Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

January 2023 marked the beginning of a new year. Unfortunately, the existing siting process has resulted in a high concentration of polluting power plants, electrical substations , and gas compressor stations in environmental justice communities. Here we go, 2023!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2024

Even where the grid still has significant fossil fuel-powered generation, EVs are a cleaner choice. In the grid region that serves most of Texas, driving the average EV produces emissions equal to an 82 MPG gasoline car, despite over 60% of electricity generation coming from fossil fuels.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 4, 2023

This means that, with few exceptions, new buildings will need to exclusively use electric appliances, and will not be allowed to contain any fossil-fuel infrastructure, like natural-gas lines. It’s made an excellent start, let’s hope that it keeps it up in 2023. All-electric as the new normal. Download as PDF.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 21, 2024

In 2023, the state of California sued Chevron and several other oil companies for allegedly deceiving the public for decades about the disastrous climate impacts of their product. Let’s remember that Chevron is one of the largest corporations in the world, the second largest oil company in the U.S., and the biggest based in California.

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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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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. Electric vehicles made up five percent of passenger vehicles on the road in 2023 and the fraction is growing with EVs making up 25 percent of new passenger vehicles sold in the state.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2023

We need more electricity to transition our homes and cars off fossil fuels, but we can’t afford to let that electricity come from more gas power plants. gigawatts of capacity from gas plants are planned to go online from 2023 to 2026. Because unlike moving sources of air pollution like cars, gas plants are completely stationary.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2023

The closure in January 2016 of one of Pittsburgh’s biggest coal-processing plants led to immediate and lasting declines in emissions of fossil fuel–related air pollutants. The impact of the closure persisted through at least December 2018, the last month for which data were analyzed. Thurston, ScD.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

In October 2023, Sen. Yaw announced the introduction of legislation prohibiting the distribution of Act 13 impact fees to any county “that is actively suing over fossil fuel use.” In 2023, Cecil Township received $317,453.25 Read more here. Read more here. Although not yet introduced, Sen. Read more here.

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MGKF Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

2023 WL 7171547, at *1 (Pa. The holding halts former Governor Tom Wolf’s efforts to make Pennsylvania the first major fossil-fuel producing state to implement a price on carbon emissions. Bowfin KeyCon Holdings, LLC vs. Pa. Dep’t of Env’t Prot. Env’t Quality Bd.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 20, 2023

By Joseph Minott, Clean Air Council This guest essay first appeared in the Beaver County Times on March 19, 2023 -- If the first three months of operations at Shell’s petrochemical plant are any indication, the next 30 years are going to be stressful and hazardous for nearby Beaver Country residents.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 21, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 3573 ) Air Quality Permits -- EQT ARO, LLC - COP [state land] Tract 231 Compressor Station: DEP approved an Air Quality Plan Approval for multiple sources of air pollution at the facility located in Snow Shoe Twp., Susquehanna County. ( Beaver County. ( Centre County. ( Juniata County. (

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 19, 2023

In late April, California air regulators are poised to pass one of the most meaningful regulations to reduce pollution from commercial trucks, vans, and buses. The Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) rule, which I’ve blogged about in detail before, will phase out fossil-fueled trucks over the next several decades.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2023

Capitol Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: May 14, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2024

. - EGTS-Oakford Compressor Station: DEP issued a renewal of a Title V Air Quality Permit covering multiple sources of air pollution at the facility located in Salem Twp., North Summit Compressor Station: DEP approved a request for a de minimis increase in air pollution emissions at the facility located in North Union Twp.,

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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?

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Thanks largely to federal tax incentives, lower sticker prices, and more available models, EV sales have continued to surge in 2023. That’s a far cry from just six years ago, when EVs were considered a niche technology (and the fossil fuel baron Charles Koch and his minions wanted to keep it that way).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 3, 2024

Despite the generous funding opportunities and holistic flexibilities baked into ACF, confusion around and misinformation about the rule may undermine this much-needed shift away from fossil-fueled trucks and buses. The HVIP program has invested over $1 billion in California as of the year 2023, with over 12,000 vouchers.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 7, 2024

2023 was a milestone year for electric car sales in the US. That is A LOT of EVs and A LOT less oil use, air pollution and climate emissions. Sales figure from Atlas EV Hub In California, nearly half a million EVs were purchased in 2023 reaching a whopping one in four new vehicles. Tesla dominates the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 31, 2022

With only eight years left to attain 80 percent of emission reductions in the electricity sector by 2030 and lay the foundation to meet economy-wide climate goals, they need to get back to work to finish the job before 2023. Time is Running Out to Secure Federal Infrastructure Funding. Last winter, Congress passed the $1.2-trillion

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And Eversource Energy’s New Hampshire utility won approval from the state Public Utilities Commission over the summer to increase electric rates by a whopping 53 percent through the end of January 2023 to account for high gas prices in New England. It provides essential services that can be a matter of life or death for millions of people.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2024

Related Articles This Week: -- House Environmental Committee Hearing On Road Dumping Oil & Gas Wastewater Set For June 10; A Voting Meeting On Bill To Ban Road Dumping June 11 [PaEN] -- Better Path Coalition: DEP Removes Co-Product Category From Conventional Oil & Gas Waste Reporting Database; Well Owners Continue To Fail To Report How They (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

On December 31, 2023, he retired from the Clean Air Council after serving as the organization's executive director and chief counsel for over 35 years. Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

“Bechtel’s decision to cancel this dangerous plant is a crucial win for the health, welfare and safety of the residents of Renovo, who have been peddled lies about this project's purported benefits and illegally cut out of the permitting process,” said Joseph Otis Minott, Executive Director and Chief Counsel of Clean Air Council.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2023

. - Pennay G Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP issued an Air Quality Plan Approval covering multiple sources of air pollution, including compressors, pigging operations, at the well pad located in Brooklyn Twp., Susquehanna County. ( Westmoreland County. ( Greene County. ( Washington County. ( Bradford County. ( Warren County. (

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Law Columbia

APRIL 18, 2023

O n Monday, April 17, 2023, the U.S. 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. Clean Air Act, not EPCA. City of Berkeley. Berkeley decision.)

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 14, 2024

Background CNX reported on air monitoring from two monitors at each site-- one upwind and one downwind-- for a limited number of parameters-- Particulate Matter 2.5 No information from CNX correlated well development, waste handling, spills or unanticipated air pollution releases or other activities at any of the well pads or other sites.

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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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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2023

On October 6, the Environmental Hearing Board issued a decision saying it will hear key arguments on whether DEP should have considered soil contamination and air pollution resulting from drilling and operation of a shale gas well pad 500 feet away from a Washington County family's home that played a role in contaminating their water supply.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

Million Pounds Of Industrial Air Pollutants Discharged In Pittsburgh Area In 2021 Came From U.S. Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: April 17, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 5054 ) Air Quality Permits -- McElroy Green Marketing LLC - Mine Methane Flare Project: DEP invites comments on Air Quality Plan Approval for the project located in Gilmore Twp., Bradford County. ( Butler County. ( Greene County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Greene County. ( Greene County. ( Susquehanna County. (

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Perhaps most importantly, this rule doesn’t even attempt to grapple with the question of how to eliminate emissions from trucks, focusing exclusively on fossil-fuel powered engines to the exclusion of electrification. The Agency says a rule will be proposed by March 2023 and finalized by the end of 2023. Sadly, it didn’t.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2023, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), held the state’s first offshore wind auction, auctioning off five leases in Central and Northern California. [1] After AB 525 was signed into law, the CEC set offshore wind state planning goals in 2022 (2 to 5 gigawatts (GW) by 2030 and 25 GW by 2045).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

As of February 2023, six states, including New York State, have passed California’s Advanced Clean Trucks rule , which requires manufacturers to sell an increasing percentage of zero-emission trucks and buses in those states. to adopt such a requirement.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 7075 ) Air Quality Permits -- Eastern Gas Transmission & Storage, Inc. South Oakford Compressor Station: DEP invites comments on Air Quality Plan Approval to operate air pollution sources at the facility located in Hempfield Twp., The facility was closed by the company. ( Westmoreland County.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 5543 ) Air Quality Permits -- Greentree Landfill LLC: DEP invites comments on re-issuing a Title V Air Quality Permit for air pollution sources, including a landfill gas flaring system, at the landfill located in Fox Twp., Bucks County. ( Elk County. ( Delaware County. ( Lycoming County. ( Elk County. (

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