Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

Indeed, if loopholes related to lifecycle analysis and book-and-claim accounting are allowed through, incentives meant to drive the deployment of clean technologies could end up subsidizing some of the dirtiest options instead, including gas-fired power plants and waste incinerators. What’s “clean,” and how is it measured?

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Legal Planet

JULY 25, 2023

At CLEE, we are doing quite a bit of work to promote reduction of methane emissions from all sectors (agriculture (livestock and rice), energy (oil & gas and coal), waste (landfills and sewage)). animal stomachs, shale gas formations, piles of food waste). There are many possible emergency actions. C of warming by 2050.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The carbon-negative approach removes CO2 from the atmosphere and bypasses using fossil fuels to generate these chemicals. Researchers engineered a strain of bacteria to break down carbon dioxide (CO2), converting it into commonly used, expensive industrial chemicals. Read more →

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Alito famously said that carbon dioxide from fossil fuel burning, a key contributor to global warming, is not a pollutant. million jobs in 2022, according to a report last year by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That is despite studies tying carbon dioxide to skyrocketing rates of childhood asthma.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

You may have heard about a miracle cure for plastic waste that creates green energy in the process—the mystical waste incinerator. We know how many people want to rid the world of plastic waste and shift to sustainable energy. But there really is no miracle cure for waste. It almost sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?

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Circle of Blue

MAY 10, 2022

Burning fossil fuels has caused heat-trapping gases to accumulate in the atmosphere. India’s coal ministry said that 100 retired coal mines would reopen to in order to fuel the power generation that is needed to mitigate the effects of the heat. With all her other bills, waste is a luxury she cannot afford.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The report examines the major nitrogen sources, including the application of crop fertilizers and livestock waste (manure), wastewater discharged to streams, atmospheric deposition (primarily fossil fuel emissions and agricultural sources) and runoff from developed areas.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 12, 2023

One is a subsidy to Enbridge—a fossil fuel giant—to build a fossil fuel power plant. Instead, it will lock in polluting fossil fuel infrastructure for decades. Burning waste pollutes the air and warms the climate. Given its tiny size, it is very hard to keep hydrogen from leaking into the atmosphere.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, many airlines are considering carbon-capture-and-storage technologies and electric-powered planes. Biomass and municipal waste. Then with municipal solid waste, you’re solving a waste problem and turning it into energy.”.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The ocean has already absorbed 90% of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases and 26% of the carbon dioxide emitted by humans burning fossil fuels. Commercial shipping’s reliance on energy-dense but dirty fossil fuels generates approximately one billion metric tonnes of GHGs every year, as well as black carbon and soot.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Steven Guilbeault has to hit the ground running if he’s going to implement a plan that allows his government to achieve its promise of zero plastic waste by 2030. . Plastic is made almost entirely from fossil fuels in a process that releases greenhouse gases — which is why plastic is being called the new coal. .

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2025

Hill also noted the company has been under investigation by the Office of Attorney General for possible state Solid Waste Management Act violations road dumping their wastewater under the co-product determination process in DEPs Residual Waste Regulations. Read more here. Original violations issued March 7, 2025. No response requested.

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Physics World

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The world produces than 40 million tonnes of electronic waste each year, yet only about 20% of this e-waste is recycled. This year, a team at Rice University in the US led by James Tour developed a “flash Joule heating” method to recover metals like rhodium, palladium gold and silver from e-waste.

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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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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

We can decrease production of virgin plastic that comes from fossil fuels and pollutes our ocean as well. We can protect coastal habitats, like mangroves and sea grasses, which can serve as critical tools to guard communities from intensifying storms while also safely storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. In the U.S.,

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Instead, Pennsylvanians see burgeoning environmental law violations, billions in tax subsidies for fossil fuels, avoidable intrusions on neighboring property rights and values, along with the uncontrollable cost volatility that comes with relying on an internationally traded commodity for so much of our energy needs.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

Two of the top 10 EQIP practices by total dollar amount spent are practices we identified as industrial, providing little to no conservation benefits, in our previous report: waste facility cover and waste storage facility. Despite these protective measures, animal waste often escapes and contaminates local water.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

Over a 20 year period, methane is estimated to be more than 80 times as potent as carbon dioxide in terms of trapping heat in the atmosphere. Quick Acting Impact : Unlike carbon dioxide, which can persist in the atmosphere for centuries or maybe millennia, methane has a relatively short atmospheric lifespan of approximately 12 years.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2023

The casing on both wells was open to the atmosphere, but nothing was venting and there were holes in the casing near ground level. Three of the wells-- WT 2850 Lot 8 29, Lot 8 31 and Lot 10 24 were found to be newly drilled and venting gas to the atmosphere, a “normal” operation to clear out any small debris in the well left from drilling.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Perhaps one question for those lawmakers is, “How long can our nation continue to rely on an extremely wasteful system for generating electricity?” Human beings have been burning things for tens of thousands of years, and we’ve organized our economies on burning fossil fuels. In the short term, they are probably correct.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Methane is a greenhouse gas that has more heat-trapping power than CO2, although it also clears out of the atmosphere much faster than does CO2. Controlling the methane emissions, some of it from wasteful accidental release at natural gas wells, is critical for controlling global warming. Hopefully not. Top-down” solutions (e.g.,

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Physics World

AUGUST 16, 2021

Together with government initiatives to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels, these developments are expected to drive a rapid rise in sales of fully electric vehicles. China’s government has made electric transport a national priority, while generous incentives in Norway have persuaded around half of Norwegian drivers to buy electric.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2024

The inspections identified 13 conventional wells that were abandoned and not plugged, where the owner failed to submit well integrity, production and waste generation reports. Holdings in Dunbar Township, Fayette County and found one to be abandoned and not plugged and the other venting gas to the atmosphere. National- $3.58

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 14, 2024

No information from CNX correlated well development, waste handling, spills or unanticipated air pollution releases or other activities at any of the well pads or other sites. Background CNX reported on air monitoring from two monitors at each site-- one upwind and one downwind-- for a limited number of parameters-- Particulate Matter 2.5

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Representatives from all student sustainability organizations, including the Zero Waste Team, the Associated Students at Colorado State University Environmental Affairs Department, Defend Our Future, and more joined the meeting to brainstorm ways to improve sustainability on campus and discuss collaborative projects.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 16, 2017

The slow shift from fossils fuels, like oil and coal, to more green sources of energy hasn’t been exactly met with a. Across the Atlantic, Sweden is leading the way in transforming household waste into sources of energy. of its power comes from waste-to-energy (WTE) programs. of household waste energy, and even imported.

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Edouard Stenger

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Eventually, CO2 levels in the atmosphere would return to 350 ppm. To start, we collectively need to end the utter waste (of energy, food, clothes, space in our cities, fertile soil in our countryside) that have been front and center of our societies for the past few decades. Nothing can be achieved without this paradigm shift.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Some of the wells were leaking natural gas to the atmosphere. DEP’s inspection reports no progress being made in remediating the area affected by the release and no annual production and waste generation and mechanical integrity reports have been submitted to DEP. No further followup actions were noted by DEP. [

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2021

Converting carbon dioxide into usable liquid fuels and value-added chemicals like plastics offers not only a possible solution to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, but also the potential to alleviate dependence on fossil fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2022

Shifts in transportation and commuting will account for another portion of the University’s reduction in carbon budget, with the remainder handled through carbon insets and offsets — investments in projects that decrease greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Nancy Guenst (D-Montgomery), U.S. Army Veteran & Rep. Webster (D-Montgomery), U.S.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 31, 2015

He pleaded for swift global action through a critique of consumerism and wasteful development. The Pope’s 184-page encyclical highlights the looming crisis posed by climate change and places most of the blame on human activity and fossil fuels. On May 24, 2015 Pope Francis used his. encyclical. scientists. Our Children’s Trust.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 21, 2023

DEP also issued notices of violation for failure to submit annual production and waste generation and mechanical integrity reports. DEP requested the operator submit a report by November 10, 2023 on how they will bring the wells into compliance. [ No violations were issued by DEP.

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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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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Meeting virtually on September 18, more than 20 elected delegates from county Green Parties achieved consensus on a letter to the Department of Environmental Protection demanding a ban on use of such waste materials. There is absolutely no need for anyone to be devising new ways to use fossil fuels at this point.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Steele, Executive Director The CNX report displays an astonishing number of misleading statements, questionable methodologies, and premature conclusions that, unfortunately, only serve to further undermine the health of frontline communities faced with pollution from fossil fuel extraction.

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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. Fracking can taint our drinking water, pollute rivers and streams, contaminate public lands and subject Pennsylvanians to hazardous waste.” “For

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