Posted at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/30/us-supreme-court-drops-carbon-bomb-planet One Democratic senator warned the high court’s right-wing majority “could unleash a new era of reckless deregulation that will gut protections for all Americans and the environment.” JAKE JOHNSON June 30, 2022 Update: The U.S. Supreme Court’s … Continued
From the Clean Air Council (http://www.cleanair.org/): Pennsylvania is poised to take a historic step to reduce carbon pollution from fossil power plants by participating in a market-based program called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). For over a decade, in … Continued
From the Clean Air Council (http://www.cleanair.org/): Pennsylvania is about to take a major step to limit carbon pollution produced by Pennsylvania power plants by joining a market-based program called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). In 11 states, RGGI has … Continued
From the Sierra Club (http://pennsylvania.sierraclub.org/): Any day now, the Pennsylvania State House could vote on House Bill 637, dangerous legislation that would prohibit the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) from regulating carbon pollution and block Pennsylvania from joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI. HB 637 would … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): PennEnvironment’s Research & Policy Center has issued its newest report, Cleaner Cars for PA: How the Zero-Emission Vehicle program would cut climate and air pollution in the Keystone State. The report details the potential climate and air pollution … Continued
From the Clean Air Council (http://www.cleanair.org/): Next week the Pennsylvania Senate is likely to vote on a tremendously harmful piece of anti-environmental legislation that would block the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) from taking any action to control carbon pollution … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): With so much at stake, it’s crucial that states like Pennsylvania take the lead to rein in climate pollution. That’s why some of our best climate champs in the Pennsylvania state senate are proposing to set mandatory limits … Continued
From PennFuture (http://www.pennfuture.org): In the coming days, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives could vote on House Bill 2025, a bill that would take away the power of the Department of Environmental Protection to enact a carbon reduction program similar to the … Continued
Ed Perry, Op-Ed, Scranton Times Tribune In 2014, President Obama proposed standards requiring cars and pickup trucks to get a fleetwide average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. His plan would not only reduce carbon pollution but save consumers … Continued
From PennEnvironment (http://www.pennenvironment.org): The climate wake-up calls are everywhere. Scientific reports like the one published earlier this month by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirm it; heat waves, wildfires and extreme weather drive it home.1 We still have … Continued