricity generation-- natural gas-- followed by nuclear power-- 31.9%, coal-- 5.4% In 2010, the mix was 48% coal, 34% nuclear, 15% gas and 2% renewables.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2023

DEP Says It Was Likely Lake Erie ‘Burping’ From Water Chemistry Changes -- DCNR Blog: Trail Towns - Connecting The Outdoors And Communities - By Hanna Ryon, DCNR Intern To Office Of Outdoor Recreation -- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: Tyler Arboretum Loses 900 Ash Trees To Emerald Ash Borer, Forced To Close Miles Of Public Trails -- Inquirer: We Were Wrong (..)

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 19, 2022

Thermal coal is the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel and increases global carbon pollution putting all countries at risk from the disastrous impacts of climate change. . According to the International Energy Agency , coal is “the single largest source of global temperature increase” in 2018. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

These higher costs are being driven by a major overreliance on natural gas, which has sharply spiked in price and is currently the dominant fuel source in the US for both home heating and electricity generation. Likewise, pipeline giant Williams Companies now refers to its gas projects as “clean energy” projects.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2022

Wolf to “unleash PA’s full potential to power the free world” and “end his job-killing, punitive crusade against the production and exportation of Pennsylvania natural gas and other abundant fossil fuels.” “You Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Comitta To Introduce Bill Investing RGGI Proceeds In Helping Communities & Workers In Clean Energy Transition, Environmental Justice Areas, Promote Energy Efficiency -- Rep. -- Natural Lands, Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership Host Feb.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 22, 2023

Energy choices are key to climate resilience—but there’s resistance within state government Science tells us the extent and degree of future flooding depends on how fast we can reduce heat trapping emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. It cannot be a plan that reflects the opinions and interests of the powerful.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

A federal bankruptcy court in Missouri enjoined San Mateo and Marin Counties and the City of Imperial Beach (the plaintiffs) from pursuing their climate change lawsuits against Peabody Energy Corporation (Peabody). Stanford Professor Sued Scientific Journal and Article Authors Who Critiqued His Work.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Oregon Court Reinstated Clean Energy Ballot Initiatives. An Oregon Circuit Court set aside the Oregon Secretary of State’s decision to reject two clean energy ballot initiatives and allowed the measures to be processed and circulated for the November 2020 election. Golden State Environmental Justice Alliance v.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

The Delaware River Basin Commission placed a moratorium on fracking in 2010 before banning it permanently in 2021 in places like Wayne and Pike counties locally, saying it posed signicant, immediate and long-term risks to the development, conservation, utilization, management and preservation of the rivers water resources.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Several factors¾including the effects of the economic recession, shifts in energy markets from coal to natural gas and renewable energy sources, and carbon pollution mitigation and clean energy programs like renewable portfolio standards¾have been identified as principal drivers of these reductions. [2].

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2025

President Trump and congressional Republicans have made clear their intention to boost fossil fuel company profits by expanding drilling and slashing environmental and public health protections. UCS has been a leader in peer-reviewed scientific research linking climate impacts to emissions that trace directly to fossil fuel companies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

It was a bogus argument that fossil fuel proponents would repeat ad nauseum over the next 10 years, so when Rose failed to provide some needed context, I jumped in. billion (in 2010 dollars) in federal tax breaks and subsidies for nearly 100 years. “I mean, wind has received subsidies for more than 20 years now,” he said.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

In 2022, Texas, along with several other states and industry groups representing fuel manufacturers (together, Petitioners), challenged EPA’s new emissions standards in court. entered into more than 70 contracts to procure renewable energy, totaling more than 13,000 megawatts. Last year, local governments in the U.S.

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