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UCS Testimony on the Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit

Union of Concerned Scientists

UCS supports Treasury’s proposed temporal-matching requirement, with a phase-in of hourly matching by 2028 with no exemptions for legacy producers. This would be an egregious waste of taxpayer dollars and an untenable waste of finite time for investing in projects that unlock real and durable climate progress. Hourly matching.

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How Food Matters helps cities leverage their power to shift the food system

Environmental News Bits

Among them are reducing food waste by 20 percent by 2025 and hitting 50 percent by 2028 –at the same time the metropolis aims to triple urban food production. Read the full story at Waste360. Cincinnati, Ohio set bold goals in its Climate Action Plan.

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Emergency? Part 4

Legal Planet

At CLEE, we are doing quite a bit of work to promote reduction of methane emissions from all sectors (agriculture (livestock and rice), energy (oil & gas and coal), waste (landfills and sewage)). animal stomachs, shale gas formations, piles of food waste). (Here’s Part 1 , Part 2 , and Part 3 ). C of warming by 2050.

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Proposed Electrolyzer Requirements for the Hydrogen Tax Credit: Strengths and Risks

Union of Concerned Scientists

However, to enable scaling up of the systems required for such hourly matching, producers can rely on annual matching until 2028, at which time all producers—new and existing—must convert to hourly matching. Weakening or delaying the shift to hourly matching. But preventing backsliding will be hard.

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Illegal Wastewater Dumping Continues, Even On Mothers Day, Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners’ Campaign Of Intimidation Of Senate Witness; Now Dumping Before It Rains, On Paved Roads

PA Environment Daily

These are specific reactions to oil and gas waste, and it's painful. There has been actual severe physical damage to my sinus and my lungs,” said Lawson. My skin burns, my mouth burns, my eyes burn. None of it is the usual allergy, sneezing and that stuff. This is painful,” said Lawson.

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EPA Proposes To Deny Permission For Continued Operation Of 6 Coal Ash Disposal Areas, Including The Conemaugh Generating Station In Westmoreland County

PA Environment Daily

The 1,872 MW Conemaugh station is a coal-fired power plant is due to be retired in 2028. If EPA finalizes these denials, the facilities will have to either stop sending waste to these unlined impoundments or submit applications to EPA for extensions to the deadline for unlined coal ash surface impoundments to stop receiving waste.

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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - May 18

PA Environment Daily

Waste Permits -- PennEnergy Resources, LLC - Ferree Shale Gas Well Pad Aboveground Storage Tank: DEP invites comments on a WMGR123 General Waste Permit for conventional and unconventional wastewater storage located in Middlesex Twp., in Philadelphia. ( Butler County. ( Tioga County. ( Bedford County. ( Tioga County. ( Tioga County. (