PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

b of the May 24, 2023 order [ page 25 ], Shell agreed to the assessment of civil penalties for future violations of 12-month air emission limitations occurring after April 2023 and before January 2024. on January 18, 2024” These penalties totaled $7,606,067.75. on January 18, 2024” These penalties totaled $7,606,067.75.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

On February 7, 2024, EPA issued an order granting all of the petitioners’ claims and objecting to the Edgar Thomson Title V permit on those grounds. Posted: February 12, 2024] PA Environment Digest In its order, EPA requires ACHD to revise the permit and/or permit record in accordance with its decision.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2024

On February 22, 2024, DEP issued a letter to the Shell Petrochemical Plant directing the facility to submit a Title V Operating Permit application within 120 days-- by June 21. In February, 2024, DEP confirmed Shell paid an additional $2,671,044.75 Once that application is submitted, DEP must issue or deny the permit within 18 months.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 29, 2023

These fees and programs were established with legislation in 2007 and then were extended until 2024 with the passage of Assembly Bill 8 in 2013 (hence the name, “AB 8 fees”). Now, Assembly Bill 241 (AB 241) would extend these fees and modernize the funding programs to make sure that public dollars are spent in common sense and equitable ways.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

These parts have three high-level impacts: Increasing electric truck purchase requirements for large commercial, federal, state, and municipal fleets, beginning as early as 2024 and ramping up to a 100-percent zero-emission fleet requirement in 2042, based on vehicle category. A full transition to electric drayage truck operations in 2035.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 2, 2024

The funding process for awarded projects is on a quick timeline, set to be released in late 2024. In addition to focusing on currently available technology, CPP is focused on projects that can begin near-term. The amount of funding for zero-emission equipment ranges by port size and type.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2024

In Pennsylvania, 47 percent of nitrogen oxide emissions come from gasoline and diesel vehicles, and transportation contributes up to 22 percent of Pennsylvania's overall greenhouse gas emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule would require the largest, most profitable, and most polluting commercial fleets in the state to begin transitioning to electric trucks in 2024, eventually requiring that the state’s largest fleets purchase only 100 percent zero-emissions in 2042. There are more than 1.8 pollution from vehicles.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

and nitrogen oxides (NOx) from the numerous commercial and government fleets of MHD vehicles in the state. While it is true that EV battery prices have increased this year compared to last year despite increased production, battery prices are anticipated to fall to $100/kWh by 2024.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 was enacted, the plants have emitted more than 29 million tons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide, 28,000 tons of nitrogen oxides (NOx), and 16,000 tons of sulfur dioxide (SOx). The OVEC coal bailouts, which the PUCO approved in 2014, were set to expire in 2024 and only applied to utility customers who had a stake in OVEC.

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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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Legal Planet

JANUARY 3, 2024

As we begin 2024, it’s useful to identify and assess the many environmental issues that the U.S. 22-1074 First up before the Court in 2024 is this “regulatory takings” case from California. Each of these matters will likely be decided by the end of June 2024. (Of County of El Dorado, California, U.S.S.C.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The EPA is getting ready to finalize a critical regulation limiting emissions of smog-forming nitrogen oxide (NO X ) and soot (or particulate matter, PM 2.5 ) from new heavy-duty trucks. This is the first time EPA has sought to limit emissions in over two decades, and it is long overdue.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

For trucks, this ranges approximately from 9,500 (2024 GMC Sierra) to 20,000 pounds (2024 Chevrolet Silverado). According to Autotrader , the towing capacity of EV passenger car and SUV models varies from 2,000 (2023 Polestar 2) to 5,000 pounds (2023 Tesla Model X).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2022

The good news is five states – Washington, Oregon, New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, – have adopted California’s Advanced Clean Trucks regulation, which requires manufacturers to sell an increasing percentage of zero-emissions medium- and heavy-duty trucks, beginning in 2024.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Guest Post by MJ Riches , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at Colorado State University Wildfire smoke billowing from the Rocky Mountains or clouds at sunset? Photo credit Jienan Li, Colorado State University Do Orange Skies Spell Demise?

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 21, 2023

Over $150 million in President Biden’s proposed 2024 budget would fund dredging projects and flood mitigation studies throughout Michigan. trillion proposed budget for the 2024 fiscal year includes $157 million for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over a plan to expand toxic sediment dumping grounds.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

Consol Energy , which has the nation’s largest underground coal mining complex in western Pennsylvania, hopes to begin construction in 2024 on a 300-megawatt power plant with “less-than-zero” CO2 emissions. Here, too, Pennsylvania wants to be a front-runner, hoping to roll out two, high-priced demonstration projects in the next few years.

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ESA

APRIL 5, 2021

This total funding amount is less than the amount proposed in Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) authorizing Endless Frontiers Act, from the last Congress, and soon to be reintroduced in the current Congress, that proposes creating a technology directorate within NSF, which would be funded at $34 billion by FY 2024.

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