PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2022

Sharif Street (D-Philadelphia) introduced Senate Bill 979 which amends the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard Act to establish a new Clean Energy Standard and encourage investment in carbon capture technology to achieve net-zero carbon emissions from power plants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 11, 2023

We estimated the potential of these buffer areas to contribute to reductions in water use, pesticide use, toxic nitrate leaching, and greenhouse gas emissions. Cropland repurposing that led to the reduction of fertilizer use and nitrate leaching would result in a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions (mostly nitrous oxide) equivalent to 2.2

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2023

Today, hydrogen technology has more momentum than ever , driven by the promise of a clean, carbon-free energy source, deployable at scales necessary to decarbonize large sectors of the economy. Through a series of reactions––which usually take place at a refinery––steam and methane react to produce hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

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Physics World

MAY 17, 2022

In this webinar, Dr Reza Javaherdashti will discuss the relationship between the efficient management of corrosion protection and clean-energy strategies. Any factor that can assist “clean-energy-based strategies” has to be seriously considered. One of the most interesting of these factors is corrosion management.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants under the Clean Air Act. We are therefore calling on Congress to immediately pass the $555 billion in clean energy and climate investments included in the reconciliation bill. On June 30, the U.S. Related Articles: -- U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 16, 2023

Geoffrey Pyatt, assistant secretary for energy resources at the U.S. Department of State and strong advocate for the importance of clean energy cooperation at the local, state, federal and global levels, is also touring the new facility later that day. Click Here for a video tour of the project while it was under construction.

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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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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The court found that complainants’ fundamental rights were not violated preemptively because the federal legislator, not the state legislatures, are subject to a carbon dioxide emissions budget. In Mexico, challenges to the government’s backsliding on incentives to renewable energy have failed to advance. In Smith v.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

increase in carbon dioxide pollution from the Commonwealth’s power plants between 2020 and 2021. Pennsylvania’s power generation sector is one of the nation’s largest — and thus, also, one of the biggest emitters of climate-changing greenhouse gases. Environmental Protection Agency show a startling 9.6%

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Instead, the legislation defined “carbon-free” as “a technology that generates electricity without emitting carbon dioxide.” Lawmakers … Continue reading What’s carbon-free? Utility regulators to decide what qualifies under state’s clean energy law

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 11, 2022

By Jennifer Matthews, Penn State News Upcycling plastic waste into graphite, used in electric vehicles and renewable energy storage, could positively contribute to the global economy, preserving resources, saving energy and reducing carbon dioxide emissions, according to Penn State researchers.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Some in the industry see the warming as an opportunity, as passages through the Arctic open for longer periods, even going so far as to claim there will be lower overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the shorter voyages. There is no time for further delays. Maritime shipping must do its part to tackle climate change.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 20, 2021

DEP’s Climate Change Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet August 24 to review the latest Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory for Pennsylvania and hear an overview of DEP’s Energy Office Clean Energy Program Plan. Also on the meeting agenda-- -- Overview Of DEP’s Energy Office Clean Energy Program Plan - Nov.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

They are useful tools for incentivizing things that we want more of – like renewable energy. That’s what the proposed clean energy tax credit does. Hydrogen, like electricity, is an energy carrier – it can be used to store and deliver usable energy, for example to a cement or steel factory or to produce fertilizer.

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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 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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Clean Energy Law

MAY 24, 2022

Assembly Bill (AB) 32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32), required CARB to develop a scoping plan, to be updated at least once every five years, that describes the approach California will take to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions to achieve the goal of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2021

"PPL is pursuing clear goals to advance a sustainable energy future for the customers and communities we serve," said Vincent Sorgi, president and chief executive officer of PPL Corporation. "As

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Under Governor Wolf, we’ve accelerated and expanded work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to equip Pennsylvania’s communities, businesses, and individual residents to address climate change impacts occurring now and projected for the near future. Pennsylvania’s greenhouse gas emissions are tracked yearly.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

On April 7, the Department of Environmental Protection appealed the April 6 Commonwealth Court order blocking publication of the final regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to the PA Supreme Court. Read more here. Read more here.

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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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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This development comes at a time when facilities across the country are looking to address their greenhouse gas emissions through CCS projects but have been facing permitting delays from EPA. EPA is the primary authority for Class VI well permits, which are essential for the underground storage of carbon dioxide (CO2).

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2022

“Members of industry and labor, understandably, see vast potential for our commonwealth’s economy and job growth, while environmentalists questioned whether this is an actual pathway to clean energy or a detour away from embracing renewable energy. Meanwhile, experts from environmental groups raised concerns. “The

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Clean Energy Law

MARCH 11, 2021

In December 2018, after having successfully reduced greenhouse gas emissions from the power sector by 53.3%, a majority of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) jurisdictions announced plans to design a program to address carbon emissions from the combustion of transportation fuels. Background.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Pennsylvania has a long legacy as an energy leader – and these wells are proof of that. Orphan wells can leak methane, a potent greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere and pollute groundwater. 16 In-Person Program In Waynesburg, Greene County On Protecting Public Health, Resources From Shale Gas Development [PaEN] -- Sen.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Similarly, the province’s subsidy to Emerald—the owner of the garbage incinerator in Peel—in the name of clean energy and innovation is terrible double speak. Instead, it will lock in polluting fossil fuel infrastructure for decades. Burning waste pollutes the air and warms the climate.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 17, 2024

As one of the largest energy producers in the country with a legacy of driving American industry forward, Pennsylvania is well positioned to lead in the clean energy transition,” said John Carlson, Senior Northeast Regional Policy Manager at CATF. “We million to scale up their carbon dioxide removal technologies.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 4, 2021

It is caused by human activity and carbon emissions. She said to address these challenges, she is inviting her Senate colleagues to co-sponsor legislation to invest the proceeds from the proposed Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) program. percent to the Energy Communities Trust Fund; -- 12.5 The science is clear.

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Greenbuilding Law

OCTOBER 29, 2023

All information documenting how. the claim was determined to be accurate or actually accomplished, and how interim progress toward that goal is being measured.”

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

have long demonstrated leadership on climate change, with more than 170 of them having set targets to phase out fossil energy and many others committing to net zero greenhouse gas emissions. Cities around the U.S. A new Sabin Center report, Cities Climate Law: A Legal Framework for Local Action in the U.S. ,

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Getting more zero- and low-emission vehicles on the road in Pennsylvania helps reduce harmful air pollutants, including nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, particulate matter, and volatile organic compounds. It also helps lower the level of carbon dioxide, helping to address climate change. The deadline is December 15.

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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. Blue hydrogen has a very, very large greenhouse gas footprint.” And it’s still rising. The external threat is clear. But many of us are turning our attention away.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 26, 2023

But total emissions of greenhouse gases are around 50Gt of CO 2 ‘equivalents’. Limits on sustainable removals arise primarily in requirements for land, water, materials and clean energy. Removing 2-5Gt of CO 2 each year is still a big undertaking. Many climate model scenarios involve residual emissions of 10-20 Gt-pa.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2022

The amount of solar energy at K-12 schools in Pennsylvania doubled since 2020, according to a new statewide report on schools' adoption of solar published by Generation180 , a clean energy nonprofit. They anticipate energy cost savings of $11 million over the 40-year life expectancy of the solar panels.

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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 percent to the Energy Communities Trust Fund; -- 12.5 At least $12.5 At least $12.5 Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2022

On March 30, the House voted 126 to 72 to pass House Bill 637 (Struzzi-R-Indiana) designed to block the final DEP regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants that’s consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Read more here. At least $12.5 At least $12.5 Read more here.

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