PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

On August 23, the PJM Interconnection Critical Issue Fast Path Resource Adequacy stakeholder group heard testimony and suggestions on the issue of making electricity market changes to address nonperformance of natural gas and other generators during emergencies and events like Winter Storm Elliot in December. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Of Health, Penn State Project ECHO Webinar To Educate Medical Professionals, Public On Exposures To Natural Gas Facility Pollution; Real Washington County CNX Facility Case Study Used [PaEN] -- Washington County Judge Rules Sunoco Pipeline Did Not Have Eminent Domain Authority To Take Property For Mariner East Pipelines In Landowner Lawsuit Alleging (..)

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Japan’s dependency on fossil fuel s had been slightly declining until 2010. But the country changed course as a result of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which led to the forced shutdown of nuclear power plants and greater reliance on fossil fuels. As a result, Japan’s CO 2 emissions increased, peaking in 2013.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2022

The Himalayan country currently depends on hydropower for nearly all its electricity generation. Solar power is seen as a quick way to meet the growing demand for electricity. Today solar energy has reached grid parity with hydropower, meaning the per-unit cost of electricity is almost equal to that of hydro,” Namgyel said.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 22, 2021

You could make similar health arguments as to why on earth Heineken are also allowed to sponsor this sporting event, or on climate grounds why are fossil fuel giants, Russia’s Gazprom and Germany’s car giant Volkswagen , also on the sponsor list? UEFA and CSR. UEFA needs to up their game.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Despite a significant uptake of renewable energy, India still relies on coal plants for more than half of its installed electricity supply. But this announcement was seemingly at odds with another made just three days earlier, when coal minister Pralhad Joshi confirmed that India intends to increase production for the fossil fuel.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Renewable energy sources and electric vehicles are progressing so fast around the world that according to a new study coal and oil use could peak worldwide in as little as three years. That’s it ! Yes, you read that right. Solar has already become almost too cheap to meter and it won’t be stopped.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

While Japan once had one of the world’s most diverse energy portfolios, the loss of its nuclear program has caused a sudden shift towards a fossil-fuel heavy generation industry. Subsequently, Japanese greenhouse gas emissions and electricity costs for industrial and residential consumers have skyrocketed. 1 reactor of its.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

Last year, renewables generated more electricity in the United States than coal for the first time, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). US electric car sales, meanwhile, jumped 65% compared to 2021, while overall car sales last year declined from the previous year. Electric vehicles (EVs) accounted for 5.8%

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

A Republican, he wrote the 2013 opinion that brought the ERA back to life. And then was approved by voters across the Commonwealth by a vote of four to one.” The Initiative will also be celebrating the Honorable Ron Castille , former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 30, 2023

I previously noted that renewables are to become first global electricity source by 2025. PV Magazine published at the beginning of the year an article stating that fossil fuels already had peaked. ” according to Wikipedia ), the share of coal in the total electricity mix decreased by 3.7 percentage point.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

As we consider the known and well-researched health risks from fossil fuel pollution impacting our children and neighbors, as well as the recent PJM cost and reliability concerns, we question whether this is the right path toward the affordable, reliable, and clean energy grid that Pennsylvania needs.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

The disruption happened in under a decade, with China’s global share of PV production surging from 14 percent in 2006 to 60 percent by 2013. Like Greta Thunberg, Mariutti comes to the tale as an environmental obsessive passionate about facilitating the world’s transition from fossil fuels to cleaner forms of energy.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 1, 2023

The only reason Ontario’s energy grid is relatively clean (though getting dirtier now) is because previous governments (from other parties) responded to public pressure for cleaner air and lower emissions and phased out the use of coal to generate electricity in the province. It will be something to watch.

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Environmental Progress

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Today, France spends little more than half as much as Germany to produce electricity that produces one-tenth of the carbon emissions, thanks to nuclear. There is no rich nation that depends primarily on wood for energy, just as there is no poor nation that depends primarily on fossil fuels or nuclear.

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Environment Blog

JUNE 25, 2021

Portfolios were typically created by just excluding certain types of business such as tobacco, weapons, and fossil fuels and the number of companies available to invest in, that were involved in solving environmental problems, was limited.

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A Greener Life

MAY 28, 2023

Many such projects allow users to generate their own electricity and sell the surplus back to the grid. Currently, 84% of the energy consumed in Argentina is generated using natural gas and oil, fossil fuels whose production and use drive global warming, and which can bring other harmful impacts on ecosystems, societies and their health.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

In February 2013, I gave a keynote address to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s meeting in Maryland describing why renewable energy cannot solve the climate change challenge. We have all of these things in common. I know that you care about these important issues.

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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

APRIL 4, 2024

That 2013 headline resulted from the first effort to quantify emissions from the ‘carbon majors’ —fossil fuel companies and cement manufacturers whose businesses have contributed an outsized amount of heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. Nearly two-thirds of industrial heat-trapping emissions can be traced to just 90 entities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Fortunately, I don’t have COPD and I didn’t contract asthma when I was young, perhaps partly because I grew up in a home with an electric range. The study concluded that these childhood asthma cases could have theoretically been prevented by using electric appliances. But other Washingtonians may not be as lucky.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2023

and Pennsylvania to high-priced, volatile LNG natural gas markets in Europe and Asia resulted in increasing natural gas costs to Pennsylvanians by up to 128%, and drove electricity prices up by as much as 34%. Bloomberg reported 70% of the almost 46 GW of electric generation outages were natural gas plants. Read more here.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 19, 2022

Barges up to 300 feet long and 90 feet across will carry 12 miles of spooled electrical cable, navigation equipment, a tall crane and a specialized crew. The project’s winding path underscores the grinding pace and tough choices of building new energy infrastructure as the state transitions from fossil fuels. Kathy Hochul.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Six kids in town besides Jacob were diagnosed with cancer from 2005 to 2013. So does fossil fuel combustion. The annual operating cost, including electricity and cleaning the filters, is about $550,000. He and Shari are active in the Pediatric Cancer Action Network, a grassroots advocacy and support group in Nebraska.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

The High Cost of Renewables House Democrats propose spending hundreds of billions of public and ratepayer money on renewable energy, new transmission lines, energy efficiency, mass transit, electric vehicles, carbon capture and storage, and advanced nuclear energy. Renewables have the same impact everywhere in the world.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

to 11% UGI Gas Rate Hike Request -- Courier Times: Shocked By Your Higher PECO Electric, Natural Gas Bill? to 11% UGI Gas Rate Hike Request -- Courier Times: Shocked By Your Higher PECO Electric, Natural Gas Bill?

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Mensch Introduces Bill To Encourage Development Of Clean Vehicle Infrastructure- Electric, Natural Gas, Hydrogen -- 35 Senate, House Democrats Urge Gov. Rural Communities On The Front Lines Of Solar's Growth -- Sen. Wolf To Investigate Health Impacts Associated With Natural Gas Fracking -- EPA Honors Energy-Efficient Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc.

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Legal Planet

MAY 21, 2025

Energy Information Administration projects that retail electricity prices are expected to continue a rapid rise this year, with the average price increasing 13 percent from 2022 to 2025. Between 2013 and 2023, the agency said, electricity prices had tracked with inflation but are now expected to rise faster than inflation through 2026.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

The EPA is proposing a new standard for fossil fuel-fired power plants to avoid 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042. Back in 2013, the first Zero Emission Vehicle Action Plan (ZEV) was released as a roadmap for how to get 1.5 million electric cars in use by 2025. It’s What’s Required.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1]. emissions from the electricity generation sector. [21]. One study estimates that CO. RGGI is composed of individual CO.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Ninth Circuit Heard Oral Argument in California Local Government Cases; Fossil Fuel Companies Said Juliana Decision Supported Their Position. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on February 5, 2020 in the appeals in California local governments’ climate change cases against fossil fuel companies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

I first wrote about ExxonMobil in March 2013 after I saw the company’s then-CEO, Rex Tillerson, on the Charlie Rose talk show, who provided me with fodder for perhaps my favorite of two dozen ExxonMobil-related columns. “I I’m not aware of anything the fossil fuel industry gets that I would characterize as a subsidy.”

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

States, Electricity Providers Allowed to Intervene in Case Concerning Management of Glen Canyon Dam. Supreme Court granted Baltimore’s request for a 60-day extension of time to file a response to fossil fuel companies’ petition for a writ of certiorari seeking review of the Fourth Circuit’s affirmance of the remand order in Baltimore’s case.

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ESA

AUGUST 16, 2021

Advances in attribution science since the last report was issued in 2013 have allowed experts to connect individual events to climate change with more certainty. billion for electric grid resilience and infrastructure improvements, $7.5 It’s seen as a way to quickly increase clean energy use without hiking electric bills for consumers.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

USA: ‘Huge’ Win for Code of Excellence: On-Clock Training at Raytheon Plant International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers | May 8, 2023 More than 2,400 Raytheon Technologies missile and defense workers are getting on-the-clock training on the IBEW’s Code of Excellence program , thanks to a years-long effort by the leaders of Waltham, Mass.,

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

USA: ‘Huge’ Win for Code of Excellence: On-Clock Training at Raytheon Plant International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers | May 8, 2023 More than 2,400 Raytheon Technologies missile and defense workers are getting on-the-clock training on the IBEW’s Code of Excellence program , thanks to a years-long effort by the leaders of Waltham, Mass.,

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Corp Watch

JUNE 12, 2023

USA: ‘Huge’ Win for Code of Excellence: On-Clock Training at Raytheon Plant International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers | May 8, 2023 More than 2,400 Raytheon Technologies missile and defense workers are getting on-the-clock training on the IBEW’s Code of Excellence program , thanks to a years-long effort by the leaders of Waltham, Mass.,

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