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Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 1.26.23

PA Environment Daily

5:15 to 6:15 p.m. -- Philly Voice: Greening Vacant Lots In Philly Raised Surrounding Property Values By 4.3% In First Year, Wharton Business School Study Finds -- TribLive: Pittsburgh Looks To Spend $2.6

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Team PA & Clean Air Task Force Convene Leaders To Discuss Challenges, Opportunities Of Industrial Decarbonization; DOE Provides Update On Decarbonization Investments In PA

PA Environment Daily

“Creating economic opportunity across all of Pennsylvania while advancing sustainability and industrial decarbonization will require all of us to work together outside the political fray, where policymakers hear from those who are on the ground building Pennsylvania's economy and where leaders from across the state's industries learn from one other."

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Cost-Benefit Analysis: FAQs

Legal Planet

A: A few laws explicitly require cost-benefit analysis or at least something along those lines. Those laws are a minority. There are a few laws that actually prohibit agencies from considering costs, but agencies do cost-benefit analysis when implementing those laws for informational purposes.

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Former Employees Of Eureka Resources Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Company Ask For Criminal Investigation Of Eureka And An Audit Of DEP Over Alleged Workplace, Environmental Violations

PA Environment Daily

We have been subjected to continual gas inhalation, methanol byproducts, carbon monoxide, H2S [hydrogen sulfide] gas, etc., Myself, Eric Steppe, was directly exposed to carbon monoxide gas and H2S gas. We cannot have these conversations in good faith, because of the corrosive power of money in politics.

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The Fuss about Methane

Legal Planet

There are even indications that near-term cuts might be easier to achieve for methane than for CO 2 , for a mix of technical, economic, and political reasons. It replaced an earlier, more dangerous, product called “town gas” or “coal gas,” which consisted mainly of hydrogen and carbon monoxide and was produced by heating coal in.

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Wednesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips 12.14.22

PA Environment Daily

Natural Gas Prices Rise As Cold Wave Boosts Heating Demand -- Bloomberg: LNG Natural Gas Supplier New Fortress Surges After 3,000% Dividend Increase PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- PennLive - Jan Murphy: PA House Democrats Accuse Republican Leader Cutler Of Inappropriate Transfer Of $51.5

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Testimony of Michael D. Shellenberger Founder and President, Environmental Progress For the House Oversight Committee August 5, 2020

Environmental Progress

In a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi after that hearing I noted that I am aware that Congressional hearings involve some political theater. However, I am not a political appointee. I did not expect to be drawn into political theater that violates basic civility. That may be the case.