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Planning and Measurement
State Advisory Board
Status: No Activity Identified
Regional Initiatives
Status: Proposed
Details: Pennsylvania is an observer to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a cooperative effort by ten Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states to establish the design of a regional cap-and-trade program initially covering carbon dioxide emissions from power plants in the region.
GHG Inventory
Status: Completed
Details: Inventory completed in 2003 and revised in 2006. Initial inventory completed in 1995.
- http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/info/carbon/documents/08-03-06pa_ghg_inv_forecast.pdf
- http://www.depweb.state.pa.us/energy/lib/energy/docs/greenhousegasemissionsinventory.pdf
- http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/downloads/PASummary_03_08.pdf
Climate Change Action Plan
Status: Completed/Further Work In Progress
Details: Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell signed Senate Bill 266 (the Pennsylvania Climate Change Act) on July 9, 2008. The Act requires the Department of Environmental Protection, in consultation with a Climate Change Advisory Committee, to submit a climate change action plan to the governor within 15 months. Moreover, a new plan must be developed every 3 years thereafter. PA's first climate change plan is not available on the Web.
Targets and Caps
Lead by Example Target
Status: No Activity Identified
Statewide GHG Target
Status: No Activity Identified
Statewide GHG Cap
Status: No Activity Identified
Reporting
Electricity Disclosure
Status: No Activity Identified
GHG Registry
Status: In Progress
Details: Member of The Climate Registry - a collaboration aimed at developing and managing a common GHG emissions reporting system across states, provinces, and tribes. It will provide an accurate, complete, consistent, transparent, and verified set of GHG emissions data from reporting entities, supported by a robust accounting and verification infrastructure. Members released a final General Reporting Protocol in May 2008. The Climate Registry plans to start accepting data in summer 2008.
HB 110 (referred to the Environmental Resources and Energy Committee on November 13, 2007) would establish a voluntary GHG registry.
- http://www.theclimateregistry.org
- http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/billinfo.cfm?syear=2007&sind=0&body=H&type=B&BN=0110
Mandatory GHG Reporting
Status: No Activity Identified
Power Sector
CO2 Offset Requirements
Status: No Activity Identified
GHG Performance Standard
Status: No Activity Identified
Advanced Coal Technology
Status: Completed
Details: The PA Alternative Energy Portfolio Standard's Tier 2 resources include electricity generated from IGCC plants.
Power Sector GHG Cap and Trade
Status: Proposed
Details: Observer to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a cooperative effort by ten Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states to discuss the design of a regional cap-and-trade program initially covering carbon dioxide emissions from power plants in the region.
Transportation Sector
GHG Auto Standards
Status: In Progress
Details: On November 2, 2006, Pennsylvania's Independent Regulatory Review Commission approved rules adopting air pollution standards that match California's requirements. The PA Environmental Quality Board adopted the rules on September 19, 2006.
On January 2, 2008, California filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. EPA's denial of the state's effort to regulate GHG emissions from motor vehicles, in response to EPA's rejection of a petition for a Clean Air Act waiver on December 19, 2007. A waiver is required for California and other states to implement a vehicle emissions standard tougher than the federal one. The proposed auto standard calls for the reduction of GHG emissions from new vehicles of 22% by 2012 and 30% by 2016.
- http://www.ahs.dep.state.pa.us/newsreleases/default.asp?ID=4306&varQueryType=Detail
- http://gov.ca.gov/press-release/8400/
Low Carbon Fuel Standard
Status: No Activity Identified