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Steelton-Highspire School District, Tröegs Independent Brewing Show Benefits Of Going Solar, Driving Electric Busses In Dauphin County

PA Environment Daily

Theres never been a better time for schools and small businesses to use the power of the sun to electrify their buildings and power their vehicles, said Hanna Felber, organizer for PennEnvironment. Plentiful sunshine and generous solar incentives are here.

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How Transmission—Not Gas—Will Bolster Winter Grid Reliability: A Look at MISO South

Union of Concerned Scientists

It will also allow us to reduce our reliance on centralized thermal power plants, such as gas plants, which have been disproportionately vulnerable to failure and the largest contributor to grid reliability problems during recent winter storms.

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PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - July 19 to 25 - More Criminal Charges; Weeks Long Wastewater Cleanups Continue; 27 More Abandoned Conventional Wells

PA Environment Daily

Defective Casing/Cement Chesapeake Appalachia LLC [14 Years] July 24, 2025 inspection of the Redmond 2H shale gas well in Meshoppen Township, Wyoming County as part of ongoing well monitoring since a violation was issued on July 13, 2011 for defective casing or cement found the well leaking gas in the well annulus.

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PUC Distributes A Record $278.8 Million In Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fee Revenue; Conventional Oil/Gas Operators Do Not Pay These Fees

PA Environment Daily

Details regarding the impact fee distribution are available online, including specifics on funds collected and distributed for each year since 2011. The distributions for individual municipalities are detailed on the PUC’s Act 13 webpage. Posted: June 20, 2023] PA Environment Digest

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Bad Guys in Energy 2022

Energy & the Law

million in a fraudulent solar power scheme. claiming he had created a compact “nano panel” (which does not exist) using “technology” that could generate triple the amount of electricity as traditional solar panels. Lots of cash was flown by private jets to Cameroon and South Sudan from 2011 through 2016.

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The energy transition is already happening, and it’s being led by our Indigenous communities

Enviromental Defense

This blog was written by Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Founder and Executive Director of Sacred Earth Solar My name is Melina Laboucan-Massimo. In 2011, my community experienced what was the second-largest oil spill in the province’s history – 4.5 I am from the Lubicon Cree First Nation in Little Buffalo, Alberta.

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By 2025 all new homes built in Tokyo must include solar panels 

A Greener Life

A solar power field in Kawasaki, near Tokyo. Last week, regulators in the local assembly of Tokyo , the capital of Japan , ruled that all new homes constructed by large-scale homebuilders after April 2025 must install solar panels to cut emissions. Poor solar uptake. Photo credit: Reuters / Toru Hanai. By Anders Lorenzen.