MGKF Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The holding halts former Governor Tom Wolf’s efforts to make Pennsylvania the first major fossil-fuel producing state to implement a price on carbon emissions. Read More » Tags: Air , Climate Change , Commonwealth Court , Pennsylvania , Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection , Taxes

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants under the Clean Air Act. We are deeply troubled by this decision that undermines the authority of the very agency tasked with the mission ‘to protect human health and the environment.’ On June 30, the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency. That’s because the case, which was about the nature and scope of EPA authority in regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants, turned on a rule that does not exist. Simply by taking West Virginia v. EPA the Supreme Court signaled ominous things to come.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

Despite Shell’s insistence that it’s a climate champion, it has chosen to stay aligned with CAPP, whose toxic, secretive influence has killed or undermined laws that were designed to protect public health, cut pollution, and curb carbon emissions – including during the COVID-19 crisis. . Increasing them a lot.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Strategies identified in a new industrial decarbonization roadmap would slash carbon emissions by 84% by 2050 in Pennsylvania, achieving crucial climate goals, yielding billions in annual savings, growing jobs, and improving public health, according to a new analysis prepared for the Ohio River Valley Institute.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2023

On August 8, the Evangelical Environmental Network announced it has submitted 51,584 comments from individual pro-life Christians in support of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed standards on carbon pollution from fossil-fuel-fired power plants ( Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2023-0072-0001 ).

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Brag

MAY 4, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), urging it to strengthen the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) by maintaining the blending requirements for 2023; denying all pending Small Refinery Exemptions (SRE); eliminating proposed retroactive cuts to the renewable volume obligations (RVO); and setting RFS volumes at the statutory levels.

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

The Ecological Society of America, representing 8,000 research ecologists and environmental scientists, is greatly concerned about the recent United States Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Here are the highlights from the Ontario Auditor General’s Environmental Reports – which can also be called the Ontario government’s lowlights. However, it is not the relative number of environmentally “friendly” press releases that matters.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

If carbon emissions continue to rise until the middle of the century, this figure climbs to $2.2 Environmental Protection Agency. Over the next few years, the greater incidence of extreme rainfall, extreme heat, and rapid temperature shifts are projected to add $1.5 billion annually.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 14, 2023

In the same release, Rhode Island Acting State Energy Commissioner Christopher Kearns added: This will help our regional New England grid make the transition to clean energy, reduce our collective carbon emissions significantly, and deliver a major victory in our fight against climate change.”

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Brag

AUGUST 19, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would be required to carry out a study of the emissions effects of ethanol-blended fuels in light-duty vehicles and light-duty trucks, for the purpose of updating the Motor Vehicle Emission Simulator modeling system. Under the bill, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The programs supported by a memorandum of understanding, combined with other financial incentives, are intended to support industry and jobs in these states while reducing net carbon emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2022

“This collaboration with Constellation is an exciting next step toward meeting our environmental goals of reaching 100% renewable purchased electricity by 2025 and reducing carbon emissions and energy use 75% by 2035.” Environmental Protection Agency.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

He was on to something And the lobsterman was correct: we can blame carbon emissions for ocean acidification and warming in the Gulf of Maine. GOM communities, not fossil fuel interests, should determine policies that affect GOM people.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Black carbon’s lifetime is on the order of days to a couple weeks, which is about 0.004% of the lifetime of other pollutants like CO 2 (which has a lifetime of 300 – 1000 years). This means that if we focus on limiting black carbon emissions, we will see very fast improvements in our atmosphere and health. link] Evans, M.,

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2023

Blue, like grey, is produced using methane, but with carbon capture technology tacked on for the hypothetical removal of CO2 emissions from the atmosphere and then the storage of that carbon underground. But how clean is it really? Blue hydrogen has a very, very large greenhouse gas footprint.” We’re tired of all this smoke!

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2024

This visionary project aligns seamlessly with Governor Shapiro’s dedication to combatting climate change by significantly reducing carbon emissions. The Council works to advance energy efficiency across state agencies through projects like PA PULSE that lower emissions while cutting costs for Pennsylvanians.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act’s new hydrogen production tax credit , known as code 45V, is intended to incentivize a shift to low-carbon hydrogen production by offering producers a credit that increases in value as the carbon emissions associated with produced hydrogen declines.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

More than 20,000 Americans died prematurely in 2015 from tailpipe emissions, according to a 2019 study. Writ large, transportation is responsible for 29 percent of US carbon emissions—more than any other sector—and car and truck emissions today represent 81 percent of the US transportation sector’s global warming pollution.

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E2 Law Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency. On June 30, 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its long-awaited decision in West Virginia, et al. By a 6-3 opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Court ruled in favor of the four petitioners, holding that the U.S.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The US puts a dollar figure on the damage caused by carbon emissions, but new research finds it’s too low, meaning the benefits of reducing emissions are being underestimated. Effectively, SCC indicates what price society should be willing to pay now to avoid the future damage of today’s carbon emissions.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 28, 2023

In China, government plans to peak and neutralise national carbon emissions, and for a wholesale green transition , have caused a boom in “green employment”. He graduated in 2015 and spent four years working for two major charities, gaining experience in environmental protection, and poverty and hunger-reduction.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Now we need to see that same urgency in plans for implementation – concrete and swift measures to reduce carbon emissions, end plastic pollution and remove toxic chemicals from our daily lives.” – Tim Gray, Executive Director.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 6, 2023

The provincial government continues to attack Ontario’s environmental protections and force sprawl onto farms and natural areas, rather than address the need for new homes in our communities.

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E2 Law Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

26, 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) solicited public input to inform two new Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) programs creating standards and labeling for construction materials that have “substantially lower levels of embodied greenhouse gas emissions.”

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Furthermore, the CRC underscored the foreseeable nature of harm stemming from states’ carbon emissions, supported by established scientific evidence. GC26 provides the first authoritative guidance on child-centered environmental rights, explicitly acknowledging the right to clean healthy sustainable environment.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2022

While the facility had finished its planned lifespan, it could have run longer, but environmental regulations and market conditions made that impractical. Cheswick is one of only a half-dozen remaining coal-fired plants in Pennsylvania, and the state Department of Environmental Protection predicts that none will operate after 2025.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency et al. Instead, the Court has ruled that, though the agency can still regulate carbon emissions, it must do so narrowly and set standards solely based on options available at individual power plant facilities, such as efficiency measures to improve plant-level heat rates.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In July 2022, the High Court of England and Wales in R (Friends of the Earth Ltd and Others) v Secretary of State for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy found that the UK Government’s plans to cut carbon emissions were inadequate and breached national law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 9, 2024

kg CO 2 e per kilogram of hydrogen produced, with carbon emissions assessed on a lifecycle basis as already defined in a long-standing section of the Clean Air Act. In the underlying statutory text , the threshold for “clean hydrogen” is clearly defined: 0.45 And that’s just for electrolytically produced hydrogen.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

“There's also a low methane rating, which is really designed to evaluate methane emissions on operations, both at a site and a facility level. Methane, the largest component of natural gas, traps up to 80 times as much heat as carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. Applegate noted the U.S. Read more here - supplemental EPA rule.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

The National Development and Reform Commission’s Department of Resource Conservation and Environmental Protection said in a statement that energy intensity increased 9.5% Yang Fuqiang thinks it is unreasonable to make energy-producing provinces such as Inner Mongolia solely responsible for cutting carbon emissions.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Once the investigation was complete, the court ordered France to take immediate and concrete actions to comply with its commitments on cutting carbon emissions and repair the damages caused by its inaction by December 31, 2022. In Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action Incorporated v.

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Environmental Progress

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Last Sunday, hundreds of pro-nuclear people in 33 cities around the world stood up for nuclear energy as a crucial technology to achieve the goals of universal prosperity and environmental protection. During that time, I have never seen a more depressing, death-affirming environmental protest than XR’s protest in London.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) in order to operate its proposed CCS facility. [1] 1] GCS has stated, “[t]he permit application comes after years of comprehensive data collection and analysis which determined that the area’s geologic pore space is ideally suited to build and operate a world-class carbon sequestration project.”

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 10, 2019

During his United Nations (“UN”) Speech, Brazil President Bolsonaro made clear his government’s commitment to environmental protection and sustainable development to benefit Brazil and the world. United Nations General Debate – New York, September 24, 2019. He presented this position to the General Assembly in the form of a “.

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