Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

pollution from vehicles. Compared to a baseline business-as-usual scenario, CARB estimates the ACF will reduce climate-warming emissions from the state’s truck fleet by more than 40 percent by 2050, equating to a reduction of about 300 million metric tons of carbon dioxide over this timeframe. There are more than 1.8

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

Understanding Climate Change & Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. 2022: What Does the Latest IPCC Report Say? C above pre-industrial levels.

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Acoel

JANUARY 18, 2022

Posted on January 18, 2022 by Daniel C. Most notably, thousands of corporations announced net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) pledges and hundreds of banks and other financial institutions committed to conform their lending to the requirements for a 2050 net-zero GHG world.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

The last parcel of this property was put under conservation easement in March, 2022. Utilizing manure nutrients efficiently means that risk of loss of nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment, and greenhouse gas is minimized. The overarching goal of Manure Expo is based on environmental quality.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

EPA does have authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the federal Clean Air Act and the Court’s ruling did not address that existing authority. Today’s ruling undercuts good-faith efforts to fight climate change and protect clean air but that does not mean we will stop fighting. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2022

million in Alternative Fuel Incentive Grants (AFIGs) to 18 cleaner fuel transportation projects statewide that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants. Vehicles alone release 21 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the state, a known greenhouse gas and direct contributor to climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

This means that when the price of gas spikes –as it did in 2022 amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and inevitably will again in the future–the price of electricity for consumers also eventually spikes in response. Gas-powered plants accounted for the most power plant outages during 2022 Winter Storm Elliott, followed by coal.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

That’s why I like to pause at the end of each year and share some good news from the previous months (see my previous recaps from 2022 , 2021 and 2020 ). Here are seven of our big ocean victories from this year: We drove an ambitious agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from global shipping.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

To date, Stronghold has purchased the 94-megawatt (MW) circulating fluidized bed (CFB) Scrubgrass power plant in Venango County and the 94 MW Panther Creek CFB facility in Carbon County. As of March 24, 2022, the company operated approximately 20,500 pieces of mining hardware and purchase agreements in place for an additional 29,400 miners.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

To date, Stronghold has purchased the 94-megawatt (MW) circulating fluidized bed (CFB) Scrubgrass power plant in Venango County and the 94 MW Panther Creek CFB facility in Carbon County. As of March 24, 2022, the company operated approximately 20,500 pieces of mining hardware and purchase agreements in place for an additional 29,400 miners.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

Strong federal standards to reduce pipeline leaks are critical for delivering on the Biden administration's commitment to curb climate-warming methane pollution while increasing public health and safety.” Methane, the primary component of natural gas, is a potent greenhouse gas over 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in the near-term.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

Since as early as 1992, some academics have pointed to CERCLA as a model for pooling funds from greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters to remedy or mitigate climate change impacts.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency finalizes their widely supported proposed safeguards to reduce methane climate emissions and associated toxic air pollution from new and existing oil and gas production facilities. Posted: May 24, 2022] PA Environment Digest This analysis comes as the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In 2022, these facilities self-reported 13,432,713 tons of air pollution-- 47.93% came from mid-stream pipeline facilities; 30.18% from unconventional shale gas wells and 21.81% from main line natural gas compressor stations. tons, carbon dioxide- 13,222,354.96 tons, carbon dioxide- 3,710,597.99

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Note: In December, 2022, DEP finalized regulations reducing volatile organic compounds and methane from existing conventional and unconventional oil and gas facilities. billion metric tons of carbon dioxide – nearly as much as all the carbon dioxide emitted by the power sector in 2021.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 10, 2023

News Briefs Air Pollution Proposal The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to strengthen air pollution standards for coal-fired power plants, a regulatory move that would also improve water quality and reduce the accumulation of pollutants in fish. government water policy.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2022

Tom Wolf vetoed and disapproved Senate Concurrent Regulatory Review Resolution 1, which would have disabled the Commonwealth’s opportunity to enter the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and effectively achieve climate goals and reduce carbon emissions. while reducing harmful greenhouse gases. On January 10, Gov.

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Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

July 12, 2022 — On June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision striking down an Obama era rule regulating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing power plants. EPA held the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan Rule exceeded EPA’s authority under the Clean Air Act. The West Virginia v.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2022

Tom Wolf’s administration gets its way in Commonwealth Court, Pennsylvania will join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) in a matter of weeks. The administration’s potential victory – a hollow quest to lower carbon emissions in Pennsylvania – will cost residents $2 billion in the next five years.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Of Environmental Educators Accepting 2022 Award Nominations PAEE: Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience Award Nominations Due Dec. Of Environmental Educators Accepting 2022 Award Nominations PAEE: Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience Award Nominations Due Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

Public Health -- Berkeley Lab: Halfway to Zero: Progress towards a Carbon-Free Power Sector ( April 2021 ) “Switching from coal to natural gas for power generation played a big role in lowering carbon emissions. In addition to carbon dioxide emission reductions, sulfur and nitrogen pollutants also declined and improved public health.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

greenhouse gas emissions, more than the electric power sector. EPA is an effort by conservative states and fuel suppliers to block EPA regulations of greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. Transportation is now the source of 28% of U.S.

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Vermont Law

APRIL 8, 2022

Juris Doctor Candidate (VLGS '23) and Staff Editor for the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law April 8, 2022 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) establishes air quality standards under the Clean Air Act. (1) 11) Global warming, in part, is a result of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. By Robert R.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2022

Supreme Court Decision Did Not Affect EPA’s Ability To Regulate Carbon Dioxide As A Pollutant, Has No Impact On DEP's RGGI Power Plant Carbon Pollution Reduction Program [PaEN] -- Evangelical Environmental Network: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Of U.S. Yaw and Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency announced it is strengthening its proposed standards to cut methane and other harmful air pollution. The updates would provide more comprehensive requirements to reduce climate and health-harming air pollution, including from hundreds of thousands of existing oil and gas sources nationwide.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2023

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide for the first twenty years that it remains in the atmosphere. Methane pollution is also responsible for more than 25 percent of the climate change Pennsylvania experiences today.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2024

According to a December 2022 DEP report : “Unplugged or improperly plugged wells can cause a myriad of problems, including gas migration into occupied structures, water supply impacts, surface water impacts, hazardous air pollutant emissions, methane emissions, and soil and groundwater contamination.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 24, 2022

. -- Takes Away DEP’s Authority To Regulate Carbon Pollution: The bill takes away DEP’s existing statutory authority to reduce carbon pollution from power plants and other sources. This provision has nothing to do with increasing natural gas or oil production in the Commonwealth. Wolf announced the initiative in 2019.

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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. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. EPA , 549 U.S.

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Acoel

JULY 5, 2022

Posted on July 5, 2022 by Robert B. EPA as a decision depriving EPA of an important tool to address climate change under the Clean Air Act. First Court did not eliminate the Agency’s ability to require greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions reductions under section 111 or any other section of the Clean Air Act. McKinstry, Jr.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 25, 2024

Image by Maxim Tolchinskiy (Unsplash) In November of 2022, when the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) proposed new rules to control venting, flaring, and leaks from oil and gas leases on federal land (the “Fossil Fuel Waste Rule”), they noted that these leasing rules would have an enormous ancillary climate benefit.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2022

EIA: Ban On New Natural Gas Pipelines Would Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Natural Gas Combustion 4.4% Casey: Announces $2.1 Lower In 2050 PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- City & State PA: Sen. Of Revenue Reports March State Revenues Were $659.1 Million, 13.5% More Than Anticipated; Year-To-Date Revenue Up $2.7

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

Noah Wenger, Longtime Lancaster County Farming, Chesapeake Bay Advocate Dies At 89 -- DEP: Oil & Gas Regulatory Program Will Be In The Red By Fall; All Sectors Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program No Go; Update On Permitting Reform [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb. -- In Memoriam: Fmr State Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Republicans said the final regulations will increase the cost of electricity for individuals and businesses, have a negative impact on jobs and will not significantly reduce carbon pollution. There is broad consensus in this legislature on the subject of aggressively pursuing reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Of Environmental Professionals Award Scholarships To Isaac Nulton, Poppy Northing; Conference Starts Oct. 17 [PaEN] -- ScrantonT: Lackawanna River Heritage Trail Receives Great Greenway/Trail Designation -- SunburyDI: Friends Group Formed For R.B. Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

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ESA

JUNE 14, 2021

The Biden administration laid out its timeline for rolling back major Trump environmental rules, but acknowledged that the process of enacting more protective regulations on climate and air pollution and drinking water will take years — if they can estimate the timeline at all. Comments must be received on or before July 7, 2021.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 7, 2022

Street Introduces Bill To Set A New Clean Energy Standard And Support Carbon Capture To Eliminate All Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Power Plants By 2050 [PaEN] -- Chester County Residents Protest Mariner East Pipeline Construction [PaEN] -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editorial: West Deer Twp. House returns to session Jan.

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