PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2021

“Yesterday’s hearing was an important step toward passage of a bill that will finally allow Pennsylvanians to take advantage of the economic benefits that community solar can provide and modernize the state’s electric grid using private investment,” said Leslie Elder, Mid-Atlantic Director for Coalition for Community Solar Access.

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Physics World

MARCH 16, 2022

It turns out, for example, that climate-change researchers fly more frequently than scientists in other fields. Change 65 102184 ), climate scientists jet off two to three times a year on average, whereas other researchers get on planes just twice during that time. But other scientists also fly a lot.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 3, 2024

Shapiro Has Done An About-Face On Fracking By Aligning Himself With CNX After Charging Them With Environmental Crimes - By Karen Elias, Climate Reality Project , Better Path Coalition -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Diversified Energy Sells Unknown Number Of Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In PA, WV, OH -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Peoples Natural (..)

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

. -- Hold Erie Coke Accountable Calls On EPA, DEP, Erie County & City To Form Erie Coke [Coal] Plant Community Working Group On Site Cleanup, Revitalization [PaEN] -- Erie News Now: State Report Details Pollution At Erie Coke [Coal] Plant Site -- Online Link Now Available For Aug. Potter County To Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

The better news is that methane does not last as long as carbon dioxide, so climate scientists have targeted reduced methane emissions as a primary means to produce short-term reductions in warming. In addition to harming the atmosphere, the massive leak also caused short-term health problems for nearby residents.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources.

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Enviromental Defense

MARCH 2, 2022

This week’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world’s leading climate scientists, paints a terrifying picture of the future if Canada and the world don’t tackle fossil fuels with urgency. Will he follow through with a policy that limits carbon pollution from Canada’s #1 polluters?

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2024

19-22 [PaEN] -- Senate Environmental Committee To Hold 2nd Joint Hearing With Ohio Legislature On Electric Grid Reliability Feb. . -- DEP Awards $101.1 Million In Federally-Funded Grants To Support Local Abandoned Mine-Related Restoration; Deadline For Next Round Of Grants Feb. 1; Will It Address Natural Gas Infrastructure Vulnerabilities ?

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

The UN agency concluded global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are at the highest levels in human history and without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors limiting climate change to 1.5°C C will be beyond reach.

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Edouard Stenger

MARCH 21, 2023

Yesterday the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its latest report and compared our current situation to defusing a time bomb. As climate scientist say, every tonne of greenhouse gases counts. But as global surface temperature is reaching 1.1°C C above 1850–1900 in 2011–2020 this is not any more the case.

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A Greener Life

MAY 12, 2023

With our children already paying a terrible price for climate change, we must act to protect their future, urges an IPCC scientist. When heatwaves disrupt our children’s education, it is time to demand climate action. I am writing this as a climate scientist and a mother of two young children.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 24, 2021

That was the timeline laid down by the most prestigious body of climate scientists for limiting warming to 1.5 So even if these technology unicorns all prove to be viable, this is literally a recipe for Canada to fail on its climate goals. degrees , the “safe” threshold for global warming.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

One of the strongest names is that of Maisa Rojas, a renowned climate scientist who will take over as the new Minister for the Environment. “My A broad, cross-ministry environmentalism was one of the most striking attributes of Gabriel Boric’s recently selected cabinet of 24 ministers, 14 of whom are women.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2024

1 Hearing On Water Withdrawal Requests, Including 8 Related To Shale Gas Development; And On Cooperative Fish Nursery General Permit [PaEN] -- Senate Environmental Committee To Hold 2nd Joint Hearing With Ohio Legislature On Electric Grid Reliability Feb. 1; Will It Address Natural Gas Infrastructure Vulnerabilities ? PaEN] -- PA Cong.

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Edouard Stenger

MARCH 20, 2017

This is the third year in a row that emissions from energy are flat, yet, climate scientists report that our atmosphere is seeing its carbon content grow faster than ever. For the first time, electricity generation from natural gas was higher than from coal last year in the United States.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2022

On June 1, PPL Corporation announced it has joined Climate READi, a three-year initiative launched by the Electric Power Research Institute to address energy system climate resilience and adaptation as extreme weather events continue to increase. "As

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The deep coal mine will be used to mine coking coal, specifically used for steelmaking rather than electricity generation, and it is to be developed by West Cumbria Mining. The emissions from the burning of coal such as steel and power plants are the single biggest contributor to climate change. degrees C target.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 7, 2024

Million By Allegheny County For Hydrogen Sulfide Exceedances At Clairton Coke [Coal] Works From March to November -- KDKA: US Steel Fined $2.2

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 21, 2024

26 Webinar On Federal And State Financial Resources For Going Solar [PaEN] -- Senate Environmental Committee To Hold 2nd Joint Hearing With Ohio Legislature On Electric Grid Reliability Feb. Shapiro Promised 30% Renewable Electricity By 2030, Will That Happen? -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

By Ralph Kisberg, Responsible Decarbonization Alliance This guest essay first appeared in the Daily Item on September 11, 2022 -- While the majority of Pennsylvanians want the nation to seriously address climate change, close to half of all federal legislators and substantially more than half the legislators in our statehouse are not yet on board.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

As examples, carbon offset funds from the purchase of carbon credits are used to replace fossil-fuel heating systems with heat pumps powered by renewable electricity, support farmers in transitions to regenerative farming practices, and build solar or wind energy projects. Mann, Ph.D.,

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The performance standard for new coal-fired electric utility steam generating units is based on a highly efficient supercritical pulverized coal unit with partial carbon capture and storage as the best system of emission reduction (BSER). Coalition for Competitive Electricity v. Circuit Court of Appeals. 4:16 -cv-06040 (N.D.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

MARCH 16, 2022

I led the development of global transparent data authentication system to drive the scale-up of electric mobility and clean energy in alignment with circular economy, human rights and community development. We cannot solve these problems with a myopic view of what climate and environment looks like. 11, 2022.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To get an assessment of the progress thus far, as well as an idea if what has to happen next, I turned to two of my colleagues in the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Climate & Energy Program: Principal Climate Scientist Rachel Licker and Transmission Policy Manager Sam Gomberg. percent; natural gas, 38.3

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Sánchez Valle ) , together with the recent disastrous, expensive, and unaccountable privatization of electricity generation, transmission, and distribution, prove beyond any doubt that the authority to decide on issues that affect Puerto Rico lies, not on the people of Puerto Rico, but with US Congress. SCOTUS’ Puerto Rico v.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 31, 2024

Although not explicitly named, climate change was a theme. And lurking in the background was our electricity system, a main character in the movie and one of the biggest contributors in real life to the climate pollution fueling more extreme weather events. But, as the movie alludes to, data isn’t the full story.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2023

1 – People and places are struggling with wildfire As a climate scientist living in California and witnessing the consequences of decades of unchecked climate change, my personal and professional lives often overlap. Last summer, my family and I went on a long, winding road trip through California and Oregon.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2025

14 -15 [PaEN] -- TribLive: Climate Change Will Continue With Warmer, Wetter Conditions Predicted -- DEP Sets Feb. 14 -15 [PaEN] -- TribLive: Climate Change Will Continue With Warmer, Wetter Conditions Predicted -- DEP Sets Feb. One In Susquehanna County Now [ PDF of Article ] -- WHYY/BillyPenn: Why Gov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 30, 2022

Fossil fuels are the root cause of climate change, of long-standing environmental injustices, and are also frequently connected to geopolitical strife and violent conflicts. Europe is starting to take some important steps in that direction through its REPowerEU plan aimed at getting off Russian gas before 2030.

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 5, 2023

Vanuatu , vulnerable to the effects of climate change and global warming, brings the question of other governments’ climate inaction to the world’s highest court. Unseasonal snow throughout the western Balkans is elevating the risk of floods, electricity shutoffs, and traffic accidents. billion natural gas project.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2022

Senate passed compromised legislation that would make the largest federal investment-- $375 billion-- in climate change fighting strategies, including investments in renewable energy production, tax rebates for consumers for energy efficiency and electric vehicles and more. Republicans voted against the bill. billion for EQIP, $6.75

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 29, 2023

And the rigorous teaching of climate science does not inculcate anyone with anything except a greater understanding of the physical world and how humans are altering it. I’d bet a climate scientist would have been glad to make the short trip to talk to Senator Cirino. Source: Google maps.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 16, 2023

Climate Envoy Kerry: No Rolling Back Clean Energy Transition PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Inquirer: 100 Days: A Look At Shapiro’s ‘Common Ground’ Approach To Governing One Of The Nation’s Most Politically Divided States -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: Pennsylvania’s House Takeover - A Tale Of Two Speakers - By Fmr Rep.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

“And what’s really becoming clear is that these very extreme precipitation events are occurring more frequently than they used to and the main reason for that is human-caused climate change.” – Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist. As of Wednesday, around 5,000 homes in the area remained without electricity.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 29, 2024

As the climate continues to change and average global temperatures rise, heat domes, heat waves, and extreme temperatures days will become more frequent. That’s why electric heat pumps are an integral climate solution.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2023

Steel Clairton Coke (Coal) Works] -- Post-Gazette: FirstEnergy Seeking Ratepayer Surcharge To Keep Two Coal-Fired Power Plants Open In West Virginia -- PennLive - Letter: We’re At An Energy Crossroads - By Karen Feridun, Better Path Coalition -- PennLive Guest Essay: How Nuclear Power Saved Christmas And The PJM Electric Grid - By Rep.

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