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.

Climate Change 71

Climate Change Nuclear Power Fossil Fuels Waste 71

Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Basin does not meet the state or federal ambient air quality standards for ozone and particulate matter, and existing regulations have to date proved insufficient to bring the Basin into compliance. The SCAQMD is the local agency responsible for attaining these clean air standards in the Basin. Facility-Based Mobile Source Measures.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The court sided with the community and ordered the city to use an analytically sound model developed by Eric Schwartz of the University of Michigan and Jacob Abernethy of the Georgia Institute of Technology to efficiently locate and replace the pipes.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

innovation and manufacturing of critical new technologies, all while delivering significant economic benefits through increased recovery of wasted gas. The updates, which supplement proposed standards EPA released in November 2021, reflect input and feedback from a broad range of stakeholders and nearly half a million public comments.

Natural Gas 52

Natural Gas Air Pollution Waste Greenhouse 52

Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

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 In 2022, Texas, along with several other states and industry groups representing fuel manufacturers (together, Petitioners), challenged EPA’s new emissions standards in court.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

As a result of cleaner-burning coal, the transition to natural gas, cleaner vehicles, and other technological changes, developed nations have seen major improvements in air quality. In response to the Fukushima nuclear accident, the Japanese government shut down its nuclear plants and replaced them with fossil fuels.

2020 97

2020 Air Pollution Climate Change Natural Gas 97

ESA

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

billion to the National Science Foundation to start a Directorate for Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP). The directorate is tasked with accelerating use-inspired and translational research in technologies and innovations of national importance. 2225 ) to create a new technology directorate. Applications are due Dec.

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The final bill includes just eight additional amendments, each of which added language to the bill but did not modify any of the initial provisions of the bill introduced by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in mid-May 2021. by Annie Snider, Alex Gullien, Kelsey Tamborrino and Anthony Adragna, PoliticoPro, 6/11/2021.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

Despite the panel’s regular reports about the consequences of burning fossil fuels, between 1990 and 2019 global emissions rose 54 percent and they are still rising. or 2 degrees without a radical reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and electrifying many of the things that currently run on fossil fuels.

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2022 Fossil Fuels Clean Water Act Climate Change 98

Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

March 8, 2021).]] Adding to the complexity, uncertainties regarding future costs abound: Among many others, how big will the affected population be in 100 years, and what technological advances may occur affecting climate resiliency? CV 17-80-BLG-SPW, 2021 WL 363955 (D. 23, 2021).]] N: Missouri v. Biden , Civ.

Climate Change 52

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ESA

APRIL 5, 2021

2 trillion plan includes $50 billion to create a new technology directorate for NSF. White House Office of Science and Technology Policy forms Interagency Task Force on Scientific Integrity. . There is $180 billion pegged overall in the plan for investment in research and development and “technologies of the future.”.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

Bill would create a technology directorate at the National Science Foundation and increases authorized funding levels. billion for the National Institute of Agriculture, including $700 million for the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, which represents a $265 million increase over FY 2021 levels. billion increase over FY 2021.

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2021 Clean Air Act Fossil Fuels 2026 52