Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

In order to steer investment toward environmentally sustainable activities, the European Union launched the Taxonomy Regulation framework to define activities deemed sustainable. Notably, in the same proposal, the Commission has also included screening criteria for gaseous fossil fuels. 31 1(a)).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In December, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service proposed regulations governing implementation of the 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit , passed as part of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act. In particular, emissions loopholes related to biomethane and fugitive methane (i.e.,

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Legal Planet

MAY 13, 2024

By one count , Biden has overturned more than two dozen of Trump actions affecting the fossil fuel industry. Trump recently told Big Oil executives over dinner that they should give him $1 billion in campaign donations because he planned to immediately reverse climate regulations, the New York Times and Washington Post both reported.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Any day now, Minister Freeland is expected to introduce a giant new fossil fuel subsidy called the carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) investment tax credit. The government is breaking their own rules The government introduced new rules to end fossil fuel subsidies this summer. Let me tell you why.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2024

On April 30, Senate Bill 1174 (Stefano-R-Fayette) was reported out of the Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Committee with unanimous Republican support that would allow any “public utility” to petition the Public Utility Commission to waive any law, regulation or policy under the Commission’s jurisdiction, if it benefits ratepayers.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

I’m attending along with a delegation of UCLA Law students and colleagues here to follow a range of issues, from methane regulation to China’s global role to regenerative agricultural practices. Will this COP manage to call for the phase out of fossil fuels in a meaningful way? Here are four mid-COP takeaways.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2021

On July 29, the Ohio River Valley Institute released a new poll of Pennsylvania voters which found by wide margins they support tougher regulation of the natural gas drilling industry, community regulation of drilling and the development of clean energy sources. The poll found voters are especially concerned about fracking waste.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

California’s transportation fuel policy is knee deep in cow poop, and it’s not a good look. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering amendments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) regulation, but indicated they have no plans to address the problems caused by counter-productive subsidies for manure biomethane.

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Corp Watch

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The company was a major target of anti-apartheid boycotts in the 1980s over its role in supporting the white South African government with fuel and money but just 192 rand ($22) in annual rent for two petrol stations on Umnini tribal land in KwaZulu-Natal, where blacks were not allowed to own land. billion pounds of ethylene a year.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Leading this subnational trend, California officials launched the Subnational Methane Action Coalition, an international partnership between subnational governments that have some responsibility in overseeing or regulating sources of methane emissions. This year, several jurisdictions announced new methane regulations. Since the E.U.

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 20, 2023

The Rundown The EPA targets six PFAS in its draft drinking water regulation. News Briefs PFAS Regulation The U.S. It also proposed regulating four additional forever chemicals as a group. States have used the section in recent years to reject fossil fuel projects. government water policy.

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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. The conventional regulations were challenged in Commonwealth Court by conventional oil and gas operators. Read more here. Click Here for EPA announcement.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2024

In late December, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released proposed regulations for the Section 45V Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit. Today, hydrogen is overwhelmingly produced through a heavily polluting fossil fuel-based process. It is a climate problem, not a climate solution.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

All of my children have experienced health impacts such as rashes, chronic nosebleeds and Lyme disease due to the warming of our climate from the fossil-fuel industry. Right before an important election, Pennsylvania lawmakers made a last-minute closed-door deal to make the biggest fossil-fuel giveaway in the Commonwealth’s history.

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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.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

You may have heard about a miracle cure for plastic waste that creates green energy in the process—the mystical waste incinerator. We know how many people want to rid the world of plastic waste and shift to sustainable energy. But there really is no miracle cure for waste. It almost sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Canada is talking a good game on plastics, but the government doesn’t have the comprehensive plan it needs to get to the promised zero plastic waste by 2030. We’re calling for: Regulations that serve to eliminate all harmful and non recyclable plastics. So we’ve provided Minister Guilbeault with a to-do list to help him get there.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2021

On July 13, the Environmental Quality Board voted 15 to 4 to approve the final regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants after an attempt at the beginning of the more than two hour long meeting to delay action by Republican legislators on the Board. Read more here. Defeated 15 to 4. Metcalfe and Sen.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

That’s the nightmare scenario we’re facing now as federal regulators establish guidelines for implementing the new hydrogen tax credit. If the credit is based on a narrow evaluation of the impact of hydrogen production, it will appear to be driving the deployment of clean hydrogen when considered in isolation.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) is circulating a cosponsor memo announcing he plans to introduce legislation to prohibit the distribution of Act 13 Impact Fees to any county “that is actively suing over fossil fuel use.” “It Read more here. No Stranger To Trying To Punish Counties For Gas Industry In 2022, Sen.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

should prop up fossil fuels, constrain renewables wherever possible, and claw back the federal government’s historic investments in clean energy, while reinvesting in nuclear energy and new nuclear weapons. The right-wing approach to energy in this critical 2024 election is straightforward: The U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

This includes loopholes related to biomethane, whereby heavily polluting fossil fuel-fired hydrogen production facilities—the very facilities the tax credit is trying to incentivize a shift away from—can cloak themselves as “clean” and reap full tax credit rewards, without having done anything but pushed around paper.

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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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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 5, 2023

However, the Alberta Energy Regulator absolved itself of any responsibility and conducted an ‘independent’ inquiry which reduced the concerns being raised to a communications issue rather than a failure to uphold their duty to Indigenous peoples. They are also calling for the dismantling of the Alberta Energy Regulator.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 28, 2023

The joint statement from the recent G7 environment and energy ministers’ conference in Japan suggests there is ambition for action in some areas – on climate-related finance and investments and on eliminating toxic chemicals, for example – but less on eliminating fossil fuel subsidies and very little on eliminating plastic pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service released proposed regulations on the Clean Hydrogen Production Credit established by the federal Inflation Reduction Act. The proposed regulations advance those goals and will support the development of a robust U.S. On December 22, the U.S. clean hydrogen industry.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2024

The tiny town in our community that could host a main ARCH2 facility is already the site of a massive toxic coal waste dump. In a region where Black Appalachians have been historically erased from the cultural narrative, we demand visibility from the Department of Energy and an end to fossil fuel colonialism.

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

But, behind the scenes, they have a long history of lobbying to delay and derail regulations that would prevent pollution, keeping us addicted to disposable plastic. Over the next few years, the area surrounding the plant allegedly began to feel the plant’s hazardous effects, as groundwater was contaminated and toxic waste released.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

The majority 6–3 decision sharply curtails the EPA’s authority to set standards based on a broad range of flexible options to cut carbon emissions from the power sector—options such as replacing polluting fossil fuels with cheap and widely available wind and solar power coupled with battery storage. There is no time to waste.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 27, 2023

At the international and federal levels, significant progress was made on climate action, plastic waste, toxic chemicals and biodiversity conservation. It is even more challenging if these investments mean much less money is available to invest in new fossil-free businesses that are ready to take off.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 26, 2021

Big Plastic wants to stop the federal government from regulating plastics under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA). and municipal waste systems, for the havoc that plastics wreak on our environment. million tonnes to single-use plastic waste around the world in 2019 alone. If they win, we all lose. NOVA is #21.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Toxic tailings store trillions of litres of industrial waste To extract bitumen from the viscous tar sands, companies drain immense volumes of fresh water from the Athabasca River, which results in trillions of litres of toxic industrial waste. times over ! times over !

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

When Congress passes a law, it normally delegates to the relevant federal agency (or agencies) the responsibility of writing regulations to implement that law. Congress shares power with federal agencies. West Virginia v. EPA upends this arrangement. In the West Virginia v.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Oil and Gas Regulation One of the big success stories of 2022 was the end-of-session passage of SB 1137 (Gonzalez) , which established a 3,200-foot buffer zone between new oil and gas wells and sensitive receptors like schools, homes, and hospitals. Newsom vetoed an end-of-session gut-and-amend by Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

A 2020 grand jury report issued under then-Attorney General Josh Shapiro found that industry leaders, regulators, and the Department of Environmental Protection had not adequately protected state residents from the impacts of fracking. Increasing these setbacks is the right thing to do.” Read more here.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

Two of the top 10 EQIP practices by total dollar amount spent are practices we identified as industrial, providing little to no conservation benefits, in our previous report: waste facility cover and waste storage facility. We discuss the need for better water use regulation across the country to lessen the strain on EQIP.

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