PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

In June, the Committee was scheduled to consider House Bill 1215 (Vitali-D-Delaware) that would have required hydrogen producing companies to sequester a larger portion of carbon emissions to receive a state tax credit under state Act 108, but the Committee passed over the bill. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 20, 2021

Of Agriculture: Secretary To Tour Urban Gardens Building Resilient Communities -- Ag Progress Days: Exhibits Focus On Animal, Plant Diseases, Invasive Pests [Aug. Of Agriculture: Secretary To Tour Urban Gardens Building Resilient Communities -- Ag Progress Days: Exhibits Focus On Animal, Plant Diseases, Invasive Pests [Aug.

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Cresforum

OCTOBER 28, 2021

CRES Forum continues to focus on three guiding principles for judging climate policy from a conservative perspective: cut energy prices, not energy choices; export American innovation, not American jobs; reduce global emissions, not America’s economy,” Hernick said in his prepared remarks. Not fossil fuels.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

We all know that to successfully address climate change we need to phase out fossil fuels and switch to electric power. Unfortunately, the current Ontario government’s plan is to burn more fossil gas to generate power. . Luckily it’s entirely possible (and cost effective!) Improve Energy Storage.

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Corp Watch

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In a landmark ruling in 2021, a Dutch court ordered Shell to reduce its carbon emissions by 45 percent by 2030. Shell is the major operator of the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, whose waste ponds are some of the biggest human-made structures on Earth. Slick PR can’t disguise Shell's devastating oil pollution in Nigeria.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A recent National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) study shows that it would take less than 1 percent of the land in the Lower 48—that’s an area comparable to or even smaller than the fossil fuel industry’s current footprint.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

The other is to improve the energy structure, replacing fossil fuel sources with alternatives. The National Development and Reform Commission’s Department of Resource Conservation and Environmental Protection said in a statement that energy intensity increased 9.5% If it benefits, it has to help cut carbon.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Healey issued the CID in connection with an investigation into unfair or deceptive acts or practices in trade or commerce with respect to fossil fuel products and securities. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) authorization of the export of natural gas from Dominion Cove Point LNG, LP’s (Dominion’s ) facility in Maryland.

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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. Source: IESO [link].

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Acidification : Reducing the pH rating of a substance making it more acidic in nature, for example, increased carbon emissions lead to the oceans absorbing more of it, increasing acidification and damaging ecology such as coral bleaching.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 6, 2020

Conservation biologists Robert H. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) says 6 percent of species are critically endangered, 9 percent are endangered, and 12 percent are vulnerable to becoming endangered. Claims that the extinction rate is accelerating and that “half a million terrestrial species.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

Although the court said the plaintiffs had put forward compelling arguments against the solar arrays, the court noted that the Township had weighed the “need for energy independence and the reduction of carbon emissions as legitimate objectives of zoning.” filed June 15, 2017).

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Consider the average performance for the different fuel types over all four days of the blackouts in Texas. 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 percent, 47.4 percent, 51.5

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Pursue Your Constitutional Right To A Clean Environment In Pennsylvania House next voting day Dec. 11, 12, 13 -- Committee Schedule Senate next voting day Dec. 11, 12, 13 -- Committee Schedule -- Click Here for Senate Agency Budget Hearing Schedule.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 2, 2023

. -- October 2 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- Repsol Gas USA Issued Violation For Denying DEP Right To Document Damaged Shale Gas Well Casing During Investigation Of Uncontrolled Gas Venting In Bradford County [PaEN] -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2023

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY 9:30: House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets to consider House Bill 1215 (Vitali-D- Delaware) the state Act 108 tax credit for hydrogen production would be limited to hydrogen produced for hard-to-electrify sectors, expanded to include a larger incentive to companies using hydrogen produced from renewable (..)

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 17, 2022

In a Friday post, I sketched some thoughts about how the Supreme Court’s vaccine mandate rulings might impact EPA’s power to control carbon emissions. The idea that agencies need especially clear authority for really important regulations is one that the Court’s conservatives invented. That brings us to the West Virginia case.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 23, 2023

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2023

4 Riparian Buffer Planting In Lancaster County -- PA Interfaith Power & Light 10th Annual Conference- No Faith In Fossil Fuels - Nov. 4 Riparian Buffer Planting In Lancaster County -- PA Interfaith Power & Light 10th Annual Conference- No Faith In Fossil Fuels - Nov. 7 -- Pittsburgh-based Contemporary Craft Oct.

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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.” The legislation has strong environmental support as well, including from the Conservation Voters, Sierra Club, PennFuture and PennEnvironment.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

I further argue that, if we continue to develop in these ways, deaths from natural disasters will continue to decline, food surpluses will continue to rise, and global carbon emissions will likely peak and decline soon, preventing temperatures from rising more than three degrees centigrade over pre-industrial levels.

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Environmental Progress

JUNE 29, 2020

In reality, the above facts come from the best-available scientific studies, including those conducted by or accepted by the IPCC, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and other leading scientific bodies. Partly that’s because I was embarrassed.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Other States/National/International -- Inside Climate News: With Fossil Fuel Companies Facing Pressure To Reduce Carbon Emissions, Private Equity Is Buying Up Their Aging Oil, Natural Gas And Coal Assets PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Meadville Tribune: Defense Requests Jan. To Host Nov.

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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. Wolf for vetoing the General Assembly’s ill-advised S.C.R.R.R.

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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., 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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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 17, 2023

TODAY Noon: DCNR Conservation & Natural Resources Advisory Council Hosts Online Discussion Of Storing Carbon Above Ground. WEDNESDAY Noon & 7:00: Better Path Coalition: Webinar Launching 9th Compendium Of Scientific, Medical Findings Demonstrating Risks, Harms Of Natural Gas Development, Infrastructure.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

While the Build Back Better Act puts us on a solid trajectory to combat dangerous climate disruption, more is needed to achieve our national goals to reduce carbon emissions 50 percent by 2030 from 2005 levels and the ultimate goal of net-zero by 2050. “As conservation programs?would?allow?USDA Now we need the U.S. in helping?farmers

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2023

[Posted: May 21, 2023] PA Environment Digest Top 10 Headlines From Harrisburg Last Week -- Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Top 10 Stories: Harrisburg/PA Politics Reported By Local News Media Last Week [PaEN] Articles & NewsClips By Topic - -- 51 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2023

Million EPA Loan For Water Infrastructure Improvements -- Pittsburgh 2030 District Announces Significant Progress In Reducing Carbon Emissions - 44.8% Million EPA Loan To Continue Drinking Water System Improvements -- Post-Gazette: Pittsburgh Officials Announce $52.4 From Baseline; Savings Of $59.7

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Legal Planet

JUNE 30, 2022

Chief Justice Roberts’s majority opinion leaves EPA other options to reduce carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. The key point to notice is that the Clean Power Plan did not limit itself to measures that could be implemented at a particular coal or natural gas power plant.

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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

JULY 29, 2021

For Power Plants [RGGI] [PaEN] -- PA Cap-Star: What Can PA Learn From A Washington State Community’s Transition Away From Fossil Fuels? -- The Guardian: Washington State County First In U.S. Senate Ready To Move Ahead On $1 Trillion Infrastructure Deal -- AP: Infrastructure Deal: U.S.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 8, 2020

In fact, both Environmental Progress’ web site and the central argument of Apocalypse Never is that energy, environmental, and moral progress are united, e.g., that hydro-electric dams and coal are better than burning wood and dung, that natural gas is better than burning coal, and that nuclear is better than natural gas.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2024

With 2024 Lifetime Conservation Leadership Award [PaEN] -- Delaware Highlands Conservancy Holds 30th Anniversary Foods Of The Delaware Highlands Event May 4 [PaEN] -- WVIA: Bernie McGurl, Lackawanna River Conservation Assn. - PaEN] -- Marcellus Drilling News: ‘Selling Oil And Natural Gas To China?’ ‘It

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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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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

In Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies, Supreme Court Held that Appellate Review of Remand Order Extends to All Grounds for Removal. The fossil fuel companies removed the case in March 2021, citing five grounds for removal, including the federal officer removal statute. In a 7-1 decision, the U.S.

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