Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Senate Bill (SB) 271 requires utilities to achieve, at a minimum, renewable energy-generated electricity sales of 50 percent in 2030 and 60 percent in 2035. percent of electricity sales, but at a lower level than the 2 percent clean energy advocates proposed and that utilities have previously achieved. What’s In the Bills?

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 19, 2023

TUESDAY 10:00: House Transportation Committee meets to consider House Bill 1338 (Neilson-D- Philadelphia) authorizing Philadelphia to adopt a local ordinance regulating illegal use of off-road vehicles like dirt bikes and ATVs on city streets. Click Here to watch live. Room 140 Main Capitol. Click Here to watch live.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Ridge Addresses Erie Crowd About Nation’s 250th Birthday Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Threads PA Environment Digest Feed Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: September 16, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

The CI is determined through a lifecycle analysis of the global warming pollution associated with the production and use of gasoline, diesel, biofuels, electricity, or other alternative fuels. The lower stringency results in lower costs and reduced economic impact of the regulation. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2023

Commissioner Barrow Background Barrow has been involved in the utility regulation industry for more than two decades. Gardner, where she provided legal advice regarding utility regulation, reviewed draft public utility legislation, and authored statements of policy for the Commissioner.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

Capitol 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: April 14, 2023] PA Environment Digest Million To Delaware Estuary Program, Including Support For Mussel Hatchery At Philadelphia's Bartram's Gardens [PaEN] -- Dept.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

TODAY 10:00: House Transportation Committee meets to consider House Bill 1338 (Neilson-D- Philadelphia) authorizing Philadelphia to adopt a local ordinance regulating illegal use of off-road vehicles like dirt bikes and ATVs on city streets. Click Here to watch live. Room 140 Main Capitol. Click Here to watch live.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2023

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Rhodium reported that “the most rapid investment growth has been in clean technology manufacturing—with annual investment growing 125% year-on-year to $39 billion—and particularly within electric vehicle and solar manufacturing. They also show that cuts in electricity emissions lead the way. climate pledge.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 13, 2023

Wolf Tops State Record Of Pardons Granted 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: January 13, 2023] PA Environment Digest 17 [PaEN] -- DCNR Announces $19.4 17 [PaEN] -- DCNR Announces $19.4

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In August, French regulators suspended thermal pollution standards for rivers, allowing nuclear plants to overheat streams. The same month Chinese authorities closed Toyota and Foxconn factories in Sichuan province, a leading manufacturing center, after a record-breaking heat wave curtailed hydropower output and strained the electric grid.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

European Commission , the City of Paris, the City of Brussels, and the Municipality of Madrid brought an action against the European Commission (EC) challenging a regulation establishing a new procedure for testing the real driving emissions of certain motor vehicles. In Greenpeace v.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 15, 2023

Is it simply a lack of political will? ( *side eye fossil fuel industry) You don’t have to look any further than the oil and gas lobbyists in government offices every day of the month crying wolf about how unfair and destabilizing climate policy would be to their profits. What were they able to achieve?

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 2, 2022

Other companies and sectors–electricity, heavy industry, and light manufacturing in particular–have reduced their carbon emissions as those from oil and gas companies have gone up and up and up. Finally making oil and gas executives accountable by forcing them to reduce their companies’ pollution would be the fair thing to do.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

-- UnionProgress.com: PA Turnpike Adding Solar Panels To New Stanton Office As Part Of Sustainability Effort -- Utility Dive: State Regulators - Including PA - Urge PJM To Speed Interconnection For New Generation In Face Of Power Plant Retirements -- Wilkes-Barre Times: EPA Announces Nationwide Funding For Electric School Buses In Nanticoke -- PA Resources (..)

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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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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

VJEL Newsroom Announcing VJEL's 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List By VJEL December 18, 2023 The Vermont Journal of Environmental Law (VJEL) is pleased to announce the publication of its 2024 Top 10 Environmental Watch List. Because of this backlog, FERC promulgated Order 2023 – RM22-14-000 to speed up this process.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Proposed regulations clarify FEOC restrictions and clean vehicle tax credit compliance for manufacturers aiming to produce eligible EVs. On December 4, 2023, the US Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service published proposed regulations under Section 30D of the IRC (the Proposed Regulations). [2]

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 535 ) -- Martins Creek LLC - Electric Peaking Plant: DEP revoked State-Only Air Quality Permits for this facility in City of Harrisburg, Dauphin County. ( You’ll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations. PaEN] [Posted: January 20, 2023] PA Environment Digest Susquehanna County. (

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

The Securities and Exchange Commission regulations on climate disclosure, first proposed in March 2022 and likely to be issued in final form in October 2023, [1] have drawn considerable controversy and face an uncertain fate in the inevitable litigation. [2] This piece previously appeared in the CLS Blue Sky Blog.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Interior’s authority to regulate offshore wind comes from the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which amended the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to expressly authorize Interior to issue leases for renewable energy projects in federal waters. It is anticipated that BOEM will seek to hold the first GOM wind lease sale in 2023. 585.106.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

In 2022, tech firms’ payrolls fell by 164,000 employees, with a further 166,000 jobs cut in the first quarter of 2023, according to tracking platform Layoffs.fyi. The market heats up: ESG and green finance take off As policy and regulation improved, the green job market heated up and ESG became a hot topic within businesses.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

saying there was no basis for challenging a August 16, 2023 DEP administrative order. Great Cacapon Enterprises)-- but the application was withdrawn in 2023. Medina was issued at least 10 NOVs for well abandonment in 2023. The second appeal remains active [ Docket# 2023075 ]. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 10, 2023

This post includes preliminary comments on the Maryland Building Energy Performance Standards regulations proposed to be published on December 15, 2023. That the schedule for these regulations, prescribed in statute, has been missed (. The regulation of Energy Use Intensity is not authorized by the statute.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2023

The SEC has now signaled that it will finalize the proposed climate disclosure rules in October 2023. In March 2022, the SEC proposed amendments to Regulations S-X that would both enhance and standardize public companies’ climate-related disclosures (“Climate-Related Disclosures”). Background. Concerns about the SEC’s focus on ESG.

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Law and Environment

MAY 12, 2023

After weeks of hints and leaks, yesterday morning (May 11, 2023), EPA proposed a new rule regulating emissions from power plants. Yet because of the politics of climate change, the rule will almost certainly be subject to a similar challenge. Emphasis added.] This language, particularly the bolded text, is important.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2023

Other States/National/International -- EPA Releases Report Showing Health Impacts Of Climate Change On Children In US -- EPA Announces $400 Million Grant Program To Fund Clean School Buses PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Kate Harper Co-Chair -- Scranton Times: 55 Years Ago - PPL Shows Off New Electric Vehicles In Allentown -- Scranton Times Editorial: Scranton School District Must Accommodate Electric Buses -- National Assn. 21 [PaEN] -- Energy Future PA Names Former Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 20, 2023

House holds Regular Session April 24, 25, 26 -- Committee Schedule Senate holds Regular Session April 24, 25, 26 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY 10:00: Independent Regulatory Review Commission meets to consider Final Emergency Regulation Setting VOC/Methane Limits On Conventional Oil and Gas Operations. Read more here.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Uber and Lyft agree to pay $328m to New York drivers BBC PaulaR Mon, 11/06/2023 - 13:50 Friday, November 3, 2023 Read more Sam Gruet Ride-sharing firms Uber and Lyft will pay $328m (£269m) to settle claims they "systematically cheated" New York drivers out of pay and benefits.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 11, 2024

Brazil: Uber Driver Accused of Anti-Candomblé Religious Intolerance Bitter Winter PaulaR Thu, 01/11/2024 - 14:09 Saturday, May 13, 2023 Read more Massimo Introvigne He refused to take to a terreiro a family dressed according to their religion, and is now under police investigation.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

Unit 1 at Three Mile Island continued to operate until it was shut down in September, 2019 as a result of competition with natural gas-fired electric generation. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the federal regulator of the facility, had not yet arrived on site and even after they arrived, little new information was forthcoming.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 14, 2023

UAW files unfair labor practice charges against Hyundai, Honda and Volkswagen CBC News PaulaR Thu, 12/14/2023 - 13:38 Monday, December 11, 2023 Read more Michael Wayland The UAW has filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board against Honda, Hyundai and Volkswagen, the union said.

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Corp Watch

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Inspired by Strike Wins, 1,000 Volkswagen Workers Sign Union Cards Labor Notes PaulaR Tue, 12/12/2023 - 17:01 Thursday, December 7, 2023 Read more Luis Feliz Leon Today workers at Volkswagen's Chattanooga, Tennessee, assembly plant announced their third bid to unionize plant-wide with the Auto Workers (UAW).

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Brazil: Volkswagen will pay more than R$10 million in labor lawsuits Poder360 PaulaR Thu, 01/04/2024 - 16:37 Tuesday, August 22, 2023 Read more Value corresponds to 34 agreements approved by the Superior Labor Court; another 28 cases are under negotiation Disclosure/Volkswagen POWER360 August 22, 2023 (Tuesday) - 1:30 pm Volkswagen must pay R$10.5

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

VW owners affected by "Dieselgate" in Switzerland will not receive compensation Swiss Info PaulaR Thu, 01/04/2024 - 16:38 Sunday, September 10, 2023 Read more Swiss VW drivers come away empty-handed in the so-called Dieselgate scandal. And, what other unions can learn from how badly that fight went for labor.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Germany: Climate protest at VW: activists try to stop production RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland | August 14, 2023 On Monday, climate activists gained access to the VW plant in Wolfsburg as part of a group of visitors. And, what other unions can learn from how badly that fight went for labor.

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