A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C C will be beyond reach.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Climate Envoy Kerry: No Rolling Back Clean Energy Transition PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Inquirer: 100 Days: A Look At Shapiro’s ‘Common Ground’ Approach To Governing One Of The Nation’s Most Politically Divided States -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania’s House Takeover - A Tale Of Two Speakers - By Fmr Rep.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2021

That was the timeline laid down by the most prestigious body of climate scientists for limiting warming to 1.5 What the IEA found was that the world should not invest in or approve new fossil fuel projects. And that fossil fuel production should shrink by 75 per cent by 2050 in order to limit warming to 1.5

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Legal Planet

MARCH 22, 2023

Several scientists, including authors of the IPCC report, told the Associated Press that the world is locked into exceeding the 1.5° We are pretty much locked into 1.5,” said report co-author Malte Meinshausen, a climate scientist at the University of Melbourne in Australia. mark soon. “We These kinds of comments are not new.

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A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2023

With our children already paying a terrible price for climate change, we must act to protect their future, urges an IPCC scientist. When heatwaves disrupt our children’s education, it is time to demand climate action. I am writing this as a climate scientist and a mother of two young children.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 2, 2022

This week’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s leading climate scientists, paints a terrifying picture of the future if Canada and the world don’t tackle fossil fuels with urgency. This cap must therefore be strict enough that the industry can no longer expand.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

. -- Hold Erie Coke Accountable Calls On EPA, DEP, Erie County & City To Form Erie Coke [Coal] Plant Community Working Group On Site Cleanup, Revitalization [PaEN] -- Erie News Now: State Report Details Pollution At Erie Coke [Coal] Plant Site -- Online Link Now Available For Aug. Potter County To Sept. Potter County To Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- -- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

As examples, carbon offset funds from the purchase of carbon credits are used to replace fossil-fuel heating systems with heat pumps powered by renewable electricity, support farmers in transitions to regenerative farming practices, and build solar or wind energy projects. Mann, Ph.D.,

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Healey issued the CID in connection with an investigation into unfair or deceptive acts or practices in trade or commerce with respect to fossil fuel products and securities. The appellate court agreed with the Superior Court that the students had failed to demonstrate special standing to challenge management of charitable funds.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Less than a month after the UK handed over the presidency of COP26 to the Egyptian hosts of COP27 , the country had not only proudly claimed how quickly they had reduced their reliance on coal but also actively pushed other countries to move away from the most polluting fossil fuel, announced they granted permission to build a new coal mine. .

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

It turns out, for example, that climate-change researchers fly more frequently than scientists in other fields. Change 65 102184 ), climate scientists jet off two to three times a year on average, whereas other researchers get on planes just twice during that time. But other scientists also fly a lot.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

The European Commission proposes replacing natural gas from any source in key sectors of its energy economy, dramatically expanding energy efficiency, renewables “instead of funding the fossil fuel industry elsewhere.” They want energy jobs in the EU. Let's dash into renewable energy at lightning speed.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Future generations will look back on this as a game-changing moment in the fight for a safe climate,’ stated climate scientist and President/CEO of EEN, Rev. We call on national governments across the world to match the United States’ ambition in cutting climate-warming methane.’ Dr. Jessica Moerman. “As

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Sánchez Valle ) , together with the recent disastrous, expensive, and unaccountable privatization of electricity generation, transmission, and distribution, prove beyond any doubt that the authority to decide on issues that affect Puerto Rico lies, not on the people of Puerto Rico, but with US Congress. SCOTUS’ Puerto Rico v.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

Finally, Gleick claims I argue that the “only solutions” I believe “will work” are “nuclear energy and uninhibited economic growth,” but later writes, “His passionate belief that nuclear is the only answer to our energy and climate problems (maybe along with a mega-dam on the Congo River in Africa).”

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 13, 2023

Hosts 3 Public Meetings To Gather Input On Youghiogheny River Conservation Plan Part I - Dunbar Creek To Headwaters Aug. 16, 17, 18 [PaEN] -- DEP Starts Taxpayer-Funded Hazardous Sites Cleanup Process For American Biodiesel Site In Erie County; Hearing Sept. Potter County To Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2024

26 Webinar On Federal And State Financial Resources For Going Solar [PaEN] -- Senate Environmental Committee To Hold 2nd Joint Hearing With Ohio Legislature On Electric Grid Reliability Feb. Shapiro Promised 30% Renewable Electricity By 2030, Will That Happen? -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

Think about this simple fact-- there is no limit on what the oil and gas industry can charge you for gasoline, diesel fuel or heating oil to heat your home and the spiking cost of natural gas is dramatically pushing up the cost of electricity for everyone because its price is determined on volatile foreign energy markets.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2024

1 Hearing On Water Withdrawal Requests, Including 8 Related To Shale Gas Development; And On Cooperative Fish Nursery General Permit [PaEN] -- Senate Environmental Committee To Hold 2nd Joint Hearing With Ohio Legislature On Electric Grid Reliability Feb. 1; Will It Address Natural Gas Infrastructure Vulnerabilities ? PaEN] -- PA Cong.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

The federal district court for the Northern District of California denied Oakland’s and San Francisco’s motions to remand their climate change public nuisance lawsuits against five major fossil fuel producers to state court. Arizona Court Ordered Production of Climate Scientists’ Emails Under Arizona’s Public Records Law.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

States, Electricity Providers Allowed to Intervene in Case Concerning Management of Glen Canyon Dam. Supreme Court granted Baltimore’s request for a 60-day extension of time to file a response to fossil fuel companies’ petition for a writ of certiorari seeking review of the Fourth Circuit’s affirmance of the remand order in Baltimore’s case.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Court Said Climate Scientist Provided Sufficient Evidence of Actual Malice for Blog Authors but Not for Publisher. In the Tenth Circuit, both fossil fuel companies and local government entities filed supplemental briefs on July 16. Energy Policy Advocates v. Mayor & City Council of Baltimore , No. July 15, 2021).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To get an assessment of the progress thus far, as well as an idea if what has to happen next, I turned to two of my colleagues in the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Climate & Energy Program: Principal Climate Scientist Rachel Licker and Transmission Policy Manager Sam Gomberg. percent; natural gas, 38.3

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

The US House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation campaign last fall by inviting top executives from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell to testify about their role and subpoenaing their companies for internal documents.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Cartwright Introduces Bill To Improve Readiness For Extreme Weather -- PennDOT, DEP, PPL, Partners Hosting 8 In-Person Stakeholder Sessions On State Plan For National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Starting Oct. Don Ritter -- Post-Gazette: Canadian Nuclear Fuel Firm Buying Into Westinghouse Electric Co.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Republicans said the final regulations will increase the cost of electricity for individuals and businesses, have a negative impact on jobs and will not significantly reduce carbon pollution. While electricity rates are already rising across the country, during the first 10 years that RGGI was in place, rates dropped nearly 6% in RGGI states.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

report on how world can still stop climate change. Report finds there is no hope of slowing global warming without a radical shift to electrical energy and carbon removal. It was a familiarly stark report card on the world’s progress on cutting emissions from the IPCC, which has been monitoring climate change since 1988.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

LNG Exporters Emerge As Big Winners Of Europe Natural Gas Crisis; Price For LNG 10 Times Its Value A Year Ago -- The Guardian: ‘This Is A Fossil Fuel War’: Ukraine’s Top Climate Scientist Speaks Out -- PA Natural Gas Politicians Want To ‘Unleash’ PA’s Gas Industry - What We Need First Is For Industry To Take Up The Slack; Oil & Gas 2.0;

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2022

Senate passed compromised legislation that would make the largest federal investment-- $375 billion-- in climate change fighting strategies, including investments in renewable energy production, tax rebates for consumers for energy efficiency and electric vehicles and more. Republicans voted against the bill. billion for EQIP, $6.75

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Fossil fuels and conflicts These events just illustrate how big a role fossil fuels play in conflicts and aiding them. Climate scientists project that both Israel and Palestine are already experiencing severe climate impacts that will only worsen in the coming years and decades.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

Meeting more stringent standards does not directly require reductions in GHGs, but reducing sources of combustion that create NOx, such as fossil fuel combustion, indirectly may reduce greenhouse gas emissions. º C, viewed by climate scientists as a critical threshold to avoid catastrophic impacts.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

A few general resources: Sidelining Science Since Day One: How the Trump administration has harmed public health and safety in its first six months by The Union of Concerned Scientists I Heart Climate Scientists. . pulling out of the Paris climate deal may make China great again. And now the full list: . 2017.06.01.

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ESA

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The news: The White House Council on Environmental Quality proposed reversing Trump administration changes to the National Environmental Policy Act regulation, which carries implications for environmental reviews on everything from highway projects and fossil fuel lease sales to pipelines and electric transmission lines.

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ESA

JUNE 1, 2021

EPA Administrator Michael Regan announced that the agency will rewrite a Trump administration regulation that limited state’s ability to block pipeline and fossil fuel export facilities under the Clean Water Act. Climate Change Forces Brutal Choices at National Parks – The New York Times. What to Save?

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