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Tuesday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 10.31.23

PA Environment Daily

23 [PaEN] -- Erie Times Guest Essay: We Have A Path To Reduce Climate Pollution, It Is Time To Launch market-Based RGGI - By Environmental Defense Fund & Ceres -- 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund Holds Nov. Seeks Audit Of Act 13 Drilling Impact Fee Spending Discrepancies -- Reminder: Nov. 4 to 7 -- Quittapahilla Watershed Assn.

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A Deep Dive on the Senate’s Farm Bill Proposal: the Rural Prosperity and Food Security Act of 2024

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

Permanent climate change targeting of program funds. Extended alternative funding arrangement authority for tribal governments. Permanent climate change targeting of program funds. Extends alternative funding arrangement authority for tribal governments.

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Analysis: New coal mines add question mark to India’s climate commitments

A Greener Life

By Rejimon Kuttappan Along with a major expansion of renewable energy, India is also pushing for big increases in its coal production, casting doubt on its climate commitments. On the same day at COP28, the Indian government submitted its third “National Communication” to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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Statement on IESO Contracting New Polluting Gas Power

Enviromental Defense

Contracts for the four existing facilities have been extended beyond their current contracts of 2029 and 2030 to 2034 or 2035. The IESO projects emissions from the electricity sector will increase over 400 per cent by 2030 and by almost 800 per cent by 2040 (compared to the 2017 level).

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Climate Choices Part II — Session Law 2021-165 (Carbon Reduction Plan)

Smith Enviorment

T he law does not apply to EGUs operated by local government utilities; electric membership co-ops; industrial facilities; or other institutions since the Utilities Commission doesn’t regulate those facilities. The reduction goals apply to electric utilities that are: 1. regulated by the Utilities Commission; and 2.

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UCS Is Following the Money in California

Union of Concerned Scientists

There is a historic level of funding flowing from the US government to states, territories, Native American Nations, and community-based organizations. My UCS colleagues have previously written about the importance of BIL to address long overdue upgrades to infrastructure and invest in climate resilience.

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In Chicago, Flooding Overwhelmingly Strikes Communities of Color

Circle of Blue

In the early 1970s, Chicago embarked on one of the region’s most ambitious and expensive infrastructure projects to date: the Tunnel and Reservoir Project or “Deep Tunnel,” a massive storage system that will be able to hold more than 20 billion gallons of water when it’s finished in 2029. . Ready or not — the Great Lakes as a climate refuge.

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