Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 27, 2022

For stationary storage, companies such as RePurpose Energy and B2U Storage Solutions are repurposing these batteries to be used for renewable energy generation support. This is not unlike how mattress, paint, and carpet disposal is currently regulated within California.

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Energy and Climate Law

OCTOBER 22, 2020

By Ceciel Nieuwenhout, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability; Lead Author of WP 1 T1.2 Report to the H2020 POCITYF-project A substantial part of energy in the EU is consumed by households , for powering electric appliances and for heating and cooling.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 9, 2022

Despite their concerns over nuclear waste, tribal leaders are celebrating a $46 million grant from Minnesota’s Renewable Development Fund, which will allow them to draft a new clean energy plan based on solar and geothermal energy. New York’s cooling assistance program ran out of funding in the weeks leading up to a heat wave.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

The purpose of ECOS is to improve the capability of state environmental agencies and their leaders to protect and improve human health and the environment of the United States Federal Funding Cuts, Freeze -- PA Council Of Trout Unlimited: Millions In Trout Unlimited Watershed Projects Improve The Environment, Local Economies Across The US; Federal (..)

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

Flooding is currently the highest-risk hazard facing Pennsylvania, and flood risks are projected to increase. -- Increasing temperatures will continue to alter the growing season and increase the number of days that people need to cool their homes and workspaces, but will also decrease the number of days that people will need to use heating.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 24, 2024

Million; Puts Hole In State, Local Budgets IRRC Approves Final Revised PUC Regulations Strengthening Rules For Intrastate Hazardous Liquids Pipelines; Gas Pipelines Fined Over $71 Million, Have Worst Compliance Record Of Any Industry, Including Criminal Charges DEP To Hold July 2 Virtual Hearing On PA General Energy Project To Construct 3.7

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Further, in addition to directly reducing absorbed heat, cool roofs can reduce demand for air conditioning. And where air conditioning intake air is drawn from conventional rooftops—common in larger buildings—lowering temperatures at the roof would reduce the amount of work needed to cool air.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 21, 2024

1 USDA Announces Investment Of $24 Million In 112 Clean Energy Projects In PA; $20.5 Million To Allegheny Electric Cooperative Under Rural Energy Programs Community Advocates For Clean Energy Host Nov. 1 USDA Announces Investment Of $24 Million In 112 Clean Energy Projects In PA; $20.5

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Data Centers And Pennsylvania's Future [PaEN] -- Volunteers Needed!

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2023

Available Via Zoom -- WESA: Contest Asks PA Kids To Create Art About Tick Bite Prevention -- Pennsylvania's Clean Energy Economy Grew To Over 92,700 Jobs Since COVID Economic Crisis [PaEN] -- Erie News Now: U.S.

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Natural Gas Carbon Dioxide Nuclear Power Fossil Fuels 78

Environmental Progress

JANUARY 20, 2022

In order to steer investment toward environmentally sustainable activities, the European Union launched the Taxonomy Regulation framework to define activities deemed sustainable. The following elements of the Regulation proposal are dealt with in this review. of the proposal) and for existing installation only until 2040 (see §4.28).

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 10, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 2575 ) -- Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining & Marketing LLC - 860 Unit Cooling Tower & Point Breeze South Yard: DEP received a Final Report on remediation of soil and groundwater contaminated with petroleum to meet Statewide Health Standards for a project located at 3144 Passyunk Ave., Indiana County. (

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The panels were financed by a public-private partnership and by the Clean Energy Co-op. A local artist helped design educational displays for the Stourbridge building, and a local heating and cooling installation business helped install the panels. The project was truly a community effort.

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Solar Power Cooling 2017 Clean Energy 52

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2023

Steel Reaches Tentative Settlement Over Air Pollution Following 2018 Fire At Clairton Coke (Coal) Works Plant [No Specifics Yet] -- Group Against Smog & Pollution Hosts April 19 Workshop On Local Air Quality Issues [PaEN] -- Public Source: Braddock, Allegheny County - Imagining Environmental Justice For A ‘Sacrifice Zone’ -- Bipartisan House, Senate (..)

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Conservation Natural Gas Fossil Fuels Earth Day 84

Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

“Job-killing regulations” is a longtime conservative meme. That attack has now been joined by the claim that major new spending for clean energy is overheating the economy. In fact, we might need even stricter environmental regulations to help cool the economy and cut inflation. billion to $197.4

2027 278

2027 Cooling Regulations Clean Energy 278

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 2, 2023

[PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: As Shell Shuts Down New Beaver County Petrochemical Plant For Repairs, And Burns Off Natural Gas In Flares, Company Says It Hasn’t Exceeded Air Emission Limits -- Shell Petrochemical Plant Beaver County: Bad And Dangerous Start; Shell Shut Down Part Of Plant For Repairs, Beings Full Natural Gas, Flammable Gases (..)

Natural Gas 79

Natural Gas Conservation Fossil Fuels Climate Change 79

PA Environment Daily

JULY 19, 2024

PA Bulletin, page 4187 ) -- Clean Energy Exploration & Production LLC - Whispering Pines Shale Gas Well Pad : DEP received a Final Report on remediation of soil contaminated by production wastewater [ DEP inspection report ] to meet Statewide Health Standards for the pad located in Delmar Twp., Bradford County. ( Tioga County. (

Air Pollution 109

Air Pollution Natural Gas Waste Recycling 109

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Wolf’s Proposed Budget Supports Conservation And Recreation Critical Budget Issue: How Will The General Assembly Help Communities, Workers Transition To Clean Energy? Wolf Announced PA Received The Initial $244.9 Wolf Announced PA Received The Initial $244.9

Conservation 52

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Environmental Progress

APRIL 20, 2021

4] Some energy experts and reporters have contended that Texas regulators did not expect to rely on wind to provide much electricity during the cold snap, and rather had relied on natural gas and other thermal power plants. and thus we just need a grid large enough to bring that solar or wind energy to places that don’t have it.

2021 108

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 1, 2023

Heat pumps, a simple but effective technology, use electricity to remove heat from inside your home to cool it in the summer and pull heat in from outside to heat your home in the winter. Just 34 per cent of Ontarians have heard about electric heat pumps and know what they do.

Technology 52

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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.

Nuclear Power 83

Nuclear Power 2024 Carbon Dioxide Conservation 83

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 14, 2023

Multiple presenters noted the PUC no longer regulated the electric generation market in Pennsylvania as a result of deregulation. Natural Gas Is An Intermittent Generator Rep. Click Here for a copy of the PUC’s written testimony. Click Here for a video of the House Committee information session.

Natural Gas 65

Natural Gas Electricity Nuclear Power Fossil Fuels 65

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Drawing Up Regulations For Possible Solar Energy Facilities -- Williamsport Sun Editorial: Old Lycoming Twp. Solar Energy Facility Permit Good For Energy Needs, Liberty -- Philadelphia Solar Energy Assn.: Million In Base Grant In 2023] -- Sen. 28 to Oct. 28 to Oct. 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. -- Sen.

Conservation 83

Conservation Nuclear Power Natural Gas Waste 83

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

On March 12, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced sweeping plans to reconsider more than 31 major environmental regulations and programs, including pulling back regulations reducing methane emissions and regulating production wastewater from oil and gas operations. Click Here for the announcement.

Regulations 99

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Columbia Climate Law

JULY 9, 2015

On May 22, 2015, CPUC Commissioner Mike Florio issued an alternate proposal that is seen as a compromise between the existing regulations and the ALJs’ proposal. In the evening, energy demand suddenly increases when solar power does not function.

Electricity 40

Electricity 2015 Solar Power Renewable Energy 40

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To get an assessment of the progress thus far, as well as an idea if what has to happen next, I turned to two of my colleagues in the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Climate & Energy Program: Principal Climate Scientist Rachel Licker and Transmission Policy Manager Sam Gomberg. Will we see any progress in Congress?

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2024

13 Webinar On EPA Clean School Bus Grant Program [PaEN] -- TribLive: Plum School District Working To Cover Costs Of Adding Electric Buses To Fleet -- WHYY: Philly Property Owners Could Soon Face Fines If Their Electric Vehicle Chargers Don’t Work Help Wanted -- Sustainable Pittsburgh Executive Director Joylette Portlock, Ph.D

Clean Energy 84

Clean Energy Toxic Substances Control Act Conservation 2025 84

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 26, 2022

For example, they may need to choose between cooling down with their windows open at night or breathing polluted air, as residents often don’t have air conditioners or the economic capacity to pay for higher electricity bills. Climate change amplifies air quality problems.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Within the category of extreme weather events, heat waves and cold flashes push the human body to its upper and lower limits of temperature regulation. When the power fails , our homes are similarly unable to regulate their interior temperatures. Why is your home unable to regulate its temperature?

Cooling 264

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 11, 2022

Continued fossil fuel energy dependence takes more money out of historically marginalized communities’ pockets, as the costs of heating, cooling, and gasoline are a larger portion of their household budgets (for low-income households, the national average energy burden for electricity and gas alone is 8.1

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

New building codes and rebates for clean cooling measures in homes are scrapped, so low-income households can’t afford to cool their homes. Without incentives to replace gas stoves with clean induction stoves, home cooking fills the air with carcinogenic pollutants.

Fossil Fuels 136

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

For our existing sites in PJM, this means that we are working to bring on a portfolio of new, round-the-clock carbon-free generation resources that can produce as much or more energy each hour than we consume. In 2007, Google committed to carbon neutrality in its operations. MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day

Carbon Emissions 77

Carbon Emissions Natural Gas Electricity 2025 77

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

In addition to increasing the potential for onsite fires at nuclear plants, wildfires can cut off external grid power that the plants need for keeping their reactors cool. While US regulators implemented additional safeguards in the wake of that disaster, questions remain about their effectiveness.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Luzerne County [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension: Using Live Stake Nurseries To Engage Communities In Stream Health [PaEN] -- Volunteers Needed! Kate Harper (R) and Fmr Cong.

Conservation 53

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 16, 2024

[PaEN] -- Master Watershed Steward Marcus Ferreira - The Man Behind Philadelphia's Green Future [PaEN] -- Penn State Students Learn Best Practices During High-Performance Building Summer Camp In Pittsburgh [PaEN] -- WNEP: Fire Causes Delays At East Stroudsburg University’s Tick Research Lab -- Post-Gazette - Mary Ann Thomas: 24-Hour World Series Of (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 28, 2024

Erik Hoeke, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary -- Gov. More Acres In West Vincent Twp., More Acres In West Vincent Twp., More Acres In West Vincent Twp.,

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Switching electricity generation to renewable and nuclear energy sources, increasing industrial energy efficiency and fuel switching, and increasing use of electric vehicles offer the greatest potential for reaching the 2050 goal. If action isn’t stepped up, Pennsylvania’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2050 will exceed 2005 levels.

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