Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2023

We now know that gas power plant owners will vociferously deny responsibility for their failings. Utility companies, as well as state and federal government regulatory agencies, made a series of questionable decisions that together created the situation we find ourselves in today. That can prove disastrous.

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

How much are governments allowed to interfere with energy regulation? Crucially, these ordinances are issued by the government and impose certain criteria for tariff regulation and network access with which the National Regulatory Authority (NRA), the Bundesnetzagentur , needs to comply. need to be interpreted. The court found ( para.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2023

LNG Natural Gas Exports Flat Despite Partial Restart Of Freeport, TX LNG Plant -- WSJ: U.S. Compared To Last Year [PaEN] -- PUC To Investigation Proposed 8.9% Compared To Last Year [PaEN] -- PUC To Investigation Proposed 8.9% Compared To Last Year [PaEN] -- PUC To Investigation Proposed 8.9%

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 17, 2022

On June 17, the Public Utility Commission posted detailed information about the distribution of 2021 Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee revenue from unconventional shale natural gas producers – totaling $234,437,575 – on the PUC’s Act 13 website. Energy Information Administration expects the average price of natural gas in May 2022 was $8.14

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In 2018, the state Department of Health and DEP, with assistance from the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, released a public health evaluation of long-term air sampling data in the vicinity of natural gas operations in Washington County. Read more here. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

To address this financial deficit, governments, the private sector, and philanthropies announced the creation of a $1 billion fund to finance methane reduction initiatives in all sectors. Subnational governments of Brazil, Bolivia, South Korea, Germany, Spain, Canada, Nigeria, and the United States are among the signatories of the coalition.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Ohio- $2.89 -- PennLive: PA Motorists May See Savings At Pump As State Oil Franchise Tax Falls -- Independent Fiscal Office: Gasoline Consumption In PA Remains Well Below 2019 Levels (Pre-COVID) -- TribLive Letter: More Natural Gas Production, More Consumer Savings - By Marcellus Shale Gas Industry [Forgot About 2021-22 Price Spikes Already ?

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The reports will further evaluate the potential size and scale of geothermal as an abundant clean energy resource, the role of each state’s oil and gas industry in realizing rapid growth, and other environmental, regulatory, and legal issues relevant to each state’s respective stakeholders.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Click Here for a summary of 2022 shale gas and conventional violations. Winter Storm Elliot Causes Natural Gas Infrastructure Failure Natural gas infrastructure failures during Winter Storm Elliot resulted in the proposed imposition of an unprecedented $1.8 Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Persons wishing to reserve time to present testimony at a meeting must contact Jennifer McLuckie at (717) 772-5633 or RA-EPOEJ@pa.gov at least 24 hours in advance of the hearing. Read more here. -- House Environmental Committee To Hold Oct. Matt Bradford Sounds Like Reagan On Taxes - By Sen.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

But what you probably haven’t heard is that our grid is getting dirtier again, with fossil fuels increasing in our electricity supply from burning natural gas. TAKE ACTION : Tell Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) that you support the phase-out of polluting gas powered electricity by 2030.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2021

This editorial first appeared in the Citizens Voice on December 9, 2021 -- The gas industry in Pennsylvania has succeeded the coal and railroad industries in making the state Legislature a nearly wholly owned subsidiary, but you’d never know it by hearing one of the industry’s top executives assess the industry’s treatment by the state government.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2023

Governor Shapiro is making clear his Administration will be customer-service oriented and that state government will work harder to get them a response, so that they can pursue their dreams. In 2012, Gov. The original program covered over 700 permits and approvals at DEP, without eliminating opportunities for public review.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2022

is still a small share of global capacity and global production, and therefore can’t affect the global price very much.”] -- Reuters: U.S. What’s Your Community Doing? Other States/National/International -- Reuters: U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2024

Scott Perry A Run For His Political Life?

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 2, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

We are not rich people in this area and how would we be able to fix an expense like that?” -- “I’m concerned because the well they chose already has a problem with a natural gas leak and needs to be re-cased before it even gets started. Can they guarantee it won’t leak? Another important issue is whether Catalyst Energy, Inc.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The issue boils down to the fact that the government is not collecting enough money to pay for cleanup. . Tiffany associated the rule with the recent Securities and Exchange Commission climate risk disclosure rule, gas prices that had just reached $5 per gallon, and President Biden’s recent tariffs from Chinese solar panels. “We

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CEQA Developments

JULY 6, 2021

East Bay Regional Park District (Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Real Party in Interest) (1st Dist., County of Marin (2012) 205 Cal.App.4th In SPAWN (my April 27, 2012 post on which can be found here ), plaintiff SPAWN challenged the County’s EIR for a general plan update for the San Geronimo Valley watershed. 21167.6.5).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

California’s LCFS is causing problems for other states and the federal government. This conclusion came from adding up the emissions from coal used to power the production process, natural gas-based fertilizer and diesel fuel used to farm and transport the corn and ethanol.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. In the U.S. SEC Charges Total S.A.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

On Friday, November 22, the Sabin Center submitted comments opposing an Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposal to rescind regulations limiting methane emissions from new oil and natural gas facilities (the “Methane New Source Performance Standards” or “Methane NSPS”). That view is, however, refuted by EPA’s own documents.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Industry executives and government officials swore that petrochemical development would spur local economic growth, generate renewed business investment, and grow tens of thousands of jobs. Since 2012, when the facility was first announced, Beaver has lost GDP, businesses, population, and up to 10% of its jobs.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Northwest Natural Holding Company— formed in 2018 as the parent company of longtime Portland-based NW Natural Gas Company—has recently expanded into public water utility ownership. In Washington—and elsewhere—there are rules governing the sale of water. It’s not only land acquisitions.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

In 2012, 2017, and 2021 the National Academies of Science and Engineering published three separate reports on threats to the grid, resilience, and the future of electricity. [1] Energy Information Administration ("EIA") estimates renewables will be a larger source of electricity than natural gas in the United States by 2050.

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Electricity Renewable Energy Nuclear Power 2019 101

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

billion diverted from DCNR’s Oil and Gas Fund unconstitutional-- twice, they… keep… on… doing… it. Year after year environmental groups, conservation districts, farmers, local governments oppose the cuts and outline the critical environmental infrastructure needs communities have. million; -- FY 2012-13 budget eliminates $11.8

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Governments and farmers have known what “biosecurity” measures to take for decades, and enacted them, partly, in response to the 2005 avian flu (H5N1) epidemic. Thanks in large measure to natural gas replacing coal, the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts carbon emissions in 2040 to be lower than in almost all of the IPCC scenarios.

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2020 Air Pollution Climate Change Natural Gas 96

Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

As of April 2018, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) region, which encompasses the Basin, was home to approximately 34,000 warehouses with 1.17 According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012. Endnotes. [1] Endnotes. [1] 20, 2019). [6] 6] See 42 U.S.C.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 24, 2023

23 PA Bulletin [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Invites Comments On Cooperative Fish Nursery General Permit; Hearing Set For Feb. 23 PA Bulletin [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Invites Comments On Cooperative Fish Nursery General Permit; Hearing Set For Feb. 22 RiverWatch Video Report -- First Street Foundation: Over 3.2

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

strongly assisted by low natural gas prices and competition in wholesale energy markets. A network of oil and gas pipelines crisscross the nation, distributing both raw and final product oil and gas to refineries and terminals. Methane is a greenhouse gas with a global warming potential (GWP) over 28 times that of CO.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2022

At the same time, mandates coming from the federal government are not going away. “As Thankfully, with funding available through the American Rescue Plan, we can demonstrate to the federal government, and our neighboring Bay states, that Pennsylvania is committed to doing more for clean water. In 2012, Rep.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 11, 2022

the legislative branch had previously authorized updating the adopted 2012 IgCC, but the executive branch had in the past balked) before January 1, 2023, and then adopt subsequent triennial versions, but the Department of Labor has again rebuffed legislators. Make no mistake, natural gas will be out.

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