PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Key problems include: -- Permitting Inconsistencies: The PA Bulletin does not reflect that the Erosion and Sedimentation Control Plan (ESCP) application was revised and resubmitted in March 2024. The Pennsylvania Climate Change Act of 2008 acknowledges that fossil fuel production significantly contributes to climate deterioration.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 17, 2024

The first quarter of 2024 was a busy one for the oil and gas industry! When Big Oil lobbies, it’s important to remember that these are for-profit companies whose core interest is extracting, producing and selling fossil fuels to make lots of money for their shareholders. Visit this page.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Under the LCFS each fuel pathway gets a unique carbon intensity (CI) based on a lifecycle analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production and use of the fuel. This approach holds fuel producers accountable for reducing fossil fuel use and other global warming pollution in their supply chains.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

Today, hydrogen is overwhelmingly produced through a heavily polluting fossil fuel-based process. Finding careful resolution to these issues will be a key point of focus over the comment period for these regulations, which is set to run through February 26 th , 2024. It is a climate problem, not a climate solution.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 2, 2024

Critically, Canada must quickly reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, given that producing and burning oil and gas accounts for over 80 per cent of Canada’s total emissions. Alberta continues to generate more greenhouse gas pollution than any other province in the country, accounting for nearly 40 per cent of Canada’s emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Working Group 3: Mitigation of Climate Change Evaluates pathways for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sustainable development strategies, and the role of finance, technology, and policy in achieving net-zero emissions. Fossil fuels, which are central to mitigation discussions but were largely avoided, reflecting ongoing political tensions.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

Methane is responsible for 30 per cent of the current global temperature rise to date globally, and over 14 per cent of Canada’s annual greenhouse gas emissions. “A To advance a climate aligned financial system, fossil fuels like ‘natural’ gas should not be included under a Canadian sustainable finance label.”

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

filed in 2024 and 2018, respectively. Background Japan has heavily relied on the use of fossil fuels for its power generation. According to the Japanese Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, the countrys fossil fuel dependency was 83.2% Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The 49ers called it “ a meaningful part of our commitment to more sustainable practices” and praised United for its SAF program, which both companies said can reduce greenhouse gas emissions “by up to 85% on a lifecycle basis.” Indeed, NRG Energy operates several oil, coal, and fossil gas facilities from Delaware to California ( map here ).

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

Planning law has proven to be a useful tool for climate activists seeking to block or challenge new fossil fuel developments. On August 9, 2024, An Bord Pleanla (the national planning authority) rejected permission for the wind farm, citing visual impacts and local development plan designations for wind turbines.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2024

There’s a direct line of culpability between fossil fuel corporations and climate change – it’s why so many oil and gas CEOs have topped our list of Climate Villains. But they aren’t the only powerful players who shoulder responsibility for keeping us hooked on fossil fuels, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 1, 2023

Last week the Government of Canada delivered on a longstanding commitment to end fossil fuel subsidies, effective immediately. These new rules are a big deal Fossil fuels are causing the climate crisis. Ending fossil fuel subsidies is a really big deal. That’s too late.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Switching from fossil fuels like gasoline to increasingly clean electricity sources is vital for hitting climate and air pollution goals. Gasoline use per person has also fallen, from 445 gallons per year per person in 2005, to under 350 gallons per year per person in 2024. billion gallons were sold in the state.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 19, 2024

In 2024, Chinas oil demand is expected to reach 756 million tonnes, marking a modest 0.04% year-on-year increase. The forecast also predicts that Chinas overall fossil fuel demand will peak in 2028, coinciding with the peak in energy-related carbon emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 16, 2024

Instead, Minister Freeland caved to fossil fuel lobbying, putting the interests of wealthy fossil fuel executives ahead of the rest of us.” A windfall tax on their profits could have been used to support Canadians and fund climate solutions across the country.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2024

From March 25 to March 27, 2024, the U.S. Presented via telephone during the March 27, 2024, public hearing for Docket ID No. Upstream methane emissions are a potentially substantial share of the overall emissions rate of fossil fuel-based hydrogen production facilities. REG-117631-23.

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Law and Environment

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The report seeks to establish a framework for a long-term reduction in emissions from heating fuels, to align with the Commonwealth’s emissions reduction target of net zero by 2050 and the 2050 Decarbonization Roadmap.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Unfortunately, decades of government subsidies to the fossil fuel industry have hindered efforts to reuse and recycle. By 2030, greenhouse gas emissions from plastic production are expected to reach 1.3 By 2030, greenhouse gas emissions from plastic production are expected to reach 1.3 billion tons. billion tons.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 18, 2025

The burning of fossil fuels and other human activities are continuing to cause rapid temperature rise. 2024 was the hottest year on record , and the planets 10 warmest years since 1850 have occurred in the past decade.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 5, 2023

California takes a world-leading stance on corporate accountability Just before Governor Newsom and Attorney General Bonta announced California’s historic lawsuit against major fossil fuel producers in September, the California legislature passed two bills that will further help the state hold large corporations accountable.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Ebel, the CEO of Enbridge, to our list of infamous Climate Villains – powerful people with fossil fuel interests holding Canada back from effective climate action. The executives behind the fossil fuel industry often avoid public scrutiny, which is why we’re shining the spotlight on their activities.

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Law and Environment

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Analyze the best use of ratepayer funds currently allocated to Mass Save and accelerate work to establish a decarbonization clearinghouse by 2024 to ensure timely achievement of building emissions reduction mandates. Publish an annual report card on the Commonwealth’s progress to achieve mandated greenhouse gas emission reductions.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 26, 2024

Carbon dioxide is the primary greenhouse gas emitted through burning fossil fuels and traps heat in the atmosphere. NewsClip: -- The Daily Item Guest Essay: Carbon Capture - The Great Illusion - Karen Feridun, Better Path Coalition [Posted: August 26, 2024] PA Environment Digest

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Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 2, 2024

Time flies faster than ever for me but I wouldn’t miss the occasion to wish you all a happy and sustainable 2024. We are still collectively not decreasing our greenhouse gases emissions but we are getting closer. So close that analysts say that 2024 may mark the beginning of the end for fossil fuels.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 7, 2024

The oil and gas sector is Canada’s largest and fastest-growing source of greenhouse gas emissions, contributing nearly one-third of Canada’s total emissions. Backgrounder information Of every dollar of inflation in recent years in Canada, 25 cents have gone to oil, gas, and mining extraction profits.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2024

According to the 2023 Pennsylvania Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report , the industrial sector is the highest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting sector, accounting for just over 30 percent of Pennsylvania’s total GHG emissions. Information must be received no later than Monday, January 22, 2024.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2024

However, it is a much-awaited step in the right direction as the federal government moves to cap greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from the highest polluting industry in Canada. The next step is the release of the draft regulations, by April 2024. The framework is by no means perfect.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 19, 2024

Recently, CEOs from five of the biggest oil and gas companies in Canada were called to parliament to testify about their failure to bring greenhouse gas emissions down, despite billions of dollars in annual profits. Jun 6, 2024. We need to stop big oil and force the fossil fuel sector to end its reckless polluting.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 6, 2023

WMO Secretary-General Peterri Taalas laid the facts bare, stating: “Greenhouse gas levels are record high. Scientists worry that 2024 could be even worse, as the El Nino climate impact is likely to peak this winter and drive temperatures even higher. Global temperatures are record-high. Sea level rise is record high.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Notably, in the same proposal, the Commission has also included screening criteria for gaseous fossil fuels. The Regulation sets a time limit on the inclusion of nuclear energy but not on fossil fuels and grants the Commission special powers to rule on nuclear taxonomy compliance.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 5, 2022

What if scientists could turn back the clock on greenhouse-gas emissions – just a little? A new process could lock carbon dioxide below the ocean floor, allowing valuable time to reduce the atmospheric greenhouse gases driving climate change. Negative-emissions technology is not an excuse to prolong the use of fossil fuels.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 4, 2023

NZECA is an alliance of international public finance institutions committed to reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. degrees and publishing greenhouse gas emissions data annually. In July 2023, the federal government also introduced new rules ending inefficient fossil fuel subsidies.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 7, 2023

We urge the federal government to move swiftly and release the draft regulations in the coming months, at the latest by February 2024. The oil and gas industry, Canada’s largest and fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions, has repeatedly shown its unwillingness to voluntarily reduce its own emissions.

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Manning Law

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Although criticized for half measures and loopholes, blamed in part on the influence of petrostates, the agreement reached at the conference should be welcomed as a significant step in the move away from fossil fuels. The final versions of the reporting tools should be made available to Parties by June 2024. C within reach.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal: Volunteer Laurie Barr Leads Hunt For Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In Pennsylvania - By Ad Crable [PaEN] -- FracTracker Alliance Announces 2024 Community Sentinel Award Recipients To Be Honored Dec. Of Environmental Professionals Host Dec.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2021

It followed Musk’s announcement earlier this month that his company would no longer accept Bitcoin in payment for its electric cars, due to the fossil fuels needed to create the digital currency. These computers use a lot of electricity , which is often generated by fossil fuels. Photo credit: AP.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The roadmap describes how to transition away from fossil fuel generation, fast-track electrification, increase energy efficiency, and leverage new technologies, including material efficiency, fuel switching, and carbon capture.

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