Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 18, 2022

In Massachusetts, this near-term opportunity would drive progress on clean energy, clean transportation, and equity. With a legislative session that’s about to wrap up, getting the bill into law will require diplomacy and ambition. In March, the House passed the “Act Advancing Offshore Wind and Clean Energy.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2022

The kicker is that conference committee members had managed to come to an agreement on a $40-million climate and energy omnibus that fell reasonably in between the House’s $120-million “go big” proposal and the Senate’s $12-million “go small” version. Minnesota has the tools to build a clean energy future.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, it’s crucial that we shift energy production away from the unsustainable fossil fuels that cause climate change and towards those that release little to no greenhouse gases (GHG), such as solar and wind power. Clean energy is key to national security.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Joseph Otis Minott - Lifetime Achievement Award PennFuture honored Joseph Otis Minott, an environmental law leader, with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his decades-long career fighting for the environment and public health in Pennsylvania. from Villanova University School of Law.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The Governor approved a notable slate of climate legislation with a package that includes more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets and measures designed to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. Implementation of these new laws will be the true test of that statement, but they provide an exciting starting point.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

These communities are often already exposed to lots of air pollution from things like other industries, airports, and nearby highways. Similarly, a study from the Netherlands based on long-term testing also showed the country’s newest facility is emitting much higher levels of dioxin and furans than is allowed by European law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

All across the country, coal- and gas-fired power plants are still running, still polluting, and still showing signs of staying relentlessly online. Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

Solar PV Project in Cuba (Photo credit: IRENA ) Today, the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) jointly published a new report titled Building a Cleaner, More Resilient Energy System in Cuba: Opportunities and Challenges. Cuba’s power system is currently heavily reliant on fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Certainly, gas stoves are just one source of air pollution in the District. As we now know, fossil fuel companies lied about it for decades to protect their profits. 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.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

we can’t afford to continue extracting and then burning more fossil fuels. Yet this tie with offshore wind and oil and gas drilling keeps the law from truly being a transition to clean energy. That’s the type of future I want to be a part of—one that’s free from fossil fuels and powered by clean energy.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

All of my children have experienced health impacts such as rashes, chronic nosebleeds and Lyme disease due to the warming of our climate from the fossil-fuel industry. But now the same oil and gas billionaires polluting our air and water are being rewarded yet again.

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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.

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Law and Environment

MAY 12, 2023

The proposed rule would apply to new and existing gas plants and existing coal plants—new coal plants are separately regulated—and promises to significantly cut carbon and other harmful air pollutant emissions from fossil plants over the next two decades and beyond. Emphasis added.] This could affect the standing analysis.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 25, 2022

The challenge originates with the Obama Administration’s 2015 Clean Power Plan , which required states to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants by 32 percent (below 2005 levels) by 2030, in line with the national commitment under the Paris Agreement. The Clean Power Plan never went into effect.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2022

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Our national overreliance on gas is evidently undermining energy access, not strengthening it, as some fossil fuel industry players would want you to believe. Likewise, pipeline giant Williams Companies now refers to its gas projects as “clean energy” projects. Don’t believe the industry spin.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

we can’t afford to continue extracting and then burning more fossil fuels. Yet this tie with offshore wind and oil and gas drilling keeps the law from truly being a transition to clean energy. That’s the type of future I want to be a part of—one that’s free from fossil fuels and powered by clean energy.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 16, 2023

TODAY 7:30: Sierra Club's Delaware County Team Webinar On Lawsuit Challenging Law Preventing DEP From Protecting Public Health, Environment From Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells. Read more here. Shapiro, Let's Hold Them Accountable - Support The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative - By Rev.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Governmental agencies and utilities involved in the energy sector can pair an energy justice framework with meaningful community engagement to assess their actions and decisions and realize the benefits of energy equity for their constituents.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

million from the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to clean up abandoned mines across the Commonwealth. In addition to being at risk for fires, these abandoned mines have dangerous highwalls and open shafts and are sources for both water and air pollution. billion funds authorized by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 7, 2022

But our current legal and political system obstructs development projects too much, and we need to change that: We need to build more homes, trains, clean energy, research centers, disease surveillance. The laws are likely symptoms of a broader dynamic that ultimately needs to be addressed.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2023

Limits on sustainable removals arise primarily in requirements for land, water, materials and clean energy. Delivering large removals would likely drive up costs of food and energy, exacerbating food insecurity and fuel poverty. Nonetheless there is a desperate need to translate such recommendations into law and policy.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 26, 2021

PennFuture , Clean Air Council , and Sierra Club appealed a second extension of the air pollution permit the Department of Environmental Protectionissued for the Bradford County Real Estate Partners Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility proposed near the Susquehanna River in Wyalusing Township in Bradford County.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2022

Along with rising temperatures, drought makes vegetation and forests drier and increases the risk of fires that generate air pollution. Higher water and energy prices disproportionately affect low-income families. This requires accelerating the energy transition to clean and renewable sources in a way that is equitable.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Businesses need to immediately pay attention to this first in the nation law because it is effective January 1, 2024, subjecting violators to civil penalties of up to $2,500 per day for each violation up to $500,000. At best, this new law is being heralded as an anti greenwashing crusade. All information documenting how.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2022

Key provisions include-- -- Clean Energy Investments: $30 billion for solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, geothermal plants and advanced nuclear reactors, including tax credits over 10 years. billion for EQIP, $6.75 billion for the RCPP, $3.25 billion for the CSP, $1.4 billion for EQIP, $6.75 billion for the RCPP, $3.25

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2022

Key provisions include-- -- Clean Energy Investments: $30 billion for solar panels, wind turbines, batteries, geothermal plants and advanced nuclear reactors, including tax credits over 10 years. Senate Climate, Energy and Healthcare bill-- “With today’s passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) by the U.S.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

Emission Sources : Anthropogenic methane emissions are widely associated with fossil fuel (natural gas, oil, and coal production and transportation), although the largest sources are agriculture (from livestock farming [. Carbon dioxide emissions, on the other hand, arise almost exclusively from burning fossil fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Second, the "clean H2" tax credit has no state statutory standards or conditions to ensure that the H2 it subsidizes is truly clean, or that it's produced with strong and equitable community protections. Federa; Bipartisan Infrastructure Law's Regional Clean Hydrogen Hub Program The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a.k.a.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

The bill is sprawling, covering climate and energy topics as diverse as electric vehicles, building decarbonization, clean energy manufacturing and supply chains, agriculture, and greening the electricity system, all through a range of tax incentives and direct grants. Second, $11.97

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

During Climate Week, we’re lifting up the dozens of bills and solutions proposed by Climate Caucus members that would help Pennsylvania advance environmental justice, hold polluters accountable, invest in innovation around clean energy technologies, and build resilient communities that can withstand the impacts of climate change.”

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 19, 2022

Thermal coal is the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel and increases global carbon pollution putting all countries at risk from the disastrous impacts of climate change. . Julia Levin, National Climate Program Manager, Environmental Defence, said: We have the solutions and the know-how to quickly replace coal with renewable energy.

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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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Washington Nature

APRIL 24, 2021

Once signed into law, Washington will have a firm statewide cap on climate pollution, covering 75% of the greenhouse gas emissions for the state. We are the home of a science-based net-zero 2050 future and clean energy and good jobs—not just for the technology elite, but for middle-class working people.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

In 2022, Texas, along with several other states and industry groups representing fuel manufacturers (together, Petitioners), challenged EPA’s new emissions standards in court. While the Clean Air Act (CAA) has been amended multiple times since 1970, this basic requirement has remained untouched. EPA , 549 U.S. EPA , 142 S.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

Envirothon Team Get Hands-On Science Lessons In Canoes -- National Energy Technology Laboratory: Winners In Western PA, West Virginia Science Bowl Competed In National Science Bowl -- PA Solar Center Honors 5 Western PA Organizations Who Have Gone Solar [PaEN] -- Williamsport Sun: Eagle On The Mend Through Ashkar Students’ Efforts -- Reading Eagle: (..)

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