Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule, which I’ve blogged about in detail before, will phase out fossil-fueled trucks over the next several decades. A full transition to electric drayage truck operations in 2035. After 2036, all new MHDVs sold in California will be electric. There are more than 1.8 pollution from vehicles.

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Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Chris Johnston is co-author of The Arrival of the Electric Car – An Overview of the EV Revolution Happening Now. The fastest way to shift the transportation sector to environmental sustainability is to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles (EVs). As of 2016, wind provided 8 percent of US electric generation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Fossil fuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). We’ve heard these lazily disingenuous narratives before.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A global transition to electric transportation is underway and momentum is growing. But what is the outlook for jobs in an electric transportation future? 4 electric vehicle and the VW Tiguan gasoline vehicle. And in other sectors, like those in the petroleum and fossil fuel industry, the number of jobs will decline.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

US ratepayers very likely will pay even more for electricity and heating this winter compared to the already-expensive winter of 2021-2022. Consequently, residential gas prices are expected to be 22 percent higher this winter compared to last year’s, and residential electricity prices are expected to be 6 percent higher on average.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Statement by Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – New analysis released today from the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) demonstrates that the Government of Canada is still intent on providing massive subsidies to fossil fuel companies.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

In order to enforce those standards, the state must be granted a waiver by the Environmental Protection Agency, something which Congress makes very clear should be given under virtually all conditions. States are ready to begin reducing toxic emissions from diesel trucks and transitioning to electric heavy-duty vehicles.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 3, 2024

Despite the generous funding opportunities and holistic flexibilities baked into ACF, confusion around and misinformation about the rule may undermine this much-needed shift away from fossil-fueled trucks and buses. Plug-in hybrid trucks and buses with certain all-electric ranges count towards compliance through 2035.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

This includes loopholes related to biomethane, whereby heavily polluting fossil fuel-fired hydrogen production facilities—the very facilities the tax credit is trying to incentivize a shift away from—can cloak themselves as “clean” and reap full tax credit rewards, without having done anything but pushed around paper.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

He was appointed as a mediator by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to work with the environmental community and industry to establish better regulations for water quality monitoring in areas impacted by coal ash. In 2011, Kraybill purchased his first electric car, a Chevy Volt.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2023

This year’s webinar topics will include grid-scale solar overview; solar development from the perspectives of the landowner, the developer and the municipality; Public Utility Commission considerations; and PJM Interconnection electric grid considerations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Because beyond the importance of cleaning up the power sector itself, we also need a clean electricity system to enable the decarbonization of so many other aspects of our economy, from vehicles to homes and businesses to industrial processes. One critical tool for forcing that reckoning comes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Acoel

JANUARY 4, 2022

The path forward for the expansion of CCUS will require significant efforts on a variety of fronts, including financing, pipeline infrastructure, environmental protection, and environmental justice. As Ernest Moniz, former Secretary of the U.S. As Ernest Moniz, former Secretary of the U.S. appeared first on ACOEL.

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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. In other words, market forces, not federal regulators, were responsible for shutting down coal plants in favor of cleaner sources of electricity.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Economic development policy is environmental policy. The letter requests revisions to the plan that will prioritize sustainable industries and an equitable strategy to protect communities, workers, and the environment from climate change and pollution impacts. We agree the Commonwealth needs a long-term economic development strategy.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2023

On December 21, Earthjustice , on behalf of Scrubgrass Creek Watershed Association and PennFuture , announced they have filed an appeal with the Environmental Hearing Board to overturn or modify DEPs decision to allow the Stronghold Digital Mining, Inc. Click Here for a copy of the appeal.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

On February 28, the Department of Environmental Protection awarded $1.5 million in 2022 Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant funding to help municipalities, schools, and businesses around the state switch to clean transportation and improve air quality in their communities. Click Here for a list of projects funded.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The roadmap describes how to transition away from fossil fuel generation, fast-track electrification, increase energy efficiency, and leverage new technologies, including material efficiency, fuel switching, and carbon capture.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 14, 2023

The states’ approach aligns thematically with their 2020 Vision for a Clean, Affordable, and Reliable 21 st Century Regional Electric Grid which, in part, recognizes the need to integrate significant levels of new offshore wind resources at the lowest cost possible in order to achieve a decarbonized system in New England.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Resource Links: -- PA Environmental Council: Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage In PA: A Story Map -- DCNR Blog: Carbon Capture A Tool To Address Cause Of Climate Change -- Ohio River Valley Institute: Carbon Capture, Use And Sequestration Would Decarbonize The Electric System In The Worst Possible Way -- Better Path Coalition: You Can’t Fossil Fuel (..)

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 6, 2023

The provincial government continues to attack Ontario’s environmental protections and force sprawl onto farms and natural areas, rather than address the need for new homes in our communities.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The move represents a lifeline for fossil fuel use in a decarbonizing energy grid. Environmental Protection Agency. A plan to build out electric vehicle chargers draws pushback from gas station owners in Minnesota. Looking Ahead. Evers restarted the process after new guidance from the U.S. Other News.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2024

Furthermore, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provided a strong and clear affirmation of the appropriateness of Treasury’s proposed approach in light of EPA’s long-standing interpretation and implementation of the referenced lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions definition.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 1, 2021

On September 29, the Department of Environmental Protection terminated the air quality permit for the proposed Beech Hollow natural gas-fired power plant in Robinson Township, Washington County at the request of the company. This is a huge victory for the health of my community!” Click Here for a copy of DEP’s termination letter.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 30, 2024

The CI is determined through a lifecycle analysis of the global warming pollution associated with the production and use of gasoline, diesel, biofuels, electricity, or other alternative fuels. Bio-based diesel fuels are expensive. But California’s LCFS has been struggling and is approaching a treacherous precipice.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

On March 9, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the Green Energy Loan Fund has reached a milestone of $30 million invested in low-interest loans for high-impact energy efficiency projects on commercial properties. These measures will cut electricity use by over 51,000 kilowatt hours annually. The Leon H.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 9, 2024

As the Biden administration works to finalize implementation guidance for the new clean hydrogen production tax credit , 45V, the fossil fuel industry and a select set of other industry actors are aggressively lobbying to loosen the rules—while everyone else is scrambling to stop them. Here’s why. Extremely generous.

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Science & Climate

APRIL 22, 2021

A team of transportation and policy experts from the University of California released a report today to the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) outlining policy options to significantly reduce transportation-related fossil fuel demand and emissions. These include: .

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Resource Links: -- PA Environmental Council: Carbon Capture, Utilization, Storage In PA: A Story Map -- DCNR Blog: Carbon Capture A Tool To Address Cause Of Climate Change -- Ohio River Valley Institute: Carbon Capture, Use And Sequestration Would Decarbonize The Electric System In The Worst Possible Way -- Better Path Coalition: You Can’t Fossil Fuel (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection issued violations to conventional oil and gas well operators for abandoning and not plugging 140 of their wells last week. A total of 380 violations were issued for conventional well abandonments so far in 2024, according to DEP’s Compliance Reporting Database.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Increasing energy output from solar energy generation should not put people out of work who have jobs with fossil fuels and natural gas extraction as these industries are huge economic drivers in Pennsylvania and should also be encouraged. We believe that Pennsylvania should not pick winners and losers. Is it the Federal Government?

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- Awards/Recognition -- We Remember Sept. 6 Webinar On New Model Ordinance To Mitigate The Environmental Impacts Of Warehouse Facilities [PaEN] -- Schuylkill River Greenways Hosts Sept.

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Acoel

MAY 18, 2021

The state boasts cleaner water and air than many other states, significant and beautiful natural features, and progressive environmental laws. Yet Mainers are questioning whether to accept a new 145-mile electric transmission line that will bring hydropower from Quebec into the New England power grid, removing 3.0

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Greenbuilding Law

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

The LEZ promotes the shift from fossil fuel to the use of greener modes of transportation such as electric vehicles and all electric public transportation to reduce carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, and methane from motor vehicle exhausts. really, why?) using 1,175 cameras to monitor which cars enter and exit the zone.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2022

While the facility had finished its planned lifespan, it could have run longer, but environmental regulations and market conditions made that impractical. Cheswick is one of only a half-dozen remaining coal-fired plants in Pennsylvania, and the state Department of Environmental Protection predicts that none will operate after 2025.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Here are 120 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Thank you for your leadership! -- We Remember Sept.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 19, 2022

” Quebec becomes the first jurisdiction in North America to ban fossil fuel extraction. The projects are expected to halve New York’s dependence on fossil fuels for power generation. It was a victory for the province’s liberal coalition, which sees the law as an ambitious step away from planet-heating fossil fuels.

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