Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 10, 2024

In an attempt to expand its “natural” gas infrastructure across Ontario, Enbridge Gas is telling residents that gas is the cheapest way to heat their homes. Today, we filed a complaint with the Competition Bureau over Enbridge Gas’ deceptive marketing. But Enbridge Gas does not want you to know that.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

This is partly because hydrogen production is energy inefficient and––when derived from fossil fuels––still a significant source of carbon emissions. Green hydrogen––produced with renewable electricity and water­­––is often described as a tool for decarbonizing the challenging last 10% of greenhouse gas emissions.

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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.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The possibility of snagging some of this funding may also help nudge some lagging states to think seriously about cutting carbon emissions. Under the Clean Air Act, California has the unique ability to set its own standards for tailpipe emissions from new vehicles, including greenhouse gases. Download as PDF.

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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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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The OEB decision would also encourage more heat pumps in new buildings, which would lower energy bills for new homebuyers while lowering carbon pollution. Enbridge has sent deceptive communications to municipalities across Ontario, which have been refuted and debunked by Environmental Defence Natural gas is actually methane gas.

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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 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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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

JULY 6, 2023

Ninety percent of the hydrogen being produced today is known as grey hydrogen and is produced using methane, a process whose greenhouse gas emissions make it an unacceptable solution for reducing our carbon footprint. Blue hydrogen has a very, very large greenhouse gas footprint.”

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

clean hydrogen industry that creates good-paying jobs, while also reducing carbon emissions. The Treasury Department’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) provides definitions of key terms in the statute, including lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions, qualified clean hydrogen, and qualified clean hydrogen production facility.

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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. To assess how serious net zero pledges are from corporations, there are three fundamental questions one should ask: Are they including all greenhouse gas emissions?

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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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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

According to the World Bank, Kazakhstan is one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in Europe and Central Asia. Most emissions come from the energy sector (82%), followed by agriculture (9.6%) and industrial processes (6.4%). Chinese investments fuel Kazakhstan’s energy economy. share in Kazakh oil production.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 24, 2022

38 percent of participants said action should be taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, 26 percent said to use ‘geoengineering’ and other scientific fixes to counter climate change and 11 percent said to learn to adapt. Posted: June 24, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 30, 2023

This bill, if left unamended by the Senate, would weaken the carbon price by expanding the definition of eligible farming machinery and extending the exemption from carbon pricing for qualifying farming fuel to include marketable natural gas and propane.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

There are multiple realistic, tangible solutions that would rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, yet policy addressing anthropogenic climate change remains slow and insufficient. The industry is continuing to distort the narrative and shape the very science policymakers rely on to make informed decisions.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2022

To compare driving on electricity versus gasoline, we need to consider all of the global warming emissions that occur in producing and using those fuels. global warming) emissions. Switching from conventional vehicles to electric vehicles reduces carbon emissions and smog-forming air pollution.

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Cresforum

OCTOBER 28, 2021

government in reducing greenhouse gas emissions around the world is to make strategic investments in research and development (R&D), such as those included in the Energy Act of 2020 , which serves as a strong foundation to an all-of-the-above approach: renewables, nuclear, fuel and energy efficiency, hydrogen, electrification (i.e.,

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Cresforum

MARCH 10, 2022

In the Unites States’ march to transition to clean energy and reduce greenhouse gasses, resilience may be the most important word to summarize 2021. And while emissions have slightly risen, the U.S. produced natural gas grew 9.4 Similarly, economy-wide emissions hit 6,263 Metric tons of CO2 in 2021, up 5.8

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Over the last decade 19 coal-fired power plants shutdown as a result of competition from natural gas, yet the communities and workers were left on their own to deal with the consequences. It is caused by human activity and carbon emissions. A climate crisis is happening before our eyes.

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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.

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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.

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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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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

JANUARY 6, 2022

Sharif Street (D-Philadelphia) introduced Senate Bill 979 which amends the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard Act to establish a new Clean Energy Standard and encourage investment in carbon capture technology to achieve net-zero carbon emissions from power plants. Running parallel to the AEPS will be a Clean Energy Standard.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 4, 2021

It is caused by human activity and carbon emissions. Meanwhile, over the past decade, more than a dozen coal-fired power plants have closed in Pennsylvania, due to the shifting economics of energy, and a rapid movement to less expensive natural gas generation,” said Sen. A climate crisis is happening before our eyes.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

On September 1, the Independent Regulatory Review Commission voted 3 to 2 to approve the final Environmental Quality Board regulation to reduce carbon emissions from power plants. For more information on the final regulation, visit DEP’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative webpage.

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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. Seeks Cooperation With China On Climate, But Not At Any Price -- Financial Times: U.S.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Methane is a greenhouse gas that has more heat-trapping power than CO2, although it also clears out of the atmosphere much faster than does CO2. Controlling the methane emissions, some of it from wasteful accidental release at natural gas wells, is critical for controlling global warming. Hopefully not.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Some of HSBC’s dealings were on behalf of Saudi Aramco, the world’s second-ranked company in Fortune’s Global 500 and often dubbed the world’s biggest polluter for being the largest corporate emitter of greenhouse gases. Many UN documents say emissions should be cut by 45 percent by 2030. degrees Celsius, or 2.7

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2023

On October 13, the US Department of Energy awarded two hydrogen hub projects that include Pennsylvania-- a natural gas-based Appalachian Hub in Western PA, West Virginia and Ohio and a Mid-Atlantic Hub in eastern PA, Delaware and New Jersey based on the use of renewable and nuclear energy to make the hydrogen.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 5, 2024

On February 28, Ohio US Senator Sherrod Brown and Oregon US Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Protecting American Households from Rising Energy Costs Act , legislation that would ban the export of crude oil or liquefied natural gas (LNG) to our biggest adversaries: China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Read more here. Read more here.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 1, 2024

Corporation Shell Plc (Royal Dutch Shell) Image Image Products Liquefied Natural Gas, Lubricants, Natural gas, Petrochemicals, Petroleum The Corrib gas project of Royal Dutch Shell - Photo Credit William Murphy Summary Royal Dutch Shell is a fossil fuel exploration company.

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