Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In addition, OAR’s research improves weather forecasting models, helping to predict severe weather and air quality issues more accurately. These efforts save lives by providing advanced warning and helping communities prepare for hurricanes, wildfires, and air pollution events.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

A quick refresher: Automobiles and trucks are among the leading causes of climate- and lung-destroying air pollution worldwide, and shifting from gasoline-powered to electric vehicles is a key strategy (among many) to cut these emissions. This is terrible news for the climate and for air quality, of course.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2025

Our mission is to improve policy and regulations for the oversight of fossil fuel extraction and use; to educate, empower and organize coalfield citizens; and to protect public and environmental health. CCJ has over three thousand members and supporters and is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

Over 156 million people in the US are exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollutants, according to the recently published 2025 State-of-the Air report from the American Lung Association (ALA). For 25 years the report has helped people across the country understand the quality of the air in their communities.

Ozone

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2024

They involve reduced protection for endangered species, eliminating energy efficiency rules, blocking new transmission lines, changing electricity regulation to favor fossil fuels, weakening air pollution rules, and encouraging sale of gas guzzlers. #1. Abolish energy markets or adjust them to favor fossil fuels.

2025

Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2025

It’s a tribute to the significance of state climate policies that Trump devoted an entire executive order to excoriating them as “fundamentally irreconcilable” with his own, fossil-fuel promoting, energy policy. Yet, despite all the drama in D.C.,

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Billionaires funding science is not new, and it certainly isn’t all bad, but President-elect Trump’s calls to downsize government and privatize science should ring alarm bells across the nation. Uniquely, the US federal government has an obligation to steward taxpayer dollars toward state-of-the-art research that serves public interests.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

JANUARY 13, 2025

Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar delivered the federal governments official response in December. Shell on behalf of all the companies responded that the Solicitor General had effectively reversed the governments position that the Clean Air Act preempts claims in these climate cases. 7401 et seq. 7401 et seq.

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

After an experience dealing with air pollution issues in her own home, she has first-hand knowledge of the health impacts that pollution can have on a family and how government agencies often ignore residents in distress. She equips residents with the tools to feel empowered to fight against the fossil fuel industry.

Natural Gas

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

UCS has also worked for many years to clean up trucking pollution, and our work now encompasses other parts of the freight system. Heres what governments can do. All of this activity makes ports surrounded by dangerous levels of air pollution. Cleaning up the ports Nearly 80% of cargo entering the U.S.

Electricity

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

Let’s take a hike through three jurisdictions, each with a conservative-leaning government, and see how they are approaching this issue. Not all conservative-leaning governments treat the development of renewable energy the same.

Government

Legal Planet

JUNE 24, 2025

Advocates campaigned for cleaner vehicles to cut pollution, and California led a lawsuit by 16 states seeking to electrify the mail trucks. C alifornia’s intervention “played a big part in stopping USPS from committing to decades of air pollution around the nation,” Liane Randolph, head of the state’s Air Resources Board, said.

Clean Energy

Law Columbia

MAY 5, 2025

President Trump retook the White House in the midst of a booming transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. While fossil fuels still generated approximately 58% of electricity nationwide, wind and solar generated at least 33% of electricity in ten states. To read other posts from the series, click here.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

The latest auction resulted in this generation mix —with 67% of the generation in PJM being from fossil fuels, with gas being the largest source. summit for a proposed energy siting board that includes unaccountable private sector board members and that would take away approval powers from local governments. 11 Hearing On A.I.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Here are 204 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 7, 2025

These include rolling back EPA standards to cut power plant carbon emissions, expanding fossil fuel production and use, and also undermining our ability to prepare for and respond to events like Hurricane Helene which devastated Western North Carolina last year. These are astoundingly shameful proposals.

Climate Change

Law Columbia

APRIL 28, 2025

And the Department of Interior is seeking to slash the time it spends on environmental reviews for fossil fuel projects down to a month or less. And regulatory decisions cannot be based on political factors at odds with the governing statutes. The foreshadowed deregulation to come will vastly expand on efforts already underway.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2025

Yaw Wants A Program Like This In PA] -- Better Path Coalition Hosts May 21 Webinar On Regional Water Use Policy And Siting Data Center Facilities [PaEN] -- John Quigley: Are Merchant Fossil Fuel Plants Uneconomical?

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

Here are 146 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

Conservation

Law Columbia

AUGUST 8, 2025

On June 17, 2025, EPA published a proposed rule to either repeal entirely, or significantly revise, a rule issued in 2024 which set performance standards for fossil fuel-fired power plants to limit their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This week, the Sabin Center filed three comment letters opposing the proposal.

Clean Air Act

Law Columbia

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Several states and industry groups are challenging EPA’s 2024 rules which set greenhouse gas emissions limits for certain fossil fuel power plants nationwide (referred to here as the Power Plant Rules). EPA that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases fall within the Clean Air Act’s capacious definition of “air pollutant.”

2024

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2025

While the shifts in freight systems in response to the boom in e-commerce have led to many efficiencies, they have also influenced a significant rise in the number of new mega-warehousescrucial hubs in this new system of freight and commerce, but magnets for highly polluting heavy-duty trucks and freight equipment.

Ground-Level Ozone

Legal Planet

APRIL 15, 2025

fossil fuel production, according to lots of reporting based on budget documents. Energy March marked the first month ever where fossil fuels made up less than half of U.S. I wrote a profile of two UCLA Law students who helped write a new state bill that targets air pollution from aggregate recycling facilities.

Law

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

This program provides opportunities for property owners with unwanted or unused wells on their property to receive an assistance grant to plug relatively less complex orphan wells, while DEP focuses efforts on tackling higher priority and more difficult orphan well plugging projects.

Technology

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 29, 2025

Its not a new phenomenon in the federal government; studies show examples of political interference in science starting in the 1950s. Imagine, for example, if a federal research study found that a certain chemical released from burning fossil fuels is harmful to the environment and to public health.

Politics

Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2025

This was in Californias Central Valley around 1990 when drought conditions flared and the federal government cut water deliveries. What if I told you there is a popular government program that costs less money to run than it saves American consumers on their utility bills? What was the news story? Electricity!

Fossil Fuels

Law Columbia

MAY 1, 2025

Also on January 20, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14151 , Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing , which directed agencies to terminate all environmental justice offices, positions, programs, and activities within sixty days. EPAs actions have been particularly numerous and newsworthy.

Government

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

This is despite the agencys own analysis showing the rules would save consumers $23 billion in fuel costs and result in annual health costs benefits of $13 billion from reduced air pollution. The obvious goal is to plunder more public land and water for private profit for the fossil fuel and mining industries.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 1, 2025

Any call for more studies should not preclude swift and meaningful action on the part of our government. Shapiro and his administration to recognize the preponderance of evidence that already exists and take reasonable steps to defend the health of our residents from oil and gas pollution. Now is the time for Gov. Thats their job.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Susquehanna County [PaEN] -- Scranton Times: PA American To Provide Clean Drinking Water In Dimock To Replace Fracking-Contaminated Private Wells [ PDF of Article ] -- WVIA: PA American Water: Dimock Twp. Shapiro Touts Capping Of 300th Conventional Oil & Gas Well At North Franklin Twp.,

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

NewsClips - Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline Leak: -- WHYY: Bucks County Residents Continue To Press For Shutdown Of Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline; Bucks County District Attorney Referred Incident To State Attorney Generals Office -- Courier Times: PA State Attorney General Investigates Potential Environmental Crimes Amid Energy Transfer/Sunoco Pipeline (..)

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards: -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 8 to 14 -- 9 More Abandoned Conventional Wells; Emergency Access To Gas Storage Area Well Blocked; Now 32 Abandoned Shale Gas Wells This Year [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - March 15 (..)

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

He’s right: The nonpartisan Senate parliamentarian and an independent government watchdog literally said it couldn’t be done, because Congress can’t use the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to revoke EPA waivers. “They said it couldn’t be done,” Trump said at the White House signing (before giving the podium to an oil executive).

Clean Air Act

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

Here are 126 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

Conservation

Law Columbia

MAY 1, 2025

However, other steps taken have meaningfully undermined federal government policy and expertise on carbon removal. Given this incoherence, those interested in facilitative carbon management policy are likely to look to state governments. For more on the regulations, and their connection to carbon capture, see the blog post here.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

Here are 153 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2025

PA Bulletin, page 2132 ) Air Quality Permits - Issued -- Range Resources Appalachia, LLC - Laurel Hill Shale Gas Pad Compressor Station: DEP issued an Air Quality Plan Approval covering multiple sources of air pollution at the facility located in Jackson Twp., Received Dec. Lycoming County. Received Jan. Received Feb.

Natural Gas