PA Environment Daily

JULY 9, 2025

PJM remains overly dependent on fossil fueled generation. Imperial Land Corporation and Range Resources – Appalachia, LLC announced a strategic alliance to support the development of a state-of-the-art power generation facility of up to 1 GW in size within the Fort Cherry Development District in Robinson Township, Washington County.

Electricity

Legal Planet

JULY 23, 2025

Eighty percent of new power generation in 2024 came from renewable sources and nuclear power. Forty percent of all power generated in 2024 came from zero-carbon sources, a new record. Fossil Fuel Generation. Global use of natural gas for electricity grew 2.8% Sadly, we haven’t gotten there yet.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 17, 2025

Energy Summit? Data Centers Using Natural Gas, Renewable, Other Always Available Resources [ PDF of Article ] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: GE Vernova To Invest $100 Million In Washington County Factory, Adding 250 Jobs For Grid Equipment Production [ PDF of Article ] -- WESA: With President Set To Attend A.I.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

Shapiro Provides Update On The Fight To Lower Energy Prices, Calls On General Assembly To Move His Commonsense Lightning Energy Plan [PaEN] -- PA Elected Officials, Consumer, Clean Energy Advocates Demand Electric Grid Operator PJM Act To Hold Down Electricity Costs [PaEN] -- Bloomberg: US DOE Orders 760 MW Eddystone Peaking Power Plant In Delaware (..)

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

Data Centers Set For Big Expansion In PA, Some Ask, At What Cost? -- PA Capital-Star: Energy And Tech Companies Said They’re Investing $90 Billion In PA, Fossil Fuel Projects Make Up Largest Category -- WESA - Rachel McDevitt: Many Projects Credited To A.I. Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

23 Hard-To-Recycle Collection Events In Allegheny County [PaEN] -- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Sept. 4 Webinar - Rewild Your Yard: How Meadows Support Pollinators And Clean Water [PaEN] -- Call For Posters: Alliance For The Chesapeake Bay 2025 Chesapeake Watershed Forum Nov. 7, 21, Sept.

Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

Shapiro Says Federal Budget Bill ‘Betrays The Very People’ The President Vowed To Help -- The Center Square: Gov. 7, 21, Sept.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

Shapiro Provides Update On The Fight To Lower Energy Prices, Calls On General Assembly To Move His Commonsense Lightning Energy Plan [PaEN] -- PA Elected Officials, Consumer, Clean Energy Advocates Demand Electric Grid Operator PJM Act To Hold Down Electricity Costs [PaEN] -- Bloomberg: US DOE Orders 760 MW Eddystone Peaking Power Plant In Delaware (..)

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Shapiro's 'Lightning' Energy Plan To Lower Energy Costs, Create Jobs, Protect Pennsylvania From Global Energy Instability [PaEN] -- DEP Releases 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update; 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report [PaEN] -- Republican Rep.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Susquehanna County [PaEN] -- Scranton Times: PA American To Provide Clean Drinking Water In Dimock To Replace Fracking-Contaminated Private Wells [ PDF of Article ] -- WVIA: PA American Water: Dimock Twp. Shapiro Touts Capping Of 300th Conventional Oil & Gas Well At North Franklin Twp.,

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2025

We Are Going To Run Out Of Power, If We Dont Move Forward Rep. Thomas Mehaffie (R-Dauphin) , a member of the Committee, noted in 2018 a baseload power plant was shut down in his district [Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant]-- Dont make the same mistake. Climate change isn't an issue that can wait.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

-- The Citizens Voice: May 30-31 BioBlitz In Nesbitt Park, Kirby Park Natural Area In Wilkes-Barre -- Wilkes-Barre Times-Leader: First-Ever Wilkes-Barre BioBlitz Uncovers Hundreds Of Species -- Gettysburg Connection: Calling Planting Volunteers, Join Watershed Alliance Of Adams County May 31 For Pine Run Planting -- KYW: Emergency Siren Tests At Limerick, (..)

Clean Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 16, 2025

Here are just a few: Administrative actions – Many of the actions of President Trump and his administration have underscored his decidedly unhealthy obsession with promoting fossil fuels and degrading renewables.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

A renewed emphasis on fossil fuels is expected under another Trump administration, though coal will likely remain moribund thanks to poor economic fundamentals and constrained access to capital. Renewable Energy Vs. Fossil Fuels Renewables or fossil fuels?

2025

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

Shapiro Provides Update On The Fight To Lower Energy Prices, Calls On General Assembly To Move His Commonsense Lightning Energy Plan [PaEN] -- PA Elected Officials, Consumer, Clean Energy Advocates Demand Electric Grid Operator PJM Act To Hold Down Electricity Costs [PaEN] -- Bloomberg: US DOE Orders 760 MW Eddystone Peaking Power Plant In Delaware (..)

2025

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 11, 2025

14 -15 [PaEN] -- TribLive: Climate Change Will Continue With Warmer, Wetter Conditions Predicted -- DEP Sets Feb. 14 -15 [PaEN] -- TribLive: Climate Change Will Continue With Warmer, Wetter Conditions Predicted -- DEP Sets Feb. One In Susquehanna County Now [ PDF of Article ] -- WHYY/BillyPenn: Why Gov.

Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2025

4:00 p.m. -- The Allegheny Front: Amendment To PA Solar Bill Puts Industry On Edge -- TribLive: Solar Projects Go Commercial, Growth Up, Power Costs Down -- Scranton Times: Scranton Zoners Approve Citys First Solar Energy Facility -- TribLive: East Huntingdon Twp.

Conservation

Legal Planet

MAY 21, 2025

In rough translation: The question should not be whether Belm has the capacity to host the UN climate conference, but why does the COP not fit in cities like Belm that suffer the impacts of climate change on a daily basis? A nuclear power plant in Arizona and Sammy Roth took a tour.

Rainforest

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 22, 2025

DEP Climate Change Advisory Committee meeting. Room 105 of the Rachel Carson Building in Harrisburg. Click Here to join the meeting via Microsoft Teams. DEP Contact: Lindsay Byron at lbyron@pa.gov or calling 717-772-8951.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

-- DEP Invites Comments On State Plan To Implement Federal Rule Requiring Methane Emissions Reductions From Conventional Oil & Gas, Shale Gas Facilities; 7 Hearings Set [PaEN] -- DEP: XTO Energy Failed To Restore 5 Multi-Million Gallon Shale Gas Water Impoundments In Butler County [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 24 (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2025

According to many, the primary purpose of these Biden-Harris administration regulations was to destroy industries that didn't align with their narrow-minded climate change zealotry. Investment; Concerns Remain About Powering New A.I. billion a year. Shapiro Announces $20 Billion Amazon A.I.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 17, 2025

Energy Summit? Data Centers Using Natural Gas, Renewable, Other Always Available Resources [ PDF of Article ] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: GE Vernova To Invest $100 Million In Washington County Factory, Adding 250 Jobs For Grid Equipment Production [ PDF of Article ] -- WESA: With President Set To Attend A.I.

Regulations

Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2025

If EPA succeeds in reversing the all-important Endangerment Finding, it would “eviscerate the biggest regulatory tool the federal government has” to keep climate change in check, my colleague Ann Carlson told Grist. It prohibits gas and other fossil fuels in most new buildings. But there may be a silver lining of sorts.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

& Energy Summit Offered All-Positive Message, With Concerns Cast Aside -- PA Capital-Star: Energy And Tech Companies Said They’re Investing $90 Billion In PA, Fossil Fuel Projects Make Up Largest Category -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Pittsburgh Leaders Eye Long-Term Impact Of Energy, A.I. Data Center In Middlesex Twp.,

Politics

Legal Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

As of 2016, half of its total emissions are from the power sector, with 20% from industry and 15% from transportation, and. According to the Energy Information Agency , South Korea’s power sector is heavily reliant on fossil fuels. 50% coal, 26% gas, and 25% nuclear. What he does while in office remains to be seen.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 1, 2025

Of Health Distributing Free Potassium Iodide Tablets To Residents Near PA’s 4 Operating Nuclear Power Plants Aug. Data Center-Fueled Rate Hikes -- PennLive - Charles Thompson: ‘Do It Right, Do It Safe’ Outweighs ‘Don’t Do It’ At Public Meeting On Restarting Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant To Power A.I.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

JULY 17, 2025

Energy Summit? Data Centers Using Natural Gas, Renewable, Other Always Available Resources [ PDF of Article ] -- Pittsburgh Business Times: GE Vernova To Invest $100 Million In Washington County Factory, Adding 250 Jobs For Grid Equipment Production [ PDF of Article ] -- WESA: With President Set To Attend A.I.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

Standards for existing stationary carbon sources (focused on power plants to date). Climate change under other federal statutes. Climate change as substantial impact requiring discussion in environmental impact statement. Climate change as reason for threatened or endangered status under Endangered Species Act.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

Fuel transport – Spring floods can hinder the transportation of fuels like coal. While it is a heavily polluting fossil fuel that is set to continue declining as a fuel source for US electricity generation over the next decade, coal still accounted for roughly 20 percent of the country’s generation in 2022.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 30, 2023

That lower-than-expected electricity demand also makes spring (and the other “shoulder” season, fall) the go-to seasons for fossil fuel and nuclear power plants to go offline for scheduled maintenance—or refueling, in the case of the nuclear plants. Indeed, they are good reasons to focus even more.

Renewable Energy

Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2024

But gas power plants have also played an important role in helping to maintain the overall reliability of the electricity grid by meeting peak power demands, such as on hot summer days when people turn on their air conditioners. And this problem will only get worse as the impacts of climate change become more frequent and severe.

Fossil Fuels

Cresforum

JANUARY 16, 2024

Introduction One of the main messages coming out of the recent COP28 meetings in the UAE concerns the role that nuclear power can play in the future of clean energy development around the world. The hope is that this encourages international financial institutions to include nuclear energy in loans for energy projects.

Nuclear Power

A Greener Life

JULY 30, 2021

Germany has recently experienced fatal and apocalyptic climate- fuelled floods , after which the country’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, promised the government would do more to tackle climate change. In Germany, fossil fuels are king. In Germany, fossil fuels are king. Quitting coal.

Climate Change

Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Yes, in some cases, fossil fuels are burned to generate the electricity used to charge electric cars, but this highlights two of electric vehicles’ many advantages. They are much more efficient than gas powered vehicles and the electrical grid is getting greener. Taking a national average of 25.1

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 4, 2023

Photos: Keystone Conemaugh Coal Power Plant, Indiana County; Hickory Run Natural Gas Power Plant, Lawrence County; Limerick Nuclear Power Plant, Montgomery County PA DEP Public Notice Dashboards: -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb.

Nuclear Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 25, 2022

Here are a couple examples of recent UCS studies that have used capacity expansion models: Federal Clean Energy Tax Credits utilized the ReEDS model to evaluate several federal tax credit policies, assessing their impact on the buildout of renewable energy resources and power sector global warming emissions.

Electricity

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

It is a highly professional and analytically competent organization, rather conservative, and quite sympathetic to the perspectives and business needs of the energy sector, including fossil-fuel producers. Fossil enterprises and political leaders in major fossil producers ranged from politely dismissive to openly contemptuous.

Fossil Fuels