PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

PennFuture celebrated 25 years of fighting climate change and industrial pollution by holding anniversary celebrations in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia to honor seven Pennsylvanians for their contributions to restoring and protecting the environment. Prior to her involvement in environmental advocacy, Ms.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 29, 2023

Under new legislation, California is moving to a novel system that includes income-based fixed charges for electricity. Public utility commissions are tasked with designing retail electricity rates that allow utilities to cover their costs and ensure that customers receive reliable and affordable electricity service.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently developing a regulation to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from trucks, known as the Phase 3 GHG standards, which would in theory result in increased adoption of electric trucks. Adapted from Table A2 in ICCT’s January 2023 study mentioned above.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

These changes, if adopted, will allow more gas plants to burn more gas further into the future. These changes, if adopted, will allow more gas plants to burn more gas further into the future. We urge the government to strengthen the regulations, rather than weaken them.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 10, 2023

Statement by Keith Brooks, Programs Director, Environmental Defence Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Huron-Wendat – We applaud the federal government for moving forward with its commitment to clean electricity.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Groundwater regulation, legal rights to clean water, and spending measures highlight this election cycle. Voters in parts of Cochise and Graham counties will decide whether to join the state’s more populated districts and regulate groundwater extraction. billion bond measure to respond to the consequences of climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This new regulation would apply to delivery vans, big rigs, box trucks, and buses. Regulate more tractor trucks, including the smaller fleets. and NOx emissions reductions from tractor trucks while still only regulating around 13 percent of California tractor fleets.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 13, 2022

These wind, solar, and energy storage projects total 1,300 gigawatts of electric generating capacity, which represents more than $2 trillion in investments, and is roughly the same amount needed to get the U.S. to 80 percent of electricity from zero-carbon resources by 2030. People can no longer deny climate change must be addressed.

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Law and Environment

JULY 1, 2022

EPA on Thursday, June 30, 2022, curbing the power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants across the country. The Court determined that regulating the country’s power grid and phasing out coal presented a major question. The Supreme Court decided West Virginia v.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Golden State has adopted a slew of climate change laws over the past twenty years, and an even greater number of regulations. Effectively prohibited California utilities from using electricity from coal-fired generation. Bush torpedoed climate action by the federal government early in his administration.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It’s immediately clear how fully-electric battery electric vehicles (BEVs) can help reduce emissions; eliminating gasoline and tailpipes in favor of increasingly clean electricity helps limit both climate change and air pollution. Plug-in hybrids are a bit more complicated. BEV or PHEV?

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

States and local air quality regulators have the legal authority to set particulate matter (PM), ozone, and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions standards and adopt regulations for these pollutants when they are already in attainment of the national ambient air quality standards ( NAAQS ) set by the U.S.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

Standing based on climate impacts C. Climate science F. Climate justice II. EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA) A. Climate change under other federal statutes. Climate change as substantial impact requiring discussion in environmental impact statement.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The Electric Vehicle Availability Standard is a holiday gift to the planet. This regulation will also help address affordability challenges by ensuring that the budget electric vehicle (EV) models coming to market aren’t just available overseas, but are readily available in Canada too.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In 2023, the court issued two major decisions relating to climate change. The first case, In re Hawaii Electric Co. Sunoco , involved a suit against oil companies for their role in fostering climate change. Environmental rights. involved a biomass power plant’s request to sell energy to a utility.

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Law and Environment

JULY 22, 2021

Maine, Massachusetts, and Maryland all passed legislation this summer that expands the raison d’etre of state utility regulatory bodies to include addressing the impacts of climate change. These efforts mark an emerging trend of legislative bodies directing utility regulators to help advance climate policies.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Statement by Keith Brooks, Programs Director Toronto | Traditional territories of the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinaabeg, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat – We are very happy to see the Independent Electricity System Operator’s (IESO) proposal to procure 5,000 megawatts (MW) of non-emitting renewable electricity in the coming years.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Environmental Defence, Équiterre, Ecology Action Centre and the David Suzuki Foundation are responding with a joint statement welcoming the regulations as a strong step towards reducing emissions and the cost of living for Canadians. . Said Nate Wallace, Clean Transportation Program Manager, Environmental Defence. “

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

I usually try to stay in my cozy power sector bubble, plugging away on electricity grid decarbonization. But this new study from my colleagues working on climate change and fossil fuel accountability couldn’t be ignored.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 3, 2023

According to the California Energy Commission, more than one in five of all new passenger cars and trucks sold in the state at the start of this year was a zero-emission vehicle, which includes plug-in hybrids, battery electric, or fuel cell electric vehicles. More than 16 percent of new cars sold this year are fully electric plug-ins.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

And in both cases, the electric grid and climate change are part of the equation. Until very recently, Australia’s government was never able to get its act together in terms of climate change. It takes a Texas-like approach to electricity regulation, with the free market as the icon. Download as PDF.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

How would that change if I hopped on the electric bus route at the end of my block? Even when accounting for pollution from electricity generation, electric trucks can significantly reduce air pollution and get us on a better track to addressing climate change.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The only way to ensure Canada stays on the path to net-zero emissions is by requiring automakers to bring clean cars to the Canadian market, rather than allowing us to fall behind jurisdictions with more ambitious climate policy. The Canadian auto industry receives significant taxpayer subsidies to build electric vehicle battery plants.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 15, 2021

That’s because the Canadian agency that is supposed to inform public and private sector decision-making on energy development and climate action continues to provide scenarios that are both unrealistic and pessimistic, and are lacking critical information, such as Canada’s expected greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

They just released their 2022 “Annual Energy Outlook” (AEO), which is a big deal: it tells us where electricity is headed over the next 30 years. The biggest takeaway : without robust new policies, US energy sector heat trapping emissions will continue to remain high, far off-track from where we need to be to meet our climate goals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Thanks to advances in attribution science, we now understand many of these extreme events have been worsened by climate change. The fossil fuel industry plays the dominant role globally in causing climate change and therefore their profits come at the expense of our global health and safety. billion and $35.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Map of diesel particulate pollution in Maryland ( Kevin Shen/UCS ) Climate change in Maryland is no joke either Sometimes when I’m frustrated about climate legislation that isn’t moving forward fast enough in Annapolis I think about how ironic it is that more and more frequently , floodwaters will be knocking on legislators’ doors.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The law school developments are just signs of how the field itself has changed. There are three interlinked reasons for the change. Climate change. The key to getting climate change under control is to rapidly decrease the user of fossil fuels. Economic changes.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2023

These include jobs in battery and electric component manufacturing, charging infrastructure construction, and electricity generation. -- $2.3 Transportation accounts for twenty-two percent of Pennsylvania's greenhouse gas emissions, which the state must address to reach its climate goals. These gains include $1.3

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Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

One set of issues relates to applying existing statutes to climate change. Consider this list of examples: Given that coal has larger carbon emissions than other sources of energy can EPA adopt a strategy of phasing out its use in the electric power sector? Here, a host of problems have come up.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. Many regulations will have to be promulgated to make all of this happen. apparently the State is leaning toward site EUI.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 21, 2024

Some industries however, such as electricity, are reducing their emissions, the pollution from the production of oil and gas is increasing. Climate change is undoubtedly here. GHG emissions are causing climate change. This is the only way to stop the climate crisis from getting any worse.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 29, 2021

. – Environmental Defence applauds Canada’s federal government for strengthening Canada’s electric vehicle (EV) sales target. As referenced by Minister Alghabra, the International Energy Agency recently said that 100 per cent of light-duty vehicle sales must be electric by 2035 if we hope to limit warming to 1.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

In late April, California air regulators are poised to pass one of the most meaningful regulations to reduce pollution from commercial trucks, vans, and buses. The current draft of the ACF rule was released in late March and made several changes to the version that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) heard back in October 2022.

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Legal Planet

MAY 5, 2022

Mexico is also highly vulnerable to climate change. What’s the state of climate policy in Mexico? The climate issue has to be placed in the broader context of Mexico’s situation. Because of its geography, Mexico is vulnerable to climate impacts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

electricity generation. Renewables are continuing to increase their share of the power sector, rising to almost 23 percent of the nation’s electricity supply last year, which was higher than the generation from both coal-fired and nuclear plants. In other words, when the air is hot, gas power plants cannot generate as much electricity.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Clean Power Plan (CPP) was the Obama Administration’s signature climate effort. This 2015 regulation aimed to move state power grids away from coal and toward renewable energy. Yet the Supreme Court is now set to address numerous challenges to this zombie regulation. It’s now considered irrelevant for all practical purposes.

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