PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

According to Cooper, energy use is the largest driver of Penn State’s greenhouse gas emissions, costing the University more than $30 million annually to provide heat, air conditioning, electricity and hot water to its buildings and fuel for its vehicle fleet. Photo: The 70 MW solar array in Franklin County.) ( Reprinted from Penn State News.

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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.”. In 2020, carbon dioxide accounted for about 79% of all U.S. emission trends.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2021

The Inventory had shown a steady decrease from 2005 through 2016 from 289.62 million tons in 2005 to 73.09 million tons in 2005 to 73.09 percent coal and 5 percent natural gas in 2005 to 20.5 percent decrease in the amount of carbon dioxide sequestered in 2018 compared to 2017 from the forest and land use sectors-- 4.55

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 4, 2023

A later post will cover the North Carolina Utilities Commission (NCUC) Carbon Reduction Plan. The two approaches share goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 70% by 2030 (from a 2005 baseline) and achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Seven northeastern states created RGGI in 2005. Background on RGGI. The draft N.C.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO 2 e) per service population for development projects because the record lacked substantial evidence that the threshold, which relied on statewide service population and GHG inventory data, was appropriate to apply to San Diego County development projects.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 13, 2022

At the same time, we are making progress in reducing our carbon footprint. In 2018, CO2 [carbon dioxide] emissions from fossil-fuel-fired power sources were 33% below 2005 levels. In 2021, Pennsylvania exported 35% of the electricity it generated, more than any other state.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 1, 2023

Gas is made mostly of methane – a climate-damaging fossil fuel that is over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Between 2005–2019, heat pump use increased by just one per cent, from four to five per cent of Canadian homes. And, kicking gas out of your home is good for your health and the climate.

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

CO 2 emissions by up to 10 percent from 2005 levels by 2050. In addition, increased fossil fuel use for hydrogen production may require additional pipelines to transport carbon dioxide to authorized sequestration sites if the CO 2 is not reused for enhanced oil or gas recovery, or in the production of higher value chemicals or products.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

Utilities Commission (NCUC) to “take all reasonable steps” to achieve a 70% reduction in carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) emissions from electric generating units (EGUs) by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality for the utility generation system by 2050. regulated by the Utilities Commission; and 2. January 22, 2023.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 19, 2024

Tory peer and former party treasurer Lord Michael Spencer, who has donated £6 million to the Conservatives since 2005, holds an 18.8 The GWPF – a group founded to contradict established climate science – has in the past expressed the view that carbon dioxide has been mischaracterised as pollution, when in fact it is a “benefit to the planet”.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Embedded in the new statute are more than $140 billion in direct payments and tax incentives for renewable fuels and cleaner electrical generation to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 2005 levels by the end of the decade. The statute also includes $19.5 The law enables the U.S.D.A. to fund its $19.5

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 10, 2021

To the extent those sectors continue emitting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, those gases will need to be captured prior to release into the atmosphere. This necessarily raises the question: what should be done with all of the carbon dioxide? to 2 o C target set in the Paris Agreement. Outer Continental Shelf.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

Beginning January 1, 2005, DEP started receiving drinking water complaints related to the shale gas drilling over a nine square mile area. [In million toward a new regulated public water line as well as payment of 75 years of water bills for the impacted homeowners. As part of the plea agreement, Coterra will pay $16.29

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 16, 2025

Wetlands also capture and store atmospheric carbon dioxide, allowing it to be converted into other carbon compounds and cellulose and thus mitigating global heating. The Conservation Society of Monavale (COSMO), a support group founded in 2005, took it upon itself to promote and protect Monavale Vlei in Harare.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Fossil fuel combustion produces carbon dioxide (CO2), the most abundant global warming pollutant, but also produces local pollutants such as fine particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Furthermore, refineries have a long history of violating regulations.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 28, 2024

-- DEP Invites Comments On Renewal Of Waste Permit For Keystone Landfill In Lackawanna County [PaEN] -- Comments Invited By DEP On Stronghold Digital Mining Panther Creek Power Plant Title V Air Quality Permit Renewal [PaEN] -- DEP Sets May 16 Public Conference To Accept Comments On Rosebud Mining Permit For Cherry Tree Mine In Clearfield, Indiana (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2022

Released from a lot of federal oversight, it left this big, blank slate for states to regulate the industry in whatever manner suited them. Second, we saw this trend of regulations, which do generally provide a degree of safety for the public, but there's a common misconception that they are truly health-protective; they are not.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Power companies will therefore have to pay more for the fuel, but utilities are generally allowed by state regulators to pass those cost increases onto their customers in the form of higher electricity rates. Methane is more than 80 times as powerful at warming the planet over a 20-year time frame than carbon dioxide. .

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

Beginning January 1, 2005, DEP started receiving drinking water complaints related to the shale gas drilling over a nine square mile area. Read more here. Governor Marks Plugging 300th Abandoned Conventional Well On March 12, Gov.

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Cresforum

APRIL 22, 2021

Today, President Biden announced that the United States would pledge to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 50 percent by 2030, compared to a 2005 base year. In 2005, President Biden’s baseline year, U.S. economy grew since 2005, the U.S. greenhouse gases. energy-related CO2 emissions stood at roughly 6.0

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Cresforum

APRIL 22, 2021

Today, President Biden announced that the United States would pledge to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 50 percent by 2030, compared to a 2005 base year. The GHGs implicated in climate change are primarily carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), and fluorinated gases, like hydroflourocarbons.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The agency estimates that in 2030, the proposal would reduce methane from covered sources by 87 percent below 2005 levels. The final unconventional regulations were approved by the Independent Regulatory Review Commission on July 21. There were no comments submitted on this regulation to the IRRC. Read more here. Read more here.

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ESA

AUGUST 29, 2022

Joe Manchin (D-WV), the bill will reduce carbon emissions by 40% from 2005 levels by 2030. White House CEQ – Carbon Dioxide Capture, Utilization and Sequestration (CCUS) Federal Lands and Outer Continental Shelf Permitting Task Force. According to a statement from Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Sen.

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Acoel

JULY 5, 2022

The opinion can point EPA toward regulation that will be both far more effective in addressing the existential threat of climate change and consistent with the law and past practice. Even within that limited universe, adopting regulations on a source-category-by-source-category basis will stretch on for decades.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

Perhaps the most consequential of all Paxton’s actions, however, is a lawsuit he and AGs from 19 other states, including Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina, filed in 2021 challenging the EPA’s authority to curb power plant carbon emissions. Landry’s deep ties to the oil and gas industry predate his time as Louisiana’s AG.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

Today’s the day for the long-awaited release of Environmental Protection Agency regulations to tackle planet-warming pollution by the nation’s power plants. The EPA is proposing a new standard for fossil fuel-fired power plants to avoid 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042. Four years later under George W.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The court said the trade group had satisfied the stringent requirements for a stay pending judicial review and stayed the rule “insofar as it purports to regulate trailers.” Both sets of intervenors also said the court should limit any abeyance period to 120 days. million rate increase.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Several factors¾including the effects of the economic recession, shifts in energy markets from coal to natural gas and renewable energy sources, and carbon pollution mitigation and clean energy programs like renewable portfolio standards¾have been identified as principal drivers of these reductions. [2]. emissions from the power sector. [3].

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 14, 2023

Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new power plant carbon pollution standards that, if strengthened, would go a long way to help meet the Biden administration’s goal of slashing carbon emissions in half from 2005 levels by the end of this decade. EPA Supreme Court decision in 2022. JM: That’s right.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

The talks ended with no serious agreements and carbon dioxide levels soaring to new records. EPA decision where the Supreme Court said the EPA had the authority to regulate global warming gases. In a groundbreaking study last year, US and British scientists found that fine particulate matter (PM 2.5)

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ESA

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Ahead of COP, ESA issued a statement calling on world leaders attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP26) in Glasgow to pledge immediate action to reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gas emissions that limits rising temperatures to 1.5? So they’re going to do that.”.

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Law Columbia

MAY 7, 2021

Circuit’s January opinion vacating EPA’s repeal and replacement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan regulations for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants. Circuit erred by “untethering” Section 111(d) standards from the existing source being regulated. Supreme Court seeking review of the D.C.

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