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DEP Releases 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update; 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report

PA Environment Daily

Shapiro's 'Lightning' Energy Plan To Lower Energy Costs, Create Jobs, Protect Pennsylvania From Global Energy Instability [PaEN] -- PUC Hearing On Data Center Growth Impacts Finds 30-40% Of Utility Demand Could Be From Data Centers; Concerns About Stranded Costs; Major Commitments To Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Energy Use [PaEN] -- Gov.

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Yes, Virginia, There ARE Federal Climate Laws.

Legal Planet

True, Congress hasn’t passed the comprehensive emission limits that many of us would like to see. But it has passed laws regulating two powerful greenhouse gases, and some other climate laws stretching back over the past five decades. The fee is designed in a way that reinforces EPA regulations of methane emission.

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The Infuriating Story Told by the Corporate and National Carbon Emissions Data

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Carbon Majors database includes emissions traced to investor-owned companies like ExxonMobil, BP, and Peabody; state-owned entities like SaudiAramco and Gazprom; and a handful of nation-states with dedicated fossil fuel and cement production, presently or historically, like China, Former Soviet Union.

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These Climate Policy Rollbacks Just Made Our Financial Future a Lot Riskier 

Union of Concerned Scientists

Three days later, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), one of the three independent agencies responsible for regulating banks, withdrew from a collaboration among the agencies to create guidelines on climate-related financial risk. Industry representatives such as the American Petroleum Institute and U.S.

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Why Congress Must Block a Liability Waiver for the Fossil Fuel Industry 

Union of Concerned Scientists

1) People are feeling the impacts of climate change and footing the bill The impending arrival of Danger Season is a stark reminder that climate change impacts are already devastating communities worldwide, intensifying many kinds of extreme weather events, driving sea level rise, and harming human health.

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Day After Earth Day, the Climate Pope, and the 89%

Legal Planet

One such survey involved 130,000 people in 125 countries, which account for 96% of the worlds carbon emissions, and was published in the journal Nature Climate Change. The administration has officially filed proposed regulations to reinstate Schedule F but renamed Schedule Policy/Career. Schedule F 2.0:

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Investors Need to Know the Full Scope of Corporate Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

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.