Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

Section 60103 creates a “Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund” (GGRF), which the EPA Administrator can use to make grants for the deployment of zero-emission technologies, and to carry out other greenhouse gas emission reduction activities.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 11, 2023

This document is little more than a belated attempt to rationalize the government’s recent announcements for new nuclear and gas facilities. It is certainly not a plan for clean energy generation – it’s a plan to keep critics at bay while the province keeps polluting and using antiquated and dangerous technologies.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 2, 2024

1-31 Grants -- EPA Awards $55.7 28 to Oct. 6 [PaEN] Background On Issues -- Lt.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

However, the energy aspect is not excluded, as JTF’s investments can also be channelled towards the deployment of technologies and infrastructures for affordable clean energy, greenhouse gas emission (GHG) reduction, energy efficiency and renewable energy sources.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

Under PACER, 70% of the revenue will be directed back to Pennsylvania residents as a rebate on their electric bill – more than any other cap-and-invest program in the nation – resulting in long-term, price relief on energy costs. Pennsylvania is 45th in the nation in terms of investing in clean energy sources like wind, solar, and hydropower.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

On April 7, the Department of Environmental Protection appealed the April 6 Commonwealth Court order blocking publication of the final regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to the PA Supreme Court. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 23, 2023

The Treasury Department’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) provides definitions of key terms in the statute, including lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions, qualified clean hydrogen, and qualified clean hydrogen production facility. Read more here.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 25, 2016

These diversions are inconsistent with New York State regulations aimed at ensuring the proceeds of the auctions would be spent on new programs to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions. If the Senate proposal is approved, the diversions will total $269 million—nearly 30% of the $925.8

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Law Columbia

JUNE 27, 2023

Direct pay – which is already in effect as of January 1, 2023 – allows tax-exempt entities, including local governments, to claim the value of certain clean energy and other tax credits as a cash payment, rather than as an offset to tax liability that they do not have.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

In addition to the consumer impacts, methane is 86 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period, so any leakage from these operations would also be particularly dangerous for our climate. Nuclear In August of 2021, Talen Energy Corp. Bitcoin mining does not help clean energy.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2023

In addition to the consumer impacts, methane is 86 times more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period, so any leakage from these operations would also be particularly dangerous for our climate. Nuclear In August of 2021, Talen Energy Corp. Bitcoin mining does not help clean energy.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Read more here. -- September 19 PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Not Registered For Global Clean Energy Action Forum In Pittsburgh? Trillion Tons Of Greenhouse Gas -- The Guardian: Fury Over PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ As U.S Room 461 Main Capitol. Click Here to watch live.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2022

On March 30, the House voted 126 to 72 to pass House Bill 637 (Struzzi-R-Indiana) designed to block the final DEP regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants that’s consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Read more here. At least $12.5 Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The significance of this proposal is that it is the first time House or Senate Republicans have recognized a need to reduce carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants and to help communities and workers caught in the transition to the new clean energy economy. percent to the Energy Communities Trust Fund; -- 12.5

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Cresforum

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Introduction Hydrogen has been dubbed the “Swiss army knife” of clean energy, given its potential to become a tool to cut emissions in key sectors, as well as to assert U.S. global energy leadership and increase our nation’s competitive edge. DOE’s National Clean Hydrogen Strategy and Roadmap sets a target of increasing U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2022

Wolf’s veto of Senate Regulatory Resolution #1 that blocks the final DEP regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Read more here. Read more here. At least $12.5

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

-- Republican Herald: West Nile Virus Monitoring Starts In Schuylkill County -- Shapiro Administration Commends 3 PA Schools For Environmental Efforts As Green Ribbon Schools -- National Energy Technology Laboratory: Winners In Western PA, West Virginia Science Bowl Competed In National Science Bowl -- Wildlife For Everyone Foundation Announces 5 Recipients (..)

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

The rest of our power comes from a mix of nuclear power, renewables like hydro, wind and solar power, and biofuel. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 . Ontario Electricity Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions Historical and Forecast. Ontario has built a clean energy supply.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

Envirothon Team Get Hands-On Science Lessons In Canoes -- National Energy Technology Laboratory: Winners In Western PA, West Virginia Science Bowl Competed In National Science Bowl -- PA Solar Center Honors 5 Western PA Organizations Who Have Gone Solar [PaEN] -- Williamsport Sun: Eagle On The Mend Through Ashkar Students’ Efforts -- Reading Eagle: (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

Forming Work Group On Climate/Clean Energy, Co-Chairs Announced In response to a question from Sen. Gene Yaw (R-Lycoming), Majority Chair of the Senate Environmental Committee, on DEP’s final regulation reducing carbon pollution from power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, Acting Secretary Negrin said Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2023

Shapiro In Support Of Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative [PaEN] -- Spotlight PA: Shapiro Isn’t Sold On RGGI Climate Program, His Working Group Isn’t Either - What’s Next? -- York Daily Record Guest Essay: Gov. Shapiro, Let’s Hold The Fossil Fuel Industry Accountable Via RGGI - By Rev.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 13, 2022

Our region is currently a primary hub of carbon-based energy production. Driven by emissions from power generation and industrial activity — activity that generates jobs and economic opportunity for southwestern Pennsylvania — our greenhouse gas emissions, on a per capita basis, are about 50% higher than elsewhere in the state or country.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

There has been much talk in recent weeks about pricing carbon to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The most direct of these is imposed on certain fossil fuel power plants by requiring them to purchase carbon dioxide emissions allowances as part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. by Romany Webb and Justin Gundlach.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

The Regulation’s proposed criteria for gaseous fossil fuels (which includes both conventional natural gas, and synthetic gas derived from coal gasification) allow investment in their consumption without restriction in function, scale, or time period, as long as greenhouse gas emissions are no higher than 100 gCO2eq/kWh (see §4.29-31

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The attorney general said that PwC also served from at least 2008 to 2013 as global advisor and report writer for the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit organization that functions as a global disclosure system for environmental information, including greenhouse gas emissions, from companies including Exxon. 451962/2016 (N.Y.

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Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 22, 2023

In developing the plan, the law directs the Utilities Commission to follow existing state law with respect to least-cost generation of power and maintain system reliability. So the law requires a balancing of consumer costs/system reliability and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

Let’s together get control over our energy supply chain so Putin and the Saudis can no longer control our destiny and our wallets. We have made a start by expanding our wind power, extending our nuclear power, pushing hard to get access to Canadian hydro power, and making our homes more energy efficient—that’s less costs and carbon free.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Receive $40 Million In USDA Funding To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Improve Water Quality [PaEN] -- Delaware River Basin Commission To Hold Nov. Of Energy Awards DEP $16.2 Of Agriculture, Land O'Lakes Farmer Cooperative, National Hemp Assn. 6 Hearing, Dec. Ohio- $2.84 Ohio- $2.84

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2022

Reduce Demand For Natural Gas/Transition To Clean Energy Pennsylvania’s natural gas industry and their politicians want you to forget the agreement has a second major objective-- reduce overall natural gas demand by accelerating market deployment of clean energy measures. Read more here.

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Natural Gas Clean Energy Fossil Fuels Greenhouse 90

Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. 41] Most proponents of variable renewable energy thus look elsewhere for storage solutions.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2024

Governor, Acting DEP Secretary Highlight Potential Of Solar Power On Abandoned Mine Lands At Beaver County Site; Issued New Report On Solar Potential Of Mined Lands [PaEN] -- DEP Issues Request For Information For Clean Energy Generation, Storage Projects On State-Owned Abandoned Mine Lands; Webinar June 10 [PaEN] -- PUC Publishes Final Policy Statement (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Susquehanna County [PaEN] -- Scranton Times: PA American To Provide Clean Drinking Water In Dimock To Replace Fracking-Contaminated Private Wells [ PDF of Article ] -- WVIA: PA American Water: Dimock Twp. Shapiro Touts Capping Of 300th Conventional Oil & Gas Well At North Franklin Twp.,

Natural Gas 53

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 22, 2023

Through the IRA, there are also many opportunities for climate change mitigation through cleaner vehicles, homes that are more energy efficient, and reductions in greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane. We will continue to transition to a clean energy economy that creates good paying, family supporting jobs.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2022

American Rescue Plan Funding -- Bay Journal: PA Takes ‘Historic’ Action To Fund Clean Water Projects And Help The Chesapeake Bay - By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal -- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested. What’s Your Community Doing?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

. -- Green Building Alliance Invites New Kensington Commercial Property, Business Owners To 2030 District Launch and Energy Efficiency Info Session Dec.

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Natural Gas Politics Recycling Nuclear Power 84

Vermont Law

JUNE 29, 2020

There is hope that these effects of climate change can be slowed down or even mitigated with drastic changes in our energy sector. The energy sector is one of the biggest polluters when it comes to. greenhouse gas emissions. Today the energy sector accounts for 30% of the carbon dioxide emissions in. finalized last year.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) creates a massive funding program for clean energy and other climate policies. Yet authority over energy policy is fragmented at the federal level. The Department of Energy has limited regulatory powers (primarily over transmission) but controls nuclear power and a lot of spending.

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