PA Environment Daily

JULY 22, 2024

Josh Shapiro announced last week he signed House Bill 1032 (Fiedler-D- Philadelphia) and Senate Bill 831 (Yaw-R-Lycoming) into law, establishing the Solar for Schools program and creating a regulatory framework for carbon capture, utilization, and geologic sequestration (CCUS) in the Commonwealth. NewsClips: -- Sen.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The Ministry of the Environment appealed on points of law to the Supreme Administrative Court. The strategy required the UK Government to set and meet legally binding targets to reduce carbon emissions. The ruling clarifies requirements for standing under primary EU law to challenge a Commission regulation. In Smith v.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2024

These measures led to a reduction of 78,650 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent, which is equal to the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from 15,878 gas-powered passenger vehicles driven for one year or 182,909,597 miles. From the EPA GHG Equivalence Calculator as of Dec.

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The Energy Law

JUNE 21, 2022

These AOOG wells often emit methane, a greenhouse gas that is considered 25 to 84 times more potent, per ton, than carbon dioxide. The EPA conservatively estimates that annual methane emissions from known AOOG wells are equivalent to greenhouse gas emissions from 2.1 million vehicles per year.

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HumanNature

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The Inflation Reduction Act, President Joe Biden’s signature piece of legislation passed into law in 2022, allocated $19.5 Mechanisms of climate mitigation via soil carbon sequestration At the root of the excitement around soils is their ability to hold on to carbon, potentially drawing it out of the atmosphere and locking it away.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The US puts a dollar figure on the damage caused by carbon emissions, but new research finds it’s too low, meaning the benefits of reducing emissions are being underestimated. What is the social cost of carbon? SCC is a dollar estimate of the long-term damage caused by emitting a tonne of carbon dioxide in a given year.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The good news is that thanks to unprecedented federal funding, financing and incentives in the [federal] Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act, we have begun to deploy the technologies and approaches needed to advance industrial decarbonization across the country and especially here in Pennsylvania and the Appalachian Region.

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Greenbuilding Law

DECEMBER 12, 2021

I am excited to be presenting a one hour virtual program, “ESG an Emergent and Fast Growing Area of the Law” Not just for lawyers, this Tuesday, December 14 at noon. In 2009 the King of Bhutan proclaimed his Himalayan country was ‘carbon negative’ because all of its power was hydroelectric or solar buttressed with large forested areas.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2023

As a goal net-zero is achieved when any residual carbon emissions are counter-balanced fully by dedicated carbon removal. Nonetheless there is a desperate need to translate such recommendations into law and policy. The global stampede to adopt net-zero climate goals continues unabated.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2023

As of June 20, 2023, the amount of CO2 [carbon dioxide] in the atmosphere has now risen to 421 parts per million, way past the level of 350 ppm considered safe. Because fossil fuels are used both to produce blue hydrogen and to operate its carbon capture technology, its carbon emissions are quite high.

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 26, 2020

federal tax credits were recently expanded to provide for $35/ton or $50/ton of CO₂ emissions sequestered depending on the storage location. Sharon Hewitt) updates the Louisiana Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act which is designed to pave the way for a CCS market in Louisiana. Section 45Q U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

So when a lot of these regulated utility laws were established the cost of the commodity is a pass through, and to protect consumers a lot of us put laws on the books that said you have to be a least cost consumer, or least cost procurer of gas, which means that we are minimizing the cost to our consumers. “So

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

What is Environmental Law? Humanity has been aware of its environment far longer than there have been laws to protect environments. However, the term “environmental law” does not just cover government legislation. These are not “laws” per se but act as such within a regulatory framework. Useful Environmental Law Terms.

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Vermont Law

JULY 31, 2023

Military Pollution is a Reason for Agencies to Implement the Global Social Cost of Carbon By Mariah Bowman , J.D. Candidate, 2024, Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law July 31, 2023 The social cost of carbon (SCC) has been the basis for policies such as tax credits for carbon capture technology and zero-emissions credits.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Here in New York, for example, we already have three forms of more or less direct carbon pricing. The most direct of these is imposed on certain fossil fuel power plants by requiring them to purchase carbon dioxide emissions allowances as part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 8, 2022

Existing Statutory Authority With respect to whether the Environmental Quality Board had authority under state law to promulgate the regulation-- ‘The Court cannot conclude that Petitioners’ argument in this regard presents a substantial legal question, let alone establishes a clear right to relief or a likelihood of prevailing on the merits.’

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The Energy Law

OCTOBER 26, 2020

emissions sequestered depending on the storage location. Sharon Hewitt) updates the Louisiana Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act which is designed to pave the way for a CCS market in Louisiana. On the state level, Act No. 61 of the 2020 Regular Legislative Session (Senate Bill 353, by Sen.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 23, 2022

In 2017 the Speaker of the Swedish Riksdag announced it was the first nation to enshrine a ‘net zero by 2045’ pledge into law, but the law actually only requires 5 year reports on progress. all emissions or only greenhouse gases or just carbon dioxide or?). and such may be more philosophy than physics).

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Greenbuilding Law

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Embodied carbon is particularly important because it contributes more climate changing emissions during construction than 30 years of operational carbon from a typical newly constructed LEED certified office building! It is widely accepted that existing buildings generate nearly 40% of annual global carbon emissions.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 5, 2024

The stakes are high: whatever version of the code emerges from the appeals process is likely to become law in much of the United States at some point over the coming years. The ICC’s Model Codes Under State Law The actual building codes enforceable in a given U.S. jurisdiction are set under state or local law.

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

to reducing their carbon emissions. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. carbon dioxide. Furthermore, the specific effects of carbon emissions on global climate change are also. would suggest increasing the price of carbon. jointly committed.

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Law Columbia

JULY 3, 2023

To achieve this result, the average addressee expects the [carbon dioxide] emissions generated by the tournament, determined according to definitive and generally accepted measurement methods, to be fully offset.”

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 6, 2015

In his June 18 column What Pope Francis Gets Wrong about Climate Change he cites paragraph 171, writing: “The ‘carbon credits’ strategy Francis refers to, more commonly called ‘cap and trade,’ would put a price on emitting carbon dioxide, essentially building the social costs of pollution into the sticker price of goods and services.”.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The following article is part of an Eco-Perspective special in which the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law is collaborating with the VLS COP21 Observer Delegation. This is, for example, evident in viewing the relationship between economic growth and carbon emissions over the past few hundred years. By Madhavi Venkatesan.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 18, 2023

The law provides $140 billion in tax incentives, direct loans, and grants to replace fossil fuels with cleaner renewable energy that lowers emissions of carbon dioxide. Gevo asserts its “farm-to-flight” project will release 80 percent less carbon dioxide to the atmosphere than ethanol produced by a conventional plant.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

Collectively, the award-winning projects engaged hundreds of partners and achieved the following results: -- Grew and donated nearly 10,000 lbs. It is a generational opportunity for farmers, and an extraordinary time to be working in conservation.

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Candidate at UCLA Law (2L) Last week, Assemblymember Dr. Joaquin Arambula introduced AB 2623 , a bill designed to guard California communities against the dangers of transporting carbon dioxide in pipelines. You might be familiar with carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Each month, Arnold & Porter and the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law collect and summarize developments in climate-related litigation, which we also add to our U.S. The court rejected Exxon’s argument that it could withhold documents based on an accountant-client privilege under Texas law. and non-U.S. Avista Corp.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Acknowledging that the United States is a leading contributor to carbon emissions, the Biden administration has committed to cutting US emissions 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Stringent policies and safeguards are needed to avoid, minimize and mitigate these impacts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 18, 2023

Like nitrogen dioxide, methane combines with other pollutants to form ground-level ozone—more commonly known as smog—and it is a significantly more potent global warming pollutant than carbon dioxide. Only Washington has enacted a similar law and New York Gov. Cutting the pipeline.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 10, 2023

thus, it is crucial that we address carbon emissions from power plants. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently published a proposed rule which would limit carbon pollution from fossil fuel burning power plants, a move which is critically important, statutorily required, and long overdue.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 17, 2023

The proposal requires companies to report information related to “Scope 1” direct carbon emissions (think fuel use and greenhouse gases), “Scope 2” indirect carbon emissions (e.g., purchased energy and electricity), and for some companies to report on information related to “Scope 3” carbon emissions (i.e.,

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Circle of Blue

MAY 31, 2022

Minnesota moves to regulate pipelines transporting liquid carbon dioxide. The New York State Assembly is considering some of the most ambitious packaging reduction laws in the country, Grist reports. Minnesota Moves to Regulate Liquid Carbon Dioxide Pipelines. Laura Gersony, Fresh Editor. Other News.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

EPA does have authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the federal Clean Air Act and the Court’s ruling did not address that existing authority. Wolf’s existing authority under Pennsylvania law to enter the Commonwealth into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative," according to PennFuture.

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Physics World

APRIL 22, 2021

Preliminary estimates from satellite data indicate that global atmospheric carbon dioxide level increased by 0.6%, a slightly lower rate of increase than in recent years. Shortly ahead of the summit, the UK government announced that it would set in law a target to cut carbon emissions by 78% by 2035 compared to 1990 levels.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2025

Kyle Donahue (D-Lackawanna) [ co-sponsor memo ] : After nearly 20 years, Pennsylvania must reform Act 129, the law that provides rebates and incentives to buy new energy efficient appliances and other ways to reduce electricity needs over time which in turn, leads to lower electricity prices. I applaud Gov. We thank Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Wants To Slash Carbon Emissions From Power Plants, Natural Gas Is In The Way -- AP: U.S. Wolf Spends Thousands On Private Law Firms But Won’t Disclose Why -- Sen. Wolf -- Spotlight PA: Gov.

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