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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

In addition to all those benefits, solar schools projects have immense local benefits such as reducing carbon emissions and creating family sustaining jobs.” “With the savings, local governments can reduce taxes and schools can invest in more teachers. Fiedler was joined by labor, educational and environmental leaders.

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Clean hydrogen production relies either on electricity, which may be generated through renewable or fossil fuel resources; or directly on fossil fuels, via steam methane reformation (SMR) or coal gasification accompanied by carbon capture, or via methane pyrolysis. According to one estimate , the U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

The decision to ditch coal was the biggest single action of its time to cut carbon emissions in North America. But what you probably haven’t heard is that our grid is getting dirtier again, with fossil fuels increasing in our electricity supply from burning natural gas. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 .

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

In June, the Committee was scheduled to consider House Bill 1215 (Vitali-D-Delaware) that would have required hydrogen producing companies to sequester a larger portion of carbon emissions to receive a state tax credit under state Act 108, but the Committee passed over the bill. Read more here.

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

Few people realize that Germany has actually increased its fossil fuel combustion capacity over the 20 years of its landmark renewable energy program from 2001 to the present. should maintain and expand its fleet of highly-reliable, carbon-free, and 94 percent efficient nuclear power plants. I believe the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2024

‘It Simply Should Not Happen, Period’ [PaEN] -- Stars and Stripes Guest Essay: Pause On Permits For New LNG Gas Export Facilities Right Move For National Security - Rivals Like China Are Using US LNG To Build Influence - By Steve Anderson, US Army Brigadier General - Retired [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: A Rescue Plan For American Energy And (..)

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Here in New York, for example, we already have three forms of more or less direct carbon pricing. The most direct of these is imposed on certain fossil fuel power plants by requiring them to purchase carbon dioxide emissions allowances as part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

Many civil disobedience activists in the 1960s and 70s attempted to use it to justify their illegal actions in protests over foreign wars or nuclear power, for example, but achieved little to no success. So actions taken to curtail some carbon emissions, but not all, might still suffice. in some way. reasonable.

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Healey issued the CID in connection with an investigation into unfair or deceptive acts or practices in trade or commerce with respect to fossil fuel products and securities. Opponents of EPA Carbon Standards for New Coal-Fired Power Plants Filed Initial Briefs. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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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. Our analysis also demonstrates renewables’ power. And what about fossil fuel-dependent workers and communities?

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

I further argue that, if we continue to develop in these ways, deaths from natural disasters will continue to decline, food surpluses will continue to rise, and global carbon emissions will likely peak and decline soon, preventing temperatures from rising more than three degrees centigrade over pre-industrial levels. Why else use it?

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

The good news is that recent and historical events show that economic growth can actually lower carbon emissions. Carbon emissions have been declining in the US for nearly a decade and a half thanks to the cheap natural gas, which made electricity cheaper than it otherwise would have been.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Appalachian Hydrogen Hub The Appalachian Hydrogen Hub will leverage the region’s ample access to low-cost natural gas to produce low-cost clean hydrogen and permanently and safely store the associated carbon emissions. Read full statement. Every new well adds to a climate-killing legacy.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

It is for that reason that I have, for more than 20 years, conducted energy analysis, worked as a journalist, and advocated for renewables, coal-to-natural gas switching, and nuclear power to reduce carbon emissions. Climate change is real and we should seek to reduce carbon emissions.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

By contrast, the Obama administration’s proposed carbon regulation of the power sector, the “Clean Power Plan,” proposed emissions reductions of 32 percent — by 2030. Carbon emissions are thus following the same trajectory as other air pollutants. For example, the Green New Deal proposed by Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 9, 2022

Gallon A Year Ago In PA, Now It’s More Than $5 -- Reuters: Oil Prices Advance Despite U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Finley [PaEN] -- KPVI: Carbon County Votes Overwhelmingly To Authorize Up To A $10 Million Bond To Protect Water Quality, Working Farms, Wildlife Habitat [PaEN] -- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Accepting Comments On Draft EIS For Ohio Valley Connector Natural Gas Pipeline In Greene County Until Nov.

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