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Moms Clean Air Force: Pennsylvanians Call On State Leaders For Protection From Fossil Fuel And Plastic Industry Expansion

PA Environment Daily

On November 12, Moms Clean Air Force , Environmental Health Project , and Clean Air Council held a press conference at the Pennsylvania State Capitol calling on state leaders to safeguard Pennsylvanians from the impacts of a fossil fuel and plastic industry buildout. Steele, executive director of the Environmental Health Project.

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Observer-Reporter Guest Essay: Why Politicians Want You To Pay More For Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

By Patrick McDonnell, CEO of PennFuture , Former Secretary of DEP This guest essay first appeared in the Observer-Reporter on October 17, 2024 Politicians often speak out against higher taxes, grocery bills, or utility rates, promising to work hard in office to prevent you from paying more. 19, natural gas costs $2.26

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Sen. Bartolotta, Sen. Yaw Announce Bill To Withhold Gas Drilling Impact Fees To Municipalities That Set More Protective Standards On Natural Gas Development Than State Law, And While There Is a Legal Challenge To Local Restrictions

PA Environment Daily

Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) announced plans to introduce legislation to prohibit municipalities from receiving Act 13 drilling impact fees if they set more protective standards on the development of natural gas than required in state or federal law and while a challenge to local restrictions is being litigated. In May 2024, Sen.

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Drilling Into the Differences Between Offshore Oil Drilling and Offshore Wind

Ocean Conservancy

If we are to protect the ocean, its marine ecosystems and the people who depend on them, we must address climate change at its root: the burning of fossil fuels for energy. In August 2024, Chevron began operating a new deepwater project in the Gulf of Mexico that could pump oil into the 2050s.

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Protect PT, Three Rivers Waterkeeper Appeal DEP Permits For CNX Slickville Natural Gas, Shale Gas Wastewater Pipelines Project In Westmoreland County

PA Environment Daily

Both permits are associated with CNX Resource Corporation's Slickville Pipeline Project, which proposes to build a natural gas pipeline and a shale gas wastewater pipeline along a 13.9 The Pennsylvania Climate Change Act of 2008 acknowledges that fossil fuel production significantly contributes to climate deterioration.

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Environmental Defence Sponsors Olympic Athlete to Raise Attention to the Oil and Gas Industry’s Blatant Greenwashing of Sports 

Enviromental Defense

The fossil fuel industry has known that its products are fueling the climate crisis for decades. Since their launch in 2012, the organisation has dedicated itself to encouraging Canadians to pledge support for the fossil fuel industry. billion pounds across 205 active sponsorship deals.

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Guest Essay: Significant Electricity Load Growth Can Be Accommodated Without A Stampede To New Natural Gas Generation Just By Increasing Efficiency At Existing Power Plants

PA Environment Daily

But smarter approaches, if carefully applied, could help to reverse costly reliance on gas, and accelerate the clean energy transition in PJM, and nationwide. Worsening PJMs gas dependence with the RRI also promises to lock in substantially higher energy costs. In December, 2024, the U.S. of the proposed generation in the queue.