PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2022

He has spent his career championing environmental issues like clean air and water, advocating for a transition away from fossil fuels, and promoting clean energy solutions such as energy efficiency, wind, solar and geothermal. Joe is a sought after environmental voice and leader across the state and the region.

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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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Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2021

Boyd is recognized as one of the country’s leading energy and environmental law scholars and has written pathbreaking articles on public utilities, risk regulation, forestry, and the role of science and technology in environmental law. Boyd also leads the Ph.D. His applied research is focused on solutions to environmental problems in China.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Low-income families and renters are hit the hardest as they haven’t had access to government support to access cheaper renewable energy or heat pumps, which dramatically cut home heating and cooling costs. Fossil fuel price volatilities continue year-round, and energy prices are unaffordable.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Under Governor Wolf, we’ve accelerated and expanded work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to equip Pennsylvania’s communities, businesses, and individual residents to address climate change impacts occurring now and projected for the near future. Pennsylvania’s greenhouse gas emissions are tracked yearly.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Reducing pollution from the transportation sector is one of the most important steps to sustaining a livable climate. The transportation sector is the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions in both the United States and New York.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Likewise, pipeline giant Williams Companies now refers to its gas projects as “clean energy” projects. Here’s why the claims are wrong: UCS has pointed out that while gas burns cleaner than coal at a power plant, it is far from a “clean” fuel because it still results in significant toxic air pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

As part of our commitment to create a clean energy future for all in the Pittsburgh region, DLC is increasing opportunities for customers and communities to experience the many benefits of electric mobility while addressing one of our area’s largest sources of carbon emissions and air pollution —?transportation,”

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A Greener Life

JUNE 27, 2022

Transport accounts for about 13% of Kenya’s greenhouse gas emissions. In 2020, around 90% of the electricity used in the country was generated from renewables , including hydropower, geothermal, solar PV and wind. Kenya is targeting 100% clean energy use by 2030. air pollution in Nairobi. By Charles Wachira.

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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. In Greenpeace v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Some of HSBC’s dealings were on behalf of Saudi Aramco, the world’s second-ranked company in Fortune’s Global 500 and often dubbed the world’s biggest polluter for being the largest corporate emitter of greenhouse gases. It also requires a deep reduction in fossil fuel finance and an opening of the vaults for clean energy.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

-- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

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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. The Court rejected this approach.

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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. degrees Celsius.

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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. Still, how does a local government tap in?

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

California Clean Energy Committee v. League to Save Lake Tahoe, Mountain Area Preservation Foundation, and Sierra Watch (Sierra Watch) and the California Clean Energy Committee (Committee) filed separate writ petitions alleging numerous CEQA and TPA violations, which the trial court consolidated for hearing.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Some analysts are predicting that as China’s rate of renewable energy deployment exceeds the rate of energy demand growth it will lead to reduced USE of coal-fired power plants. this is an affirmation from this administration that the goal is to deploy renewable energy in a way that supplants coal, oil and gas.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 26, 2022

These provisions add a new section 134 to the Clean Air Act establishing a $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) grant program, which will seed what are commonly referred to as “green banks” (entities that leverage public funding to attract private funding and advance green energy or energy efficiency projects).

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

This makes methane reduction crucial for addressing the urgency of climate change and buying time for the development and implementation of longer term greenhouse gas strategies. Co Benefits for Human Health : Methane is a key precursor of tropospheric ozone (ground level), a harmful air pollutant.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In other words, if we want to continue leasing offshore renewable energy sources that will save both our ocean and us from climate change, we must keep offering offshore oil and gas leases. Yet this tie with offshore wind and oil and gas drilling keeps the law from truly being a transition to clean energy.

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Law Columbia

MAY 25, 2023

Direct pay significantly lowers the barriers to entry for local governments looking to develop or invest in renewable energy projects, among other things. Direct pay is good news for local governments, and for scaling up renewable energy development. Local, state, and private sector implementation is the core of the IRA.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In other words, if we want to continue leasing offshore renewable energy sources that will save both our ocean and us from climate change, we must keep offering offshore oil and gas leases. Yet this tie with offshore wind and oil and gas drilling keeps the law from truly being a transition to clean energy.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

It’s mostly due to a combination of poor planning coupled with an ideological opposition to renewable energy. But their plans to fill some of this gap with renewables, energy conservation, and other programs were derailed in 2018. Ontario Electricity Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions Historical and Forecast.

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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. According to the IPCC, this greenhouse gas is 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a twenty-year period (and 34 times more potent over a century). Over a third of global food production , 1.3

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

This reflects the proceeds expected to come from Pennsylvania electricity customers. -- 30 percent to support energy efficiency projects that reduce air pollution in Pennsylvania, invest in new job-creating clean energy projects, and support low-income energy consumers with their energy bills through a year-round LIHEAP program.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2024

In response, Carolyn Heckman, Associate Director of Pennsylvania Policy for EEN Action, released the following statement-- “It’s time to recognize our past and the workers who sacrificed their health and lives to make our Commonwealth the energy leader it is today. Visit the EEN Action website to learn more. Comitta, Sen. Santarsiero, Rep.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Section 115 was probably aimed at more localized pollution problems like acid rain, but greenhouse gases unquestionably cause serious harm in other countries. Fossil fuel plants — coal-fired power plants in particular — cause serious air pollution problems. Rely only on indirect means of addressing the problem.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2024

This plan is projected to save Pennsylvania ratepayers and Pennsylvania households more than $252 million dollars in the first five years alone, lower utility bills, and create a more reliable energy industry, create more jobs, and a cleaner air – that is a win in my book.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 22, 2024

At UCS, we’re working to ensure effective and equitable implementation of key clean energy and clean transportation provisions. EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grants : This $5 billion program administered by the EPA aims to reduce climate warming emissions and other air pollution. It is made up of $4.75

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Transportation A Cap-and-Invest Approach . In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1].

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

This bill is in the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee. -- Increase Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Renewable Energy Goals: House Bill 100 and Senate Bill 872 would require Pennsylvania to reach 100 percent renewable energy generation by 2050. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2022

The Shared Vision, released as a guide for candidates as elections for governor and the state legislature draw closer, includes recommendations on issues ranging from clean water, clean energy, labor, open space, land use, democracy, and environmental education.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. While the Clean Air Act (CAA) has been amended multiple times since 1970, this basic requirement has remained untouched. EPA , 549 U.S.

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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.” North Coast Rivers Alliance v. FERC and Pipeline Project’s Developers Sought to Delay D.C. After the D.C.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Bills remain in the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee. -- Increase Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards Renewable Energy Goals: House Bill 100 and Senate Bill 872 would require Pennsylvania to reach 100 percent renewable energy generation by 2050. Read more here. Read more here.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

Because the First Circuit rejected the plaintiffs’ arguments regarding the scope of the NEPA review, the court also concluded that the plaintiffs’ contention that the greenhouse gas reductions from the overall project were overstated did not show “controversy” that would require the Corps to prepare an environmental impact statement.

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