Law and Environment

AUGUST 11, 2022

Based on numerous sources, Governor Baker has now signed an Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind. This bill includes a number of key advancements for increased adoption of zero emission vehicles and clean transportation throughout the Commonwealth. Stay tuned for Foley Hoag’s continuing zero emission transportation series.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2023

On August 8, The Nature Conservancy-PA released the results of a bipartisan statewide survey that found majorities of Pennsylvania voters and labor union households support gradually transitioning to 100 percent of energy being produced from clean and renewable sources over the next 15 years. One that benefits people and nature."

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Ocean Conservancy

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, fossil fuel production accounts for 35% of global greenhouse gas emissions. For the first time, Ocean Conservancy attended the annual International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) Assembly to help advance a just clean-energy transition.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 8, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed standards on carbon pollution from fossil-fuel-fired power plants ( Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2023-0072-0001 ).

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2024

By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center Next year, the electricity bills for twenty percent of Americans will start reflecting the high cost of failing to transition to clean energy. Massive amounts of clean energy generation and storage projects are backlogged in PJM. Partners Host Aug.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 24, 2021

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has yet again warned that the energy transition to meet net-zero targets is not happening fast enough. In this scenario, demand for fossil fuels peaks by 2025, and global CO2 emissions fall by 40% by 2050. degree C world.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To avoid the worst impacts of the climate crisis, it’s crucial that we shift energy production away from the unsustainable fossil fuels that cause climate change and towards those that release little to no greenhouse gases (GHG), such as solar and wind power. Clean energy is key to national security.

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A Greener Life

JULY 4, 2024

The Conservatives have governed the UK for the past 14 years as Labour was unseated after having won three successive elections, in the culmination of the global financial crisis. These are symbolic and cultural attachments as much as it is the challenge of putting a proper energy transition in place. Happy voting!

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Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Federal government releases new policy aimed at ending international public financing for fossil fuels, next step is ending domestic financing . This new policy will end a significant portion of EDC’s support for fossil fuels and redirect those funds to support the clean energy transition.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2021

With some notable exceptions, they’ve tended to drag their feet on the energy transition. The proposed Clean Energy Standard is one effort to deal with this problem. A big shift to renewables could leave stranded assets — existing fossil fuel plants that the utility will no longer get paid for using.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

Some events last week sent a strong signal that the tide is turning against fossil fuels. To paraphrase Churchill, this may not be beginning of the end for fossil fuels, but at least it is the end of the beginning of the campaign against them. Each of the events standing alone would have been noteworthy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Despite the clean energy transition that is well underway in the United States, methane gas, or natural gas, remains the largest source of U.S. gigawatts (GW) was also set recently, and ERCOT urged customers to conserve electricity, partially citing in vague terms an “unexpected loss of thermal generation.”

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Nearly all of these plastics are made from fossil fuels including crude oil, natural gas liquids and coal. Also, both fossil fuel and plastic production create significant air and water pollution with severe health consequences for local communities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The solar energy sector is big and getting bigger. That’s a really good thing given the central role we expect and need solar to play in a just transition away from fossil fuels. With solar, there are no smokestacks, no fuel extraction. This agreement marks an important step in the right direction.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 20, 2022

As the world rolls out more solar panels, wind turbines and batteries, we’re cleaning up electricity — and generating a lot of equipment that will ultimately need to be recycled.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Scientists have consistently warned that the continued burning of fossil fuels is heating the planet, including the ocean. Amid this backdrop, Ocean Conservancy delegation is heading to the COP28 UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai to partake in negotiations working to address these critical issues. degrees Celsius​​.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

million In Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: $35 Million In Delaware River Watershed Conservation Projects Funded -- WHYY: Philly’s FDR Park Gets Federal Grant For Stream And Wetland Restoration -- Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: What’s Next For The Chesapeake Bay? 15 [PaEN] -- Williamsport Sun: Loyalsock Twp.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Electricity from waves and tides is generated when devices in the water harness the kinetic energy of the ocean. The technologies to capture wave and tidal energy may provide practical clean energy options for small remote island and rural coastal communities and potentially large urban cities down the road.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 29, 2022

Its power lies in its breadth—in all the many and varied ways it accelerates the transition to clean energy across our economy, from inputs, to access, to jobs and manufacturing, plus beginning to reckon with how best to cope with present and pending climate impacts. It was bad news all the way down. No pivoting, just pivotal.

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Ocean Conservancy

MAY 31, 2022

Ocean Conservancy applauds this decision. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. We must transition—rapidly and responsibly—from fossil fuel production to renewable energy sources. There is no room for new offshore oil and gas leasing in our clean energy future. Never miss an update.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

-- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1 Of Environmental Professionals Now Accepting Applications For College Scholarship Program [PaEN] -- MCall: Can Dogs Be Used To Combat Spotted Lanternfly?

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The Governor approved a notable slate of climate legislation with a package that includes more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets and measures designed to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. Clean Energy.

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES) Forum today launched the first installment in a new series of white papers examining the most critical climate and clean energy issues. The issues and approaches highlighted in this white papers series are rooted in CRES Forum’s Conservative Climate Policy Directives.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

By Jennifer Danis , Yesterday, the Sabin Center, Environmental Defense Fund, and New Jersey Conservation Foundation submitted comments to the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (“BPU”) proceeding investigating the state’s current and mid-term future supply and demand for gas. NJBPU Docket GO20010033.) Why is planning so essential?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2023

Long-term storage can include seasonal energy storage, which can shift delivery of power to a different time of year. And, long-duration storage is particularly important for the power grid’s transformation to clean energy and what I’m focusing on here. Diurnal storage can shift power delivery over a few days.

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A Greener Life

JULY 11, 2024

Clean energy The headline promise from Labour is on clean energy and the formation of a publicly owned energy company. It shall be known as Great British Energy because gone are the days when you could just call things British Gas, British Airways or British Telecoms and the greatness was implicit.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Because no other fuels are required, power generation to this home would not be interrupted by a fossil-fuel supply line disruption. Speaking of reliable supply of power, this home is also equipped with an energy storage system, which means the household can count on the lights staying on even when the sun isn’t shining.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

In addition to his work with the Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds, Mr. Dawes owns a purebred Angus farm in Huntingdon County where he employs sustainable and conservation farming practices. Throughout his career, Minott and the Clean Air Council earned a reputation for holding government agencies and fossil fuel companies accountable.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 14, 2023

Of Conservation Districts Invites County Conservation Districts To Apply For $90 Million In Grants To Fund Local Climate-Smart Conservation Practices Water Resources Assn. Hosts 3 Public Meetings To Gather Input On Youghiogheny River Conservation Plan Part I - Dunbar Creek To Headwaters Aug. Potter County To Sept.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The ocean has already absorbed 90% of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases and 26% of the carbon dioxide emitted by humans burning fossil fuels. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. appeared first on Ocean Conservancy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) included a major—forthcoming—refresh for one of the biggest policy drivers of the nation’s clean energy transition to date: tax credits subsidizing the deployment of clean electricity resources. Clean must mean clean, meaning no polluter loopholes, and no polluter giveaways.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

[PaEN] -- PA-Based Evangelical Environmental Network: Over 51,000 Christians Call For Stronger Standards On Fossil Fuel Power Plants [PaEN] -- On Demand: ReImagine Appalachia, Partners: Solar-Powered Faith Communities And Houses Of Worship, Saving Money And Ethical Labor [PaEN] -- The Nature Conservancy-PA: Bipartisan Poll Finds Broad Support In PA (..)

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2024

WeConservePA Is Accepting Presentation Proposals For The April 2-4 PA Land Conservation Conference In State College South Mountain Partnership Holds Annual Power Of The Partnership Program Sept. 20 Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults State Museum Of PA Hosts Aug. 22, 23, 24 PA Assn. 28 To Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

On August 9, the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority announced it would be committing to the purchase of wind power and the use of clean energy to support the production and operations of water services. Committed to fostering sustainable practices, PWSA has been an active participant in WPEC's clean energy initiatives since 2008.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 17, 2022

As the water in hydropower reservoirs drops, hydropower production is reduced, possibly increasing energy prices, or forcing some utilities to compensate for energy demands by using more fossil fuels for power generation. Higher water and energy prices disproportionately affect low-income families.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

They recommend that state regulators not approve any new gas plants “except in the extremely limited cases when there are no viable clean energy solutions for grid reliability,” and that no new gas plants should be approved in environmental justice communities. Reprinted from the Kleinman Center website.)

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 11, 2023

Join the Pennsylvania Solar Center for a free action-oriented webinar that will offer tools, resources and activities that everyone can use to build support to pass this important clean energy bill. We’ll be joined by Rep. 16 Webinar: Why Should We Care About, Advocate For A Climate-Friendly Federal Farm Bill?

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