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.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2024

Department of the Treasury (Treasury) to carefully implement multiple new Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) tax credits, including the Section 45V Credit for Production of Clean Hydrogen (“45V”). The December proposal makes clear that Treasury understands the critical importance of getting implementation guidance right from the start.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Because while this decision does still recognize EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, it simultaneously sharply curtails the agency’s ability to do so. EPA did not revoke EPA’s underlying authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. But that’s about where the good news ends.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

Commissioner Stephen DeFrank, Vice Chairman of the Public Utility Commission, told the House Consumer Protection, Technology and Utilities Committee in June-- “I think that Winter Storm Elliot, over the Christmas holiday, showed some vulnerabilities in our grid and in our system. Thermal energy, on the other hand, is available 24 hours a day.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

EPA : when it comes to prodding progress from coal- and gas-fired power plants, the nation’s second-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, the agency is constrained, but it’s not out. And so it is with the immediate implications of West Virginia v. It was bad news all the way down.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

On February 28, DEP Interim Acting Secretary Jessica Shirley told the House Appropriations Committee funding for DEP’s Oil and Gas Regulatory Program will be in the red by Fall and an “all sectors” greenhouse gas reduction program will not be recommended to implement the PA Climate Change Action Plan. It wasn't something that we're pushing.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The General Assembly has yet to answer the question of how to help communities and workers caught in the market-driven transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. The auction of credits under the program is expected to generate an estimated $300 million annually to be invested in energy-related programs.

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Cresforum

AUGUST 2, 2021

Please join us for a virtual policy roundtable addressing the challenges and technology and policy solutions for enhancing grid resiliency, securing long-term reliability, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Moderator: Charles Hernick | Vice President of Policy and Advocacy, CRES Forum.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

Pennsylvania’s power generation sector is one of the nation’s largest — and thus, also, one of the biggest emitters of climate-changing greenhouse gases. Worse, the latest increase reverses a decade-long pattern of gradually but steadily declining emissions. In fact, as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently reported , it’s getting worse.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2022

“ Hydrogen: The Future of Clean Energy? will be the topic of an April 20 webinar being hosted by the Washington & Jefferson College Center for Energy Policy and Management as part of its Energy Lecture Series. To register for this free, hour-long webinar, please visit the Hydrogen: The Future of Clean Energy?

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Cresforum

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

But does this blend of different priorities help or hurt our efforts to accelerate innovation in clean energy? CRES Forum’s Charles Hernick opened the event with a discussion of clean energy goals for getting people back to work and then introduced Sumesh Arora , who acted as moderator for the panel. She provided the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2021

"PPL is pursuing clear goals to advance a sustainable energy future for the customers and communities we serve," said Vincent Sorgi, president and chief executive officer of PPL Corporation. "As

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Cresforum

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

But does this blend of different priorities help or hurt our efforts to accelerate innovation in clean energy? CRES Forum’s Charles Hernick opened the event with a discussion of clean energy goals for getting people back to work and then introduced Sumesh Arora , who acted as moderator for the panel. She provided the U.S.

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Cresforum

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Whether it’s novel policy proposals, recently enacted legislation, or the United States’ role in international policymaking, CRES Forum will highlight conservative policy solutions to the energy and climate challenges we face today. The federal government plays an important role in the development of innovative energy technologies.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 29, 2023

It’s meant to provide subsidies for clean energy projects in order to help Canada reach its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. The project being subsidized involved equipping a fossil gas power plant in Alberta with carbon capture technology – a massively expensive, risky, unnecessary and ineffective proposition.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2024

The planning process is supported by EPA’s Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program, which offers a unique opportunity to help state and local governments develop strategies to reduce harmful pollution and address environmental justice concerns, while building the infrastructure, industry, and competitive economy for a clean energy future.

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Environmental Leader

JUNE 24, 2022

The post Nestlé Has Cut Greenhouse Gases by 4 Million Tons Since 2018. appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Nestlé is well along the path to ensuring that 800 sites in 187 countries are totally green by 2025.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

The Washington & Jefferson College’s Center for Energy Policy and Management in Washington County will host a free webinar Thursday, March 7, on the basics of carbon capture and direct air capture as part of its Energy Lecture Series starting at 11:00 a.m. reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) atmospheric levels. Dr. Luebke holds a Ph.D.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The era of renewable energy is knocking at the door. In this year’s edition of World Energy Outlook , the International Energy Agency showed that with the rapid roll out of renewable energy technologies, the demand for fossil fuels – gas, coal and oil – will peak this decade. This is a big deal.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 4, 2021

She said to address these challenges, she is inviting her Senate colleagues to co-sponsor legislation to invest the proceeds from the proposed Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) program. percent to the Energy Communities Trust Fund; -- 12.5 percent to the Energy Communities Trust Fund; -- 12.5 The science is clear.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 4, 2023

Transportation is one of the most complicated and urgent areas of the clean-energy transition. The sector—including personal transportation like passenger cars, as well as air, marine, and surface goods and people movement—is the largest source of greenhouse gasses in the U.S.:

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Taxonomy is also important for industries that struggle with technological limitations in achieving a 1.5°C–aligned Accordingly, the Taxonomy accounts for maritime vessels that are aligned with the International Maritime Organisation’s 2023 strategy for greenhouse gas reduction. incompatible with a 1.5°C–aligned

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The Governor approved a notable slate of climate legislation with a package that includes more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets and measures designed to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. Clean Energy. Climate Change Mitigation.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

But with the recent influx of government incentives for hydrogen production, new and improving production and storage technologies, and greater political will than ever before, H 2 ’s reputation is gaining favor. Hydrogen can be used for medium-to-long-term energy storage, heat and power generation, and transportation.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Last month, DOE solicited applications from states to develop clean energy projects. Under the Clean Air Act, California has the unique ability to set its own standards for tailpipe emissions from new vehicles, including greenhouse gases. The Inflation Reduction Act provides another important source of state funding.

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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.

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 15, 2024

Regulated Entities Under the Guidelines, the top 180 companies listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the top 50 companies on its Science and Technology Innovation Board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange must publish SDRs annually, within four months of the end of their fiscal year.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Department of Agriculture announced the availability of $65 million through two funding opportunities for new tools, approaches, practices and technologies to further natural resource conservation on private lands through the Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) program.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Utilities were famously set in their ways, using nineteenth century technologies to produce and deliver their products. Energy law is a hot topic. Energy use accounts for the bulk of greenhouse gas emissions. These facts make energy law central to one of the biggest issues now facing humanity. Climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Under Governor Wolf, we’ve accelerated and expanded work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to equip Pennsylvania’s communities, businesses, and individual residents to address climate change impacts occurring now and projected for the near future. Pennsylvania’s greenhouse gas emissions are tracked yearly.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

With an outsized credit for the lowest-carbon tier, the incentive’s aim is clear: Drive deployment of hydrogen production technologies that will be needed by, and aligned with , the nation’s overall clean energy transition.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2021

On October 14, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University-- together with collaborators at Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boise State University-- released a research study on how Southwestern Pennsylvania can thrive during the transition to a future with net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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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. Nine months after the pandemic first upended lives and the economy, the market fundamentals for clean energy looked unstoppable. gigawatts in 2020. power generated.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 26, 2021

The groups also object to the extension on the grounds that this second extension results in the use of an outdated and inappropriate “Best Available Technology” determination, that DEP relied on flawed analysis resulting in insufficient and erroneous air emission limits, and several other deficiencies spelled out in the Notice of Appeal.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In response to ongoing dialogue with energy experts and advocates and state gas utilities, the BPU retained an independent expert, London Economics, International (“LEI”), to study whether New Jersey gas distribution utilities needed additional fossil fuel pipeline capacity to serve their customers. Why is planning so essential?

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 11, 2023

It is certainly not a plan for clean energy generation – it’s a plan to keep critics at bay while the province keeps polluting and using antiquated and dangerous technologies. Despite language around Ontario having a clean energy advantage, this government is making the electricity grid dirtier.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

While EVs already result in less greenhouse gas emissions than the gasoline alternative, using these recycled materials substantially lowers impacts associated with material sourcing. Technologies are advancing and several new recycling companies state a 95% material recovery rate.

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