Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 16, 2018

According to numbers from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), ion lithium batteries have gotten 20 percent cheaper year on year from 2010 to 2016 , going from $1,000 per kWh of energy stored in 2010 to $273 in 2016. Decarbonization and killing King Coal are priorities to combat global climate change and local air pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution. The next logical question is why is there such an excess of flared gas?

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

4 Hearing In Washington County [PaEN] -- Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Sept. 24 Program In Washington County On Increasing Setbacks From Oil & Gas Infrastructure [PaEN] -- Inquirer - Will Bunch: Everything You Know From TV About Pennsylvania And Fracking Is Wrong -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Aug. 31 to Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Despite these claims, burning waste coal is still just burning fossil fuel and results in the emissions of significant amounts of air pollution including ozone precursors, fine particulates, acid gasses, heavy metals, and vast amounts of carbon pollution. The next logical question is why is there such an excess of flared gas?

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HumanNature

JANUARY 20, 2022

This is driven by a sentiment shared among rural residents that political decisions are often made by those outside of their communities who have differing values and access to more resources including money, time and power (Cramer 2016). electricity expenditures by 2080-2099 compared to today. This feeling is not untrue. Climate.gov.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Policy often relies too heavily on applications such as wind, solar, and electric vehicles that can present large life cycle carbon footprints, require supply chains stretching thousands of miles, are costly, and face serious challenges when scaling in regions like Appalachia. [See

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2022

The PA Public Utility Commission warned consumers in November surging prices for natural gas were not only increasing the cost of gas provided by utilities by as much as 128 percent, but electric costs would be going up by as much as 34 percent in the state. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

Envirothon Team Get Hands-On Science Lessons In Canoes -- National Energy Technology Laboratory: Winners In Western PA, West Virginia Science Bowl Competed In National Science Bowl -- PA Solar Center Honors 5 Western PA Organizations Who Have Gone Solar [PaEN] -- Williamsport Sun: Eagle On The Mend Through Ashkar Students’ Efforts -- Reading Eagle: (..)

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Law Columbia

MAY 31, 2024

This led to a considerable decrease in Japan’s overall electricity supply, leading to concerns about potential outages. This significantly improved air quality in the local area. The Paris Agreement was adopted in 2015 and entered into force the following year in 2016, with Japan also submitting its NDC.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 17, 2023

Gathering pipelines for natural gas are connected to compressor stations that burn fuel that causes air pollution to push natural gas dozens of more miles further across the landscape. Pipeline routes that cross streams and wetlands have to be cleared of trees, dug up and restored as best they can.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 8, 2022

On July 8, Commonwealth Court granted a preliminary injunction to opponents of Pennsylvania’s RGGI Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants pausing the program. Section 5(a)(1) of the APCA specifically empowers EQB to “[a]dopt rules and regulations, for the prevention, control, reduction and abatement of air pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

-- TribLive: Donations Exceed $875,000 For Those Affected By Plum Boro Natural Gas House Explosion -- TribLive Editorial: Plum Boro Neighborhood Where Natural Gas Home Explosion Occurred Emerges As Village Of Importance -- Scientific American: Gas Stove Pollution Lingers In Homes For Hours Even Outside The Kitchen -- Fortune: Gas Stove Pollution Harms (..)

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

EPA’s latest proposed rule targeting NOx emissions from fossil-fueled electric generating units (EGUs) is a classic study of diminishing returns. The downwind air quality benefits are minimal. The agency’s air quality modeling indicates that most areas would receive an ozone reduction of less than 0.1 ppb by 2025.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Regulation targets emissions from auxiliary engines (which supply electricity for non-propulsive functions while a ship is berthed) and boilers (which power steam-driven pumps to offload crude oil from large tankers). The Court also rejected as unsupported WSPAs argument that the 2016 SIP EAs data was outdated or inaccurate.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2023

and Pennsylvania to high-priced, volatile LNG natural gas markets in Europe and Asia resulted in increasing natural gas costs to Pennsylvanians by up to 128%, and drove electricity prices up by as much as 34%. Bloomberg reported 70% of the almost 46 GW of electric generation outages were natural gas plants. Read more here.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

These potential intervenors alleged that the additional emissions during the stay period would harm their interest in protecting their residents from the effects of air pollution and climate change. 451962/2016 (N.Y. The court indicated that the attorney general had broad power to propound the interrogatories. June 16, 2017).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 27, 2023

Car companies are quickly shifting their focus to electric vehicles (EVs), and as new EVs replace older gasoline cars, demand for gasoline and diesel will decline, slowly at first and then more quickly. The petroleum era is drawing inevitably to a close. Over the next few decades most of the oil refineries in the United States will close.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Million DOE Grant To Improve Siting Process For High-Voltage Electric Transmission Lines [PaEN] -- Appalachian Regional Commission Announced It Will Invest $16.9 13 -- Penn State Extension Offers 3-Part Webinar Series On On-Lot Septic Systems Starting Oct. 11 Webinar On $396.1 11 Webinar On $396.1

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2023

At every phase of oil and gas production, harmful air pollutants are deliberately released. These air pollutants include such things as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, formaldehyde, naphthalene. “I Unconventional gas development cannot happen without significant air pollution, even under the best of circumstances.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Since global and local pollutants are often byproducts of the same activities, mitigation policies for global warming emissions have the potential to simultaneously mitigate local air pollution 2. One good example of the nexus between global warming and local pollution is ground-level ozone. Bermix Studio/Unsplash PM2.5:

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

million cubic feet of natural gas and hazardous air pollutants. From 2011 to 2016, DEP’s Air Quality Program only required oil and gas operators to maintain records of how frequently they conducted pigging operations. Yes, three times a day, seven days a week for nearly a decade.] Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

Read more here ] DEP Banned Similar Shale Gas Wastewater Road Dumping The 2016 update to DEPs regulations for unconventional shale gas drilling bans the practice of road dumping wastewater from those operations because of the threats it posed.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

How Utilities And States Are Responding To PJM’s Record Electricity Capacity Prices [Part 1 of 3] -- PUC Awarded $4.6 Westmoreland County -- Tribune-Democrat: Somerset Twp. Of Agriculture Invests $1.5

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The PUC estimates there are from 60,000 to 100,000 miles of natural gas gathering pipelines in 33 counties, according to testimony presented to the Senate and House Emergency Preparedness and Veteran Affairs Committees in 2016. million cubic feet of natural gas and hazardous air pollutants. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2025

No Laws Or Regulations Have Changed In fact, since that report, no laws have changed, the regulations we have now have been in place for nine years and remain the same, and the number of DEP Oil and Gas Program staff dedicated to enforcement remain frozen at December 2016 levels, while the number of shale gas wells drilled grew 43.6%

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

1 [Due To Cost Of Natural Gas To Generate Power] -- Scranton Times: 18% Rate Increase Awaits PPL Electric Customers Dec. Starting Dec. 1 [Due To Cost Of Natural Gas To Generate Power] -- National Fuel Gas Requests PUC To Approve 9.2% Increase In Base Delivery Charge; Separate Cost Of Gas Up 127.8% 1 [PaEN] -- U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

billion in nonperformance penalties on natural gas-fired and other electric generators in the PJM Interconnection electric grid region. Winter Storm Elliot Causes Natural Gas Infrastructure Failure Natural gas infrastructure failures during Winter Storm Elliot resulted in the proposed imposition of an unprecedented $1.8 Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

US ratepayers very likely will pay even more for electricity and heating this winter compared to the already-expensive winter of 2021-2022. Consequently, residential gas prices are expected to be 22 percent higher this winter compared to last year’s, and residential electricity prices are expected to be 6 percent higher on average.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The International Energy Agency said the world last year saw record growth in solar power, adoption of electric vehicles, and global clean energy investments that outstripped fossil investments last year by $1.74 trillion into fossil fuel projects since the Paris agreement went into effect in 2016. trillion to $1 trillion.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

None of that means climate change isn’t, and won’t continue to be, a factor in global health, particularly if action to prevent it also reduces air pollution, or removes other health stressors. Carbon emissions are thus following the same trajectory as other air pollutants.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Mensch Introduces Bill To Encourage Development Of Clean Vehicle Infrastructure- Electric, Natural Gas, Hydrogen -- 35 Senate, House Democrats Urge Gov. Rural Communities On The Front Lines Of Solar's Growth -- Sen. Wolf To Investigate Health Impacts Associated With Natural Gas Fracking -- EPA Honors Energy-Efficient Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency announced it is strengthening its proposed standards to cut methane and other harmful air pollution. The updates would provide more comprehensive requirements to reduce climate and health-harming air pollution, including from hundreds of thousands of existing oil and gas sources nationwide.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 21, 2025

The Executive Office of the President published notice in the April 21 Federal Register listing 47 coal and coal-waste fired power plants that are now exempt from f rom a hazardous air pollutant regulation covering mercury and other pollutants for two years. Environmental Protection Agency.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. assembly plant in Tennessee.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. assembly plant in Tennessee.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. assembly plant in Tennessee.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 4, 2024

Anti-pollution activists stage protest at Volkswagen's UK headquarters Matthew Taylor | The Guardian | August 20, 2018 Doctors and anti-pollution activists have blockaded the UK headquarters of Volkswagen as the campaign to highlight the country’s air pollution crisis gathers pace. assembly plant in Tennessee.

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