Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Refining processes , particularly in countries with lax environmental regulations, emit greenhouse gases and toxic waste. A unified approach within the major consumer countries to responsible battery sourcing, processing, and recycling can reduce environmental harm and ensure a fair and ethical transition to a clean energy future.

Regulations

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Globally, the shipping industry accounts for 3% of greenhouse gas emissions, with ports being one of the key contributors along with ships running on heavy fuel oil. But there are still issues such as inefficient spatial planning and shoreline utilisation that does not consider clean energy deployment.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JULY 27, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen A ruling by the highest global court, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), states that individual countries must protect their people and environment from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and act with due diligence to fulfil this obligation. degrees C above pre-industrial levels.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The program uses a third party professional energy manager to work with local governments and school districts to review existing plans and project proposals, make recommendations, and perform assessment services to reduce energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions. Photo: Map of Shared Energy Manager Program participants so far.)

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

JULY 3, 2025

In China, new energy solutions are helping to create more adaptive, multifunctional systems that co-evolve with nature. As a result, the energy transition has become more than a path to decarbonisation; it’s now a catalyst for systemic transformation. This rapid growth plays a vital role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 27, 2025

Senate Bill 186 (Yaw-R-Lycoming) abrogates Pennsylvania's carbon pollution reduction program covering power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Pennsylvania needs proactive solutions to meet the growth in energy demand with cleaner generation. Democrats on the Committee opposed the bills.

Greenhouse

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2025

For more information on state parks and forests and recreation in Pennsylvania, visit DCNRs website. Resource Links: -- Gov.

Conservation

A Greener Life

JANUARY 9, 2025

The report, submitted to the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), discloses China s greenhouse gas inventory in 2020 and 2021. It showed that total greenhouse gas emissions in 2021, including that from land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF), reached 13 billion tonnes, an increase of 4.3%

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2024

11 -- DEP Eligible For $1.7 26 -- Sierra Club PA Hosts Oct. 30 Webinar - It’s Scary Out Here! Of Agriculture, Land O'Lakes Farmer Cooperative, National Hemp Assn.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

JULY 29, 2025

More importantly, all States, especially large current and historical greenhouse gas emitters, must strengthen their Nationally Determined Contributions ahead of COP 30 later this year to include significantly more ambitious targets and effective measures to achieve those targets.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 2, 2025

Driving away from state climate targets Transportation has been the biggest sector contributing to climate change in Massachusetts practically every year since the earliest emissions inventory for 1990 and most recently has contributed 38% of state greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2021.

2018

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Here’s the catch: there are three big flaws with the story they’re peddling: Fossil fuels are still the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. It’s also hugely expensive compared to cheaper clean energy solutions : reliable renewable sources like wind, solar and hydropower, coupled with energy storage like batteries.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

Key updates reflect a dynamic landscape, from shifting deforestation rates in the Amazon to ground breaking initiatives in clean energy. These clean energy technologies are pivotal to Brazil’s goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and meeting its international climate commitments.

2025

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

Clean Energy

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 20, 2024

It similarly prohibits the states energy code and state regulatory bodies from prohibit[ing], penaliz[ing] or discourag[ing] building gas use, and it repeals zero greenhouse gas building objectives. But I-2066 does more than just preempt local governments on gas use in buildings.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2025

Greenhouse gas (GHG) footprinting has been the industry’s main yardstick to date. Capital assets are also implicated in the vast majority of corporate greenhouse gas emissions. This means treating the company’s capital plan as the heart of its transition plan, complemented with other useful metrics.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

Emissions have declined across most sectors, except for fugitive emissions from energy production (natural gas and oil systems), industrial emissions (both fuel consumption and process emissions), and agriculture emissions (resulting from agricultural soil management, liming, and urea fertilization).

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Shapiro [PaEN] -- PA Senate Republicans Pass Bill To Roll Back Environmental, Health, Safety Regulations By Doing Nothing And Avoiding Accountability [PaEN] -- Spotlight PA: PA Republican Senate Leader Says No Action On Bipartisan Bills To Boost Electricity Production Until PA Supreme Court Decides On Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Rule Case -- (..)

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2025

9, York County. -- Penn State Extension Home Garden News: Houseplant Master Class Webinar Series Available; Treen Tenders Training; Good Gardening Saturday Series -- Pike Conservation District: From Source To Sink - Groundwater Education Workshop Series Starts Jan. 13 -- Pike Conservation District: Pike/Wayne Counties Contractors Workshop Feb.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

Advocates Put Out A Call To Action -- 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] -- TribLive: Plum Zoning Board Rejects Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well After Lengthy (..)

Greenhouse

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

But it has passed laws regulating two powerful greenhouse gases, and some other climate laws stretching back over the past five decades. I’m not including laws that simply incentivize clean energy or those that fund pure science, even though both are vitally important parts of climate policy.

Law

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

PJM Overview Electricity prices in PJM, which serves all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia, are rising dramatically due to a failure to transition to clean energy. Lack Of Clean Energy Transition The fundamental reason behind the price spike is the lack of a clean energy transition in PJM.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Million To Settle Lawsuit By Investors Who Claimed EQT Overstated The Benefits Of Its Rice Energy Merger In 2017 -- Marcellus Drilling News: Integrated Lithium Production Plant Coming To PA In 2026 Using Oil & Gas Production Wastewater [PaEN] -- Marcellus Drilling News: Avonlea Lithium Corp.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Million In Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fees; $25.1 Million In Sen.

Recycling

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The act aims to create green jobs, reduce fossil fuel consumption and switch to clean energy. This ties into broader debates on global priorities as fossil fuel investments continue alongside growing clean energy investments. It is the largest military spender and historically the largest emitter of greenhouse gases.

Paris Agreement

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

While Wright acknowledges the reality of climate change, he deliberately misrepresents climate data and research to downplay the seriousness of the problem and to undermine proven solutions including transitioning away from fossil fuels and accelerating the transition to clean energy. Wind and solar are clean energy.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2025

Data Center Infrastructure; Amazon Told PUC It Has Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Goal By 2040 [PaEN] -- Utility Dive: Talen Energy To Sell Amazon 1.9 Shapiro Announces $20 Billion Amazon A.I. Investment; Concerns Remain About Powering New A.I.

Electricity

Enviromental Defense

MAY 22, 2025

There are dozens of elements to consider when framing an energy transition strategy, but in Alberta, they break down to two unique but interconnected paths: Pathway one: Albertas dependence on royalties for our core budget, such as health care, education, transportation and infrastructure. Petrostate today, but what about tomorrow?

Renewable Energy

Law Columbia

JULY 7, 2025

The budget measure extends tax cuts for the wealthy, slashes Medicaid and – more to the point for this writing – almost completely eliminates or renders unworkable many of the clean energy tax credits established or expanded by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and guts many of the IRA’s grant and loan programs. Commercial EVs.

2026

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

You acknowledged the realities of climate change, the benefits of clean energy, the economic need for environmental justice, and the importance of protecting human health through smart regulation. Like you, EPA employees are committed to these principles. --Ignoring scientific consensus to benefit polluters.

Environmental Protection

Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

In China we found the Central Government building new clean energy plants to quadruple wind and solar generation. Clean energy generation increased. One target is Michigan’s climate law that requires 100 percent clean energy electrical generation for utilities by 2040. Coal production dropped. Much cleaner.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The incoming Trump Administration has, of course, called for ending efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and repealing the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the Biden Administrations signature bill that provides dramatic expansions of subsidies for investments in clean energy. That process will not end.

Politics

Law Columbia

APRIL 2, 2025

The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), one of the most critical climate spending programs in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), has come under significant fire from the Trump administration. Under the Biden administration, EPA awarded the entire $27 billion in GGRF grants. President Trump now wants to claw much of that back.

Greenhouse

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

In the EOs, President Trump orders federal agencies and personnel to take certain actions or to report back on actions that could be taken in the future that would stifle federal clean energy programs, steer funding away from disadvantaged populations and communities, or both. To be clear, there is no federal EV mandate.

Paris Agreement

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 23, 2024

At issue in the case is whether New York Citys Local Law 97 of 2019 , the Citys building performance standards aimed at reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its largest buildings, is preempted by New York States Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). City of New York. Glen Oaks Village Owners v.

Law

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 28, 2025

Repeal and rescission of unobligated funding for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund remains as it was deemed to be permitted under the Byrd Rule. [Federal funding from this program would account for plugging over 40% of the 768 conventional wells DEP expects to plug over the next year. Read more here.]

2027

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

Shapiro: Legal Action Against PJM Saved PA Consumers An Estimated $1.6 Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug. 19-21, Sept. Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug. 19-21, Sept. Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug. 19-21, Sept. 19-21, Sept.

Conservation