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. Blue hydrogen has a very, very large greenhouse gas footprint.” And it’s still rising. The external threat is clear. But many of us are turning our attention away.

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Law Columbia

MAY 9, 2023

The increased atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) is driving global climate change on an unprecedented scale. In some well-documented cases , polluting assets are sold to companies with apparently lower management and environmental protection standards than the previous operator.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

The Treasury Department, in collaboration with the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency, is responsible for protecting against such outcomes by developing guidance for tax credit implementation to ensure qualifying “clean” hydrogen is truly clean.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

Climate change is often discussed in terms of global temperature increase, sea level rise, and hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere,” said Secretary McDonnell. Video and photos of the event will be available later today at PAcast.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

That’s why, since the price spike, the industry has doubled down on lobbying for weaker environmental protections to clear the way for more oil and gas production and the further lock-in of gas pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure. Methane is also a fast-acting greenhouse gas in terms of its impact on the climate.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 24, 2023

b) to protect and preserve the marine environment in relation to climate change impacts, including ocean warming and sea level rise, and ocean acidification? The second part concerns State Parties’ obligations to protect and preserve the marine environment from climate change impacts.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

4] As our climate is warming due to rising emissions of greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, extreme weather events and intense variations in temperature are becoming more frequent. [5]. United States Environmental Protection Agency. 12] Major Greenhouse Reductions needed by 2050:IPCC. 6] Noah Berger, EPA.

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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

MARCH 20, 2023

Even atmospheric deposition — exhaust from cars, buildings, factories — can be sources of contaminants.” Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Twice a week, Penn State environmental engineering graduate student Alex Brown waters the mesocosms to simulate rain events. “I Brakes shed different types of metal.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 13, 2022

It drifts up to our atmosphere where it worsens climate change, and it settles into the lungs, hearts, and brains of our children and grandkids. Methane is also a powerful greenhouse gas 86 times more powerful than CO2 in its first twenty years. Put another way, this leakage amounts to more than 10% of the gas these wells produce.

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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. “And

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

For example, the ongoing debate over the impact of certain pesticides in agriculture , greenhouse gas emissions are often a battle between the science and industry's attempts to muddy the science and government lobbying to roll back legislation (2). Air emissions : Any gas emitted into the atmosphere from industrial or commercial activity.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 1, 2024

Atmospheric rivers Similarly, atmospheric rivers are carrying more moisture due to climate change. Imagine the Mississippi River except in the sky and even more massive— atmospheric rivers can stretch more than 300 miles wide and transport 15 times the amount of water flowing out of the Mississippi. Fund nature-based solutions.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2022

On January 21, the Department of Environmental Protection announced funding for more than $2.7 million in Alternative Fuel Incentive Grants (AFIGs) to 18 cleaner fuel transportation projects statewide that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants.

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

CO 2 levels in the atmosphere hit an all-time high in early May. And while greenhouse gas emissions may dip this year because of lockdowns, we should not celebrate. Think of the atmosphere as a bathtub, and emissions as the water that flows from the tap. We need to strengthen environmental protection to build back better.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

A second bill would require annual reporting of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by a covered firm’s operations. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has adopted a Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule [25] requiring facilities that emit more than 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent to report their direct GHG emissions. [26]

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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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Law and Environment

JANUARY 12, 2023

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR), or the range of technologies and processes for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and oceans, promises to be a major part of US and global climate strategy in the coming decades. Recent governmental actions have created significant financial incentives for the rapidly growing CDR sector.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 10, 2021

This week’s IPCC report is another stark reminder of the need to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions to avoid climate disaster. To the extent those sectors continue emitting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, those gases will need to be captured prior to release into the atmosphere. By Romany M. While the U.S.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

Satellites, for example, are used in meteorology to track weather systems and to monitor atmospheric fronts to predict what the weather will do next. Known as ENSO, they are opposite effects of the same process and are defined as an oscillation (a variation in magnitude) between the temperature of the atmosphere and the ocean.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2023

million for the Department of Environmental Protection to speed up permit reviews and expand the agency’s oversight inspections, conduct more responsive air sampling, increase the number of dam safety inspections and implement the CO2 Budget Trading Program. Click Here for Senate Testimony/Summaries.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2023

million for the Department of Environmental Protection to speed up permit reviews and expand the agency’s oversight inspections, conduct more responsive air sampling, increase the number of dam safety inspections and implement the CO2 Budget Trading Program. On March 7, Gov. I’ve seen some of those wells myself.

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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

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. Methane is the second-most abundant greenhouse gas, and the process of oil and gas extraction is its largest source. Department of the Interior.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

In May 2021, Canada listed plastic manufactured items as toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), consistent with previously announced plans for a ban on common harmful and unnecessary plastic items.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 2, 2021

A new report from the federal agency found that even if greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stabilize, climate change will drastically alter Australia’s environment. It’s hard to pin individual storms on climate change, but the science is clear that atmospheric warming leads to more events like last weekend’s rainfall.

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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. More plastic means more pollution—for the climate, coastal communities and our ocean. Producing plastics is a dirty business.

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ESA

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The Environmental Protection Agency receives $100 million for air quality and climate research. The White House Council on Environmental Quality receives $65 million for environmental and climate data collection. House votes to ‘disapprove’ of entering Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, defying Gov. International.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 18, 2023

Gevo asserts its “farm-to-flight” project will release 80 percent less carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than ethanol produced by a conventional plant. Photo © Keith Schneider Tide of Toxic Nutrient Discharge Environmental groups are wary. greenhouse gas emissions. Phosphorus and nitrogen discharges from U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Oil and natural gas operations are the nation’s largest industrial source of methane, a climate “super pollutant” that is many times more potent than carbon dioxide and is responsible for approximately one third of the warming from greenhouse gases occurring today. On December 2, the U.S. Click Here for EPA announcement.

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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

APRIL 14, 2022

Currently, only the federal Environmental Protection Agency claims authority for CCS, a process that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere emitted from sources, like coal-fired power plants and other industrial sites, for reuse or storage underground. billion metric tons of carbon dioxide underground.

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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.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Circuit Court of Appeals granted motions seeking to dismiss as moot the proceedings challenging the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, which established emission guidelines for greenhouse gases from existing power plants. Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection , No. Conservation Law Foundation v.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

On February 28, Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) and John Yudichak (I-Luzerne) sent a letter to the Independent Fiscal Office last week requesting an audit of modeling used to justify Pennsylvania’s entry into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). And zero carbon emissions will be removed from the atmosphere. Yaw said. “The

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 10, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to strengthen air pollution standards for coal-fired power plants, a regulatory move that would also improve water quality and reduce the accumulation of pollutants in fish. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Up The concentration of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere continued to rise in 2022.

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