PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

Under PACER, 70% of the revenue will be directed back to Pennsylvania residents as a rebate on their electric bill – more than any other cap-and-invest program in the nation – resulting in long-term, price relief on energy costs. Pennsylvania is 45th in the nation in terms of investing in clean energy sources like wind, solar, and hydropower.

Electricity 106

Electricity Natural Gas Clean Energy Renewable Energy 106

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 2, 2024

1-31 Grants -- EPA Awards $55.7 28 to Oct. 6 [PaEN] Background On Issues -- Lt.

Nuclear Power 60

Nuclear Power 2024 Clean Energy Renewable Energy 60

Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law and Environmental Defense Fund have just launched IRAtracker.org. Source: iratracker.org The IRA is this country’s largest climate investment to date. Similarly, other agencies have made significant progress towards implementing the IRA programs they administer.

Renewable Energy 106

Renewable Energy Ocean Clean Air Act Climate Change 106

Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

In order to steer investment toward environmentally sustainable activities, the European Union launched the Taxonomy Regulation framework to define activities deemed sustainable. The following elements of the Regulation proposal are dealt with in this review. of the proposal) and for existing installation only until 2040 (see §4.28).

Fossil Fuels 52

Fossil Fuels Regulations Waste Technology 52

Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2020

For years, legislators, policymakers, and business – Dominion Energy – have been avoiding the writing on the wall that climate change is having a substantial impact on Virginians, whether it be the fate of our historic sites in Williamsburg, the crop yield in the Shenandoah Valley, or an even more miserable pollen season in.

2020 52

2020 Renewable Energy Nuclear Power 2030 52

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

Thank you for your leadership! -- Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen [PaEN] -- PennLive - Charles Thompson: 45 Years After Infamous Accident, Why Are They Still Cleaning Up Three Mile Island?

Conservation 89

Conservation Air Pollution Climate Change Renewable Energy 89

Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

On 14 January 2020, a proposal of regulation establishing the Just Transition Fund was published, detailing the rules that should apply to it. - Interestingly enough, article 5 of the proposed regulation sets a list of activities the JTF shall not support and it includes the decommissioning or construction of nuclear power stations.

Fossil Fuels 130

Fossil Fuels Regulations 2020 2030 130

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

29; No Information Yet On Whether Oil & Gas Development Health Risks Will Be Included Health Department Distributing Free Potassium Iodide Tablets To Pennsylvanians Near State’s Four Active Nuclear Power Plants Sept. Decline In Energy Use; $4.6 Million In Energy Savings; 14.6% KTA Trail Challenge Sept.

Conservation 52

Conservation Nuclear Power Waste Pollution Control 52

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This year’s list includes a diverse array of topics, from concerns over our energy and transportation infrastructure; housing and land conservation; international and local climate change; food security and contamination; and water quality of our world’s oceans. But despite producing enough food to support its 1.3

2024 40

2024 Ocean Conservation Paris Agreement 40

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

The House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing May 1 on cryptocurrency and climate change. At the hearing, Robert Altenburg, PennFuture’s Senior Director for Energy and Climate presented an overview of cryptocurrency mining in Pennsylvania and its environmental impacts.

Climate Change 55

Climate Change Nuclear Power Fossil Fuels Waste 55

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2022

Grid modeling tools have a significant real-world impact because utilities, grid operators, regulators and policymakers rely on these tools to make investment and policy decisions. Capacity expansion models are the ones that get all the glory these days because utilities, grid operators and regulators use them to make investment decisions.

Electricity 256

Electricity Clean Energy Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy 256

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. climate litigation charts. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE. Climate Litigation Chart (Update #92): FEATURED CASE.

2016 40

2016 Climate Change Fossil Fuels Greenhouse 40

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2022

The revenue projections done for the unconventional fee regulation were based on DEP receiving 2,000 permits a year. The last update was in 2014. Read more here.] There has been no increase in fees for conventional oil and gas drillers since 2014. Over 80 percent of program costs are staff expenses. Read more here.] Read more here.]

2022 97

2022 2020 2014 Law 97

Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

Under the law, “carbon neutrality” means that for every ton of CO 2 emitted in the state by a regulated EGU an equivalent amount of CO 2 must be reduced, removed, prevented, or offset. regulated by the Utilities Commission; and 2. The law limits offsets to 5%. The reduction goals apply to electric utilities that are: 1.

Law 52

Law 2021 Natural Gas 2030 52

Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

4] Some energy experts and reporters have contended that Texas regulators did not expect to rely on wind to provide much electricity during the cold snap, and rather had relied on natural gas and other thermal power plants. We can see the same impact of variable energies in Germany. This hour saw a difference of 28.9

2021 113

2021 Renewable Energy Electricity Natural Gas 113

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

“The Solar for Schools Grant Program is a critical piece of legislation that provides us with a chance to invest in our aging school buildings -- while supporting and sustaining good-paying, clean-energy union jobs.

Renewable Energy 73

Renewable Energy Nuclear Power Natural Gas Fossil Fuels 73

Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

I am an invited expert reviewer of the next assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a regular contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes , and other publications, and a Time Magazine “Hero of the Environment.” In reality there is a growing amount of good news about climate change.

2020 52

2020 Climate Change Renewable Energy Carbon Emissions 52

PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

By Council To Modernize Governance -- The Allegheny Front: New Book Takes On Radiation Dangers In Oil & Gas Industry [PaEN] -- ABC27: Environmental Advocacy Groups Rally At Capitol For Action On Gas, Oil Industry -- Sen.

Conservation 74

Conservation Waste 2024 Clean Energy 74

A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2022

The government’s cost-benefit analysis reveals that prolonging the runtime of its remaining three nuclear power plants is neither advisable technically nor in terms of security. Finance Minister Christian Lindner has called renewables “freedom energies”, alluding to their potential to reduce Germany’s energy dependency on Russia.

Fossil Fuels 98

Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Nuclear Power Natural Gas 98

Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The most direct of these is imposed on certain fossil fuel power plants by requiring them to purchase carbon dioxide emissions allowances as part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. The others, established through New York’s Clean Energy Standard, compensate renewable generators and nuclear plants for their low-carbon attributes.

Electricity 40

Electricity Carbon Dioxide Fossil Fuels Greenhouse 40

PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2022

Wolf Vetoes Bill Prohibiting Communities From Moving To Cleaner Energy Sources To Address Climate Change [PaEN] -- AP: Gov. Other States/National/International -- The Guardian: Breaking From China’s Clean Energy Dominance ‘Imperative,’ U.S. What’s Your Community Doing?

Natural Gas 64

Natural Gas Nuclear Power Clean Water Act Electricity 64

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 20, 2022

Of Energy Soliciting Proposals For $84 Million Program To Demonstrate Enhanced Geothermal Energy Systems; PA Opportunity With Mine Water [PaEN] -- Courier Times Guest Essay: Invest In Our Clean Energy Future - PennEnvironment -- Bay Journal: EPA Says PA’s Plan To Clean Up Its Portion Of Chesapeake Bay Watershed Still Comes Up Short - By Karl Blankenship (..)

Earth Day 64

Earth Day Natural Gas Climate Change Nuclear Power 64

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

And what happens is, you've mentioned this, that 95% of the [proposed] energy [facilities], the new coming online in the [JPM] queue, is wind and solar and that means only 5% is natural gas, or coal, or nuclear or whatever. So it seems to me, and I love it when people say, oh, well by 2035 we're going to have totally clean energy.

Nuclear Power 91

Nuclear Power Natural Gas Electricity Renewable Energy 91

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2023

From March 4 to 10, DEP’s Oil and Gas Compliance Database shows oil and gas inspectors filed 545 inspection entries that resulted in reporting 87 violations of environmental regulations-- 54 violations by the conventional oil and gas industry and 33 violations by the unconventional shale natural gas industry. LLC - Plum Boro - Harry G.

Natural Gas 96

Natural Gas Waste Regulations Atmosphere 96

PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

-- Republican Herald: West Nile Virus Monitoring Starts In Schuylkill County -- Shapiro Administration Commends 3 PA Schools For Environmental Efforts As Green Ribbon Schools -- National Energy Technology Laboratory: Winners In Western PA, West Virginia Science Bowl Competed In National Science Bowl -- Wildlife For Everyone Foundation Announces 5 Recipients (..)

Conservation 99

Conservation Nuclear Power 2024 Waste 99

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The right-wing approach to energy in this critical 2024 election is straightforward: The U.S. should prop up fossil fuels, constrain renewables wherever possible, and claw back the federal government’s historic investments in clean energy, while reinvesting in nuclear energy and new nuclear weapons.

2024 258

2024 Fossil Fuels 2025 Nuclear Power 258

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The amended bill is being held in Committee by Republicans as a possible compromise on the RGGI regulations that they can point to as a way to solve the pollution problems caused by coal-fired power plants. At least $12.5 million is to be used for methane abatement projects from plugging abandoned gas wells. -- $62.5 Read more here.

Carbon Dioxide 52

Carbon Dioxide Clean Energy Carbon Emissions Nuclear Power 52

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2022

A companion bill-- Senate Bill 1030 (Yaw-R-Lycoming) was passed by the Senate in April.

Natural Gas 64

Natural Gas Nuclear Power Fossil Fuels Law 64

Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The Trump War on Science: Daring blindness, Denying climate change, Destroying the EPA and other daily disasters. The last couple of months have seemed especially apocalyptic, with Nazis marching in the streets and nuclear war suddenly not so distant a possibility. Navigating Clean Energy Innovation in the Age of Trump. .

Climate Change 40

Climate Change Climate Scientist 2017 Paris Agreement 40

PA Environment Daily

MAY 12, 2022

Steel Clash Over Allegheny County On New Coke [Coal] Oven Regulations -- Upcycling Plastic Waste Into Graphite Could Facilitate Transition To Electric Vehicles, Clean Energy [PaEN] -- MCall - Paul Muschick: America Stinks At Recycling Plastic, Why Don’t We Care? Secretary of Energy -- Reuters: Creaky U.S.

Natural Gas 64

Natural Gas Upcycling Nuclear Power Clean Energy 64