PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Key Takeaways Here are some key takeaways from the hearing-- -- Natural Gas Continues To Have A Reliability Problem: 70% of the PJM electric generation that failed to perform during the December freeze were natural gas-fired power plants. Energy Information Administration. Chairman Dutrieuille noted, “The U.S.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2023

Hydrogen’s supply-side has been buttressed by incentives from state and federal governments, refineries and utilities looking to extend the life of fossil fuel infrastructure, and renewable energy companies seeking to take advantage of the huge amounts of clean energy needed to produce green hydrogen.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In an attempt to expand its “natural” gas infrastructure across Ontario, Enbridge Gas is telling residents that gas is the cheapest way to heat their homes. Today, we filed a complaint with the Competition Bureau over Enbridge Gas’ deceptive marketing. But Enbridge Gas does not want you to know that.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 26, 2024

My testimony highlighted the critical importance of making sure today’s hydrogen policies choose hydrogen production projects and end uses that are truly aligned overall with the clean energy transition. This would be a disastrous outcome, wasting time and money we do not have in the pressing fight to turn the tide on climate.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 3, 2023

Last year’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) included a clean hydrogen production tax credit (known as “45V”) that is one of a slew of new incentives intended to help catalyze the next and necessary phase of advancing the nation’s clean energy transition as a whole. The costs will be too great otherwise.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 10, 2024

In an attempt to expand its “natural” gas infrastructure across Ontario, Enbridge Gas is telling residents that gas is the cheapest way to heat their homes. Today, we filed a complaint with the Competition Bureau over Enbridge Gas’ deceptive marketing. But Enbridge Gas does not want you to know that.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Last month, DOE solicited applications from states to develop clean energy projects. The possibility of snagging some of this funding may also help nudge some lagging states to think seriously about cutting carbon emissions. Notably, the legislation will allow ten municipalities to ban natural gas use in new buildings.

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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

APRIL 20, 2023

All across the country, coal- and gas-fired power plants are still running, still polluting, and still showing signs of staying relentlessly online. And more gas is slated to come. Section 111 of the Clean Air Act constrains how EPA sets standards—but gives states wide latitude in implementation. Despite the West Virginia v.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The General Assembly has yet to answer the question of how to help communities and workers caught in the market-driven transition from fossil fuels to clean energy. It is caused by human activity and carbon emissions. percent to the Energy Communities Trust Fund; -- 12.5 Every day, its impacts grow more severe.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

Chicago’s new CAP aims to remedy those problems and chart an equitable path to cut the city’s carbon emissions by at least 60 percent by 2040. To improve the lives of all Chicagoans, the plan prioritizes environmental justice, household savings, public health, and clean energy. billion Chicago Recovery Plan.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 1, 2023

It will save school districts and taxpayers money, create new learning opportunities and invest in statewide clean energy,” she added. GW Of Coal, Natural Gas Power Plants Being Offline; Renewables Logged New Records In Generation -- Reuters: Jobs In US Energy Grew 3.8%

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Grist said, "These leaders have pushed back against harmful industries (and won), cut carbon emissions from hospitals, advanced wildfire solutions from Hawaii to California, and brought together unlikely coalitions to break ground on clean energy networks. She spent the last 3.5 Of Interior Approves $76.4

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2024

This revitalized energy standard will deliver outsized economic value, improve the reliability of our electricity grid, and position Pennsylvania as a leader in the energy arena for the next twenty years. Of that project funding, 40 percent will be dedicated to directly benefit Environmental Justice communities.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 22, 2021

Comitta and Report Herrin are introducing legislation to guide how revenue generated from the RGGI program will be reinvested in efforts to help communities and workers during the transition to clean energy, environmental justice areas and other initiatives. “A It is caused by human activity and carbon emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

All told, they represent 56 percent of the US population, generate 62 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, and are responsible for 43 percent of the country’s annual carbon emissions. What job opportunities would this clean energy transition create? EN: Energy prices have gone up dramatically in the last year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2022

The November 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), also referred to as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, or BIL, includes an $8 billion “regional clean hydrogen hubs” program that charges the Department of Energy (DOE) with the development of at least four hydrogen hubs to advance the nation’s clean hydrogen sector.

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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

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

Further, these efforts are focused on carbon capture and storage, hydrogen, and biofuels—technologies that aim to stash carbon emissions away, not reduce their production. That’s the gravy train the supermajors should ride. DON’T: Plow money into more disinformation and climate obstruction.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 18, 2024

This included a bill that would have started a statewide conversation about the diminished role fossil fuels should play in Maine’s energy system as the state strives to meet its climate and clean energy commitments. Gas is primarily composed of methane—a fossil fuel with extremely high global warming potential.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 4, 2021

It is caused by human activity and carbon emissions. Meanwhile, over the past decade, more than a dozen coal-fired power plants have closed in Pennsylvania, due to the shifting economics of energy, and a rapid movement to less expensive natural gas generation,” said Sen. Every day, its impacts grow more severe.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act’s new hydrogen production tax credit , known as code 45V, is intended to incentivize a shift to low-carbon hydrogen production by offering producers a credit that increases in value as the carbon emissions associated with produced hydrogen declines.

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Cresforum

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) and our investor-owned electric company members are committed to delivering—and to leading—America’s clean energy future. And, thanks largely to the leadership of EEI’s member companies, carbon emissions from the U.S. power sector are at their lowest level in more than 40 years.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 23, 2022

Comitta To Introduce Bill Investing RGGI Proceeds In Helping Communities & Workers In Clean Energy Transition, Environmental Justice Areas, Promote Energy Efficiency -- New Poll: 65% Of PA Voters Want To Help Communities Affected By Transition To Clean Energy; 59% Would Vote For Candidates Supporting Reductions In Carbon Emissions -- Sen.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 27, 2024

Bartolotta Seek Legislation To Eliminate Environmental Hearing Board Appeals Of DEP Permits For Natural Gas Pipeline Facilities Damascus Citizens: Do You Live In An Oil & Gas Wastewater Disposal Facility?

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2023

Because fossil fuels are used both to produce blue hydrogen and to operate its carbon capture technology, its carbon emissions are quite high. Blue hydrogen has a very, very large greenhouse gas footprint.” That footprint, Howarth goes on to say, “is worse than if you simply burned natural gas directly for fuel instead.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

clean hydrogen industry that creates good-paying jobs, while also reducing carbon emissions. The Treasury Department’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) provides definitions of key terms in the statute, including lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions, qualified clean hydrogen, and qualified clean hydrogen production facility.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 30, 2023

This bill, if left unamended by the Senate, would weaken the carbon price by expanding the definition of eligible farming machinery and extending the exemption from carbon pricing for qualifying farming fuel to include marketable natural gas and propane.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Most emissions come from the energy sector (82%), followed by agriculture (9.6%) and industrial processes (6.4%). As of 2015, coal-fired power plants supply more than 80% of electricity produced by Kazakhstan’s energy sector, followed by natural gas (7%) and hydropower (8%).

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Cresforum

MARCH 10, 2022

In the Unites States’ march to transition to clean energy and reduce greenhouse gasses, resilience may be the most important word to summarize 2021. Nine months after the pandemic first upended lives and the economy, the market fundamentals for clean energy looked unstoppable. produced natural gas grew 9.4

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Germany has six remaining nuclear reactors which are due to be closed down next year which will remove a huge source of zero-carbon electricity from the German economy unable to be taken up by other clean energy sources such as solar and wind. Around 75% comes from fossil fuels: burning coal, natural gas and oil.

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Introduction Hydrogen has been dubbed the “Swiss army knife” of clean energy, given its potential to become a tool to cut emissions in key sectors, as well as to assert U.S. global energy leadership and increase our nation’s competitive edge. Lifecycle GHG Emissions (kg CO2e/kgH20) PTC Value ($/kg H2) 2.5-4

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 27, 2023

These new protections will include updates to power plant standards on carbon emissions , mercury pollution , and toxic coal ash pollution , just to name a few. For coal-fired power, the economic case has been bleak for a long time now, which has brought US coal-fired generation down to less than half of its 2010 level.

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Cresforum

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Hernick on an All-Of-The-Above Energy Strategy: “ Greenhouse gas emissions are the bogeyman! Coal and oil and natural gas are indispensable to the global energy system. growing at 11 percent last year—when you look at the globe (total primary energy supply), the mix is about the same as it has ever been.”.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 4, 2021

With transportation accounting for more than half of all carbon emissions, each of the six Exelon utilities has taken steps to support electric vehicle adoption in their jurisdictions. million megawatt hours, or the equivalent energy use of 932,000 average homes for a year.

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E2 Law Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Enacted in 2019, the CLCPA transformed the state’s earlier clean energy standard efforts from administrative fiat to law and sets more aggressive goals to reduce statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions economy-wide to 60% from a 1990 baseline by 2030, and 15% from a 1990 baseline by 2050.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

As EQT CEO Toby Rice argued in the slide deck Callahan provided, China needs US natural gas to reduce its dependency on the use of coal to generate electricity and reduce power plant emissions. They agreed that what they were finding was “just the tip of the iceberg.” Read more here. [In Read more here. Read more here.

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