Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

Any plan enacted under this subsection shall maximize the impact of the plan on improving economic and racial equity.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In addition, carbon reduction standards and monitoring systems at ports need further improvement, as the absence of unified regulations presents challenges to advancing the zero-carbon transition, experts told Yicai Experts recommend continuing to promote port electrification and increase the use of clean energy in the future.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Shapiro [PaEN] Lead Counsel On Court Cases Striking Down Provisions In Act 13 To Preempt Local Regulation Of Oil & Gas Operations Raises Concerns About Proposed Legislation Establishing A RESET Board To Site Large Energy Projects [PaEN] Gov. Shapiro Announces Amazon Plans To Invest $20 Billion In Pennsylvania For A.I.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2025

I support addressing climate change and cutting our carbon emissions. We can do that right now, but the majority, to date, chooses not to. I am opposed. The [Shapiro] administration is opposed. I do not support setting up a separate office. Resource Links: -- Gov.

Greenhouse

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 28, 2025

Incineration produces dangerous pollutants that are not well controlled under existing regulation in Ontario. Burning this waste releases massive amounts of toxic pollution and carbon emissions it’s a climate disaster. Instead, we need to reduce waste, and ensure that the rest is composted and recycled.

Waste

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Meanwhile, more than 9,000 companies have committed to actions to cut global emissions by 2030. COP29: Influential voices call for reforming the UN COP climate procedure Chinas carbon emissions have not yet peaked, but its rapid expansion of renewables means they are likely to soon. of national emissions. trillion (USD 9.9

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Shapiro [PaEN] -- Lead Counsel On Court Cases Striking Down Provisions In Act 13 To Preempt Local Regulation Of Oil & Gas Operations Raises Concerns About Proposed Legislation Establishing A RESET Board To Site Large Energy Projects [PaEN] -- Gov. Shapiro Announces Amazon Plans To Invest $20 Billion In Pennsylvania For A.I.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

Led by Governor Shapiro (then Attorney General), this investigation announced what Pennsylvanians living in the shale fields already knew: our government had failed to properly regulate fracking and protect residents from harm. Shapiro Announces Amazon Plans To Invest $20 Billion In Pennsylvania For A.I.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

MAY 23, 2025

The sector provides 11 percent of all jobs in Pennsylvania and contributes about 30 percent of the Commonwealths carbon emissions. Visit PECs Audio Room for the latest podcasts. Click Here to receive regular updates from PEC.

Conservation

Legal Planet

MARCH 6, 2025

A regulation costs only 0.004% of U.S. The regulation costs a billion dollars per year. emissions by something like 1%, which sounds trivial. carbon emissions are 4.8 One percent of that is 48 million tons, which is a lot of carbon. At the current estimate of the social cost of carbon, reducing U.S.

Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

True, Congress hasn’t passed the comprehensive emission limits that many of us would like to see. But it has passed laws regulating two powerful greenhouse gases, and some other climate laws stretching back over the past five decades. The fee is designed in a way that reinforces EPA regulations of methane emission.

Law

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Completes Successful Lithium Extraction From Shale Gas Wastewater At Susquehanna County Pilot Plant [PaEN] -- Inside Climate News: Kiley Bense: Truckers Say Oil & Gas Companies Are Violating Hazardous Materials Transport Regulations, Fracking Industry Says No -- PUC Distributes $164.5 Blast Furnaces, Carbon Emissions -- Register Now!

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

DEP Compliance Response Klapkowski said, “In response to this non-compliance, DEP has undertaken significant efforts to compel compliance with Pennsylvania’s rules and regulations or penalize operators. Read more here. From January 2024 through today, DEP has assessed over $1.3

Waste

Legal Planet

APRIL 24, 2025

MASSACHUSETTS The department of utilities approved a new three-year plan for energy efficiency, including installing 120,000 heat pumps, weathering over 180,000 homes, reducing carbon emissions by a million tons. NEW YORKState regulators approved a program to provide 1.5 GW of distributed energy resources.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Blast Furnaces, Carbon Emissions -- TribLive Editorial: Public Participation Shouldn’t Just Happen When Convenient For Government -- WNEP: Girl Scouts Plant Trees To Restore Wildlife Habitat After Devastating Wildfire In Mountain Top, Luzerne County -- Tribune-Democrat: Hikers Hit Laurel Highlands For Keystone Trails Assn.’s

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2025

This is especially evident in Cancer Alley in southern Louisiana , where a high density of petrochemical plants and refineries with scarce regulation and willful neglect, have led to elevated rates of cancer and other health issues , a burden particularly borne by Black residents.

Carbon Emissions

Legal Planet

JANUARY 30, 2025

Transportation is now the largest source of carbon emission in the U.S. Normally, only the federal EPA can regulate tailpipe emissions from vehicles. But theres an exception that allows California to regulate if it gets a waiver from EPA, and then allows other states to piggyback on California standards.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2025

Three days later, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), one of the three independent agencies responsible for regulating banks, withdrew from a collaboration among the agencies to create guidelines on climate-related financial risk. Industry representatives such as the American Petroleum Institute and U.S.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

Shapiro's 'Lightning' Energy Plan To Lower Energy Costs, Create Jobs, Protect Pennsylvania From Global Energy Instability [PaEN] -- PUC Hearing On Data Center Growth Impacts Finds 30-40% Of Utility Demand Could Be From Data Centers; Concerns About Stranded Costs; Major Commitments To Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Energy Use [PaEN] -- Gov.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Shapiro [PaEN] -- Lead Counsel On Court Cases Striking Down Provisions In Act 13 To Preempt Local Regulation Of Oil & Gas Operations Raises Concerns About Proposed Legislation Establishing A RESET Board To Site Large Energy Projects [PaEN] -- Gov. Shapiro Announces Amazon Plans To Invest $20 Billion In Pennsylvania For A.I.

Carbon Emissions

Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

Stoked by billions more tons of carbon emissions from coal combustion, global temperatures are rising, more powerful storms are inundating communities, deeper droughts threaten the planet’s supply of food. The old facilities release high levels of carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and particulate matter into the air.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

MAY 12, 2025

Katie Muth (D-Chester) noted Please correct me if Im wrong, there's nothing in any law, statute, regulation, rulemaking policy within PJM that says that residential and critical infrastructure, electric grid needs have to be fulfilled [first] and insured prior to the approval of these giant power-using projects like a data center.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

. -- AP: States Are Rolling Out Red Carpets For Data Centers, But Some Lawmakers Are Pushing Back [PA Included] -- MCall Guest Essay: Congress Cant Protect Us Without Protecting Clean Energy - By Tinku Khanwalkar -- Inside Climate News: Alabamians Want Answers About A 4 Million Square Foot A.I.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 10, 2025

Data Center Infrastructure; Amazon Told PUC It Has Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Goal By 2040 [PaEN] -- WHYY: Gov. Data Center Infrastructure; Amazon Told PUC It Has Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Goal By 2040 [PaEN] -- WHYY: Gov. Rules Room (no video). Off The Floor TODAY 12:30: Agenda Posted.

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2025

In March 2024, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finalized a regulation that would compel publicly traded companies to assess and report on how climate change will affect their bottom lines and, by extension, investors and the public. The SEC rule was targeted for elimination by a major oil and gas industry trade association.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

. -- DEP Declares Code Orange Air Quality Action Day Thursday, June 12 In Southeast And Southwest PA -- Delaware River Frack Ban Coalition Launch Initiative To Defend The Delaware River Watershed From Oil & Gas Fracking [PaEN] -- MCall: Is Ban On Fracking In Delaware Watershed At Risk?

Greenhouse

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

trillion in tax incentives, grants and loans over ten years to stimulate faster and broader cuts in carbon emissions than would occur in their absence. The legislation provides $800 billion to $1.2 Trump has threatened to undo the IRA if he wins.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Yaw Introduces Skill Gambling Games Regulation Bill Directing Some Revenue To Clean Streams Fund [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Celebrates Earth Day With Dr. Watt R. Critic Says, We Want To Be A Little More Cautious -- Gov.

Conservation

Legal Planet

JUNE 25, 2025

According to EPA, carbon emissions from the U.S. power sector are too insignificant to warrant regulation. power sector’s emissions are around 6.5 billion tons, just below Russia’s total emissions from all sectors. The second provision requires EPA to issue regulations for the sources on the list.

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

JUNE 26, 2025

EPA has managed to come to the conclusion that carbon emissions from the power sector do not significantly contribute to climate change. emissions), EPA’s solemn conclusion is that they’re no biggie. Even at the first Trump Administration’s lowball estimate of the social cost of carbon, the roughly 1.5

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

API specifically targets Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules to reduce carbon emissions from automobile tailpipes and fuel economy standards established by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Muzzle environmental reviews.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 7, 2025

This bedrock science-based finding underpins EPA’s responsibility to regulate GHGs—which the Supreme Court previously ruled are air pollutants that are covered under the Clean Air Act—because of the harms they pose to public health.

Climate Change

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Trump set in motion agency efforts to rollback all Biden-era environmental regulations relating to climate change. Key targets include regulations substantially limiting carbon emissions from coal-fired powerplants, cars, and trucks. This was expected but nonetheless significant.

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

JUNE 27, 2025

billion tons of carbon dioxide a year, a little less than the entire country of Russia. The Trump Administration is proposing to end all regulation of carbon emissions by power plants, on the theory that these emissions should be considered insignificant. carbon emissions. power plants emit 1.5

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

MARCH 10, 2025

EPAs efforts to regulate carbon emissions from powerplants have had a tortuous history, and were about to go through another round, with a rule from a Democratic Administration being repealed and replaced by a Trump rule. Second, after a careful analysis of the text of the statute, the D.C.

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2025

reduction in carbon emissions in 2024, or 406,000 metric tons of CO2e emissions avoided. This marks the first year that 2030 District Partners have hit the target goal of achieving a 50-65% reduction in carbon emissions by the year 2030 since the Pittsburgh District was founded in 2012. energy reduction 33.3%

Carbon Emissions

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Pam Snyder, Protesters Oppose Presidents Policies: We Will Not Stand For This -- PoliticsPA: Presidents Of 11 PA Colleges Condemn Presidents Unprecedented Government Overreach -- TribLive: Carnegie Mellon President Joins University Leaders In Condemning Unprecedented Government Overreach -- Post-Gazette: Allegheny College President Among Higher Ed (..)

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