Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

One critical tool for forcing that reckoning comes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Through the Clean Air Act , and as affirmed—and reaffirmed—through multiple legal sagas, EPA is statutorily obligated to address carbon pollution from fossil fuel-fired power plants. So what follows from that obligation?

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 22, 2024

On July 22, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced the award of over $4.3 billion in Climate Pollution Reduction Grants to implement community-driven solutions that tackle the climate crisis, reduce air pollution, advance environmental justice, and accelerate America’s clean energy transition.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Nearly $5 billion in federal grants from the US Environmental Protection Agency’s 2024 Climate Pollution Reduction Grants program is also a source of the influx of clean energy funding. billion in clean energy tax credits as of May 2024. This moment has been nearly two years in the making,” said Endowments President Chris DeCardy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency. That’s because the case, which was about the nature and scope of EPA authority in regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants, turned on a rule that does not exist. Simply by taking West Virginia v. EPA the Supreme Court signaled ominous things to come.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

DTE’s goal is to reach “net-zero” emissions by 2050 while reducing its carbon emissions from 2005 levels 65 percent by 2028, 85 percent by 2035, and 90 percent by 2040. What’s in DTE’s proposed plan?

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 4, 2022

If carbon emissions continue to rise until the middle of the century, this figure climbs to $2.2 Environmental Protection Agency. Over the next few years, the greater incidence of extreme rainfall, extreme heat, and rapid temperature shifts are projected to add $1.5 billion annually.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

Despite Shell’s insistence that it’s a climate champion, it has chosen to stay aligned with CAPP, whose toxic, secretive influence has killed or undermined laws that were designed to protect public health, cut pollution, and curb carbon emissions – including during the COVID-19 crisis. . Increasing them a lot.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

He was on to something And the lobsterman was correct: we can blame carbon emissions for ocean acidification and warming in the Gulf of Maine. GOM communities, not fossil fuel interests, should determine policies that affect GOM people.

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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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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.

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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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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Putting a cap on oil and gas carbon pollution Rising carbon emissions from oil and gas production have negated reductions from every other sector. As a result, in late 2023, the federal government announced that a new cap and trade program will force the oil and gas industry to reduce emissions by 35 to 38 per cent by 2030.

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Here are the highlights from the Ontario Auditor General’s Environmental Reports – which can also be called the Ontario government’s lowlights. However, it is not the relative number of environmentally “friendly” press releases that matters.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed carbon pollution rules for fossil fuel burning power plants. He will speak to the significance of the Carbon Rule and how to leave comments/take action. Join the Pennsylvania Interfaith Power & Light and the Jewish Earth Alliance on July 19 at 7:00 p.m.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 14, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency announced nearly $1.2 million in funding to 16 college student teams to research and develop innovative solutions that address environmental and public health challenges as part of the Agency’s People, Prosperity, and the Planet (P3) Program. On March 14, the U.S. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2025

Cynthia also oversees WPCs sustainability efforts, which have included energy efficiency, alternative energy generation, carbon emissions assessments, and transitions to electric vehicles. Carrow participates in a wide variety of conservation and environmental programs and activities in Pennsylvania.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency’s most recent Climate Adaptation Plan highlights the historic modernization of its financial assistance programs, primarily through the [federal] Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act, encouraging significant climate-focused investments across the nation.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

The programs supported by a memorandum of understanding, combined with other financial incentives, are intended to support industry and jobs in these states while reducing net carbon emissions.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Globally, temperature increases, driven by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, reach 0.8C The Court overturned a landmark ruling that had required Shell, whose energy sales in 2023 were 91% derived from major GHG sources, to reduce its carbon emissions by 45% by 2030. in the Netherlands.

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Canadians respond to the climate emergency by voting for climate action and environmental protection. There are now environmental champions in every party – it should be easier to take bold action on climate change and environmental protection. Toronto, Ont.

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Environmental News Bits

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency reports that agricultureaccounts for 10% of global carbon emissions. Regenerative agriculture advocates say there are a variety of long-term benefits to adopting sustainable farming practices, but the upfront cost of the investments is a barrier for farmers.

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Law and Environment

MARCH 14, 2023

In the same release, Rhode Island Acting State Energy Commissioner Christopher Kearns added: This will help our regional New England grid make the transition to clean energy, reduce our collective carbon emissions significantly, and deliver a major victory in our fight against climate change.”

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Strategies identified in a new industrial decarbonization roadmap would slash carbon emissions by 84% by 2050 in Pennsylvania, achieving crucial climate goals, yielding billions in annual savings, growing jobs, and improving public health, according to a new analysis prepared for the Ohio River Valley Institute.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2023

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The Ontario government gave residents a very nasty end of year present with legislation that gutted environmental protection for wetlands, forests and rivers, rolled back planning rules that create livable communities and enforced sprawl on many cities that were trying to build affordable housing within their existing borders.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

PACER Under PACER, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection will calculate a Pennsylvania-specific cap on carbon emissions and hold our own independent PACER credit auctions. Abney, and our legislative partners and co-sponsors for their support of this bold and forward-thinking plan.”

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2022

“We have been progressing on our 2030 goal to reduce our global greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 20%, and in April 2021, we announced an ambitious goal to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.” Meanwhile, experts from environmental groups raised concerns. “We

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Agriculture is responsible for more than 10% of global carbon emissions, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. While agriculture is a massive carbon offender, it could now be part of a solution, as startups are trying new ways of using nature to save itself. Read the full story at CNBC.

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ESA

JULY 1, 2022

The Ecological Society of America, representing 8,000 research ecologists and environmental scientists, is greatly concerned about the recent United States Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The US puts a dollar figure on the damage caused by carbon emissions, but new research finds it’s too low, meaning the benefits of reducing emissions are being underestimated. Effectively, SCC indicates what price society should be willing to pay now to avoid the future damage of today’s carbon emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

As climate change continues to lead to record-breaking temperatures around the globe, pressure is higher than ever for companies to reduce their pollution and carbon emissions, the researchers said. But mandatory regulations can be costly to enforce, making programs that companies join voluntarily an attractive alternative.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

On May 8, the PJM Interconnection issued a statement on the US Environmental Protection Agency's final rule setting New Source Performance Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions and its potential impact on electric grid reliability.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2023

Blue, like grey, is produced using methane, but with carbon capture technology tacked on for the hypothetical removal of CO2 emissions from the atmosphere and then the storage of that carbon underground. But how clean is it really? Blue hydrogen has a very, very large greenhouse gas footprint.” We’re tired of all this smoke!

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2022

“This collaboration with Constellation is an exciting next step toward meeting our environmental goals of reaching 100% renewable purchased electricity by 2025 and reducing carbon emissions and energy use 75% by 2035.” Environmental Protection Agency.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2023

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Pennsylvania Climate Change Act of 2008 requires the state Department of Environmental Protection to provide the Legislature and governor every three years a report on current and projected climate change impacts, and a plan of actions to reduce carbon emissions. Related Articles - Climate: -- Gov.

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Law Columbia

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Furthermore, the CRC underscored the foreseeable nature of harm stemming from states’ carbon emissions, supported by established scientific evidence. GC26 provides the first authoritative guidance on child-centered environmental rights, explicitly acknowledging the right to clean healthy sustainable environment.

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