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Attorney General Sunday Files Criminal Charges Against Equitrans For 2022 Leak Of 1.1 Billion Cubic Feet Of Natural Gas From Its Rager Mountain Gas Storage Field In Cambria County

PA Environment Daily

The 51st Statewide Investigating Grand Jury recommended charges under the Air Pollution Control Act and Clean Streams Law regarding negligent maintenance and upkeep of the well. Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug.

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EPA’s Power Plant Carbon Rules Are Critical—and Complex. Here’s What to Know, and What to Watch.

Union of Concerned Scientists

Multiple lines of analysis make clear that regardless of how cheap wind and solar power get, without directly addressing pollution from coal and gas plants, the country’s clean energy transition will not happen fast enough. Each rule is moving independently, but they all impact power plant operations.

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Burning Garbage Will Not Solve the Plastic Pollution Crisis

Enviromental Defense

Pollution control is expensive and air pollution regulations are not strict enough. Focus on increasing truly renewable, low-emission energy such as wind and solar power. Time after time, nearby communities are left guessing about what is really coming out of their local incinerator.

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Michigan’s Updated PURPA Implementation Could Create a New Market for Privately-owned Solar Energy Facilities

Columbia Climate Law

2] Under a cooperative federalism framework, PURPA directed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) to promulgate regulations to promote development of QFs and delegated to states the role of implementing FERC’s regulations. Jeffrey graduated from Columbia Law School in 2016. Follow Jeffrey on twitter at @jt_hammons.

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The Essential - PA Environment Digest 7.5.21

PA Environment Daily

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Ask a Scientist: Top Takeaways from the New EPA Carbon Pollution Rules

Union of Concerned Scientists

Meanwhile, between 2012 and 2022, installed wind and solar power more than tripled , according to American Clean Power. percent of US electricity and utility-scale solar generated 3.4 Meanwhile, in 2021, the case against the Clean Power Plan re-emerged , resulting in the West Virginia v. percent , and the 19.8