Legal Planet

MAY 9, 2022

Emissions trading systems are often launched with relatively lenient design features, typically justified as giving the system a chance to “learn-by-doing” and to gain political buy-in for approval of a program. . – Continual reform to improve ambition, integrity, and buy-in. Most ETS have fallen on the prices-too-low side.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

To help voters determine which candidates would deliver the needed course correction, Environmental Defence and its allies in the Ontario Priorities Working Group asked each of the province’s major political parties whether – and how – they would deliver the rapid emissions reductions Ontario will need to head off climate catastrophe. .

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

“Pursue Your Happiness In Pennsylvania” Senate next voting day September 18, 19, 20; Oct.

Natural Gas 109

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Despite the softening of the wording in the latter stages of negotiations, analysts and commentators noted that it was the first time a COP agreement had directly mentioned fossil fuels – even though they are the main contributor to climate change – and cited this as definite progress. Phase-down and not out.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Fossil fuel language. The key focus point is to phase out fossil fuels, absolutely necessary for bringing emissions down. The language is the same as was agreed in Glasgow, calling for: ‘the phasedown of unabated coal power and phase-out of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies `. .

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Fossil Fuels Climate Change Natural Gas 2025 98

Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

A first draft shows that more than two billion Euros in total shall be invested into hydrogen development until 2025. There is, however, a problem as hydrogen is often produced from fossil fuels (natural gas, methane) in these countries and can therefore not be considered `green`.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

19 [PaEN] -- PA Sea Grant Names PA 2025 Knauss Marine Policy Fellows: Nathaniel Edelheit-Rice, Sahara Rios-Bonilla, Chelsea Russ [PaEN] -- Gov. Partnership For The Delaware Estuary Science & Environmental Summit Feb. 12 [PaEN] -- Three Rivers Waterkeeper Calls For Stronger Environmental Oversight Of U.S.

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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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Fossil Fuels Climate Change 2030 Renewable Energy 98

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2023

[PaEN] -- TribLive: Allegheny County Council Proposal Would Ban Single-Use Plastic Bags -- Observer-Report: PUC Dismisses Joint Settlement, Civil Penalty Against East Dunkard Water Authority -- TribLive: PennWest Edinboro, Erie’s Presque Isle Among Places Prepping For April Total Eclipse -- Cameron County Chamber Of Commerce Announces Results Of Sinnemahone (..)

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Fossil Fuels Natural Gas Conservation Politics 110

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2024

. -- DEP Oil & Gas Advisory Board Meets March 19 On Drinking Water Supply Impacts From Drilling; New Financial Assurance Strategies To Prevent Abandonment; Draft Spill Policy; Injection Well Primacy; Much More [PaEN] -- US Senators Introduce Bill To Ban US LNG Gas Sales To Any Entity Under The Control Of Communist China To Protect US Jobs; Americans (..)

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Fossil Fuels Renewable Energy Natural Gas Natural Resources 109

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

Were spotlighting Micheal Binnion, the Mastermind of Petro Populism, who has worked for decades to embed support for fossil fuels in the highest levels of the Canadian government. This series of satirical CVs for climate villains has helped reveal the names and faces of the corporate elite championing the fossil fuel industry.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 26, 2024

Million In Federal Abandoned Mine Land Economic Revitalization (AMLER) Program Funding; Local AML/AMD Project Funding Application Period Open [PaEN] -- EPA, National Fish & Wildlife Foundation Award $22.4

Natural Gas 111

Natural Gas Clean Energy Carbon Dioxide Fossil Fuels 111

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2024

10 Telephonic Hearing On PPL Proposal To Construct New Three Mile Island - Chanceford 500kV Transmission Line and Chanceford - Peach Bottom 500kV Transmission and Other Related Transmission Lines -- Washington Post: Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Owner Seeks $1.6

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

4 Moms Clean Air Force: Pennsylvanians Call On State Leaders For Protection From Fossil Fuel And Plastic Industry Expansion Guest Essay: Our Children’s Health Isn’t Partisan, Pennsylvania Needs Strong Pollution Protections From Fracking Now PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov.

Conservation 98

Conservation Natural Resources Fossil Fuels 2025 98

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2023

Potter County To Sept. 7 [PaEN] -- DEP Extends Current ESCGP-3 Oil & Gas Erosion Control General Permit Without Changes Thru Jan. Potter County To Sept. 7 [PaEN] -- DEP Extends Current ESCGP-3 Oil & Gas Erosion Control General Permit Without Changes Thru Jan.

Natural Gas 98

Natural Gas Fossil Fuels Air Pollution 2025 98

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2023

-- Post-Gazette: PA Getting Millions In Federal Grants To Cut Methane Emissions, Cap Leaking Conventional Oil & Gas Wells -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2022

12 EQB Agenda [PaEN] -- Bay Journal: With 2025 Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Goal Out Of Reach, Region Plans For What's Next At Oct. 12 EQB Agenda [PaEN] -- Bay Journal: With 2025 Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Goal Out Of Reach, Region Plans For What's Next At Oct. Limiting Methane Emissions From Conventional Oil & Gas Facilities To Oct.

Natural Gas 64

Natural Gas Fossil Fuels Clean Water Act Politics 64

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

Of Health & Human Services Will Cut 10,000 Jobs As Part Of Major Restructuring Plan [10,000 Already Took Early Retirements] 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: March 28, 2025] PA Environment Digest

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Nuclear Power Clean Air Act Natural Gas Natural Resources 78

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 17, 2021

For two or three weeks, climate politics gets intense worldwide news coverage. Each of them was adopted at some prior COP, after parties at some still-earlier COP made a political (i.e., The largest decision adopted this year, and the main focus of negotiations and political conflict, was called the “Glasgow Climate Pact.”

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In 1966, his campaign slogan was 'for clean streams and clean politics.' His political life was ignited in 1966 by clean streams legislation, when his would-be opponent voted against an amendment that would bring the coal companies under the Clean Streams Law already on the books.

Climate Change 75

Climate Change Clean Water Act Natural Resources Law 75

Energy and Climate Law

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Article 20 rGR prescribes that transmissions system operaters shall accept cross-border mingled gas streams with up to 5% hydrogen content from 1 October 2025. In a second step the results shall be used for a review of the MER in 2025, according to article 27 (3) MER. Mostly in salt caverns but also depleted gas fields.

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Natural Gas Regulations Electricity 2021 130

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Experts say that expanding offshore wind energy could help to reduce the use of fossil fuels and even boost jobs and local economies since this will require both the construction of offshore wind farms and the modernisation of land-based infrastructure such as ports. Finally, there are political impasses.

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Fossil Fuels Electricity Government Politics 52

Greenbuilding Law

JANUARY 1, 2023

C, global emissions must peak by 2025 and be cut in half by 2030, on the way to net zero emissions by mid century.”. Moreover, it is not settled that even a developed nation can attain Net Zero economy wide, or for that matter a state or other political subdivision, or even a business. .

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 4, 2025

On February 20, 2025, Senator Scott Wiener introduced Senate Bill No. As will be seen below, the latter qualification essentially excluding warehouse and fossil fuel projects from the proposed reforms applies to all parts of the proposed legislation.) Proposed New Public Resources Code Section 21080.08

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2026 Law Fossil Fuels 2024 80

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 26, 2022

Cyber Officials Issued Another Warning In April On The Vulnerability Of Natural Gas Facilities To Cyber Attacks ] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Southwestern Energy Plans $1 Billion Share Repurchase Giving Money Back To Investors [Part Of International Trend To Reward Investors First] -- Chesapeake Energy Doubles Stock Buyback To $2 Billion [Rewarding (..)

Natural Gas 52

Natural Gas Conservation Fossil Fuels 2025 52

A Greener Life

MARCH 19, 2023

“We are pushing the Chinese company to complete its financial closure by 31 December 2023, and start construction at the earliest so that it can be completed by 2025,” Shah Jahan Mirza, managing director of the Pakistan government-owned Private Power and Infrastructure Board told me. Pakistan’s energy sector is dominated by fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2023

C mark, because of decades of inaction on the part of policymakers and decades of deception and obstruction on the part of fossil fuel companies. To secure the livable future that children around the world deserve, we must double down, ratchet up pressure on governments, and break the power of the fossil fuel industry.

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Fossil Fuels Paris Agreement 2030 Climate Change 290

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

And fossil fuel power plants may not stick to their retirement schedules for a variety of reasons. The EPA’s Social Cost of Carbon was adjusted to 2025 to align with the emissions year of the NO x and SO 2 estimates.) A bit more on those reasons later. degrees Celsius, coal power should be entirely phased out by 2030.

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Fossil Fuels 2023 Clean Energy Nitrogen Oxides 262

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

By February 2025, the next round of NDCs is due and it’s clear that all countries—especially richer nations like the United States—will need to step up significantly if we are to have any chance of meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement. see Articles 4.2 of the Paris Agreement ). For the next round of NDCs, the U.S.

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Fossil Fuels Paris Agreement 2005 Climate Change 321

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Coming on the heels of the powerful ‘ March to End Fossil Fuels’ last weekend, this summit continues the pressure on governments to meet the urgency of the moment. On September 20, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres is hosting a Climate Ambition Summit seeking to galvanize greater climate action from world leaders.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Through the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) published in 2016, Brazil committed to reducing GHG emissions by 37% by 2025 and by 43% by 2030 as compared to a 2005 baseline. In addition, the same political parties brought a similar case questioning how the government paralyzed the Amazon Fund ( PSB et al. In PSB et al.

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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. It contains three times as much as the 830 billion tonnes found in the atmosphere, and 240 times as much as the 10 billion tonnes emitted by fossil fuel burning every year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Lest one thinks this disconnect is a failure of the global climate architecture, the failure lies much closer to home—in the domestic politics in the US and many other countries that continue to favor the interests of the rich and powerful , and fossil fuel companies, at the expense of the health and safety of everyone else and the planet.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen The British oil and gas giant BP , which, until recently, has been one of the oil and gas giants with the most ambitious clean energy plans, has joined the chorus of fossil fuel giants moving away from net zero. Why are fossil fuel giants abandoning net-zero? Will BP stay the course?

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Fossil Fuels Clean Energy Renewable Energy 2020 59

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Under the settlement, the company will retire all of its coal-fired power plants by 2025 and install nearly 8,000 megawatts of solar power by 2040. At least 20 cities, counties and states have filed lawsuits against ExxonMobil and other major fossil fuel companies for climate damages. What can you tell us about these cases?

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 29, 2024

Pennsylvania is fundamentally different from Texas, which maintains its own separate electric grid for political reasons and relies on its own electric generation with limited connections to surrounding grid operators for importing power. It expects to clear another 26 GW of capacity in 2024 and 46 GW of new generation in 2025.

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Natural Gas Electricity Fossil Fuels Clean Energy 118

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

11-12 [PaEN] Programs/Information -- PA Society For Ornithology: 2025 PA Breeding Bird Blitz For Conservation Seeking Sponsors [PaEN] -- Nov. 12 (In-Person), Dec. 19 [PaEN] -- PA Interfaith Power & Light Hosts Nov. 19 Watersheds And Their Problems Webinar [PaEN] -- PA Solar Center Hosts Nov. Of Environmental Professionals Host Dec.

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