PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Today’s announcement demonstrates a shared commitment between the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and our local communities and businesses to improve air quality, address climate change, and increase the use of renewable energy across the Commonwealth.” Click Here for a list of projects funded. “We

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 17, 2025

Tapping into that renewable energy is made easier along most of the East Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico by the fact that the water depth is relatively shallow for tens of miles from shore, meaning that the support structures for each turbine can be placed directly on the seabed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2022

A transition to renewable energy is not just one of the most consequential tools at our fingertips to act on climate, but also represents a great opportunity to increase control over our energy choices, improve the health of our communities and the planet, create jobs and wealth, and much more. by 2035 is needed.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 16, 2025

Costly and Inequitable In addition to emitting greenhouse gases, gas power plants also pollute the air with nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, and volatile organic compounds. Now is the time for Wisconsin and the PSCW to tell We Energies that profits cannot be placed over communities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 4, 2023

It’s not just the poor air quality, long lines, and excessive fossil fuel company representation ; nations are still too far apart in their positions on a fossil fuel phaseout, the top priority for this COP. Yet global fossil fuel production and use continue to expand. Particulate matter (PM2.5)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

Nearly all of the alliance members have a renewable electricity standard (RES), which requires utilities in their jurisdiction to increase their use of renewable energy to a particular percentage by a specific year. We found that states have technically feasible and highly beneficial ways to achieve 100-percent renewable energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

Renewable projects can experience delays due to the country’s antiquated (and slow) system of connecting to the grid, as well as other reasons like permitting and transmission constraints. And fossil fuel power plants may not stick to their retirement schedules for a variety of reasons. A bit more on those reasons later.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The IRA will stimulate most of the near-term private investment in clean energy and related infrastructure to decarbonize the US economy, spurring more than a trillion dollars in capital investments through 2035. It also will save US consumers money because they will spend less on fossil fuels. Your thoughts?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 13, 2024

That means it includes the extreme wildfires exacerbated by the fossil fuel industry that burned more than 4% of California in 2021 and 2022. come from burning fossil fuels and pesticide use, and ultrafine particles (PM0.1) These particles are categorized by size.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2024

In New England, the percent of people of color living near fossil fuel power plants is up to 23.5 Dominion Energy is pushing to build the largest gas peaker plant in Virginia in an area where 44% of the residents are people of color and 25% are low income. Most notable of these polluting emissions are nitrogen oxides (NOx).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

As we now know, fossil fuel companies lied about it for decades to protect their profits. Now that there is a desperate need to slash global warming emissions worldwide to avoid the worst consequences of climate change, it is critical to rapidly phase out the use of all fossil fuels. What accounts for that?

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2021

Concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere have risen approximately 47 percent since 1750, mostly from the burning of fossil fuels for energy. Strategies for capturing carbon from fossil fuel power plants, to prevent it from entering the atmosphere, have long lingered on the sidelines. from 1990–2019.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency methodologies to assign a dollar value to each ton of nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide reduced. PJM said the new generation capacity includes almost all investor-driven renewable energy and storage-- 50.8% billion in NOx and $445.1 billion - $1.02 solar+storage, 12.7% storage and 6.1%

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

Hydrogen’s supply-side has been buttressed by incentives from state and federal governments, refineries and utilities looking to extend the life of fossil fuel infrastructure, and renewable energy companies seeking to take advantage of the huge amounts of clean energy needed to produce green hydrogen.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The fossil fuel industry has systematically contaminated our environment with a wide range of toxic chemicals for over a century. Examples are benzene, hydrofluoric acid, particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and many, many other toxic pollutants. Refining uses many risky industrial processes.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

New UCS study shows how we can accelerate US clean energy ambition An interdisciplinary team of UCS experts set out to explore how the US can meet its goals to cut heat-trapping emissions 50%-52% below 2005 levels by 2030 and achieve net zero emissions no later than 2050. Coal is phased out of the power sector by 2030. The reductions in PM2.5

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2025

Here, we still want to cut global warming emissions by replacing polluting cars with clean vehicles and ramping up renewable energy to phase out fossil fuel powerplants. Electricity for all (of the Western United States) California has always led in creating and achieving necessarily ambitious renewable energy goals.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2025

In our current fossil-fueled freight system, the cost for convenience spans far beyond membership fees for expedited deliveries. Exposure to pollution from heavy-duty vehicles results in thousands of premature deaths and nearly $100 billion in monetized negative health impacts each year, according to UCS modeling.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

For example, recent attention has focused on tightening the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone smog, which is formed by atmospheric reactions on volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen oxides (NOx). Counting the "indirect" GHG benefits of regulations necessary to reduce NOx may justify greater stringency.

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