Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

MT in 2020, or 13.5 So, while 26 per cent of its energy comes from wind and solar, and they are among the leaders in battery storage and transmission, they are still the largest producer of greenhouse gas emissions, at 622.4 per cent of all the emissions in the US. (

Government

PA Environment Daily

MAY 3, 2025

Original violation issued December 14, 2020. Apex Energy (PA), LLC - Violations: Abandoned Conventional Well April 17, 2025 inspection of the Brickel 2 conventional well in Penn Township, Westmoreland County found the well abandoned and not plugged. Well appears to be used for house gas. The owner says it is not their well.

2025

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

Kober [PaEN] -- Erie Times: US Attorney Moves To End Prosecution Of Erie Coke [Coal] Plant Chief, Further Curtailing Case Involving Felony Charges Brought By A Grand Jury For Illegal Air Pollution -- WHYY: Philly Schools Delayed Asbestos Inspections And ‘Knowingly’ Failed To Make Repairs: US Dept.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2025

On July 1, PA Interfaith Power & Light is launching a new Faith and Fossil Fuels Initiative to prepare a report and story map documenting how to build a faithful ethic of stewardship for the earth in response to the impacts of polluting industry in Pennsylvania. Fossil fuels are the largest driver of the climate crisis.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

However, the administrations definition of clean includes the use of fossil fuels, which will extend the timeline of fossil fuel extraction, endangering the health of those nearby and placing our planet in continued jeopardy. -- Petrochemical facilities , such as the Shell ethane cracker plant in Beaver County, rely on fossil fuels to operate.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

In 2020, DEP issued a $1.95 In 2020, the PUC imposed a $200,000 penalty on Energy Transfer/Sunoco related to integrity testing of the Mariner East Pipeline 1. Read more here. Don White (Indiana County) at a Senate Committee meeting-- We should be able to deal with that company and put them out of business. Read more here.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2025

Drives US Electricity Demand -- EPA Issues Clarification Of Hazardous Air Pollutant Rules On Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines To Help A.I. Guy Reschenthaler -- PJM Interconnection: 51 Generation Projects, 9.3 Billion In Farm Products To China In 2023] -- AP: US Economy Shrinks 0.3%

Politics

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

Residents Will Have Drinkable Water By 2026 Resource Links - Dimock: -- AG Shapiro: Coterra Energy, Formerly Cabot Oil & Gas, Pleads No Contest To A Criminal Charge Related To Polluting Water Supplies In Dimock, Susquehanna County [PaEN - December 2022] -- DEP Consent Agreement Allowing Shale Gas Drilling To Resume Under Dimock, Susquehanna County (..)

2026

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The pledge is a voluntary agreement to reduce global methane emissions by 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030; however, methane levels keep going up and we are woefully off track for meeting this goal. Their use of these tactics underlie the calls to hold both the fossil fuel and meat and dairy industries accountable for their actions.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Union of Concerned Scientists’ (UCS) research shows that top fossil fuel producers’ emissions are responsible for as much as half of global surface temperature increase. Updated analysis from 2020 shows that emissions traced to the 88 largest carbon producers contributed approximately 60 percent?of

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

While the epicenter of the war and its horrors has remained trained on and in Ukraine, Russia has also leveraged its position as a major fossil fuel exporter to fund its war efforts and to manipulate and threaten others, including countries across Europe that have long relied on Russian supplies of gas.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Switching from fossil fuels like gasoline to increasingly clean electricity sources is vital for hitting climate and air pollution goals. The dip in gasoline use in 2020 was due to the reduction in personal vehicle use during the initial phases of the coronavirus pandemic.

Carbon Dioxide

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2022

Finally, meeting electricity demand with 100-percent renewable energy by 2035 would secure an 87 percent drop in heat-trapping emissions between 2020 and 2040. billion in public health cost savings overall. billion in net labor income from wages and salaries, benefits, payroll taxes, and income earned by local business owners.

Renewable Energy

Real Climate

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

In 2020, CO 2 was at ~410 parts per million, while CH 4 was around 1870 parts per <it>billion</it> (or 1.87 There is also a very small impact of the CH 4 oxidation to CO 2 itself for any fossil-fuel derived methane. (a) Historical comparisons. ppm, a factor of more than 200 smaller).

Carbon Dioxide

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.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We need to plan for energy infrastructure that supports our economy and reduces harmful air pollution. These firms recognized that they could not assume the risks of exacerbating climate damage from continued burning of fossil fuels. Some forecasting models must use observations of young people, no?

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

That is A LOT of EVs and A LOT less oil use, air pollution and climate emissions. For the first time ever, annual sales surpassed one million vehicles , accounting for more than seven percent of new vehicles sold. In December alone, sales hit a new monthly high approaching 12 percent nationally (see figure). Tesla dominates the U.S.

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Tailpipes from our cars, trucks and buses are also a major source of toxic local air pollution that disproportionately harms overburdened and underserved communities. The implication of these two strategies is a drastic reduction in the use of liquid fuels. An average global temperature change greater than 1.5

Electricity

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., Gas Explosions -- WPXI: Major Natural Gas Leak At Ross Twp.,

Natural Gas

Inside Climate News

JULY 17, 2023

When large ships use scrubbers to meet international air pollution limits, the treated fuel exhaust gets dumped into the sea along with other contaminants. By Lydia Larsen In 2020, an international rule went into effect that sharply reduced the amount of sulfur allowed in ship fuel.

Ocean

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

Million Pounds Of Industrial Air Pollutants Discharged In Pittsburgh Area In 2021 Came From U.S. Million Pounds Of Industrial Air Pollutants Discharged In Pittsburgh Area In 2021 Came From U.S.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2024

In August of 2020 when the last permit fee increase was put in place, DEP estimated it would need the revenue from 2,000 unconventional shale gas permits a year to adequately support the regulatory program for both conventional and unconventional oil and gas drilling. Beaver County. ( Washington County. ( Montour County. ( Fayette County. (

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2022

In the 2020 Grand Jury Report investigating shale gas development, released by Attorney General Josh Shapiro, setback distances are also referred to as “no-drill zones.” The study cites increased noise, air pollution, and traffic associated with gas sites as the culprits of higher levels of heart patient hospitalizations.

Regulations

Ocean Conservancy

MAY 27, 2022

After agreeing to a very weak short-term measure in November 2020, the discussions last week focused on new measures that could take effect by 2030. By the end of the week one thing seemed likely, a price on shipping fuel’s carbon emissions even if it doesn’t end up being the exact levy proposed by the Marshall Islands.

Wind Power

PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. Since assuming elected office in 2020, Rep. During her career, she supported students who were frequently affected by asthma, which was worsened by air pollution.

Climate Change

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.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

Read more here.] -- “Exempt Pennsylvania from plant-closing EPA regulations such as the Wastewater Rule and the Cross State Air Pollution Rule.” [ Note: That’s not the way it works. Global market forces, not our abundance of domestic fossil fuels, set the price of oil, gasoline and natural gas in the United States and the world.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2023

Trillion Across Global Economy, Report -- Spotlight PA: Federal Money Won’t Be Enough To Solve PA Abandoned Conventional Oil/Gas Well Problem, Current Well Owners Routinely Fail To Plug Their Wells -- PA General Energy Announced It Will Plug Proposed Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Grant Twp.,

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 25, 2023

The letter, spearheaded by Protect PT , has been signed by Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania , FracTracker Alliance , Group Against Smog & Pollution , the Breathe Project , Allegheny County Clean Air Now , and Sunrise Movement Pittsburgh , among others. billion in health savings and other benefits.”

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2022

He has spent his career championing environmental issues like clean air and water, advocating for a transition away from fossil fuels, and promoting clean energy solutions such as energy efficiency, wind, solar and geothermal. Being an environmental activist in a fossil fuel state is not for the faint of heart.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JUNE 27, 2022

In 2020, around 90% of the electricity used in the country was generated from renewables , including hydropower, geothermal, solar PV and wind. As of 2020, Kenya was the largest geothermal energy producer in Africa, with some 672 megawatts (MW) of capacity. air pollution in Nairobi. million registered vehicles.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

These actions, which address several recommendations of the 43rd Statewide Investigating Grand Jury released in 2020. 2020 Grand Jury Report Gov. Folks who dealt with contaminated water and air pollution and suffered severe health consequences that they believed were a result of fracking happening near their homes.” “Now,

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2023

Health Educator and Building Electrification Campaign Coordinator Linnea Bond will cover health harms from gas from extraction to use, the effect of gas on global warming, a brief history of the debate around getting rid of gas, and what we need to faze in a plan to stop using fossil fuel, both on an individual level and a city/state level.

Natural Gas

A Greener Life

MAY 25, 2021

In January 2020, before the coronavirus was to bring normal life in the UK to a halt for more than a year, an ambitious project was in operation. Due to her work with the climate assembly, she managed to link the use of coal and indoor air pollution as a trigger to asthma, and learn how to fix it. Photo credit: BBC.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2024

Before DEP's Bureau of Waste Management requested Pennfield’s co-product determination report in 2021, the Coalition said the company had not reported any form of waste disposal from 2018 through 2020, even though the DEP’s Oil & Gas Well Production reports from the same three years show that the company produced 10,165.66 barrels of oil.

Waste

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.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 17, 2022

Setback Distances Inadequate Among the study’s conclusions is that the existing Pennsylvania setback of 500 feet between oil and gas drilling operations and residential structures does not provide needed protection from the multiple pathways of exposure inflicted by the fracking industry including the release of contaminants via water and air.

Natural Gas