PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2023

Room 140 Main Capitol. Click Here to watch online. Read more here. Million On Private Lawyers To Fight Challenge To State’s Education Funding Formula -- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: North Fayette Man Sentenced To 4+ Years In Federal Prison For Crimes Related To Assault On U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 16, 2022

GenOn Holdings, the plant’s owner, was also a source of financial support for Springdale in the form of donations to churches, parks, emergency management services, and projects like GenOn field, a baseball diamond built in 2012 for which the company donated more than $17,000. million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent into the atmosphere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The fossil fuel industry has systematically contaminated our environment with a wide range of toxic chemicals for over a century. Nitrogen and sulfur oxides harm lungs and produce acid rain NOx forms when fossil fuels are burned at high temperatures, as a result of a reaction with the nitrogen in air.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 13, 2024

The 2023 strategy is more ambitious than the earlier one it replaces and covers full life cycle (also known as well-to-wake or WtW) emissions of all greenhouse gases (GHG), not just those from burning fuel onboard and not just carbon dioxide (CO 2 ). times more potent than CO 2 over the near term.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Robinson Center on Climate & Environmental Policy -- The Guardian: Fossil Fuel Firms Spent Millions On US Lawmakers Who Sponsored Anti-Protest Bills [ Sen. . -- House Environmental Committee To Hold Oct. Martin, Sen.

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Acoel

JANUARY 16, 2024

This land used to be vast wetlands, native grass-covered prairie, or forest — natural systems adept at storing carbon, producing abundant wildlife, and filtering polluted water but over time has been converted for agricultural use. For example, between 2007 and 2012, 7.8 emit more methane than the fossil fuel gas system.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Because methane has 28 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide and a shorter atmospheric life of only 12 years, immediate action to reduce methane emissions —including from agriculture—is critical to slow our warming climate, especially in light of expanding global populations and food demand. 2012 , Bayat et al.,

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

Dr. Moerman said, “It’s time to defend our children’s health and future by reducing methane leaks, stop wasting taxpayer money by cleaning up the fossil fuels legacy, and supply real bonding and royalty reform.” It is time to incentivize the well-being of our children and the American taxpayer instead of the fossil fuel industry.

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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. Read more here.]

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

DEP was notified Wise passed away on May 16, 2012. Ronald Wise - Violations: 4 Abandoned Conventional Wells March 12, 2025 notices of violation sent to the owner of record for the Vanderzer 2, 3, 5 and Ron Wise 1 conventional wells in Summit Township, Butler County were returned in the mail. DEP inspection report example.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Casey, Colleagues: Introduce Bill To Empower Fossil Fuel Workers To Train, Find Jobs In Changing Energy Industry [PaEN] -- Patch.com: Chester County Commissioners Adopt New Climate Action Plan -- ReadingE: Muhlenberg Twp. Labor Secretary Talk About Future Of $600 Billion Clean Energy ‘Marshall Plan’ -- Sen.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Attorneys general (AGs) in the five states most vulnerable to climate change, however, are doing the exact opposite: Instead of defending their constituents, they are defending the fossil fuel industry. Moody also jumped in head-first to protect the fossil fuel industry.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2025

And of course, burning gasoline produces carbon dioxide, leading to further damage from climate change such as excessive heat and increased severe wildfires. In 2012, CARB set rules that require about 6 percent of model year 2025 vehicles to be battery-electric or fuel cell vehicles.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Fourth Circuit Declined to Stay Remand Order in Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies; Companies Sought Stay from Supreme Court. The court found that a 2012 no-jeopardy determination was unsupported, arbitrary, and capricious because it did not account for the owl’s recovery. 2012 CA 008263 B (D.C.

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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]. emissions from the power sector. [3].

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Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

corporations and institutional investors owe a fiduciary duty to maximize profits through economic activities that continue to produce, sell, and use fossil fuels (i.e. 33] However, this view directly contributes to the climate crisis because the use of fossil fuels is ubiquitous in the economy. federal system. [7]

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Law Columbia

JUNE 6, 2023

BLM estimates that the project will produce up to 576 million barrels of oil over its 30-year lifetime, resulting in indirect emissions totaling 239 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) equivalent. 2012) ; Cal. See Karuk Tribe of California v. USFS (9th Cir. USDA, (9th Cir.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

Given the EPA has the responsibility and the obligation to address carbon pollution, these standards—the first to limit carbon emissions from existing coal- and gas-fired power plants—are long overdue. Those currently operating fossil fuel plants generate 25 percent of U.S. Last year, wind generated 10.2 JM: That’s right.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. In 2022, Texas, along with several other states and industry groups representing fuel manufacturers (together, Petitioners), challenged EPA’s new emissions standards in court.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The emissions make a significant contribution to climate change because methane is a highly potent greenhouse gas which, in the first 20 years after it is released, traps approximately 84 times more heat in the earth’s atmosphere than carbon dioxide (on a per ton basis).

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

2012 CA 008263 B (D.C. In the Tenth Circuit, both fossil fuel companies and local government entities filed supplemental briefs on July 16. In addition, briefing began in fossil fuel companies’ appeals of the remand orders in cases brought by the City and County of Honolulu and the County of Maui. July 22, 2021).

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The Trump Watch confidently predicts that Big Oil and Gas are about to receive an unimaginable return on their investments with the Fossil Fuel Dream Team. 6, 2012). [7]. Coupled with the Fossil Fuel Dream Team Mr. Ebell’s appointment does not bode well for the serious, engaged and continued involvement of the U.S.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 20, 2021

The working group is expected to announce new estimates for the social costs of carbon, methane, and nitrous oxide in January 2022. The 2020 SAFE Rule weakened motor vehicle emission standards that the Obama administration had issued in 2012, requiring only a 1.5% Circuit struck down last year.

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