Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In an attempt to expand its “natural” gas infrastructure across Ontario, Enbridge Gas is telling residents that gas is the cheapest way to heat their homes. Today, we filed a complaint with the Competition Bureau over Enbridge Gas’ deceptive marketing. But Enbridge Gas does not want you to know that.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2024

As Planning Commission Seeks Info; Residents Pack Meeting In Westmoreland -- We’re Heard This Before: ‘We’re Providing Jobs - Stopping Pollution Threatens Jobs’ - A Brief Review Of Pennsylvania’s Conservation History -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: PA Democrats Must Prioritize The Environment In Budget Negotiations - By Rep.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

Further, these efforts are focused on carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, and biofuels—technologies that aim to stash carbon emissions away, not reduce their production. That’s the gravy train the supermajors should ride. DON’T: Plow money into more disinformation and climate obstruction.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 30, 2023

This bill, if left unamended by the Senate, would weaken the carbon price by expanding the definition of eligible farming machinery and extending the exemption from carbon pricing for qualifying farming fuel to include marketable natural gas and propane.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

On 2 January 2022, massive protests erupted throughout Kazakhstan , initially over the price of liquefied petroleum gas. The government had abruptly stopped subsidies, dramatically increasing the price for consumers. The government resigned on 5 January, and the situation continues to develop.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2023

Busy with our own lives, we’ve simply given agency over to others, counting on the federal government, for example, to save the planet. 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. Want to take action?

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Germany has six remaining nuclear reactors which are due to be closed down next year which will remove a huge source of zero-carbon electricity from the German economy unable to be taken up by other clean energy sources such as solar and wind. Around 75% comes from fossil fuels: burning coal, natural gas and oil.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

Wind and solar are now the cheapest forms of new power generation in most of the world, and are coming at very low costs here in Canada too , out-competing natural gas. Improve Energy Storage. Hydrostor energy conversation and storage centre (CNW Group/Toronto Hydro Corporation). Use Water Power Imports.

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Cresforum

MARCH 10, 2022

In the Unites States’ march to transition to clean energy and reduce greenhouse gasses, resilience may be the most important word to summarize 2021. Nine months after the pandemic first upended lives and the economy, the market fundamentals for clean energy looked unstoppable. produced natural gas grew 9.4

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Cresforum

OCTOBER 28, 2021

government in reducing greenhouse gas emissions around the world is to make strategic investments in research and development (R&D), such as those included in the Energy Act of 2020 , which serves as a strong foundation to an all-of-the-above approach: renewables, nuclear, fuel and energy efficiency, hydrogen, electrification (i.e.,

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Worse than that, it might end up misdirecting the world’s clean energy efforts into dirtier than appreciated energy technologies because of the country’s ongoing dependence on coal-fired energy. Basic reasoning suggests the manufacturing shift must have added to solar’s carbon intensity.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

Here are 94 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Modeling by the Union of Concerned Scientists says it is possible to slash heat-trapping emissions by more than half by 2030, with “deep” and “direct” reductions. It also requires a deep reduction in fossil fuel finance and an opening of the vaults for clean energy. trillion to $1 trillion. But it is not even close to enough.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2023

On October 13, the US Department of Energy awarded two hydrogen hub projects that include Pennsylvania-- a natural gas-based Appalachian Hub in Western PA, West Virginia and Ohio and a Mid-Atlantic Hub in eastern PA, Delaware and New Jersey based on the use of renewable and nuclear energy to make the hydrogen.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Moreover, the case in Puerto Rico comes after recent litigation successes in Europe and elsewhere around the world, with courts holding governments and companies accountable for climate harms. The findings include a series of recommendations to curb carbon emissions. Summary of the complaint. Outside of the U.S.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

These new protections will include updates to power plant standards on carbon emissions , mercury pollution , and toxic coal ash pollution , just to name a few. For coal-fired power, the economic case has been bleak for a long time now, which has brought US coal-fired generation down to less than half of its 2010 level.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

The decision to ditch coal was the biggest single action of its time to cut carbon emissions in North America. But what you probably haven’t heard is that our grid is getting dirtier again, with fossil fuels increasing in our electricity supply from burning natural gas. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 .

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

In a separate but similar Ninth Circuit appeal, the federal government filed a brief on October 18 urging the court to overturn a district court decision vacating the listing of a ringed seal subspecies as threatened based on climate change threats through the end of the century. Circuit Court of Appeals. opening briefs Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 13, 2021

So how can we expect the deal to advance clean energy, mitigate climate change, and address environmental injustice? The Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal addresses clean energy infrastructure, carbon emissions reduction, resilience to climate crises, and environmental justice in many aspects of the deal.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Energy Information Administration (EIA) households that primarily use natural gas for space heating will spend an average of 30 percent more on heating this winter than last year. for example, our natural gas system is very price responsive, so nobody drilled when prices were so low. On top of that, the U.S.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 18, 2024

As a member of the cabinet, the secretary leads the Governor’s Office of Tribal Affairs and oversees government-government consultation with California’s tribes. and governments across the globe, pursue critical minerals without repeating the exploitative, violent practices wrought by previous extractive industries?

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

During the four days of emergency operations during the cold snap, from early February 15th to midnight February 18th, output levels of nuclear, natural gas, coal, and wind to the grid were 79.3 For natural gas it was 40%, or 46% based on winter adequacy expectations. percent, 47.4 percent, 51.5 percent, and 13.7

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 29, 2024

In my retelling of the show, I quickly pointed out that the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had by then concluded that “most” of the increase in average global temperatures since 1950 was “very likely” due to the increase in human-made carbon emissions. ExxonMobil is still funding those folks, big time.”

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 13, 2022

EPA , which involves the scope of EPA’s authority to restrict carbon emissions from power plants. They emphasize that narrow interpretations of statutes prevent “government by bureaucracy supplanting government by the people.” This mandate was challenged by two groups of state governments. Let’s hope so, anyway.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Room 205 Ryan Building. Click Here to watch online. Read more here. Voters To Be Asked To Approve Open Space Tax; South Whitehall Twp.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

On June 7, the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee held its third information session on carbon capture technology and covered its job potential, how it could help reach a net-zero carbon emissions goal and the environmental and other impacts and risks. So it's important that we be mindful of all of that.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2024

Click Here for the Senate Republican reaction to Energy Plan. Praise For New Energy Plan Labor, business, environmental, and government leaders praised the plan as a “bold” and “nation-leading” plan to create thousands of energy jobs, lower costs, and ensure Pennsylvania remains an energy leader below.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

With the savings, local governments can reduce taxes and schools can invest in more teachers. In addition to all those benefits, solar schools projects have immense local benefits such as reducing carbon emissions and creating family sustaining jobs.” Fiedler said.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

During Climate Week, we’re lifting up the dozens of bills and solutions proposed by Climate Caucus members that would help Pennsylvania advance environmental justice, hold polluters accountable, invest in innovation around clean energy technologies, and build resilient communities that can withstand the impacts of climate change.”

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 18, 2023

Here are 67 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. million), Thar Energy ($2.2 million), Thar Energy ($2.2

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2023

Here are 105 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. However, the Academies noted, “they too face short-term pressures and fiscal constraints.” [4]

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

Renewables contributed to electricity prices rising six times more in California than in the rest of the US since 2011, the state’s “take-off” year for rapid growth in wind and solar, a price rise that occurred despite the state’s reliance during the same years on persistently-low-priced natural gas.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2021

At the committee meeting, members subsequently endorsed temporary changes to the rules governing minimum fuel requirements during emergency operations, starting October 21. Messiah University -- Guest Essay: Clean Energy: It’s Time To Embrace Climate Change As A Moral And Spiritual Challenge Of Unparalleled Import - By Rev.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2024

Allegheny County; Private Gas Well, Propane Found And Secured -- Post-Gazette: 2 Killed In An ‘Absolutely Extreme’ Home Explosion In Crescent Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

“According to estimates from the Natural Resources Defense Council, Pennsylvania has missed out on more than $1.67 And we’ve lost a significant opportunity to reduce the carbon emissions that are making the Climate Crisis worse every single day. Pennsylvania is a net energy exporter. We’ve lost a lot of money.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Here are 59 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Decline In Energy Use; $4.6 Million In Energy Savings; 14.6%

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