PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

Thank you for your leadership! -- Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen [PaEN] -- PennLive - Charles Thompson: 45 Years After Infamous Accident, Why Are They Still Cleaning Up Three Mile Island?

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Law Columbia

MAY 27, 2021

In 1978, during a phase of the Cold War when relationships between East and West began to relax, the United States and 4 other nuclear powers (China, France, the Soviet Union and the UK) made unilateral declarations granting security assurances to non-nuclear- weapon states. By Christoph Schwarte* .

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Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2020

For years, legislators, policymakers, and business – Dominion Energy – have been avoiding the writing on the wall that climate change is having a substantial impact on Virginians, whether it be the fate of our historic sites in Williamsburg, the crop yield in the Shenandoah Valley, or an even more miserable pollen season in.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 16, 2017

These days the United States’ federal government is promoting coal and backtracking on climate ambition and the European Union is no longer cutting its greenhouse gases emissions. So, who is leading the fight against climate change ? China, India and South Korea are. . The country has 53 coal-fired plants.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

29; No Information Yet On Whether Oil & Gas Development Health Risks Will Be Included Health Department Distributing Free Potassium Iodide Tablets To Pennsylvanians Near State’s Four Active Nuclear Power Plants Sept. Decline In Energy Use; $4.6 Million In Energy Savings; 14.6% KTA Trail Challenge Sept. 1 POLLINATORS!

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Ontario Power Generation has been quietly selling off Clean Energy Credits from its hydro and nuclear power to businesses in the United States since about 2013. Ontario businesses that are attempting to lower their carbon footprint can no longer count their electricity use as having low emissions.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

Many civil disobedience activists in the 1960s and 70s attempted to use it to justify their illegal actions in protests over foreign wars or nuclear power, for example, but achieved little to no success. So actions taken to curtail some carbon emissions, but not all, might still suffice. Although no U.S. in some way.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

I share this committee’s concern with climate change and misinformation. It is for that reason that I have, for more than 20 years, conducted energy analysis, worked as a journalist, and advocated for renewables, coal-to-natural gas switching, and nuclear power to reduce carbon emissions.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE.

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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. That means carbon emissions from electricity in Ontario will be rising back up again after years of decline. The reason given is that gas is needed to fill an upcoming drop in nuclear capacity.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

Pennsylvania accounts for about 1 percent of global emissions. As a major energy-producing state, we have a responsibility to lead the way in addressing climate change. Santarsiero as Senate Bill 1190 (not yet online) and House Bill 2277 by Rep. Friel-Otten.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

9] That $50 billion, and future money, is money that could have gone to making the grid more resilient to extreme weather events, whether from climate change or not, but instead went into subsidizing the integration of variable renewable energy sources. We can see the same impact of variable energies in Germany. I believe the U.S.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

We know we must now work to both cut greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the severity of climate change and at the same time work to adapt to the impacts we can no longer avoid. If you look at the actual article he cites,” writes Gleick, “the journalist makes clear the “influence” of climate change just two sentences later.”

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

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

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

I am an invited expert reviewer of the next assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a regular contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes , and other publications, and a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment.” In reality there is a growing amount of good news about climate change.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Prompted in part by these policies, New York’s electric transmission grid operator (the “New York Independent System Operator” or “NYISO”) recently commenced a review to assess possible means of incorporating the cost of carbon emissions into wholesale electricity market prices.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

As background, I am an invited expert reviewer of the next assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment.” My name is Michael Shellenberger, and I am Founder and President of Environmental Progress, an independent and nonprofit research organization.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

Unlike natural gas or coal generation, nuclear plants do not need to be continually fed new fuel supplies to produce electricity." “It It is also worth noting that these nuclear plants are providing this reliable, around-the-clock power without releasing carbon emissions." Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 5, 2024

. - A Life Dedicated To The River's Flow [PaEN] -- National Energy Technology Laboratory: Marshall Middle School Wins Western PA Science Bowl, Moves On To Nationals In April -- MCall: Judge Upholds Lehigh Valley Township’s Ruling Against Building Warehouses On Golf Course -- Spotlight PA: PA Pays Property Owners For Land Lost To Eminent Domain, But (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2024

Spoiler - Yes] -- Centre Daily Times: Climate Watch: Winter Wildfires, Green Power Growth And Other Climate Topics Making News -- PennLive - Charles Thompson: Winter 2023-24 Is One Of Central PA’s Warmest, Wettest -- Erie Times: What Winter?

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 17, 2022

. -- PA PUC: Cost Of Natural Gas Provided By Major Utilities In PA Increased As Much As 154% Over Last Year [PaEN] -- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: Philadelphia Natural Gas Works Proposes To Cap Its Weather Normalization Charge To Prevent Future Billing Mayhem -- Yale School Of Public Health Study Found PA Children 2 To 3 Times More Likely To Be Diagnosed (..)

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Acoel

APRIL 8, 2022

But the war has also diverted needed focus on the national climate protection agenda still languishing in the U.S. Widespread weather disasters worsened by climate change are already causing severe human hardship and billions of dollars in damage in our country. The post Will the Senate Take Bold Action on Climate Change?

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

million for sewer and water infrastructure and stormwater mitigation, including riparian planting for carbon dioxide reduction, stream buffering and streambank restoration. -- $62.5 Street’s Senate Bill 979 clean energy standard, it is a small step forward in recognizing climate change is real by PA Republicans. At least $12.5

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Finley [PaEN] -- KPVI: Carbon County Votes Overwhelmingly To Authorize Up To A $10 Million Bond To Protect Water Quality, Working Farms, Wildlife Habitat [PaEN] -- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Accepting Comments On Draft EIS For Ohio Valley Connector Natural Gas Pipeline In Greene County Until Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2022

By Eliza Griswold -- Pittsburgh Business Times: DOE Funds Pitt, WVU Hydrogen, Carbon Capture Projects -- Erie 2030 District Achieves 22.4% By Eliza Griswold -- Pittsburgh Business Times: DOE Funds Pitt, WVU Hydrogen, Carbon Capture Projects -- Erie 2030 District Achieves 22.4% Decline In Energy Use; $4.6 Million In Energy Savings; 14.6%

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 9, 2022

Other States/National/International -- WPost: Oil & Natural Gas Companies Underreported Methane Leaks, New Study Shows -- Wilkes-Barre Times Guest Essay: Climate Change Is A Military Problem For U.S. What’s Your Community Doing? James Stavridis (U.S.

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