Law Columbia

MAY 28, 2021

Previously, local governments had pursued building electrification through building code provisions requiring or incentivizing electrification expressly, or through affirmative “bans” on natural gas hookups to new and renovated buildings. Brookline’s attempt was later struck down by the Massachusetts attorney general.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

And it helps lower greenhouse gas emissions to slow climate change and its negative effects.” With 15 projects completed so far, the fund has supported carbon dioxide emissions reduction of 110,000 tons over the life of these projects, equal to taking 22,000 cars off the road for a year. Success Story The Leon H.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

Methane’s Warming Potential : Methane, a colorless, odorless, and highly flammable gas that occurs abundantly in nature and from a variety of anthropogenic activities, has a considerably higher global warming potential than carbon dioxide.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The attorney general said that PwC also served from at least 2008 to 2013 as global advisor and report writer for the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit organization that functions as a global disclosure system for environmental information, including greenhouse gas emissions, from companies including Exxon. Sierra Club v.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2022

On June 30, 2022, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation denied Greenidge Generation LLC’s application to renew a Title V air quality permit for the Greenidge Generating Station. megatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year. Other estimates put Bitcoin’s annualized carbon footprint at 72.05

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2022

In the United States, oil and gas production is the largest industrial methane polluter, a greenhouse gas at least 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. What It Can Find Near You The Oil and Gas Threat Map displays information about those living within a half mile of oil and gas facilities across the country.

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Natural Gas Air Pollution Carbon Dioxide Clean Energy 52

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). Typically used in conjunction with “greenhouse gas” but some emissions are not GHGs.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

Utilities Commission (NCUC) to “take all reasonable steps” to achieve a 70% reduction in carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) emissions from electric generating units (EGUs) by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality for the utility generation system by 2050. January 22, 2023. A 2021 North Carolina law requires the N.C.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

FERC’s authority to approve interstate pipelines stems from the NGA which was passed in 1938–a time when gas was a limited resource to be conservatively rationed. Many of the challenges centered on FERC’s assessment of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with pipeline development. FERC –the D.C.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Note: In December, 2022, DEP finalized regulations reducing volatile organic compounds and methane from existing conventional and unconventional oil and gas facilities. [In In June 2018, DEP finalized an Air Quality General Permit to reduce methane emissions from new unconventional oil and gas operations. On December 2, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

It’s a testament to the industry’s innovative nature, dedication to continuous improvement, and collaborative approach that we are producing and transporting the energy that powers modern life while adhering to world-class standards. Natural gas generation grew rapidly, driven by the shale gas revolution and low fuel prices.”

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 14, 2024

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- Awards/Recognition -- Myers Family Farm In Centre County Receives 2023 PA Leopold Conservation Award [PaEN] -- PA Dept. 13 -- Warren Times: Audubon Community Nature Center To Host Day Camp Jan. 19 & Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Hydrogen is an indirect greenhouse gas that can lead to the formation of ozone and methane. These impacts are only beginning to be understood, but preliminary analysis projects significant short-term climate impacts that can far exceed those of carbon dioxide. By then any benefits gained could have already been lost.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The coalition government of the past four years was formed by the conservative liberal party VVD, the right-wing Christian CDA, the liberal democrats of D66 and ChristenUnie (CU), a progressive Christian party. Graphically portrayed on axis for conservative-progressive and left-right, the spectrum looks like this: Source: www.kieskompas.nl

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis on the health impacts from natural gas infrastructure and low-producing oil and gas wells and the burdens these facilities impose on taxpayers. miles of an oil/gas facility and 17.32 2] -- Casey J.A., 3] -- Research by Dr. Shaina L. by 2050 or sooner.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2022

Tom Wolf vetoed and disapproved Senate Concurrent Regulatory Review Resolution 1, which would have disabled the Commonwealth’s opportunity to enter the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and effectively achieve climate goals and reduce carbon emissions. while reducing harmful greenhouse gases. On January 10, Gov.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 31, 2022

Minnesota moves to regulate pipelines transporting liquid carbon dioxide. Brian Langloss, a senior field representative for the conservation nonprofit Oceana. Minnesota Moves to Regulate Liquid Carbon Dioxide Pipelines. Sign up for Fresh: A Great Lakes Policy Briefing , straight to your inbox, every other Tuesday.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2022

Supreme Court Decision Did Not Affect EPA’s Ability To Regulate Carbon Dioxide As A Pollutant, Has No Impact On DEP's RGGI Power Plant Carbon Pollution Reduction Program [PaEN] -- Evangelical Environmental Network: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Of U.S. Pisciottano (D-Allegheny) & Rep.

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Natural Gas Carbon Emissions Greenhouse Regulations 64

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Of Health Invites Citizens To File Environmental Health Complaints Related To Natural Gas Development; Health Will Also Review Environmental Test Results [PaEN] -- TribLive Guest Essay: Leaders Aren’t Helpless And Must Take Action To Protect Constituents From Natural Gas Development Health Impacts - By Tom Pike, Penn Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Over the last 15 years, Penn State University has cut its carbon emissions by more than 35 percent, putting the University ahead of schedule to meet its goal of reducing greenhouse gas outputs to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. The University has been a leader in dramatically reducing its greenhouse gas footprint.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

California Federal Court Barred BLM from Enforcing Delay of Oil and Natural Gas Waste Prevention Rule; States, Trade Groups Asked Wyoming Court to Expedite Review of Rule and Suspend Deadlines. California Federal Court Ordered Publication of Obama-Era Energy Conservation Standards in Federal Register. Public Citizen, Inc.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

Through the IRA, there are also many opportunities for climate change mitigation through cleaner vehicles, homes that are more energy efficient, and reductions in greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane. My daughter is not hearing people talk about acid rain on TikTok. We can and must do the same with climate change.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit Court of Appeals found that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) failed to adequately analyze the climate change and environmental justice impacts of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals on the Brownsville Shipping Channel in Texas and two pipelines that would carry LNG to one of the terminals.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2023

The bill also opens up Act 18 of 1995 creating DEP and the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to any and all amendments. Room 8E-A East Wing of the Capitol. Click Here to watch online.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2022

On March 30, the House voted 126 to 72 to pass House Bill 637 (Struzzi-R-Indiana) designed to block the final DEP regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants that’s consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Read more here. At least $12.5 At least $12.5 Read more here.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

EPA of a 2015 rule barring replacement of ozone-depleting substances with hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which are powerful greenhouse gases. In particular, the court found that conclusion that greenhouse gas emissions constituted a significant impact was not clearly erroneous. Circuit’s partial vacatur in Mexichem Fluor, Inc.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 25, 2024

These statutes take different forms, but generally allow BLM to lease Federal lands for oil and gas development, and require BLM to act as trustee for the benefit of Native American mineral rights. As part of this leasing program, BLM collects royalties based on the volume and value of oil and gas produced on federal land.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Comitta: Let's Work Together To Address Climate Change, But Stop Rehashing The Same Old Arguments Against RGGI That Are Not Protecting Our Planet And Our People [PaEN] -- Courier Express: Fmr. Million In Tax Credits To Subsidize Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County; Total Expected To Be $1.17

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

19 EarthTalks Webinar: The Economic Impact Of Carbon Emission Trading Scheme On Building Retrofits [PaEN] -- PA Solar Center, Partners Host Feb. Washington County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Mariner East II Natural Gas Liquids Pipeline Chapter 102 Permit Amendment For An Area In West Goshen Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2022

EIA: Ban On New Natural Gas Pipelines Would Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Natural Gas Combustion 4.4% But don’t count on frackers riding to the rescue this time.”] -- Reuters: U.S. Casey: Announces $2.1 Lower In 2050 PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- City & State PA: Sen.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Embedded in the new statute are more than $140 billion in direct payments and tax incentives for renewable fuels and cleaner electrical generation to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 2005 levels by the end of the decade. The statute also provides $18 billion for existing, decades old conservation programs.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2023

2 to 8 -- 9 Abandoned Conventional Wells; Failure To Restore Shale Gas Pad; No Progress In Spill Cleanups [PaEN] -- DEP Sets Jan. 2 to 8 -- 9 Abandoned Conventional Wells; Failure To Restore Shale Gas Pad; No Progress In Spill Cleanups [PaEN] -- DEP Sets Jan.

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Conservation 2024 Endangered Species Act Climate Change 86

Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

s challenge to the constitutionality of the linkage between California’s greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade program and Quebec trading program. Ninth Circuit Said Biden Action Mooted Case Challenging Trump Revocation of Withdrawal of Oceans Lands from Oil and Gas Leasing. League of Conservation Voters v. Biden , No.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2023

Trillion Across Global Economy, Report -- Spotlight PA: Federal Money Won’t Be Enough To Solve PA Abandoned Conventional Oil/Gas Well Problem, Current Well Owners Routinely Fail To Plug Their Wells -- PA General Energy Announced It Will Plug Proposed Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Grant Twp.,

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Air Pollution Greenhouse Natural Gas Conservation 79

Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

The First Circuit found that it had appellate jurisdiction even though the stay order was not a final decision because the stay order rendered Conservation Law Foundation “effectively out of court” due to the length of the stay and its indefinite nature. Conservation Law Foundation v. Exxon Mobil Corp. , 20-1456 (1st Cir.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

Noah Wenger, Longtime Lancaster County Farming, Chesapeake Bay Advocate Dies At 89 -- DEP: Oil & Gas Regulatory Program Will Be In The Red By Fall; All Sectors Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program No Go; Update On Permitting Reform [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb.

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Conservation Clean Energy Recycling 2024 85

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

Peoples Natural Gas Rate Increase Background On Issues -- DEP: Oil & Gas Regulatory Program Will Be In The Red By Fall; All Sectors Greenhouse Gas Reduction Program No Go; Update On Permitting Reform [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb.

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