Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Global spending on clean energy technologies and infrastructure is on track to hit $2 trillion in 2024. Much of this funding is slated to be put toward renewables, electric vehicles, low-emission fuels, storage solutions, nuclear power and other green technology. Read the full story at ESG Dive.

Clean Energy

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen A BloombergNEF (BNEF) report has revealed that 2024 was a bumper year for clean energy investments across the globe. The electrification of transport, renewable energy and power grids were the most popular investments.

Renewable Energy

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Despite the Alberta government’s best efforts to stall the development of affordable, clean renewable energy, most Albertans support its development, said Stephen Legault, Senior Manager, Alberta Energy Transition, Environmental Defence. Our government needs to stop impeding clean energy development.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This demonstration of the connections between people and systems, and the need for collective solutions to complicated problems, came to mind when I read about an idea for a different real estate host technology: nuclear power plant owners seeking to bring large data centers to co-locate on their land. Modernize, or bypass, the grid?

Nuclear Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 25, 2025

One growing conversation in the use or non-use of GenAI is the environmental implications of the technology in every step of its life cycle. The communities breathing polluted air near data centers or those experiencing increased energy costs are the ones at the frontline of the technology’s impacts and often last its benefits.

Air Pollution

Legal Planet

JUNE 13, 2025

Last year, legislators passed, the governor signed, and California voters approved, a ten billion dollar climate bond (the Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024, SB 867 (Allen), which appeared on the November ballot as Proposition 4). billion); Wildfire and forest resilience ($1.5

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

On April 25, the Department of Environmental Protection announced the release of the 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update and 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report. Click Here for a copy of the 2024 Climate Action Plan Update. Click Here for a copy of the 2024 Climate Action Plan Update. from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4%

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MAY 7, 2025

The State of Renewable Energy 2025 documents the growth of six key clean energy technologies across the United States over the past decade and ranks states accordingly for solar power, wind power, battery storage, energy efficiency, electric vehicles and electric vehicle charging stations.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

JULY 3, 2025

In China, new energy solutions are helping to create more adaptive, multifunctional systems that co-evolve with nature. As a result, the energy transition has become more than a path to decarbonisation; it’s now a catalyst for systemic transformation. Photo credit: Shutterstock.

Clean Energy

Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

Although the Khmer Empire is long gone, the use of the Mekong river system has only increased with population growth and the advancement of technology. Almost 20,000 people were killed from 1979 to 2024 and more than 45,000 injured by the millions of landmines left over from Cambodia’s civil war. million people. of whom grow crops.

Government

Law Columbia

JULY 21, 2025

The CLCPA had also set a target of installing 6 gigawatts (GW) of distributed solar by 2025, which the state achieved ahead of schedule at the end of 2024. Flexible interconnection is an approach that allows new renewable energy resources to connect to the grid and dynamically adjust their generation based on real-time grid capacity.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Examples of specific technical assistance tasks, include-- -- Energy Benchmarking -- Energy Star Certification Facility Verification -- Audits & Energy Conservation Measure (ECM) analysis and recommendation for: -- Municipal Buildings -- Streetlighting and Traffic Lighting -- Wastewater Treatment Facilities -- Renewable Energy Feasibility Evaluation, (..)

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

MAY 21, 2025

The Solar for Schools program builds on Governor Josh Shapiros energy plan by generating more clean, affordable, and reliable energy while creating more jobs and lowering costs for Pennsylvanians. The Governor is calling for another $25 million allocation in his 2025-2026 budget proposal to ensure the program continues.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

However, the work of our experts in this case and the testimony we submitted made very clear the extent to which PECO’s failure to diversify their supply contracts by purchasing clean energy has also cost consumers millions of dollars.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JULY 10, 2025

The notice published by the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Energy Administration opens the first round of applications for industrial zones aiming to reduce their carbon footprint.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

But smarter approaches, if carefully applied, could help to reverse costly reliance on gas, and accelerate the clean energy transition in PJM, and nationwide. Worsening PJMs gas dependence with the RRI also promises to lock in substantially higher energy costs. In December, 2024, the U.S.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2025

People across the country are trying to square the benefits that technology can bring with the real and growing impacts on the environment and consumers, said Ellie Kerns , Climate and Clean Energy Advocate with the PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center. Rising electricity demand from U.S.

Nuclear Power

A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

Key updates reflect a dynamic landscape, from shifting deforestation rates in the Amazon to ground breaking initiatives in clean energy. Pantanal wildfires In 2024, wildfires devastated 760,000 hectares of the Pantanal wetlands, one of the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems. drop in Amazon deforestation between 2023 and 2024.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The year 2024 is on track to be the hottest year on record, with extreme weather events leaving a trail of death and destruction across the globe. The problem: ExxonMobil has its own misleading , dangerous definition of “advancing climate solutions” that its lobbyists are no doubt pitching to COP29 decisionmakers.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JANUARY 2, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen In 2024, the UK, the birthplace of the industrial revolution and powering modern civilisation, became the first developed economy to have completely weaned itself off coal. Last month, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its report, Coal 2024, which looks at how coal usage is far from decreasing worldwide.

2027

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Over 1st Quarter 2024; Price Of Natural Gas Increased 218% Over 1st Quarter 2024 [PaEN] -- Erie Times Guest Essay: Understaffed DEP Can’t Uphold Law And Protect Public Health - By Rep.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JULY 9, 2025

John Quigley , Senior Fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, said, “I think we should brace ourselves for continued high energy prices and more cost increases. Changes From July 2024 Auction PJM's last capacity auction in July 2024 produced a wholesale price of $269.92/MW-day

Electricity

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

We can expect a renewed energy strategy that ramps up and scales up fossil fuels, removes any fee on fossil fuel producers, removes the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) powers to regulate emissions, and revokes Biden’s ban on oil and gas production in environmentally sensitive areas.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 25, 2025

Our goal isn’t to compete with customers, but to empower them—and the broader industry—to meet surging demand for battery-grade lithium and accelerate the clean energy transition. lithium demand, validates the maturity of alkaLi’s technology and secures a long-term domestic supply.” Click Here for the Gradient announcement.

2026

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Annual global mean temperature anomalies from January – September 2024 (relative to the 1950-1900 average) from six international datasets. In particular, I am celebrating two key achievements of this legislation related to clean energy siting and gas overreliance.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

MAY 12, 2025

One hearing was held by the House Consumer Protection, Technology and Utilities Committee [ watch video here ] and a joint hearing was held by the Senate Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure and Environmental Resources and Energy Committees [ watch video and read testimony here ]. Read more here. MW-day to $269.92/MW-day--

Electricity

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Niger Delta Climate Change Conference 2024 This was just a sliver of what I learned at the Niger Delta Climate Change Conference convened by the Lekeh Development Foundation with a range of local, national, and international partners. C pathway.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 9, 2025

Over 1st Quarter 2024; Price Of Natural Gas Increased 218% Over 1st Quarter 2024 Susquehanna River Basin Commission Renews 2 Shale Gas Water Withdrawal Projects PA Senate Republicans Move Bills To Roll Back Any State Regulations, Laws, Guidance At The Request Of Industry PUC Chairman Stephen M.

Conservation

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen Data released by BloombergNEF (BNEF), the clean energy analysts body owned by Bloomberg , have shown that despite the uncertainty, on a global level, the cost of clean energy technologies continues to decline. Global costs fell by 21% last year for a typical fixed-axis solar farm.

Clean Energy

Vermont Law

MARCH 3, 2025

A Comparison of the Biden and Trump Administration’s Energy Policy and Coal Leasing in the Powder River Basin by Drew Collins The 2024 election of President Trump brings rapid changes in the ways America will get its energy. energy generation, local economies, and the environment. President Trump emphasizes U.S.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

JULY 20, 2025

And Energy Sectors -- DEP: $3.47 10 [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette: DEP Approves More Than $1 Million In Grants For Clean Energy Vehicles In Western PA -- NPR: Do You Want Federal Money For An Electric Vehicle Or Home Solar?

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2024

28 Webinar On Climate-Smart Ag Project (CARAT) [PaEN] -- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Ad Crable: Pennsylvania To Get Nearly $1 Billion In Federal Funds For Climate-Smart Ag Practices -- Lancaster Clean Water Partners Newsletter: Looking Back On 2024 And Looking Forward -- Ag Conservation Professionals!

Conservation

A Greener Life

APRIL 5, 2025

All-time low for fossil fuel generation This surpasses the previous low for fossil fuel generation at 51%, which was recorded in April 2024. As a result, clean energy sources generated the largest amount of electricity in the US last month, 50.8%a Compared to March 2024, fossil fuel generation declined by 2.5%.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JULY 20, 2025

10 [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette: DEP Approves More Than $1 Million In Grants For Clean Energy Vehicles In Western PA -- WESA/The Allegheny Front - Julia Fraser: Swisshelm Park Slag Heap In Pittsburgh Nearly Cleaned Up, Ready For Solar Makeover -- NPR: Do You Want Federal Money For An Electric Vehicle Or Home Solar?

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 23, 2025

Room 205 Ryan Building. Click Here to watch live. June 24-- NEW.

Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

The letter notes that funding cuts below fiscal year 2024 levels will undermine environmental protections that promote prosperity and human health of people across the country. State and local agencies have to invest significantly more funds beyond the statutory match requirements to meet their delegation commitments.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

Advocates Put Out A Call To Action -- Lead Counsel On Court Cases Striking Down Provisions In Act 13 To Preempt Local Regulation Of Oil & Gas Operations Raises Concerns About Proposed Legislation Establishing A RESET Board To Site Large Energy Projects [PaEN] -- TribLive: Plum Zoning Board Rejects Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well After Lengthy (..)

Greenhouse