PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants under the Clean Air Act. We are deeply troubled by this decision that undermines the authority of the very agency tasked with the mission ‘to protect human health and the environment.’ On June 30, the U.S. Related Articles: -- U.S.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday is finalizing a rule aimed at significantly cutting the use of a type of greenhouse gases called hydrofluorocarbons that are used in refrigeration. Read the full story at The Hill. The new EPA… Read more →

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 1, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized the most stringent national greenhouse gas pollution standards for heavy-duty vehicles, including freight trucks and buses, for model years 2027 through 2032. Read the full story from Environment + Energy Leader. sets stringent GHG standards for heavy-duty vehicles

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Vermont Law

APRIL 5, 2023

The potential contribution of the BBNJ agreement to strengthen environmental protection in the development of marine renewable energy technologies in areas beyond national jurisdiction. Pollution from different sources as well the rising greenhouse gas emission levels are some of the main drivers of the degradation of marine ABNJ.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

By Josh Raulerson, PA Environmental Council Data published in February by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency show a startling 9.6% Pennsylvania’s power generation sector is one of the nation’s largest — and thus, also, one of the biggest emitters of climate-changing greenhouse gases.

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Law and Environment

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This announcement tilts the balance of cost-benefit analyses in favor of activities that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and it could have widespread effects for entities that receive federal funding or are subject to federal regulation. The directive is, nonetheless, significant.

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Nanotech

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

On October 17, 2023, Senators John Thune (R-SD) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) reintroduced the Adopt Greenhouse Gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy Use in Transportation (GREET) Act (S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to update its greenhouse gas (GHG) modeling for all renewable fuels under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).

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New Scientist

JUNE 30, 2022

In a major environmental case, the US Supreme Court has ruled to limit the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Here's what you need to know

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The comment period for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s proposed greenhouse gas emissions standards for power plants closed on August 8, and headlines indicate that the industry is fractured. Read the full story from the Rocky Mountain Institute.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency. That’s because the case, which was about the nature and scope of EPA authority in regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants, turned on a rule that does not exist. EPA did not revoke EPA’s underlying authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 19, 2024

Read more here. -- The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the January 20 PA Bulletin inviting public comments on its intention to renew the Title V Air Quality Permit for the Panther Creek Power Plant located in Nesquehoning Borough, Carbon County. ( Notice of new technical guidance documents and regulations?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency released new regulations to address fugitive methane emissions from oil and gas well sites and centralized production facilities. The regulations, for the first time, embrace recent advances in new methane detection technologies. In December 2022, the U.S. Read more here. Read more here.

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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. The Court determined that regulating the country’s power grid and phasing out coal presented a major question. What is the case about? .

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 28, 2022

OTTAWA | TRADITIONAL, UNCEDED TERRITORY OF THE ALGONQUIN ANISHNAABEG PEOPLE – Environmental and health groups are urging senators to strengthen Bill S-5 in order to modernize the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) without delay.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2024

Department of the Treasury is hosting a public hearing on the December 2023 proposed regulations governing implementation of the Section 45V Credit for Production of Clean Hydrogen. The proposed regulations clearly adhere to that framework, fully comporting with a plain reading of the text. From March 25 to March 27, 2024, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2024

“We strongly support a Climate Resilience Plan for the Delaware River Basin to protect the mighty Delaware River and the New Jersey communities that bathe in its beauty,” said Shawn M. LaTourette, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner and Alternate DRBC Commissioner. “A Follow DRBC on Twitter.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

By Nikki Buffa , Joshua Bledsoe , Jennifer Roy , Michael Dreibelbis , Brian McCall , Austin Wruble , and Sam Wong Louisiana has become the third state in the United States to receive primacy from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), allowing it to assume permitting authority for carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 25, 2022

The case concerns the scope of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil fuel power plants under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (CAA).

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) and Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) announced that proposed amendments to the state’s Clean Energy Standard (CES) were finalized earlier this month without substantive changes from draft language initially proposed by the agencies in April 2022.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It is one of several satellites being deployed to monitor methane emissions across the globe, in order to locate the major sources of the invisible greenhouse gas. ” The launch of the project is announced at a time when there has been an increased focus with governments on how to tackle the short-lived greenhouse gas (GHG) source.

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Environmental News Bits

MAY 18, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency recently released a new proposal to cut emissions from existing power plants, aptly titled the Greenhouse Gas Standards and Guidelines for Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants. Read the full story at GreenBiz. power plants may start to cap emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2021

On October 14, the Department of Environmental Protection presented a proposed regulation that would adopt California’s existing Zero Emission Vehicle Program that requires 22 percent of the new passenger and light duty vehicle fleets offered for sale in the state be zero emission vehicles starting in model year 2025.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The Environmental Protection Agency announced plans Thursday to further cut emissions of climate super-pollutants widely used in air conditioning and refrigeration, the latest step in the United States’ effort to phase down the potent greenhouse gases. Read the full story in the Washington Post.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

This post is the third in a series of blogs that address specific legal features of the rule: Part One offered a summary of the final rule, and delved into the materiality threshold that was added throughout the rule, including for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions disclosure. See, e.g. , Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. , 218 (1947)).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

In late April, California air regulators are poised to pass one of the most meaningful regulations to reduce pollution from commercial trucks, vans, and buses. 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. There are more than 1.8

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

and EU regulations on methane emissions strengthen calls for a binding international agreement to curb the climate pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

Supreme Court decision on regulating carbon pollution from power plants-- The Supreme Court decision in West Virginia vs. EPA to limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon pollution is a significant blow to God’s children here in the United States and throughout creation.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

One is strengthening commitments to reduce heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions in order to keep the planet from dangerously overheating. In New York state, voters have a chance to enshrine environmental protections in their state constitution, which could revive a legal movement that flourished in the United States a half-century ago.

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MGKF Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Read More » Tags: Air , Climate Change , Commonwealth Court , Pennsylvania , Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection , Taxes The holding halts former Governor Tom Wolf’s efforts to make Pennsylvania the first major fossil-fuel producing state to implement a price on carbon emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 3, 2024

Because of this, regulators worked closely with impacted businesses, community advocates, and technical and policy experts (like UCS!) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has been allocated $3 billion to fund zero-emission port equipment and infrastructure as well as climate and air quality planning at U.S.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In the face of disappointing legislation and regulation, activists have increasingly turned to courts in the last fifteen years.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2023

It is entirely different thing for a federal agency to make a rule (in other words, regulations) in accordance with that law. Today, rulemakings surrounding lead have evolved into full-fledged prevention programs tasked with preventing childhood lead poisoning and protecting disadvantaged communities.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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Brag

JANUARY 5, 2023

EPA also amended the RFS regulations by adding a new definition of “canola/rapeseed oil.” Bergeson and Carla N. On December 2, 2022, the U.S. ” The final rule was effective on January 3, 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently published a proposed rule which would limit carbon pollution from fossil fuel burning power plants, a move which is critically important, statutorily required, and long overdue. Every resident and organization is able to provide public comments to the EPA on this and other regulations.

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E2 Law Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

26, 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) solicited public input to inform two new Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) programs creating standards and labeling for construction materials that have “substantially lower levels of embodied greenhouse gas emissions.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is currently developing a regulation to reduce climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from trucks, known as the Phase 3 GHG standards, which would in theory result in increased adoption of electric trucks.

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