Law and Environment

AUGUST 15, 2022

My caption was “NEPA Is Still Going to Pose an Obstacle to Leasing Public Lands for Fossil Fuel Extraction.” Once more, Judge Morris found DOI’s NEPA analysis inadequate.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Pollution data released from Canada’s newest waste incinerator, located east of Toronto, showed releases of dioxins and furans 12 times greater than permitted in 2016. Ok, but can’t we make clean energy from burning waste? The local community is still waiting for the release of data about current emissions. Sorry, but no again.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

24, 2016); Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. West Virginia Federal Court Ordered EPA to Evaluate Clean Air Act’s Impacts on Coal Industry. The plan must specifically address how EPA will consider the effects of Clean Air Act regulation on the coal industry. Murray Energy Corp. Alaska Oil & Gas Association v.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2022

Department of Energy announced its partnership with Carnegie Mellon University to launch and host the 2022 Global Clean Energy Action Forum in Pittsburgh September 21–23. The United States previously hosted these meetings in 2016 in San Francisco. “By Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm. “We

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Shell is well on track to meet its own (rather ambitious) targets for reducing Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 50% below 2016 levels by 2030. This leads to an important distinction between fossil fuels specifically produced or merely traded by Shell, as discussed in more detail below.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 22, 2022

We all know that to successfully address climate change we need to phase out fossil fuels and switch to electric power. A s we transition our homes and vehicles to electric power, it’s imperative that the electricity sector be clean. Luckily it’s entirely possible (and cost effective!) This is completely doable.

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Cresforum

JANUARY 16, 2024

Introduction One of the main messages coming out of the recent COP28 meetings in the UAE concerns the role that nuclear power can play in the future of clean energy development around the world. The hope is that this encourages international financial institutions to include nuclear energy in loans for energy projects.

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Clean Energy Law

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The SCAQMD is the local agency responsible for attaining these clean air standards in the Basin. According to the 2016 AQMP, mobile sources contributed about 88% of total NO x emissions in the Basin in 2012. The Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP) is a regional blueprint prepared by the SCAQMD for achieving the standards.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

As one of the world’s top funders of fossil fuels, taking over HSBC’s Canadian operations, at a time when its parent company was already taking concrete action to lower its financed emissions, is a significant step backwards on climate.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The organizations also take issue with Enbridge’s deceptive use of the terms “low carbon” and “clean energy” when describing natural gas. Its proposed new pipeline in Selwyn Township will deliver harmful fossil gas to our residents who will be locked in to higher prices for decades.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

Spring is a time of new beginnings, and this spring scientists are calling for financial institutions to start doing their part to limit the worst impacts of climate change and hasten a just, equitable transition to clean energy. Those three alone borrowed more than $200 billion between 2016 and 2021. degrees Celsius (2.7

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2021

DEP’s Climate Change Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet August 24 to review the latest Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory for Pennsylvania and hear an overview of DEP’s Energy Office Clean Energy Program Plan. The Inventory had shown a steady decrease from 2005 through 2016 from 289.62 million tons in 2017 to 241.12

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Environmental Progress

JULY 3, 2023

Worse than that, it might end up misdirecting the world’s clean energy efforts into dirtier than appreciated energy technologies because of the country’s ongoing dependence on coal-fired energy. The scale of the IPCC’s undercount shocks once applied to the EU’s “clean” energy plans.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Pennsylvania has approximately 840 such sites and operators such as Stronghold claim that burning it for energy is environmentally beneficial because it encourages the removal of these piles, and the waste ash can be used for fill and reclamation projects. Bitcoin mining does not help clean energy.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Pennsylvania’s power plants are now releasing more CO2 than they have since 2016. They’ve had help from the General Assembly by way of the state’s Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards, recently amended to further promote waste-coal generation.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Pennsylvania has approximately 840 such sites and operators such as Stronghold claim that burning it for energy is environmentally beneficial because it encourages the removal of these piles, and the waste ash can be used for fill and reclamation projects. Bitcoin mining does not help clean energy.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Reaction PennFuture President & CEO Patrick McDonnell issued this statement on the Senate action-- "Today, the Pennsylvania Senate voted on $2 billion in new tax breaks for the fossil fuel industry. Rather, this is slapdash industrial policy at its worst that will perpetuate Pennsylvania’s addiction to fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 1, 2024

While at least one event provided a platform for oil and gas industry greenwashing, others centered people directly affected by fossil fuel-driven climate change who are holding bad actors accountable. I had the honor of moderating one of the latter events, Scientists & Activists vs. Fossil Fuel Finance.

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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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

Yaw did not mention renewable energy in this announcement.] Yaw noted the IEO would be modeled after Pennsylvania’s Independent Fiscal Office , which was created by Act 120 of 2010, and Act 100 of 2016. So it seems to me, and I love it when people say, oh, well by 2035 we're going to have totally clean energy.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

How Utilities And States Are Responding To PJM’s Record Electricity Capacity Prices [Part 1 of 3] -- Utility Dive: PJM Considers Fast-Track Review For Shovel-Ready Electric Generation Projects [Part 2 of 3] -- Utility Dive: Increasing Capacity Of Existing Generation, Batteries, Demand Response May Offer Near-Term Responses To Record PJM Electricity (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

-- Republican Herald: West Nile Virus Monitoring Starts In Schuylkill County -- Shapiro Administration Commends 3 PA Schools For Environmental Efforts As Green Ribbon Schools -- National Energy Technology Laboratory: Winners In Western PA, West Virginia Science Bowl Competed In National Science Bowl -- Wildlife For Everyone Foundation Announces 5 Recipients (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

A decade ago, the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) estimated that, based on the available technology, the United States could get 80% of its electricity from renewables by 2050. Now NREL says the country has the potential to reach 100% clean energy by 2035.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

California Sues Fossil Fuel Polluters California’s climate accountability lawsuit is groundbreaking in several ways: California is the first major fossil fuel-producing state to file a climate accountability lawsuit. California Gov.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Through the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) published in 2016, Brazil committed to reducing GHG emissions by 37% by 2025 and by 43% by 2030 as compared to a 2005 baseline. Brazil’s energy source is one of the least carbon-intensive in the world, with 47.5% of primary energy demand met by clean energy.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

All of my children have experienced health impacts such as rashes, chronic nosebleeds and Lyme disease due to the warming of our climate from the fossil-fuel industry. Right before an important election, Pennsylvania lawmakers made a last-minute closed-door deal to make the biggest fossil-fuel giveaway in the Commonwealth’s history.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2023

Lauren Connelly, of the Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce , noted in April of 2022 the Allegheny Conference released a report outlining how accelerating decarbonization and a transition to clean energy sources are critical to the future competitiveness of the Pittsburgh Region. Read more here. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 7, 2022

Over the past few years, there has been a push in both Europe and the United States for a “Green New Deal” in which decarbonization efforts would be pushed by aggressive, direct government investments in clean energy technology and infrastructure.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

Both fossil fuel and utility companies bear some responsibility for wildfires’ damage, and must be held accountable to ensure disadvantaged and low-income communities aren’t left to shoulder the costs and impacts of these disasters. But first, it’s critical to understand this phenomenon’s connection to climate change.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 24, 2024

We’re witnessing an increase in costly damages thanks to fossil-fueled climate change , which has increased the intensity and frequency of some extreme events , and also thanks to more buildings and people in risky areas. And the damages to transmission and distribution systems can be costly.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2022

It was first proposed in 2016, but the company recently broke off negotiations with the Philadelphia Gas Works saying the “opportunity has passed.” Thompson Introduces Resolution Highlight PA’s Energy Capabilities -- Business Insider: Republican Cong. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

13 -- Penn State Extension Offers 3-Part Webinar Series On On-Lot Septic Systems Starting Oct. 11 Webinar On $396.1 CEO’s For Sustainability C-Suite Sustainability Summit, Nov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Last month, the British-based Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) reported that London-based HSBC, one of the world’s top-10 biggest banks, has helped raise $47 billion for the fossil fuel industry since its 2022 announcement that it would not finance new gas and oil infrastructure. degrees Celsius, or 2.7

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Michael Moore’s last movie, Planet of the Humans , questions the reliability, affordability and sustainability of renewable energy. The thought-provoking film also highlights the renewables’ dependence on fossil fuels. In the UK, the energy produced from biomass currently accounts for ca. So, is burning trees renewable?

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

California Clean Energy Committee v. Following release of an October 2015 draft and May 2016 final EIR, the County’s Planning Commission recommended denial, but the Board of Supervisors thereafter approved the specific plan, and the immediate rezoning of the 662-acre portion of the West Parcel out of the TPZ, by 4-1 vote.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The agreement calls for a phase-down of coal but does not call for reductions in fossil fuels. Dozens of nations sought text calling for a phase-out of all fossil fuels, but they were met with stiff resistance from oil-producing countries, including Russia and Saudi Arabia. 30 through Dec. International. 30, 2022. .

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

org Summary ExxonMobil is a fossil fuel company headquartered in Irving, Texas. ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell paid no tax in Australia for 2016 Sonali Paul | Reuters | December 7, 2017 Exxon Mobil Corp XOM.N It was founded in the 1870s as part of the Standard Oil group. Photo Gallery Image Exxon Knew Protest - Photographer 350.org

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