Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Scientists have unequivocally confirmed that human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels, are driving unprecedented changes to the Earth’s climate, raising fundamental questions about our responsibility to safeguard the environment for future generations.

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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. Because fossil fuels are used both to produce blue hydrogen and to operate its carbon capture technology, its carbon emissions are quite high. And it’s still rising.

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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. These claims just add to the deluge of greenwashing and disinformation from the fossil fuel industry. Don’t believe the industry spin.

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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. Environmental Protection Agency. Looking Ahead.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

, its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. These lawsuits face three key barriers.

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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.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration (CCUS) represents a suite of technologies that catch and isolate CO2 at industrial facilities before it is emitted into the atmosphere and either use it for industrial applications or permanently store it underground.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Communities and ecosystems continue to suffer the consequences of human-caused climate change , primarily from the burning of fossil fuels across our economy. The case for phasing out of fossil fuels and making a just and equitable transition to clean energy has never been more clear. comes from burning fossil fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency is in the middle of adopting rulemakings under the federal Clean Air Act that will require natural gas infrastructure operators to more carefully monitor methane emissions and develop plans to meet new emission limits. Applegate noted the U.S. Read more here - supplemental EPA rule. “I

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

More than 60 environmental and citizen groups, along with the Green Party of Pennsylvania , expressed their opposition to the road dumping of oil and gas drilling wastewater on rural Pennsylvania roads by signing on to a letter to the Department of Environmental Protection. Read more here. Fracking needs to stop!”

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2022

Cheswick is one of only a half-dozen remaining coal-fired plants in Pennsylvania, and the state Department of Environmental Protection predicts that none will operate after 2025. Steel’s enormous Clairton Coke Works pumps more noxious particles into the atmosphere than Cheswick.

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Environment, Law, and History

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

To answer this question, Sabol Spezio analyzes how the oil spill influenced the CWA and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), as well as the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency et al. The petitioners who brought this case include state-level political officials and coal companies who are single-mindedly determined to block climate action and perpetuate fossil fuel dependence to serve their narrow political or business interests. There is no time to waste.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) : A group of inert chemical used in many industrial and everyday processes such as our refrigerators that are not broken down at lower atmospheric levels and rise to the upper levels, destroying ozone.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In many ways the superlatives are derived from a fevered atmosphere. Environmental Protection Agency began distributing the $50 billion for water systems that was a part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The dam’s reservoir, the world’s largest at maximum storage, is less than 3 percent full. Many chose to do so.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

The US Supreme Court seems to have appointed itself as a rogue Environmental Protection Agency, seeking to protect polluters rather than the public. That includes 5 million deaths linked to breathing in the emissions of fossil fuels. He wrote in 2022 that deference “deserves a tombstone no one can miss.”

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

CO 2 levels in the atmosphere hit an all-time high in early May. Think of the atmosphere as a bathtub, and emissions as the water that flows from the tap. Now is not the time to set aside environmental laws and norms in the name of recovery, as we have seen done in some places. This directly impacts human health and wealth.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2022

As human activities continue to spew heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, temperatures rise and cause the air to become “thirstier.” The price of water should reflect not only the costs of administration, purification, and transportation but also the costs of the environmental impacts generated by the extraction of the resource.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 24, 2021

The island suffered two power outages last week, caused in part by reduced output from hydropower dams, a malfunction at a fossil fuel plant, and high electricity demand from Taiwan’s manufacturing sector. Dams are promoted as a low-carbon source of electricity: one that traps more carbon than it releases into the atmosphere.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The government took the important step of listing plastic as a toxic substance under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act last spring, but has yet to move ahead with urgently needed rules to stop the harm that plastics are wreaking on our environment. . gigatons of greenhouse gases (GHGs) to the world’s atmosphere in 2017 alone.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions into our atmosphere—the equivalent of 300 coal-fired power plants—and these facilities are sited in predominantly low-income communities and communities of color. The post Protecting the Ocean Means Protecting Communities appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

In China, cadmium in soil mainly comes from atmospheric deposition of the metal after it has been emitted from coal-burning, metallurgical facilities and animal-source fertilisers. A technician at Yonker Environmental Protection Company in Hunan takes soil samples collected during the 2016 project to be analysed.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Climate change and pressure to throw a lifeline to communities that long survived on fossil fuel extraction provided a strong tailwind for bipartisan support. In contrast, the state Department of Environmental Protection is lining up a batch of 500 wells to plug with just the first $25 million infusion of federal money from the U.S.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lacked authority to administratively stay portions of new source performance standards for the oil and gas sector for which it had granted requests for reconsideration. New Jersey Appellate Court Affirmed State Authority to Take Easements for Coastal Protection Projects. FEATURED CASE.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

It was a bogus argument that fossil fuel proponents would repeat ad nauseum over the next 10 years, so when Rose failed to provide some needed context, I jumped in. I’m not aware of anything the fossil fuel industry gets that I would characterize as a subsidy.” His reply ?

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 18, 2023

The law provides $140 billion in tax incentives, direct loans, and grants to replace fossil fuels with cleaner renewable energy that lowers emissions of carbon dioxide. million square-foot refinery to turn corn into low-carbon jet fuel. Photo © Keith Schneider Tide of Toxic Nutrient Discharge Environmental groups are wary.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Reaction The York County-based Evangelical Environmental Network released this statement on the new methane reduction rule-- “Today, December 2, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final standard to curb wasteful methane emissions and other harmful air pollutants from the oil and gas sector. “On

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Shapiro and CNX natural gas taking steps to better monitor air emissions from certain shale gas drilling operations-- “Clean air and pure water are a constitutional right and are essential to defending our children’s health and lives from the multiple threats imposed upon them by the fossil fuel industry.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

As the world ran almost entirely on coal power at that time (and later on petroleum fossil fuels), it was quite clear that coal was not an infinite resource, and some scientists pleaded in the countries of most heavy use to take steps to limit mining and burning. It is not technically a subcategory of the science of conservation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Outside of bird protection acts of the early 20 th century, protections for water, air and the atmosphere are a late 20 th -century development, created in the wake of Rachel Carson’s 1962 treatise on pesticides, Silent Spring. Trump is out of office, but he left behind a 6-3 conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Cuyahoga fire, along with a major oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara that same year, galvanized national attention and led to the first Earth Day, a slew of new air and water protection laws, and the creation of new federal departments to administer them, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

billion cubic feet of natural gas has been released into the atmosphere, but a more accurate number will not be available until an inventory verification study is completed, according to The Allegheny Front. The leak was first discovered at 3:30 p.m. More than an estimated 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

billion cubic feet of natural gas was vented into the atmosphere, but a more accurate number will not be available until an inventory verification study is completed, according to The Allegheny Front. For now, we need Pennsylvania’s DEP and the federal Environmental Protection Agency to crack down on violators of our emissions regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2022

CCS technology is a problematic solution to controlling fossil fuel emissions. It may migrate along cracks, faults and fissures before finding its way back to the atmosphere. Given the right atmospheric conditions, pollution can travel for miles, impacting unsuspecting residents far from the source of emissions.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Fourth Circuit Declined to Stay Remand Order in Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies; Companies Sought Stay from Supreme Court. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule repealing the Clean Power Plan and finalizing the final Affordable Clean Energy rule in its place. FEATURED CASE. West Virginia v.

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Columbia Climate Law

DECEMBER 2, 2019

On Friday, November 22, the Sabin Center submitted comments opposing an Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposal to rescind regulations limiting methane emissions from new oil and natural gas facilities (the “Methane New Source Performance Standards” or “Methane NSPS”). By Romany Webb.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In September 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to loosen methane regulations over the oil and gas industry that would have otherwise harnessed $30 million dollars of wasted energy. Over time, natural gas transmission pipelines degrade and eventually leak, releasing methane into the atmosphere.

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