Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2025

CALIFORNIA – Governor Newsom and legislative leaders have pledged to seek legislation extending California’s cap-and-trade system beyond 2030. COLORADO The states air pollution agency adopted stricter rules to prevent methane leaks from oil and gas operations. GW of distributed energy resources.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

The impacts of a changing climate are being felt both locally and globally. Rate Increase For Philadelphia Gas Works [PaEN] -- PUC To Investigate Proposed 11.4%

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

“Wells that are improperly abandoned may pose environmental and public health and safety threats such as gas migration into occupied structures, water supply impacts, surface water impacts, hazardous air pollutant emissions, methane emissions, and soil and groundwater contamination,” said Klapkowski.

Waste

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 17, 2025

EPA affirmed the basis for California’s regulation, noting “the large share of older locomotives in the Class I, II, and III railroad fleets and their emissions[‘] contribution to ambient concentrations of air pollution that may violate the ozone and particulate matter [air quality standards].”

Regulations

Physics World

JUNE 3, 2025

Indeed, the Swiss firm Climeworks – which is one of the biggest DAC companies – has stated that its costs might be around $300 per tonne by 2030. The company claims that it will soon be storing 50,000 tonnes of CO 2 per year and is aiming for five million tonnes per year by 2030. DAC has not managed to reach this magical price point.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

22 Webinar [PaEN] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Eaton Rolls Out New Energy Storage Battery System -- Green Building Alliance Invites New Kensington Commercial Property, Business Owners To 2030 District Launch and Energy Efficiency Info Session Dec. DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2025

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Air Pollution

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

In January Nova Scotia announced an ambitious effort to reach NetZero by 2035 and have 80 per cent of its power sourced from renewables by 2030. All forms of power generation come with a cost, and in this case, there is an ecological footprint to the wind farm that the company and government are working to mitigate.

Government

Legal Planet

AUGUST 4, 2025

The Department of Energy estimates that power use by data centers could be three times as high in 2030 as it was in 2023. Data Center Air Pollution Wherever a data center gets its power, it is going to need backup power to deal with outages. Air pollution became a big issue for Elon Musk’s AI center in Memphis.

Air Pollution

Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2025

Advocates campaigned for cleaner vehicles to cut pollution, and California led a lawsuit by 16 states seeking to electrify the mail trucks. C alifornia’s intervention “played a big part in stopping USPS from committing to decades of air pollution around the nation,” Liane Randolph, head of the state’s Air Resources Board, said.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

UCS/S&P Global Mobility 2024 This accelerated transition to cleaner on-road freight is vital to reduce harmful air pollution generated from trucks, given that theyre the largest source of ozone-forming nitrogen oxides (NOx) pollution in the nation and the largest source of lung-damaging fine particulates from vehicles on the road.

Nitrogen Oxides

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

4 Green Building Alliance Invites New Kensington Commercial Property, Business Owners To 2030 District Launch and Energy Efficiency Info Session Dec. DEP Announce $5.275 Million In Penalties, Plus $1.4 Million In Abandoned Well Plugging Funding Against Shale Gas Drilling Companies-- XTO Energy, Inc.,

Conservation

Legal Planet

APRIL 15, 2025

Ann Arbor, Michigans City Council approved plans last week to create a sustainable energy utility (SEU) to help local residents use less energy, part of its goal of net-zero emissions by 2030, which the NYT Climate Fix newsletter wrote about. SB 526 gets its first hearing on April 23 and the students will testify as expert witnesses.

Law

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

The law is going to reduce economic growth, and in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia combined, it will wipe out about 45,000 jobs by 2030 and over 57,000 jobs by 2035, according to one analysis. It will also wipe out about 30 gigawatts of planned generation capacity in those three states, and risk a power supply shortfall.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

Of Justice Not Ready To Proceed With Agreement Over Federal Investigation Of Asbestos Management Process In Philly Schools -- Gov.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2025

Sacrificing Public Health Pennsylvanians living near fracking sites have long suffered the consequences: contaminated water, toxic air pollution, and a spike in respiratory illnesses. Every new well drilled is a death sentence for frontline communities and future generations. Their silence on these human costs is telling.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 3676 ) Air Quality Permits - Comments -- Natural Fuel Gas Supply Corp. Knox Compressor Station: DEP invites comments on an Air Quality Plan Approval covering multiple sources of air pollution at the facility located in Knox Twp., Jefferson County. ( PA Bulletin, page 3639 ) -- Peoples Natural Gas Co.,

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

The Clean Air Task Force legal director told Reuters that the proposals “are bad for public health and bad for climate, all to prop up some of the highest polluting power plants in the nation.” ” EPA’s logic rests on the definition of “significant” as in emissions that “contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution.”

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2025

Million In Energy Costs In 2024 [PaEN] -- Environmental Integrity Project, Partners List Industries Requesting Exemptions From EPA Hazardous Air Pollutant Regulations-- 23 In PA [PaEN] NewsClips: -- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: Solar Grants Being Held Hostage In PA Legislature As Demand Soars -- Sen. And Saved $44.2

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

In 2020, Google announced its intention to power its data centers with 24/7 carbon-free energy by 2030. We expect the partnership to add 500 MW of new carbon free generation and provide our data centers with 90% carbon free energy measured on an hourly basis by 2030. And we have done so since 2017 even as we have continued to grow.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

MAY 12, 2025

GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2 And Saved $44.2

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2025

And Saved $44.2 GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2 GW [PaEN] -- Fox45: PA Republican Sen. And Saved $44.2 GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2 GW [PaEN] -- Fox45: PA Republican Sen. And Saved $44.2 GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2 GW [PaEN] -- Fox45: PA Republican Sen.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2025

And Saved $44.2 Million In Energy Costs In 2024 [PaEN] -- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Critics Slam Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant For Not Reporting Fire In Damaged Unit 2 Reactor Building Feb. And Saved $44.2

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 17, 2024

year the vehicle is purchased): 2023, 2027, 2030, 2035. The bars to the right of the graph represent the average grid used by model year 2023, 2027, 2030, and 2035 vehicles, respectively. In addition to the vehicle characteristics, we also considered different energy futures.

2027

PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2025

Million In Energy Costs In 2024 [PaEN] -- Environmental Integrity Project, Partners List Industries Requesting Exemptions From EPA Hazardous Air Pollutant Regulations-- 23 In PA [PaEN] NewsClips: -- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: Solar Grants Being Held Hostage In PA Legislature As Demand Soars -- Sen. And Saved $44.2

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

DEP just renewed the Title V Air Quality permit for the Eddystone power plant on April 17. The DOE order allows the plant to exceed air pollution limits, but to minimize the environmental impact limits the operation of the power plant only when necessary to meet the emergency and following parameters determined by the PJM Interconnection.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

4 [PaEN] -- Green Building Alliance Invites New Kensington Commercial Property, Business Owners To 2030 District Launch and Energy Efficiency Info Session Dec. 4 [PaEN] -- Green Building Alliance Invites New Kensington Commercial Property, Business Owners To 2030 District Launch and Energy Efficiency Info Session Dec.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Air Quality Permits - Comments -- National Fuel Gas Supply - Knox Compressor Station: DEP invites comments on an Air Quality Plan Approval covering multiple sources of air pollution at the facility located in Knox Twp., Jefferson County. Correction notice. ( Washington County. ( Luzerne County. ( Bucks County. (

Air Pollution

Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 2, 2022

Last week, Senators Schumer and Manchin announced a compromise on a reconciliation bill, called the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 , that includes significant climate and air quality progress and a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions nationwide by 40 percent by 2030. A key step towards addressing climate change and air quality.

Nitrogen Oxides

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Switching from gasoline and diesel engines to electric motors is one of the most effective ways to reduce both global warming emissions and air pollution. UCS supports Proposition 30 because it will reduce air pollution and global-warming emissions in the state. Who supports Proposition 30 and why?

Air Pollution

Legal Planet

JUNE 13, 2022

But given the growth of the economy, carbon emissions were projected to continuing growing steadily through 2030. In November 2021, Prime Minster Modi announced in Glasgow that India would get half its energy from renewables by 2030 as well as significantly cutting its emissions.

2030

Real Climate

AUGUST 17, 2022

As you can see there are tax credits and subsidies for electric vehicles, renewable energy, nuclear energy, transmission, hydrogen, air pollution reduction, energy infrastructure, climate resilience, rural development, residential buildings, etc. The biggest unknowns are the geopolitical implications.

Paris Agreement

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The CPUC got off to a disappointing start roughly four years ago when it selected a weak emissions reduction target and planned to reduce electricity sector emissions down to 46 million metric tons (MMT) by 2030. The CPUC just set an even more ambitious goal for 2030 emissions reductions, and there are now only six years left to deliver.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 1, 2022

This truck proposal is just more of the same: when considering credits, Option 1 gives away 12 percent of the first step of regulations (2027-2030), causing even further delayed action in an industry that hasn’t seen new tailpipe NO X regulation in over 20 years.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

MARCH 3, 2022

They are also disproportionate sources of air pollution. California and fourteen other states plan to make 30% of new heavy-duty truck sales zero emission by 2030. Addressing these emissions will be challenging and will require a multi-prong strategy. That primarily means battery vehicles.

Biofuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Today, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) projects that 50 percent of US passenger car sales could very well be electric by 2030. Senate Bill 233 would require all EVs sold in the state to have bidirectional charging capacity by 2030. If that happens, EVs could make up 60 to 70 percent of the cars on US roads by 2050.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The pledge is a voluntary agreement to reduce global methane emissions by 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030; however, methane levels keep going up and we are woefully off track for meeting this goal.

Fossil Fuels