Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Climate change is propelling these weather events to grow faster and stronger than ever before. Other climate change impacts are accelerating as well. Many scientists thought these high ocean temperatures would be years away, but the realities of climate change are not a distant threat.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 16, 2022

According to the forecast, while economy-wide CO 2 emissions decrease from 2022 to 2037 due primarily to the growth in renewable energy replacing retiring coal plants, emissions do increase after 2037 from increased usage of natural gas. EIA is projecting that natural gas prices will remain low.

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Inside Climate News

MAY 5, 2024

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, came as an investigation by Democrats in Congress exposed efforts by the oil and gas industry to downplay the climate impact of natural gas. natural gas and liquified natural gas (LNG), funded by the natural gas industry.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2023

While there are thousands of people here in Dubai at COP28 fighting for genuine change, the climate summit is facing a barrage of disinformation. Combatting climate change has never been more urgent, and COP28 is poised to advance critical global action. According to The Global Carbon Project , approximately 36.6

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

On November 7, PA Republican Senators introduced Senate Bill 1346 that punishes local elected officials who want to better protect their constituents from the documented adverse health and environmental impacts of shale gas development. Read more here. In October 2023, Sen. Read more here. In May 2024, Sen. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2025

This testimony was presented by Sarah Martik , Executive Director of the Center for Coalfield Justice based in Washington County, at a March 11 hearing by the DEP Office of Environmental Justice on an Air Quality Permit for the expansion of the MarkWest Energy's Harmon Creek Natural Gas Processing Plant in Smith Township, Washington County.

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Legal Planet

JULY 13, 2023

As we clean up our energy system, we simultaneously reduce the tons of pollutants we now produce from burning coal, oil, and natural gas. Then there are the benefits of protecting nature. Limiting climate change will itself protect ecosystems and biodiversity around the world. What’s not to like?

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

Thats why I was happy to partner with Environmental Defence and use my platform to promote renewable energy, action against climate change, and our most valuable resource: wide open untouched, healthy nature. For winter athletes, climate change poses existential risks to doing what they love.

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Inside Climate News

JUNE 28, 2022

Additional studies are underway to see if homeowners are exposed to this and other toxins when cooking with gas. By Hannah Loss Samples of natural gas taken before it was burned for cooking in homes in the Boston area contained 296 chemical compounds, including 21 that are toxic to humans, researchers led by the Harvard T.H.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When thinking about global emissions, don’t picture an individual—point your finger at powerful corporations, specifically the 88 companies that are largely responsible for climate change. They obviously include climate change, but it also include health impacts from air pollution and water pollution.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The destruction caused by climate change is directly linked to human activity, primarily burning fossil fuels. There are multiple realistic, tangible solutions that would rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, yet policy addressing anthropogenic climate change remains slow and insufficient.

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Law and Environment

APRIL 18, 2023

On Monday, the 9 th Circuit Court of Appeals held that the City of Berkeley ordinance entitled “Prohibition of Natural Gas Infrastructure in New Buildings” was preempted by the Energy Policy and Conservation Act. The post Berkeley’s Ban on Natural Gas in New Construction is Preempted: What Will Happen to Other Local Bans?

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 8, 2025

Some people have talked about the possibility of the wetlands drying up due to climate change. Koch adds: We anticipate these lowland streams to be the ones most potentially impacted by changes to the climate, namely temperature and precipitation. Nineteen inches of precipitation is not a lot, Leaf says.

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Law and Environment

JANUARY 9, 2024

Last week, the 9 th Circuit voted against rehearing en banc its decision from last April finding the City of Berkeley’s ban on natural gas connections in new construction to be preempted by the Energy Policy and Conservation Act. Judge Friedland, joined by seven other judges (and three senior judges!)

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Legal Planet

MAY 5, 2022

Mexico is also highly vulnerable to climate change. What’s the state of climate policy in Mexico? The climate issue has to be placed in the broader context of Mexico’s situation. Because of its geography, Mexico is vulnerable to climate impacts. There are many things to celebrate on Cinco de Mayo.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 7, 2024

Some 90 per cent of the gas used in Ontario is fracked gas, imported from the U.S. The post New Backgrounder Released by Environmental Defence Summarizes the Problems of Ontario’s Increasing Reliance on “Natural” Gas appeared first on Environmental Defence. and Western Canada. . –

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 30, 2023

This editorial first appeared in the Republican Herald on April 30, 2023 -- Lawmakers were so eager to accommodate the natural gas industry nearly two decades ago that they opened the rich Marcellus Shale gas field without an adequate regulatory regime. Now, the state continues to play catch-up.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

Climate change under other federal statutes. Climate change as substantial impact requiring discussion in environmental impact statement. Climate change as reason for threatened or endangered status under Endangered Species Act. SEC rules on disclosure of climate-related risks.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 24, 2022

To head off disastrous climate change, we need to radically transform the modern energy system. To a large extent, combatting climate change will mean bringing this long era to an end. We burn coal and natural gas for heat and to make electricity. Ships are powered with bunker oil. Download as PDF.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 4, 2023

This means that, with few exceptions, new buildings will need to exclusively use electric appliances, and will not be allowed to contain any fossil-fuel infrastructure, like natural-gas lines. All-electric as the new normal. Just as important is the process that led to the new-buildings ordinance.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

On September 13, the Pittsburgh-based Environmental Health Project issued a review of the University of Pittsburgh studies released on August 15 showing links between natural gas development and Lymphoma cancer, worsening asthma conditions and lower birth weights. "We

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 17, 2024

The reality, however, is that climate action and affordability go hand in hand. We really can have our cake and eat it too when it comes to addressing climate change and affordability. Solar panels and wind turbines produce electricity much more cheaply than gas turbines, coal plants and oil burners.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

On September 1, The Center Square reported the state Department of Health is inviting citizens to file environmental health complaints related to natural gas development. Visit Health’s Oil and Natural Gas Production Health Concerns webpage for more information. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2022

On Friday there were two seismic shocks in the world of gas pipeline regulation. FERC has spent years resisting pressure to change the way it licenses new gas pipelines. A whole point of a natural gas pipeline is to deliver the gas to users who will burn it, thereby releasing CO2 into the atmosphere.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The $76 million is the first round of Formula Grant funding under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which could provide up to $300 million over the next three to five years; advancing ongoing efforts to protect public health, reducing methane emissions that contribute to climate change, and creating good-paying Pennsylvania jobs.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 20, 2024

A biomedical researcher explained how climate warming increases the risks to humans from existing and novel pathogens. And I spoke about the power of attribution science , which allows scientists to link events and trends like heatwaves and sea level rise to climate change, and in turn, to link climate change to specific sources of emissions.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Every step of the petrochemical and plastics supply chain releases harmful pollutants - from extraction of fracked ethane gas used to make the building blocks of plastics to processing, production and transportation. Click Here for a video of the press conference. Click Here to sign the petition.

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Law and Environment

JULY 1, 2022

EPA determined that the “best system” was “generation shifting,” that is, shifting power generators off coal to natural gas or renewables such as wind and solar. Make no mistake: the Court’s opinion will have major implications for how the federal government addresses climate change nationally. What did the Court decide?

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

DEP’s Climate Change Advisory Committee is schedule to meet February 20 to hear presentations on the 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment, PA Greenhouse Gas Inventory and an update on the PA Climate Action Plan. For available handouts and more information, visit DEP’s Climate Change Advisory Committee webpage.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Those targets are to be keyed to achieving the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping climate change below 2 °C and as close to 1.5 °C In a pathbreaking opinion, the German Constitutional Court ordered the government to adopt much stricter emissions targets for 2030. C as possible.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 31, 2024

2023 In Anticipation Of Halt In Russian Gas Flows Thru Ukraine -- Reuters: What Happens When Russian Natural Gas Supply To Europe Via Ukraine Ends Jan. 2023 In Anticipation Of Halt In Russian Gas Flows Thru Ukraine -- Reuters: What Happens When Russian Natural Gas Supply To Europe Via Ukraine Ends Jan.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The law school developments are just signs of how the field itself has changed. There are three interlinked reasons for the change. Climate change. Energy use accounts for the bulk of greenhouse gas emissions. The key to getting climate change under control is to rapidly decrease the user of fossil fuels.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 20, 2023

Avoiding the worst impacts of climate change will require the rapid reduction in these emissions from the vehicles we drive. And walking and biking means avoiding air pollution and climate-changing emissions altogether. However, avoiding driving is even better.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 7, 2021

And over and above those trends, there’s climate change — leading to a sharp increase in extreme weather events with more yet to come. ” The moral: Historical patterns of event frequency are no longer reliable — climate change is disrupting past patterns. Climate change will only intensify the inequalities.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 30, 2023

The upshot was that the US resisted any effort to address climate change and embraced a “drill baby drill” energy policy. Some of those changes, like cheaper natural gas due to greater use of fracking, helped emissions decline under Obama. You can blame Bush. This may be a better way to see the significance of 2.8

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Power plants fueled by methane gas have a serious climate problem. The fuel, commonly known as natural gas, now powers the biggest portion of US electricity generation—more than 40 percent.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2025

Of Health Invites Citizens To File Environmental Health Complaints Related To Natural Gas Development; Health Will Also Review Environmental Test Results [September 2023] -- State Dept.

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