Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2022

As the state moves toward all-electric buildings, replacing older gas-powered furnaces and air conditioning units with heat pumps can reduce carbon emissions and indoor air pollution while increasing efficiency, comfort and resiliency, especially as extreme heat events increase.

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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. Last year, for the first time ever, US renewable electricity generation surpassed coal-fired electricity generation.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2023

From freezer upgrades in labs to geothermal heating and cooling at Johnstown, the winner will move the University of Pittsburgh toward its carbon neutrality goal. of Pitt’s greenhouse gas emissions inventory. This year, Pitt-Johnstown’s electricity consumption is trending 60-70% above budget allocations.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2023

Since 2010, WCU has cut energy costs by millions of dollars, lowered per capita carbon emissions by more than a third, and significantly reduced the environmental impacts of its campus operations. Three Pennsylvania schools were recognized for their environmental sustainability initiatives by the U.S.

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Environmental Science

JULY 22, 2018

Much of the discussion of climatology in public discourse concerns anthropogenic climate change - the contribution of human activity to such events as carbon particles, greenhouse gases, and their effects such as the Greenhouse Effect and coral bleaching. This leads to the greenhouse effect. Greenhouse Gases.

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Environmental Science

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

There may also be an extreme variation between warm and cool seasons, including extreme winds and storms due to the mixing of cold and warm air. They have, however, developed a great defense mechanism against extreme heat in that they lick their bodies and the saliva cools the blood (22). Sponsored Content.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It attempted to move away from fossil fuels and toward zero-carbon sources like solar power to supply electricity. Section 115 was probably aimed at more localized pollution problems like acid rain, but greenhouse gases unquestionably cause serious harm in other countries. The Plan was Obama’s signature climate policy.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 11, 2022

The president’s executive order aims to use the US government’s procurement power to achieve “carbon pollution-free electricity” by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050. By Jennifer Roy and Julie Miles.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Colorado River water that cooled the plant is part of a broader legal impasse. Water Sector Carbon Emissions, But Its Potential Remains Underdeveloped 0 Comments / August 3, 2021 U.S. utilities have been slower to adopt the energy- and emissions-saving technologies than those in other parts of the world. Brett Walton.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Republicans said the final regulations will increase the cost of electricity for individuals and businesses, have a negative impact on jobs and will not significantly reduce carbon pollution. And in those states RGGI energy efficiency investments of $2.8 billion have produced nearly $13.5 for every dollar invested.

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