Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Minnesotans are facing concurrent crises of climate change, high energy prices and inflation, and the inequitable public health impacts of fossil fuel air pollution. Most Minnesotans are familiar with their local electricity utility, since that’s who bills them for electricity they provide.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2023

electricity to about one-fifth today. The passage of the 1970 Clean Air Act and its major 1990 Amendments don’t show up at all in a graph of coal use. In fact, there was a surge in construction of new coal plants after 1970 due to high electricity demand. electricity use hit a ceiling , and it has risen only slightly since then.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Beyond the climate harms of fossil fuels, they also impose a terrible toll on human health, as numerous recent studies show—including the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change , a BMJ study on global deaths from air pollution caused by fossil fuels, and a study on US deaths attributable to coal-fired electricity generation.

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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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Like many other public-serving institutions throughout society, electricity and gas utilities are facing calls to be more equitable in their operations, planning, and treatment of customers. That law created the state’s Community Air Protection Program focused on reducing exposure in communities most impacted by air pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

With the clean energy transition already under way, the US electricity mix is set to continue changing this year. Solar power is expected to make up about half of all additions of US electric generating capacity in 2023, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). I’ll start off with the good.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Earlier this year, UCS experts worked with community groups to produce a report, On the Road to 100 Percent Renewables , which shows that two dozen states can reliably meet 100 percent of their electricity needs with renewable energy. degrees goal is threatened by political inaction. Why not just start with renewables?

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 22, 2023

According to CAA § 116, “[n]othing in this chapter shall preclude or deny the right of any State or political subdivision thereof to adopt or enforce (1) any standard or limitation respecting emissions of air pollutants or (2) any requirement respecting control or abatement of air pollution[.]”

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Pursue Your Constitutional Right To A Clean Environment In Pennsylvania House next voting day Dec. 11, 12, 13 -- Committee Schedule Senate next voting day Dec. to -25.7%) ] -- PUC: Proposed Settlement With PPL To Resolve Widespread Consumer Billing Issues, $1 Million Penalty -- MCall: PPL To Pay Fines, Forgive Costs Totaling $17.2

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 29, 2023

For California to achieve its climate goals and federal air quality obligations, the state legislature must approve the extension of a modest portion of vehicle registration fees (called “AB 8 Fees”). To make the stakes even higher, if these fees are not extended this year, they will likely be gone forever.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2024

Air Quality Permits -- Iron Pennsylvania Land, LLC - Cumberland Mine Methane Flare Abatement System: DEP invites comments on an Air Quality Plan Approval to construct and operate a temporary coal mine methane flare system located in Jackson Twp., Greene County. ( Adams County. ( Susquehanna County. ( Butler County. ( Venango County. (

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Million Settlement Of Air Pollution Violations For 2019 Philadelphia Refinery Explosion, Fire; Public Comments Invited [PaEN] -- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs Down 2 From Last Week; Down 38% Since Aug. 16 [PaEN] -- EPA Files $4.2 Million Settlement Over 2019 South Philly Refinery Explosion, Fire -- AP: EPA Reaches $4.2

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Natural Gas 2019 Fossil Fuels Air Pollution 107

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2023

House holds Regular Session April 24, 25, 26 -- Committee Schedule -- Updated: House Budget Hearing Schedule - March 20, 21, 22 Senate holds Regular Session April 24, 25, 26 -- Committee Schedule -- Updated Senate Budget Hearing Schedule - March 20, 21, 22 TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- Independent Fiscal Office Posts Budget Hearing Documents -- KDKA: (..)

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Law Columbia

APRIL 17, 2024

The report provides detailed information on the current state of Cuba’s electricity sector and recommends reforms to advance the transition to a lower emission, reliable, and more climate resilient system. Policymakers have subsequently announced their intention to increase renewable electricity generation to 37% by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

California’s leadership on reducing truck pollution has been on full display the past few years, passing critical regulations requiring 90 percent reduction in smog-forming nitrogen oxide (NO X ) emissions from diesel trucks and requiring manufacturers sell an increasing share of electric trucks to move away from fossil fuels altogether.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 27, 2023

Car companies are quickly shifting their focus to electric vehicles (EVs), and as new EVs replace older gasoline cars, demand for gasoline and diesel will decline, slowly at first and then more quickly. Sunoco used aggressive legal and political strategies to reduce their obligations to clean up their pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2023

Steel Reaches Tentative Settlement Over Air Pollution Following 2018 Fire At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Plant [No Specifics Yet] -- WHYY: Philly Officials Say Water Is Safe After Bucks County Chemical Spill, How Do We Know That? -- NextPittsburgh: DEP Awards $3.7

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

The ongoing pollution from these power plants is an affront to public health and wildly incompatible with every climate ambition this country —and this world—has. Which means the consequences of these polluters unabashedly continuing to pollute aren’t just severe—they’re compounding.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2024

Million Settlement Of Air Pollution Violations For 2019 Philadelphia Refinery Explosion, Fire; Public Comments Invited [PaEN] -- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs Down 2 From Last Week; Down 38% Since Aug. 16 [PaEN] -- EPA Files $4.2 Million Settlement Over 2019 South Philly Refinery Explosion, Fire -- AP: EPA Reaches $4.2

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

Million Cubic Feet Of Gas; 10,000 Gallon Spill At Compressor Station [PaEN] -- EPA AirNow Declares Code YELLOW Air Pollution Action Day For Tuesday, June 20 -- PA Interfaith Power & Light, Jewish Earth Alliance Host June 28 Webinar On How To Encourage More Solar Power In PA , 7:00 p.m. -- Sen. -- Sen.

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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

MAY 17, 2024

Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable. Mr. Minott holds two degrees in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. In 2011, Kraybill purchased his first electric car, a Chevy Volt.

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Climate Change Fossil Fuels Clean Energy 2006 122

A Greener Life

MAY 25, 2021

Due to her work with the climate assembly, she managed to link the use of coal and indoor air pollution as a trigger to asthma, and learn how to fix it. That is until he is diagnosed with cancer and learns about the link between air pollution caused by fossil fuels and their links to cancers. This changes his opinion.

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Climate Change Air Pollution Fossil Fuels 2020 59

Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

While cities face considerable legal hurdles in enacting local climate policy, they also have significant authority to develop novel policies that can slash greenhouse gas emissions while cutting local air pollution, expanding access to opportunity, and making our cities more equitable places to live, work, and play.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

-- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1 27 Released 1.1

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Law Columbia

JUNE 1, 2022

The plaintiffs claim that the emissions of CO 2 , as well as air pollutants, by the coal-fired power plants violate personal rights to life, bodily integrity, and health and the right to a peaceful life (a variant of personal rights). Kobe Steel Ltd.,

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The Energy Law Blog

JULY 23, 2013

Specifically, Section 126(b) provides that: Any State or political subdivision may petition the Administrator for a finding that any major source or group of stationary sources emits or would emit any air pollutant in violation of the prohibition of [the “good neighbor” provision] or this section. 12-1022, slip op.

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Law and Environment

MAY 12, 2023

The proposed rule would apply to new and existing gas plants and existing coal plants—new coal plants are separately regulated—and promises to significantly cut carbon and other harmful air pollutant emissions from fossil plants over the next two decades and beyond. Emphasis added.] For more on West Virginia v.

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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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 7, 2023

Data Show -- Bloomberg: EPA Set To Propose Toughest-Ever Rules On Car Pollution To Spur EVs -- Bloomberg: One-Minute Battery Swaps Are Spurring EV Adoption In Asia PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Erie Times: New Poll: Who Are Most Popular/Unpopular State Officials In PA?

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Legal Planet

JULY 20, 2023

Most importantly, there is every indication in the Inflation Reduction Act and bipartisan Infrastructure Act that Congress itself made the basic policy decision to dramatically expand the use of clean technologies relied on by EPA: carbon capture and use of hydrogen as a fuel (the power plant rule), and electric vehicles (the car rule).

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2024

Air Quality Permits -- Tolna Power, LLC - Peaking Fuel Oil Power Plant: DEP invites comments on the renewal of an State Only Air Quality Permit for the facility located in Hopewell Twp., Smith Larry Shale Gas Well Pad: DEP approved de minimis air pollution increases for multiple sources of pollution at the pad located in Buffalo Twp.,

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 24, 2023

That’s quite different from the standards for industrial pollution sources, which Congress has always delegated to EPA. The reason may have been the high political stakes in the car industry or the relatively easier task of setting standards for new products in a single industry using a single energy process. compliance option.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The cities argued that the regulation would prevent them from imposing restrictions on the circulation of passenger vehicles in relation to their air pollutant emissions. The Philippines Commission on Human Rights published report on Carbon Majors’ responsibility for climate change. In Greenpeace v. In RWE and Uniper v.

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Law Columbia

JULY 6, 2017

These potential intervenors alleged that the additional emissions during the stay period would harm their interest in protecting their residents from the effects of air pollution and climate change. Thirteen states, the District of Columbia, and the City of Chicago sought leave to intervene on behalf of the petitioners. June 16, 2017).

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Indoor air (pollution) : coming under OSHA rather than EPA, there are laws in place to ensure that employees work in a clean and safe environment with good ventilation. Indoor air is anything contained with a building. The first and most visible way in which the public is aware of and engaged with environmental law is pollution.

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