PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

. -- Pine Creek Headwaters Protection Group Update: Industrial Shale Gas Development In Tioga State Forest Prioritizes Industry Profit Over Constitutional Mandate To Preserve, Protect State Forest Land s [PaEN] -- DEP: Some Guidance Now Available To Apply For $396 Million In RISE PA Industrial Decarbonization Grants; Application Period Opens Early (..)

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A Greener Life

JUNE 15, 2021

For instance, the leaders of the G7 countries pledged to deliver finally on a long overdue promise to deliver $100 billion each year until 2025 to poorer countries to adapt to the impact of climate change. Old pledges dressed up as new ambition. But only two of the countries were willing to pledge more cash.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2025

Meuser Puts Christian School Students On Phone With President-Elect -- The Center Square: Allegiance: A Tale Of 2 Threatened PA Steel Companies Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: January 11, 2025] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

. -- Penn State, Project InnerSpace Report: Leverage Oil & Gas Workers To Generate Enough Geothermal Energy To Meet 100% Of Pennsylvania's Electricity, Heating, Medium Industrial Process Needs [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: A Geothermal Push In Pennsylvania Enlists Oil & Gas Industry: Hot Everywhere Underground -- Senate DEP Budget Hearing (..)

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Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. 25] And that amount does not include the costs associated with local and state political opposition.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 14, 2024

14 Hearing [If Requested] On Title V Air Quality Permit For Gas-fired Hummel Station Power Plant In Snyder County [PaEN] -- DEP To Hold Aug. Plans Youghiogheny River Rafting Trip July 28 -- Tom Ridge Environmental Center In Erie Hosts Aug. 21; Annual Dinner Sept. 25 [PaEN] -- Registration Open! 16-17 [PaEN] -- PA Assn.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Platform In 100 Healthcare Systems -- PennLive Guest Essay: Its Embarrassing To See An American President Bow To Putin - By Mark Singel Click Here for latest PA Environmental News Like PA Environment Digest on Facebook Follow PA Environment Digest on Twitter Read Weekly PA Environment Digest [Posted: February 23, 2025] PA Environment Digest

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Data Centers, Plus 6 Other Open Meeting Takeaways -- Reuters: New US Energy Council Chief Calls On Power Plants To Produce 10% to 15% More Electricity To Meet A.I., Data Centers, Plus 6 Other Open Meeting Takeaways -- Reuters: New US Energy Council Chief Calls On Power Plants To Produce 10% to 15% More Electricity To Meet A.I.,

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 3, 2024

. -- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Agriculture To Get Greater Voice In Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Effort -- WITF StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: $40 Million+ Heading To PA Farms To Increase Climate Resilience -- Lower Susquehanna Source Water Protection Partnership Holds Virtual Meeting Dec.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 18, 2024

20 Progress Report Reception To Celebrate Progress Toward Carbon, Energy Reduction Goals -- PA Interfaith Power & Light, Jewish Earth Alliance Hosts Aug. 10; Training Oct. 17] -- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper To Offer Riverwalk Hikes A Sunbury Riverfest Aug. 11 [PaEN] -- Living On A Few Acres - Permaculture & Risk Management Sept.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Shapiro Highlights PA Permit Fast Track Program In Luzerne County -- Penn State Center For Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training Seeks Input On Shaping Agenda For ACAP Ag Conservation Con 2025 In April [PaEN] -- ClearWater Conservancy Receives $99,000 Grant To Install Forested Riparian Stream Buffers In Centre County; Next DCNR Grant Round (..)

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Shapiro, State Legislature Must Act As Bulwark Against New Republican Environmental Rollbacks - By Molly Parzen, Conservation Voters Of PA -- Public News Service: PA Environmental, Free Speech Advocates Worry Over ‘Anti-Terror’ Law Moving In Congress Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Restart -- Utility Dive: Constellation Energy Asks FERC For PJM (..)

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 29, 2024

Pennsylvania is fundamentally different from Texas, which maintains its own separate electric grid for political reasons and relies on its own electric generation with limited connections to surrounding grid operators for importing power. It expects to clear another 26 GW of capacity in 2024 and 46 GW of new generation in 2025.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 16, 2025

Zoning Board Holds Hearing On Potential Solar Energy Facility -- WHYY: Philadelphia Receives $11 Million For Electric Vehicle Chargers -- Citizen Voice: Frigid Temps Lead To Ice Jam Concerns On Susquehanna River -- 8 New Videos Feature Ecosystem And Community-Focused Research By PA Sea Grant; Research Grant Proposals Due Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 25, 2025

Yaw To Introduce Bill To Use Revenue From Taxing Gambling Skill Games To Support Agriculture Conservation Assistance Program [PaEN] -- PASA Sustainable Agriculture Recognizes Innovation, Collaboration In 2025 Pasabilities Awards [PaEN] -- Take Action Now! Ohio- $3.01 Ohio- $3.01 Ohio- $3.01 Ohio- $3.01

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2025

. -- March 10 - Weekly PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - March 1 to 7: Cryptocurrency Facility, 9 More Shale Gas Wells Abandoned; Attorney General Investigates Conventional Wastewater Spill; Pipeline Ordered To Provide Clean Water [PaEN] -- The Derrick: State Attorney General Launches Criminal (..)

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

.] -- Spotlight PA-Marley Parish: Years Of Unreliable Service Should Force State Regulators to Take Emergency Action Against Small, Private Rural Water Company In Centre County, PA Watchdog Says -- Schuylkill River Restoration Fund Grant Letters Of Intent Due Feb. Ohio- $3.03 Ohio- $3.03

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2022

The new language is an attempt to attract some Democrats to vote for the bill, but the vote on House Bill 2025 in 2020 was about the same-- 130 to 71. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) said opponents of natural gas infrastructure projects “just need to be ignored and politically ran over.” At least $12.5 Read more here.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

In a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi after that hearing I noted that I am aware that Congressional hearings involve some political theater. However, I am not a political appointee. I did not expect to be drawn into political theater that violates basic civility. By 2025, the US will close twelve reactors, which constitute 10.5

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 18, 2024

26, 27 & 30 [PaEN] -- Ohio River Valley Institute: The Peril, Politics And Price Of Shale Gas Development, Fracking Waste - By Eric de Place And Julia Stone -- TribLive Letter: PA Must Make A Stronger Plan For Reducing Methane From Oil & Gas Facilities -- TribLive: Indiana Twp.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

. -- 111 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA [PaEN] -- Stories You May Have Missed Last Week: PA Environment & Energy Articles & NewsClips By Topic [PaEN] -- Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults [PaEN] -- Top 10 Stories: Harrisburg/PA Politics Reported By Local News Media (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 14, 2025

. -- 30 Stakeholder Comments Received By PUC On Adequacy Of Electricity Supplies In Pennsylvania; Increasing Natural Gas Power Plant Reliability To 90-95% Would Mean No Imminent Capacity Problem [PaEN] -- Registration Now Open! 2025 Shale Gas & Public Health Conference At Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Online Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Shapiro -- The Center Square: Shapiros Office Deleted Emails Relevant To Sexual Misconduct Complaint -- Spotlight PA: Thousands In Limbo As Shapiro Administration Again Tries To Convince Lawmakers To Fund Home Repair Program -- PennLive: Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2024

4 Hearing On Renewal Of Air Quality Permit For Panther Creek Coal Waste-Fired Power Plant In Carbon County [PaEN] -- MCall: Talks Could Bring Amazon Data Center To Lehigh Valley At Site Of Electric Plant And Fmr Portland Generating Station -- DEP Sets Oct. 2 Teacher Training For Junior Solar Sprint -- Tribune-Democrat: Upper Yoder Twp.

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 23, 2022

For example, the IRA extends and expands existing tax credits for renewable electricity production, and creates a new credit for electricity production at certain nuclear power plants. Starting with methane was likely more politically feasible than carbon dioxide for several reasons.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Of Agriculture Issues Firewood Quarantine Order For Firewood From Outside The State Or Traveling Through The State Unless Heat Treated To Prevent The Spread Of Invasive Species -- Lancaster Clean Water Partners Newsletter: Our Values In Action; News Around The Watershed; Recreation Access For All; Opportunities For All; New Podcast; Upcoming Events (..)

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

Cascading Failures Combined To Produce The Worst Nuclear Power Accident In US History At Three Mile Island - By James M. Cascading Failures Combined To Produce The Worst Nuclear Power Accident In US History At Three Mile Island - By James M. Seif, Former Administrative Assistant to Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

OSM Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative Releases Spring Tree Planting Schedule [PaEN] -- MCall: Bethlehem Will Spend Millions To Improve, Expand Its Parks Over Next Decade -- Discover Northeast PA: Exploring Spine Trails With PA Environmental Council -- WHYY: Spring Garden Bicycle Lanes Still On Track To Connect Delaware To Schuylkill River (..)

Natural Gas 54

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

After thousands of nuclear weapons tests during the Cold War, we are fortunate to live in a world where every nuclear power except North Korea adheres to the norm opposing explosive nuclear tests. The United States already maintains the ability to conduct new tests at the Nevada Nuclear Security Site.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 9, 2024

Washington County [ PDF of Story ] -- TribLive: Westmoreland Water Authority Target Of Vendor Impersonation Scheme, Lost Significant Amount Of Money -- PA Assn. Seif, Former Administrative Assistant to Gov.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2024

22 , 1:00 p.m. . -- French & Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust Partners With Raymond & Kathleen Nester To Permanently Preserve 24-Acre Farm In Chester County [PaEN] -- Williamsport Sun - Bill Bower: Reflections In Nature - It’s Hard To Predict When Leaves Will Change Their Colors -- Williamsport Sun: Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 31, 2025

Read more here. ] -- Spotlight PA - Stephen Caruso: Fiery Resignation By PAs Consumer Advocate Breeds Fear Office Will Lose Independence -- Environmental Quality Board Invites Comments On 96 Stream Water Quality Redesignations In 29 Counties; Virtual Hearing March 13 [PaEN] -- Inquirer: President Wants US To Be Leading Producer Of Non-Fuel Minerals; (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 19, 2025

Because In Politics Everything Is Connected To Everything Else-- -- Gov. Ohio- $3.14 Ohio- $3.14

Politics 110

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 9, 2025

Katharine Hayhoe, TNC Chief Scientist Gas Explosions -- PUC Approves $700,000 Penalty For Columbia Gas Plastic Pipeline Explosion In Clarion County [PaEN] -- PUC Approves Settlement In 2019 Philadelphia Gas Works Explosion That Killed 2, Displaced 60 Residents [PaEN] -- Inquirer: PUC Settles Case With PGW Over Deadly 2019 Gas Explosion In South Philly (..)

Natural Gas 84

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

27 Webinar: General Update Of Large-Scale Solar In Pennsylvania [PaEN] -- PUC Publishes Final Policy Statement On Electric Utility Rate Design For Electric Vehicle Charging -- The Center Square: A Closer Look At Shapiros Carbon Tax Plan -- WESA: Truck Overturns Spilling 2,000 Gallons Of Diesel Fuel Into Allegheny River In Pittsburgh -- PA Assn.

Natural Gas 81

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2025

Davis, DEP, Community Celebrate The Opening Of Federal/State Funded Blacklick Creek Mine Drainage Treatment Plant To Clean Up 25 Miles Of Waterways In Cambria, Indiana Counties [PaEN] -- Indiana Gazette: Blacklick Abandoned Mine Drainage Treatment Facility Celebrated Near Vintondale -- DEP Now Accepting Applications For First Round Of Federally-Funded (..)

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 19, 2024

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