PA Environment Daily

JULY 28, 2025

- By Destinie Nock, Carnegie Mellon University Professor, Founder Of Peoples Energy Analytics -- TribLive Guest Essay: A.I., Cryptocurrency And PA’s War On The Little Guy - By Joe Morinville, Energy Independent Solutions -- Bloomberg: US And China Are Diverging On Strategies To Power A.I. Mastriano Run For Governor Again?

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

Bad as his statements and actions on global climate action continue to be, national political leaders around the world are backing off or muting their climate commitments. Political leaders dont feel the pressure to back up their ambitious net zero pledges with action, or they are distracted by other seemingly more immediate problems.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

The fossil fuel age is flailing and failing,” UN Chief António Guterres said in a speech last week, accusing coal, oil and gas of being “the greatest threat to energy security today.” The order ignores wind and solar while promoting fossil fuel, advanced nuclear, and geothermal as power options.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro -- Inquirer: Shapiros Office Responds After USDA Accuses Governor Of Playing Games With Federal Food Bank Funding Cuts That Hurt Farmers -- Inquirer: PA Wants To Hire Federal Workers; But Now Has A Partial Hiring Freeze -- Gov. Ohio- $2.99 Ohio- $2.99

Politics

A Greener Life

APRIL 28, 2025

As Canadians prepare to vote in the 2025 federal election, Carneys green credentialsonce a defining feature of his political risehave been tempered by economic realpolitik. Carney and his advisers would likely have identified that the Conservatives had used this as a political football, and they felt they had no choice.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 8, 2025

But just as courts are beginning to hold governments and corporations accountable, a coordinated political backlash is emerging to undermine this progress, discredit litigation efforts, and shield polluters from responsibility. However, the political environment around these cases is becoming increasingly hostile.

Politics

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 31, 2025

This newest massive loan will only benefit CEOs from the oil and banking industry, while Canadians – already struggling with an affordability crisis will be left on the hook to cover the costs. More fossil fuel infrastructure is not a winning strategy for Canadians or the planet.

Government

A Greener Life

MARCH 10, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen Mark Carney, the former Governor of the Bank of England and the United Nations (UN) Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, has become the next Prime Minister of Canada. While at the Bank of England, he supercharged climate change as a key concern and focus area. Photo credit: World Economic Forum via Flickr.

2025

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

A renewed emphasis on fossil fuels is expected under another Trump administration, though coal will likely remain moribund thanks to poor economic fundamentals and constrained access to capital. Renewable Energy Vs. Fossil Fuels Renewables or fossil fuels?

2025

Legal Planet

JULY 10, 2025

Sheldon Whitehouse gave what’s billed as his 300th “time to wake up” speech on the floor of the Senate, a rollicking takedown of dark money, fossil fuel polluters, and Republicans who have let them “burrow into government.” All the more fitting that this week, Sen.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2025

Plucked From Front Yards Escalating Rising Tensions -- Aqua Pennsylvania, PA Environmental Council Award More Than $55,000 In Local Grants To Protect Your Drinking Water In Southeast Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Webinar Series To Focus On Successful Tree And Shrub Planting Starting April 28 -- Saint Vincent College: Angela Belli Receives (..)

Earth Day

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.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Billion In Costs -- Impacts Of Federal Mega Budget Bill -- PennLive Editorial: True Cost Of President’s Budget - Empty Food Banks And Closed Hospitals -- MCall Guest Essay: Here’s Why I Supported The ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ - By Republican Con. Ohio- $3.10

Politics

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. PA- $3.25 -- National Fuel Gas Increases Gas Supply Costs 12.2% Shapiro -- The Center Square: Shapiro Promotes Violence Prevention Investments In Philadelphia -- WESA: What’s Causing Pittsburgh’s Drop In Homicides? Ohio- $3.00 Starting Aug.

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Since the summer of 2021, five Republican-controlled state legislatures have passed bills banning their state governments from doing business with financial institutions that they allege have divested from fossil fuel companies as a result of ESG investment policies. Another six statehouses are considering similar bills.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Texas and a number of other states have passed laws banning what they call “boycotts of fossil fuel companies.” ” More precisely, they ban state investment or contracting with firms that “boycott” fossil fuel companies. Is this as opposed to a political purpose on the part of the managers? “.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 4, 2022

Another resolution filed by the bank BNP Paribas prodded ExxonMobil to release a report on its climate-related lobbying in March. Titled “ExxonMobil Report on Lobbying Activities,” the February report posted to the company’s website detailed all of the company’s political activity in 2020. ExxonMobil Names Names.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 24, 2021

World Bank report sheds light on the nuanced connections between “water shocks” and human migration. World Bank researchers found that people are five times as likely to move following drought conditions as they are after floods or periods of excess water. “That is what makes me sad. Big City Lights.

2006

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

If honored, this commitment will likely unseat Canada as the worst-ranking in the G20 for international public financing to the fossil fuel sector. . After a wave of commitments to end international coal finance this year, this is the first international political commitment that also addresses public finance for oil and gas.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

JULY 5, 2024

There’s a direct line of culpability between fossil fuel corporations and climate change – it’s why so many oil and gas CEOs have topped our list of Climate Villains. But they aren’t the only powerful players who shoulder responsibility for keeping us hooked on fossil fuels, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 13, 2024

Ecojustice, Greenpeace Canada, Stand.earth, Environmental Defence Canada, Keepers of the Water, Leadnow, For Our Kids, and Change Course call on the five major Canadian banks to take responsibility for the impact of their investments in fossil fuels, which are exacerbating the climate crisis.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2023

. -- March 20 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- Guest Essay: Shell Petrochemical Plant Off To A Bad- And Dangerous- Start In Beaver County - By Joseph Minott, Clean Air Council -- Inside Climate News: Fossil Fuel Executives See A ‘Golden Age’ For Natural Gas, If They Can Brand It As ‘Clean’ -- The Guardian: Older Americans To Blockade Banks (..)

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

JUNE 14, 2023

From the outset, the notion that financial institutions are “boycotting” the fossil fuel industry – despite the fact that many targeted banks are leading financiers of fossil fuels – has animated Republican politicians advocating for anti-ESG legislation. Cases like Allied Tube Conduit Corp.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

With most energy investments still in fossil fuels, significant reform is needed to modernise the sector and meet Kazakhstan’s pledge to become net-zero by 2060. Social unrest related to fossil fuels is not a new phenomenon in Kazakhstan. An oil pump in a dust storm on the road to Aktau, Kazakhstan. By Kate Watters.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

To help voters determine which candidates would deliver the needed course correction, Environmental Defence and its allies in the Ontario Priorities Working Group asked each of the province’s major political parties whether – and how – they would deliver the rapid emissions reductions Ontario will need to head off climate catastrophe. .

Climate Change

Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 9, 2024

While excluding new fossil fuel expansion from the sustainability label is obvious, including existing ‘natural’ methane gas projects in the taxonomy in any way would be problematic, given that studies show that gas – when accounting for its extraction, cooling, and transport – is more polluting for the climate than coal.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

Ebel, the CEO of Enbridge, to our list of infamous Climate Villains – powerful people with fossil fuel interests holding Canada back from effective climate action. The executives behind the fossil fuel industry often avoid public scrutiny, which is why we’re shining the spotlight on their activities.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2022

Even if the world were able to shut off all fossil fuels today, we cannot avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis unless we simultaneously, and without delay , reduce emissions from tropical deforestation and other land use changes. The Amazon and Rio Negro rivers meet in Manaus, Brazil. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Deforestation

Energy and Climate Law

JUNE 11, 2020

Due to the vast amounts of hydrogen that will be needed in Germany in the coming years, the governmnet is not only banking on German domestic production. This step is quite controversial due to the impossibility to ensure that the hydrogen there is really produced from renewables and not from fossil fuels.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JUNE 10, 2021

It followed Musk’s announcement earlier this month that his company would no longer accept Bitcoin in payment for its electric cars, due to the fossil fuels needed to create the digital currency. These computers use a lot of electricity , which is often generated by fossil fuels. First published in The Conversation.

Climate Change

Environmental Progress

JUNE 29, 2020

Over the last few years I helped save enough nuclear plants from being replaced by fossil fuels to prevent a sharp increase in emissions But until last year, I mostly avoided speaking out against the climate scare. In the final three chapters of Apocalypse Never I expose the financial, political, and ideological motivations.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2023

[PaEN] -- TribLive: Allegheny County Council Proposal Would Ban Single-Use Plastic Bags -- Observer-Report: PUC Dismisses Joint Settlement, Civil Penalty Against East Dunkard Water Authority -- TribLive: PennWest Edinboro, Erie’s Presque Isle Among Places Prepping For April Total Eclipse -- Cameron County Chamber Of Commerce Announces Results Of Sinnemahone (..)

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Japan’s dependency on fossil fuel s had been slightly declining until 2010. But the country changed course as a result of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which led to the forced shutdown of nuclear power plants and greater reliance on fossil fuels. As a result, Japan’s CO 2 emissions increased, peaking in 2013.

Paris Agreement

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

Fortunately, spring also provides an opportunity for scientists to demand that bank shareholders and investors take responsibility and act, since it is when private and public sector banking institutions hold their annual meetings. degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Celsius (2.7

Fossil Fuels

HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

Sounding Green” has not only become politically correct, but also a possible finance-generating mechanism. Climate is a global issue and when complex political systems around the world are brought together, solutions cannot be straightforward. ” Journal of banking & finance 98 (2019): 39-60. Zerbib, Olivier David.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2023

-- PA Sustainable Community Development Network: July 25 Webinar On Activating Municipal Sustainability Teams To Attract Funding [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Sept.

Natural Gas

Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In a nutshell, the European Commission acknowledges that the transition towards a climate-neutral economy will have economic and social impacts, especially on regions that rely on fossil fuels extraction and treatment (e.g. Bn from the EU budget and on a European Investment Bank lending of €10 Bn. It will rely on €1.5

Fossil Fuels