PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

By Matthew Carroll, Penn State News Moving from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources like wind and solar will require better ways to store energy for use when the sun is not shining or the wind is not blowing. When electricity is needed, the heated, compressed air is released, driving a turbine to produce power.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

One such agency is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which provides the scientific bedrock of data needed to protect our health, homes, and livelihoods from climate change and other environmental threats. In this post I will focus on Project 2025’s ill-advised designs for NOAA.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Nuclear Waste Dump Cleanup June 5 At Public Meeting In Armstrong County -- TribLive: US Army Corps Says Parks Twp. Over 1st Quarter 2024; Price Of Natural Gas Increased 218% Over 1st Quarter 2024 [PaEN] -- Erie Times Guest Essay: Understaffed DEP Can’t Uphold Law And Protect Public Health - By Rep.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

are formed indirectly in the atmosphere from other toxic pollutants also emitted from tailpipes. percent of US CO 2 emissions , are all from fossil fuel combustion in our vehicles, with the vast majority coming from pick-up trucks, SUVs and cars. Internal combustion vehicles are largely to blame, since PM 2.5 Secondary PM 2.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

President-elect Trump has nominated Liberty Energy CEO Chris Wright to be US Energy Secretary, confirming the fossil fuel industrys outsized and undue influence in shaping and implementing the Trump Administrations agenda. The human-caused, fossil fuel-driven, Climate Crisis is here. Here are the facts.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 16, 2025

The first of the three was the Bipartisan Infrastructure act, which included over $100 billion for mass transit and rail, along with $65 billion to expand the capacity of the nations electrical transmission system. Carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere for centuries, warming the earth every single day. It also provides $1.5

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

s Urgent Need For Power Spurs Return Of Dirtier Gas Turbines -- W&J Center For Energy Policy & Management: Summer 2025 Brings Warnings Of Risk To Electric Reliability Due To Data Centers, Severe Weather Reliability -- Utility Dive: A.I. Data Center Development -- Bloomberg: A.I.’s

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2025

Shale Gas Well Venting Gas LPR Energy LLC - Violation: Defective Casing/Cementing, Venting Gas April 23, 2025 inspection of the Snow Shoe 4 8HG shale gas well in Snow Shoe Township, Centre County found the well venting natural gas to the atmosphere. This well was tophole drilled only with no horizontal lateral and is in inactive status.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 3, 2025

It seems obvious that the services we depend on like electricity should be able to withstand extreme weather, since thats what we have more of now and will have more of in the future. government and science-based groups such as the Electric Power Research Institute ( EPRI ) and UCS. We are adapting to climate change.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 20, 2025

It also offers important perspective–admittedly sometimes hard to maintain–in the long debate over the transition from fossil fueled to electrified transportation. And new research shows that adding advanced EVs to our electric grid can provide vital reliability benefits and generate statewide savings.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

Sabotaging US Manufacturing: In the first three months of this year, firms have abandoned plans to build nearly $8 billion worth of clean energy projects, Canary Media reports , noting they are mostly factories that would have produced everything from grid batteries to electric vehicles.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 15, 2025

The news that started leaking last Friday is that the Trump administration wants to break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and essentially end NOAAs climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to instead help boost U.S. power generation, Canary Medias Dan McCarthy reported.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2025

On July 1, PA Interfaith Power & Light is launching a new Faith and Fossil Fuels Initiative to prepare a report and story map documenting how to build a faithful ethic of stewardship for the earth in response to the impacts of polluting industry in Pennsylvania. Fossil fuels are the largest driver of the climate crisis.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Shapiro Touts Plan To Expand Energy Markets In PA While York County Seeks Balance -- The Center Square: Watch: Former DEP Leader Stumps For Shapiro Energy Plan -- TribLive Guest Essay: You Deserve Affordable Electricity [Not Gov. Shapiro Touts Capping Of 300th Conventional Oil & Gas Well At North Franklin Twp.,

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Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

company landed an all-electric aircraft carrying passengers at New York’s John F. A new record: The number of electric vehicle chargers continues to increase. Bad news The EPA has told staff to stop enforcing violations against fossil fuel companies, CNN reports citing multiple sources. A first: Earlier this month, a U.S.

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Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

Some reporters like Arcelia Martin at Inside Climate News drew the climate connection by the second graph, writing that climate scientists said the torrential downpours on July 4 exemplify the devastating outcomes of weather intensified by a warming atmosphere.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

25 Technical Conference On Adequacy Of Electricity Supplies In Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- PA Emergency Management Agency, Delaware River Basin Commission: Nov. . -- PUC To Host Nov. 4 [PaEN] -- Green Building Alliance Invites New Kensington Commercial Property, Business Owners To 2030 District Launch and Energy Efficiency Info Session Dec.

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Legal Planet

JULY 22, 2025

This week is full of “fossil-fueled appropriations bills and eco-fascist nominees” on Capitol Hill, Brad Johnson writes at Hill Heat. Fallout from the GOP Tax Bill Tucked inside the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” is $1 billion to help the fossil fuel industry, reports Kelsey Brugger for E&E News.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

I usually try to stay in my cozy power sector bubble, plugging away on electricity grid decarbonization. But this new study from my colleagues working on climate change and fossil fuel accountability couldn’t be ignored. And as a result, those fossil fuel companies should shoulder some of the costs related to wildfires.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) included a major—forthcoming—refresh for one of the biggest policy drivers of the nation’s clean energy transition to date: tax credits subsidizing the deployment of clean electricity resources. the GHGs emitted into the atmosphere by a facility in the production of electricity—is not greater than zero.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Union of Concerned Scientists’ (UCS) research shows that top fossil fuel producers’ emissions are responsible for as much as half of global surface temperature increase. of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide and 52 percent of the rise in global average temperatures between 1880 and 2015.

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Real Climate

APRIL 6, 2023

The term “fossil fuels”, however, is mentioned 16 times. It’s indeed true that emissions must go down, but we also must explicitly acknowledge that we need to reduce our dependence on coal, oil and gas (“fossil fuels”). Humans work hard to add greenhouse gases such as CO 2 into the atmosphere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Responsible for 12 percent of all US global warming emissions from human activities, methane traps significantly more heat per molecule than carbon dioxide, making it 86 times more harmful for the first 20 years after it is released into the atmosphere. EN: What needs to be done to make the electric grid more equitable—and reliable?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

Heightened flood risk The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a recent outlook that about 44 percent of the United States is at risk of floods this spring, equating to about 146 million people. Fuel transport – Spring floods can hinder the transportation of fuels like coal.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

CARB has proposed to rapidly increase the stringency of the standard to increase demand for credits, but it should also address the supply of credits, to make sure the fuels supported by the LCFS help move California towards a clean transportation future. Each credit one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent pollution below the standard.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

More efficient (and cleaner) gasoline cars are part of the reason why gasoline use is down, but the increasing number of electric vehicles being sold in the state will likely drive gasoline use down even further. But a growing share of the reductions is likely due to the increasing sales of electric vehicles (EVs).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

With fossil-fuel pollution trapping heat and driving up global average temperatures, those warmer months are warmer than ever. We’ll be flagging fossil fuel accountability for climate harm. What happened to summer? Danger Season” follows that more direct gaze of the sun. And, in human history, I do mean ever.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is still much we can do to bend that emissions curve sharply within this decade—but only if world leaders, especially leaders of richer countries and major emitting nations, take responsibility to act together quickly and fossil fuel companies are held accountable for their decades of obstruction and deception.

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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. There is no time to waste.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2021

Management approved her shift in emphasis, hoping that she would prove that aerosols in the atmosphere (including those from auto exhaust) would completely offset the greenhouse gas effect. In the early 1960s, he wrote again about fossil fuels as causes of global warming. He talked her into studying climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

This includes loopholes related to biomethane, whereby heavily polluting fossil fuel-fired hydrogen production facilities—the very facilities the tax credit is trying to incentivize a shift away from—can cloak themselves as “clean” and reap full tax credit rewards, without having done anything but pushed around paper.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 2, 2022

In the case of carbon removal associated with industrial systems, the process prevents increased emissions of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. In the case of carbon removal from the ambient air (what is often called direct air capture or DAC), the process reduces the concentration of carbon dioxide in the global atmosphere.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 10, 2022

In India and Pakistan, recent heat waves, worsened by a changing climate, are causing dangerous water and electricity shortages. Despite the heat, Pakistan residents continue to endure daily electricity cuts, losing about nine hours of electricity each day. I’m Eileen Wray-McCann.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Fossil fuels such as coal , oil and natural gas are the source of just over 80% of the world’s energy. To avert catastrophic warming, the global community must rapidly reduce how much of these fuels it extracts and burns. Fossil fuels still provide most of the world’s energy. Fossil fuel rationing.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Why it matters: The recent Inflation Reduction Act expands the tax credit for capturing carbon dioxide that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere. The move represents a lifeline for fossil fuel use in a decarbonizing energy grid. The company is seeking powers of eminent domain from state regulators. Looking Ahead.

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Physics World

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Then we absolutely have to end the massive subsidies for fossil fuels that are like a tonne weight sitting on the scale in favour of fossil fuels.” Steven Sherwood, atmospheric physicist, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. Courtesy: Michelle Bell. “We Courtesy: Steven Sherwood.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2023

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- 118 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA [PaEN] -- Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults [PaEN] -- Top 10 Stories: Harrisburg/PA Politics Reported By Local News Media Last Week [PaEN] -- Centre Daily Times Guest Essay: Time To Make Our Electric Grid (..)

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