Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

He has launched an illegal effort to claw back $20 billion in EPA clean energy funding significantly targeted for disadvantaged communities. He said , There is no climate crisis, and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition. Zeldins latest lock-step actions cap an already-breathtaking first month in running the EPA.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

The majority 6–3 decision sharply curtails the EPA’s authority to set standards based on a broad range of flexible options to cut carbon emissions from the power sector—options such as replacing polluting fossil fuels with cheap and widely available wind and solar power coupled with battery storage. carbon emissions today.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act’s new hydrogen production tax credit , known as code 45V, is intended to incentivize a shift to low-carbon hydrogen production by offering producers a credit that increases in value as the carbon emissions associated with produced hydrogen declines.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Three years later, energy production emerges as a force to be reckoned with by fishermen, clean energy advocates, those focused on the endangered Right Whale, and everyone who depends upon the Gulf of Maine (hereafter referred to as “GOM”) and its future. Sea levels are rising.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

JULY 26, 2022

Extreme rain events are becoming heavier and more frequent across the Midwest as Earth’s atmosphere warms. WIND ENERGY: A wind farm has emerged as the latest energy flashpoint in New York, the Buffalo News reports. A Pennsylvania judge blocks a rule that would limit carbon emissions from power plants. In the News.

2022

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

One strategy is to counterbalance carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that contribute to climate change by drawing an equal amount of carbon out of the atmosphere, such as through planting trees.

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

JULY 4, 2023

These sectors could become sustainable through electrification and pivoting from fossil fuels to renewable energy, but this will require a big shift that could have consequences on our economy and jobs if not dealt with correctly. This is dangerous.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2023

As of June 20, 2023, the amount of CO2 [carbon dioxide] in the atmosphere has now risen to 421 parts per million, way past the level of 350 ppm considered safe. But how clean is it really? Instead of subsidizing another pipe-dream, we need to invest in renewable projects that will actually reduce our carbon emissions.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Both Republicans and Democrats are touting natural gas with CCS as the next clean energy solution, and significant funding has been earmarked for its research and development — at the expense of renewable energy projects that have proven to be cheaper and to produce fewer carbon emissions.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2022

Steel’s enormous Clairton Coke Works pumps more noxious particles into the atmosphere than Cheswick. One analysis estimated the public health and environmental costs of these emissions added up to $100 million to $300 million annually. Compare that to the $9 million in payroll the plant contributed to the community.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2022

The legislation would create a legal and regulatory framework for carbon dioxide capture and sequestration (CCS) projects in the state. billion metric tons of carbon dioxide underground. This legislation is a proactive step to secure Pennsylvania’s future as a hub for carbon capture and sequestration,” Sen.

Carbon Dioxide

Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

The decision to ditch coal was the biggest single action of its time to cut carbon emissions in North America. That means carbon emissions from electricity in Ontario will be rising back up again after years of decline. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 . Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 .

Electricity

Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 27, 2023

Carbon pollution from fossil fuel use and land development have heated the atmosphere and ocean, leading to sea level rise, stronger storms, fisheries’ moving poleward, and widespread loss of sea ice and glaciers. The post How Does Carbon Pollution Impact Our Ocean appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

Ocean

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 20, 2023

As a climate scientist recently said on CNN, “Until we stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere we have no idea what the future looks like.” We should expect to hear more, as climate impacts are only going to get worse. Hutchinson was surprised to learn of Huckabee’s position and promised to get back to me.

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The case for phasing out of fossil fuels and making a just and equitable transition to clean energy has never been more clear. Contrast that with some of the wider benefits of the clean energy transition, such as phasing out coal generation by 2030, which are realized by everyone including historically disenfranchised groups.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

Today the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its annual report on billion-dollar weather and climate-related disasters in the United States, which tells a grimly familiar story. The math of rising carbon emissions and the rapidly dwindling carbon budget to stay below 1.5˚C.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

Concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere have risen approximately 47 percent since 1750, mostly from the burning of fossil fuels for energy. Strategies for capturing carbon from fossil fuel power plants, to prevent it from entering the atmosphere, have long lingered on the sidelines. from 1990–2019.

Carbon Dioxide

Enviromental Defense

JULY 24, 2023

By comparison, Canada’s support for clean energy is relatively meager. This was more than 11 times its support to clean energy ($1 billion), compared to the G20 average of 4:1 fossil finance to clean energy. From 2019 to 2021, Canada supported an annual average of CAD 11.1 Of this, $19.8

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 18, 2024

This included a bill that would have started a statewide conversation about the diminished role fossil fuels should play in Maine’s energy system as the state strives to meet its climate and clean energy commitments. The fuel still emits carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) when burned. Hydrogen is also very prone to leaking.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 28, 2024

Erik Hoeke, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary -- Gov. More Acres In West Vincent Twp., More Acres In West Vincent Twp.,

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

“This de facto carbon tax will translate into electricity bills spiking by double digits, ballooning fuel costs and price increases on just about everything we use daily,” Sen. And zero carbon emissions will be removed from the atmosphere. Thousands of jobs will disappear. Click Here for the Senators’ letter to the IFO.

Regulations

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2024

Downsize the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research…’ And then it goes on to spread disinformation: ‘OAR is, however, the source of much of NOAA’s climate alarmism. A transition to a clean energy economy is not just good for the climate, it’s good for our economic prosperity and well-being, as our research shows.

2025

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

I didn’t use to think that eliminating methane emissions should be a priority. But it’s also a short-lived one, which only stays in the atmosphere for twenty years or so. In contrast, CO 2 emissions cause warming for 2-3 centuries or more. That warming could trigger other greenhouse gas emissions.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 2021 followed the distressing trend of excessive heat, as the sixth hottest year on record (a tie with 2018). Photo is author’s own. Last year brought the dangers of extreme heat to the forefront.

Climate Change

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.

Natural Gas

Acoel

APRIL 8, 2022

The bipartisan infrastructure law funds clean energy demonstration projects to improve energy storage, advanced nuclear technology, carbon capture from fuel burning as well as direct carbon capture from the atmosphere.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

As the fourth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the United States, Pennsylvania has a responsibility to lead when it comes to implementing climate solutions and reducing carbon emissions. Mann is distinguished professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

JULY 28, 2024

Fetterman For Seeking Critical Grant Support For Program To Expand Small Business Resilience In Erie, New Kensington, Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- Spotlight PA: Federal Dollars Driving Energy Policy In Pennsylvania Toward Solar, Hydrogen -- EPA Announces $13.9 2024 Delaware River Watershed Forum Sept.

Conservation

Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

The developing science of climatology with its understanding of the need for chemistry made scientists concerned for the future on seeing masses amounts of carbon released into the atmosphere (8) , but also (as it was previously) regarding trees as a resource and the potential for depletion. Energy Conservation.

Conservation

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration , No. Challenge to Settlement in Utility Rate-Setting Case in New Mexico Cited Failure to Quantify Coal Plant’s Carbon Emission Risks. Stanford Professor Sued Scientific Journal and Article Authors Who Critiqued His Work. Center for Biological Diversity v. 1:17 -cv-02031 (D.D.C.,

2017

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Long delays in obtaining permits raise the costs of clean energy projects, discouraging investments. Equally importantly, delays in expanding clean energy leave fossil fuel-based energy in place, adding more carbon to the atmosphere during the extended time before a project can go forward.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 27, 2024

But the fact remains that, even with reductions of recent years, the United States, which produced one quarter of the world’s global warming gases two decades ago, still produces between 13 percent and 14 percent of the world’s carbon emissions, more than triple our share of the world’s population. But the benefit has expired.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

In my retelling of the show, I quickly pointed out that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had by then concluded that “most” of the increase in average global temperatures since 1950 was “very likely” due to the increase in human-made carbon emissions. ExxonMobil is still funding those folks, big time.”

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

MAY 25, 2023

The result of a default-driven recession: the energy transition is put on hold while carbon emissions from fossil fuels continue — emissions that will stay in the atmosphere warming the planet for two hundred years or more. There are some uncertainties here beyond whether or not we have a recession.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

He has launched an illegal effort to claw back $20 billion in EPA clean energy funding significantly targeted for disadvantaged communities. He said , There is no climate crisis, and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition. Zeldins latest lock-step actions cap an already-breathtaking first month in running the EPA.

Climate Change

ESA

JULY 1, 2022

At stake was the ability to reduce carbon emissions as written in the ‘Clean Power Plan’ regulation under the auspices of the Clean Air Act that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power to regulate “the best system of reducing emissions.” billion, a $908.6 million increase.

2022

Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

The federal district court for the Northern District of Texas dismissed for lack of standing a lawsuit against the EPA in which an individual pro se plaintiff asserted that EPA restrictions since 1990 on aerosols in the atmosphere had caused global warming. Briefs Filed in Challenges to ACE Rule and Clean Power Plan Repeal.

2020