PA Environment Daily

JUNE 9, 2025

Instead, House Bill 502—tied directly to his ‘Lightning Plan’—serves fossil fuel interests while removing the very tools communities use to protect themselves. “At Similar efforts in the past including the SPEED program have resulted in majority fossil fuel project approvals. Read more here.] Click Here for letter.

Government

Enviromental Defense

JULY 21, 2025

Simply stated, more pipelines mean that more fossil fuels are pumped or mined from the ground, which are eventually burned, producing more greenhouse gases. As my colleague Emilia Belliveau says, “pipelines enable more fossil fuel use. We need less.”

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day MW-Day In 2024-25; Extreme Weather Risk Big Factor [PaEN] Related Articles This Week: -- Coterra Energy Fined $299,000 For Contaminating 13 Private Water Supplies In Lenox Twp., 9 Webinar On Growth Of A.I.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

The latest auction resulted in this generation mix —with 67% of the generation in PJM being from fossil fuels, with gas being the largest source. The budget bill is also going to increase greenhouse gas emissions and that's where federal policies may be the most damaging. Data Centers So now we come to A.I.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

He’ll try to curb California’s power to cut greenhouse gases from cars and trucks. trillion in tax incentives, grants and loans over ten years to stimulate faster and broader cuts in carbon emissions than would occur in their absence. We have made too much progress in cutting our dependence on fossil fuel.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 7, 2025

The EPA, following administrator Lee Zeldin’s anti-science and anti-public health agenda, also just sent its proposal to reconsider EPA’s greenhouse gas endangerment finding to the White House Office of Management and Budget.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JULY 30, 2025

MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day MW-Day In 2024-25; Extreme Weather Risk Big Factor [PaEN] Related Articles This Week: -- Coterra Energy Fined $299,000 For Contaminating 13 Private Water Supplies In Lenox Twp., 9 Webinar On Growth Of A.I.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

This is after Zeldin told senators in written answers for his confirmation that he planned to learn from EPA career staff about the current state of the science on greenhouse gas emissions and follow all legal requirements. When asked if he wanted fossil fuels to come back big time, Wright responded, Absolutely.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2025

Because at the end of the day, there comes a point where we're going to clean up our emissions, but we need to also say renewables have a place. A huge greenhouse gas producing state. They absolutely have a place. billion for 2025 26 compared to only $2.2 billion for the previous year. Climate change isn't an issue that can wait.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

-- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Filmmaker Offering Online Preview Of Documentary On Pittsburgh Regions Longtime Air Pollution Problems -- Inquirer: Penn Climate Scientist Michael Mann $1 Million Verdict Reduced To $5,000 -- Beaver Times - Paul Zavolta, Master Gardener: Embracing Moss In Your Yard -- Williamsport Sun: Native Wildflowers Are Abundant (..)

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2025

MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day MW-Day In 2024-25; Extreme Weather Risk Big Factor [PaEN] Related Articles This Week: -- Coterra Energy Fined $299,000 For Contaminating 13 Private Water Supplies In Lenox Twp., So Far This Year [PaEN] -- PJM Electricity Auction: PJM Lost 2.8 9 Webinar On Growth Of A.I.

Electricity

Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2025

EPA’s core argument is that the statute requires it to determine whether an industry’s emissions “significantly cause or contribute” to climate change and that the industry’s carbon emissions don’t meet that standard. power industry’s emissions are nearly as large as Russia’s total emissions.

Pollution Control

Scientific American

JUNE 12, 2025

” The repeals, he said, would save fossil fuel generation and advance President Donald Trumps "energy dominance" agenda. power sector isn’t a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions, Schwartz said. They are changing the goal posts that basically eliminate greenhouse gas regulation." Maher said.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2025

And if you want to get out of RGGI [Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative], come to the table and work on this with us." It's not just enough for us as a Commonwealth to reduce our reliance on fossil fuel infrastructure. Shapiro had this to say to legislators who just want to attack him and his plan. .I We thank Gov.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

-- DEP Invites Comments On State Plan To Implement Federal Rule Requiring Methane Emissions Reductions From Conventional Oil & Gas, Shale Gas Facilities; 7 Hearings Set [PaEN] -- DEP: XTO Energy Failed To Restore 5 Multi-Million Gallon Shale Gas Water Impoundments In Butler County [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 24 (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency will repeal all greenhouse gas emissions standards for the power sector under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act and repeal 2024 amendments to the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) that directly result in coal-fired power plants having to shut down.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2025

By ceding federal authority to regulate greenhouse gases, the Trump administration could unintentionally relinquish regulatory powers to California and other progressive states to carry out their own climate agenda, Carlson told the LA Times. “If It prohibits gas and other fossil fuels in most new buildings.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 16, 2025

On June 11, less than five months into the Trump administration, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin used a rulemaking about regulating power plant carbon pollution to officially establish climate denial as EPA policy. Plus, a rundown on how to fight back. What is EPA proposing to do? And that’s not all.

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

They’re called Scope 3 emissions, and they are key to understanding the big picture of a company’s impact on the environment. First, let me explain the three “scopes” of carbon emissions. Scope 1 emissions come from power plants, oil rigs and other sources directly owned or controlled by a company.

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The destruction caused by climate change is directly linked to human activity, primarily burning fossil fuels. There are multiple realistic, tangible solutions that would rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, yet policy addressing anthropogenic climate change remains slow and insufficient.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2023

Previous IPCC reports have concluded that human activities such as burning fossil fuels are the primary cause of climate change: about 70 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions come from burning fossil fuels for electricity, transportation, and industry. The result is a world that is rapidly warming.

Fossil Fuels

Circle of Blue

AUGUST 3, 2021

Like all other industries, the clock is ticking for the sector to cut its carbon pollution, given President Joe Biden’s goal to halve the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050. Are they capturing and avoiding more methane emissions than would otherwise occur?

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

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. First and foremost, despite some fossil fuel interests swinging for the fossil fuel-favored fences, the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v.

Fossil Fuels

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.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Texas and a number of other states have passed laws banning what they call “boycotts of fossil fuel companies.” ” More precisely, they ban state investment or contracting with firms that “boycott” fossil fuel companies. That’s generally — but not always — going to be firms “utilizing” fossil fuels.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

Social Cost of Carbon D. EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA) A. Standards for carbon and methane emissions from new sources Permitting requirements for carbon emissions from new stationary sources of major sources of existing pollutants. Co-benefits E.

Law

Clean Energy Law

MARCH 11, 2021

In December 2018, after having successfully reduced greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector by 53.3%, a majority of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) jurisdictions announced plans to design a program to address carbon emissions from the combustion of transportation fuels.

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Trading in disinformation In its climate lobbying report, ExxonMobil deemed 52 associations “aligned” for acknowledging the risks of climate change, publicly backing the Paris Agreement goal of limiting average global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius and taking steps to reduce carbon emissions.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

It turns out that most of them are 50-60% reliant on fossil fuels, with a lot of the remainder coming from nuclear and hydro. However, there are important differences in the mix of gas and coal in generation, which matters a lot since coal-fired generators emit much more carbon per kilowatt. Fossil Fuel Use.

2030

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

Today, hydrogen is overwhelmingly produced through a heavily polluting fossil fuel-based process. Foremost among these is a legal memo from EPA regarding Treasury’s interpretation and implementation of “lifecycle greenhouse-gas emissions” in 45V. It is a climate problem, not a climate solution.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

It’s not surprising to see companies lobbying to try to optimize this lucrative credit for their profits rather than ensuring the produced hydrogen is genuinely low-carbon, but it is astounding to see regulators at risk of following suit. When it comes to hydrogen production, these two points matter—a lot. And this isn’t just hypothetical.

Clean Energy

Scientific American

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

greenhouse gas emissions—one of the largest of the past decade—is still not enough to meet the country’s commitments under the Paris climate accord A projected drop in U.S.

Carbon Emissions

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.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2023

The Pittsburgh 2030 District , a project of the Green Building Alliance , has released its 2022 Progress Report , revealing District property partners have reduced carbon emissions by 44.8% This achievement moves the District within range of reaching its target goal of 50-65% reduction in carbon emissions before the 2030 deadline.

Carbon Emissions

Enviromental Defense

MAY 2, 2024

Critically, Canada must quickly reduce its dependence on fossil fuels, given that producing and burning oil and gas accounts for over 80 per cent of Canada’s total emissions. The electricity sector is the main driver of emissions reduction, thanks to the coal phase out.

Greenhouse

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2021

There are an increasing number of companies and countries that are pledging to reach Net Zero carbon emissions–or carbon neutrality–by 2050. What the IEA found was that the world should not invest in or approve new fossil fuel projects. degrees , the “safe” threshold for global warming.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2024

All political parties can and should adopt strong policies to reduce our province’s greenhouse gas emissions, while building a robust green energy sector that supports Albertans and their communities.

Fossil Fuels