Legal Planet

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Here are the options going forward for regulating existing power plants. Switch to another legal basis for regulation. There’s been a lot of discussion among academics and advocates about instead using section 115 of the Clean Air Act as a basis for carbon regulations. Download as PDF. appeared first on Legal Planet.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 21, 2023

We need to make sure regulators like EPA and CARB restrict its usage before it gains a fossil-fueled foothold in the marketplace. Importantly, however, CO 2 is not the only greenhouse gas directly produced: N 2 O is a greenhouse gas 265 times more potent than CO 2 , directly produced as a combustion byproduct. Why is that?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 2575 ) -- Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining & Marketing LLC - 860 Unit Cooling Tower & Point Breeze South Yard: DEP received a Final Report on remediation of soil and groundwater contaminated with petroleum to meet Statewide Health Standards for a project located at 3144 Passyunk Ave., Indiana County. (

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Natural Gas Air Pollution 2024 Recycling 103

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2023

Natural Gas Drops 7% To 3-Week Low On Milder Weather Forecasts PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Scranton Times Editorial: PA Lawmakers Prove Bigger Isn’t Better -- PA Gaming Control Board Reports February Gaming Revenue Up 22% Over Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 22, 2023

formal notice) TODAY 10:00: House Philadelphia LNG Natural Gas Export Task Force hearing on economic impact and other consideration for a potential LNG export terminal in or around the Port of Philadelphia. DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting. 16ht Floor Delaware Room, Rachel Carson Building.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2023

Manchin In Court Fight For Mountain Valley Natural Gas Pipeline In WV/Virginia -- Williamsport Sun: PA Republican Cong. Manchin In Court Fight For Mountain Valley Natural Gas Pipeline In WV/Virginia -- Williamsport Sun: PA Republican Cong.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2023

Westmoreland County -- The New Yorker Book Review: Searching For Unfamiliar Terrain In ‘The Nature Book’ By Tom Comitta -- Penn State Extension Hosting Series Of In-Person/Online Private Water Supply Education And Testing [PaEN] -- PA Dept. Pleasant Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2023

. -- DCNR Posts FY 2023-24 Budget Proposal Documents -- Shell Petrochemical Plant Had 3-Hour Emergency Flaring Event To Burn Off Flammable Gases In Beaver County [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Shell Petrochemical Plant Using Water Hoses ‘To Assist In Cooling External Areas Of Ground Flares’ That Need To Be ‘Reinforced’ -- The Allegheny Front (..)

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Legal Planet

JULY 12, 2022

As the state moves toward all-electric buildings, replacing older gas-powered furnaces and air conditioning units with heat pumps can reduce carbon emissions and indoor air pollution while increasing efficiency, comfort and resiliency, especially as extreme heat events increase.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Just how bad is fossil “natural” gas? And, as it turns out, the infrastructure used to produce, store, distribute, transmit, and burn gas leaks like a sieve , making gas as bad as coal for the climate. Its primary component is methane.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Chesapeake Appalachia LLC - Sensinger Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP received a Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated with production wastewater to the Statewide Health Standards at the well pad located in Franklin Twp., You’ll also get notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2023

Shell clearly isn’t interested in operating safely or responsibly ― so it’s up to regulators and citizens to force them to get emissions in check. The Shell Polymers Monaca plant in Potter Township officially began operations in November of last year. Even before opening day, the plant was already posing a threat to the surrounding community.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

It’s due to a combination of factors, including tremendous demand for clean energy from states, utilities and consumers; federal regulations to reduce toxic air pollutants; and—most important—the simple fact that renewables and natural gas are now the cheapest options to meet our electricity needs. percent; natural gas, 38.3

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Clean Energy Fossil Fuels Paris Agreement Climate Change 265

Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 20, 2023

This week’s regulation will drive Colorado’s statutory GHG emission reduction targets of 7% by 2026 and 20% by 2030 for the buildings covered in the program, as compared to 2021 levels. However, the regulation is being applauded for providing flexibility for building owners and various pathways for meeting the standards.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

The standards will allow Wisconsin to regulate the harmful chemicals while the state’s other attempts at rulemaking are challenged in court. . The EPA raises concerns over the climate impact of a proposed Wisconsin natural gas plant. New York’s cooling assistance program ran out of funding in the weeks leading up to a heat wave.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2024

. - Diaz Family 2 Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP received a Final Report on the remediation of soil contaminated with hydraulic fluid to meet the Statewide Health Standard at the pad located in Bridgewater Twp., This is the only way you can get notified of when oil and gas-related permits are submitted to DEP. Susquehanna County. (

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 31, 2022

I’d be remiss not to mention that, ever since the August 2020 power outages, California policymakers and regulators have been pulling out all the stops to maintain grid reliability. The solar, wind, nuclear, hydropower, geothermal, energy storage and natural gas on the grid right now are the resources the state has this month.

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Energy and Climate Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

How much are governments allowed to interfere with energy regulation? Germany, being a Member State with a long tradition of reluctancy towards energy market liberalization, now received a spectacular beating by the Court of Justice for the way in which its energy regulation is currently organized. need to be interpreted.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

We believe we must take a science-based approach and prioritize policies and technologies that enable us to liberate nature and elevate humanity. In order to steer investment toward environmentally sustainable activities, the European Union launched the Taxonomy Regulation framework to define activities deemed sustainable. 31 1(a)).

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 1, 2022

It was filed by the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union and the Green League, who object to a 30-year groundwater pumping permit given by state regulators. The town is at the center of a long-running dispute over groundwater contamination caused by natural gas drilling and fracking.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the January 13 PA Bulletin it has received and is reviewing the Act 2 Land Recycling Final Report by Equitrans on the cleanup of soil around the conventional gas well that failed and resulted in the uncontrolled venting of 1.1 PA Bulletin, page 213 ) Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 15, 2022

TODAY 10:00: House Consumer Affairs Committee hearing on House Bill 1789 (Sankey-R- Clearfield) further providing for price and other disclosures related to competitive electric and natural gas shopping. Natural Gas Prices Plunge After Extended Outage At Texas LNG Facility [LNG Exports Drive High U.S. Prices had hit $9.60

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2023

Leib, Pittsburgh -- PA Capital-Star: Environmentalists, Advocates Urge Shapiro To Stay The Course On RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan -- Scranton Times Editorial: Carbon Pollution Reduction Plan Serves Economy, Environment [RGGI] -- TribLive: Pittsburgh To Get $1.5

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 14, 2024

The Pathways Alliance is a group of the biggest oil sands producers in Canada: Canadian Natural Resources, Cenovus, ConocoPhillips, Imperial Oil, MEG Energy and Suncor. For example: Water consumption: The equipment used to capture carbon generates heat and must be cooled with water.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 12, 2023

The most recent emergency flaring event started March 16 and has been continuous since then with Shell having to use hoses to spray the ground flare with water to cool it down. Shell's repeated pollution releases due to malfunctions demonstrates that self-regulation does not protect people living in surrounding communities like mine.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 21, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 3862 ) Air Quality Permits -- Hamilton Liberty LLC - Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant: DEP invites comments on proposed renewal of a Title V Air Quality Operating Permit for the facility located in Asylum Twp., PA Bulletin, page 3894 ) NPDES Stormwater Permits -- National Fuel Gas Distribution Corp.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2023

21 For Pittsburgh Region -- PUC Stresses Ways To Stay Cool During Late-Summer Surge In Temperatures -- The Center Square: Solar Power Comes To University Of Pittsburgh Campus -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: What Can One Person Do About Climate Change?

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 11, 2022

DPU is directed to promulgate updated regulations in accordance with the legislation. DPU is instructed to study how to make it easier for communities to adopt geothermal heating and cooling systems. However, DOER will lead the solicitation and award process, while DPU will review and approve the final contract with the utility.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2023

Yaw Touts New $154 Million Agriculture Conservation Program In Lycoming County -- PJM This Week Sends Penalty Assessments Of Up To $2 Billion To Electric Generators That Failed To Perform During December’s Winter Storm Elliot; Natural Gas Power Plants Had 63% Of Outages [PaEN] -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 25 to (..)

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Several new regulations controlling methane emissions have been adopted recently, including two new rules for the US oil and gas sector announced last week. We most often encounter methane as the largest component of natural gas: methane makes up 75 – 95% of the gas coming to your stove and furnace.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

The agenda for the April 25 meeting of DCED’s PA Grade Crude [Oil] Development Advisory Council features a discussion dumping conventional oil and gas well wastewater on public roads for disposal, an update on taxpayer funded well plugging grant programs and DEP regulations limiting methane emissions from conventional wells.

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Acoel

JULY 5, 2022

The opinion can point EPA toward regulation that will be both far more effective in addressing the existential threat of climate change and consistent with the law and past practice. Even within that limited universe, adopting regulations on a source-category-by-source-category basis will stretch on for decades.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2023

“I think that's a big part of our strategy and that's a big part of what this Governor talks about all the time, whether it was that grand jury report [on DEP’s shale gas regulatory program} or whether it's in a speech or what he says almost every day. Washington County; Notice Is Re-sent [PaEN] -- Robinson Twp., Why Does It Matter?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2024

Unit 1 at Three Mile Island continued to operate until it was shut down in September, 2019 as a result of competition with natural gas-fired electric generation. The cooling down process, however, took a month and the radioactive plant would take years to decontaminate. We lost cooling in the reactor, but it’s okay now.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 13, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 423 ) Waste Permits -- Shawmut Grade PW Facility: DEP invites comments on application for WMGR163 General Permit for processing oil and gas liquid residual waste in Sergeant Twp., This is the only way you can get notified of when oil and gas-related permits are submitted to DEP. Susquehanna County. ( McKean County. (

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

On the cusp of these two regulatory programs, pushing broad sectors of the economy to the next frontier in innovation, SEC Climate Risk Rule is Transformative at a Cost and Maryland Resets its Trajectory with Greenhouse Gas Reduction Law , a quick 800 word refresher about GHG emissions makes an ideal blog post.

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Physics World

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The other three will shut down later this year, with much of the shortfall in the short term being made up by burning natural gas. Some are hugely innovative using advanced fuels, breeder technology and various cooling strategies to slash construction and operation costs, while addressing safety and non-proliferation issues.

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