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Making Fossil Fuels Pay for Their Damage

Legal Planet

One option, a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, gets the most attention but seems politically impossible. If a carbon tax were politically feasible, there would be a lot to be said in its favor. It would provide an incentive for cutting carbon emissions, with the byproduct of cutting air pollution everywhere.

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Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 11.23.23

PA Environment Daily

Pursue Your Constitutional Right To A Clean Environment In Pennsylvania House next voting day Dec. 11, 12, 13 -- Committee Schedule Senate next voting day Dec. to -25.7%) ] -- PUC: Proposed Settlement With PPL To Resolve Widespread Consumer Billing Issues, $1 Million Penalty -- MCall: PPL To Pay Fines, Forgive Costs Totaling $17.2

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Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 3.17.23

PA Environment Daily

House holds Regular Session April 24, 25, 26 -- Committee Schedule -- Updated: House Budget Hearing Schedule - March 20, 21, 22 Senate holds Regular Session April 24, 25, 26 -- Committee Schedule -- Updated Senate Budget Hearing Schedule - March 20, 21, 22 TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- Independent Fiscal Office Posts Budget Hearing Documents -- KDKA: (..)

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Bay Journal: Satellites, Drones, Special Cameras Join The Fight Against Methane/VOC Pollution From Oil/Gas Wells, Petrochemical Plants, Landfills, Coal Mines In Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

New Tools To Detect Air Pollution In Pennsylvania, the use of this and other technology has energized a new breed of environmental activism aimed at detecting air pollution from the sky and from the ground. Now, armed with a $495,000 federal grant from the U.S. We have more advanced technology. The gas industry does, too.

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Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 6.20.23

PA Environment Daily

Million Cubic Feet Of Gas; 10,000 Gallon Spill At Compressor Station [PaEN] -- EPA AirNow Declares Code YELLOW Air Pollution Action Day For Tuesday, June 20 -- PA Interfaith Power & Light, Jewish Earth Alliance Host June 28 Webinar On How To Encourage More Solar Power In PA , 7:00 p.m. -- Sen.

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BreezoMeter Joins Climate Savers Week: A Matter of Life & Breath

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Hailing from “the realm” of air pollution awareness and health, BreezoMeter’s US Head of Growth and weather industry vet Paul Walsh will be joining the event on October 25th (US). Paul will participate in the opening event - “12 Fields of Opportunities for Climate Change Cooperation - Americas”, which includes ?

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Environmentalism and the Supreme Court

Legal Planet

The Court then held that greenhouse gases are covered by the Clean Air Act as a type of air pollutant. Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County (SWANC) v. Among other things, the Clean Air Act gives federal protection to wetlands. Illinois Central Railroad v. Army Corps of Engineers.