Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

We need big investments in the energy transition from polluting fossil fuels to clean renewable energy. Did you know that economists have a tool for calculating the cost to society of continued reliance on fossil fuels? But the cost of not taking those actions is far greater.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 24, 2025

data centers risks deepening Americas reliance on fossil fuels and can put consumers and communities at risk, according to the report. PIRG Education Fund. Rising electricity demand from U.S. In many cases, much of that demand is for data centers.

Nuclear Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 25, 2025

Second, the electricity powering data centers often comes from fossil fuel power plants that release air pollutants when burning coal and natural gas. Our collaboration culminated in an educational website about Artificial Intelligence and its implications for energy and water.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2025

These events were held to educate local residents about the benefits of solar energy and electric vehicles. Real-time energy production and savings data are displayed in each school, integrating sustainability into the educational experience. The tour was followed by a solar happy hour at Tregs Independent Brewing, where Rep.

Electricity

A Greener Life

APRIL 21, 2025

Reduce the dependency on fossil fuels It urges governments, companies, and individuals to reduce fossil fuel dependency and scale up sustainable alternatives. Earth Day takes place on 22 April and marks its 55th anniversary in 2025.

Earth Day

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Yaw announced the introduction of legislation prohibiting the distribution of Act 13 impact fees to any county “that is actively suing over fossil fuel use.” Read more here. Although not yet introduced, Sen. Read more here.

Natural Gas

New Scientist

JULY 22, 2025

Read more The jet stream may be starting to shift in response to climate change Aerosol pollution, which mainly comes from burning fossil fuels, typically has an opposite effect to greenhouse gases. “But we need to recognise that this is going to reveal these unique risks that are going to be amplified where people live.”

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources. Visit the PA Environment Digest Calendar Of Events for more opportunities. Posted: June 13, 2025] PA Environment Digest

Clean Energy

New Scientist

JULY 4, 2025

Buffer pools are especially an issue when forest-based carbon credits are sold to offset carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels , which remain in the atmosphere for centuries to millennia. “If Well also keep you up to date with New Scientist events and special offers.

Fossil Fuels

Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Bridging the Gap: Ensuring a Just Transition for Rural Communities in the Clean Energy Revolution by Olivia Moulton As we begin transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy, we must be mindful of the disproportionate effects that the existing energy system has had on certain communities.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Data Center Infrastructure; Amazon Told PUC It Has Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Goal By 2040 [PaEN] DEP Invites Comments On Air Quality Permit For 72 - 2.5

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

She co-directs the Gulf Fossil Finance Hub , working to defund fossil fuels and invest in communities. Her efforts have since focused on addressing the fossil fuel industry’s impact on conservation, the environment, and public health. Quinn is also a 2024 Environmental Leadership Initiative Fellow.

2024

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal: Volunteer Laurie Barr Leads Hunt For Abandoned Conventional Oil & Gas Wells In Pennsylvania - By Ad Crable [PaEN] -- FracTracker Alliance Announces 2024 Community Sentinel Award Recipients To Be Honored Dec. 23 Workshop On Holiday Greens Creations - Bring Home The Cheer In Wayne County -- North Branch Land Trust: Dec.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 5, 2025

A reduction in fossil fuel use helps the environment to become cleaner and more sustainable for people, birds, and native wildlife." Zach King of Hess Brothers Fruit Company said , "Hess Brothers Fruit Company values sustainability.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

MAY 18, 2025

Yaw Wants A Program Like This In PA] -- Better Path Coalition Hosts May 21 Webinar On Regional Water Use Policy And Siting Data Center Facilities [PaEN] -- John Quigley: Are Merchant Fossil Fuel Plants Uneconomical? Visit DEPs Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 7, 2025

Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well Permit In McKean County CNX Resources Challenges Environmental Hearing Board Authority To Add Conditions To Permits For Shale Gas Wells At The Drakulic Well Pad In Penn Twp.,

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

MAY 22, 2025

For the past year, Ive been searching for the answer to one question: how can Alberta maintain its position as an energy leader in a world rapidly moving away from fossil fuels? When petroleum has driven the economy for fifty years, how can Alberta shift to renewable energy along with most of the rest of the globe?

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 4, 2025

"While IRGs proposal appealed to people unfamiliar with this dirty process, in reality, it would just create another facility encouraging our societal addiction to plastic and leading to more burning of fossil fuels. In Pennsylvania, like in the rest of the country, plastic pollution is a major problem.

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

10-12 In State College [PaEN] Public Participation -- PA Environmental Educators Urge Action In Response To New Federal Directives Impacting Environmental Education; Take National Survey Gathering Insights From Educators [PaEN] -- PA, NY To Host Feb. Visit the PA Environment Digest Calendar Of Events for more opportunities.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 23, 2025

Energypath brings together a diverse audience of industry leaders, policymakers, students, educators, and community advocates to explore the future of sustainable energy. And that starts with education. It’s the kind of event that doesn’t just inform-- it inspires. And right now, we need that inspiration.

Electricity

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

And because roughly 60 percent of global textiles now contain plastic derived from fossil fuels, it is estimated that more than a third of the microplastics in the oceans today were shed from clothing. Cotton agriculture alone uses 2.1 percent of the world’s arable land. at the University of Georgia.

Upcycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 6, 2025

And with the fossil fuel-related pollution that comes with mining, climate change and air quality will be worsened as well for multiple communities in the region. Further miningas outlined in a recent Executive Order will only increase exposures in the environment and harm the same, already overburdened communities.

Radiation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

She equips residents with the tools to feel empowered to fight against the fossil fuel industry. We educated folks on what an injection well was. I was educated on what an injection well was by another wonderful organizer from Ohio. So, then, we educate them on how to do that. Local people got involved.

Natural Gas

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Inspired by the work of sociologist Theda Skocpol , the argument is that mass political mobilization is required to provide negotiating leverage against incumbent fossil fuel interests, and to pressure elected officials to undertake climate action.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

JULY 20, 2025

Energy Summit; Other Democrats Used Summit To Bash President’s Policies -- TribLive: Pittsburgh Police Use Pepper Spray On Energy Summit Protesters -- WESA: Hundreds Gather To Protest President, Fossil Fuel Dependence During Energy Summit -- WESA: With President Set To Attend A.I. Energy Summit?

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 15, 2025

Without specifying the context, the statement The risks of addressing climate change are too large could justify almost any decision from reinforcing a bridge to withstand extreme heat to ignoring greenhouse gas emissions because of the financial losses that the fossil fuel industry would incur.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2025

Our mission is to improve policy and regulations for the oversight of fossil fuel extraction and use; to educate, empower and organize coalfield citizens; and to protect public and environmental health. CCJ has over three thousand members and supporters and is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors.

Natural Gas

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

corporations and institutional investors owe a fiduciary duty to maximize profits through economic activities that continue to produce, sell, and use fossil fuels (i.e. 33] However, this view directly contributes to the climate crisis because the use of fossil fuels is ubiquitous in the economy. Strine, Jr., 29] Hale, op.

Law

Law Columbia

JANUARY 24, 2025

The Low Emissions Electricity Program , for instance, allocates $17 million for education, technical assistance, and partnerships within low-income and disadvantaged communities. For the small number of programs for which funding has not been fully drawn down, implementation could get tricky. Disadvantaged communities is not defined.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

At the same time, the amount of available electric generation is tightening as fossil-fuel fired plants that provide around-the-clock electricity are retiring due to policy and economic pressures, and the number of new generation projects joining the grid is not keeping pace due to a number of factors.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

How this section of the TSF was virtually handed over to the shale-gas industry for exploration and fossil-fuel development is beyond explanation. The rankings are based on each states’ economy, fiscal stability, opportunity, infrastructure, healthcare, education, natural environment, and crime and corrections.

Natural Gas

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

JUNE 8, 2025

Of Agriculture Now Accepting Agricultural Research Grant Applications, July 25 Deadline -- Gov. Million Water Main, Lead Service Line Replacement Projects -- Pittsburgh Business Times: Pittsburgh Water Authority Launches $75.4

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 6, 2025

Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources. 23 Hard-To-Recycle Collection Events In Allegheny County [PaEN] -- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Sept. 7, 21, Sept. 23 Hard-To-Recycle Collection Events In Allegheny County [PaEN] -- Interfaith Partners For The Chesapeake Bay: Sept.

Natural Resources

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2025

14 Meaningful Watershed Education Workshop At Greenwood Furnace State Park, Huntingdon County [PaEN] -- Dept. 14 Meaningful Watershed Education Workshop At Greenwood Furnace State Park, Huntingdon County [PaEN] -- Dept. Of Health, Penn State Project ECHO Host Feb.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2025

Million; Apply Now To Join Program [PaEN] -- ABC27: Three Mile Island No-Restart Group Calls On Dauphin County Commissioners To Not Cooperate In Restart -- WHYY - Susan Phillips: Climate Change Attorneys Say A PA Statute Could Be Used To Prosecute Fossil Fuel Companies -- PA Assn. Of Environmental Educators: Jan.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

Wants To Do It In Pennsylvania -- DEP: Diversified Production LLC Abandons Shale Gas Powered Cryptocurrency Facility In Elk County; 9 More Violations For Abandoned Shale Gas Wells This Week [PaEN] -- Stronghold Digital Mining, DEP, Environmental Groups Settle Appeal, Require Removal Of Unpermitted Scrubgrass Power Plant's Coal Ash Pile 14 Months Faster (..)

Politics