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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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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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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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 counterargument to that is that steel is a critical component of many renewable energy technologies such as wind turbines. degrees C target.

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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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Academy of Natural Sciences

MARCH 16, 2022

More recently, I was the interim director and policy director with the Global Battery Alliance within the World Economic Forum, which works on driving human rights and sustainability in the battery value chain, in the scale up of electrification and renewable energy. 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; and renewables 20.1

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 31, 2024

A group of climate and energy experts and enthusiasts enters a theater to watch Twisters , hoping for a renewable energy twist. Although not explicitly named, climate change was a theme. In the words of Kristy Dahl, UCS climate scientist : “The reality is that there have always been tornadoes.

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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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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.

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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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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

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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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2022

Think about this simple fact-- there is no limit on what the oil and gas industry can charge you for gasoline, diesel fuel or heating oil to heat your home and the spiking cost of natural gas is dramatically pushing up the cost of electricity for everyone because its price is determined on volatile foreign energy markets.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal, Frans Timmermans said: “It is time we tackle our vulnerabilities and rapidly become more independent in our energy choices. Let's dash into renewable energy at lightning speed. Putin's war in Ukraine demonstrates the urgency of accelerating our clean energy transition.”

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2022

Sullivan Charitable Trust & Reinvestment Fund Celebrates $30 Million In Low-Interest Commercial Energy Efficiency Project Loans From DEP Green Energy Loan Fund in Philadelphia.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Mann, Climate Scientist & Author, At The Water's Edge Gala On Nov. 3 DEP Issues 2 NOVs Against PA General Energy For Water Pollution Discharges Into The Loyalsock Creek From Gas Pipeline/Water Withdraw Construction In Lycoming County Pitt School Of Public Health, PA Dept Of Health Abruptly Pull Out Of Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 23, 2023

Of Environmental Professionals Now Accepting Nominations For 2023 Karl Mason And Walter Lyon Awards [PaEN] -- Marcellus Drilling News/The Allegheny Front: University Of Pittsburgh Study Finds At Least 800,000 Tons Of Oil & Gas Waste Sent To Landfills Unaccounted For In One Year; Oil & Gas Waste Adds To Radiation Accumulation In Stream Sediments (..)

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 13, 2023

16 Webinar: Why Should We Care About, Advocate For A Climate-Friendly Federal Farm Bill? 18 PA Renewable Energy Policy Webinar - Time To Take Action [PaEN] -- Penn State Master Gardeners Of Cumberland County 2023 Pollinator Festival Aug. 15] -- PA Interfaith Power & Light, Jewish Earth Alliance Aug.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

Finally, Gleick claims I argue that the “only solutions” I believe “will work” are “nuclear energy and uninhibited economic growth,” but later writes, “His passionate belief that nuclear is the only answer to our energy and climate problems (maybe along with a mega-dam on the Congo River in Africa).” Ehrlich agreed. “In

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2022

Republicans said the final regulations will increase the cost of electricity for individuals and businesses, have a negative impact on jobs and will not significantly reduce carbon pollution. While electricity rates are already rising across the country, during the first 10 years that RGGI was in place, rates dropped nearly 6% in RGGI states.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The United Nations (UN), the US and the European Union (EU) should look at the recent crisis and see energy as a critical priority in Palestine and should spearhead and fund renewable energy projects. UN-backed projects like this decentralised solar project are a great beginning, but much more should be happening.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Ned Ketyer, Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania -- Inquirer - Will Bunch: Democracy Dies When PA Pols Tell Their Own Voters To Drop Dead On Fracking [Proposed LNG Plant In Chester, Delaware County] -- TribLive: Penn Township Board Will Visit Proposed Hyperion [Olympus Energy] Natural Gas Compressor Site -- Liberty Twp.,

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 14, 2025

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is expected to hold a hearing on Wrights nomination tomorrow. In videos and Congressional testimony , Wright portrays himself as a truth teller, while falsely claiming that climate scientists and renewable energy advocates are deceptive.

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Legal Planet

JANUARY 7, 2025

Decarbonizing the US economy requires a massive increase in renewable energy, and that in turn depends on building out the US electricity transmission network, which in turn depends on reducing regulatory obstacles (primarily state and local approvals) for transmission. That permitting reform bill is now dead.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 8, 2025

Climate scientists, backed by robust research, say so. C found that surpassing 2 degrees C of warming would significantly increase the frequency and severity of climate impacts, including extreme weather events, biodiversity loss, and threats to human health and livelihoods. degrees Celsius) as something magical.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 15, 2025

The news that started leaking last Friday is that the Trump administration wants to break up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and essentially end NOAAs climate work by abolishing its primary research office and forcing the agency to instead help boost U.S.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

Heres what else has happened in the last 7 days No Climate Assessment: The Trump administration has unceremoniously dismissed all the expert authors of the next authoritative look at how climate change is affecting the US. Ethiopia may ban internal combustion engines, reports Electrek.

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Law Columbia

MARCH 6, 2018

First, the court said the cities’ novel theories of liability based on the defendants’ sales of their product did not differentiate their claims from earlier transboundary pollution suits in which the Supreme Court ( American Electric Power Co. Arizona Court Ordered Production of Climate Scientists’ Emails Under Arizona’s Public Records Law.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

A few general resources: Sidelining Science Since Day One: How the Trump administration has harmed public health and safety in its first six months by The Union of Concerned Scientists I Heart Climate Scientists. . pulling out of the Paris climate deal may make China great again. And now the full list: . 2017.06.01.

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Columbia Climate Law

MAY 8, 2020

States, Electricity Providers Allowed to Intervene in Case Concerning Management of Glen Canyon Dam. Individuals, companies, and organizations filed 18 amicus briefs in support of the Public Health and Environmental Petitioners, State and Municipal Petitioners, Clean Energy Associations, and Power Company Petitioners. 2:19-cv-120 (N.D.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 31, 2022

The Energy Department, however, concluded that the credits will have a negligible impact on monthly electric bills. To undermine the widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EVs), the Koch network has urged Congress to kill the federal income tax credit for EV buyers.

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Arnold Porter

JUNE 2, 2021

On the other hand, proponents of infrastructure projects to reduce GHG emissions, such as renewable energy projects and associated electric transmission lines, may seek to justify investments in reliance on the SCC. º C, viewed by climate scientists as a critical threshold to avoid catastrophic impacts.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Energy Policy Advocates v. Court Said Climate Scientist Provided Sufficient Evidence of Actual Malice for Blog Authors but Not for Publisher. The plaintiffs contended that the defendants should have evaluated a no-action alternative’s climate effects and effects on onshore renewable energy. July 15, 2021).

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