PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2021

"PPL is pursuing clear goals to advance a sustainable energy future for the customers and communities we serve," said Vincent Sorgi, president and chief executive officer of PPL Corporation. "As Posted: August 30, 2021] PA Environment Digest PPL will also be releasing an updated climate assessment report later this year.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 4, 2021

It is caused by human activity and carbon emissions. According to Pennsylvania’s recently released 2021 Climate Impacts Assessment, average annual temperatures in the commonwealth will rise by 5.9°F percent to the Energy Communities Trust Fund; -- 12.5 percent to the Energy Communities Trust Fund; -- 12.5

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Clean Energy Law

JUNE 8, 2022

Assembly Bill 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, 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. F by 2050 and 5.6°F–8.8°F F by 2100.

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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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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This development comes at a time when facilities across the country are looking to address their greenhouse gas emissions through CCS projects but have been facing permitting delays from EPA. EPA is the primary authority for Class VI well permits, which are essential for the underground storage of carbon dioxide (CO2).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 11, 2023

We estimated the potential of these buffer areas to contribute to reductions in water use, pesticide use, toxic nitrate leaching, and greenhouse gas emissions. Cropland repurposing that led to the reduction of fertilizer use and nitrate leaching would result in a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (mostly nitrous oxide) equivalent to 2.2

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As noted at the end of last year, 2021 was significant for climate litigation, with several decisions worldwide providing a fresh look at stakeholder responsibility for climate change. In Germany, after the successful decision from 2021 in Neubauer et al. By Maria Antonia Tigre. Photo by Matt Palmer on Unsplash. In Smith v.

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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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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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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. Endnotes. [1] at 150-51. [5]

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Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2020

The energy sector is one of the biggest polluters when it comes to. greenhouse gas emissions. Many states are responding to global calls for clean energy and making actual changes which reflect the climate change crisis. Today the energy sector accounts for 30% of the carbon dioxide emissions in.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2021

Energy The theme of missed opportunities held true with other legislation, notably on efforts to advance clean energy. There are also harmful bills in the legislature that would hamper our state’s move toward a clean energy economy, including SB119 and HB637. NewsClip: CourierT: PA Budget Earmarks $1.6

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 13, 2022

Driven by emissions from power generation and industrial activity — activity that generates jobs and economic opportunity for southwestern Pennsylvania — our greenhouse gas emissions, on a per capita basis, are about 50% higher than elsewhere in the state or country. At the same time, we are making progress in reducing our carbon footprint.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

As more companies jockey for position and federal funding on both clean hydrogen and CCUS, the announcements are timed to provide critical guidance on these emerging areas of opportunity. Clean Industrial Sector Fact Sheet. These new initiatives include: Accelerating Clean Hydrogen. Focus on Clean Procurement.

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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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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

A 2021 North Carolina law requires the N.C. Utilities Commission (NCUC) to “take all reasonable steps” to achieve a 70% reduction in carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) emissions from electric generating units (EGUs) by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality for the utility generation system by 2050. January 22, 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Gas plants proposed as of the close of 2021 were estimated to result in up to $74 billion in health costs over their lifetime, and that’s just from the burning of gas at the power plant, ignoring all of the polluting upstream impacts from drilling and transporting gas.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 11, 2021

On March 1, 2021, the TCI released draft Model Rules for public review. See Latham’s blog post TCI Proposes to Reduce Carbon Emissions From Transportation in the Northeast.) Building on the MOU and the draft Model Rules, the TCI provided an update in March 2021 about its goal to expand opportunities for public engagement.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

It will lower the University’s greenhouse gas emissions by 15,452 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, the equivalent of taking nearly 3,330 fuel-burning cars off the road. Vesper Energy is proud to partner with the University of Pittsburgh to help achieve their goal of 100% renewable electricity powering the campus.

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Introduction Hydrogen has been dubbed the “Swiss army knife” of clean energy, given its potential to become a tool to cut emissions in key sectors, as well as to assert U.S. global energy leadership and increase our nation’s competitive edge. Hydrogen Production and Challenges In 2021, the U.S. According to the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Waste Coal In July of 2021 a company by the name of Stronghold Digital Mining (Stronghold) filed an S-1 report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing plans to purchase three waste coal fired power plants and install 57,000 Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) dedicated to mining bitcoin.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Waste Coal In July of 2021 a company by the name of Stronghold Digital Mining (Stronghold) filed an S-1 report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing plans to purchase three waste coal fired power plants and install 57,000 Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) dedicated to mining bitcoin.

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Legal Planet

MAY 13, 2024

International January 20, 2021. officially became a party to the agreement again on February 19, 2021. January 27, 2021. April 22, 2021. Biden sets target of at least 50% reduction in carbon emissions below 2005 levels by 2030. Cross-Sector Actions January 20, 2021. October 26, 2022. August 16, 2022.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

How moving toward clean energy can save consumers money Unlike gas, clean energy does not suffer from wild price fluctuations. Fuel costs don’t change for wind- and solar-powered electricity over time because the wind and sun are free, and clean energy produced in the U.S. stays in 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. Also on the meeting agenda-- -- Overview Of DEP’s Energy Office Clean Energy Program Plan - Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Over 30,500 pro-life Christians submitted comments during Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection open comment period for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), urging the state to join RGGI in order to protect the health of vulnerable Pennsylvanians and to create clean energy jobs in the state. “In

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

The president’s executive order aims to use the US government’s procurement power to achieve “carbon pollution-free electricity” by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050. This directive raises the possibility of a greater opening of government land — in particular military bases — for renewable energy projects.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 14, 2024

Million For Federal Clean School Bus Program Help/Interns Wanted -- WESA: PA Outdoor Corps Seeking Young Adult Crew Members -- Interns Wanted: Department Of Environmental Protection, Conservation & Natural Resources, Agriculture - Deadline Feb. 16; Snowmobile/ATV Grants Feb. 18 [PaEN] -- Still Time To Register! 29 -- DEP Sets Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

On April 7, the Department of Environmental Protection appealed the April 6 Commonwealth Court order blocking publication of the final regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to the PA Supreme Court. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Adding to the madness of the anti-energy campaign is the fact that Pennsylvania is leading the U.S., Pennsylvania has led a reduction of CO2 [carbon dioxide] emissions in the United States by 758 million metric tons – more than any country in the world, and nearly matching the entire CO2 reductions for all of Europe.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 25, 2024

By Joshua Bledsoe , Kevin Homrighausen , and John Detrich On December 2, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a final report that substantially increases estimates of the social cost of greenhouse gases (GHG), including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide (collectively, SC-GHG). 3d 1172 (9th Cir.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit found that FERC failed to address the significance of a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulation that the petitioners argued required use of the social cost of carbon or another methodology to assess the impacts of the projects’ greenhouse gas emissions. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission , No. 20-1045 (D.C.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

And resources to plug these wells, or even find them, had been scant – prior to the IIJA passed by Congress and signed by President Biden in 2021. For context, DEP spent $37 million plugging approximately 3,000 wells from 1989 through 2021. Too often, these wells pollute groundwater and leak methane into the air.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit Decision Vacating Affordable Clean Energy Rule. Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. EPA’s response to the petitions is due June 3, 2021. FEATURED CASE.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

By Flora Cardoni , PennEnvironment & Michael Mann , Penn State University This guest essay first appeared in the Centre Daily Times September 6, 2021 -- The remnants of Hurricane Ida hit us hard this week, depositing torrential, flood-inducing rains across a huge swath of the eastern United States. Love trout fishing?

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Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

June 15, 2021). Western Energy Alliance v. June 16, 2021). On June 14, 2021, the U.S. On June 23, 2021, Chevron Corporation filed notice in the district court of its voluntary dismissal of third-party complaints against the energy company Equinor ASA (formerly Statoil ASA). June 14, 2021).

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. In 2021 the Biden Administration reversed the Trump-era rollbacks and instituted the strictest-ever vehicle GHG emissions standards in a move aimed at preventing 3.1

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