PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Indeed, on the same day that Governor Wolf resurrected the PhillyPort proposal, he signed into law Act 108 of 2022 , giving massive and irresponsible 20-year tax breaks and other benefits for hydrogen production, saddling us and future generations with the fiscal and environmental burdens of a last-minute political decision.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

On 14 January 2020, a proposal of regulation establishing the Just Transition Fund was published, detailing the rules that should apply to it. - Interestingly enough, article 5 of the proposed regulation sets a list of activities the JTF shall not support and it includes the decommissioning or construction of nuclear power stations.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

But the country changed course as a result of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, which led to the forced shutdown of nuclear power plants and greater reliance on fossil fuels. As of May 2022 , there are 163 operating coal-fired power plants in Japan. As a result, Japan’s CO 2 emissions increased, peaking in 2013.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Grid Safety: How Cost-of-Service Ratemaking Creates Tension Between Regulators and Utilities and Slows Grid Hardening By: Michael Murphy and Professor Genevieve Byrne The number of wildfires each year is increasing, which cost billions of dollars in damage and take hundreds of lives. But despite producing enough food to support its 1.3

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

Forty-four years ago on March 28, 1979, Pennsylvanians woke up to a much different world -- the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Dauphin County. commercial nuclear power industry. Nuclear power was touted as the safest form of supplying energy. Yes, this is a nuclear power plant."

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The plan must specifically address how EPA will consider the effects of Clean Air Act regulation on the coal industry. The groups said FERC’s review was at odds with EPA and Council on Environmental Quality guidance, caselaw, and the NEPA regulations. The court ordered EPA to file a plan and schedule for compliance within 14 days.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission oversees energy markets, pipelines hydropower and to some extent power transmission. The Department of Energy has limited regulatory powers (primarily over transmission) but controls nuclear power and a lot of spending.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

4] Some energy experts and reporters have contended that Texas regulators did not expect to rely on wind to provide much electricity during the cold snap, and rather had relied on natural gas and other thermal power plants. This hour saw a difference of 28.9 GW between expected demand and delivered generation. [4]

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Legal Planet

MAY 26, 2022

The plan calls for 24 Gigawatts of nuclear power, involving the construction of up to eight new nuclear plants on existing sites. The UK has adopted its own environmental trading system modelled after the EU’s, with the same regulated sectors and carbon caps. The short-term goal is 95% low carbon energy by 2030.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2023

Steel Clairton Coke (Coal) Works] -- Post-Gazette: FirstEnergy Seeking Ratepayer Surcharge To Keep Two Coal-Fired Power Plants Open In West Virginia -- PennLive - Letter: We’re At An Energy Crossroads - By Karen Feridun, Better Path Coalition -- PennLive Guest Essay: How Nuclear Power Saved Christmas And The PJM Electric Grid - By Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

On April 7, the Department of Environmental Protection appealed the April 6 Commonwealth Court order blocking publication of the final regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to the PA Supreme Court. Click Here for a copy of the appeal.

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. We have told regulators over and over that more should be contracted for. 5] The U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

“Bringing solar energy to educational facilities will do more than just save money on costs and taxes; it will bring the technology that will power tomorrow right to the students who can learn from, use and seek careers in it,” Madsen said. “As IBEW 98 Political Director T.J.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2023

Click Here to watch live. Click Here to read more on agenda.) THURSDAY 9:15: Agenda Posted. . -- March 6 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Regulators OK Freeport LNG Natural Gas Plant Request To Return To Ship Loading At Texas Plant -- Bloomberg: European Natural Gas Prices Head For Weekly Loss On Mild Weather, Freeport LNG Terminal To Resume Shipments -- WSJ: Russia To Cut Oil Production, Sending Prices Higher American Rescue Plan Funding -- Williamsport Sun: Nearly $1.5

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Billion That Owns Nuclear Plants In PA -- Post-Gazette: Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Plant Part Of $3.4 Shale Boom Shows Signs Of Peaking As Big Oil Wells Disappear PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Gov. Click Here to watch live. Click Here to read more on agenda.) THURSDAY 9:15: Agenda Posted.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 23, 2023

Visit the Authority webpage for instructions on joining the meeting remotely. Contact: Laura Rigge at Irigge@pa.gov or 717-772-5159. 6 [PaEN] -- PA Environmental Council: Cultivating Connections At Rodale Institute On Organic, Restorative Farming Practices -- PA Dept. 23 In Western Region, Including Part Of PA; Aug.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2022

Wolf’s veto of Senate Regulatory Resolution #1 that blocks the final DEP regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. At least $12.5 million is to be used for methane abatement projects from plugging abandoned gas wells. -- $62.5

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A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2022

Now in place for three months, the new coalition has overhauled a decades-long political stance toward Russia which was centred on Wandel durch Handel (change through trade). Over the past few weeks, Germany’s political elite has finally realised that gas is Putin’s leverage over Europe and Germany.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

What’s Your Community Doing? 2020 -- AP: Republicans Fear Far-Right Candidate Sen. Abney, Grayson Square Off In Pittsburgh House District -- AP: Anti-Abortion Sen. Casey Backs Abortion Rights Bill -- TribLive: Casey Says He Supports Codifying Abortion Rights Into Federal Law -- York Dispatch: ‘ Devastating’ Death Leads Dallastown H.S.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Doing research on environmental issues or responses is usually an easy call for policy-makers and gets wide political support, even if there’s disagreement what to do about the issue. All research is governed, mostly through normal processes of peer review, research-program management, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

Industrial wind developers need the transmission line to expand their turbines across the fragile Sand Hills ecosystem; In May of this year, Ohio regulators demanded wildlife protections for endangered migratory bird species, including the Kirtland’s warbler, for an industrial wind project proposed for Lake Erie.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2022

On March 30, the House voted 126 to 72 to pass House Bill 637 (Struzzi-R-Indiana) designed to block the final DEP regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants that’s consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. At least $12.5 Read more here. Read more here. One of the stated reasons Gov.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 23, 2022

For example, the IRA extends and expands existing tax credits for renewable electricity production, and creates a new credit for electricity production at certain nuclear power plants. Starting with methane was likely more politically feasible than carbon dioxide for several reasons. (To households currently pay $17.55

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2023

Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: March 15, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

NewsClips: -- Politics PA: Sen. Casey’s remarks. Click Here all the written testimony offered at the U.S. Senate hearing, including from the CEO of Norfolk Southern, and a video of the hearing. Casey, Testifies At U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2022

In the meantime, security of oil and gas supplies will continue to pose a challenge for Europe, and also for other regions, he said.”

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Senate returns to session September 20, 21, 22 -- Committee Schedule House returns to session September 20, 21, 22 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY 11:00: Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets on a concurrent resolution to kill final power plant carbon pollution reduction regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

And now, I participated in a seminar that PJM was part of in New York City, and one of the comments made is the political policies that we as legislators in the various states associated with PJM probably give to PJM. "In Obviously, that doesn't add up quite, but there's a little bit of renewables included in that. “We

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 20, 2022

.” -- Reuters: Analysis: As Germany Joins LNG Import Race, A Long And Crowded Track Awaits -- NPR: To Fight Climate Change, And Now Russia, Zurich Turns Off [All] Natural Gas -- Reuters: U.S.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

In a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi after that hearing I noted that I am aware that Congressional hearings involve some political theater. However, I am not a political appointee. I did not expect to be drawn into political theater that violates basic civility. That may be the case.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2022

Wolf to “unleash PA’s full potential to power the free world” and “end his job-killing, punitive crusade against the production and exportation of Pennsylvania natural gas and other abundant fossil fuels.” “You Wolf have all called on the General Assembly to toughen laws regulating pipelines to no avail. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2024

Shapiro Announces SBA Low-interest Loans Available For April 2024 Flood Survivors In Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Washington, Westmoreland Counties [PaEN] -- Delaware River Basin Commission, PEMA, Other Partners Make Available Flood Loss Reduction Assistance Resources For Local Officials [PaEN] -- Inquirer Guest Essay: Drenching Rains Come (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 5, 2024

. - A Life Dedicated To The River's Flow [PaEN] -- National Energy Technology Laboratory: Marshall Middle School Wins Western PA Science Bowl, Moves On To Nationals In April -- MCall: Judge Upholds Lehigh Valley Township’s Ruling Against Building Warehouses On Golf Course -- Spotlight PA: PA Pays Property Owners For Land Lost To Eminent Domain, But (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2022

John Yudichak (I-Luzerne), who Senate Republicans appointed as Majority Chair of the Senate Community, Economic and Recreational Development Committee, called opponents of natural gas infrastructure projects “radical environmentalists” and arguments by supporters of the RGGI carbon pollution reduction regulations covering power plants “hysteria.”

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

13, 14, 15 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events TODAY 11:00: House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee meets to consider House Bill 2075 (Knowles-R- Schuylkill) abrogating DEP’s air pollution control regulations covering heavy-duty trucks [Note: DEP already suspended enforcement of these regulations November 6 - Read more here.];

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Limiting Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities; And A First-Ever State MCL For PFOS/PFOA [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette: DEP Races To Finish Regulations To Limit Methane Emissions From Oil & Gas Facilities With $450 Million In Federal Highway Funds At Stake -- StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: DEP Moves Reg. Dr. Oz For U.S.

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