Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Any day now, Minister Freeland is expected to introduce a giant new fossil fuel subsidy called the carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) investment tax credit. The government is breaking their own rules The government introduced new rules to end fossil fuel subsidies this summer. Let me tell you why.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Each credit one metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent pollution below the standard. I’ve written recently about why a Cap on Vegetable Oil-Based Fuels Will Stabilize and Strengthen California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard , which addresses the bio-based diesel credits. Source California Air Resources Board.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 7, 2024

Last week, Capital Power, a major energy company with natural gas, waste heat, wind, solar and, until this week, coal assets, announced that it’s scrapping plans for a $2.6 billion carbon capture facility at its Genesse power plant west of Edmonton. Carbon dioxide is an asphyxiant, meaning that it displaces the oxygen in the air.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Researchers engineered a strain of bacteria to break down carbon dioxide (CO2), converting it into commonly used, expensive industrial chemicals. The carbon-negative approach removes CO2 from the atmosphere and bypasses using fossil fuels to generate these chemicals. Read more →

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A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

of the world’s total carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, many airlines are considering carbon-capture-and-storage technologies and electric-powered planes. In April, Air Canada committed to investing $50 million in SAFs and other carbon-reducing technologies. Biomass and municipal waste.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 3, 2021

By Jennifer Matthews, Penn State News A new, environmentally friendly, single-step process has been developed to convert carbon dioxide into higher hydrocarbons using plasma, according to scientists and engineers. Finding a better way to convert waste carbon dioxide under mild conditions remains a major challenge in catalysis.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 12, 2023

One is a subsidy to Enbridge—a fossil fuel giant—to build a fossil fuel power plant. Instead, it will lock in polluting fossil fuel infrastructure for decades. Burning waste pollutes the air and warms the climate. That’s nearly a quarter of all of the household waste disposed of in the province.

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

Hydrogen may have lost the race to fuel electric cars but it looks a likely contender to replace fossil fuels in trucks, ships, planes and heavy industry. The Tokyo Olympics will be powered by a fuel with ambition – hydrogen. It is planning to replace fossil fuels with hydrogen in heavy industries such as steel-making.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2021

The process is a win-win for systems that can afford the upfront costs of these waste-to-energy technologies. And utilities can slash their net emissions at the same time, because the process reduces methane emissions from the sewage and displaces fossil fuel-powered energy. Using biogas for energy is not carbon neutral.

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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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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The notice of appeal states that the DEP's consent order and agreement with Scrubgrass fails to include protections required under the state Solid Waste Management Act and the federal Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) Rule. uses waste coal to fuel its operations, which results in large quantities of coal ash.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

This would include using materials more efficiently, reusing and recycling products and minimising waste. New production processes will be necessary, with low and zero-emissions electricity, hydrogen and carbon capture and storage (CCS) to reach net-zero.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 5, 2022

Steele, Executive Director Blue hydrogen is produced through an energy-intensive process that mixes methane gas with water to create carbon dioxide and hydrogen. The hydrogen becomes an available fuel while the carbon dioxide emissions are captured and stored underground.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 23, 2024

Offsets are tradable credits that polluters can purchase to compensate for a ton of carbon dioxide or the equivalent in greenhouse gasses, by investing in emissions-reducing environmental projects elsewhere. It is a scientific fact that greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels are causing climate change.

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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

Pleasant Twp., Westmoreland County -- The New Yorker Book Review: Searching For Unfamiliar Terrain In ‘The Nature Book’ By Tom Comitta -- Penn State Extension Hosting Series Of In-Person/Online Private Water Supply Education And Testing [PaEN] -- PA Dept.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 26, 2024

DEP Solid Waste Advisory Committee meeting. 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? Room 8E-B East Wing. Click Here to watch live. TODAY 10:00: Agenda Posted. Room 105 Rachel Carson Building.

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Ocean Conservancy

MARCH 2, 2022

We can decrease production of virgin plastic that comes from fossil fuels and pollutes our ocean as well. We can protect coastal habitats, like mangroves and sea grasses, which can serve as critical tools to guard communities from intensifying storms while also safely storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Ontario needs to do our part in reducing global emissions and phasing out fossil gas is a smart way to do it. Nearly a third of our current carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions come from burning fossil gas for electricity, home heating and other uses! food waste) for hard to decarbonize sectors like aviation and heavy industry.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2022

Fossil fuels aren't just the feedstock for those reactions; they also provide the heat and pressure that drive them. “By breaking the hydrocarbons in oil and natural gas into simpler compounds and then assembling those building blocks, scientists long ago learned to construct molecules of exquisite complexity.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 7, 2022

And also a disposing of the waste stream. Finally, this industry has fugitive emissions of methane and the burning of gas releases carbon dioxide. Further, agencies should appropriately classify waste streams based on the toxics they contain. Then drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Sending the gas through pipelines.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

School Campus Could Save $10 Million -- Scranton Times: Renewable Natural Gas Plant Operator At Keystone Landfill Begins Test Drilling For Underground Carbon Dioxide Storage -- Protecting Clean Water Together: Starting To Think About The Garden? Of Environmental Professionals Inviting Presentation Proposals For Annual Conference Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Waste Coal In July of 2021 a company by the name of Stronghold Digital Mining (Stronghold) filed an S-1 report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing plans to purchase three waste coal fired power plants and install 57,000 Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) dedicated to mining bitcoin.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

Waste Coal In July of 2021 a company by the name of Stronghold Digital Mining (Stronghold) filed an S-1 report with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosing plans to purchase three waste coal fired power plants and install 57,000 Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) dedicated to mining bitcoin.

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Cresforum

JANUARY 16, 2024

Some observers say dealing with nuclear waste is key to the future of nuclear power development, an issue that the legislation speaks to regarding encouraging innovative reactor designs that use spent nuclear fuel. Title II of H.R. 6544 is focused on the deployment of advanced nuclear reactors.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Methane is particularly dangerous because it is up to 86 times more potent than carbon dioxide – warming our planet and contributing to air pollution that damages our lungs and our hearts. More than approximately 350,000 orphaned conventional oil and gas wells across our Commonwealth make up nearly 8% of our total methane emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2023

A hearing was held on the bill June 5. Operations Headquartered In Pittsburgh -- WHYY: PA Residents Receiving LIHEAP Or Weatherization Assistance Can Get Free Air Conditioners This Summer -- PUC Urges Consumers To #CheckForID When Dealing With Door-To-Door Or In-Person Energy Sales Agents -- TribLive: Allegheny County Health Dept.

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Greenbuilding Law

AUGUST 7, 2022

Direct emissions are produced from residential and commercial activities in a variety of ways: Combustion of natural gas and petroleum products for heating including water heating and cooking needs emits carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O). Organic waste sent to landfills emits CH4. Waste management.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 7207 ) -- Sunoco, LLC - Marcus Hook Race Fuels: DEP invites comments on a State-Only Air Quality Permit for two loading racks and various storage tanks related to race fuel blending operations in Marcus Hook Boro, Delaware County. ( Bradford County. ( Lycoming County. ( Delaware County. ( Philadelphia. (

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2023

Issues $307,800 Stipulated Penalty Against U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

-- Penn State Extension Ag Conservation Currents Newsletter: News That Infiltrates & Transpires -- Courier Times: ‘Leave The Leaves:’ What’s Behind The Campaign -- Keep PA Beautiful Local Affiliates Make Nov.

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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. In the pandemic’s wake, facilities that run on waste coal are ramping up output to meet demand from cryptocurrency speculators. By Josh Raulerson, PA Environmental Council Data published in February by the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Multiple violations on each of the wells were continued that were originally issued on May 1, 2023, including for abandoning the wells without plugging them, failure to submit annual production and waste and mechanical integrity reports and failure to meet the terms of inactive status. [ No further followup actions were noted by DEP. [

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2023

Trillion Across Global Economy, Report -- Spotlight PA: Federal Money Won’t Be Enough To Solve PA Abandoned Conventional Oil/Gas Well Problem, Current Well Owners Routinely Fail To Plug Their Wells -- PA General Energy Announced It Will Plug Proposed Oil & Gas Waste Injection Well In Grant Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2022

Fossil fuels aren't just the feedstock for those reactions; they also provide the heat and pressure that drive them. “By breaking the hydrocarbons in oil and natural gas into simpler compounds and then assembling those building blocks, scientists long ago learned to construct molecules of exquisite complexity.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2024

7 EarthTalk On Sustainable Aviation Fuel And The Policies Impacting Its Development. 16 In-Person Program In Waynesburg, Greene County On Protecting Public Health, Resources From Shale Gas Development [PaEN] -- DEP Begins Accepting Grant Applications Oct. Million In Base Grant In 2023] -- Sen. 28 to Oct. 28 to Oct. 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. -- Sen.

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