PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

By Ralph Kisberg, Responsible Decarbonization Alliance This guest essay first appeared in the Daily Item on September 11, 2022 -- While the majority of Pennsylvanians want the nation to seriously address climate change, close to half of all federal legislators and substantially more than half the legislators in our statehouse are not yet on board.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

MARCH 16, 2022

I led the development of global transparent data authentication system to drive the scale-up of electric mobility and clean energy in alignment with circular economy, human rights and community development. We cannot solve these problems with a myopic view of what climate and environment looks like.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To get an assessment of the progress thus far, as well as an idea if what has to happen next, I turned to two of my colleagues in the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Climate & Energy Program: Principal Climate Scientist Rachel Licker and Transmission Policy Manager Sam Gomberg. percent; natural gas, 38.3

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The performance standard for new coal-fired electric utility steam generating units is based on a highly efficient supercritical pulverized coal unit with partial carbon capture and storage as the best system of emission reduction (BSER). Coalition for Competitive Electricity v. Circuit Court of Appeals. 4:16 -cv-06040 (N.D.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 31, 2024

Although not explicitly named, climate change was a theme. And lurking in the background was our electricity system, a main character in the movie and one of the biggest contributors in real life to the climate pollution fueling more extreme weather events. It is as simple as voicing where our energy comes from.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Sánchez Valle ) , together with the recent disastrous, expensive, and unaccountable privatization of electricity generation, transmission, and distribution, prove beyond any doubt that the authority to decide on issues that affect Puerto Rico lies, not on the people of Puerto Rico, but with US Congress. SCOTUS’ Puerto Rico v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Fossil fuels are the root cause of climate change, of long-standing environmental injustices, and are also frequently connected to geopolitical strife and violent conflicts. Quite the opposite: today’s high oil and gas prices are a fresh reinforcement, if we needed that, for why a rapid transition to clean energy is imperative.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2022

Senate passed compromised legislation that would make the largest federal investment-- $375 billion-- in climate change fighting strategies, including investments in renewable energy production, tax rebates for consumers for energy efficiency and electric vehicles and more. Republicans voted against the bill.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

And the rigorous teaching of climate science does not inculcate anyone with anything except a greater understanding of the physical world and how humans are altering it. I’d bet a climate scientist would have been glad to make the short trip to talk to Senator Cirino. Clean energy is where the job growth is and will be.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

We need to act now to mitigate the impact of rising energy prices, diversify our gas supply for next winter and accelerate the clean energy transition. “ The quicker we switch to renewables and hydrogen, combined with more energy efficiency, the quicker we will be truly independent and master our energy system.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Climate Envoy Kerry: No Rolling Back Clean Energy Transition PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Inquirer: 100 Days: A Look At Shapiro’s ‘Common Ground’ Approach To Governing One Of The Nation’s Most Politically Divided States -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania’s House Takeover - A Tale Of Two Speakers - By Fmr Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

Think about this simple fact-- there is no limit on what the oil and gas industry can charge you for gasoline, diesel fuel or heating oil to heat your home and the spiking cost of natural gas is dramatically pushing up the cost of electricity for everyone because its price is determined on volatile foreign energy markets.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

Sullivan Charitable Trust & Reinvestment Fund Celebrates $30 Million In Low-Interest Commercial Energy Efficiency Project Loans From DEP Green Energy Loan Fund in Philadelphia.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Mann, Climate Scientist & Author, At The Water's Edge Gala On Nov. 3 DEP Issues 2 NOVs Against PA General Energy For Water Pollution Discharges Into The Loyalsock Creek From Gas Pipeline/Water Withdraw Construction In Lycoming County Pitt School Of Public Health, PA Dept Of Health Abruptly Pull Out Of Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 13, 2023

Hosts 3 Public Meetings To Gather Input On Youghiogheny River Conservation Plan Part I - Dunbar Creek To Headwaters Aug. 16, 17, 18 [PaEN] -- DEP Starts Taxpayer-Funded Hazardous Sites Cleanup Process For American Biodiesel Site In Erie County; Hearing Sept. Potter County To Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Republicans said the final regulations will increase the cost of electricity for individuals and businesses, have a negative impact on jobs and will not significantly reduce carbon pollution. While electricity rates are already rising across the country, during the first 10 years that RGGI was in place, rates dropped nearly 6% in RGGI states.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This is of course not to suggest that wars and conflicts would go away with a clean energy system, but it would eliminate some of the weaponry elements that could deployed. Climate scientists project that both Israel and Palestine are already experiencing severe climate impacts that will only worsen in the coming years and decades.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Ned Ketyer, Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania -- Inquirer - Will Bunch: Democracy Dies When PA Pols Tell Their Own Voters To Drop Dead On Fracking [Proposed LNG Plant In Chester, Delaware County] -- TribLive: Penn Township Board Will Visit Proposed Hyperion [Olympus Energy] Natural Gas Compressor Site -- Liberty Twp.,

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

McCains and Kerrys bi-partisan climate work spanned two administrations, reporting first to the Bush Administration and then to the Clinton administration. From a technological point of view, he is very excited about geothermal energy, having worked with the innovative start-up Fervo Energy by scaling up the technology.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is expected to hold a hearing on Wrights nomination tomorrow. In videos and Congressional testimony , Wright portrays himself as a truth teller, while falsely claiming that climate scientists and renewable energy advocates are deceptive. Wind and solar are clean energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 8, 2025

Climate scientists, backed by robust research, say so. C found that surpassing 2 degrees C of warming would significantly increase the frequency and severity of climate impacts, including extreme weather events, biodiversity loss, and threats to human health and livelihoods. degrees Celsius) as something magical.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 15, 2025

The news that started leaking last Friday is that the Trump administration wants to break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and essentially end NOAAs climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to instead help boost U.S.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

First, the court said the cities’ novel theories of liability based on the defendants’ sales of their product did not differentiate their claims from earlier transboundary pollution suits in which the Supreme Court ( American Electric Power Co. Arizona Court Ordered Production of Climate Scientists’ Emails Under Arizona’s Public Records Law.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

Heres what else has happened in the last 7 days No Climate Assessment: The Trump administration has unceremoniously dismissed all the expert authors of the next authoritative look at how climate change is affecting the US. Ethiopia may ban internal combustion engines, reports Electrek.

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ESA

APRIL 11, 2022

report on how world can still stop climate change. Report finds there is no hope of slowing global warming without a radical shift to electrical energy and carbon removal. The choices available to us are no longer ideal,” said Kristina Dahl, a principal climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists, an NGO.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

A few general resources: Sidelining Science Since Day One: How the Trump administration has harmed public health and safety in its first six months by The Union of Concerned Scientists I Heart Climate Scientists. . pulling out of the Paris climate deal may make China great again. And now the full list: . 2017.06.01.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

States, Electricity Providers Allowed to Intervene in Case Concerning Management of Glen Canyon Dam. Briefs Filed in Challenges to ACE Rule and Clean Power Plan Repeal. 2:19-cv-120 (N.D.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

For more than two decades, the Koch network has been diligently spreading disinformation to sabotage efforts to transition to a clean energy economy, more often than not by attacking proposed climate policies on economic grounds. Climate scientists, he added, “have these models that show it, but the models don’t work….”.

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ESA

JANUARY 10, 2022

More News: Climate scientists grapple with wildfire disaster in their backyard – Axios. 4 that he “probably” can come to agreement with other Senate Democrats regarding the climate and clean energy provisions of the bill. Ted Lieu (D-CA) introduced the Climate Solutions Act ( H.R. Register here.

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