PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

Million In Solar For All Funding From Self-Imposed Freeze [PaEN] -- The Allegheny Front/WPSU: Solar Power Supporters In PA Say Outlook Is Positive, Even As Policies Could Change Under President -- City Of Reading Begins Energy Efficiency, Solar Energy Project To Save $13.3

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Acoel

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Posted on October 18, 2022 by Jeff Civins. And even a slight rise in sea level makes the threat of a storm surge that more terrifying. Meanwhile, the Biden Administration has committed the US to net zero carbon emissions by 2050.

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Washington Nature

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Tribes along Washington’s coast are on the front lines of climate change, with some actively relocating parts of their communities to escape sea level rise and storm surges. Cape Flattery is part of the traditional homelands of the Makah Tribe. Photo by Elise Eliot. Photo by Courtney Baxter.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Citing rising temperatures and an increase in climate related disasters, members expressed an urgent need to cut carbon emissions and quicken the transition to clean, renewable energy. Climate Action Week 2022 takes place September 18 to 24 in Pennsylvania. 20 [PaEN] [Posted: September 20, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

In just five years, from 2018 through 2022, wildfires scorched 38.3 They found that 48 percent of the increase in the region’s fire-friendly conditions since 1901—specifically drier land and vegetation—can be traced to the 88 companies’ carbon emissions. million acres across the country. What went into that calculation?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

RGGI was a bad idea in 2019, and in 2022, it is potentially a tragic idea. billion PennEast Pipeline** in Luzerne and Carbon Counties, two natural gas projects that would have boosted the Pennsylvania economy with the creation of over 12,000 new jobs and significantly furthered U.S. Read more here. **The Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

14 [PaEN] -- Allegheny Land Trust Partners With Regen Network To Sell Carbon Credits To Support Local Land Conservation; Largest Sale Of Urban Forest Credits In U.S. Check Out C-SAW -- Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers New R.I.S.E PaEN] -- Dec. 7 - Streambank Stabilization For Residential Landowners.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Perhaps the most consequential of all Paxton’s actions, however, is a lawsuit he and AGs from 19 other states, including Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina, filed in 2021 challenging the EPA’s authority to curb power plant carbon emissions. At the same time, routine flooding is already a major problem.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Senate returns to session October 18, 19, 25, 26, 27 -- Committee Schedule House returns to session October 25, 26, 27 -- Committee Schedule -- Update: House Session Schedule For 2022 TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- Coalition Launches Initiative To Promote Safer Setback Distances From Oil & Gas Drilling, Infrastructure [PaEN] -- Pittsburgh Business (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 5, 2023

Without major reductions in the carbon emissions fueling global warming, the impacts on the parks would be endless. Even under a scenario of drastic emissions reductions, Gonzalez’s 2018 study found that more than half of national park area would exceed the 3.6-degree

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Congress also found that these processescould contribute to significant global warming, altering world climate patterns and increase global sea levels. For instance, naval bases are generally located at sea level, and thus structures are at risk from sea level rise.)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

In my retelling of the show, I quickly pointed out that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had by then concluded that “most” of the increase in average global temperatures since 1950 was “very likely” due to the increase in human-made carbon emissions. ExxonMobil is still funding those folks, big time.”

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ESA

JULY 18, 2022

The spending bills largely include increases for ecological science programs, in line with the discretionary spending increases included in the President’s Budget Request (see ESA Policy News July 1, 2022 , ESA Policy News June 20, 2022 & Federal Budget Tracker ). Comments must be submitted by July 28, 2022.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

One such survey involved 130,000 people in 125 countries, which account for 96% of the worlds carbon emissions, and was published in the journal Nature Climate Change. Crucially, however, they thought only a minority of other people 43% would be willing to do the same.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

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. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants’ environmental assessment understated traffic levels as well as carbon emissions.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

The Biden-Harris Administration Day One Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis established an interagency working group to publish a revised interim Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) within 30 days and then to complete a final SCC by January 2022.

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