PA Environment Daily

MARCH 8, 2023

[PA] Natural Gas - PA Chamber Of Business & Industry -- Erie Times Guest Essay: Support Reliable, Affordable PA Natural Gas, Coal, Petroleum And Grow Renewable Energy - Sen. Dan Laughlin (R-Erie) -- TribLive: City Of Pittsburgh To Continue Leasing Natural Gas Fueling Equipment -- AP: Vistra To Buy Energy Harbor For $3.4

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

House Bill 969 (Pielli-D-Chester) requires outdoor night lighting practices that reduce light pollution from public facilities. -- Guest Essay: March 28, 1979 At 3:53 a.m. Cascading Failures Combined To Produce The Worst Nuclear Power Accident In US History At Three Mile Island - By James M.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 2, 2024

1-31 Grants -- EPA Awards $55.7 28 to Oct. 28 to Oct. 6 [PaEN] Background On Issues -- Lt.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

The rest of our power comes from a mix of nuclear power, renewables like hydro, wind and solar power, and biofuel. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 . It’s mostly due to a combination of poor planning coupled with an ideological opposition to renewable energy. Source: IESO [link].

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Summary Of House Bill 2277 PRESS continues all of the successful elements of the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards (AEPS) while making it more inclusive—adding nuclear power, next generation technologies like fusion, and clean forms of natural gas for the first time.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 11, 2024

By Anders Lorenzen When the Industrial Revolution emerged in the UK in the 1800s, coal was the driving force, and it became the first country to power its emerging industries on coal. The smoke and air pollution, the Great Smog, killed thousands of people over the years with respiratory illnesses.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2023

PA Bulletin, page 1464 ) -- Kevin Eshbaugh/LOLA Energy Petroco LLC - Polaris Well Pad: DEP did NOT approve A Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated with chloride in Oakland Twp., PA Bulletin, page 1474 ) -- PA General Energy Co., Susquehanna County. ( Butler County. ( Westmoreland County. ( Lycoming County. ( Tioga County. (

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2022

Yet look at prices at the pump, and you’ll see why we can’t drill our way to true energy security.” -- Yahoo!News: Other States/National/International -- Post-Gazette: More Research Links Air Pollution Exposure And COVID Risk -- The Guardian: ‘Everything Was Orange,’ U.S. Penn’s Cave & Wildlife Park , Centre Hall, PA.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 5, 2024

After Extensive Winter Storm Disruptions -- PJM Interconnection, Penn State ISO-NE Awarded $815,959 US DOE Grant To Improve Wholesale Electricity Market Design -- Bloomberg: Texas Utility Makes Case Pipeline Prices Unfairly Drove Up Gas Prices In 2021 Storm -- Bloomberg: Federal Trade Commission Alleges Shale Producer Scott Sheffield [Pioneer] Tried (..)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Although the nuclear bailout was repealed and refunded in 2021, some of the law’s other egregious provisions requiring ratepayers across the state to subsidize money-losing coal plants and gutting renewable energy and energy efficiency standards are still in place today. The Union of Concerned Scientists opposed H.B.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 12, 2022

Nearly all of the alliance members have a renewable electricity standard (RES), which requires utilities in their jurisdiction to increase their use of renewable energy to a particular percentage by a specific year. We found that states have technically feasible and highly beneficial ways to achieve 100-percent renewable energy.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

4 - Repurposing Underutilized Lands For Energy - Marginal Farmlands, Abandoned Mine Sites, Brownfields [PaEN] -- EPA Awards $34 Million In Grants To Reduce Air Pollution At Schools; Highlights Efforts In Philadelphia [PaEN] -- DEP Awards $18.9 138th Annual Symposium - What Makes A Healthy Forest; Awards Program Nov.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2024

.” - - Article I, Section 27 Pennsylvania Constitution [It’s Not A Suggestion] House next voting day April 8, 9, 10 -- Committee Schedule Senate next voting day April 8, 9, 10, 29, 30 -- Committee Schedule TODAY’s Calendar Of Events -- 89% Of Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners Don’t Comply With Well Integrity Reporting For 34,455 Wells; No Other (..)

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2024

This revitalized energy standard will deliver outsized economic value, improve the reliability of our electricity grid, and position Pennsylvania as a leader in the energy arena for the next twenty years. The agenda of witnesses included.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2024

This revitalized energy standard will deliver outsized economic value, improve the reliability of our electricity grid, and position Pennsylvania as a leader in the energy arena for the next twenty years. Of that project funding, 40 percent will be dedicated to directly benefit Environmental Justice communities.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

Additionally, all of the electricity consumed across our operations including our data centers, corporate buildings, grocery stores, and fulfillment centers is matched with 100% renewable energy, seven years ahead of schedule. Note: Vantage Data Centers has a goal of reaching net zero carbon emissions for scopes 1 and 2 by 2030.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 31, 2024

Thank you for your leadership! -- Feature- Remembering March 28, 1979 At The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant - The Accident No One Thought Would Happen [PaEN] -- PennLive - Charles Thompson: 45 Years After Infamous Accident, Why Are They Still Cleaning Up Three Mile Island?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Kate Harper (R) and Fmr Cong.

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Environmental Progress

JULY 29, 2020

The High Cost of Renewables House Democrats propose spending hundreds of billions of public and ratepayer money on renewable energy, new transmission lines, energy efficiency, mass transit, electric vehicles, carbon capture and storage, and advanced nuclear energy. I am honored to address the Committee.

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Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

None of that means climate change isn’t, and won’t continue to be, a factor in global health, particularly if action to prevent it also reduces air pollution, or removes other health stressors. Carbon emissions are thus following the same trajectory as other air pollutants. For example, the Green New Deal proposed by Rep.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 20, 2022

Washington Landmark -- TribLive: Westmoreland Recycler Salvages Old Electronics; Donates Laptops To Shelter -- MCall: Earth Day: Your Guide To Events, Cleanups In Lehigh Valley Area -- LancasterOnline - Sean Sauro: Lancaster County Farm Kills 1.4

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

House Bill 969 (Pielli-D-Chester) requires outdoor night lighting practices that reduce light pollution from public facilities. -- Daily Grind Living Next To Oil & Gas Industry: Spills, Polluted Water Supplies, Smells Like Gas, Noise, Air Pollution, Explosions, Truck Traffic, Erosion, Radioactive Waste, Gas Flares, Dust, Lights, Road Dumping Waste, (..)

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Of Energy Awards DEP $16.2 11 -- One United Lancaster: Lancaster Celebrates $1 Million Federal Grant For Street Tree Program -- Penn State Extension Hosts 9-Part Woods In Your Backyard Webinar Series Starting Jan. 15 [PaEN] -- Cumberland County Master Gardeners Host Nov.

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Science Blogs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

EPA: air pollution rule should be delayed – despite its effect on children. Federal court blocks Trump EPA on air pollution. Myths and facts to know ahead of Rick Perry's study on the electrical grid and renewable energy. Energy Department Scientists Barred From Attending Nuclear Power Conference.

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