Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 1, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency. And so just by hearing it , members of the Supreme Court seemed to tip their hand, signaling a majority actively on the hunt for a chance to slash away at the government’s ability to advance vital environmental and public health safeguards. But that’s about where the good news ends.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Earlier this year, environmental health advocates scored a big win when the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) updated the ethylene oxide sterilizer rule requiring commercial sterilizers to significantly lower their emissions. Overburdened communities are not being protected fast enough by these incremental approaches.

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

One is strengthening commitments to reduce heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions in order to keep the planet from dangerously overheating. In New York state, voters have a chance to enshrine environmental protections in their state constitution, which could revive a legal movement that flourished in the United States a half-century ago.

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Inside Climate News

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

By Phil McKenna The Environmental Protection Agency is drastically undervaluing the potency of methane as a greenhouse gas when the agency compares methane’s climate impact to that of carbon dioxide, a new study concludes.

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Circle of Blue

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Diplomats are already outlining the agenda for COP27, which is expected to go beyond traditional deliberations about ways to limit heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of the Inspector General are on the ground in Jackson, conducting interviews.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 4, 2021

its district, appellate , and supreme courts decided in favor of Urgenda, an upstart environmental organization, ordering the government to more aggressively reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Environmental Protection Agency (2007) forced the EPA to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Third is causation.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 19, 2024

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the January 20 PA Bulletin it is extending the deadline for public comments on a proposed grant program to reduce industrial sector greenhouse gas emissions (RISE PA) to January 29.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2025

Visit the PA Parks & Forests Foundations Events webpage and DCNRs Calendar of Events for activities happening near you. For more information on state parks and forests and recreation in Pennsylvania, visit DCNRs website. Resource Links: -- Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 13, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency announced $2,400,000 for 24 small businesses to develop technologies to address public health and environmental challenges. On January 13, the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, estimated to be 80 times more damaging to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide but not as long lasting. She and her team of volunteers have found more than 1,000 lost and unplugged oil and gas wells, which they promptly reported to the state Department of Environmental Protection.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2024

February 27-- House Appropriations Committee Budget Hearing: 10:00- Department of Environmental Protection, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. February 26-- House Appropriations Committee Budget Hearing: 1:00- Department of Agriculture. House Floor. House Floor.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 6, 2025

The Environmental Protection Agency has frozen access to $20 billion in Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grants, leaving the grantees in a precarious financial position, said a spokesperson for the Climate United Fund. Read the full story at Utility Dive. Last April, the Climate United Fund was tapped to manage $6.97

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Still though, counties across the state have air that hasn’t met the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) standards for decades, causing a host of public health problems from asthma and cardiovascular issues to premature death. million metric tons of reduced greenhouse gas emissions through to 2050.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 20, 2024

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean School Bus (CSB) Program was established by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to help communities reduce pollution from older, higher polluting school buses. Public health related data for AK and HI were unavailable.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 9, 2024

Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) were developed to replace a type of chemical that impacted the ozone layer in our upper atmosphere, but these replacements are potent greenhouse gases. Phasedown of hydrofluorocarbons There are several rules that inform and facilitate the phasedown of hydrofluorocarbons.

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New Scientist

JUNE 30, 2022

In a major environmental case, the US Supreme Court has ruled to limit the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Here's what you need to know

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 15, 2021

Scientific innovations that decrease or eliminate the use of hazardous chemicals, reduce greenhouse gases and result in a safer and more sustainable product are being honored with Green Chemistry Challenge Awards from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Michal Freedhoff, Ph.D.,

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E2 Law Blog

MAY 31, 2022

EPA ) addressing the scope of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil-fuel powered power plaints. Click here to read the article (begins on p.

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The Environmental Protection Agency created the term “Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation”, (CAFO) as part of a regulatory scheme for enforcing the Clean Water Act. Methane is a greenhouse gas that traps heat more effectively than carbon dioxide. Greenhouse gases are major drivers of global climate change.

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SPR Law

JULY 15, 2022

Supreme Court restricted the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in its 6-3 decision for West Virginia v. On June 30, 2022, the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The Stockholm Declaration of 1972 laid the foundation by recognizing the importance of environmental protection. The legal right to a healthy environment The legal framework supporting the right to a healthy environment is rooted in a series of international agreements.

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Law and Environment

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This announcement tilts the balance of cost-benefit analyses in favor of activities that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and it could have widespread effects for entities that receive federal funding or are subject to federal regulation. The directive is, nonetheless, significant.

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Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

This stops legislators from rescinding environmental protections when doing so would damage the environment because it would violate the peoples constitutional rights. They give the people power by ensuring those people are not just given a clean environment, but that they are entitled to one.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2024

On January 12, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it received $3 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to develop a Priority Climate Action Plan focused on reducing emissions in the Commonwealth’s industrial sector.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The Environmental Protection Agency announced plans Thursday to further cut emissions of climate super-pollutants widely used in air conditioning and refrigeration, the latest step in the United States’ effort to phase down the potent greenhouse gases. Read the full story in the Washington Post.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency recently released 2023 greenhouse gas data collected under the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. In 2023, reported direct emissions of greenhouse gases from large stationary sources, representing approximately 50% of total U.S.

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – Environmental and health groups are urging Parliament to prioritize Bill S-5 , introduced today in the Senate. When we need to act to prevent environmental harms, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions or banning plastics – it’s done under this Act.

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Law Columbia

JANUARY 25, 2022

The case concerns the scope of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing fossil fuel power plants under Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act (CAA). Read the brief here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection has published a Request for Information in the December 30 PA Bulletin to assist in the development of a grant program for Reducing Industrial Sector Emissions in Pennsylvania (RISE PA).

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

On November 4, Protect PT and Three Rivers Waterkeeper announced they have appealed two permits for the Slickville Pipeline Project issued by the Department of Environmental Protection to the Environmental Hearing Board. mile route.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

By Josh Raulerson, PA Environmental Council Data published in February by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency show a startling 9.6% Pennsylvania’s power generation sector is one of the nation’s largest — and thus, also, one of the biggest emitters of climate-changing greenhouse gases.

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Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

The “youth citizen” plaintiffs in Held successfully argued that implementation of Montana’s “State Energy Policy Act” causes and contributes to climate change, in violation of the Montana Constitution’s longstanding environmental protection provisions. The court’s 103-page decision in Held v.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Environmental Protection Agency has proposed more stringent methane regulations for the oil and gas industry that would dramatically curb emissions of the potent greenhouse gas. By Phil McKenna The U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 25, 2024

Furthermore, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provided a strong and clear affirmation of the appropriateness of Treasury’s proposed approach in light of EPA’s long-standing interpretation and implementation of the referenced lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions definition.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the September 23 PA Bulletin announcing the availability of the new General Permit Plan Approval covering Coal-Mine Methane Enclosed Flares (BAQ-GPA/GP-21). The greenhouse gas emissions from coal mining increased from 9.82 million metric tons. million metric tons.

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Law and Environment

JULY 1, 2022

EPA on Thursday, June 30, 2022, curbing the power of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants across the country. The Supreme Court decided West Virginia v. The decision focuses on EPA’s authority under a specific section of the Clean Air Act. What is the case about? .

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Circle of Blue

APRIL 24, 2023

And lastly, the EPA establishes that water and wastewater are eligible categories for billions in federal funding to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. “We By the Numbers $27 Billion : Size of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a pot of money included in the Inflation Reduction Act.

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