Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

During the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, it is crucial not only to prevent certain groups from being excluded, but also to guarantee that disadvantaged communities can step into positions of leadership and ownership, and that past injustices are remedied.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2023

TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- TribLive: DEP Declares TODAY Code Orange Air Quality Alert For Liberty/Clairton, Allegheny County = -- FERC Approves PJM $1.25 Gas Explosions -- WPXI: Major Natural Gas Leak At Ross Twp.,

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Law Columbia

MAY 28, 2021

This week’s advancements offer two new models for local governments looking to require or promote building electrification: air pollution and land use regulation. Still, the air emissions standard model could be adapted to apply for jurisdictions without building code authority, including for existing buildings.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2023

Since 2019, more than seventy local and state jurisdictions have followed Berkeley’s lead in requiring or strongly incentivizing all-electric or fossil-fuel-free new buildings, with more considering similar approaches. can be fueled by natural gas), and must base these options on a defensible “one-for-one” basis.

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Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

According to the report , average net annual human-caused GHG emissions were at their highest levels in human history between 2010 and 2019, with urban areas responsible for an increasing proportion of the emissions. C increase, the IPCC report states GHG emissions must be cut back by 43% by 2030 and 84% by 2050 (relative to 2019 levels).

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

Japan’s dependency on fossil fuel s had been slightly declining until 2010. 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 a result, Japan’s CO 2 emissions increased, peaking in 2013.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 17, 2022

In 2019, we called on Governor Wolf to halt fracking activities and take the time to study the impacts of shale gas development on young people after the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published an investigative series on a spike in rare cancers in four rural counties. Click Here for a copy of the study.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2024

Among the documents Feridun received in response to a 2022 Right-to-Know request was a 2019 letter Pennfield Energy sent to townships that were prospective clients for road dumping their wastewater.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2022

By reducing air pollution, it would improve public health with 30,000 fewer respiratory hospital visits. “I Final Form Regulation 7-559 authorizes Pennsylvania’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) under the authority of the Air Pollution Control Act. while reducing harmful greenhouse gases.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Only one plant employing the technology exists in the world and that plant opened in 2019. These negative impacts include increased toxic waste from drilling, water contamination, harmful air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and negative economic impacts such as reduced property values.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Million Settlement, Largest Of Its Kind, Over 2019 Philadelphia Refinery Explosion [Includes Copy Of Proposed Settlement] -- WHYY - Sophia Schmidt: EPA Reaches Historic $4.2 Million Settlement Over 2019 South Philly Refinery Explosion, Fire -- AP: EPA Reaches $4.2

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A Greener Life

JUNE 27, 2022

Leonard Kirago, a PhD researcher from the University of Nairobi, told me that fossil fuel combustion in the transport sector is a major source of particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution in Nairobi. According to data from Kenya’s Population and Housing Census , in 2019, 6.3% Photo credit: Alamy.

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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

MARCH 28, 2025

Shapiro: What Labor, Industry, Environmental, Consumer Leaders Are Saying About The Lightning Energy Plan To Secure Pennsylvanias Energy Future -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission: Low Stream Flows Triggering Restrictions On 19 Shale Gas Water Withdrawals, 17 More Approaching Restrictions [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Releases Natural (..)

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Environment Blog

JUNE 25, 2021

Portfolios were typically created by just excluding certain types of business such as tobacco, weapons, and fossil fuels and the number of companies available to invest in, that were involved in solving environmental problems, was limited. With more than £1.5

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Science & Climate

APRIL 22, 2021

A team of transportation and policy experts from the University of California released a report today to the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) outlining policy options to significantly reduce transportation-related fossil fuel demand and emissions. The state funded the two studies through the 2019 Budget Act.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As described previously on this blog , in 2019, Berkeley enacted its so-called “natural gas ban,” setting off a wave of building electrification requirements across the state and, to some extent, the country. Constitution, and most states, including California, delegate some or all aspects of it to local governments within their borders.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2023

In 2019, Pennsylvania Gov. More young people are being diagnosed with rare cancers in the studied communities, all the while the state continues to grant permits for pollution-emitting fossil fuel projects. We all need to work together to ensure our children grow up free from preventable disease.

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Greenbuilding Law

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

By imposing a daily fee on cars built before 2006, the LEZ changes behaviors encouraging the use of newer cleaner vehicles, and reducing tailpipe global warning gases which in turn reduces broader air pollution and its associated health risks. really, why?) using 1,175 cameras to monitor which cars enter and exit the zone.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 28, 2024

The Court’s jurisdiction was invoked pursuant to Article 32 of the Constitution through a Writ Petition urging the Court to seek from the Government (the Respondents herein) “an emergency response plan for the protection and recovery” of the GIB in 2019.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Fossil fuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Energy Policy & Conservation Act (EPCA), which sets nationwide energy conservation standards for many common appliances and preempts state and local standards, preempts Berkeley’s 2019 ban on natural gas connections to newly-constructed buildings. (A Each of these spheres is regulated at the federal, state, and local levels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

And fossil fuel power plants may not stick to their retirement schedules for a variety of reasons. pollution, which are particles with diameters of 2.5 In 2019, air pollution more broadly was responsible for about 6.7 A bit more on those reasons later. micrometers or less. million deaths globally.

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

During the lockdowns, we saw air pollution clear and nature coming out of hiding – from penguins wandering the streets of Cape Town to kangaroos bouncing through Adelaide. Ending fossil fuel subsidies and making renewable energy the future. So, lockdowns are not a silver lining for the environment.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

Despite worsening levels over decades, some work to combat heavy metal pollution has begun to yield results; a 2013 initiative to tackle air pollution and strict controls of cadmium content in zinc-containing animal feeds have brought sources of cadmium contamination under control. Rapid acidification. meaning a 2.2-fold

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2023

50%+ Of Applications Incomplete/Deficient The Cumberland County Conservation District told the House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee at a hearing in 2019 that more than half of the erosion and sedimentation permit applications they receive from consultants (almost all registered engineers) are incomplete and/or deficient.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2024

Certainly, gas stoves are just one source of air pollution in the District. As we now know, fossil fuel companies lied about it for decades to protect their profits. That would of course include fossil gas, which consists of 85 to 90 percent methane, a significantly more potent heat-trapping gas than carbon dioxide.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Communities and ecosystems continue to suffer the consequences of human-caused climate change , primarily from the burning of fossil fuels across our economy. The case for phasing out of fossil fuels and making a just and equitable transition to clean energy has never been more clear. comes from burning fossil fuels.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

Several provisions – a few of which are directly available to local governments – can additionally help address local air pollution and other inequitable impacts to vulnerable communities. States, Indian tribes, and air pollution control agencies are also eligible for funding. Second, $11.97

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2022

We’ve seen some significant progress on the policies needed to get there, thanks to leadership in the House, which passed 100-percent carbon-free electricity standards in 2019 and 2021, as well as sizeable investments in equitable clean energy in 2022. billion in public health cost savings overall.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

While some who drive past these refineries don’t have to live near them or work in them, those who do can be harmed by the well-documented effects of refinery pollution on human health. The fossil fuel industry has systematically contaminated our environment with a wide range of toxic chemicals for over a century.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 27, 2023

The explosion at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) refinery in June of 2019 and subsequent bankruptcy and decommissioning marked the end of a refinery whose history goes back 150 years and predates the automobile era. What happens when a refinery closes?

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

degree warming by the end of the century and to minimise the effects of climate change, cities need to be at net-zero carbon by 2050 (Coalitions for Urban Transition, 2019). So what needs to change: Cities of the future will need to rely less on fossil fuels and invest in renewable energies. Cities and Pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

In 2019, DEP issued a $319,461 penalty to Energy Transfer/Sunoco for environmental violations related to construction of the Energy Transfer/Sunoco Mariner East Pipelines in 11 counties-- Berks, Blair, Cambria, Cumberland, Delaware, Lebanon, Perry, Washington and Westmoreland County. In 2020, DEP issued a $1.95 Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

DEP issued notices of violation for defective casing and/or cementing of wells on the Hunter pad on December 19, 2019 when gas was detected leaking from several wells. DEP’s inspection report continued the violations issued in 2019. DEP was onsite to witness a pressure test on several wells on the pad as part of a remediation plan.

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Corp Watch

JANUARY 23, 2024

org Summary ExxonMobil is a fossil fuel company headquartered in Irving, Texas. Exxon’s refineries in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Baytown, Texas, has also been in the news over a series of explosions in 1989, 1994 and 2021 that killed workers and caused major air pollution.

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