PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2025

Solar panels do not emit carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxides, or other harmful air pollutants when theyre working. Community solar will grow Pennsylvanias capacity to get energy from the sun, which will improve air quality and reduce our reliance on more polluting energy sources, said Alice Lu, Policy Analyst at Clean Air Council.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Tandem Routes for Converting Carbon Dioxide to High-Value Hydrocarbons: The Roads to Renewable Chemicals and Fuels. While much progress has … Continue reading Tandem Routes for Converting Carbon Dioxide to High-Value Hydrocarbons: The Roads to Renewable Chemicals and Fuels Chemistry of Materials, 37(3), 807822.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

In 2021 alone, the plants slated for retirement emitted more than 28,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxides (NO x ), 32,000 tonnes of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and 51 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), according to EIA data.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 28, 2025

billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions in 2022. Background Information: 2025.MM28.37 We are very pleased to see leadership on sustainable finance from Councillor Paula Fletcher and Councillor Dianne Saxe. These emissions are driving climate disasters globally, and Toronto is already paying the cost.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 31, 2022

China’s Sinopec Corp said on Monday it has put into operation the country’s largest carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) facility in east China, and plans to build two more plants of similar size by 2025.

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HumanNature

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

However, the methods we use to measure and model soil carbon are still evolving, and the variability in our estimates can be quite significant, changing across different regions, conditions, and methods used.

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Frontiers

JULY 28, 2022

The findings of their review, published today in the journal Frontiers in Climate , identify seven reasons why carbon accounting for coastal ecosystems is not only extremely challenging but risky.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Some 22 governments and the European Commission have already signed up to the new missions, which cover urban transitions, cutting industrial emissions, carbon dioxide removal, and developing greener fuels and materials. These five nations have also committed to net zero steel and concrete by 2050 for major projects.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

Even if there were just (say) a 40% chance that the Ditlevsen study is correct in the tipping point being reached between 2025 and 2095, that’s a major change to the previous IPCC assessment that the risk is less than 10%. Check out the OECD report Climate Tipping Points which is well worth reading, and the maps below.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 27, 2025

On March 18, 2025, Judge Ronnie Abrams dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice , penning an opinion that upholds Local Law 154 as a valid exercise of local authority beyond the purview of EPCAs preemption clause.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 21, 2025

Biochar-amended soil can further sorb atmospheric CO2 for more carbon sequestration. link] [open access] Abstract Input of biochar into soil is considered as an efficient technology for carbon sequestration. Zhang, Z., Zhao, L., & Cao, X. Communications Earth & Environment, 6(1), 5.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2022

The agreement will allow Comcast to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions associated with its energy use by nearly 360,000 metric tons annually – equivalent to avoiding the emissions from more than 65,000 homes’ electricity use for a year. Mid-Atlantic region and portions of the Midwest, and Comcast is currently the sole customer.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2021

On October 14, the Department of Environmental Protection presented a proposed regulation that would adopt California’s existing Zero Emission Vehicle Program that requires 22 percent of the new passenger and light duty vehicle fleets offered for sale in the state be zero emission vehicles starting in model year 2025.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2024

The draft regulations will then be followed up with final rules, so that the emissions cap is active by the start of 2025. Offsets are tradable credits that polluters can purchase to compensate for a ton of carbon dioxide or the equivalent in greenhouse gasses, by investing in emissions-reducing environmental projects elsewhere.

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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Covered Entities : The Program regulates manufacturers, electricity importers, suppliers of natural gas, gasoline and other fuels, and CO2 suppliers that emit more than 25,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MTCO2e) annually.

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The Energy Law

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Since then, BOEM has created three national CCS Environmental Studies Programs covering the regions it regulates (the Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, Pacific, and Alaska), all slated for performance in 2023-2025.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

King calls for immediate testing and deployment of often-controversial carbon removal techniques to begin drawing down atmospheric greenhouse gases by tens of billions of tonnes per year.

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A Greener Life

JUNE 24, 2021

Its State Council introduced a plan for responding to climate change in 2007 and in 2020, President Xi announced that China will be carbon neutral by 2060. During the recent summit, Xi even pledged China’s coal consumption will peak in 2025. But China’s booming coal industry runs against the grain.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

C thresholds which were agreed upon by world leaders during the COP21 UN climate summit in 2015, GHG emissions would need to peak before 2025 at the very latest and be reduced by 43% by 2030. The scientists said that in the scenarios they assessed, in order to limit warming to the 1.5°C

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 15, 2024

Environmental Educators Call For Presentation Proposals For 2025 Annual Conference Set For March 10-12 In Erie DEP Sets Aug. Culver: US EPA Installs Air Quality Monitors Around Wilburton Coal Bank Fire In Columbia County EPA Invests $20 Million In Water Workforce Training, Career Development; Including $4.9 21; Annual Dinner Sept.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 3, 2018

The SAFE Vehicle Rule proposes changes to EPA’s greenhouse gas emissions standards and DOT’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for light duty vehicles in model years (MY) 2021 through 2025. That is equivalent to nearly 40 percent of total carbon dioxide emissions from the entire U.S.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

To do this, the city government identified a mitigation potential of 133,346 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year by 2026-27 while addressing local climate risks through initiatives around solid waste, buildings, transport, water supply, street lighting, wastewater and drainage, urban biodiversity and air quality.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The program will be accepting applications in 2025 with three separate categories based on whether the applicant is a small, medium or large business. Regarding carbon removal, in May 2024, DOE announced 24 semifinalists would receive $1.2 million to scale up their carbon dioxide removal technologies.

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Cresforum

JANUARY 16, 2024

civilian nuclear energy industry and industry supply chains, industry potential to reduce criteria pollutants and carbon dioxide, and how the U.S. The bill would also extend nuclear incident liability coverage for domestic reactors under the Price-Anderson Act from 2025 through to 2065. standards and nonproliferation concerns.

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

Grey is made from natural gas or coal, and has a large carbon footprint. Blue is also made from fossil fuels but the carbon dioxide emissions are captured or re-used. Green is from renewable electricity and need have no carbon footprint at all. Production is set to begin in 2025.

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Vermont Law

JULY 31, 2023

The social cost of carbon is an economic tool used to determine how much the cost is, in dollars, of emitting another ton of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. As carbon dioxide builds up in the atmosphere, it also traps heat surrounding the planet. The damage this heat creates is SCC.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2022

Cheswick is one of only a half-dozen remaining coal-fired plants in Pennsylvania, and the state Department of Environmental Protection predicts that none will operate after 2025. Energy-Related Carbon Dioxide Emissions To Increase In 2022, 2023, Including From Natural Gas -- Utility Dive: 2022 Outlook: U.S. EIA Expects U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 21, 2024

Set the Stage for Robust Carbon Capture and Storage Management Carbon capture and storage (CCS) could play a meaningful role in decarbonization of Pennsylvania’s industry and electric generation, and even help reduce existing atmospheric carbon dioxide through direct air capture.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

In 2019, the governor set a state goal for greenhouse gas emissions to be reduced 26 percent by 2025 and 80 percent by 2050.? We emitted about 269 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2018 (the latest year for which data are available), with industry, electricity production, and transportation the largest sources.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2023

Annual dedicated removals are now just 2.3Mt-pa (based on some rather optimistic assumptions), and set to grow to 11.75Mt-pa by 2025 if all current plans are fulfilled. Recent policy debate has highlighted the need for strong quality and accountability standards for carbon removals.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

By Jennifer Matthews, Penn State News Upcycling plastic waste into graphite, used in electric vehicles and renewable energy storage, could positively contribute to the global economy, preserving resources, saving energy and reducing carbon dioxide emissions, according to Penn State researchers.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

to 11% UGI Gas Rate Hike Request -- Utility Dive: New Jersey Residential Customers Face 20% Electric Bill Hikes, Driven By PJM Capacity Prices: NJ Board Of Public Utilities -- US EIA Natural Gas Price Forecast For 2025 Now 21% Higher Than Last Forecast At $3.80; 2026 Forecast Now $4.20 Posted: February 14, 2025] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2022

PaEN] -- DEP Announces How Pennsylvania Will Meet Its 2025 Pollution Reduction Goals in Chesapeake Bay Watershed; All Counties On Board [PaEN] -- Rodale Institute Launches Certified Advisor Accreditation Program [PaEN] -- Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens: Jan. Thank you for your leadership! -- Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Shamokin Creek Restoration Alliance, Bucknell University To Host Abandoned Mine Pools As Beneficial Resource Conference June 4 - 5, 2025 -- Kleinman Center For Energy Policy: Sept. 18 Virtual, In-Person Public Symposium On Options For Carbon Dioxide Removal In The US , 8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Since 2004, ARRI has reforested thousands of acres of reclaimed coal mined land throughout Appalachia to restore the areas to their natural appearance while gaining the many benefits the newly planted trees seedlings will provide, such as removing carbon dioxide from the air and helping to conserve water resources.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2024

30 Hearing On The Proposed 2025 Fee Schedule; Water Withdrawal Requests, Including 4 Supporting Shale Gas Development Sen. 4 Hearing On Renewal Of Air Quality Permit For Panther Creek Coal Waste-Fired Power Plant In Carbon County DEP Sets Oct. 28 to Oct.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 1, 2023

Gas is made mostly of methane – a climate-damaging fossil fuel that is over 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide. But, after cancelling 750 renewable energy contracts, Ontario is now attempting to take advantage of a loophole in the draft regulations that permits new gas plants to be built before 2025 and operate beyond 2035. “The

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