Legal Planet

AUGUST 15, 2023

” Prioritizing fossil fuels over renewable energy in 2023 for insubstantial reasons does not pass strict scrutiny. For another, the Montana Legislature and state agencies remain committed to energy policies that prioritize dirty fossil fuels and will not go without a fight. that justified the harm. “The

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2022

On the contrary, it relies on the routine exploitation of food and farm workers , heavy use of fossil fuels and chemicals that pollute the environment , and the degradation of soil and other natural resources that are critical to future production of healthy food.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The second letter , submitted on behalf of Clinic client Natural Resources Defense Council, provided suggestions related to phasing out oil and gas production on the County’s portion of the Inglewood Oil Field. Much hard work lies ahead in removing fossil fuel infrastructure and preparing this land for healthier uses.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen People are raising serious questions about the selection of Azerbaijan, a country rich in natural resources, to host this year’s round of UN climate talks COP29. On the second day of the summit, the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, also spoke, calling it absurd to double down on fossil fuels.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2017

We know that burning fossil fuels is the main cause of anthropogenic climate change, and that climate change is the source of adverse impacts on communities and even regional and national economies. by Justin Gundlach. These points are largely undisputed. Peter Frumhoff led off, presenting two key points.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 26, 2021

These truths all point to one direction: Canada needs to rapidly come up with a transition plan to phase out fossil fuel production without compromising on prosperity and community wellness. Canadians need a strategy to reduce their emissions, which means phasing out of fossil fuels and other polluting industries.

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Background Japan has heavily relied on the use of fossil fuels for its power generation. According to the Japanese Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, the countrys fossil fuel dependency was 83.2%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The remaining bills, Assembly Bill 460 and Assembly Bill 1337 , were unable to make it out of the Senate Natural Resources and Water committee. They are still alive and can be advanced next session; We will not stop working to pass them.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

Harnessing more energy from the sun would mean cleaner air, a more stable climate, less strain on natural resources, and an energy source we can depend on to be virtually pollution-free for as long as we can imagine. Solar energy is a key part of this transformation.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 31, 2021

As John Dernbach wrote in a recent blog for ACOEL, on July 21, 2021 the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that this amendment required all state revenues from oil and gas leases to go to conserve and maintain public natural resources for the benefit of future generations. Now we have an important new decision from Montana.

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Energy and Climate Law

JUNE 11, 2020

This step is quite controversial due to the impossibility to ensure that the hydrogen there is really produced from renewables and not from fossil fuels. But also because hydrogen has been praised as an `energy security weapon´ to strive towards energy independence in a country that is poor in natural resources.

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Physics World

MAY 17, 2022

A significant focus of research and application related to clean energies is to reduce the negative effects of fossil fuels that are contaminating our planet (via their by- products) and rapidly consuming our natural resources. Any factor that can assist “clean-energy-based strategies” has to be seriously considered.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2023

Reaction Tom Rutigliano , Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a blog post published on January 9-- "As that day and the next wore on [December 23, 24], power plant after power plant failed. Some couldn’t get fuel, some just stopped working, and still others failed to start when called on. "By

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2024

There is a fourth, unstated reason behind the price spike which, as the Natural Resources Defense Council has said, was foreseeable and preventable—the lack of a clean energy transition in PJM. He served as Secretary of the PA Department of Environmental Protection and of the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Why in the world would DEP break the law just to ensure that a giant fossil fuel power plant can dirty the community’s air? It’s Up To The Feds - By Mark Szybist , Natural Resources Defense Council [PaEN] [Posted: November 22, 2022] PA Environment Digest Renewable energy is cleaner, cheaper, and more abundant.”

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Law Columbia

MARCH 14, 2024

In the first months of 2024, legislators in four states— Maryland , Massachusetts , New York , and Vermont —have pushed for legislation that would collectively require large fossil fuel producers and refiners to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars of state-level climate adaptation infrastructure.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2023

House holds Regular Session April 24, 25, 26 -- Committee Schedule -- Updated: House Budget Hearing Schedule - March 20, 21, 22 Senate holds Regular Session April 24, 25, 26 -- Committee Schedule -- Updated Senate Budget Hearing Schedule - March 20, 21, 22 TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- Hearings Start March 21 For DCNR, DEP, Agriculture FY 2023-24 Budget (..)

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Corp Watch

JUNE 7, 2023

Release: Nearly all COP27 sponsors are either major polluters or enablers of fossil fuel industry Corporate Accountability International PaulaR Wed, 06/07/2023 - 07:53 Thursday, November 17, 2022 Read more Coca-Cola is but one of eighteen sponsors that raises concerns about why vital climate talks even have corporate sponsors in the first place This (..)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

FRIDAY Noon: PA Solar Center Hosts Webinar Update On PA Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards, Community Solar Legislation + Review 2021-22 AEPS Compliance Report. Million Pounds Of Industrial Air Pollutants Discharged In Pittsburgh Area In 2021 Came From U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

It results in policies that favor building new fossil fuel resources or financially propping up existing ones. He served as Secretary of the PA Department of Environmental Protection and of the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Reprinted from the Kleinman Center website.)

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Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The Plan points out that the demands placed on tribal members by numerous consultation requests present a significant burden and notes tribal members’ calls for increased technical assistance and capacity building resources, as well as compensation for participation in consultative processes.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The Governor approved a notable slate of climate legislation with a package that includes more stringent greenhouse gas (GHG) emission targets and measures designed to reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels. In signing these bills, the Governor touted the state as the most aggressive actor on climate in the nation. Clean Energy.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2023

23 to 29; More Abandoned Wells; Oil & Gas Doesn’t Typically Issue NOVs For ‘Routine’ Venting Of Natural Gas, Will Air Quality Under New Regs? 5: Virtual Keynote & Panel Discussion, 5 Regional Workshop Locations [PaEN] [Posted: October 6, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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ESA

JANUARY 5, 2024

Dr. Gillian Bowser, pictured right, is a wildlife ecologist and associate professor at Colorado State University’s Natural Resource Ecology Lab. o C over pre-industrial global temperatures with a transition away from fossil fuels. She networked with a number of groups and individuals during the COP28 workshop.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2023

Every step away from fossil fuels is a step toward averting both climate disaster and the biodiversity crisis.” “As We look forward to building Renovo’s future with a vision based on tourism, our natural resources, recreation, and our railroad history - all of which we hold dear.”

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Natural Resources Defense Council issued a report in May outlining how the slow PJM Interconnection project queue process threatens the development of renewable energy in the PJM region. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

By Department of Conservation & Natural Resources Efforts to slow or stop global warming involve many strategies working together. One strategy is to counterbalance carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions that contribute to climate change by drawing an equal amount of carbon out of the atmosphere, such as through planting trees.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2024

Second, coal and natural gas-fired power plants that are work horses of the grid are retiring prematurely both because of the climate policies of some states (not Pennsylvania) and because the federal government discourages or bans fossil-fuel power plants and give preferential treatment to renewable energy.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Houska, a citizen of Couchiching First Nation , is a prominent opponent of the Line 3 Pipeline in Minnesota and Dakota Access pipelines and plays an active role in the movement to defund fossil fuels. The obvious thing to do is to transition away from fossil fuels and stop building pipelines. I'm like, no.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Job-intensive infrastructure upgrades, efficiency improvements, and measures to repair fossil fuel damage, including repairing roads and bridges (99%), weatherizing homes to make them more energy efficient (96%), cleaning up old oil and gas wells (95%), and reclaiming abandoned mine lands (86%), enjoy broad support among Pennsylvania voters.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 20, 2023

The world will need large amounts of lithium to reduce fossil fuel emissions drastically. However, the lightest of metals is at the center of climate talks because it is one of the main components of lithium -ion batteries. million tons by 2030.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The natural gas gathering pipeline system and freshwater supply pipelines are being built to connect the development of three shale gas tracts leased from the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in Loyalsock State Forest that are expected to add up to 80 additional shale gas wells. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 12, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. 22, 23, 24 PA Assn.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 15, 2024

“The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. 22 DEP Awards $39.6 16; Snowmobile/ATV Grants Feb.

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