Law and Environment

MAY 4, 2023

SMR requires steam, heat, and pressure to convert methane (in natural gas) to hydrogen and carbon monoxide. The gold standard—so-called “ green ” hydrogen—is hydrogen produced via electrolysis using renewable electricity from wind or solar. Here we’ll look at how hydrogen is produced and what it will be used for.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

TODAY 1:00: House Consumer Protection, Technology, Utilities Committee holds hearing on House Bill 1578 (Mullins-D-Lackawanna) training and bonding retail electric and natural gas energy suppliers. Room G-50 Irvis Building.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

2, 3, 4 [Unless Sooner Recalled] -- Committee Schedule House next voting day September 26, 27; October 2, 3, 4, 16 [Unless Sooner Recalled] -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - September 9 to 15; First Abandoned Shale Gas Well Pad?

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The Blue Book suggests filling stations are threatened by a combination of weaker consumer demand, itself spurred by the pandemic and high oil prices, and the quickening shift from conventional to electric vehicles (EVs). Around 77% of those were all-electric, with plug-in hybrids comprising roughly 22%. Last year, 6.9 Last year, 6.9

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The AEPS program, which began in 2005, requires that 18 percent of electric power provided through retail sale in Pennsylvania comes from qualified alternative and renewable energy sources. AEPS is administered by the PUC, in collaboration with DEP.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Energy Policy & Conservation Act (EPCA), which sets nationwide energy conservation standards for many common appliances and preempts state and local standards, preempts Berkeley’s 2019 ban on natural gas connections to newly-constructed buildings. (A Building & Appliance Energy Use. Law Professors Brief 8). FERC , 621 F.3d

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

These measures will cut electricity use by over 51,000 kilowatt hours annually. Fifteen projects are in the Philadelphia region, including projects at Drexel University; Esperanza College; 990 Spring Garden, a retail/maker/office space; the Tower Place and Coventry House residential buildings, and others. The Leon H.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 2, 2022

For both residential and non-residential buildings, the “design elements” include that the buildings (1) not include natural gas appliances or natural gas plumbing, and (2) not result in any wasteful, inefficient, or unnecessary energy usage as determined by relevant CEQA analysis pursuant to Pub.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 7, 2022

Direct emissions are produced from residential and commercial activities in a variety of ways: Combustion of natural gas and petroleum products for heating including water heating and cooking needs emits carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O).

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2022

A clean energy standard requires a percent of retail electricity sales to come from low and zero-carbon electricity sources. This new and updated AEPS will expand from two to seven tiers to include carbon constrained coal and natural gas, existing and advanced nuclear, and hydrogen energy sources,” explained Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 15, 2021

By virtue of its June 4, 2020 Order , the PUC lifted the moratorium on in-person sales and marketing activities for activities at retail businesses open as a result of the Governor’s directives at that time. The action marks the fourth time that the Commission has modified the March 16 Emergency Order.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

Utilities Commission (NCUC) to “take all reasonable steps” to achieve a 70% reduction in carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) emissions from electric generating units (EGUs) by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality for the utility generation system by 2050. The reduction goals apply to electric utilities that are: 1.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 26, 2022

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. Unit 2 at Three Mile Island has been closed since the accident and is now in the process of decommissioning by Energy Solutions. Read more here. Read more here.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Some have argued that weather-dependent energies would, paradoxically, make electricity even more reliable. Adding more variable energy sources to electricity grids, all else being equal, might not in itself make electricity less reliable. For natural gas it was 40%, or 46% based on winter adequacy expectations.

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

According to the IPCC, this greenhouse gas is 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a twenty-year period (and 34 times more potent over a century). Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) is a mature technology that is becoming a key component in our much needed global energy transition and the creation of a circular economy.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

Congress took questions relating to the security of America’s electricity supply seriously before more than a dozen states experienced energy shortages last month, but those events make this hearing all the more urgent. electrical grids were increasingly “complex and vulnerable.” [2] Shellenberger. 5] The U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

TUESDAY 1:00: House Consumer Protection, Technology, Utilities Committee holds hearing on House Bill 1578 (Mullins-D-Lackawanna) training and bonding retail electric and natural gas energy suppliers. Contact: Glenda Davidson at gldavidson@pa.gov or 717-783-4759. formal notice) Read more here. Room G-50 Irvis Building.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2023

25 - Blue Hydrogen Made From Natural Gas - What You Need To Know. Noon to 1:00 p.m. -- EPA Invites Comments On Draft Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well Permit In Young Twp., 17 Webinar On Exploring Oil & Gas Industrialization Impacts On Watersheds [PaEN] -- Bob Donnan’s Blog: Has Anything Changed?

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

[PaEN] -- WHYY: Environmentalists Decry DRBC Permit Extension Approval For LNG Natural Gas Terminal In South Jersey To Export PA Natural Gas - By Zoe Read, WHYY, with Jon Hurdle of NJ Spotlight contributing [PaEN] -- Utility Dive: U.S. 16 - 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. -- Sept. What’s Your Community Doing?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 2, 2022

Green Jobs Could Grow In PA - 4,500 Openings Now -- Inquirer - Andrew Maykuth: A Small Measure Of Relief Is Coming For Shell-Shocked Philly Area Natural Gas Customers -- MCall: Utility Bills Have Risen, Will They Go A Lot Higher? Oil Companies Not Pumping More Oil Despite High Prices -- AP: U.S.,

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Of Health Invites Citizens To File Environmental Health Complaints Related To Natural Gas Development; Health Will Also Review Environmental Test Results [PaEN] -- TribLive Guest Essay: Leaders Aren’t Helpless And Must Take Action To Protect Constituents From Natural Gas Development Health Impacts - By Tom Pike, Penn Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

25 RiverWatch Report -- PUC Approves Settlements With Retail Energy Suppliers’ Sales & Marketing Practices -- PUC To Investigate UGI Utilities Natural Gas Service Rate Increase -- AP/MCall: Rhode Island Challenges $3.8 . -- PA Solar Center: March 11 Webinar - Meeting Peak Demand And Environmental Justice With Solar Energy.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

In recent years, states in New England and the mid-Atlantic region have made significant progress in reducing climate change-inducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity generation sector. [1]. emissions from the electricity generation sector. [21]. One study estimates that CO. RGGI is composed of individual CO.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2022

Pennsylvania is squarely in the middle of a national debate over “unleashing” our considerable reserves of natural gas to help supply the parts of Europe now dependent on natural gas from Russia. And natural gas is the most valuable commodity Russia has – for now.” And they meant all natural gas imports.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 21, 2021

26 [PaEN] -- PA Senators Call For More Natural Gas Pipelines As Winter Heating Costs Expected To Increase Dramatically [Consumer Advocate Told The Senate Heating Costs Could Jump 20% In Gas-Rich PA] [Note: Solar And Wind Energy Facilities Have No Fuel Costs That Fluctuate Wildly On International Markets.] -- U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Other witnesses said expanding renewable energy would reduce energy costs, avoid increasing over-reliance on natural gas and its price spikes, improve electric grid reliability, is needed to keep Pennsylvania competitive and generate business investment and jobs.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 16, 2022

Industrial Sector “Skyrocketing natural gas prices have raised manufacturing and transportation costs across many U.S. industries, and the situation should persist as the United States exports more gas to Europe to make up for Russian supplies lost to sanctions. energy industry and the government.” -- Financial Times: U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2022

Pennsylvania natural gas industry politicians continue working to lock us into foreign energy price markets with despots, while Pennsylvania oil refineries are refining Russian crude. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine caused the latest price spikes of oil, natural gas and gasoline, the U.S. oil and gas industry wants.

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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

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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Arnold Porter

AUGUST 6, 2021

trillion in federal funds to strengthen roads, bridges, and water systems while laying the foundation for deployment of a national electric vehicle (EV) charging network and broadband infrastructure in rural and underserved American communities. Electric Vehicle Infrastructure. National Electric Vehicle Program.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2022

Oil/Natural Gas ] -- Bloomberg: Biden To Unveil New Russia Sanctions, Energy Aid In Brussels Thursday -- Reuters: Biden Admin Confident Of U.S. Batteries -- Bloomberg: VW Sees $7.7 Billion Investment In Spanish Battery Supply Chain -- WSJ: U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2022

Corman Talks Energy, Gasoline Tax Holiday [There is no limit to what oil companies can charge us for gasoline] -- PG: Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Lou Barletta Says PA Could Lead The Way For U.S. Poland's long-term supply contract with Russia's Gazprom expires at the end of this year.

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