Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 14, 2022

In a twisted parody of the band that played on to calm the doomed passengers of the Titanic, a conservative chorus—horribly off key to science, but music to the ears of its fossil fuel patrons—continues to belt out disinformation in full throat to drown out the urgency of climate catastrophe. Fossil foolish.

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MGKF Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

2023 WL 7171547, at *1 (Pa. The holding halts former Governor Tom Wolf’s efforts to make Pennsylvania the first major fossil-fuel producing state to implement a price on carbon emissions. Bowfin KeyCon Holdings, LLC vs. Pa. Dep’t of Env’t Prot. Env’t Quality Bd.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In 2023, Canada experienced its worst ever wildfire season , with 167,000 people forced to evacuate their homes under 211 federal evacuation orders. While the federal and some provincial governments made key announcements in 2023 that will support climate action and improve the cost of living, they have more to do.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 22, 2024

The IRA also includes some less than ideal fossil-fuel supporting incentives that will need continued monitoring. EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grants : This $5 billion program administered by the EPA aims to reduce climate warming emissions and other air pollution. It is made up of $4.75

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

In late April, California air regulators are poised to pass one of the most meaningful regulations to reduce pollution from commercial trucks, vans, and buses. The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule, which I’ve blogged about in detail before, will phase out fossil-fueled trucks over the next several decades.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Oil and natural gas operations are the nation’s largest industrial source of methane, a climate “super pollutant” that is many times more potent than carbon dioxide and is responsible for approximately one third of the warming from greenhouse gases occurring today. Methane pollution, however, is a global problem.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2023

4:00 to 4:30 p.m. . -- October 16 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - October 7 to 13 - More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Spills; Venting Gas; Emergency Well Plugging [PaEN] -- Guest Essay: My Hometown Shows The Benefits Of The Fossil Fuel Industry Come At A Tremendous Cost - Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2023

Thank you for your leadership! -- Moms Clean Air Force Blog: Happy Mother’s Day To My Growing, Badass Climate Community - By Alexandra Zissu -- PA Wilds Center Announces Winners Of 2023 PA Wilds Champion Awards; Recognition Dinner July 27 [PaEN] -- Observer-Reporter: Canon-McMillian H.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And Eversource Energy’s New Hampshire utility won approval from the state Public Utilities Commission over the summer to increase electric rates by a whopping 53 percent through the end of January 2023 to account for high gas prices in New England. Methane is also a fast-acting greenhouse gas in terms of its impact on the climate.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2023

Trillion Across Global Economy, Report -- Spotlight PA: Federal Money Won’t Be Enough To Solve PA Abandoned Conventional Oil/Gas Well Problem, Current Well Owners Routinely Fail To Plug Their Wells -- PA General Energy Announced It Will Plug Proposed Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Grant Twp.,

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Legal Planet

APRIL 5, 2024

The surveys were conducted between October 2023 and February 2024, so just as this car culture war was revving up. It’s aimed at lying to Americans about the Biden administration’s efforts to clean up air pollution and tailpipe emissions from gas and diesel cars by incorrectly labeling it a “ban” on these cars.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This investment will enable us to begin transitioning our fleet from burning fossil fuels to using renewable resources to reduce our carbon footprint, which will benefit both our company and our community.” It also helps lower the level of carbon dioxide, one of the greenhouse gases heating up the climate, in the air.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Perhaps most importantly, this rule doesn’t even attempt to grapple with the question of how to eliminate emissions from trucks, focusing exclusively on fossil-fuel powered engines to the exclusion of electrification. The Agency says a rule will be proposed by March 2023 and finalized by the end of 2023. Sadly, it didn’t.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Natural Gas Output Hit Record High In 2023, Demand To Fall, First Time Demand Would Fall For 2 Years In A Row - US. Natural Gas Output Hit Record High In 2023, Demand To Fall, First Time Demand Would Fall For 2 Years In A Row - US. Generation Capacity Retirements In 2023 -- U.S. Power Generating Capacity In 2023, With 29.1

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 29, 2023

And some question if one state, California, despite its street cred as having enacted the nation’s first air pollution law in 1947, should control environmental policy in the other 49 states? At worst, critics challenge it as a frontal attack on using carbon offsets. All information documenting how.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 25, 2023

On August 24, a coalition of fifteen organizations based in Western Pennsylvania has sent a letter to the Shapiro administration denouncing the formation of a secret committee, whose members and meeting minutes are not known to the public, in an apparent attempt to scuttle Pennsylvania’s entrance into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Nitrous oxide has been called the “ forgotten greenhouse gas ” because while it is a powerful contributor to climate change, it generates far fewer headlines than carbon dioxide. But Big Ag pollutes more than water. And that pollution has compounding consequences.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

Encina claims, none of the material would be sold as diesel fuel, synthetic oil or other forms of fossil fuel. Alexis Goldsmith, of Vermont-based Beyond Plastics , said the pyrolysis process will produce greenhouse gases and emit toxic volatile organic compounds, which she claimed would end up either in the air or water.

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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 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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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

For more information contact Cathy Lodge at: clodge@environmentalintegrity.org. ] “My Administration is making real progress towards tackling a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions here in Pennsylvania, and creating thousands of good-paying, union jobs in the process,” said Gov. Read more here. Josh Shapiro. “We

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 19, 2023

More recently, a trio of studies in Pennsylvania released in August 2023 show that children living near fracking wells have much worse asthma and five to seven times the risk of lymphoma, which is a type of cancer. So these are all problems that are known to be related to exposure to toxic air pollution.

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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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Greenbuilding Law

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

By imposing a daily fee on cars built before 2006, the LEZ changes behaviors encouraging the use of newer cleaner vehicles, and reducing tailpipe global warning gases which in turn reduces broader air pollution and its associated health risks. really, why?) using 1,175 cameras to monitor which cars enter and exit the zone.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The Commonwealth should be engaged in a transition away from fossil fuels because of the need to address climate change," said Rep. 11 Workshop On Living Near Shale Gas In Westmoreland County [PaEN] [Posted: November 1, 2023] PA Environment Digest Hohenstein. "As

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Posted: April 16, 2023] PA Environment Digest Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1 Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

Envirothon Team Get Hands-On Science Lessons In Canoes -- National Energy Technology Laboratory: Winners In Western PA, West Virginia Science Bowl Competed In National Science Bowl -- PA Solar Center Honors 5 Western PA Organizations Who Have Gone Solar [PaEN] -- Williamsport Sun: Eagle On The Mend Through Ashkar Students’ Efforts -- Reading Eagle: (..)

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2012, the company became infamous again when it unsuccessfully sued Ben-Jei Tsuang, a professor at the Department of Environmental Engineering in National Chun Hsing University, who published a paper linking high cancer rates in Mailiao, Taiwan, to toxic dioxin and heavy metals air pollution from the Six Naphtha Cracking plant.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Mercenary hackers stole data that Exxon later cited in climate lawsuits -US prosecutors Yahoo News PaulaR Tue, 11/07/2023 - 17:23 Thursday, October 12, 2023 Read more Raphael Satter & Christopher Bing WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. org Summary ExxonMobil is a fossil fuel company headquartered in Irving, Texas.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Shell faces lawsuit from climate change activists over fossil fuels Reuters | April 5, 2019 Environmentalist and human rights groups said on Friday they had started a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands to force the energy firm to cut its reliance on fossil fuels.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied Natural Gas, Lubricants, Natural gas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

-- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

Muth, Environmental Advocates Join Author Justin Nobel At Capitol To Discuss Oil/Gas Industry Hazardous Waste -- Center For Coalfield Justice, Partners Host May 4 Book Signing In Washington County With Justin Nobel, Author of Petroleum 238: Big Oil's Dangerous Secret [PaEN] -- Better Path Coalition: On Demand: Brown Bag Briefing By Justin Nobel On (..)

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

As the 2018 Farm Bill is set to expire on September 30, 2023, we believe this report is timely. As Congress debates and begins to write the 2023 Farm Bill, we hope this report can be a good resource in understanding how EQIP dollars are spent, and how the program can be retooled to build resilience for farms and farmers nationwide.

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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 by June 28, 2021.

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