Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

Together, these standards will accelerate California’s necessary transition to a cleaner and more efficient freight system, increasing the estimated number of electric trucks on our roads and highways by 70 percent in 2050. A full transition to electric drayage truck operations in 2035. pollution from vehicles.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2024

Save Carbon County hopes to see a decrease in the pollution of our air and water produced by Panther Creek Power located in Nesquehoning. Stronghold Digital owns two “bitcoin mining operations” in Pennsylvania and these facilities use enough electricity to power approximately 1.15 million homes per year.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2024

Email: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com [Posted: April 29, 2024] PA Environment Digest PA Environment Daily Blog : Update on PA environmental issues. Click Here for a Calendar of Upcoming Events. Click Here to search back issues of the Digest.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 1, 2022

And Option 2 allows such dirty diesels in perpetuity—in fact, their share could even grow over time with the sale of electric trucks, an absolutely counter-productive outcome. In contrast to what we and others have been advocating for , EPA did not propose to set sales targets for electric trucks.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Coming off its recent decision requiring all new passenger cars and trucks be zero-emission by 2035, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) is developing a first-of-its-kind regulation to reduce emissions from heavy-duty vehicles like delivery vans, big rigs, box trucks, and buses. Drayage Fleets. Volvo Trucks USA.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This regulation, called the Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule, has the potential to deliver significant reductions in both air and climate-warming pollutants by requiring the state’s largest and most profitable commercial and public fleets to transition to electric trucks, vans, and buses over time, beginning in 2024.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Comments due March 8. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the February 3 PA Bulletin inviting comments on proposed 2024 Ozone Season Nitrogen Oxide Emission Limits for Nonelectric Generating Units. Comments due 25 days after publication. 12th Floor Conference Room, Rachel Carson Building. Deadline March 29.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The solar energy facilities are proposed to provide electric to Transco natural gas compressor stations in Columbia (Station 610) and Wyoming (Station 605) counties. South Oakford Compressor Station: DEP issued an Air Quality Plan Approval for certain sources of air pollution at the facility located in Hempfield Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 15, 2024

Email: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com [Posted: April 15, 2024] PA Environment Digest Million Civil Penalty To Equitrans For Violations Related To The Uncontrolled Venting Of 1.1 Million Civil Penalty To Equitrans For Violations Related To The Uncontrolled Venting Of 1.1 PA Environment Daily Blog : Update on PA environmental issues.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 is still driving up Ohioans’ electricity bills—and undermining the state’s prospects for a clean energy future. 6 went into effect, Ohio ratepayers have paid more than $182 million to subsidize two 67-year-old coal-fired power plants operated by the Ohio Valley Electric Corporation (OVEC). Despite the partial repeal, H.B. Since H.B.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 16, 2024

A recent report found that one in five premature deaths is caused by air pollution from burning fossil fuels. Kicking fossil fuels out of our homes and our modes of transportation – with electric heat pumps, electric vehicles and electric buses – is key to addressing the cost of living crisis.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

If enacted, Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council would not only surpass former Mayor De Blasio’s goal of an all-electric city fleet by 2040, but also make New York City the first major jurisdiction in the U.S. New York City lags behind other major cities in both electric vehicle (EV) uptake and charging infrastructure deployment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 29, 2023

These fees generate more than $100 million per year to fund zero emission vehicle (ZEV) incentives, electric vehicle chargers and hydrogen fueling stations through the Air Quality Improvement Program (AQIP), Clean Transportation Program (CTP), and Enhanced Fleet Modernization Program (EFMP).

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 1620 ) 2024 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups -- So far in 2024, DEP received or acted on 81 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to oil and gas facility site cleanups. Greene County. ( Lycoming County. ( Bradford County. ( Delaware County. ( Greene County. ( Greene County. ( Greene County. (

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2024

DEP said it has the statutory authority in the 1995 law that created the agency, the state Air Pollution Control Act and other laws to establish grant and funding programs to implement the Plan. 1 Price Changes: Natural Gas (+149% to -64.2%); Electric (+18.8% Pennsylvania’s Climate Action Priority Plan is available online.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

“So, under the IIJA, when it's all said and done, DEP will receive upwards and probably more than $400 million to plug orphan and abandoned wells that are currently leaking methane and hazardous air pollutants into the implement. So far in 2024, we're up to 34 wells plugged, 24 of those from the IIJA funding.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

On February 12, 2024 , DEP did an administrative review to classify the McCracken 1 conventional well in Scott Township, Lawrence County operated by Elizabeth Steen as an abandoned well. DEP’s inspection reports note violations were first issued for this offense on January 31, 2024 and the violations were refreshed. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

Of Environmental Educators Announce 2024 Award Winners [PaEN] -- LancasterOnline: Outside Education, Experiences: Scovens Sisters Spark Students’ Stewardship Of Nature -- LancasterOnline: Mira Lloyd Dock Award Recognizes Marlisa Yoder-Bontrager For Tree Planting Efforts -- Energy Assn.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

For those following offshore wind development in California, January 19, 2024, marked an important moment—the release of the long-awaited Draft Assembly Bill 525 Offshore Wind Strategic Plan from the California Energy Commission (CEC). Public comment on the draft Plan is due March 22, 2024.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 1006 ) 2024 Act 2 Oil & Gas Facility Pollution Cleanups -- So far in 2024, DEP received or acted on 54 Act 2 Land Recycling notices related to 54 oil and gas facility site cleanups. Tioga County. ( PA Bulletin, page 1004 ) -- Sunoco Inc., Butler County. ( Northampton County. ( Tioga County. (

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Billion Winter Storm Elliot Settlement With Non-Performing Natural Gas, Other Electricity Generators PUC Update On Investigation Of Dec. 8 Hearing On RACT 3 Air Quality Permit For Magnesita Refractories Facility In York County Dept. 8 Hearing On RACT 3 Air Quality Permit For Magnesita Refractories Facility In York County Dept.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 29, 2024

28 Hearing On Air Quality Permit For Keystone Station Coal-Fired Power Plant In Armstrong County DEP Will Hold A Hearing Feb. 28, If Requested, On Air Quality Permit For Conemaugh Coal-Fired Power Plant In Indiana County DEP, If Requested, Will Hold Feb. Email: PaEnviroDigest@gmail.com [Posted: January 29, 2024] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Click Here To View Or Print The Entire November 20 PA Environment Digest 75 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA Weekly List Of PA Environment & Energy Articles & NewsClips By Topic Shapiro Administration Now Accepting Nominations For 2024 Governor's Award For Environmental Excellence State Dept.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 19, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 267 ) Air Quality Permit -- CNX Gas Company, LLC - MOR-10 Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP issued an Air Quality permit for the operation of 10 shale gas wells and other sources of air pollution at the well pad located in Morris Twp., Susquehanna County. ( Washington County. ( Schuylkill County. ( 30 to Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2023

Steel Reaches Tentative Settlement Over Air Pollution Following 2018 Fire At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Plant [No Specifics Yet] -- WHYY: Philly Officials Say Water Is Safe After Bucks County Chemical Spill, How Do We Know That? -- NextPittsburgh: DEP Awards $3.7

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Shell Polymers Monaca Is Full Of Dangerous Contradictions By Andie Grey, Center Township, February 11, 2024-- Last week, Shell Polymers Monaca hosted a “virtual community meeting” for the first time in nearly a year. In that regard, we hope that this is not the first but the last.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

For Natural Gas Explosion Destroying Home/Business In Greene County Clean Air Council, FracTracker Alliance Sept. Of Environmental Educators Now Accepting Nominations For 2024 Meaningful Watershed Education, PA Environmental Educator Awards Penn State Extension: In-Person, Virtual Creating A Garden That Welcomes Wildlife Workshop Nov.

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Renewable + Law

DECEMBER 22, 2020

As described in MPCA’s Notice of Intent to Adopt Rules with a Hearing , the LEV standard would require automobile manufacturers to deliver for sale in Minnesota only those vehicles that can meet California’s more stringent greenhouse gas and other air pollutant emissions standards.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The first was to reward the deployment of electric trucks—given that EPA has pushed its consideration of EVs in the greenhouse gas rule to next spring , this is not likely to be included in the final rule. EPA has proposed three different early credit programs.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2023

Renewable Electricity Surpassed Coal In 2022 Visit the PA Parks & Forests Foundation’s Events webpage and DCNR’s Calendar of Events for activities happening near you.

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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. using 1,175 cameras to monitor which cars enter and exit the zone. Disadvantages: 4.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2022

The past few years have been ripe with exciting news of new electric vehicle models hitting the market. Recently, the anticipated release of electric light-duty trucks has dominated consumers’ attention. Nearly everything from delivery vans to semis can be electric now. Electric trucks deliver wide loads of benefits.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Shapiro’s FY 2024-25 budget request-- Thank you, Chairman Harris, Chairman Grove, and members of the House Appropriation Committee, for inviting us here today. Thank you for the opportunity to present Governor Shapiro’s proposed Fiscal Year 2024- 2025 budget for DEP. As of the fourth quarter of 2023, DEP received over $1.3

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

We also see a gender gap in the adoption of electric vehicles. For example, research in 2000 on risk perception by UCS Vice President of Science & Innovation Melissa Finucane has shown that white men in the US see threats from climate change to automobile accidents to air pollution as less risky than white women and women of color do.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Electric heat pumps, for example, are a cleaner and cheaper way to heat buildings than gas appliances powered with hydrogen, and electric cars are more cost-effective than cars powered by H2 fuel cells. is made from gas , a process that emits significant air pollution. Today, almost all commercial H2 in the U.S.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

The bill is sprawling, covering climate and energy topics as diverse as electric vehicles, building decarbonization, clean energy manufacturing and supply chains, agriculture, and greening the electricity system, all through a range of tax incentives and direct grants. Still, how does a local government tap in? Second, $11.97

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

But what you probably haven’t heard is that our grid is getting dirtier again, with fossil fuels increasing in our electricity supply from burning natural gas. That means carbon emissions from electricity in Ontario will be rising back up again after years of decline. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 . Source: IESO [link].

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