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

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

20 To Review 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment, PA Greenhouse Gas Inventory, Climate Action Plan Ohio River Valley Institute Feb. Billion Thru 2042; No Regard For Environmental Compliance Record PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2024

Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. Shapiro’s Offer To Work On Legislation To Make The Electric Grid More Reliable, Diversify Our Energy Sources, Lower Energy Costs For Ratepayers, Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2022

million square feet, released its 2021 Progress Report detailing efforts by partners who have committed to a dramatic reduction in energy use and carbon emissions in their buildings by the year 2030. The District also announced a new focus on carbon emissions. below the baseline (compared to 13% in 2020), amounting to $4.6

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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. 19 EarthTalks Webinar: The Economic Impact Of Carbon Emission Trading Scheme On Building Retrofits [PaEN] -- PA Solar Center, Partners Host Feb.

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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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PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2022

9 Coal Mine and Museum, Carbon County [PaEN] -- DCNR Blog: What Can We Do About The Spongy Moth [Formerly Known As Gypsy Moth] Outbreak -- Frances Rodgers Partners With French & Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust To Preserve 7.5 Of All The Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Revenue Statewide Goes To One State Senate District - Sen.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

When it comes to climate action, it can be difficult to understand what makes a strong climate plan that puts us on a pathway to zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – and what new policies and tools are actually dangerous distractions from real solutions. The technology has a track record of over-promising and under-delivering.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 25, 2023

Oil/Natural Gas Production Other States/National/International -- WITF/NPR: The U.S.

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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

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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Circle of Blue

JUNE 6, 2022

It would raise the cost of electricity for 5 million retail power customers, increase greenhouse gas emissions associated with electricity generation, and eliminate key grid-support services that hydropower provides. More coal and natural gas will certainly increase greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2024

NRDC continues to believe the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI, would deliver that future for Pennsylvanians and fully support the state's continued defense of that regulation in court. The Nature Conservancy PA “ The Nature Conservancy in Pennsylvania is encouraged by Gov. Click Here for Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2023

5 - ReImagining Shuttered Coal Plants Summit , 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. -- LancasterOnline: Mountville Holds Community Watershed Event Oct. 7 -- Pittsburgh-based Contemporary Craft Oct. 14 Climate Awakening Forum - Crafting A Sustainable Future , 9:30 a.m. 14 -- PA Meaningful Watershed Education Program 4-Part Facilitator Certification Training Starts Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

29; No Information Yet On Whether Oil & Gas Development Health Risks Will Be Included [PaEN] -- DEP Posts 59 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In Sept. 29; No Information Yet On Whether Oil & Gas Development Health Risks Will Be Included [PaEN] -- DEP Posts 59 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In Sept. KTA Trail Challenge Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2022

Yudichak: Analysis Concludes RGGI Carbon Tax Could Hike Electricity Rates For Consumers [If you don’t count reinvestment of $400 million in RGGI emission credit auction proceeds.] -- StateImpactPA - Jon Hurdle: PA Republican Measures To Boost Natural Gas Output Unlikely To Succeed, Analysts Say -- PUC Holds April 13 Hearings On Proposed 7.8%

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Legal Planet

APRIL 5, 2024

Research by the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, cited by the US Environmental Protection Agency , suggests that manufacturing EVs produces about 60% more carbon emissions than fossil fuel cars, but those extra emissions are significantly overshadowed by the lower per-mile emissions that it takes to drive them.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 28, 2023

To Host Young Naturalist Camp June 11-13 In Westmoreland County -- Warren Times: Audubon Nature Center - Night Transforms The Forest -- NextPittsburgh: Latodami Nature Center Offers A Quieter Way To Explore North Park In Allegheny County -- LancasterOnline: Lancaster Conservancy Water Week Connects Land Management To Water Health June 2 to 10 -- U.S. (..)

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

Even if it were possible, simply eliminating carbon emissions from fossil fuel production would not address the myriad impacts of fossil fuel production faced primarily by Indigenous and front-line communities. Carbon capture and release: a license to pollute . Hydrogen: Natural Gas Industry’s Hail Mary Pass.

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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.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 31, 2022

Brian Langloss, a senior field representative for the conservation nonprofit Oceana. Carbon dioxide creates a corrosive acid if it comes into contact with water and if released into the atmosphere, it is a planet-warming greenhouse gas. New York legislators may soon crack down on the state’s largest plastic manufacturers.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Thank you one and all for your conservation leadership! The diversity, creativity and just the sheer number of projects and programs is truly amazing! This kind of leadership deserves our respect and the support by state lawmakers. Thank you to local news media for publishing these stories! Support Local Journalism!

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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. Hernick on U.S. and around the world.”.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

In the battle to slow global warming, carbon dioxide is the chief target. Environmental Protection Agency show that CO2 accounts for the vast majority of heat-trapping greenhouse gases emitted by the U.S. Before natural gas is burned, hydrogen and CO2 can be separated out. Studies by the U.S. from 1990–2019.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2021

EPA Invites Philadelphia To Apply For $260 Million In Water Infrastructure Finance Loan -- Allegheny County Conservation District Webinar: Dec. 15 -- Senate Republicans Blast AG Shapiro For Approving Final Regulation Reducing Carbon Emissions From Power Plants -- Rep. House returns to session Dec. House returns to session Dec.

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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. Efficiency programs are the best and cheapest way to reduce carbon emissions because they both lower energy costs and carbon emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2022

In 2021 [PaEN] -- Scranton Times Editorial: At Least Pick Low-Hanging Fruit To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions -- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: Why PA Natural Gas Might Not Be Poised To Come To Europe’s Rescue -- PA Insurance Dept.,

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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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PA Environment Daily

JULY 22, 2021

That's because Pennsylvania is on the verge of implementing the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) setting carbon pollution limits on power plants [ Read more here ], an ambitious step the Commonwealth is taking to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and fight against climate change. Click Here to read more.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

A year ago, GFANZ said all its members “must align” their portfolios to the UN’s Race to Zero “stringent criteria” aimed at halving global emissions by 2030 and bringing net carbon emissions to zero by 2050. Scientists say such targets would help keep the average global temperature increase under 1.5

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The November 1 PA Environment Digest is now available. 4 Online Lancaster County Lodestar Awards Program Philadelphia, Partners Open Solar Training Lab At Frankford H.S. 4 Online Lancaster County Lodestar Awards Program Philadelphia, Partners Open Solar Training Lab At Frankford H.S. 10; Business Meeting Dec. 7-8, Webinars Nov.

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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 14, 2022

The significance of this proposal is that it is the first time House or Senate Republicans have recognized a need to reduce carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants and to help communities and workers caught in the transition to the new clean energy economy. percent to the Energy Communities Trust Fund; -- 12.5

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2022

. -- Farm Aid: $20 billion to cut emissions in the agriculture sector, including includes $8.45 The IRA will also prompt oil and gas companies to be better stewards of America’s precious natural resources through the Methane Emission Reduction Program - the first direct federal fee on greenhouse gas emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Remember to check the PA Environmental Council Bill Tracker for the status and updates on pending state legislation and regulations that affect environmental and conservation efforts in Pennsylvania. The bill was announced in March, introduced in June and is now in the Senate Appropriations Committee awaiting action. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Let’s hope the members of the General Assembly rise to the occasion and provide some real conservation leadership this year by passing good bills. House Bill 1226 (Sturla-D- Lancaster) requires farms given preferential tax abatement under the state’s Clean and Green Program to have a conservation plan. We call them “Dog Whistles.”

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA transformed the state’s earlier clean energy standard efforts from administrative fiat to law and sets more aggressive goals to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to 60% from a 1990 baseline by 2030, and 15% from a 1990 baseline by 2050.

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