PA Environment Daily

JUNE 26, 2024

Diversification Of Energy Sources Is The Key To Prevent Spikes, Lower Prices Read more here. -- Bloomberg: Is Natural Gas A Fossil Fuel Trap Or A Bridge To Clean Energy? Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Recent science doesn’t support this optimism, as new studies show that the increased release of Black Carbon, one of the most potent climate change forcers—as well as soot, carbon dioxide, methane and ozone from more traffic in the Arctic—could lead to a 20% increase in the global heating that is causing warmer ocean temperatures.

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Washington Nature

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This is a direct result of excessive greenhouse gas emissions, including carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4), and the exploitation of natural resources for capitalistic gain. This can happen naturally, as growing trees and plants turn CO2 into biomass—this is the foundational premise of Natural Climate Solutions.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

18 - Energy Industry And Its Impacts On Freshwater Resources [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension To Host Feb. 18 - Energy Industry And Its Impacts On Freshwater Resources [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension To Host Feb.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 11, 2023

In other words, the water conservation efforts made by farmers have been used (especially by large corporations) as a justification to be more unsustainable with California’s water use. million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. The good news is we know the problem. The revenue for the following 30 years would be $15.8

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 21, 2023

EPA; Senate Bill 832 (Yaw-R-Lycoming) would establish the Independent Energy Information Office to provide “impartial, timely and data driven analysis to guide the state in determining and meeting future energy needs.” Rules Committee Room. No Video Coverage. Room 8E-B East Wing. Click Here to watch live. DOE Awards PA $16.2

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

Dave Luebke, technical director of the Direct Air Capture Center at the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh. Dr. Leubke will explain the basics of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and how both point-source CCS and direct air capture (DAC) can help the U.S. reduce its carbon dioxide (CO2) atmospheric levels.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2022

Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming), Majority Chair of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee, is circulating a co-sponsor memo asking his colleagues to sponsor the Pennsylvania Geologic Storage of Carbon Dioxide Act. billion metric tons of carbon dioxide underground.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2023

Visit the Better Path Coalition and the PA Climate Convergent Network websites for more information on upcoming events and programs.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2022

Here are 30 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. Thank you for your leadership! -- Sen.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 9, 2023

Methane’s Warming Potential : Methane, a colorless, odorless, and highly flammable gas that occurs abundantly in nature and from a variety of anthropogenic activities, has a considerably higher global warming potential than carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide emissions, on the other hand, arise almost exclusively from burning fossil fuels.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2023

Available Via Zoom -- WESA: Contest Asks PA Kids To Create Art About Tick Bite Prevention -- Pennsylvania's Clean Energy Economy Grew To Over 92,700 Jobs Since COVID Economic Crisis [PaEN] -- Erie News Now: U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 16, 2021

“Over 30,500 pro-life Christians submitted comments during Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection open comment period for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), urging the state to join RGGI in order to protect the health of vulnerable Pennsylvanians and to create clean energy jobs in the state. “In

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2024

28 Public Meeting On Encina Chemical Plastics Recycling Plant, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove , 7:00 p.m. -- PA Solar Center Webinar: Feb. 29 How Solar Can Save Your Business, Organization Money , Noon -- York Daily Record: Come Have A Say In Future Of New Susquehanna Riverlands State Park Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

As a large state and an energy giant, Pennsylvania is one of the biggest generators of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. We emitted about 269 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2018 (the latest year for which data are available), with industry, electricity production, and transportation the largest sources.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

million for sewer and water infrastructure and stormwater mitigation, including riparian planting for carbon dioxide reduction, stream buffering and streambank restoration. -- $62.5 Street’s Senate Bill 979 clean energy standard, it is a small step forward in recognizing climate change is real by PA Republicans.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2024

12 -- Lehigh Valley Wildlands Conservancy Highlights October Events: Oct. 20 Lecture, Book Signing Event For Cradle Of Conservation, An Environmental History of Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- Penn State Center For Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training Hosts Oct. 28 , 4:00 p.m. -- Philadelphia Solar Energy Assn.:

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Opportunities to learn more about environmental and energy issues affecting Pennsylvania for students and adults-- Awards/Recognition -- Courier Express: Fmr. 19 EarthTalks Webinar: The Economic Impact Of Carbon Emission Trading Scheme On Building Retrofits [PaEN] -- PA Solar Center, Partners Host Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2022

million for sewer and water infrastructure and stormwater mitigation, including riparian planting for carbon dioxide reduction, stream buffering and streambank restoration. -- $62.5 At least $12.5 million is to be used for methane abatement projects from plugging abandoned gas wells. -- $62.5 At least $12.5

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Rob Mercuri Presents Allegheny County Resident Lynn Appman With Keep PA Beautiful Community Pride Award [PaEN] -- Penn State Ranks 4th In US In 2024 QS World University Rankings For Sustainability -- Philadelphia Solar Energy Assn. 13 [PaEN] -- PA Firefly Festival Update: Applications For 2024 Firefly Festival Ticket Lottery Available Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 5, 2021

10 - How Federal Clean Energy Policies May Expand PA’s Solar Future. 20 Webinar: Conserve Energy & Reduce Costs With Duquesne Light Company's Business Solutions Rebate Program. 20 Webinar: Conserve Energy & Reduce Costs With Duquesne Light Company's Business Solutions Rebate Program. 14 to Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 21, 2024

Set the Stage for Robust Carbon Capture and Storage Management Carbon capture and storage (CCS) could play a meaningful role in decarbonization of Pennsylvania’s industry and electric generation, and even help reduce existing atmospheric carbon dioxide through direct air capture.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 23, 2022

26 Get To Know The Clear Creek State Forest, Noon -- Conservation Groups Hold Oct. 21 In Allegheny National Forest -- LancasterOnline: Earth Day In October Event At Lancaster’s Musser Park Oct. 22-23 -- Penn State Oct. 27 Webinar To Celebrate PA's 3 New State Parks , 6:00 p.m. -- Penn State To Host Virtual International Symposium Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2022

. -- Guest Essay: Climate Change Demands Southwestern PA Transition To A New Low-Carbon Energy Reality - By Hilary Mercer , Shell Polymers/Pennsylvania Chemicals Project & Kevin Walker, President/CEO Duquesne Light [PaEN] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: McKinsey Report Outlines Steps Southwest PA, U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 4, 2022

Click Here To View Or Print The Entire July 4 PA Environment Digest 85 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA This Week’s Examples Of Going The WRONG WAY On Environmental, Energy Issues All Articles & NewsClips In This Week’s Digest By Topic Take Action Now!

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2024

As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people.” -- Article I, Section 27 Pennsylvania Constitution [It’s Not A Suggestion] Click Here To View Or Print The Entire October 7 PA Environment Digest NOTICE: PA Environment Digest, Daily Blog Will Not Publish Oct. 28 to Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 10, 2022

25 Susquehanna River Basin Commission Offers 3-Part Webinar Series On Groundwater Withdraw Requirements For Public Water Systems Delaware Highlands Conservancy Accepting Applications For Vanessa Van Gorder Memorial Scholarship Program Environmental Health Project: Feb. The January 10 PA Environment Digest is now available.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 14, 2024

Farmer -- Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy Highlights Youth Conservation Corps 50-Mile Paddling Perki-Bay Expedition In New Video [PaEN] -- Sen. 14 Hearing [If Requested] On Title V Air Quality Permit For Gas-fired Hummel Station Power Plant In Snyder County [PaEN] -- DEP To Hold Aug.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2021

Senate/House Agenda/Session Schedule/Bills Introduced Senate Agriculture Committee Meets June 7 On Bill Establishing On-Farm Conservation Program, If Funded House Committee Meets June 8 On Bill To Take Away DEP’s Authority To Adopt Carbon Pollution Reduction Programs House Environmental Committee Hearing June 22 On Pennsylvania CO2 And Climate Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

These impacts are only beginning to be understood, but preliminary analysis projects significant short-term climate impacts that can far exceed those of carbon dioxide. kilograms of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilogram of hydrogen production (2.5 19 Info Meeting On Carbon Capture Technology -- Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The number of supporters on this letter demonstrates the strength and breadth of public support for eschewing the Commonwealth's dependence on fossil fuels and for prioritizing an equitable transition to an economy fueled by clean energy and energy efficiency innovation. Resource Link: -- DCED: Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2022

But while energy has brought immense benefit to Pennsylvanians, it has also come at a terrible cost. “By By the 1890s, our forests were all but gone until the 1930s Civilian Conservation Corps replanted them. Coal fouled our air, water, and the lungs and hearts of workers and children alike.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2021

Energy The theme of missed opportunities held true with other legislation, notably on efforts to advance clean energy. There are also harmful bills in the legislature that would hamper our state’s move toward a clean energy economy, including SB119 and HB637. NewsClip: CourierT: PA Budget Earmarks $1.6

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

NREL’s 2022 Standard Scenarios study found that these federal incentives would accelerate the deployment of wind and solar, helping to reduce US power sector carbon dioxide emissions to 80 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Rooftop solar deployment, meanwhile, doesn’t require any land. times current levels by 2035.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

Utilities Commission (NCUC) to “take all reasonable steps” to achieve a 70% reduction in carbon dioxide ( CO 2 ) emissions from electric generating units (EGUs) by 2030 and achieve carbon neutrality for the utility generation system by 2050. January 22, 2023. A 2021 North Carolina law requires the N.C.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2024

On July 11, the House-- by a vote of 127 to 75 -- and the Senate-- by a vote of 37 to 12 -- passed and sent to the Governor Senate Bill 831 (Yaw-R- Lycoming) establishing a framework for authorizing the geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide through injection wells. Read more here. We have a vivid example from a natural source. "On

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Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Climate Law Could Make Midwest Water Contamination Worse Billions in clean energy incentives rely on raw materials from polluting corn and livestock. The statute also provides $18 billion for existing, decades old conservation programs. By Keith Schneider Circle of Blue February 8, 2023 President Biden, U.S. to fund its $19.5

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