PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2024

million-- to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve water quality on more than 50 farms and the National Hemp Association -- $19.6 Senator Casey also established the Farm to Food Bank program to ensure farmers are able to recover some of the costs that would be lost otherwise from food waste.

Greenhouse

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2025

PennTAPs team of technical advisors can complete these assessments at no cost to small and mid-sized industries to help identify opportunities for waste reduction and reducing energy costs. RISE PA DEP was awarded $396 million in funding from the EPA Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Program established by the federal Inflation Reduction Act.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, estimated to be 80 times more damaging to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide but not as long lasting. “People will say, ‘You could have burned the forest down!’ But people need to see things. You can’t just tell people about things. They won’t listen.”

2010

Enviromental Defense

APRIL 10, 2025

CCS is basically a waste management strategy for polluting industries. Much attention has been paid to carbon captures role or lack thereof in addressing greenhouse gas pollution. Water is being redirected from farms where it is needed for farmer livelihood and food production. But threats to water have received far less attention.

Carbon Dioxide

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

” But, she adds, the benefits of nurturing a local textile industry are many: more transparent supply chains, support for local economies and regenerative farming practices, less waste, fewer emissions, and a profound sense of community and interconnectedness. Some new regulations are meant to make the industry more accountable.

Upcycling

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 26, 2025

Packaging waste and carbon emissions can be linked together for a more holistic approach to reducing corporate environmental impact. Companies like Unilever and Diageo are simultaneously slashing waste and carbon emissions through their packaging. Read the full story at Trellis.

Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Refining processes , particularly in countries with lax environmental regulations, emit greenhouse gases and toxic waste. Mining critical minerals can lead to human rights violations, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, and soil degradation.

Regulations

Law Columbia

JUNE 19, 2025

While the court dismissed the claim brought by Peruvian farmer Saúl Luciano Lliuya against RWE, the country’s largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitter, it nonetheless delivered groundbreaking findings on civil liability for major GHG polluters.

Climate Change

Circle of Blue

APRIL 16, 2025

Farmers cut their operational costs less money spent on seeds, fertilizer, energy or shifted from corn to less water-intensive crops, and were less wasteful with the water they had, producing yields that were a bit smaller than before but not drastically so. Greenhouse gas emissions were 20 percent lower.

2013

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

18 EarthTalk Features Penn State Sustainability Director Lara Fowler On Decarbonizing The University [PaEN] -- Penn State Delegation In Azerbaijan For UN’s Annual Climate Meeting -- WPSU: When Will Greenhouse Gas Emissions Finally Peak? Of Environmental Professionals Host Dec.

Conservation

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Delayed action on emissions cuts may require even more (and more expensive) CDR – the 2024 United Nations Emissions Gap Report released this week found that 2023 greenhouse gas emissions set a new record, and current emissions reduction pledges for 2030 are insufficient to meet temperature goals.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Data Center Infrastructure; Amazon Told PUC It Has Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Goal By 2040 [PaEN] DEP Invites Comments On Air Quality Permit For 72 - 2.5

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

JULY 29, 2025

More importantly, all States, especially large current and historical greenhouse gas emitters, must strengthen their Nationally Determined Contributions ahead of COP 30 later this year to include significantly more ambitious targets and effective measures to achieve those targets.

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 7, 2025

Based on global best practices and our analysis of AI’s environmental impacts, we recommend Canada adopt: Mandatory transparency and reporting: Data centres and AI service providers should publicly disclose their greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, water usage, waste generation, and renewable energy use.

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 2, 2025

Driving away from state climate targets Transportation has been the biggest sector contributing to climate change in Massachusetts practically every year since the earliest emissions inventory for 1990 and most recently has contributed 38% of state greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2021.

2018

New Scientist

AUGUST 11, 2025

If those piles of unused rock can be made to react with carbon dioxide, they could help remove large amounts of the greenhouse gas from the atmosphere. If those piles of unused rock can be made to react with carbon dioxide, they could help remove large amounts of the greenhouse gas from the atmosphere.

Carbon Dioxide

A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

These clean energy technologies are pivotal to Brazil’s goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and meeting its international climate commitments. million cubic meters of toxic waste, polluting the Doce River and displacing communities. In 2024, Brazil’s installed capacity for wind power reached approximately 22.6

2025

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

Reduction Strategies Strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation offer the greatest potential for decarbonization through 2050, followed by emissions from industrial sources, transportation, and buildings. Visit DEPs Climate Change webpage for more information on these and other Pennsylvania climate initiatives.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2024

How Oil & Gas Waste Haunts Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- Lehigh Valley-Based Wildlands Conservancy Highlights November Program, Activities -- Schuylkill Action Network To Hold Annual Meeting Nov. 11 -- DEP Eligible For $1.7 26 -- Sierra Club PA Hosts Oct. 30 Webinar - It’s Scary Out Here! 11 Information Session On Penn Twp.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Million To Settle Lawsuit By Investors Who Claimed EQT Overstated The Benefits Of Its Rice Energy Merger In 2017 -- Marcellus Drilling News: Integrated Lithium Production Plant Coming To PA In 2026 Using Oil & Gas Production Wastewater [PaEN] -- Marcellus Drilling News: Avonlea Lithium Corp.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2025

9, York County. -- Penn State Extension Home Garden News: Houseplant Master Class Webinar Series Available; Treen Tenders Training; Good Gardening Saturday Series -- Pike Conservation District: From Source To Sink - Groundwater Education Workshop Series Starts Jan. 13 -- Pike Conservation District: Pike/Wayne Counties Contractors Workshop Feb.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 29, 2025

Training On Managing PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ Contaminated Water, Waste. Penn State Extension Webinar On $100/Well Bounty For Reporting Previously Unknown Conventional Oil & Gas Wells Abandoned By Their Owners. 4-H Building McKean County Fairgrounds, 7172 PA-46 in Smethport. 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. Click Here to register. July 30-- In-Person.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

MAY 20, 2025

In these meetings, the leaders of states and provinces talk about what they are doing to reduce greenhouse gases and prepare for worsening climate disasters. In recent years, however, the real progress has been outside the rooms where the official U.N. negotiations are held, not inside.

Rainforest

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

Methane is an extremely prevalent greenhouse gas, driving climate change and threatening the public health of our communities,” said DEP Secretary Jessica Shirley. “By Data Center At Panther Creek Waste Coal-Fired Power Plant In Carbon County [PaEN] -- FracTracker Alliance: Shell Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County Released 17.9

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Of Environmental Professionals Annual Conference Sept. Million In Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fees; $25.1 Million In Sen.

Recycling

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

On the one hand, global greenhouse gas emissions have reached an all-time high, and the temperature for 2023 is the highest ever recorded. Photo: Cara Horowitz Some have described the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku as “challenging,” “ineffective,” and “disappointing.” from the Paris Agreement again.

Paris Agreement

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

The EPA has found the current (or any increasing) mix of atmospheric concentrations of six greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, poses a threat to human health. And unlike fossil fuels, electricity generated by wind and solar does not use water or produce any emissions or wastes that can contaminate the air, land, or waterways.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Hutchinson Introduces Bill To Abolish DEP Climate Change, Recycling Fund, Coastal Zone Advisory Committees [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Stream Evaluation Reports In Berks, Clinton, Forest, Huntingdon, Lancaster, Lycoming, Pike, Potter, Tioga, Westmoreland Counties -- DEP Notice It Reorganized And Rescinded Water Program Technical Guidance, Permit (..)

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The fourth step is the flowback and waste management step. Drill cuttings are the waste that comes off of the drill and often contains toxic metals and naturally occurring radioactive materials such as lead, radium and uranium. This waste may be left at landfills that may or may not be qualified to handle this type of waste.

Natural Gas

Physics World

JUNE 3, 2025

One idea to prevent this CO 2 being released back into the atmosphere is to bury the waste biomass under conditions that prevent or slow decomposition, thereby trapping the carbon underground for centuries. Based in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, the firm dries and compresses waste biomass into blocks before storage. “We of the total.

Waste

Legal Planet

MARCH 17, 2025

In late 2009, EPA made a formal finding often called the Endangerment Finding that greenhouse gases may endanger human health and welfare. The Bush Administration argued that greenhouse gases dont meet that requirement. The only question , the Court said, was the scientific evidence about the harmfulness of greenhouse gases.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

Since January 2025, federal workers across the country have been denigrated and dismissed based on false claims of waste, fraud, and abuse. This administration's actions directly contradict EPA's own scientific assessments on human health risks, most notably regarding asbestos , mercury , and greenhouse gases.

Environmental Protection

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Dietterich - Violations - 3 Abandoned Wells November 25, 2024 follow-up inspections of three conventional wells in Allegheny and Washington counties found them all abandoned and not plugged and with violations for failure to submit production, waste generation, well integrity reports. Well owner did not address all the original violations.

Natural Gas

Environmental News Bits

JUNE 18, 2025

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Recycling

Law Columbia

APRIL 2, 2025

The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), one of the most critical climate spending programs in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), has come under significant fire from the Trump administration. Under the Biden administration, EPA awarded the entire $27 billion in GGRF grants. President Trump now wants to claw much of that back.

Greenhouse

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

For example, Section 60103 of the IRA , which establishes the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) , specifies that $15 billion of the $27 billion allocated to the GGRF should be used for the purposes of providing financial assistance and technical assistance in low-income and disadvantaged communities.

Paris Agreement

Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

However, environmentalists often criticize EQIP for awarding funding to practices that do not reduce greenhouse gas emissions, sequester carbon, or build climate resilience. On the other hand, given CAFOs prevalence in our food system, funding to strengthen waste storage facilities may be wise. These critiques are not without merit.

Conservation