PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Republican History Of Preventing Local Regulation Of Oil/Gas The original announcement of this legislation references Act 13 of 2012 which originally contained a provision preempting any local regulation of drilling operations included at the insistence of Republicans. Cecil Township is in Sen. Bartolotta’s district. Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

History Of Preventing Local Regulation Of Oil/Gas The Bartolotta/Yaw announcement forgets to mention Act 13 of 2012 setting up the impact fee also originally included a provision preempting any local regulation of drilling operations. Click Here for the complete announcement. Read more here.

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This information was discovered following a petition to Environment and Climate Change Canada for data on the country’s downstream emissions. Its strategic, public interest lawsuits and advocacy lead to precedent-setting court decisions, law and policy that deliver lasting solutions to Canada’s most urgent environmental problems.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

Due to the increasing availability of electricity, Cambodia’s power consumption per capita more than tripled between 2012 and 2022. Climate change is an even thornier issue, the effects of which may be impossible to reverse without global cooperation. Not many things can be done by a single country,” said Park. “We

Government

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Of Environmental Professionals Annual Conference Sept. Million In Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fees; $25.1 Million In Sen.

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Completes Successful Lithium Extraction From Shale Gas Wastewater At Susquehanna County Pilot Plant [PaEN] -- Inside Climate News: Kiley Bense: Truckers Say Oil & Gas Companies Are Violating Hazardous Materials Transport Regulations, Fracking Industry Says No -- PUC Distributes $164.5 Million In Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fees; $25.1

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 26, 2025

Senate Appropriations Committee meets to consider Senate Bill 755 to abolish “inactive” boards and advisory committees, including DEP’s Climate Change, Recycling Fund and Coastal Zone Committees [ Read more here ]. June 26-- NEW. Rules Room [no video]. Off the Floor. June 26-- NEW.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

Since 2012, 42 independent peer-reviewed studies show fracking at current setback distances has caused dangerous impacts to health and the environment due to releases of benzene and other harmful fracking pollutants.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

Importantly, courts have repeatedly upheld both, including in a resounding 2012 decision from the U.S. Here are the facts: Fact #1: The science backing the Endangerment Finding is beyond dispute Every major scientific society endorses the scientific consensus on human-caused climate change driven by GHG emissions.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

MAY 22, 2025

With each successive rulemaking, EPA acknowledged that the evidence of endangerment had grown stronger over time due to the increasing severity of climate change, new observational evidence of climate impacts, and advances in scientific understanding of how climate change affects public health and welfare.

2009

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The anticipated increase in runoff in Pennsylvania as a result of changing weather patterns associated with climate change, and the impact of excessive runoff through flooding, is more easily understood by local officials and residents in terms of the need for Volume Management,” said Eberl.

Conservation

Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

Circuit in a 2012 decision, Citizens for Responsible Regulation [CARE] v. ” The scientific evidence about climate change has gotten even stronger and more unequivocal since the Endangerment Finding. The Endangerment Finding was challenged in court and upheld by the D.C. These arguments lost years ago in the D.C.

Clean Air Act

National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

Hatch Ave.

Endangered Species Act

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

World Scientists Warning of a Climate Emergency 2022, 72 BioScience 1149 (2022), [link]. Although some observers have argued that different labels for climate change, global warming, or climate emergency may make a difference, recent research finds no such effects. 516 (2012); SpeechNow.org v. Ripple, et al.,

Law

Scientific American

JULY 14, 2025

But climate change is warming once cool waters, and vibriosis cases have been relentlessly spreading northward. Climate change is extending summer seasons, encouraging more recreational water use and thus raising the risk of exposure. They are found in both saltwater and freshwater bodies, and they thrive in warm water.

Ocean

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.

Air Pollution

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

Climate change is exposing land formerly covered by ice, heightening political tensions on the island nation—and in the waters surrounding it as sea ice also disappears. When she told people she was drilling ice cores for climate research, they assumed she was investigating when the next ice age would arrive.

Sea Level

National Law Center

JULY 24, 2025

Hatch Ave.

2013

Circle of Blue

MAY 29, 2025

As a technology that produces no climate-changing gases and uses much less water to operate, this next generation of electricity-generating reactors makes a lot of sense. reactors that have closed since 2012. and globally.

Nuclear Power

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.

Natural Gas

A Greener Life

MARCH 10, 2025

Mark Carney speaking at the World Economic Forum in 2012. By Anders Lorenzen Mark Carney, the former Governor of the Bank of England and the United Nations (UN) Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, has become the next Prime Minister of Canada. On paper, he also signals vast progress in advancing action on climate change.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 1, 2025

The Technical Mapping Advisory Council (TMAC) was established by the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 to help improve and review FEMAs National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), to recommend updates to standards, guidance, and technology, and to incorporate climate change science.

2006

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

Shale gas extraction and use also contributes to climate change, which poses other health impacts for every resident of Pennsylvania, and indeed for people worldwide. The governor can urge the General Assembly to amend Act 13 and mandate greater setbacks for all operators.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

The well was drilled in 2012. . - Violations: Abandoned Shale Gas Well (41 Months) May 28, 2025 inspection of the Pulaski Whiting 1 shale gas well in Pulaski Township, Lawrence County found the well unplugged and abandoned. The well never produced gas and its inactive status expired on April 26, 2021. Violations issued. DEP inspection report.

2025

Legal Planet

MAY 21, 2025

Except if you read more closely, it becomes clear that the road construction project was actually proposed as early as 2012 as a way to significantly ease traffic congestion for Brazilians. As another person I met here put it, the climate crisis is messy and complicated, why not let the UN delegates come and see it all on display?

Rainforest

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

Two coal-fired units at the plant were retired in 2012 because these aging units are no longer efficient enough to compete with newer resources. Units 3 and 4 were installed in 1967 and 1970 and are old steam units that are less efficient [therefore more costly] to operate than newer natural gas power plants.

Natural Gas

Real Climate

APRIL 6, 2023

The summary for policymakers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sixth synthesis report was released on March 20th (available online as a PDF ). There is a recording of the IPCC Press Conference – Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report for those who are interested in watching an awkward release of the report.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In just four years of global warming, 2012-2016, more than one trillion tons of Greenlandic ice were lost: enough ice melt to fill a pool the size of the state of New York to a depth of twenty-three feet.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2024

Transportation is the largest sector for emissions , and passenger cars, trucks, and SUVs are the majority of transportation emissions, so there is no way to slow down climate change without a fundamental shift from petroleum to clean electricity to power our vehicles.

Electricity

Real Climate

AUGUST 9, 2021

Extremes : Back in 2012, the literature assessed by AR5 connecting changes in extremes to climate change was scant. As one example, the rate of warming over the past 15 years (1998–2012; 0.05 [–0.05 As we wrote at the time , attribution of single events was difficult and experimental. to 0.14] °C per decade)5.

Sea Level

Circle of Blue

JULY 1, 2021

The Detroit cloudburst was the result of a nasty weather combination—a cold front sweeping across the Midwest, plus a mass of humidity hanging over the city—which promises to be all the more powerful as the climate continues to warm. Between 1958 and 2012, the heaviest 1 percent of storms in the Midwest became 37 percent more powerful.

Atmosphere

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 22, 2023

Both extreme heat and wildfires are directly linked to climate change. According to Statista, emergency firefighting costs have increased exponentially over the last ten years in California, from $140 million in 2012 to more than $1 billion in 2021 and 2022. In recent years, the costs of wildfires have skyrocketed.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

As Sri Lanka recovers from the worst economic crisis since its independence, climate change impacts are also quietly fueling and exacerbating the situation. Every trip back to Sri Lanka, climate change impacts become more visible.

Sea Level

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 15, 2022

Flames tower above the trees in the 2012 Waldo Canyon Fire in Colorado. The third most destructive fires in state history, it burned nearly 350 homes (Airman Magazine, Flickr / CC BY-NC 2.0).

2012

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 20, 2024

But with estimates suggesting that sea level rise will affect more than one billion people around the world in the next 25 years, this is one member of the dysfunctional climate change family that shouldn’t be ignored. Why is this? Read on for the science you need to know about sea level rise, in seven parts.

Sea Level

PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

PennFuture celebrated 25 years of fighting climate change and industrial pollution by holding anniversary celebrations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to honor seven Pennsylvanians for their contributions to restoring and protecting the environment. in Physics from Yale University, and a Ph.D.

Climate Change

Real Climate

OCTOBER 6, 2024

3d,f,h showing a shift towards more cold extremes in the northern mid-latitudes (20-50ºN) from the mid-1990s to 2012. First, Panel A shows that the GHCNDEX data has a very large coverage change – particularly in the 20-40ºN band (an over 50% drop). The addition of ten more years of data confirms the overall story.

2013