PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

Leubke will explain the basics of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and how both point-source CCS and direct air capture (DAC) can help the U.S. reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) atmospheric levels.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 16, 2023

Geoffrey Pyatt, assistant secretary for energy resources at the U.S. Department of State and strong advocate for the importance of clean energy cooperation at the local, state, federal and global levels, is also touring the new facility later that day. Click Here for a video tour of the project while it was under construction.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2023

Proponents of these centers tout them as clean energy hydrogen hubs, but this is misleading. If renewable energy were used, it would produce green hydrogen, which would be a clean energy source. Related Articles: -- Guest Essay: ‘Clean’ Hydrogen Smoke And Mirrors - By Karen Elias, Lock Haven.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

By Nikki Buffa , Joshua Bledsoe , Jennifer Roy , Michael Dreibelbis , Brian McCall , Austin Wruble , and Sam Wong Louisiana has become the third state in the United States to receive primacy from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), allowing it to assume permitting authority for carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects. 4, 2024). [5]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

B is for Beyond Petroleum In the 1990s, BP famously rebranded itself as “ Beyond Petroleum ,” then backpedaled from its plans to invest in renewable energy. It’s déjà vu all over again in 2023, with BP rolling back its climate pledges after record-breaking 2022 profits since Russia’s unjust war on Ukraine.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

That requires bringing global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050. To meet that goal, the International Energy Agency’s Net Zero Roadmap released in 2021 says no new oil and gas supply projects can come online. That $2 billion per year in low-carbon spending is looking smaller all the time.

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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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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 29, 2023

This new law, approved by Governor Gavin Newsom on October 7, 2023, applies to companies that operate in California or make the relevant claims in California, potentially making its application incredibly broad and wide, applying to California businesses and businesses organized outside of the state and there is no minimum activity threshold.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2022

Comitta To Introduce Bill Investing RGGI Proceeds In Helping Communities & Workers In Clean Energy Transition, Environmental Justice Areas, Promote Energy Efficiency -- New Poll: 65% Of PA Voters Want To Help Communities Affected By Transition To Clean Energy; 59% Would Vote For Candidates Supporting Reductions In Carbon Emissions -- Sen.

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Cresforum

JANUARY 16, 2024

Introduction One of the main messages coming out of the recent COP28 meetings in the UAE concerns the role that nuclear power can play in the future of clean energy development around the world. The hope is that this encourages international financial institutions to include nuclear energy in loans for energy projects.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The court found that complainants’ fundamental rights were not violated preemptively because the federal legislator, not the state legislatures, are subject to a carbon dioxide emissions budget. In Mexico, challenges to the government’s backsliding on incentives to renewable energy have failed to advance. In Smith v.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2023

Visit the Better Path Coalition and the PA Climate Convergent Network websites for more information on upcoming events and programs.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Getting more zero- and low-emission vehicles on the road in Pennsylvania helps reduce harmful air pollutants, including nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, and volatile organic compounds. It also helps lower the level of carbon dioxide, helping to address climate change.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Covered Entities : The Program regulates manufacturers, electricity importers, suppliers of natural gas, gasoline and other fuels, and CO2 suppliers that emit more than 25,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO2e) annually.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 9, 2023

8, 2023, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) issued a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for approximately $6 billion to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions in energy-intensive industrial subsectors through transformational, commercial-scale demonstration projects.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2023

As of June 20, 2023, the amount of CO2 [carbon dioxide] in the atmosphere has now risen to 421 parts per million, way past the level of 350 ppm considered safe. The prediction is that more of these unnerving scenarios are certain to happen, and that they will occur more frequently. And it’s still rising. Want to take action?

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 1, 2023

Gas is made mostly of methane – a climate-damaging fossil fuel that is over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide. According to the International Energy Agency , heat pump sales growth nearly doubled in Europe in 2022, largely driven by rising gas prices. Clair, and King.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

Signs Off On Solar Energy Facility -- USDA Funds 31 Local Projects Totaling $5.69 Signs Off On Solar Energy Facility -- USDA Funds 31 Local Projects Totaling $5.69

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

New UCS study shows how we can accelerate US clean energy ambition An interdisciplinary team of UCS experts set out to explore how the US can meet its goals to cut heat-trapping emissions 50%-52% below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieve net zero emissions no later than 2050.

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A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2023

A woman pours water over her head to cool off during soaring temperatures in Dhaka, Bangladesh on 11 April 2023. I was a member of the team that wrote the latest climate report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC ) in March 2023, which was endorsed by 195 governments including India.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The number of supporters on this letter demonstrates the strength and breadth of public support for eschewing the Commonwealth's dependence on fossil fuels and for prioritizing an equitable transition to an economy fueled by clean energy and energy efficiency innovation. Resource Link: -- DCED: Gov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

Spring is a time of new beginnings, and this spring scientists are calling for financial institutions to start doing their part to limit the worst impacts of climate change and hasten a just, equitable transition to clean energy. degrees Celsius (2.7 trillion in the seven years since the adoption of the Paris climate agreement.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

That’s more than double the current record and represents more than half of all new US capacity, according to recent Energy Information Administration EIA) data. EIA also projects US battery storage capacity to more than double in 2023. Rooftop solar deployment, meanwhile, doesn’t require any land. times current levels by 2035.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Worse than that, it might end up misdirecting the world’s clean energy efforts into dirtier than appreciated energy technologies because of the country’s ongoing dependence on coal-fired energy. The scale of the IPCC’s undercount shocks once applied to the EU’s “clean” energy plans.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2023

In 1970, electrochemist (and purported alchemist ) John Bockris predicted a global shift to the hydrogen economy , a phrase that describes widespread adoption of hydrogen to facilitate a shift to a low-carbon society. kg of carbon dioxide emissions. kg of carbon dioxide emissions per kilowatt-hour of energy produced.

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Introduction Hydrogen has been dubbed the “Swiss army knife” of clean energy, given its potential to become a tool to cut emissions in key sectors, as well as to assert U.S. global energy leadership and increase our nation’s competitive edge. On Friday December 22, 2023, the U.S. According to the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Built on 68 acres on the border of Findlay Township (Allegheny County) and Independence Township (Beaver County), the Gaucho Solar project is expected to be online in 2023 and will be one of the largest solar projects in Western Pennsylvania once operational, with about 55,000 solar panels generating electricity.

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Law and Environment

MAY 11, 2023

The fact sheet provides an endorsement of the Building American Energy Security Act of 2023, establishes several major objectives for permitting reform, provides several recommendations to streamline federal permitting processes, and urges Congress to include the objectives and recommendations as part of bipartisan permitting reform legislation.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

January 22, 2023. Utilities Commission (NCUC) to “take all reasonable steps” to achieve a 70% reduction in carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) emissions from electric generating units (EGUs) by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality for the utility generation system by 2050. A 2021 North Carolina law requires the N.C.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 11, 2021

This framework includes a multi-jurisdictional cap-and-invest program, under which certain fuel suppliers will be required to acquire compliance instruments called “allowances” to cover carbon dioxide emissions from specified fuels (i.e., fossil-based gasoline and diesel). Environmental Justice and Equity Concerns.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

In addition to the consumer impacts, methane is 86 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period, so any leakage from these operations would also be particularly dangerous for our climate. Bitcoin mining does not help clean energy.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

In addition to the consumer impacts, methane is 86 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period, so any leakage from these operations would also be particularly dangerous for our climate. Bitcoin mining does not help clean energy.

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Legal Planet

MAY 13, 2024

Biden signs Inflation Reduction Act , which provides at least $369 billion in funding for clean energy and climate, leading many to hail the law as “the largest investment in clean energy and climate action ever.” April 21, 2023. 2, 2023. March 31, 2023. Energy Sector Emissions May 11, 2021.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 5, 2023

Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced a $3.5 The DAC Hubs program is one of four new programs announced by the Biden-Harris administration aimed at building “a commercially viable, just, and responsible carbon dioxide removal industry,” in the U.S. with funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). Next Steps.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2024

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2023

Million Gallons/Day [PaEN] -- WHYY: Connecting With The Schuylkill River, A Walk To Celebrate World Water Day -- PUC Recognizes 2023 Fix A Leak Week -- Sustainable Community Network Of SW PA Webinar March 24 - Policy Connection - Environmental Justice. Posted: March 19, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2023

Noon -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Major Pittsburgh Region Projects Move Forward In 2023: Carrie Furnace, Hazelwood Green [Brownfield Redevelopment] -- Keep PA Beautiful: Sen.

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