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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Thanks to advances in attribution science, we now understand many of these extreme events have been worsened by climate change. The fossil fuel industry plays the dominant role globally in causing climate change and therefore their profits come at the expense of our global health and safety. billion and $35.5

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2024

The climate impacts people around the world experience are connected to the fossil fuel industry’s record-breaking profits: “The profits made by the oil and gas majors come at the direct expense of all of us and our shared planet. Increases in the fossil fuel production that drives climate change will continue to wreak havoc.

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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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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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Law and Environment

JULY 12, 2021

Last week, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that the Berkeley ordinance essentially banning use of natural gas in new construction was not preempted by the Energy Policy and Conservation Act. Berkeley, with a population of barely 100,000 people, is trying move public policy towards an end of new natural uses of natural gas.

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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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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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 10, 2023

This year has brought new evidence of what major fossil fuel companies knew and when about the role their products play in climate change, as well as what they did in spite of what they knew. Today, most hydrogen is produced from fossil (“natural”) gas.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 16, 2025

Forward Together The construction of these two gas plants would cost around $2 billiona cost that gets passed down to We Energies customers through their electric bills, which is especially risky considering these plants may become stranded assets as efforts to clean up our power grid continue in the future.

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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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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

“ Natural” gas is not clean or green, as its misleading name implies Every reputable environmental organization and energy agency around the world is saying we can’t build new gas projects if we want to avoid complete climate chaos. Gas is a polluting fossil fuel which emits greenhouse gasses when it is produced and used.

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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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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 29, 2024

PA- $3.24 -- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs Same As Last Week At 15; Aug. PA- $3.24 -- Baker Hughes: PA Natural Gas Drilling Rigs Same As Last Week At 15; Aug. Ohio- $3.03 Ohio- $3.03

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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

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The fossil fuel industry is the problem, not the solution Despite their well-funded campaigns to convince us otherwise, here are five reasons why we need to be skeptical about fossil fuel industry engagement in global climate policy. Let’s start with the obvious: the burning of fossil fuels is the main driver of climate change.

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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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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The decision at the Glasgow climate conference to phase down fossil fuels is an important step forward — and not just because of climate change. We think of fossil fuels as a source of climate change, but that’s only a one part of the problem.

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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

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Policymakers and residents all must be wary of the false solutions sold by oil and natural gas CEOs, according to the webinar hosts. You'll hear from experts who will provide an overview of our electricity grid, the organization that operates it known as PJM, and long-term, proven solutions to this energy grid crisis!

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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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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

KANNAN THIRUVENGADAM: What motivated me was really trying to find a grounded climate action that has ongoing benefits. Even though I’ve been a computer guy most of my professional life, as soon as I learned about climate change, I left my tech world to work on climate and community. My dad is a farmer in India.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency Region 3 Administrator Adam Ortiz, PennVEST Chairman Dr. Brian Regli, and local government partners to celebrate Earth Month and highlight the partnership between federal, state, and local governments to fight climate change. All climate change is local.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

DEP’s Climate Change Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet on February 21 to discuss a proposed scope of work for the 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment and state Climate Action Plan as required by Act 70 of 2008. For more information and available handouts, visit DEP’s Climate Change Advisory Committee webpage.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2023

Utilities and grid operators prepared for the storm as it was coming down the pike, but they still underestimated the energy demand it would trigger, as well as the number of outages at fossil fuel power plants—mainly natural gas-fired, plus some coal-fired plants. Where do we go from here?

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In our series on the increasing unreliability of fossil gas , my colleagues at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) have laid out why growing concerns about grid reliability should not be met simply by increasing the number of gas plants on the grid. In fact, too many gas plants are the problem, not the solution.

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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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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2023

On April 24, DEP inspectors, responding to a citizen complaint, found two conventional wells continuing to vent natural gas in Hanover Township, Washington County. The DEP inspector found significant natural gas readings around the well head of the water well which has been disconnected from the house and is no longer in use.

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