PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. Mr. Minott holds two degrees in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. Kraybill has played a significant role in several clean energy initiatives in Pittsburgh.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Getting to net zero emissions by 2050 from our current trajectory (which the IEA calls its Stated Energy Policies Scenario or STEPS) will take an unprecedented increase in investments in clean energy. Energy investments, which accounted for just over 2% of global GDP annually between 2017 and 2021, rise to nearly 4% by 2030.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

To help voters determine which candidates would deliver the needed course correction, Environmental Defence and its allies in the Ontario Priorities Working Group asked each of the province’s major political parties whether – and how – they would deliver the rapid emissions reductions Ontario will need to head off climate catastrophe. .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

(Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images) Rose asked Tillerson open-ended questions on a range of subjects, including climate change and national energy policy. But in nearly every instance, Rose listened politely, refrained from challenging Tillerson on the facts, and went on to his next question.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

To maintain leverage on Capitol Hill, Koch Industries ’ political action committee (PAC), affiliates and employees also contribute significantly more to federal candidates, party committees, outside groups, leadership PACs and 527 groups than their counterparts at BP America , Chevron , ExxonMobil or Shell. million was more than the $21.7

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Boyd teaches courses and seminars on energy and climate change law, and developed a new course in renewable energy project finance , offered for the first time this spring and taught by Ed Zaelke, a UCLA Law alumnus and pioneer in the clean energy field. Boyd also leads the Ph.D.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2023

Details Plan To Draw Clean Energy Facilities Into Oil, Coal Communities -- York Dispatch Editorial: Climate Change Is Here; We Now Must Deal With It -- WITF: Why There’s An Ode To Natural Gas In The Pennsylvania Capitol Building -- WTAE: U.S.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

Joe Manchin about holding up EPA nominations claiming “overreach” ) But this is not just about the political calculus of a president trying to make good on a climate pledge. The ZEV regulation is not sustainable,” John Bozzella, CEO of industry trade group Global Automakers, told USA Today in 2017.  How’d that work out?

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

From 2017 to 2019, the agency counted 321 emergency department visits related to harmful algal bloom exposure. million from 1978 to 2017. million from 1978 to 2017. million acres in both states in 2017. The EQIP program is making the blooms worse, said the group. Carl Ganter/ Circle of Blue. That once was the U.S.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

Cuba’s relationships with other countries will be key to realizing the energy transition. However, political and economic troubles in Venezuela caused oil exports to Cuba to fall by about half, resulting in Cuba increasingly seeking oil imports from Mexico and Russia. The report builds on a previous report published by EDF in 2017.

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Acoel

JUNE 10, 2021

Like many other species of marine life – think sea turtles, whales, and even manatees – they travel freely across political boundaries; passports and visas not required. From November 2015 to January 2017, the US and Cuba signed 22 bilateral agreements, the first two of which promised cooperation on the environment.

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Cresforum

AUGUST 23, 2021

Having previously served as a legislative aide in a partisan capacity rather than as an independent regulator, Commissioner Chatterjee recognized that his tenure, unfortunately, became mired in politics. “I I fear that I injected an element of politics, which has made it difficult to consider what is a real issue,” he admitted. “I

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Cresforum

AUGUST 23, 2021

Having previously served as a legislative aide in a partisan capacity rather than as an independent regulator, Commissioner Chatterjee recognized that his tenure, unfortunately, became mired in politics. “I I fear that I injected an element of politics, which has made it difficult to consider what is a real issue,” he admitted. “I

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. 1] In its 2017 report, the Academies warned that U.S. electrical grids were increasingly “complex and vulnerable.” [2]

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Obama’s “Clean Power Plan” was repealed in 2017 by Trump’s EPA. Their attempted replacement, the “Affordable Clean Energy Rule”, would lead to an insignificant reduction in GHG emissions compared to no regulation at all [6]. FACT SHEET: Clean Power Plan. ” Environmental Research Letters 14: 7-9. Wolff, Eric.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Oil workers go on strike at Exxon Mobil in Nigeria: union Reuters | May 11, 2017 Nigerian workers at U.S. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell paid no tax in Australia for 2016 Sonali Paul | Reuters | December 7, 2017 Exxon Mobil Corp XOM.N

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Oil workers go on strike at Exxon Mobil in Nigeria: union Reuters | May 11, 2017 Nigerian workers at U.S. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians. ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell paid no tax in Australia for 2016 Sonali Paul | Reuters | December 7, 2017 Exxon Mobil Corp XOM.N

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Elsewhere , I documented how these and subsequent US public policy actions set the stage for Puerto Rico’s contemporary social vulnerabilities that have come full circle in disastrous social, economic, and climatic consequences for the archipelago after Hurricane María in 2017. The risk of landslides is also high.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On November 22, 2022, sixteen municipalities of Puerto Rico filed a lawsuit in the federal district court in Puerto Rico seeking to hold coal, oil, and gas companies liable for losses resulting from storms during the 2017 hurricane season and ongoing economic losses since that time. In Municipalities of Puerto Rico v.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

United States: Tesla employees protest mass firings at Fremont factory Jennifer Elias | Silicon Valley Business Journal | October 24, 2017 Following firings at Tesla, employees rallied outside of its Fremont Factory claiming they were unfairly fired. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 13, 2020

The steady advance of LCFS credit prices since the summer of 2017 is well documented in CARB’s Credit Transfer Activity Reports. The rulemaking appears to reflect CARB’s acknowledgment of long-held concerns in the LCFS market that deficit generation will outstrip credit generation, and the CCM will be unable to adequately cap credit prices.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

United States: Tesla employees protest mass firings at Fremont factory Jennifer Elias | Silicon Valley Business Journal | October 24, 2017 Following firings at Tesla, employees rallied outside of its Fremont Factory claiming they were unfairly fired. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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Corp Watch

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

United States: Tesla employees protest mass firings at Fremont factory Jennifer Elias | Silicon Valley Business Journal | October 24, 2017 Following firings at Tesla, employees rallied outside of its Fremont Factory claiming they were unfairly fired. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

United States: Tesla employees protest mass firings at Fremont factory Jennifer Elias | Silicon Valley Business Journal | October 24, 2017 Following firings at Tesla, employees rallied outside of its Fremont Factory claiming they were unfairly fired. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 11, 2023

United States: Tesla employees protest mass firings at Fremont factory Jennifer Elias | Silicon Valley Business Journal | October 24, 2017 Following firings at Tesla, employees rallied outside of its Fremont Factory claiming they were unfairly fired. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Bonomo, who first came to PennFuture as the organization’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in August 2016, has served as the organization’s President and Chief Executive Officer since October of 2017. energy technology policy. Since her promotion into the role of president, PennFuture has raised over $11.5

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 1, 2023

United States: Tesla employees protest mass firings at Fremont factory Jennifer Elias | Silicon Valley Business Journal | October 24, 2017 Following firings at Tesla, employees rallied outside of its Fremont Factory claiming they were unfairly fired. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

United States: Tesla employees protest mass firings at Fremont factory Jennifer Elias | Silicon Valley Business Journal | October 24, 2017 Following firings at Tesla, employees rallied outside of its Fremont Factory claiming they were unfairly fired. Political Influence Open Secrets - Tracks corporate lobbying of US politicians.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

And this came after the share of green jobs in all of China’s recruitment had actually been falling since 2017. Data shows that China already has over 110 institutional investors signed up to the UN Supported Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI), the bulk of which signed up after 2017.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

And now, I participated in a seminar that PJM was part of in New York City, and one of the comments made is the political policies that we as legislators in the various states associated with PJM probably give to PJM. "In 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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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Between 2017 and 2019, three aging dams were removed, improving water quality and fish passage. By Jake Solyst, Chesapeake Bay Program Fishing continues to get better and better along the headwaters of the West Branch Susquehanna River in Cambria County, Pennsylvania.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

This post covers from approximately mid-June, 2017 up to August 31, 2017. San Diego commits to 100% clean electricity. . Energy Department aims to close international clean energy office. EPA head met with multiple energy execs in his first weeks. July 2017. . August 2017. .

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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]. 2017), [link]. [8].

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

In both Texas and in California, the expert authority, the grid operators, the scientists and engineers who knew what was needed, were overridden by political appointees. We need to respect our grid authorities. Terrorism and the Electric Power Delivery System. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

It is notable that the advocacy for industrial wind energy comes from people who don’t live near the turbines, which are almost invariably loud and disturb the peace and quiet. Those communities that have proven most able to resist the introduction of a wind farm tend to be more affluent.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2023

Lauren Connelly, of the Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce , noted in April of 2022 the Allegheny Conference released a report outlining how accelerating decarbonization and a transition to clean energy sources are critical to the future competitiveness of the Pittsburgh Region. Read more here. Read more here. Shapiro, Lt.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Economics is a vital link in any political system as there is a need to provide employment and funding for public services and investment and to ensure markets function. Energy Conservation. We live in an age of dwindling fossil fuels and inaction on renewable energy. Conservation Economics. Conservation Movement.

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