Legal Planet

APRIL 25, 2022

Most household appliances, like furnaces and water heaters, are powered by fossil fuels and emit nitrogen oxides (NOx) —toxic and highly reactive gases that endanger human health and the environment. Zero-NOx appliance standards would benefit public health, cut greenhouse gas pollution, and create jobs.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

Notably, in the same proposal, the Commission has also included screening criteria for gaseous fossil fuels. The Regulation sets a time limit on the inclusion of nuclear energy but not on fossil fuels and grants the Commission special powers to rule on nuclear taxonomy compliance.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2024

“The Appalachian Hydrogen Hub is a vehicle for environmental racism, threatening Black communities already overburdened by air and water pollution with even more harmful fossil fuel and carbon capture infrastructure," said Archbishop Marcia Dinkins, Founder and Executive Director of the Black Appalachian Coalition. "In

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 13, 2023

While growing, they provide clean air and clean water, habitat for wildlife, and capture and store carbon, lowering greenhouse gas emissions. On top of that, real trees can be recycled or composted in most communities.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C This would include using materials more efficiently, reusing and recycling products and minimising waste. It was sombre reading.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The Governor approved a notable slate of climate legislation with a package that includes more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets and measures designed to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. Climate Change Mitigation. Clean Energy.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2022

He has spent his career championing environmental issues like clean air and water, advocating for a transition away from fossil fuels, and promoting clean energy solutions such as energy efficiency, wind, solar and geothermal. Being an environmental activist in a fossil fuel state is not for the faint of heart.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 23, 2023

30 Guest Essay: My Hometown Shows The Benefits Of The Fossil Fuel Industry Come At A Tremendous Cost - Gov. 2022 Natural Gas House Explosion In Dauphin County Susquehanna River Basin Commission Holds Nov. Billion In Grants To Strengthen Power Grid Against Extreme Weather, To Deliver Cheaper, Cleaner, Reliable Energy, PA Included Gov.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Most plastics are made of fossil fuels, and their production releases large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions. Plastics now provide a growing investment opportunity for the faltering fossil fuel industry as demand for fossil fuels declines and demand for renewable energy grows.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2021

13 Webinar On Recycling & Waste Reduction PA Parks & Forests Foundation Offering On Demand Videos On Health Benefits Of Outdoor Recreation Appalachian Chapter Of Audubon Society: Hog Island Audubon Camp Scholarship For Students Ages 14-17 Group Against Smog & Pollution Dec. 25-26 Penn State Extension Hosts Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2023

DEP issued a number of notices of violation for the discharges and improper waste handling at the site and requested the operator to submit a written report by August 25, 2023 of how they will bring the site into compliance, including cleaning the site up to Act 2 Land Recycling Program standards. Read more here. Potter County To Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Million In Fast Charging, Hydrogen Fueling & Marine And Rail Freight Movers Grants Under Driving PA Forward DEP Sets Jan. 15 - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! Million In Fast Charging, Hydrogen Fueling & Marine And Rail Freight Movers Grants Under Driving PA Forward DEP Sets Jan. 15 - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! 29 To Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 26, 2022

LR100 is a cleaner fuel source for boilers than other fuel oil replacement options and will reduce air emissions of nitrogen oxides and particulate matter by 50% and sulfur dioxide emissions by nearly 99%. LR100 has the lowest carbon footprint of any commercially available biogenic fuel. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

It results in this dangerous radioactive wastewater that the fossil fuel industry cannot recycle or dispose of in a benign manner. In addition, fracking results in the release of methane into the atmosphere, a major contributor to the greenhouse effect and climate change. Fracking needs to stop!”

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Contaminated soil needs to be removed from the site” and the site “will require Act 2 [Land Recycling Program] SOP to remediate this site,” noted the inspection report. Contaminated soil needs to be removed from the site” and the site “will require Act 2 [Land Recycling Program] SOP to remediate this site,” noted the inspection report.

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Ocean Conservancy

APRIL 29, 2022

Spain, the first Mediterranean GGGI partner government, will work closely with the GGGI and regional bodies like the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR) on setting ambitious national and regional targets on recycling and extended producer responsibility (EPR).

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2022

17-18 At Marshall University, WV Recycling Program, Managing Electronics Waste On DEP Citizens Advisory Council Agenda For Oct. 17-18 At Marshall University, WV Recycling Program, Managing Electronics Waste On DEP Citizens Advisory Council Agenda For Oct. Limiting Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities To Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 31, 2021

To Launch Young People Into Clean Energy Careers [PaEN] -- PA Municipal League, Sustainable Pittsburgh’s Virtual 2021 Fall Sustainability Conference Nov. Messiah University [PaEN] -- Gov. To Launch Young People Into Clean Energy Careers [PaEN] -- PA Municipal League, Sustainable Pittsburgh’s Virtual 2021 Fall Sustainability Conference Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Land Recycling/Brownfield Cleanups -- Coterra Energy, Inc. - Shapiro, Let's Hold Them Accountable - Support The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative - By Rev. Read more here. Susquehanna County. ( PA Bulletin, page 6613 ) -- Coterra Energy, Inc. -

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Like Greta Thunberg, Mariutti comes to the tale as an environmental obsessive passionate about facilitating the world’s transition from fossil fuels to cleaner forms of energy. Does the fossil fuel industry offer any alternative?”, It was Mariutti who first took substantial efforts to flag the data discrepancies.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2024

According to the 2023 Pennsylvania Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report , the industrial sector is the highest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting sector, accounting for just over 30 percent of Pennsylvania’s total GHG emissions.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 29, 2021

It goes beyond the bans, vowing rules requiring new plastic packaging to include significant recycled content, a 90% recycling target for beverage containers and a $100 million fund to support reuse and recycling infrastructure. gigatons of greenhouse gases (GHGs) to the world’s atmosphere in 2017 alone. India and Russia.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The world is trying to get away from burning fossil fuels for energy because it’s a major source of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. But burning garbage is really just more of the same because it contains so much plastic, which is made from … fossil fuels! So, what is the solution?

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 24, 2021

UN Secretary-General António Guterres stated that we’re in a “ code red for humanity ” and called for an end to fossil fuel production and exploration, along with a massive transition to renewable energy, to mitigate climate change. Over the next 10 years, the fossil fuel industry in the U.S.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

But it must be coupled with strong plastics collection and recycling, for which there is robust and standardized baselines and transparent national reporting. Informal sector waste collectors are on the frontlines of collecting items for recycling in many countries around the world.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

For example, the ongoing debate over the impact of certain pesticides in agriculture , greenhouse gas emissions are often a battle between the science and industry's attempts to muddy the science and government lobbying to roll back legislation (2). Typically used in conjunction with “greenhouse gas” but some emissions are not GHGs.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 5, 2022

billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions into our atmosphere—the equivalent of 300 coal-fired power plants—and these facilities are sited in predominantly low-income communities and communities of color. Direct the EPA to not include harmful chemical recycling technologies in the national recycling strategy.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 24, 2023

Question: Some people claim EVs are worse for the environment than gasoline cars Answer: Battery-Electric vehicles (BEVs) have on average two thirds lower lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline cars today, and this will improve as electricity grids get cleaner by cutting out fossil fuels.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Unfortunately, decades of government subsidies to the fossil fuel industry have hindered efforts to reuse and recycle. They make it cheaper to produce new (or “virgin”) plastics rather than recycling plastic waste already created. By 2030, greenhouse gas emissions from plastic production are expected to reach 1.3

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 21, 2023

We must keep in mind, after all, that plastics are energy-and emissions-intensive and drive fossil-fuel demand and greenhouse-gas emissions. Recognizes the need to design plastics for circularity—in other words, to be reused or easily recycled again and again, without the need for false solutions like chemical recycling.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 18, 2022

Greenhouse gasses that cause climate change, for one thing. Burning plastic is *not* recycling. Despite the term being touted by industry (and even some governments ), “advanced recycling” could not be a less accurate description of what plastic burning really is. It’s certainly not recycling. And here’s why: 1.

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Greenbuilding Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The more than 133 billion pounds of wasted food annually, worth more than $160 billion, presents opportunities to increase food security, promote resource and energy conservation, and address greenhouse gas emission reduction. Globally, food loss and waste represent more than 8% of anthropogenic GHG emissions (4.4

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 7, 2022

The time is now for bold, ambitious action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, protect our health from chemical pollution in our water and communities, and get rid of single-use plastics. Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People –.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 20, 2023

Plastics are fossil fuels—they’re made using oil, gas and coal, yet we don’t often think about them as part of the climate crisis. And conveniently, they put the blame on individual consumers when recycling and waste management fails and when plastics end up in our waterways.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Generating and storing clean energy is a lifeline for the planet’s future; burning coal, oil, and gas fossil fuels causes 75% of greenhouse gas emissions. A fossil fuel energy grid extracts and expends finite resources. More batteries are being recycled through good policy , innovation, and corporate commitment.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Tree Health Struggles; What’s My Tree Doing For Me? -- WESA/The Allegheny Front: Why Teaching People About Invasive Plants Can Get A Little Thorny -- TribLive: Recycling Pumpkins Good For Wildlife, Environment -- Post-Gazette - John Hayes: Bear Season: Here’s How PA Controls Its Largest Predator -- PennLive: To The Bat Hospital!

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2023

8 Climate Pollution Reduction Grants Workshop, In-Person & Virtual -- Post-Gazette - Mary Ann Thomas: Want To Be A Citizen Scientist? 9 Meeting [PaEN] -- DEP Sets Feb. 13 Hearing On Hazardous Sites Cleanup Plan For Newberry Twp.

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