PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency Region 3 Administrator Adam Ortiz, PennVEST Chairman Dr. Brian Regli, and local government partners to celebrate Earth Month and highlight the partnership between federal, state, and local governments to fight climate change. All climate change is local.

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Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2023

As we clean up our energy system, we simultaneously reduce the tons of pollutants we now produce from burning coal, oil, and natural gas. Then there are the benefits of protecting nature. Limiting climate change will itself protect ecosystems and biodiversity around the world. What’s not to like?

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Law and Environment

JULY 1, 2022

EPA determined that the “best system” was “generation shifting,” that is, shifting power generators off coal to natural gas or renewables such as wind and solar. Make no mistake: the Court’s opinion will have major implications for how the federal government addresses climate change nationally.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 15, 2024

The report illustrates why including ‘natural’ gas under the sustainable finance label would undermine the tool’s credibility, invalidating the efforts to date. Methane is responsible for 30 per cent of the current global temperature rise to date globally, and over 14 per cent of Canada’s annual greenhouse gas emissions. “A

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In the final days of 2023, the Ontario Energy Board released a decision that is good for the climate and reduces energy costs for existing gas users and new home buyers. Some 15 hours later, the Government of Ontario threatened to pass legislation that would reverse that decision.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Oil and gas companies and their hunger for huge profits. For decades, these companies spent massive amounts of money misleading the public and politicians about climate science. Now, they are pretending they care about climate change and want to do something about it. So neither is hydrogen produced from fossil fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2021

On December 21, sixteen local and statewide environmental groups expressed their opposition to a proposed natural gas to gasoline refinery to be built in Luzerne County by Texas-based Nacero. Nacero Blue relies on fracked gas inputs. The climate impacts of this proposed refinery cannot be minimized by the company’s greenwashing.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 7, 2021

If the government of Ontario hoped that abolishing the Environment Commissioner, and transferring the position’s responsibilities to the Auditor General would free it from accountability on climate change, wilderness conservation, pollution and species at risk protection, it must surely be disappointed. . ENDANGERED SPECIES.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The destruction caused by climate change is directly linked to human activity, primarily burning fossil fuels. There are multiple realistic, tangible solutions that would rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, yet policy addressing anthropogenic climate change remains slow and insufficient.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The fossil fuel industry is the problem, not the solution Despite their well-funded campaigns to convince us otherwise, here are five reasons why we need to be skeptical about fossil fuel industry engagement in global climate policy. Let’s start with the obvious: the burning of fossil fuels is the main driver of climate change.

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Energy & the Law

MAY 17, 2023

In the future, you can follow climate litigation at this site: U. Climate Change Litigation sponsored by Columbia Law School and Arnold and Porter. Is the push to electrify the world at the expense of oil and gas achievable and if so, at what cost? Is government moving dangerously fast?

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 1, 2024

The motion asks the company to produce a report examining how Enbridge’s governance systems are functioning. The motion asks the company to produce a report examining how Enbridge’s governance systems are functioning. A very reasonable request, we thought. Enbridge, in response, urged its shareholders to vote against the motion.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When thinking about global emissions, don’t picture an individual—point your finger at powerful corporations, specifically the 88 companies that are largely responsible for climate change. They obviously include climate change, but it also include health impacts from air pollution and water pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Shapiro’s agenda to create a bold, comprehensive climate and energy plan that will grow Pennsylvania’s economy, protect and create jobs, and address climate change. It also helps lower the level of carbon dioxide, helping to address climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

The assessment further identified rising health issues related to natural resource extractions [defined by the Health Department as oil and gas development ] and the health impacts resulting from climate change as two of the top five threats affecting health outcomes of Pennsylvanians. within one-half mile).

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2022

Wolf vetoed Senate Bill 275 (Yaw-R- Lycoming) which would have prohibited counties, local governments and authorities from promoting cleaner energy sources to reduce climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions. As Bloomberg and others have reported, “ Natural Gas Soars 700%, Becoming Driving Force In The New Cold War.”

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Bucks County Wants To Be An Audubon Bird Town Community -- LancasterOnline: Lancaster County’s Planting Zones Changed Due To Climate Change; What Does It Mean For Your Garden 6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables [ There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay ] -- WNEP: UGI Utilities Announces 4.5%

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

By Phil McKenna The Environmental Protection Agency announced new regulations at the COP28 global climate summit in Dubai on Saturday that will reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas industry by nearly 80 percent.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Methane As has been discussed previously in Legal Planet, methane is a colorless, odorless, flammable gas. It is the main component of “natural gas” and is produced predominantly by the agriculture, energy (oil & gas and coal), and waste sectors. The Initiative provides an important step toward accelerated action.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 20, 2024

Introducing the new climate villains: Rich Kruger, CEO of Suncor Greg Ebel, CEO of Enbridge Murray Edwards, Chairman of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. Greg Ebel registered 71 lobby meetings with the federal government in 2023. It’s a challenge to hold companies accountable for their contribution to climate change.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In a pathbreaking opinion, the German Constitutional Court ordered the government to adopt much stricter emissions targets for 2030. Those targets are to be keyed to achieving the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping climate change below 2 °C and as close to 1.5 °C Here, I want to briefly summarize some key rulings. C as possible.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

While I support numerous campaigns related to biodiversity loss and climate change, I usually feel like I want to do more. So when I found out that the Ontario Government was planning to build a new gas-fired power plant where I live, in Thorold Ontario, the fight suddenly got personal.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

The upshot was that the US resisted any effort to address climate change and embraced a “drill baby drill” energy policy. Some of those changes, like cheaper natural gas due to greater use of fracking, helped emissions decline under Obama. You can blame Bush. discount rate.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 18, 2021

On August 17, the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee held a hearing on the “environmental and economic benefits of pipelines” which failed to even acknowledge the over $55 million in penalties imposed by DEP and the Public Utility Commission for the failure of natural gas and hazardous liquids pipelines over the last five years.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 23, 2023

Outspoken climate denier Joe Oliver is retiring from his position as Chair of the Board of Directors of Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) which operates Ontario’s electricity system and manages power generation. This is a “natural” gas transportation company that exports gas to Ontario.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

C above the pre-industrial average in 2020, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in its recent report that Earth could hit 1.5°C C could help avoid the most serious effects of climate change. Fossil fuels such as coal , oil and natural gas are the source of just over 80% of the world’s energy.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

By: Deborah Klenotic, Deputy Communications Director Climate change is a major challenge facing Pennsylvania, and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is leading many efforts to fight back and protect communities. Find more materials at DEP’s Climate Change webpage. We've funded over 1,000 chargers?installed

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 25, 2022

As of now, there is no rule governing greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants in effect under Section 111(d). Our amicus brief argues that significant federal regulation of power plants’ emissions is necessary to support and supplement local climate action. These impacts will only increase as climate change worsens.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

This year has brought new evidence of what major fossil fuel companies knew and when about the role their products play in climate change, as well as what they did in spite of what they knew. Today, most hydrogen is produced from fossil (“natural”) gas.

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2023

We give lots of lip service describing climate change as an emergency or existential threat. According to the Climate Emergency Declaration Organization, 2336 jurisdictions around the world have declared it to be an emergency, but we are not really acting like it. There are many possible emergency actions.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This shift is good news because tackling methane is crucial to the fight against climate change due to its significantly higher global warming potential than CO2, the disposal of relatively cheap methods of controlling emissions, and its short atmospheric lifespan. This year, several jurisdictions announced new methane regulations.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 25, 2024

And it’s central to solving the climate crisis and the challenges of sustainability. In this blog series, we will delve into the issue of sustainable finance, and the relationship between climate change and finance. Who is funding climate change? Why are financial institutions funding climate change?

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In an attempt to expand its “natural” gas infrastructure across Ontario, Enbridge Gas is telling residents that gas is the cheapest way to heat their homes. Today, we filed a complaint with the Competition Bureau over Enbridge Gas’ deceptive marketing. But Enbridge Gas does not want you to know that.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 16, 2024

Paying taxes helps governments to fund the services we all depend on, like education, healthcare and funding programs to tackle the climate crisis. Taxes also allow the federal government to provide subsidies to support a specific industry, like sports or culture, or to achieve a desired social outcome.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 10, 2024

In an attempt to expand its “natural” gas infrastructure across Ontario, Enbridge Gas is telling residents that gas is the cheapest way to heat their homes. Today, we filed a complaint with the Competition Bureau over Enbridge Gas’ deceptive marketing. But Enbridge Gas does not want you to know that.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 8, 2024

The government also plans to issue a Natural Gas Policy Statement. billion over five years (if that aspect of the OEB decision is not directly overturned by the provincial government beforehand). Enbridge plans to use this to overturn the OEB decision to cut additional unnecessary pipeline spending by $1.25

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

For Canada’s major oil and gas producers, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is a get-out-of-jail-free card, which allows them to keep on polluting while appearing as though they are taking the threat of climate change seriously. Want proof? billion carbon capture facility at its Genesse power plant west of Edmonton.

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