Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) and Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) announced that proposed amendments to the state’s Clean Energy Standard (CES) were finalized earlier this month without substantive changes from draft language initially proposed by the agencies in April 2022.

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Law and Environment

JULY 1, 2022

EPA on Thursday, June 30, 2022, curbing the power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants across the country. The decision focuses on EPA’s authority under a specific section of the Clean Air Act. What does this mean for clean energy projects?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The Community Advocates For Clean Energy will host a November 13 webinar on EPA's Clean School Bus Grant Program from Noon to 1:15 p.m. Click Here to register and for more information. Posted: November 6, 2024] PA Environment Digest

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 31, 2023

Done right, a transformative shift to clean energy can also be a tremendous boon to community well-being, public health, and the economy. In May, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed standards for tackling carbon pollution from power plants.

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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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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 9, 2025

2024 had some bumps in the road for environmental protection. Attacks on nature, clean energy, and livable communities filled the headlines. Building a Clean Energy future Nearly 85% of Canadas electricity comes from non-carbon polluting sources. But what about for 2025?

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In New York state, voters have a chance to enshrine environmental protections in their state constitution, which could revive a legal movement that flourished in the United States a half-century ago. Environmental Protection Agency and passed landmark environmental laws to protect air, land, and water.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Their results are supported by a separate study by FEV Consulting, commissioned by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), comparing the labor hours required to build the Volkswagen (VW) ID.4 In other words, EVs don’t just make themselves, they require just as many workers as gasoline vehicles. The CMU findings are not an outlier.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency. That’s because while the clean energy transition is rapidly underway, it’s still too slow across the board and in far too many places, the fossil fuel industry continues to dig in and fight all attempts at change. And all signs point to the fact that technically, economically, we can.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the June 1 PA Bulletin inviting proposals for Clean Energy Campus generation and storage projects on 13 state-owned abandoned mine land sites of 50 acres or more totaling 1,850 acres. Read the entire PA Bulletin notice for more information.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The comment period for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s proposed greenhouse gas emissions standards for power plants closed on August 8, and headlines indicate that the industry is fractured. Read the full story from the Rocky Mountain Institute. EPA’s proposed standards help accelerate that shift.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

But smarter approaches, if carefully applied, could help to reverse costly reliance on gas, and accelerate the clean energy transition in PJM, and nationwide. Both moves could help get more clean energy onto the grid. of the proposed generation in the queue.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Under TSCA, … Continue reading EPA announces innovative effort to bring new chemicals used in electric vehicle, semiconductor, clean energy sectors to market.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 22, 2023

We Recycle Solar, which is permitted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to handle hazardous secondary materials that come from solar panels, removes, decommissions, recycles, and … Continue reading Here’s how North America’s first utility-scale solar recycling plant is ramping up for the clean energy boom

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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. Of that project funding, 40 percent will be dedicated to directly benefit Environmental Justice communities. “I thank Governor Shapiro, Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2025

The Environmental Council of the States and the Environmental Protection Network reported this week the President's Budget Request issued on May 2 would cut over $1 billion going to states to administer federal pollution control and permitting programs, eliminating 16 of the 19 categorial state grants.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

To meet our climate goals, a massive acceleration in the global deployment of clean- energy technologies is needed now. These two key ocean-climate solutions were featured at the Global Clean Energy Action Forum (GCEAF) which brought together clean-energy leaders from around the world to accelerate the clean-energy transition.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 3, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency et al. Decarbonizing the power sector is also a linchpin of economy-wide efforts to cut emissions, through electrification of energy use for transportation, industrial purposes and in residential and commercial buildings. The Supreme Court’s decision in the case known as West Virginia et al.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2025

Visit the PA Parks & Forests Foundations Events webpage and DCNRs Calendar of Events for activities happening near you. For more information on state parks and forests and recreation in Pennsylvania, visit DCNRs website. Resource Links: -- Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

The Department of Environmental Protection will host an April 1 webinar to provide an opportunity for the public to learn more about the Departments approach to implementing a federal program to reduce methane and other pollution from existing oil and gas operation s-- both conventional oil and gas and shale gas wells and infrastructure.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

The researchers proposed a new geothermal-assisted compressed-air energy storage system that makes use of depleted oil and gas wells the Environmental Protection Agency estimates there are around 3.9 By storing excess renewable energy and releasing it when needed, energy storage contributes to grid stability and reliability.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2024

Department of the Treasury (Treasury) to carefully implement multiple new Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) tax credits, including the Section 45V Credit for Production of Clean Hydrogen (“45V”). The December proposal makes clear that Treasury understands the critical importance of getting implementation guidance right from the start.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

This is despite the clean energy progress the power sector has experienced to date—and despite the groundwork laid for more progress from leading states, as well as the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). One critical tool for forcing that reckoning comes from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 25, 2023

With an outsized credit for the lowest-carbon tier, the incentive’s aim is clear: Drive deployment of hydrogen production technologies that will be needed by, and aligned with , the nation’s overall clean energy transition.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 22, 2024

Earth Day began under the Nixon Administration in 1970 as a day to support environmental protection and has grown to include nations and communities around the world in appreciation of Mother Earth. At UCS, we’re working to ensure effective and equitable implementation of key clean energy and clean transportation provisions.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

On April 24, the Department of Environmental Protection announced two strategic partnerships that will expand energy job opportunities across the Commonwealth while helping small and mid-sized manufacturers reduce costs, lower emissions, and stay competitive in a rapidly evolving energy economy.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Most of the relevant IRA and EPRA provisions that mandate fossil fuel leasing (minimum offshore lease sales, and the provisions that tie clean energy development to fossil fuel development) have sunset provisions ranging from 2029 to 2032. If the goal is balanced energy independence, such a provision would be helpful.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2025

On March 10, Mom Clean Air Force , local partners and community members announced they will be testifying against MarkWest Energy's application for a third expansion to its cryogenic facilities at the Harmon Creek Gas Processing Plant, Smith Township, Washington County.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Empower Michigan is made up of community and environmental organizations including the Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition, Michigan Interfaith Power & Light, West Michigan Environmental Action Council, Progress Michigan, Soulardarity, Clean Water Action, Union of Concerned Scientists, and Vote Solar.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 27, 2023

The departments of Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources and Environmental Protection would participate in the new program to provide veterans with apprenticeship training and the opportunity to enter the workforce in the sustainability sector. billion annually in economic activity. State Agencies Are Hiring!

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

The letter notes that funding cuts below fiscal year 2024 levels will undermine environmental protections that promote prosperity and human health of people across the country. State and local agencies have to invest significantly more funds beyond the statutory match requirements to meet their delegation commitments.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Community Advocates For Clean Energy will host a November 13 webinar on EPA's Clean School Bus Grant Program from Noon to 1:15 p.m. Click Here to register and for more information. Posted: October 8, 2024] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2025

Read more here. -- The Department of Environmental Protection said during an April 1 webinar it would be using a new General Air Quality Permit to implement the new federal oil and gas facility methane reduction requirements for conventional oil and gas and shale gas wells and infrastructure. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

These two pieces of legislation have historic amounts of funding available for climate work, clean energy, clean water, dealing with legacy pollution issues, really a lot of money and a lot of opportunity. “So, Community Change Grants “This is $2 billion coming from the Environmental Protection Agency across two award tracks. “So,

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 8, 2025

February 27-- House Appropriations Committee Budget Hearing: 10:00- Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Snowden at dsnowden@pa.gov or (717) 783-8846. formal notice ) February 26-- House Appropriations Committee Budget Hearing: 1:00- Department of Agriculture. House Floor.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Three years later, energy production emerges as a force to be reckoned with by fishermen, clean energy advocates, those focused on the endangered Right Whale, and everyone who depends upon the Gulf of Maine (hereafter referred to as “GOM”) and its future.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 17, 2024

He was appointed as a mediator by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to work with the environmental community and industry to establish better regulations for water quality monitoring in areas impacted by coal ash. Kraybill has played a significant role in several clean energy initiatives in Pittsburgh.

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