PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2021

In addition, the Company announced its long-term efforts to achieve net zero direct operating greenhouse gas emissions by 2040 or sooner if feasible. CONSOL’s scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions totaled 8.164 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2019. million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2018.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In September 2017, Eric Biber and I published a threat assessment after the first 200 days of the Trump Administration. The 2017 report was organized at the tool that Trump could use, rather than specific policy questions. The 2017 threat assessment. The 2017 threat assessment. The 2017 threat assessment.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Six environmental groups launched the proceeding challenging the stay after EPA published notice of the stay in the June 5, 2017 issue of the Federal Register. filed June 5, 2017; emergency motion for stay granted July 3, 2017). June 29, 2017). June 28, 2017). June 28, 2017). Clean Air Council v.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MAY 13, 2022

It achieved that goal in 2017. In 2010, GM committed to a 20% reduction in carbon intensity by 2020. And in January 2021, it said it would source 100% renewable energy to power GM facilities in the U.S. by 2030 and globally by 2035.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 12, 2023

EPA’s power to regulate greenhouse gases, established in litigation in 2007, now seems beyond question. 2009 EPA formally finds that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health and welfare. 2017 Trump announces U.S. Progress has been made under one President, only to be battered down by the next one.

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Real Climate

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A friend asked me if a discussion paper published on Statistics Norway’s website, ‘ To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions? ’, was purposely timed for the next climate summit ( COP28 ). All this can be explained by physical processes and an enhanced greenhouse effect.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Following a recent Auditor General report that Ontario is failing in its progress on tackling climate change, Minister Piccini made some dubious claims about Ontario’s work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He said: “I can look Ontarians in the eye and say Ontario is a leader in greenhouse gas reductions in this federation.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Farmers received billions of dollars from two of the largest federal agricultural conservation programs between 2017 and 2020, but only a small proportion of the money funded practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, according to a new report from the Environmental Working Group (EWG). .

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Real Climate

OCTOBER 12, 2021

A recent paper Stouffer and Manabe (2017) , assessed how good the Manabe and Stouffer (1989) predictions were. As you will recall, Hansen had declared in 1988 that “the greenhouse effect is here!”, Manabe, "Role of greenhouse gas in climate change**", Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography , vol. References.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

Tier 3 standards were phased in starting with 2017 cars. In April of 2023, the Biden Administration proposed new standards for cars, SUVs, and light trucks that covering both greenhouse gases and conventional pollutants like NOx. The following year, EPA proposed Tier 2 standards, including a 0.07 gpm NOx standard.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

EPA in defense of EPA’s authority to effectively regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. The case involves a group of challenges to EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing stationary sources under the 1970 Clean Air Act, a monumental piece of environmental and public health legislation.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Just days before the conference she was featured in an article where she attempted to shift blame away from the fossil fuel industry by saying that oil companies can only decarbonize as fast as the rest of the economy – a comment that completely ignores the fact that the oil and gas industry is Canada’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 17, 2019

In 2017, only 43% of cases focused on EIRs. Overall, public agencies prevailed in 37 of 57 cases, or 65% of the time, the same percentage as in 2017, and won in 68% of EIR cases, compared with 55% in 2017. Of the 57 cases, 26 were published, 25 were unpublished, and six were partially published.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 15, 2022

When Secretary Zinke terminated the moratorium in 2017, litigation ensued and, in 2019, the Court ruled that the Zinke Order was subject to NEPA. BLM’s own analysis states that cumulative greenhouse gas emissions from the coal lease applications that were suspended under the Jewell Order would amount to more than one billion tons/year.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 5, 2022

The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report concluded that the world needs to cut greenhouse emissions in half by the end of this decade to avoid total climate breakdown. That renewable energy could have helped reduce the province’s greenhouse gas emissions. But Ontario has been going in the opposite direction.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation A Cap-and-Invest Approach . 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].

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The Department of Planning denied the Rocky Hill Coal Project application in December 2017, after reviewing the associated environmental impact report. This blog provides a quick review of the case and its noteworthy developments. An Overview of the Case. Gloucester Resources Limited promptly appealed the decision. Section 4.15(1) In the U.S.,

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

While “natural” gas is mostly composed of methane, a greenhouse gas that’s 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide during its first 20 years in the atmosphere, Ebel and his industry counterparts have succeeded in minimizing the perception of its climate impact.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Late in 2021, the Independent Electricity Systems Operator (IESO), Ontario’s electricity grid management agency, released its latest projections: In 2021, Ontario’s electricity sector, aka the grid, generated less than 4 megatonnes (MT) of greenhouse gases (GHGs). of Ontario’s total electricity generation. .

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Real Climate

APRIL 19, 2022

Or that water vapor is the most important greenhouse gas? van der Linden et al (2017) or [2] ). 1600008, 2017. e0175799, 2017. As we’ve seen in the climate discourse it’s easy to find red herrings that are true as far as they go, but that don’t go very far. Did you know that climate has changed before?

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 19, 2022

States that received tens of billions in federal funds to help homeowners rebuild after wildfires and hurricanes in 2017 and 2018 have been slow to distribute the money. The Department of Energy has $14 million in grant funding for researchers exploring how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment. News Briefs.

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CEQA Developments

JUNE 8, 2023

In response to that case, BAAQMD put out new guidelines in 2017, but quickly determined those guidelines were out of date. In BAAQMD’s own words: “The 2017 revision did not address outdated references, analytical methodologies, or technical information improvements. of Supervisors (2017) 17 Cal.App.5th (2015) 62 Cal.4th

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

But it actually just gives the company an excuse to continue its regular operations, without decreasing its own greenhouse gas emissions. Trading schemes like the one being proposed (well, already being used), do almost nothing to increase investments in renewable power or drive down greenhouse gas emissions. .

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

As a result, between 2005 and 2017 greenhouse gas pollution from Ontario’s electricity system dropped by 93 per cent. The current government acts like it’s somehow responsible for this feat. In fact, the current government is actively making our energy grid a lot dirtier.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Cities are major sources of greenhouse emissions, globally producing more than 60% of planet-warming gases. Narayanganj to cut CO2 by hundreds of thousands of tonnes Narayanganj’s adaptation plan , written in 2022, strives to achieve an annual greenhouse gas emission reduction of 12.6% Photo credit: Balaji Srinivasan / Alamy.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The CES, first enacted in 2017, requires retail sellers of electricity in Massachusetts to provide increasing quantities of clean electricity over time. The amendments are intended to accelerate progress towards decarbonization of the electricity sector and further ensure the state meets its goal of net zero emissions by 2050. What’s the CES?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decision the US Supreme Court handed down in June curtailed strategies EPA can use to slow climate change, but its problematic implications stretch far beyond greenhouse gas reduction. Together, these smaller actions can result in substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. West Virginia v.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

Cuba’s transition to renewable energy generation would reduce greenhouse gas emissions, helping to mitigate climate change and reduce local air pollution, while also providing a more resilient source of power compared to the current fossil fuel-heavy power system. The report builds on a previous report published by EDF in 2017.

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2023

As I outlined here , Montana state law prohibits the consideration of greenhouse gas emissions or climate impacts–– inside and outside the state’s borders––when reviewing projects and approving permits. If Montana stopped emitting greenhouse gases, would that prevent the injury to plaintiffs from climate change? “We

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 19, 2023

This is outrageous, especially given that Ontario successfully phased out coal-fired power plants between 2005 and 2017 and brought down greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector by 93 per cent.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2021

Pennsylvania is the fourth largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the United states and the third biggest electric power generation state. Almost 40 percent of Pennsylvania’s emissions come from the energy sector. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 26, 2023

The justices declined to take up numerous cases in which government entities have sued oil, gas and coal companies, seeking compensation for the climate change-related damage the jurisdictions they claim to have suffered, and which they attribute to the greenhouse gas emissions the companies’ products have released into the atmosphere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

The Federal Highway Administration’s greenhouse gas performance measure, finalized in late 2023, is one example of this data-driven approach. We got what we paid for—it wasn’t great. Now it’s time for a change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It stops the government from factoring in the social cost of greenhouse gases in budgets and environmental reviews. Despite the United States having spewed a quarter of all the world’s cumulative global warming gases, Johnson blathered at a 2017 town hall: “What about Africa? He holds that climate change is due to “natural cycles.”

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Already greenhouse gas emissions from Ontario’s gas plants are set to increase by almost 400 per cent by 2030 and by more than 600 per cent by 2040 (compared to the 2017 level). But if we don’t have a clean electricity supply, then we aren’t actually decreasing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Law Columbia

MAY 9, 2023

The increased atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) is driving global climate change on an unprecedented scale. A recent study by Environmental Defense Fund found that, between 2017 and 2021, a large volume of assets shifted from operators with net-zero targets to companies without such targets.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The well was inspected by DEP on October 1, 2017 and violations were issued, but the inspection report is not available. DEP inspected the well July 12, 2017, July 17, 2017, August 1, 2017 and November 30, 2017, but no violations were noted. [On No violations were issued.

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