PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

NewsClips - LNG: -- Reuters: European Union Receives Bids For Nearly 3 Times The Volume Of Gas They Need -- PA Independent Oil & Gas Association: An Increase In LNG Gas Exports Is Expected To Increase Seasonal Price Volatility In The Future -- Financial Times: Household Energy Costs Factor Into Biden’s Pause On New LNG Natural Gas Export Facilities (..)

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Wolf on April 21, 2021 (Earth Day) they would reject all future nominees to the PUC until he withdraws his executive order joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to reduce carbon pollution from power plants. The PUC has nothing to do with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Program. “We Her term will expire on April 1, 2026.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 24, 2023

House holds Regular Session June 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 -- Committee Schedule Senate holds Regular Session June 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - June 17 to 23 - Federal Well Plugging Project & Dimock Area Shale Gas Well Inspections; Leaking Plugged Conventional (..)

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Data Center Boom Is A Job-Creation Bust 6th Oil/Natural Gas Spike: True Energy Independence Means Renewables [ There Is No Limit To What Oil/Natural Gas Industry Can Make You Pay ] -- Senate DEP Budget Hearing Focuses On Permit Reviews; Governors Lightning Energy Plan; Bringing On More Baseload Power Generation; Firing Intractable DEP Employees [PaEN] (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The UN’s Climate Change Conference is just about to kick off in Dubai, juxtaposing the powerful political power of the fossil fuel industry and the desperate need to reduce oil and gas usage as we face an ongoing climate crisis. But it is precisely this pace of change that has the auto industry pushing back hard on EPA’s proposed rules.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2022

Lower In 2050 PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- City & State PA: Sen. Bipartisan Federal Infrastructure Law -- Sen. Casey: Announces $2.1 Casey: Announces $2.1 EIA: Ban On New Natural Gas Pipelines Would Cut Carbon Dioxide Emissions From Natural Gas Combustion 4.4%

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2021

Gene Yaw’s often-said statement-- “You can’t have green energy without fossil fuels.”]

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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. Corporate and securities law – as well as companies and their leaders acting through lobbying and politics – also have major roles to play. [9] 24] SB 253 does not require materiality.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 1, 2024

Over 2022, Thanks To Strong Q4 Production; Fewest New Wells Drilled In Last Decade [PaEN] NewsClips: -- Spotlight PA: Federal Money Supercharged PA’s Plugging Of Dangerous Conventional Oil & Gas Wells, But Critics Want More Oversight -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Oil & Gas Industry Isn’t Taking Responsibility For Their Wells - By Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 20, 2024

24 DCNR Conservation & Natural Resources Advisory Council To Feature Discussion Of Growing Outdoor Recreation For PA Report, Recommendations [PaEN] -- DEP Extends Deadline For Comments On Proposed Grant Program To Reduce Industrial Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions To Jan. 15 Webinar Update On Large-Scale Solar; What Is Agrivoltaics?

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2021

percent by 2026 under the state’s Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards. The Dog Whistles In politics, “dog whistle” refers to the use of coded or suggestive language in political messaging to garner support from specific groups, particularly in election years. percent to 5.5 Read more here.

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Legal Planet

MAY 8, 2025

Brazil has also filed a new commitment under the Paris Agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, strenghening its prior commitment and pledging to reduce emissions two-thirds below 2005 levels by 2035. The first step is a requirement that companies submit monitoring plans and reports on greenhouse gas emissions by the late 2026.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Municipal Debt Under Water PA Politics -- Spotlight PA: Things To Know About Nov. 2 Election - Deadlines, Mail-In Ballots, More -- ErieT: New Ethics Complaint Against Republican Cong.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 9, 2023

In rejecting EPA’s plan to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act, the Court stated that “agency decisions of vast economic and political significance” (i.e., economic impacts, political significance), and when they identify a violation of the doctrine.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

Residents Will Have Drinkable Water By 2026 -- Gov. . -- PA American Water Identifies Water Source For New Public Water System To Replace Water Wells Contaminated By Shale Gas Fracking 20 Years Ago In Dimock Twp., Industry Analysts Say It Would Throttle The Oil Industry; During Campaign President Said His Goal Is $1.87

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Legal Planet

APRIL 10, 2025

And the search for gold bars has shockingly been fruitless EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has said that the greenhouse gas reduction program was vulnerable to waste, fraud, and abuse. And the secretary likes chocolate-chip cookiespreferably freshly baked and still warm, the Atlantic reported , without apparently being added to a Signal chat.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 14, 2025

In addition to all the harms that have already happened, now President Trumps skinny budget for fiscal year 2026 proposes cutting EPA funding by a massive 54.5%, or $4.2 The American publicacross the political spectrumsupport clean air, water and land.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 23, 2022

It is certainly true that the IRA uses “carrots” – principally in the form of tax credits – to incentivize actions that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. billion for “grants, rebates, contracts, loans” and “other activities” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and natural gas sector.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Political appointees, as I was, help set an agency’s agenda, but we can’t carry it out without the expertise, talent, professionalism, and dedication of career employees. The goal is to replace the most senior and influential senior federal staff with short term political loyalists. That is true regardless of which party is in power.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 13, 2023

EPA , the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has regulated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. Since then, EPA has consistently regulated GHG emissions from motor vehicles, although the scope of EPA’s GHG emissions regulations has been the subject of a political tug-of-war.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

This latest report looks at mitigation — or what the world can do to stop pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Although there’s a broad consensus on the science of climate change, that’s not the case with politics. Its coal consumption is only planned to begin to drop after 2026. The EU, the U.S. and the U.K.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 29, 2025

With some exceptions, federal agencies formerly defending Biden administration climate actions requested that the cases be held in abeyance to allow new political leadership time to be briefed on the litigation and to determine how to proceed. Courts have generally granted these requests.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

HFCs are coolant gases which are used in heating, refrigeration, air condition and refrigeration and emit potent greenhouse gases. ESA and the scientific community opposed this executive order over concerns that it could be used to fire scientists whose results contradict the preferences of political appointees. E&E News.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Because of backsliding on the energy transition, increased greenhouse gas emissions and resulting harm from climate change will accelerate, with devastating impacts in the United States and around the globe. Regulatory Uncertainty And Political Risk Energy is a quintessentially global business.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

billion to spend through fiscal year (FY) 2026 on weather, ocean and climate research and forecasting while the Environmental Protection Agency receives $264 million for climate change research and development. 15 briefing will provide background on the most relevant science, politics, justice, and solutions. NSF also receives $3.43

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Law Columbia

APRIL 30, 2025

The rule, finalized in 2024 but stayed during the litigation, requires public companies to disclose information about their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the financial risks they face from extreme weather events and the energy transition.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Federal programs like the grants, tax credits, and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund programs are available now , and if they are undone by the Trump administration or by Congress it will take time. Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) : The GGRF is a three-pronged IRA program that seeds a nationwide green finance network.

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