PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2025

Another in-person event took place in Western Pennsylvania, where supporters rallied in support of community-centered clean energy at the Homestead Steel Mill Stacks. As one of the priorities in Gov. The legislation is to be introduced in the coming days by Rep. Peter Schweyer.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Energy storage, or the storing of electricity for later use on the power grid, plays an important role in the clean energy transition. Illinois is currently considering policy proposals to establish a statewide energy storage target. 2025 is also a pivotal year for CEJA implementation in Illinois.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 21, 2025

By Shadia Haq Earth Day 2025 focuses on the theme Our Power, Our Planet and urges a global shift to renewable energy. 2025 The theme “Our Power, Our Planet” calls for tripling renewable energy by 2030. 2025 The theme “Our Power, Our Planet” calls for tripling renewable energy by 2030.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 31, 2024

As I discussed in a previous blogpost , this funding is crucial for lower-income countries to be able to make a rapid clean energy transition while closing the huge energy poverty gap for millions of people without access to modern forms of energy. EU member states, and China—to significantly ratchet up their targets.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

planned capacity additions in 2025, with the bulk of these new plants planned for states without a current clean energy standard (the proposed Wisconsin plants wont show up in the EIA data unless they are approved by the state). Call me when we get to the nitty gritty!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Bidirectional EVs Could Be the New Standard Electric vehicles (EVs) should be a clean transportation and a clean energy solution. That is why we sponsored SB 59 by Senator Nancy Skinner which paves the way for California to require EVs to have the ability to export their power.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 23, 2024

SB 1420 , authored by Senator Anna Caballero, will streamline hydrogen production within California, as the state looks to this technology in our clean energy transition. I’ll be back in January with a legislative lookahead previewing what I think will becoming for the 2025 session. Looking forward to hearing from you.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The state plans to reduce heat trapping emissions 28 percent by 2025 and 52 percent by 2030 below 2005 levels, and to become carbon neutral by 2050. The rationale behind the proposal is to help utilities decarbonize their operations more rapidly and support Michigan’s ambitious goal of achieving economy-wide carbon neutrality.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 18, 2024

million metric tons of newly mined lithium from 2025 to 2050. Implementing strategies that result in better EV efficiency, right-sized range, and reduced VMT will result in savings of 1.5 This estimate includes lithium demand for passenger vehicles and transit and assumes all sales are electrified by 2035. Dunn et al.,

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2025

PennTAP and DEP will begin accepting RISE PA grant applications during the first quarter of 2025. Million; Apply Now To Join Program [PaEN] -- Philadelphia Solar Energy Assn.: For more information, visit PennTAPs RISE PA webpage. Click Here to contact PennTAP to learn more.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

Real-time energy production and savings data are displayed in each school, integrating sustainability into the educational experience. This shift not only helps to lower greenhouse gas emissions but also improves air quality, making Steelton a healthier place to live.

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Environment + Energy Leader

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Dow says it will reduce CO2 releases by 2 million metric tons a year while growing its earnings by an estimated $2 billion by 2025. Now, more than 25% of its purchased electricity comes from clean energy. To reach its goal, access to renewables grew by 900 megawatts.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 25, 2022

Today, the regional entity overseeing much of the electric power grid in the Midwest—the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO)—approved a set of major new transmission system upgrades that will bring billions of dollars in benefits to the region while better enabling states and utilities to pursue transitions to clean energy.

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Law and Environment

AUGUST 11, 2022

Based on numerous sources, Governor Baker has now signed an Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind. This bill includes a number of key advancements for increased adoption of zero emission vehicles and clean transportation throughout the Commonwealth. According to the U.S.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2025

At the Pennsylvania Energy Summit on April 22, industry leaders and policymakers will tackle key challenges, policy shifts, and the clean energy transition shaping the states future. Shapiros Lightning Plan is driving clean energy expansion, grid resilience, and economic growth.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is chock-full of tax incentives for climate and clean energy projects. But these kinds of new players in the clean energy space face significant barriers as they pursue credit amounts beyond the base ITC credits, and some of these barriers are written right into the IRA itself.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

New clean energy, including combined solar and battery projects, have waited (and waited, and waited…) in interconnection queues. Delayed construction of clean energy means grid planners like PJM are struggling with rising demand and the loss of power plants, at significant cost to consumers.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The United States supports Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) partners in meeting their clean energy goals. Over the last two decades, energy demand in Southeast Asia increased by an average of 3% annually, according to the International Energy Agency’s Southeast Asia Energy Outlook 2022.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 13, 2024

As electric vehicle charging stations sprout like mushrooms along our roads and clusters of new wind turbines come online, these two clean energy solutions to the climate crisis are becoming more commonplace. The United States needs to speed its transition to clean energy in order to stave off even worse impacts of climate change.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

Ukraine will strengthen its energy grid with renewables The construction of the expansion of the wind project, which, once completed, is expected to deliver clean electricity to around 900,000 households, is set to commence almost immediately as it is slated for Q1 in 2025.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

Other businesses that want to follow suit have the added benefit of solar energy tax credits that can dramatically lower the price tag for going solar. Solar Carports, like the one at Burkholders Country Market, are a great solution for businesses looking to maximize their available space while investing in clean energy.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2024

By John Quigley, Senior Fellow, Kleinman Center Next year, the electricity bills for twenty percent of Americans will start reflecting the high cost of failing to transition to clean energy. Massive amounts of clean energy generation and storage projects are backlogged in PJM. foothold.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 3, 2023

To no one’s surprise it contained zero funding to address climate change – not even for clean energy – which the document referred to multiple times. So while it likes to talk about Ontario’s “clean energy advantage”, the government is actively dismantling it. It will be something to watch.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

Community Advocates for Clean Energy will host an April 1 webinar starting at 7:00 p.m. The Green Schools Campaign is developing the leadership and grassroots organizing of young people to spearhead initiatives to transition their schools and communities to 100% clean energy.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 10, 2025

Adding solar is a particularly smart approach for large energy consumers facing unpredictable and escalating electricity prices. Larger consumers of energy like businesses and other organizations can often save thousands to tens of thousands of dollars on their electric bills.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 31, 2024

On July 30, the PJM Interconnection announced the results of its 2025/26 capacity auction, which revealed that costs will be roughly seven times greater than in 2024/25. billion, which could increase retail power bills by as much as 29% starting mid-2025. MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day Read more here.]

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

Renewable energy will help with all of that—but we need a grid that is designed for wind and solar instead of having to rely on expensive coal and gas plants. These kinds of transmission investments will help get these surplus amounts of cheap, clean energy to other areas across the region.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2025

The DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee is scheduled to meet on April 22 and on the agenda are presentations on resilient microgrids, abandoned oil and gas well plugging and updates on federal clean energy and climate program funding.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 24, 2021

IEA says its report is designed to be used as a handbook for policy-makers at the COP26 summit and offers a critical opportunity to accelerate both climate action as well as the clean energy transition. In this scenario, demand for fossil fuels peaks by 2025, and global CO2 emissions fall by 40% by 2050. degree C world.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2022

These models are essentially designed to determine what resources need to be added to the grid to meet certain goals, such as clean energy or emissions reduction goals. Capacity expansion modeling helps determine how many clean resources, such as solar and wind, need to be added to the grid to meet clean energy goals.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

The hearing, scheduled for the afternoon of April 24, 2025, in Hearing Room 1 of the Commonwealth Keystone Building in Harrisburg, will bring together electric utilities, major energy users, and consumer advocates to examine the challenges and opportunities presented by these high-demand customers. M-2025-3054180.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2025

For nearly seven years-- since July 18, 2018 when the spills were first discovered-- DEP has been trying to work with Benko to get the multiple spills at the site cleaned up. Read more here. The Pecan Explorations, Inc. and Larry A. Shaffer Jr. well inspections on State Game Lands are the first in this new series. Pencan Explorations Inc.

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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. In Energy Transition Investment Trends 2025, the energy analysts found that in 2024, clean energy investments reached a record high of $2.1tn and were responsible for the sector’s growth by 11%.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 2, 2025

In addition to the RRI projects, PJM will complete processing on approximately 62,000 MW projects in 2025 and 2026. MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day MW-day, 933% higher ] [Posted: May 2, 2025] PA Environment Digest

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Global Green

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Electric Ladies Podcast is the flagship property of Green Connections Media, a media and consulting firm focused on creating a clean energy economy in which women have economic parity, based in the Washington, DC area. Women represent a $32 trillion market, make 85% ofpopulation and bring different perspectives and ideas to the table.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Graphic by: Danielle Anz With the help of UCLA Emmett Institute student researchers, I surveyed reported deals within the NFL, MLB, MLS, NHL, NBA, and WNBA using 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 Commercial Guides published by SportsPro Media , a sports media and events firm that tracks industry deals. Far from it.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 8, 2025

Michelle Lujan Grishams Strategic Water Supply program, a 50-year water action plan, regulatory frameworks for this treated water would be in place by 2026, and 100,000 acre-feet of water for clean energy production, storage and manufacturing would be used by 2028.

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