Environment, Law, and History

JANUARY 12, 2022

Now-Justice Breyer argued that it was misleading to consider the environmental impact of nuclear power without also considering the impact of alternatives such as coal. She also called for international consultations and for strategies to deal with deforestation.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

Billion That Owns Nuclear Plants In PA -- Post-Gazette: Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Plant Part Of $3.4 Shale Boom Shows Signs Of Peaking As Big Oil Wells Disappear PA Politics - Everything Is Connected -- Gov. Billion Spending Plan Scrutinized -- PennLive - Charles Thompson/Jan Murphy: What’s In Gov.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

However, the energy aspect is not excluded, as JTF’s investments can also be channelled towards the deployment of technologies and infrastructures for affordable clean energy, greenhouse gas emission (GHG) reduction, energy efficiency and renewable energy sources. It remains to be seen if this provision will make it to the final version.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2022

On April 7, the Department of Environmental Protection appealed the April 6 Commonwealth Court order blocking publication of the final regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to the PA Supreme Court. Read more here. Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2022

On March 30, the House voted 126 to 72 to pass House Bill 637 (Struzzi-R-Indiana) designed to block the final DEP regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants that’s consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Read more here. At least $12.5 Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The poll found an almost even divide on nuclear power-- 37 percent more emphasis and 34 percent less. Republicans, in particular, were supportive of placing more emphasis on natural gas (61 percent), solar (59 percent), hydropower (51 percent), nuclear (47 percent) and wind (45 percent)-- in that order.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Trillion Tons Of Greenhouse Gas -- The Guardian: Fury Over PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ As U.S

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

It has therefore drafted a proposal(2)- a Delegated Regulation - which sets out screening criteria for investments in nuclear energy, effectively declaring nuclear energy part of the sustainable finance taxonomy. There are no good arguments to call nuclear a sustainable investment at one time and not sustainable a moment later.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2022

Wolf’s veto of Senate Regulatory Resolution #1 that blocks the final DEP regulation establishing a Carbon Pollution Reduction Program covering power plants consistent with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Read more here. Read more here. At least $12.5

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The attorney general said that PwC also served from at least 2008 to 2013 as global advisor and report writer for the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit organization that functions as a global disclosure system for environmental information, including greenhouse gas emissions, from companies including Exxon. 451962/2016 (N.Y.

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Vermont Law

MARCH 16, 2018

Many civil disobedience activists in the 1960s and 70s attempted to use it to justify their illegal actions in protests over foreign wars or nuclear power, for example, but achieved little to no success. Often raised in emergency situations where illegal actions might save life or limb, the defense can also be controversial.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 10, 2023

We have made a start by expanding our wind power, extending our nuclear power, pushing hard to get access to Canadian hydro power, and making our homes more energy efficient—that’s less costs and carbon free.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Doing research on environmental issues or responses is usually an easy call for policy-makers and gets wide political support, even if there’s disagreement what to do about the issue. SG would cool the Earth, temporarily and imperfectly offsetting some of the climate effects of elevated greenhouse gases, by reflecting a bit (around 0.5%

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Receive $40 Million In USDA Funding To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Improve Water Quality [PaEN] -- Delaware River Basin Commission To Hold Nov. Of Agriculture, Land O'Lakes Farmer Cooperative, National Hemp Assn. 6 Hearing, Dec. Ohio- $2.84 Ohio- $2.84 Ohio- $2.84

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. 25] And that amount does not include the costs associated with local and state political opposition.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2024

Governor, Acting DEP Secretary Highlight Potential Of Solar Power On Abandoned Mine Lands At Beaver County Site; Issued New Report On Solar Potential Of Mined Lands [PaEN] -- DEP Issues Request For Information For Clean Energy Generation, Storage Projects On State-Owned Abandoned Mine Lands; Webinar June 10 [PaEN] -- PUC Publishes Final Policy Statement (..)

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

22 Webinar On New Guidebook For Municipalities On Large-Scale Solar Development [PaEN] -- MCall: New Plan For Lehigh Valley Hydroelectric Power - Chain Dam -- WPSU: When Will Greenhouse Gas Emissions Finally Peak? Of Environmental Professionals Host Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 12, 2022

In the meantime, security of oil and gas supplies will continue to pose a challenge for Europe, and also for other regions, he said.”

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

. -- Green Building Alliance Invites New Kensington Commercial Property, Business Owners To 2030 District Launch and Energy Efficiency Info Session Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

-- Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy, Partners Host Stormwater Symposium March 14 At Ursinus College, Montgomery County [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Hosts April 21 In-Person Private Water Supply Education, Water Testing Workshop In Cumberland County [PaEN] -- TribLive: Plum Creek Watershed Project Aims To Address Flooding, Pollution Concerns In Allegheny (..)

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

We know we must now work to both cut greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the severity of climate change and at the same time work to adapt to the impacts we can no longer avoid. Malthusians and socialists within the Democratic Party and center-left political coalitions in Europe clashed overpopulation and poverty. Why else use it?

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission oversees energy markets, pipelines hydropower and to some extent power transmission. The Department of Energy has limited regulatory powers (primarily over transmission) but controls nuclear power and a lot of spending.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2023

None of this is necessary and is, in fact, a roadblock to implementation of the proven, scalable renewable energy solutions that threaten oil and gas interests that dominate our political process in Pennsylvania.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2022

Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) said opponents of natural gas infrastructure projects “just need to be ignored and politically ran over.” And the goal is not to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. “As and one nuclear power plant-- Three Mile Island Unit 1.] “I Read more here. percent in Pennsylvania and 46.9 That is the goal.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2022

short-sighted climate policies – like forcing Pennsylvania into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and canceling natural gas and oil infrastructure, the Keystone XL pipeline [Canadian oil, not in Pennsylvania] chief among them – are so very dangerous.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2022

Wolf To Unleash PA’s Immense Natural Gas Reserves -- PG: Overnight Gasoline Spike Pushes Prices In Pittsburgh Closer To $4 -- AP: Fire Out At Ukraine’s Key Nuclear Power Plant Amid Russian Attacks American Rescue Plan Funding -- $11 Billion In Federal American Rescue Plan Funding To PA State Government, Local Governments Has Yet To Be Invested.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Finley [PaEN] -- KPVI: Carbon County Votes Overwhelmingly To Authorize Up To A $10 Million Bond To Protect Water Quality, Working Farms, Wildlife Habitat [PaEN] -- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Accepting Comments On Draft EIS For Ohio Valley Connector Natural Gas Pipeline In Greene County Until Nov.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Less appealingly, it’s also #4 in coal production, #7 in greenhouse gas emissions, and #4 in oil refinery capacity. As I observed at the time, that bill was also striking politically: it was a bipartisan effort, signed by a Republican governor. Illinois, in short, is an important part of the U.S. energy picture.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Don Ritter -- Post-Gazette: Canadian Nuclear Fuel Firm Buying Into Westinghouse Electric Co. Nuclear Power] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Mawson Infrastructure Group To Sell Georgia Bitcoin Mining Facility And Focus On Beaver County Bitcoin Facility -- Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Allowance Auction On Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Receive $40 Million In USDA Funding To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Improve Water Quality [PaEN] -- Chesapeake Bay Foundation: After 40 Years Of Cutting Edge Environmental Restoration, Can The Bay Partnership Again Reinvent Itself In Time To Save The Bay In The 21st Century? Of Energy Awards DEP $16.2

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

3 PA Bulletin; More Oil & Gas Well Pad Cleanups; Facility Permits [PaEN] -- Health Department Distributing Free Potassium Iodide Tablets To Pennsylvanians Near State’s Four Active Nuclear Power Plants Sept. Wolf Announces $4.2

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 23, 2022

It is certainly true that the IRA uses “carrots” – principally in the form of tax credits – to incentivize actions that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. For example, the IRA extends and expands existing tax credits for renewable electricity production, and creates a new credit for electricity production at certain nuclear power plants.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2025

Shapiro Signs Executive Order To Fill Critical Public Service Vacancies In PA By Recruiting Talented, Experienced Federal Employees, Streamlining Hiring Process -- TribLive: Employees Cut By Feds Could Get PA, Allegheny County Jobs -- PA Capital-Star: Shapiro Signs Executive Order Aimed At Attracting Federal Employees -- Dept.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2021

[ Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else ] What a difference 11 weeks makes! There are plenty more meaty budget issues to resolve and political fights to be had before the July 1 budget deadline. Nuclear power (carbon free) was a big winner with natural gas (less carbon) coming in second.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Wind Industry Tacks as Trump Shifts the Political Climate. NOAA erases ‘human activity’ from news release on soaring greenhouse gases. Energy Department Scientists Barred From Attending Nuclear Power Conference. Energy Department grid study calls for boost to coal, nuclear power. . 2017.06.30. 2017.06.30.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Investment across the energy spectrum –from oil and gas and renewables to energy storage and transmission – could well increase due to growing power demand, incentives for new supply, and permitting reforms, extending existing trends from the past four years. Renewable Energy Vs. Fossil Fuels Renewables or fossil fuels?

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