Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

DTE’s proposal, known as an integrated resource plan, describes how the utility intends to fulfill its customers’ electricity needs over the next 20 years. These types of long-term energy plans include forecasting the amount of electricity customers will need and examining different options for supporting that need.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

To reach the state’s goals of 100% clean electricity and economy-wide carbon neutrality by 2045, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has been tasked with planning the clean electricity transition via its Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) process. But the turn is not yet over.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2023

The $10 million grant will be utilized by PRT to replace four 40-foot diesel transit buses with electric buses. The grant will also support the purchase and installation of two electric chargers along with necessary infrastructure in the garage to which the buses would be assigned. Based on data collected and analyzed by the ACHD, PM2.5

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2025

The March 25 e xplosion involved a production storage tank and occurred at 10:25 a.m while the well tender was blowing out the well. DEP arrived on site at 11:30 a.m. Mercer County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On 401 Water Quality Certification For Rover Pipeline Rover-Bulger Compressor Station, Harmon Creek Meter Station Expansion In Smith Twp.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2023

cranks its air conditioners to get through historic high temperatures , the need for energy that slows, not hastens, climate change is more apparent than ever. Yet, in 2022, almost 40% of electricity in the US was generated by power plants fueled by natural gas. States remain widely varied on their reliance on gas for electricity.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

Thanks largely to the Clean Air Act, new passenger vehicles are 98 to 99 percent cleaner than they were 60 years ago when it comes to most tailpipe pollutants, including hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and fine particulate matter. Even so, cars and trucks are still making us sick—and killing us.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

Mercer County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On 401 Water Quality Certification For Rover Pipeline Rover-Bulger Compressor Station, Harmon Creek Meter Station Expansion In Smith Twp., Washington County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Chapter 105 Permit For A MarkWest Liberty 4.5

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

GW Of New Electric Generation Capacity; Reviews To Be Completed By 2026; List Of Projects Not Available Now [PaEN] [Posted: March 27, 2025] PA Environment Digest

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The first was to reward the deployment of electric trucks—given that EPA has pushed its consideration of EVs in the greenhouse gas rule to next spring , this is not likely to be included in the final rule. EPA has proposed three different early credit programs.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2025

Data Centers Impacts On Electricity Grid -- Utility Dive: PJM Fast-Track Interconnection Process Draws 26.6 An explosion of the production storage tank occurred at 10:25 a.m while the well tender was blowing out the well. DEP arrived on site at 11:30 a.m.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

SB 1020 signals the state’s continued prioritization of clean energy development, adding to the state’s existing goal for 100% clean electricity retail sale by 2045 by establishing interim clean energy targets of 90% of all retail electricity sales be renewable and zero-carbon by 2035 and 95% by 2040.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

Related Articles This Week: -- Criminal Convictions; Record Penalties, Restitution Of Over $158.3

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

Related Articles This Week: -- Criminal Convictions; Record Penalties, Restitution Of Over $158.3 Withdraws Orphan Oil & Gas Well Regulatory Improvement Grant Program To Help Prevent Future Well Abandonments, A Severe Problem In PA [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Chapter 105 Permit For A MarkWest Liberty 4.5

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

Related Articles This Week: -- Criminal Convictions; Record Penalties, Restitution Of Over $158.3

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

Mercer County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On 401 Water Quality Certification For Rover Pipeline Rover-Bulger Compressor Station, Harmon Creek Meter Station Expansion In Smith Twp., Washington County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Chapter 105 Permit For A MarkWest Liberty 4.5

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 20, 2023

As directed by a state law enacted in 2021, as HB 1286, the Colorado Health Department’s Air Pollution Control Division developed the newly finalized standards. As part of its target methodology , the state determined about 40% of the 8,000 buildings covered under the program already meet standards for the 2026 target.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Shell Polymers Monaca started operating just over a year ago but has since stumbled through continued production delays, blown past air pollution limits, and racked up more than two dozen technical malfunctions. Related Articles - Shell Petrochemical Plant: -- DEP: Shell Petrochemical Plant Pays Additional $2,671,044.75

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

Mercer County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On 401 Water Quality Certification For Rover Pipeline Rover-Bulger Compressor Station, Harmon Creek Meter Station Expansion In Smith Twp., Washington County [PaEN] -- DEP Invites Comments On Chapter 105 Permit For A MarkWest Liberty 4.5

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Acoel

JUNE 29, 2022

EPA’s latest proposed rule targeting NOx emissions from fossil-fueled electric generating units (EGUs) is a classic study of diminishing returns. The downwind air quality benefits are minimal. In 2020, sources in both the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) NOX annual program and the A(cid) R(ain) P(rogram) together emitted 0.78

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Law Columbia

MARCH 29, 2024

Current estimates are that the law will impact over 10,000 companies, which will have to draft a report every two years, beginning January 1, 2026, and publish it on their own website. This bill captures more companies, with a lower revenue threshold of over $500 million instead of $1 billion.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 22, 2022

The bill is sprawling, covering climate and energy topics as diverse as electric vehicles, building decarbonization, clean energy manufacturing and supply chains, agriculture, and greening the electricity system, all through a range of tax incentives and direct grants. Still, how does a local government tap in? Second, $11.97

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 26, 2024

By 2032, new light-duty vehicle climate emissions would decrease by nearly 50 percent (to 85 grams/mile) compared to existing standards that go through 2026. Air quality and public health But climate pollution isn’t the only thing coming out of tailpipes that’s harming us, and the impact of these tailpipe emissions isn’t equally shared.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 519 ) -- Lewis Run Natural Gas Plant LLC - Lewis Run Gas Plant: DEP invites comments on renewal of Minor Air Quality Permit for the facility in Bradford Twp., Susquehanna County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Warren County. ( McKean County. ( Butler County. ( Greene County. ( Westmoreland County. ( Lehigh County. (

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

These rules must accelerate the ongoing transition towards electrification As my colleague recently wrote , this year has seen a continued rise in sales of electric vehicles, on pace for over a million fully electric vehicles sold this year in the US, indicating the transition to electrify the passenger car market is well underway.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2025

Daily Grind Of Living Next To Oil & Gas Industry Continues The daily grind of spills, polluted water supplies, smell of natural gas in the air, noise, air pollution, explosions, landslides, truck traffic, radioactive waste, gas flares, erosion problems, dust, lights, road dumping waste, abandoned equipment and wells continues.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 13, 2023

An ambitious and achievable goal to electrify privately owned vehicles While complementary action to reduce car usage is necessary to address climate change, to the extent the United States continues to be reliant upon privately owned passenger cars and trucks, those miles must be electric, powered by an increasingly clean grid.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2023

When the Biden Administration ramped up fuel efficiency requirements through 2026, ideologues such as the Heartland Institute and states like Texas were quick to wheel out this attack. No doubt the same attack will be made on the Administration ambitious proposed post-2026 standard. But the resemblance ends there.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 26, 2024

Of Conservation Districts Awarded Nearly $37,000 To Support 21 District Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Projects [PaEN] -- Wilkes-Barre Times: Lacawac Sanctuary Receives Grant For Environmental Stewardship Institute -- DEP Now Accepting Applications For Alternative Fuels Incentive Grants [PaEN] -- PennDOT Announces New Funding Opportunity To Repair (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 30, 2024

California is the only state in which those standards are in effect in model year 2024, and manufacturers are overcomplying with both standards at this time, thanks in large part to electric truck sales that well exceed what is required by ACT and flexibilities in the Omnibus rule that were agreed to with the manufacturers.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

to 11% UGI Gas Rate Hike Request -- Courier Times: Shocked By Your Higher PECO Electric, Natural Gas Bill? to 11% UGI Gas Rate Hike Request -- Courier Times: Shocked By Your Higher PECO Electric, Natural Gas Bill?

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The case involves EPAs 2024 Vehicle Standards that set new air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for model year 2027 through 2032 Light- and Medium-Duty Vehicles, which have been challenged by states and industry groups. In 2007, the Supreme Court held in Massachusetts v. Moreover, the Court of Appeals for the D.C.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Million Fine For Clairton Coke [Coal] Works Air Pollution Violations -- TribLive: ‘This Is What Money Smells Like;’ $2.2 Million Fine For Clairton Coke [Coal] Works Air Pollution Violations -- TribLive: ‘This Is What Money Smells Like;’ $2.2 Westmoreland County?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2025

GW Of New Electric Generation Capacity; Reviews To Be Completed By 2026; List Of Projects Not Available Now DEP Invites Comments On Waste Permit For Expansion Of Brunner Island Power Plant Waste Disposal Landfill In York County Apply Now! Mercer County DEP Invites Comments On Chapter 105 Permit For A MarkWest Liberty 4.5

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Shapiro’s Support For RGGI Puts Us On A Dangerous Path - By Commonwealth Foundation -- Group Against Smog & Pollution: US Steel Appeals $2.2 Million Fine For Clairton Coke [Coal] Works Air Pollution Violations -- TribLive: ‘This Is What Money Smells Like;’ $2.2 Keystone Coldwater Conference Feb. Westmoreland County?

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Thank you for the opportunity to present Governor Shapiros proposed Fiscal Year 2025-2026 budget for DEP. Federal grant programs provide assurances for communities that their water will be safe and that electricity will be reliable. Im Jessica Shirley, the Acting Secretary for the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2023

greenhouse gas emissions, more than the electric power sector. The big issue in this case is whether the agency violated a statutory prohibition against “considering” electric vehicles in setting the standard. Transportation is now the source of 28% of U.S. I’ll discuss that comparison more in a bit).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Battery-electric tractor trucks at a charging depot near the Port of Oakland. The rule does not place any requirements on consumers to purchase ZETs, does not prohibit anyone from operating combustion-powered trucks, and does not apply to truck dealerships, despite some misleading information from bad actors meant to undermine the rule.

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