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Sen. Bartolotta, Sen. Yaw Announce Bill To Withhold Gas Drilling Impact Fees To Municipalities That Set More Protective Standards On Natural Gas Development Than State Law, And While There Is a Legal Challenge To Local Restrictions

PA Environment Daily

Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming) announced plans to introduce legislation to prohibit municipalities from receiving Act 13 drilling impact fees if they set more protective standards on the development of natural gas than required in state or federal law and while a challenge to local restrictions is being litigated. Read more here.

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Not Just About the Climate

Legal Planet

As we clean up our energy system, we simultaneously reduce the tons of pollutants we now produce from burning coal, oil, and natural gas. Pollution from these sources kills thousands of Americans a year and millions of people globally. The disadvantaged bear the heaviest burden from air pollution today.

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Friday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 11.1.24

PA Environment Daily

DEP Advisory: DEP is migrating its website to a new platform to launch in mid-December. Bat Stories; Bat Trivia; Witch-Hazel; News Around The Watershed -- Penn State Extension: The Value Of Bats To Crop Production And Revenue -- Delaware RiverKeeper Nov.

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Don’t Believe the Lies: Five Facts to Consider as the UN’s COP27 Comes to a Close

Union of Concerned Scientists

They obviously include climate change, but it also include health impacts from air pollution and water pollution. Hydrogen infrastructure is not the same as natural gas infrastructure. degrees goal is threatened by political inaction. The current carbon-based energy system has serious downsides.

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Senate Appropriations Set To Consider $106.6 Million In Annual ‘Forever’ Taxpayer Subsidies For Use Of Natural Gas, Hydrogen

PA Environment Daily

million in annual taxpayer subsidies to manufacturing and other businesses that use natural gas and hydrogen in their operations forever into the future. It seems clear the tax credits are an attempt to try to make natural gas competitive again through taxpayers subsidies after U.S.

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LA’s big step toward building electrification

Legal Planet

This means that, with few exceptions, new buildings will need to exclusively use electric appliances, and will not be allowed to contain any fossil-fuel infrastructure, like natural-gas lines. All-electric as the new normal.

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Saturday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 11.2.24

PA Environment Daily

10 Hearing On A State Air Quality Implementation Plan Amendment For Holcim Solutions & Products Plant In Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- State Now Accepting Applications For Low-Income Home Energy Assistance [PaEN] -- PPL Utilities Increases Price Of Electricity Dec. Cents/kWH Up From 10.04 Cents/kWH -- DEP Awards $18.9 Ohio- $3.05