Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2023

Over the year, those plants emitted 661 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, more than 13% of the US’s energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. Aging plants and state clean energy goals are certainly helping that trend. Why is this inequitable and disproportionate siting a problem?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In response, Europe has scrambled to replace flows and decouple this dependence , in part by shifting away from gas to clean energy alternatives, in part by increasing local gas production, and in part by turning to imports of liquified natural gas, or LNG—including from the US. Credit: U.S. Let us at least stave off the worst.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

To meet these goals, the state is facilitating burgeoning carbon capture and sequestration (or storage) (CCS) technologies that capture carbon from point sources to store, as well as carbon dioxide removal (CDR), which removes carbon from the atmosphere. Clean Energy. Ecological Conservation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

6 is still driving up Ohioans’ electricity bills—and undermining the state’s prospects for a clean energy future. Besides higher monthly bills, the two 1950s-era coal plants are responsible for significant air and climate pollution as well as toxic coal ash. The Union of Concerned Scientists opposed H.B. Since H.B.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Oil and gas major ConocoPhillips’ website says gas is “one of the safest and cleanest fuels available” and that when it is burned, it “produces mostly carbon dioxide and water vapor—the same substances emitted when humans exhale.” Likewise, pipeline giant Williams Companies now refers to its gas projects as “clean energy” projects.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 29, 2023

And some question if one state, California, despite its street cred as having enacted the nation’s first air pollution law in 1947, should control environmental policy in the other 49 states? All information documenting how.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Instead, it will lock in polluting fossil fuel infrastructure for decades. Similarly, the province’s subsidy to Emerald—the owner of the garbage incinerator in Peel—in the name of clean energy and innovation is terrible double speak. Burning waste pollutes the air and warms the climate.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2022

Even though the plant is brought online only during times of high demand, and thus high prices, it is still one of the biggest air polluters in the county. Electricity Generation From Natural Gas Now Falling Like Coal In Face Of New, Cheaper Renewable Power Plants [Not Subject To Whims Of International Energy Markets] -- U.S.

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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Boyd teaches courses and seminars on energy and climate change law, and developed a new course in renewable energy project finance , offered for the first time this spring and taught by Ed Zaelke, a UCLA Law alumnus and pioneer in the clean energy field. Boyd also leads the Ph.D.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Getting more zero- and low-emission vehicles on the road in Pennsylvania helps reduce harmful air pollutants, including nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, and volatile organic compounds. It also helps lower the level of carbon dioxide, helping to address climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

As a large state and an energy giant, Pennsylvania is one of the biggest generators of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. We emitted about 269 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2018 (the latest year for which data are available), with industry, electricity production, and transportation the largest sources.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

Signs Off On Solar Energy Facility -- USDA Funds 31 Local Projects Totaling $5.69 Signs Off On Solar Energy Facility -- USDA Funds 31 Local Projects Totaling $5.69

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The cities argued that the regulation would prevent them from imposing restrictions on the circulation of passenger vehicles in relation to their air pollutant emissions. In Mexico, challenges to the government’s backsliding on incentives to renewable energy have failed to advance. Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW) ). In Smith v.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

have long demonstrated leadership on climate change, with more than 170 of them having set targets to phase out fossil energy and many others committing to net zero greenhouse gas emissions. With respect to utility-scale renewable energy, local legal considerations include the state energy regulatory framework for power purchases.

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Acoel

JANUARY 18, 2022

When the history of the global shift toward a clean energy economy and a sustainable future gets written decades from now, it may well be that the COP26 Climate Change Conference will be seen as a watershed moment. Posted on January 18, 2022 by Daniel C.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2023

Limits on sustainable removals arise primarily in requirements for land, water, materials and clean energy. To balance such levels, removals based on bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) would require up to 1000 million hectares or three times India’s land area.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

Methane’s Warming Potential : Methane, a colorless, odorless, and highly flammable gas that occurs abundantly in nature and from a variety of anthropogenic activities, has a considerably higher global warming potential than carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide emissions, on the other hand, arise almost exclusively from burning fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

And remember, almost none of the country’s coal plants are economic anymore, and further, some of them aren’t even compliant with current air quality standards set by the EPA years ago. Methane leaks are rampant along the entire gas supply chain, and research repeatedly shows that the problem is worse than previously thought.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution. Bitcoin mining does not help clean energy.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution. Bitcoin mining does not help clean energy.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

While solar PV and wind power are grabbing headlines, another clean energy revolution is silently taking place. Anaerobic digestion is a biological process happening naturally that breaks down organic matter in an airless environment, resulting in the generation of methane and carbon dioxide (among other things, see below).

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Passing the Build Back Better Act as well is essential to transitioning to the clean energy future that we will need if we are going to avoid the worst-case scenario impacts of climate change. We know we cannot stop here. But the IIJA will lay important groundwork and benefit our ocean and coastal communities.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2022

“The EPA must act with great urgency to protect them by issuing and enforcing stringent rules to drastically reduce toxic pollution from existing drilling as we rapidly transition to clean energy and end new fracking. This analysis comes as the U.S. This analysis comes as the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2023

Steel For Clairton Coke (Coal) Works For 2nd Quarter [PaEN] -- WESA: Allegheny County Levees $307,000 In Fines On US Steel For Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Air Pollution Violations -- TribLive: U.S. Steel Ready To Close 3 Of 10 Batteries At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works -- StateImpactPA - Reid Frazier: U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 4, 2022

Supreme Court Decision Did Not Affect EPA’s Ability To Regulate Carbon Dioxide As A Pollutant, Has No Impact On DEP's RGGI Power Plant Carbon Pollution Reduction Program Evangelical Environmental Network: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Of U.S. 1 15th Coal Miner’s Heritage Festival July 10 At The No.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2022

By reducing air pollution, it would improve public health with 30,000 fewer respiratory hospital visits. “I I am vetoing, disapproving, and returning the Concurrent Resolution because Final Form Regulation 7-559 is a vital step for Pennsylvania to reduce carbon emissions and achieve our climate goals.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

Today’s the day for the long-awaited release of Environmental Protection Agency regulations to tackle planet-warming pollution by the nation’s power plants. The EPA is proposing a new standard for fossil fuel-fired power plants to avoid 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042. Long story short, they did and it is.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2023

On April 18, a coalition of 23 clean energy, environmental justice, and climate action organizations working in Pennsylvania sent a letter to the U.S. Moreover, in 2020, Pennsylvania recorded the highest amount of premature deaths per capita caused by air pollution in the entire country.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The court also found that the plaintiffs had demonstrated irreparable injury based on “the waste of publicly owned natural gas, increased air pollution and associated health impacts, and exacerbated climate impacts.” billion over a 30-year period.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. While the Clean Air Act (CAA) has been amended multiple times since 1970, this basic requirement has remained untouched. Heat waves can also cause costly infrastructure damage in cities and exacerbate air pollution. EPA , 549 U.S.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

Obama’s “Clean Power Plan” was repealed in 2017 by Trump’s EPA. The plan, aimed to reduce CO 2 emission by reducing pollutants causing soot and smog by 25% [5]. Their attempted replacement, the “Affordable Clean Energy Rule”, would lead to an insignificant reduction in GHG emissions compared to no regulation at all [6].

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Several factors¾including the effects of the economic recession, shifts in energy markets from coal to natural gas and renewable energy sources, and carbon pollution mitigation and clean energy programs like renewable portfolio standards¾have been identified as principal drivers of these reductions. [2].

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Certainly, gas stoves are just one source of air pollution in the District. That would of course include fossil gas, which consists of 85 to 90 percent methane, a significantly more potent heat-trapping gas than carbon dioxide. Meanwhile, a 2023 study in Environmental Research Letters concluded that as little as 0.2

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

Million Fine Over Clairton Coke [Coal] Works Air Pollution -- Post-Gazette: US Steel Fined $1.9 Million Fine Over Clairton Coke [Coal] Works Air Pollution -- Post-Gazette: US Steel Fined $1.9 28 -- PUC Reminder Of Opportunities To Comment On Proposed 18.7% 28 -- PUC Reminder Of Opportunities To Comment On Proposed 18.7%

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

Million Fine Over Clairton Coke [Coal] Works Air Pollution -- Post-Gazette: US Steel Fined $1.9 Million Fine Over Clairton Coke [Coal] Works Air Pollution -- Post-Gazette: US Steel Fined $1.9 4:00 p.m. -- PA Solar Center Webinar: Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2022

. -- Guest Essay: Climate Change Demands Southwestern PA Transition To A New Low-Carbon Energy Reality - By Hilary Mercer , Shell Polymers/Pennsylvania Chemicals Project & Kevin Walker, President/CEO Duquesne Light [PaEN] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: McKinsey Report Outlines Steps Southwest PA, U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Democrats said the General Assembly has been holding hearings on the RGGI regulations since the concept was first proposed in October of 2019 and Senate Republicans have yet to offer a plan for reducing carbon pollution or a proposal for helping workers and communities caught in the market-driven transition to clean energy.

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