Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A few critical points puncture the industry’s empty rhetoric: When hydrogen is burned, it can emit as many nitrogen oxides as natural gas combustion —if not more —which can cause significant respiratory health problems. Hydrogen infrastructure is not the same as natural gas infrastructure. degree C target within reach.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

CCS is a multi-billion dollar boondoggle that doesn’t come close to the hype, has significant safety risks, and is a substantial distraction from real climate solutions, such as building more renewable energy, increasing electricity transmission infrastructure, and developing and using storage technology. Want proof?

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

TODAY 1:00: House Consumer Protection, Technology, Utilities Committee holds hearing on House Bill 1578 (Mullins-D-Lackawanna) training and bonding retail electric and natural gas energy suppliers. Contact: Glenda Davidson at gldavidson@pa.gov or 717-783-4759. formal notice) Read more here. Room G-50 Irvis Building.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 15, 2024

Causer To Introduce Bill Legalizing It [PaEN] -- Illegal Wastewater Dumping Continues, Even On Mothers Day, Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners’ Campaign Of Intimidation Of Senate Witness; Now Dumping Before It Rains, On Paved Roads [PaEN] -- National Energy Technology Lab, University Of Pittsburgh Say Oil & Gas Wastewater Can Be Major Source (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 19, 2023

TUESDAY 10:00: House Consumer Protection, Technology and Utilities informational meeting with PJM Interconnection. Hearing Room 1, North Office Building. Click Here to watch online. Room G-50 Irvis Building. Click Here to watch live.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 23, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection announced it will start accepting applications for Alternative Fuels Incentive Grants starting June 30. formal notice ) Two deadlines for applications were set-- August 25 and December 15.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2023

House holds Regular Session April 24, 25, 26 -- Committee Schedule -- Updated: House Budget Hearing Schedule - March 20, 21, 22 Senate holds Regular Session April 24, 25, 26 -- Committee Schedule -- Updated Senate Budget Hearing Schedule - March 20, 21, 22 TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- Independent Fiscal Office Posts Budget Hearing Documents -- KDKA: (..)

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2023

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY 10:00: House Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities Committee hearing on Act 12 - private acquisition of public water & wastewater systems-- House Bill 1862 (Matzie-D-Beaver), House Bill 1863 (Matzie-D-Beaver), House Bill 1864 (Matzie-D-Beaver), House Bill 1865 (Matzie-D-Beaver) ( sponsor summary ).

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 23, 2023

Oliver was appointed to chair the IESO in 2019 and during his time, not only has the IESO failed to prepare Ontario for a clean electricity grid, but it has promoted the continued and expanded use of “natural” gas, or more accurately, fossil gas. This is a “natural” gas transportation company that exports gas to Ontario.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2023

. -- The Department of Environmental Protection is now accepting public comments on two Chapter 105 encroachment applications submitted by Olympus Energy/Hyperion Midstream LLC covering natural gas gathering pipelines and water pipelines in Westmoreland County, according to public notices in the August 12 PA Bulletin. Butler County. (

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 30, 2021

As political parties prepare their election platforms and publish their climate priorities, it can be difficult to determine which parties are releasing strong climate plans that put us on a pathway to zero emissions – and what policies are actually dangerous distractions from real solutions. The window for keeping global warming to 1.5

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Germany is a key European country when it comes to hydrogen and the most advanced in Europe in terms of electricity storage via hydrogen, the so called Power-to-Gas technology. The aim of the draft national hydrogen strategy is to boost hydrogen in Germany further and ultimately create a hydrogen economy.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

C temperature target, and one that more than 130 countries have adopted, albeit mostly as squishy political declarations, not yet legally binding or implemented. Fossil enterprises and political leaders in major fossil producers ranged from politely dismissive to openly contemptuous. Not this time. That’s the end of THIS YEAR!

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2023

Venting a new natural gas well has been a routine part of the process of getting all conventional wells into production. Venting natural gas removes stray solids and liquids and other foreign matter from the well that could contaminate the stream of natural gas. No violations were noted. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Room 205 Ryan Building starting at 10:00 a.m. Click Here to watch online. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

US coal plants that are neither economic nor compliant with federal environmental regulations are being kept online well past their profitable lives due to both political reasons and assertions of about grid reliability concerns that, in reality, could be addressed with cleaner and cheaper technologies. What can be done?

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2021

One of Iraq’s leading environmentalists says the legal threat is a distraction from Iraq’s own political mismanagement of water. Power companies turned instead to natural gas – but also displayed new interest in wind and solar. The lawsuit is not universally supported. Last month’s U.N. Low-carbon energy plans could move faster.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

TODAY 10:00: House Consumer Protection, Technology and Utilities informational meeting with PJM Interconnection. NOTE: June 28 Is Last Day For Senate Action On Nomination Of Richard Negrin As DEP Secretary -- 3 Days That Shook Washington County: Natural Gas Plant Explosion; Pipeline Leak Of 1.1 Click Here to watch online.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Of course, climate politics is never as straightforward as it appears. Right now coal, oil and natural gas account for 75% of energy use. Political targets. The sentiment was clear: why can’t India just get on with ditching the coal? Solar and wind dominate. “My times the maximum peak demand.

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Fossil fuels such as coal , oil and natural gas are the source of just over 80% of the world’s energy. Our analysis also relies on the large-scale deployment of technologies capable of removing CO? By 2050, our scenario expects around four gigatonnes a year will be being captured by so-called negative emission technologies.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

We believe we must take a science-based approach and prioritize policies and technologies that enable us to liberate nature and elevate humanity. Their inclusion appears to be the result of a political compromise with Member States rather than of scientific appraisal as in the case of nuclear energy. 31 1(a)).

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This language can be viewed in several ways, and the keyword is ‘unabated’ which appears to suggest that it is fine to continue to use and develop coal as long as some kind of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is used. It does not even call for the phasing out of fossil fuel subsidies, instead adding the word ‘inefficient’.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2023

New Tools To Detect Air Pollution In Pennsylvania, the use of this and other technology has energized a new breed of environmental activism aimed at detecting air pollution from the sky and from the ground. We are using technology now that the industries have kept to themselves. We have more advanced technology. Read more here.]

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 21, 2021

For example, it has stubbornly underestimated the growth in renewables for years, leaving much more room in its analysis for oil and natural gas. Oil and gas boosters both from the political and corporate world will offer solutions that involve a significant role for oil and gas using unproven techno-fixes.

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Greenbuilding Law

MAY 1, 2022

But make no mistake, the larger issue is the regulation for the first time of GHGs (including carbon) which will literally change the structure of the global economy, our political order, market capitalism and even our biological selves.”. greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. greenhouse gas emissions from human activities.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2023

On October 13, the US Department of Energy awarded two hydrogen hub projects that include Pennsylvania-- a natural gas-based Appalachian Hub in Western PA, West Virginia and Ohio and a Mid-Atlantic Hub in eastern PA, Delaware and New Jersey based on the use of renewable and nuclear energy to make the hydrogen.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 13, 2022

However, the government was keen to point out that the North Sea drilling sites should also be developed for CO2 storage, that hydrogen is increasingly to be used as an alternative to natural gas, and the technology should also be applied to support the offshore wind sector.

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Corp Watch

MARCH 8, 2024

Image Image Products Oil / gas exploration and production, natural gas and LNG trading and transportation, oil refining, chemicals, solar and biomass development Protesting Total's role in Burma - Photo Credit TotalOutNow Summary Total is a fossil fuel exploration company. Justice Department said on Wednesday. Total to pay $2.9

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 5, 2024

On February 28, Ohio US Senator Sherrod Brown and Oregon US Senator Jeff Merkley introduced the Protecting American Households from Rising Energy Costs Act , legislation that would ban the export of crude oil or liquefied natural gas (LNG) to our biggest adversaries: China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Read more here. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

The IRA gave us effective tools for cleaning up the power sector through dedicated support for the rapid and widescale deployment of renewable resources and the technologies that support them. Which means the consequences of these polluters unabashedly continuing to pollute aren’t just severe—they’re compounding.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In Europe and the UK, natural gas prices are up by more than 500% over the last year , hitting all-time highs earlier this month. In the US, even with abundant supplies of natural gas as a result of extensive shale gas development, natural gas prices are more than double where they were a year ago.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2024

March 6-- House Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities Committee informational meeting on electric vehicle infrastructure. Room G-50 Irvis Building. Click Here to watch online.

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Law and Environment

MAY 12, 2023

EPA’s accompanying Fact Sheet spells out the proposed rule’s emissions reductions estimates: EPA has evaluated the emissions reductions, benefits, and costs of the proposals to limit CO 2 from the existing coal fleet and new natural gas units. SO2, and NOx – harmful air pollutants that are known to endanger public health.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

Allegheny County; Private Gas Well, Propane Found And Secured -- Post-Gazette: 2 Killed In An ‘Absolutely Extreme’ Home Explosion In Crescent Twp.,

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Smith Enviorment

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Aside from the constitutional issue, legislative intervention in a permitting action sets a precedent for direct political intervention in permit decisions. 1,4 DIOXANE Health Risk Assessment and Technology Review. A legislative directive to modify or replace a specific permit appears to cross a significant constitutional line.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 4, 2023

Christian Thorsberg, Interim Fresh Editor This Week’s Watersheds A new bill introduced in the Ohio House would prevent the removal of oil and natural gas from beneath Lake Erie. Sign up for Fresh: A Great Lakes Policy Briefing , straight to your inbox, every other Tuesday. ENBRIDGE LINE 5: The U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 16, 2024

House next voting day February 6, March 18, 19, 20 -- Committee Schedule -- House Agency Budget Hearing Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY 11:00: House Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities Committee hearing on House Bill 1842 (Schweyer-D-Lehigh) authorizing community solar energy programs. Room G-50 Iris Building.

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