PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2022

The amount of solar energy at K-12 schools in Pennsylvania doubled since 2020, according to a new statewide report on schools' adoption of solar published by Generation180 , a clean energy nonprofit. They anticipate energy cost savings of $11 million over the 40-year life expectancy of the solar panels.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 4, 2021

Meanwhile, over the past decade, more than a dozen coal-fired power plants have closed in Pennsylvania, due to the shifting economics of energy, and a rapid movement to less expensive natural gas generation,” said Sen. percent to the Energy Communities Trust Fund; -- 12.5 A climate crisis is happening before our eyes.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Cresforum

MARCH 10, 2022

In the Unites States’ march to transition to clean energy and reduce greenhouse gasses, resilience may be the most important word to summarize 2021. Nine months after the pandemic first upended lives and the economy, the market fundamentals for clean energy looked unstoppable. gigawatts in 2020.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

One is strengthening commitments to reduce heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions in order to keep the planet from dangerously overheating. The electric company Central Maine Power got its state and federal permits and began construction on a high-voltage transmission line called New England Clean Energy Connect.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2022

He has spent his career championing environmental issues like clean air and water, advocating for a transition away from fossil fuels, and promoting clean energy solutions such as energy efficiency, wind, solar and geothermal. Joe is a sought after environmental voice and leader across the state and the region.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Under Governor Wolf, we’ve accelerated and expanded work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to equip Pennsylvania’s communities, businesses, and individual residents to address climate change impacts occurring now and projected for the near future. Pennsylvania’s greenhouse gas emissions are tracked yearly.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 20, 2022

“We have an opportunity to use electrification as a way to limit energy consumption, lower consumer costs and decrease greenhouse gas emissions, while simultaneously promoting economic and workforce development. Electrification is one more way we can achieve our vision of a clean energy future for all.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 16, 2022

Originally, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Cresforum

OCTOBER 28, 2021

government in reducing greenhouse gas emissions around the world is to make strategic investments in research and development (R&D), such as those included in the Energy Act of 2020 , which serves as a strong foundation to an all-of-the-above approach: renewables, nuclear, fuel and energy efficiency, hydrogen, electrification (i.e.,

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 1, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), requires CARB to develop and update every five years a scoping plan that describes the approach California will take to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2023

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA sets ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goals for the State of New York, while incorporating principles of environmental justice. In June 2022, DEC also denied Greenidge Generation LLC (Greenidge)’s application to renew its existing Title V permit for its natural gas-fired power plant in Yates County.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 30, 2019

Back to North Carolina developments in late 2018: Executive Order on Climate Change and Clean Energy: On October 29, 2018, N.C. Governor Roy Cooper issued an executive order on climate change and clean energy. Increase the number of zero-emission vehicles in the state to 80,000. (For

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

By Zoe Read, WHYY, with Jon Hurdle of NJ Spotlight contributing This article first appeared on WHYY.org September 9, 2022 -- The Delaware River Basin Commission on Thursday approved a three-year permit extension for a controversial project to build New Jersey’s first terminal for exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG) along the Delaware River.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2022

In 2021 Comcast Signs Agreement To Purchase 250 MW Of Solar Energy In Step Toward Carbon Neutral Goal U.S. In 2021 Comcast Signs Agreement To Purchase 250 MW Of Solar Energy In Step Toward Carbon Neutral Goal U.S.

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Law and Environment

MAY 12, 2023

EPA’s accompanying Fact Sheet spells out the proposed rule’s emissions reductions estimates: EPA has evaluated the emissions reductions, benefits, and costs of the proposals to limit CO 2 from the existing coal fleet and new natural gas units. SO2, and NOx – harmful air pollutants that are known to endanger public health.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

Harvard law students ramp up protest against ExxonMobil climate firm Emily Holden | The Guardian | January 15, 2020 Harvard law students have disrupted a recruiting event for Paul Weiss, the law firm representing ExxonMobil in climate lawsuits, in an escalation the protesters hope will open a new front in climate activism in the legal world.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Lancaster Cemetery Community Tree Planting & Clean Up Set For Nov. Million To 13 Projects Statewide To Restore the Health Of Local Watersheds DCNR Blog: Just What Is Green Infrastructure? PA Interfaith Power & Light, Jewish Earth Alliance Host Oct. 20 Webinar On Federal Build Back Better Proposal Manada Conservancy Hosts Oct.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Worse than that, it might end up misdirecting the world’s clean energy efforts into dirtier than appreciated energy technologies because of the country’s ongoing dependence on coal-fired energy. The scale of the IPCC’s undercount shocks once applied to the EU’s “clean” energy plans. million cars to the road.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

prosecutors say an Israeli private investigator used hackers to steal emails from climate activists who were campaigning against American energy giant Exxon Mobil Corp. Corporation ExxonMobil Image Image Products Crude oil, Oil products, Natural gas, Petrochemicals, Power generation Exxon Knew Protest - Photo credit 350.org

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

The Regulation’s proposed criteria for gaseous fossil fuels (which includes both conventional natural gas, and synthetic gas derived from coal gasification) allow investment in their consumption without restriction in function, scale, or time period, as long as greenhouse gas emissions are no higher than 100 gCO2eq/kWh (see §4.29-31

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

California Clean Energy Committee v. League to Save Lake Tahoe, Mountain Area Preservation Foundation, and Sierra Watch (Sierra Watch) and the California Clean Energy Committee (Committee) filed separate writ petitions alleging numerous CEQA and TPA violations, which the trial court consolidated for hearing.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

If the SCAQMD’s development timeline holds, Proposed Rule 2305 will phase in on July 1, 2020. For warehouses greater than 250,000 square feet, the first compliance period would be July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021; the Initial Site Information Report would be due January 1, 2021; and the annual WAIRE Report would be due July 30, 2021.

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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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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 29, 2021

Burning oil, coal and natural gas is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions globally, responsible for 75% of global emissions. In 2020, fossil fuel companies claimed $8.2 You probably know that climate change and plastic pollution are two of the biggest threats facing our ocean. Fossil fuels.

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Ocean Conservancy

JUNE 29, 2021

Burning oil, coal and natural gas is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions globally, responsible for 75% of global emissions. In 2020, fossil fuel companies claimed $8.2 You probably know that climate change and plastic pollution are two of the biggest threats facing our ocean. Fossil fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

“Funding from the bipartisan infrastructure package is already on its way to help Pennsylvania ramp up clean electric cars, cut harmful pollution and create jobs in the process,” said Mandy Warner, Pennsylvania State Director for Environmental Defense Fund. The move to EVs is quickly gaining momentum in the Keystone state. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Energy Information Administration (EIA) households that primarily use natural gas for space heating will spend an average of 30 percent more on heating this winter than last year. And when prices dropped, so did oil and gas drilling and production in the U.S. in Spring 2020? On top of that, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2021

DEP’s Climate Change Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet August 24 to review the latest Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory for Pennsylvania and hear an overview of DEP’s Energy Office Clean Energy Program Plan. percent coal and 5 percent natural gas in 2005 to 20.5 percent natural gas in 2018.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. The answer is that there was a lot more generating capacity in 2006 than in 2020.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2021

. -- October 18 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- Conventional Oil & Gas Drilling Advisory Council Critical Of DEP For Working With Penn State On Independent Studies Of Road Dumping Drilling Wastewater They Had Been Aware Of Since August, 2020 [PaEN] -- WESA: ‘Orphaned’ Oil & Gas Wells Are A Problem In PA And There Are More Of Them (..)

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Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 9, 2022

We suggest rephrasing the query such that it is about using renewable energy to reduce the environmental harms associated with fossil fuel energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase the supply of renewable energy and foster a just transition to an ESG driven economy. electricity generation in 2020.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A 2020 study found that, in most states, regulators can only approve a transmission line if they determine it is “in the public interest.” greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. That must change if the U.S.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. Natural Resources Defense Council v. Citing Shortcomings in NEPA Analysis of Cumulative Climate and Groundwater Impacts, Montana Federal Court Vacated Oil and Gas Leases. May 1, 2020).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2022

Green Jobs Could Grow In PA - 4,500 Openings Now -- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: A Small Measure Of Relief Is Coming For Shell-Shocked Philly Area Natural Gas Customers -- MCall: Utility Bills Have Risen, Will They Go A Lot Higher? Oil Companies Not Pumping More Oil Despite High Prices -- AP: U.S.,

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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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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

On September 1, the Independent Regulatory Review Commission is considering whether to approve the final Environmental Quality Board regulation reducing carbon pollution from power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. On April 21, 2020, 18 Senate Republicans wrote to Gov. How did we get here?

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