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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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C They set out the state of climate mitigation and impacts in a report released on Monday the 4th of April. It was sombre reading.

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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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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. The rule will substantially increase vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. transportation sector in 2016 (based on EPA data ).

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Under Governor Wolf, we’ve accelerated and expanded work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to equip Pennsylvania’s communities, businesses, and individual residents to address climate change impacts occurring now and projected for the near future. Pennsylvania’s greenhouse gas emissions are tracked yearly.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Cities are major sources of greenhouse emissions, globally producing more than 60% of planet-warming gases. Narayanganj to cut CO2 by hundreds of thousands of tonnes Narayanganj’s adaptation plan , written in 2022, strives to achieve an annual greenhouse gas emission reduction of 12.6% Photo credit: Balaji Srinivasan / Alamy.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2023

But total emissions of greenhouse gases are around 50Gt of CO 2 ‘equivalents’. 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. Removing 2-5Gt of CO 2 each year is still a big undertaking.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2022

On March 30, the House voted 126 to 72 to pass House Bill 637 (Struzzi-R-Indiana) designed to block the final DEP regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants that’s consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Read more here. At least $12.5 At least $12.5 Read more here.

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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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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Regarding renewable energy, several parties have high ambitions for offshore wind: both GL and D66 aim for 60 GW in the coming government period, 2021-2025; also VVD, CDA, SP, PvdA mention offshore wind as an important option. Both PvdA and GL mention that they want to do this earlier, by 2025 at latest (i.e.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The $396 million in available funding is significant and seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and co-pollutants from the state’s industrial sector by over 8 million metric tonnes by 2050. The program will be accepting applications in 2025 with three separate categories based on whether the applicant is a small, medium or large business.

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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. If the U.S.

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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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Circle of Blue

APRIL 18, 2023

The law provides $140 billion in tax incentives, direct loans, and grants to replace fossil fuels with cleaner renewable energy that lowers emissions of carbon dioxide. Gevo asserts its “farm-to-flight” project will release 80 percent less carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than ethanol produced by a conventional plant.

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 22, 2022

It will take almost four years to complete, with preparatory works and trials already underway and its conclusion scheduled for the second half of 2025. billion tonnes of CO2 equivalent every year – 40% from protecting existing carbon, and the remaining 60% from rebuilding depleted stores.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

These settlements are the latest in EPA’s urgent efforts to limit the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change and hold corporate polluters accountable for jeopardizing public health.” Uhlmann for EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. Specifically, by Dec. million to plug or remediate them.

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Embedded in the new statute are more than $140 billion in direct payments and tax incentives for renewable fuels and cleaner electrical generation to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 2005 levels by the end of the decade. By Keith Schneider Circle of Blue February 8, 2023 President Biden, U.S. The law enables the U.S.D.A.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Compared to a baseline business-as-usual scenario, CARB estimates the ACF will reduce climate-warming emissions from the state’s truck fleet by more than 40 percent by 2050, equating to a reduction of about 300 million metric tons of carbon dioxide over this timeframe. There are more than 1.8 pollution from vehicles.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

Methane Emissions EPA announced it would reconsider regulations for the oil and gas industry under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act and Subpart W of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. EPA also announced it would reconsider risk management rules that cover oil and natural gas refineries and chemical facilities.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

However, environmentalists often criticize EQIP for awarding funding to practices that do not reduce greenhouse gas emissions, sequester carbon, or build climate resilience. It defines climate-smart practices as those reducing greenhouse gas emissions, sequestering carbon, and building climate resilience.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2025

By Terrie Baumgardner, Resident Of Aliquippa, Clean Air Council Outreach Coordinator The guest essay was originally published in the Beaver Times on April 4, 2025 -- In a remarkable moment at the Feb. Carbon Pollution Reduction ] Although the RGGI matter started from a rulemaking petition, when Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2025

And if you want to get out of RGGI [Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative], come to the table and work on this with us." Shapiro had this to say to legislators who just want to attack him and his plan. .I I am saying here's a better way forward that we can work on together. Now it's time to be big and bold and do something real.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The watershed states only have until 2025 under the Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint to adopt and implement pollution-cutting measures that will restore the health of the Bay and its waterways. The Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint calls for the Bay states to plant 190,500 acres of buffers by 2025. Investing in trees also creates jobs.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 7, 2024

Of Regulatory Utility Commissioners Executive Leadership Board -- Inquirer: The CO2 Coalition, A Source Of Climate Change Misinformation In PA, Wants Us To Love Carbon Dioxide -- City & State PA Guest Essay: Why Gov. Duquesne Light Rate Increase -- PUC Vice Chair Barrow Joins National Assn.

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Greenbuilding Law

MARCH 26, 2023

There is a move toward all electric buildings as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change. Department of Energy that orders all new and refurbished federal buildings to become fully electrified by 2025. The Biden administration issued a rule on December 7, 2022 through the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2024

1 At University Of Pittsburgh [PaEN] -- Inside Climate News: The Chesapeake Bay Program Flunked Its 2025 Cleanup Goals, What Happens Next? -- Chesapeake Bay Journal Forum: For The Chesapeake Bay, Federal Leadership Is Sorely Needed For 2025 And Beyond - By Ann Mills & Nancy Stoner -- EPA, National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Award $22.4

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

9] Not only are these leaks spewing methane, benzene, other VOC’s, and toxins that threaten our children’s right to an abundant life, methane is greenhouse gas 86 times more potent than CO2 in the first twenty years – making fugitive and leaking methane as an imperative for any hope in keeping temperature below 1.5o by 2050 or sooner.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2023

A second bill would require annual reporting of the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by a covered firm’s operations. It would require standardized reporting of GHG emissions (primarily carbon dioxide and methane) by firms doing business in California with total annual revenues more than $1 billion. [19]

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

The announcements cover 31 health protections, including standards on mercury, soot, and traffic pollution as well as the reconsideration of a decade-old, evidence-based conclusion that carbon dioxide, methane, and four other climate-warming pollutants endanger human health and welfare.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For more on other harmful aspects of Project 2025, see this blog. The Heritage Foundation’s blueprint—Project 2025—to dramatically alter the US Environmental Protection Agency should concern you. Project 2025 takes aim at all those protections. Project 2025 takes aim at grants, as well. It does me.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

17 [PaEN] -- ScrantonT: Lackawanna River Heritage Trail Receives Great Greenway/Trail Designation -- SunburyDI: Friends Group Formed For R.B. Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

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ESA

AUGUST 29, 2022

All agencies will fully implement updated policies, including ending the optional 12-month embargo, no later than December 31, 2025. OSTP expects all agencies to have updated public access policies fully implemented by the end of 2025. The agency will hold an informational webinar about the plan Sept.

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HumanNature

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Guest Post by Ashley Schilling Hazlett , 2024-2025 Sustainability Leadership Fellow and Ph.D. of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (Gerber et al., Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, with a global warming potential of approximately 28 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 100-year time horizon (IPCC, 2021).

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Yes, I realize its just a small ripple in the sea of b t that is 2025 so far, but hey, you have to start with the things you can control, right? All of that waste adds up to a whole lot of methane a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. And my own waste stream fits that bill.

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Law and Environment

MAY 11, 2023

Deploy Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Infrastructure. This priority urges Congress to address the siting of hydrogen and carbon dioxide pipelines and storage infrastructure. The Administration is “on track to achieve the goal of permitting at least 25 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy on public lands by 2025.”

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Biogas is mostly comprised of methane and carbon dioxide, which are harmful gases that contribute to climate change. This interest in biogas is not unique to Europe, however, as evidenced by Californias Low Carbon Fuel Standard law (LCFS). It would also lead to more harm being done to animals who produce the biogas on CAFOs.

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Legal Planet

MAY 11, 2023

still does not limit carbon emissions from existing power plants, which generate 25 percent of our greenhouse gases. The EPA is proposing a new standard for fossil fuel-fired power plants to avoid 617 million metric tons of carbon dioxide through 2042. In the year 2023, the U.S. Four years later under George W.

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