Environmental News Bits

APRIL 15, 2022

The experiences of Solvay, BASF and Chemours illustrate how chemical companies are refining their strategies to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and, ultimately, become carbon neutral, i.e., have net zero emissions. Read the full story in Chemical Processing.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 31, 2025

The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change underscores the urgent need the advance carbon dioxide removal (CDR) as a complement to (but not a substitute for) emissions reductions. Carbon dioxide naturally moves between the atmosphere and the oceans surface in an attempt to achieve equilibrium.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2025

Because plastics are produced from fossil fuels the lifecycle of plastics has a huge carbon dioxide footprint and is a driver of climate change. If EPA fails to include microplastics in the UCMR 6, it will mean years of delay on this known and rising public health threat.

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Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

By Phil McKenna The Environmental Protection Agency is drastically undervaluing the potency of methane as a greenhouse gas when the agency compares methane’s climate impact to that of carbon dioxide, a new study concludes.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2021

The government’s bid to move ahead with the project coincides with the release of an alarming study, published in the journal Nature , that shows certain regions of the Amazon emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Now the same district court has gone further, again in favor of environmental groups but now against Royal Dutch Shell (“Shell”) , the world’s largest non-state-owned fossil fuel company. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. In the US, for instance, Massachusetts v.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 3, 2024

On September 27, ADM notified EPA they would be temporarily pausing carbon dioxide inspections after discovering a potential brine fluid leak in their second monitoring well. Local officials found out about the leaks on September 13 based on news media reports. Read more here. Read more here.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Sabin Center published a new report today recommending actions that federal agencies could take to ensure safe and responsible permitting and regulation of ocean carbon dioxide removal (CDR) research in U.S. A variety of ocean-based CDR approaches—i.e., Those activities could raise a host of legal issues. and the U.S.

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Law Columbia

JULY 14, 2022

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) will be needed, alongside deep emissions cuts, to achieve global temperature goals. o C or 2 o c, in line with the Paris Agreement, global carbon dioxide emissions must reach net-zero between 2050 and the early 2070s. Environmental Protection Agency under the MPRSA.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

The Treasury Department, in collaboration with the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency, is responsible for protecting against such outcomes by developing guidance for tax credit implementation to ensure qualifying “clean” hydrogen is truly clean.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In New York state, voters have a chance to enshrine environmental protections in their state constitution, which could revive a legal movement that flourished in the United States a half-century ago. Environmental Protection Agency and passed landmark environmental laws to protect air, land, and water.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, estimated to be 80 times more damaging to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide but not as long lasting. She and her team of volunteers have found more than 1,000 lost and unplugged oil and gas wells, which they promptly reported to the state Department of Environmental Protection.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The Sabin Center wrapped up Climate Week NYC last Friday with an event exploring the opportunities and challenges posed by ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). through a federal statute known as the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act (MPRSA). It is not hard to see why. ground rock) into the ocean?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

That’s why, since the price spike, the industry has doubled down on lobbying for weaker environmental protections to clear the way for more oil and gas production and the further lock-in of gas pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure. Methane is also a fast-acting greenhouse gas in terms of its impact on the climate.

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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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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 23, 2022

Coal-fired power plants release carbon dioxide, mercury, and other emissions that can harm human health. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently reported that emissions from power plants have increased from 2020 to 2021, reflecting growth in coal-fired power generation.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 17, 2023

Over the year, those plants emitted 661 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, more than 13% of the US’s energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency is currently updating multiple pollution standards for new and existing fossil fuel-fired power plants.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Compared to carbon dioxide (CO2), methane doesn’t linger for long in the atmosphere after being emitted. Methane gas has devastating effects on the climate system and its extraction and combustion generate numerous harms to human health. But during the decade it does linger, its heat-trapping potential is 80x stronger than CO2.

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Law and Environment

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

On September 21, 2023, the Biden administration outlined plans to expand federal agencies’ consideration of the social cost of carbon—a metric for the economic cost of each additional ton of carbon dioxide emitted to the atmosphere. The directive is, nonetheless, significant.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Steep reductions in emissions of methane—which traps 81 times as much heat as carbon dioxide in the first 20 years in the atmosphere—are among the most important steps for slowing climate change in the short term. By Phil McKenna The U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

One strategy is to counterbalance carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that contribute to climate change by drawing an equal amount of carbon out of the atmosphere, such as through planting trees. By Department of Conservation & Natural Resources Efforts to slow or stop global warming involve many strategies working together.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2023

This primacy effort is an accelerant to the burden shouldered by Pennsylvanians of a deficient permitting system that favors polluters over community health and safety. North Dakota and Wyoming are the only states that have primacy over the Class VI program.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

It is 80 times stronger than carbon dioxide (CO2) at trapping heat on short timescales. Domestically, the plan hinges on a newly proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule to cut methane emissions from oil and gas production. But its short lifetime in the atmosphere is also a reason for hope.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Since 2010, there have been 76 incidents involving carbon dioxide pipelines in the US. For example, a carbon dioxide pipeline exploded in Satartia, Mississippi in 2020 and a carbon dioxide pipeline leaked in Louisiana in April 2024.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday is finalizing a rule aimed at significantly cutting the use of a type of greenhouse gases called hydrofluorocarbons that are used in refrigeration. Hydrofluorocarbons, also known as HFCs, can have up to 14,800 times the climate impact of carbon dioxide.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 20, 2021

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, landfills such as this one on the edge of Orlando are among the nation’s largest sources of methane, a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide and a major contributor to global warming. Read the full story from NPR. A seminal U.N.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

In 2021 alone, the plants slated for retirement emitted more than 28,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxides (NO x ), 32,000 tonnes of sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ), and 51 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), according to EIA data.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

We know that over 135 years, 88 fossil fuel producers contributed approximately: 61% of the observed rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide 52% of the rise in global average temperature 34% of global sea level rise 55% of the increase in ocean acidification Fisheries, including lobsters, are responding to the warming by moving elsewhere.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

Fossil fuel power plant owners are facing increased accountability for their air and water pollution, including from a new round of environmental and public health protections that are being rolled out by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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The Energy Law

MARCH 28, 2022

Enhanced Recovery: Use of carbon dioxide for enhanced hydrocarbon recovery requires the creation of a unit by the Commissioner of Conservation for the purpose of secondary or tertiary recovery under La. Rather, it is the approval to use a specific reservoir for injection and storage of carbon dioxide. 30:1101-1111).

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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 deeply troubled by this decision that undermines the authority of the very agency tasked with the mission ‘to protect human health and the environment.’ On June 30, the U.S. Related Articles: -- U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency announced its annual Top Cities list, spotlighting the cities with the greatest number of ENERGY STAR certified commercial and multifamily buildings last year. On May 22, the U.S. Philadelphia made the list at #23 with 98 buildings.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 24, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the May 25 PA Bulletin inviting comments on a Scrubgrass Reclamation Company LP [Stronghold Digital Mining, Inc.]

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

On February 22, the Department of Environmental Protection reported the Shell Petrochemical Plant in Beaver County paid an additional $2,671,044.75 in civil penalties for air quality violations occurring after the May 24, 2023 consent order. b of the May 24, 2023 Consent Order and Agreement-- -- $521,549.62

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2024

On April 9, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it has assessed significant civil penalties totaling $1,114,000 from Equitrans, L.P. The impact of methane is over 25 times greater than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Currently, most hydrogen is produced by steam reforming of methane in natural gas (‘gray hydrogen’), with high carbon dioxide emissions. Increasingly, many propose using carbon capture and storage to reduce these emissions, producing so-called ‘blue hydrogen,’ frequently promoted as low emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2023

On December 21, Earthjustice , on behalf of Scrubgrass Creek Watershed Association and PennFuture , announced they have filed an appeal with the Environmental Hearing Board to overturn or modify DEPs decision to allow the Stronghold Digital Mining, Inc. Click Here for a copy of the appeal.

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