PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Of Interior Announces Approval Of Another $244 Million In Funding To Pennsylvania For Cleaning Up Legacy Pollution From Abandoned Mine Lands; Local Mine Reclamation Grants Due To DEP Nov. 11 -- DEP Eligible For $1.7 26 -- Sierra Club PA Hosts Oct. 30 Webinar - It’s Scary Out Here! 8 [PaEN] -- Penn State EarthTalks: Oct.

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

He was invited to speak at a high-level meeting convened by the COP Presidency—an unparalleled opportunity to personally cultivate political leaders from around the world and attempt to define the terms of the energy transition in ways that perpetuate reliance on fossil fuel products and grow corporate profits.

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2024

That is a recipe for very difficult politics, and indeed, carbon pricing has a poor history of political success. Moreover, carbon pricing is unlikely to drive the kinds of technological innovation and political economy changes that sectoral subsidies can produce.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2024

16 Webinar On Forest Carbon Markets And Payment Programs Expert Panel [PaEN] -- PA Organization For Watersheds & Rivers Hosts Jan. 16 Webinar On Winter Salting and Local Waterway Impacts: Opportunities To Work For Change [PaEN] -- North Branch Land Trust: Jan. 18 Tree ID Hike In Forest Echo Bird Sanctuary, Luzerne County -- Jan.

Conservation

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

By Jeremy Williams Over the past 200 years, political power has become deeply entwined with fossil fuels. The energy transition is now troubling the peace, and those alliances are shifting. As renewable energy takes over from fossil fuels, there is a tug-of-war underway to control the narrative.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Finance is the top priority for this COP and is the linchpin to help lower income nations transition from fossil fuels to clean energy, close the energy poverty gap, adapt to climate impacts, and address mounting loss and damage. trillion annually.

Fossil Fuels

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

A Greener Life

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We should direct our attention to what matters most, which is systemic change and politics, not little lifestyle changes. Because he has his eye on industry, Cheaper Faster Better is particularly good on the subject of personal responsibility and ‘carbon shaming’. Doing as much as we can does not mean obsessing over our own carbon footprints.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2025

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Politics

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. These clean energy technologies are pivotal to Brazil’s goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and meeting its international climate commitments.

2025

Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

2024 was a year that might as well have been a decade. Heres what happened, as documented by Inside Climate News reporters.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 9, 2025

Bucks County [PaEN] -- MCall Guest Essay: Raising Clean Energy Requirement Good Move For Pennsylvania - By Flora Cardoni, PennEnvironment , & Jim Brown, Audubon Mid-Atlantic -- TribLive: EQT Buys Olympus For $1.8 Billion, Consolidates Grip On Southwest PA Natural Gas -- Scranton Times: Solar Energy Facility Proposed In Scott Twp.,

2026

Vermont Law

APRIL 21, 2025

They have cut $192 billionfrom projects aimed at sustainable housing, water infrastructure, climate and clean energy projects. Now more than ever, we need: political action, community engagement, mass education, transparency, and environmental justice organizations. Leaving families, like mine, caught in an unbreakable cycle.

Clean Energy

Law Columbia

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The Climate Solutions plaintiffs argue that I-2066 violates Washingtons single subject rule by requiring voters who may support affirming access to natural gas service, to vote for unrelated repeals and other changes to state law provisions that promote clean energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (among other unrelated changes).

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 26, 2025

Rather they have arbitrarily and unlawfully terminated the grant programs with callous disregard for the impact of their actions- all to score political points. ” “This administration has shown no interest in learning the truth about how these grant funds are supporting essential and impactful work on the ground.

Government

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

I’m not including laws that simply incentivize clean energy or those that fund pure science, even though both are vitally important parts of climate policy. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) , passed in 2022, contains hundreds of billions of dollars in funding for clean energy.

Law

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Degnan Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, will give the talk, “Repurposed Energy,” at 4:00 p.m. These obstacles include governance structures, political economy, decision-making dynamics and environmental justice concerns. on Monday, Nov. 4, in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus.

Clean Energy

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The act aims to create green jobs, reduce fossil fuel consumption and switch to clean energy. This ties into broader debates on global priorities as fossil fuel investments continue alongside growing clean energy investments. Disagreements are rife, and progress is slow.

Paris Agreement

A Greener Life

APRIL 5, 2025

As a result, clean energy sources generated the largest amount of electricity in the US last month, 50.8%a Solar and wind generation records It was driven by an increase in solar and wind generation, which, as the largest renewable energy sources, reached a record 24.4% of generated electricity. a new record.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Shapiro Says President Brings ‘Chaos’ In Militarized Protest Response -- WHYY/AP: Gov. Shapiro Says President Shouldn’t Deploy Troops To Philly Protests As LA Response Divides Governors -- PA Capital-Star: PA Leaders Vow To Protect Protesters’ Rights But Warn About Giving In To Angreer And Violence -- The Center Square: How Does Gov.

Clean Energy

Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2025

Originally intended, as the name suggests, to protect investments in politically unstable nations, this mechanism has morphed into a tool for corporations to challenge national policies (including environmental protections) in international arbitration tribunals against sovereign nations.

Environmental Protection

Legal Planet

JANUARY 30, 2025

States can also use green banks and other methods to nurture clean energy innovation. States have big plans to expand clean energy, but then they trip themselves up because projects get bogged down in permitting delays and local restrictions. Blue states have politely refrained from that kind of aggressive action.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

(Waters has a fan following who turned her mirthless repetition of the phrase, reclaiming my time in the face of non-responsive testimony from former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin into one of the most viral political memes of the first Trump Administration.) Credit: Investigation Report by the U.S.

2015

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Uncertainty about federal regulatory policy and future federal government investment in clean energy and green technologies could discourage investors, but California may be able to serve as some degree of a counterweight by moving forward with in-state projects and providing state incentives for the continued development of greener tech.

Government

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 17, 2025

Trumps executive orders also advance industry interests by making it easier to increase fossil fuel production while blocking clean energy development. Roll the Dice, Pay the Price These political shenanigans are just attempts to deny a reality that Wall Street already knows: Climate risk is financial risk.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

Data Center Tenant Could Be Announced At New TECfusions Upper Burrell Site Within Weeks In Westmoreland County -- Financial Times Visual Story: Inside The Relentless Race For A.I.

Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 8, 2025

Approves Solar Energy Facility In Blair County -- WHYY - Sophia Schmidt: New Federal Clean Energy Rebates In Limbo For Residents Of PA, DE, NJ -- Reminder: Center For Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training Hosts Jan.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

JULY 4, 2025

Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: EQT Shale Gas Company Completes $1.8 Ohio- $2.90 Westmoreland County [PaEN] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: EQT Shale Gas Company Completes $1.8 Ohio- $2.90

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Even so, if you’re someone who cares about energy and environment, there are some things to be thankful for this year Here are a few. Falling prices of renewable energy. Clean energy investment. Congressional politics.

Politics

Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2025

But the administration is also, purposefully, impacting investments in critical clean energy infrastructure and manufacturing. Economics will trump politics here, so long as demand growth remains robust and supply chains and project costs are not too adversely affected by tariffs, inflation and regulatory uncertainty.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

Meanwhile, Americans have witnessed the unraveling of public health and environmental protections in the pursuit of political advantage. You acknowledged the realities of climate change, the benefits of clean energy, the economic need for environmental justice, and the importance of protecting human health through smart regulation.

Environmental Protection

Legal Planet

MARCH 25, 2025

In a political system in which legislation enacted by Congress is more difficult and time-consuming to change than executive decisionmaking by the President, requiring the President to comply with law will necessarily reduce the swings in policy. One constraint on rapid changes in policy, at least by the executive branch, is judicial review.

Government

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 19, 2025

Another credible analysis found the benefits of the Clean Air Act exceeded its costs by more than 30 to one. Deep cuts to EPA would send harmful ripples across Americas economy by creating regulatory confusion and delaying or cancelling clean water infrastructure and clean energy projects throughout the nation.

Clean Air Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 8, 2025

With federal climate and clean energy policies likely to be stalled or rolled back, climate litigation is a key arena for progress in the United States.

Fossil Fuels

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

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

14 Webinar On The New Deadline For Taking Advantage Of Federal Solar Energy Tax Credits [PaEN] -- Centre Daily Times: What To Know About Use-Them-Or-Lose-Them Clean Energy Tax Credits -- Penn State Extension Cumberland County Master Gardeners: Aug. 12-14] -- PA Interfaith Power & Light Hosts Aug. 27 -- Public Opinion - A.I.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 23, 2025

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Natural Resources