PA Environment Daily

MAY 13, 2022

By Hilary Mercer , Shell Polymers/Pennsylvania Chemicals Project & Kevin Walker, President/CEO Duquesne Light This guest essay first appeared on TribLive.com May 11, 2022 -- Climate change demands that the world, including our region, transition its energy profile to a low-carbon one.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Investors and governments will be expected to refer to the Taxonomy in order to determine whether an activity they want to pursue can be considered sustainable, and under what conditions (screening criteria). For example, the replacement of nuclear power generation by fossil fuels would still be considered a sustainable activity.

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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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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

T he law does not apply to EGUs operated by local government utilities; electric membership co-ops; industrial facilities; or other institutions since the Utilities Commission doesn’t regulate those facilities. So the law requires a balancing of consumer costs/system reliability and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Department of Defense contractors are not permitted to “disclose a greenhouse gas inventory or any other report on greenhouse gas emissions.” As governments across the United States are beginning to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, looking at the back story and teasing out the broad impact of this prohibition is worth our time.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 17, 2022

A Uranium Ghost Town in the Making Time and again, mining company Homestake and government agencies promised to clean up waste from decades of uranium processing. By Mark Olalde and Maya Miller, ProPublica —August 16, 2022. Time and again, Homestake and government agencies promised to clean up the area. It didn’t happen.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

Through the IRA, there are also many opportunities for climate change mitigation through cleaner vehicles, homes that are more energy efficient, and reductions in greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane. Our prior investments into electronic permit submission and additional tools for inspectors continue to pay dividends.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 25, 2022

Last week, water officials from the Upper Colorado River basin approved a drought response plan for 2022 that is aimed at keeping water levels at Lake Powell from dropping so low that the reservoir can no longer generate hydropower. Nuclear Decommissioning along the Great Lakes. government water policy. News Briefs. Water Week.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

Only 25% of the over 40,000 permit applications DEP received in 2022, for example, came in the door complete. So I want to do this in a responsible, good management, good government type of way where I'm being thoughtful around that.” We're either going to be successful and driving things to having a data driven approach to government.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2022

American Rescue Plan Funding -- Bay Journal: PA Takes ‘Historic’ Action To Fund Clean Water Projects And Help The Chesapeake Bay - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal -- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested. What’s Your Community Doing?

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

3 PA Bulletin; More Oil & Gas Well Pad Cleanups; Facility Permits [PaEN] -- Health Department Distributing Free Potassium Iodide Tablets To Pennsylvanians Near State’s Four Active Nuclear Power Plants Sept. KTA Trail Challenge Sept. What’s Your Community Doing?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2022

We will continue to collaborate to advance the production and use of clean and renewable hydrogen to displace unabated fossil fuels and cut greenhouse gas emissions, which will include both technology and supporting infrastructure.” Read more here. Summit Draft Statement -- Reuters: U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2022

short-sighted climate policies – like forcing Pennsylvania into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and canceling natural gas and oil infrastructure, the Keystone XL pipeline [Canadian oil, not in Pennsylvania] chief among them – are so very dangerous. Posted: March 6, 2022] PA Environment Digest It’s not going to be easy.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

Here are 166 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Trillion Tons Of Greenhouse Gas -- The Guardian: Fury Over PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ As U.S Texas, Florida Lead] Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: September 19, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Don Ritter -- Post-Gazette: Canadian Nuclear Fuel Firm Buying Into Westinghouse Electric Co. Nuclear Power] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Mawson Infrastructure Group To Sell Georgia Bitcoin Mining Facility And Focus On Beaver County Bitcoin Facility -- Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Allowance Auction On Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Wall Street, Europe Standing In The Way American Rescue Plan Funding -- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested. What’s Your Community Doing?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2022

Wolf To Unleash PA’s Immense Natural Gas Reserves -- PG: Overnight Gasoline Spike Pushes Prices In Pittsburgh Closer To $4 -- AP: Fire Out At Ukraine’s Key Nuclear Power Plant Amid Russian Attacks American Rescue Plan Funding -- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

At least $12.5 million is to be used for methane abatement projects from plugging abandoned gas wells. -- $62.5 million for sewer and water infrastructure and stormwater mitigation, including riparian planting for carbon dioxide reduction, stream buffering and streambank restoration. -- $62.5 percent to the Energy Communities Trust Fund; -- 12.5

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2021

Seth Grove (R-York), Majority Chair of the House State Government Committee that held 10 hearings on the 2020 election, said House Republicans “.will Seth Grove (R-York), Majority Chair of the House State Government Committee that held 10 hearings on the 2020 election, had a quick answer-- “I didn’t hold 10 hearings to only do two things.

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