Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

The ongoing pollution from these power plants is an affront to public health and wildly incompatible with every climate ambition this country —and this world—has. Which means the consequences of these polluters unabashedly continuing to pollute aren’t just severe—they’re compounding.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

A substantial portion of the guidance and supporting materials is dedicated to electrolytic production of hydrogen; i.e., using electricity to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Treasury adopts a cautious approach in the face of deep uncertainties, declining to set policy positions where the record is ambiguous.

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Law Columbia

MAY 28, 2021

Previously, local governments had pursued building electrification through building code provisions requiring or incentivizing electrification expressly, or through affirmative “bans” on natural gas hookups to new and renovated buildings. that are built all-electric) will receive special permits that endure in perpetuity.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 5, 2021

Here’s A Guide To Identifying Them And Avoiding Bites Climate Rachel McDevitt: Will RGGI Affect Your Electric Bill? Million For PFAS Cancer Study WHYY: What’s In The Water? 27-28; Moraine State Park Regatta Aug.

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The Energy Law Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The Clean Power Plan would affect every electricity user in the United States, from the largest manufacturing plant to the smallest home. EPA cannot require electricity generation to be shifted from coal-burning units to units that use natural gas or renewable energy sources without a clear statement from Congress.

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Clean Air Act Carbon Dioxide 2016 Pollution Control 40

Columbia Climate Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

PURPA requires electric utilities to purchase energy and capacity from qualifying renewable energy facilities (“QFs”). For the proxy plant method, the avoided energy cost proxy is a natural gas combined cycle unit (“NGCC”), and the avoided capacity cost proxy is a natural gas combustion turbine unit (“NGCT”).

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 20, 2023

Buildings are one of Colorado’s top five sources of greenhouse gas emissions. As directed by a state law enacted in 2021, as HB 1286, the Colorado Health Department’s Air Pollution Control Division developed the newly finalized standards. It’s a major step forward in protecting both public health and clean air.”

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

The bill is sprawling, covering climate and energy topics as diverse as electric vehicles, building decarbonization, clean energy manufacturing and supply chains, agriculture, and greening the electricity system, all through a range of tax incentives and direct grants. Still, how does a local government tap in?

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2026 Clean Air Act Air Pollution Greenhouse 116

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2022

Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) As Russian bombs fall on Ukraine, Pennsylvania refineries refine Russian crude oil and oil and natural gas prices are locked to every word said by Russian despots, Sen. The new essay outlines what the coal and natural gas industries want to happen in Pennsylvania-- If Gov. Mitchell C.

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Natural Gas Fossil Fuels Air Pollution 2030 97

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Note: In December, 2022, DEP finalized regulations reducing volatile organic compounds and methane from existing conventional and unconventional oil and gas facilities. In June 2018, DEP finalized an Air Quality General Permit to reduce methane emissions from new unconventional oil and gas operations. On December 2, the U.S.

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Regulations Air Pollution Natural Gas Carbon Dioxide 109

Legal Planet

JANUARY 17, 2022

EPA pollution rules nearly always require pollution control measures of one kind or another to be implemented at the polluting facility. A key part of that argument is that the Plan steps outside the area of emissions regulation into regulation of sourcing for electricity. That brings us to the West Virginia case.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 30, 2022

Steel Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Fire, Pollution Control Outage Was A ‘Complete Failure’ -- DEP To Conduct Hazardous Waste Site Investigation At Erie Coke (Coal) Plant Site In Erie [Owner Left Property For Taxpayers To Cleanup] [PaEN] Want to have a positive impact on issues like this?

Pollution Control 57

Pollution Control Conservation Natural Gas Clean Energy 57

Smith Enviorment

JULY 12, 2022

A shift in power generation from coal to natural gas-fired plants; and 3. Additional shifting of energy generation from coal or natural gas to renewable sources such as solar and wind energy. The Court didn’t exactly find that Congress failed to authorize generation shifting as a system of pollution reduction.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2022

-- AG Shapiro: Coterra Energy, Formerly Cabot Oil & Gas, Pleads No Contest To 15 Criminal Charges Related To Polluting Water Supplies In Dimock, Susquehanna County [PaEN] -- DEP Has Ordered A ‘Top To Bottom Review’ Of How It Regulates Underground Natural Gas Storage Areas As A Result Of The Equitrans Gas Leak In Cambria County In Nov.

Conservation 62

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Circuit Court of Appeals found that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) failed to adequately analyze the climate change and environmental justice impacts of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals on the Brownsville Shipping Channel in Texas and two pipelines that would carry LNG to one of the terminals.

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2021 Endangered Species Act Climate Change Fossil Fuels 40

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Fortunately, I don’t have COPD and I didn’t contract asthma when I was young, perhaps partly because I grew up in a home with an electric range. While less than 40 percent of households nationwide cook on a gas stove, 62 percent of households in Washington do. But other Washingtonians may not be as lucky.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2021

Vehicles To Be Electric By 2030 -- Utility Dive: U.S. Billion Meant For Conservation -- DEP: Issues Air Quality Action Day Warning For Friday, Aug.

Natural Gas 62

Natural Gas Electricity Fossil Fuels Pollution Control 62

Law Columbia

JULY 2, 2021

The federal district court for the Western District of Louisiana issued a nationwide preliminary injunction barring the Biden administration from implementing a “Pause” on new oil and natural gas leases on public lands or in offshore waters. Circuit Vacated Approval for Natural Gas Pipeline in St. 20-472 (U.S. Louis area.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2022

EIA: Proved Reserves Of Natural Gas Fell 4% In U.S. -- York Conservation District Hosts March 4 Manure Management Plan Workshop; DEP Conducting Farm Compliance Inspections [PaEN] -- ErieT Guest Essay: PA Shortchanges Environmental Protection, Tell Lawmakers To Fully Fund It Now - Rep. During 2020 -- Rep.

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