PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 1, 2025

So Far This Year [PaEN] -- PJM Electricity Auction: PJM Lost 2.8 Gigawatts Of Power Due To Reduced Reliability Rating Of Natural Gas Power Plants; Could Gain 12.2 So Far This Year [PaEN] -- PJM Electricity Auction: PJM Lost 2.8 Data Center Power Demands] -- TribLive Guest Essay: Who Pays The Price For New A.I.

Nuclear Power

Circle of Blue

JULY 9, 2025

From that year forward, the agency predicted, the use of the dirtiest fuel to generate electricity would steadily decline, carrying with it planet-healing reductions in climate-changing air emissions and water-polluting discharges. electricity markets. At the time, the IEA forecast appeared sound. Coal production dropped. Much cleaner.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

19 & 21 -- Reading Eagle: Frequent Met-Ed Power Outages In Southeastern Berks Called Into Question -- July 31 Webinar - Why Is My Electricity Bill So High? 19 & 21 -- Reading Eagle: Frequent Met-Ed Power Outages In Southeastern Berks Called Into Question -- July 31 Webinar - Why Is My Electricity Bill So High?

Conservation

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. Read more here. ] They absolutely have a place.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2025

The glorification of fracking and natural gas as pillars of "dominance" ignores the glaring truth: methane, the primary component of "natural" gas, is a greenhouse gas 84 times more potent than CO2 over 20 years. Solar power is now the cheapest electricity in history. Let's dismantle this dangerous fantasy.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2025

Data Center-Fueled Rate Hikes -- PJM Electric Auction Impacts: 1 In 5 PA Households Report Problems Now Paying Energy Bills; Electric Utility Shutoffs Up 38.1% So Far This Year [PaEN] -- PJM Electricity Auction: PJM Lost 2.8 Gigawatts Of Power Due To Reduced Reliability Rating Of Natural Gas Power Plants; Could Gain 12.2

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

Shapiro Touts Plan To Expand Energy Markets In PA While York County Seeks Balance -- The Center Square: Watch: Former DEP Leader Stumps For Shapiro Energy Plan -- TribLive Guest Essay: You Deserve Affordable Electricity [Not Gov. Shapiro Touts Capping Of 300th Conventional Oil & Gas Well At North Franklin Twp.,

Natural Gas

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

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Investment across the energy spectrum –from oil and gas and renewables to energy storage and transmission – could well increase due to growing power demand, incentives for new supply, and permitting reforms, extending existing trends from the past four years. Gas and renewables often go hand in hand.

2025

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Receive $40 Million In USDA Funding To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Improve Water Quality [PaEN] -- Chesapeake Bay Foundation: After 40 Years Of Cutting Edge Environmental Restoration, Can The Bay Partnership Again Reinvent Itself In Time To Save The Bay In The 21st Century? Of Energy Awards DEP $16.2 Of Energy Awards DEP $16.2

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Receive $40 Million In USDA Funding To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Improve Water Quality [PaEN] -- Delaware River Basin Commission To Hold Nov. Receive $40 Million In USDA Funding To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Improve Water Quality [PaEN] -- Delaware River Basin Commission To Hold Nov. 6 Hearing, Dec. 6 Hearing, Dec.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

Mackenzie Needs To Fight For Federal Clean Energy Tax Credits -- MCall Guest Essay: Congress Cant Protect Us Without Protecting Clean Energy - By Tinku Khanwalkar -- Centre Daily Times - Climate Watch: Why Congress Must Not Pull The Plug On PAs Clean Energy Progress - By Lisa Richardson, Citizens Climate Lobby, State College Chapter -- TribLive Guest (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2025

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency will repeal all greenhouse gas emissions standards for the power sector under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act and repeal 2024 amendments to the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) that directly result in coal-fired power plants having to shut down.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2025

Data Centers To Ensure PA Consumers Don’t Foot The Bill -- PJM Electric Auction Impacts: 1 In 5 PA Households Report Problems Now Paying Energy Bills; Electric Utility Shutoffs Up 38.1% So Far This Year [PaEN] -- PJM Electricity Auction: PJM Lost 2.8 Data Centers [PaEN] -- PA Dept. 14 [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension: Sept.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Read more here on legislation. -- Penn State, Project InnerSpace Report: Leverage Oil & Gas Workers To Generate Enough Geothermal Energy To Meet 100% Of Pennsylvania's Electricity, Heating, Medium Industrial Process Needs [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: A Geothermal Push In Pennsylvania Enlists Oil & Gas Industry: Hot Everywhere Underground (..)

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 29, 2025

Shapiros offer to work on legislation to make the electric grid more reliable, diversify Pennsylvanias energy generation, lower energy costs for ratepayers and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. So, if they choose to do nothing, consumers are going to pay more on their electric bills. Read more here. In response, Gov.

Electricity

Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2025

Come to think of it, I saw another “first” on the streets of São Paulo: an electric police car. An electric cop car in São Paulo. As of June 24, when a technician from Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) shut off the fossil gas supply to my home, I now live in an all-electric home ,” Gerdes writes.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 2, 2025

Data Centers To Ensure PA Consumers Don’t Foot The Bill -- PJM Electric Auction Impacts: 1 In 5 PA Households Report Problems Now Paying Energy Bills; Electric Utility Shutoffs Up 38.1% So Far This Year [PaEN] -- PJM Electricity Auction: PJM Lost 2.8 Data Centers [PaEN] -- PA Dept. 14 [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension: Sept.

2025

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 1, 2025

So Far This Year [PaEN] -- PJM Electricity Auction: PJM Lost 2.8 Gigawatts Of Power Due To Reduced Reliability Rating Of Natural Gas Power Plants; Could Gain 12.2 So Far This Year [PaEN] -- PJM Electricity Auction: PJM Lost 2.8 Data Center Power Demands] -- TribLive Guest Essay: Who Pays The Price For New A.I.

Nuclear Power

Legal Planet

APRIL 3, 2023

EPA regulation of greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA) A. Nuclear power regulation D. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rules bearing on electricity transmission E. Electric vehicle and biofuel policies E. Administrative law questions, including the major questions doctrine. Co-benefits E.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

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. Fuel transport – Spring floods can hinder the transportation of fuels like coal.

Fossil Fuels

Global Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Chris Johnston is co-author of The Arrival of the Electric Car – An Overview of the EV Revolution Happening Now. The fastest way to shift the transportation sector to environmental sustainability is to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles (EVs). This makes EVs two to three times more efficient than gas-powered vehicles.

Electricity

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Ontario Power Generation has been quietly selling off Clean Energy Credits from its hydro and nuclear power to businesses in the United States since about 2013. The agreement provides Microsoft ongoing Clean Energy Credits so it can claim to be using low carbon electricity. We lose our claim to clean electricity .

Clean Energy

Physics World

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Those findings might surprise physicists, who will be aware that the energy density of nuclear fission is so high that just a fingertip of uranium has an energy equivalent of 5000 barrels of oil. Nuclear is also capable of supporting the decarbonization of other sectors, such as heating and transport.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The PJM Interconnection has identified data centers (including cryptocurrency operations) as “huge, huge consumers of power” and are a major driver of increased electrical demand across the regional electric grid between now and 2037. Read more here. Read more here. Read more here. Related Article - Cryptocurrency: -- U.S.

Nuclear Power

A Greener Life

APRIL 19, 2022

While Macron has positioned himself as a pro-climate action word leader he is unpopular amongst many climate activists and people on the left, with many disliking his support for nuclear power and pro-business views. Banning wind turbines.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 13, 2024

Under PACER, 70% of the revenue will be directed back to Pennsylvania residents as a rebate on their electric bill – more than any other cap-and-invest program in the nation – resulting in long-term, price relief on energy costs. The benefits of PACER will be passed on directly to Pennsylvania consumers.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The recommendations include-- -- All Sectors Cap & Invest Program: Adopt a Cap and Invest Program for all sectors of the economy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, not just for power plants, establishing emission limits and a program to trade allowances; -- 30% Renewable By 2030: Amend the Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards to require 30% (..)

2024

Physics World

OCTOBER 19, 2021

From physics to politics William D Magwood IV, director-general of the Nuclear Energy Agency, thinks nuclear power can help us meet net-zero targets. I fight,” answered Magwood, who at the time directed the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology at the US Department of Energy (DOE). Courtesy: NEA).

Nuclear Power

Enviromental Defense

MAY 18, 2021

But what you probably haven’t heard is that our grid is getting dirtier again, with fossil fuels increasing in our electricity supply from burning natural gas. That means carbon emissions from electricity in Ontario will be rising back up again after years of decline. Ontario Energy Output by Fuel Type: 2020 . Source: IESO [link].

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 8, 2024

PACER is the way forward to cleaner air, job growth, and consumer savings on electricity bills,” said Sen. The proceeds will be invested as follows-- -- 70 percent returned directly to electricity consumers, including those in rural areas, as an across-the-board, on-bill rebate by the Public Utility Commission (PUC). Comitta, Sen.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2023

As this past year's high power bills demonstrated, the price of generating electricity with natural gas or coal is no longer a bargain for Pennsylvania utility customers. natural gas, along with old, expensive to maintain power plants, caused electricity prices here to soar. High overseas demand for U.S.

Fossil Fuels

Greenbuilding Law

APRIL 17, 2022

With legislation that became law last week, without the Governor’s signature, Maryland has enacted the most rigorous state law in the country reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and otherwise addressing ESG stewardship including climate change. only days from now). All of which is true, but.

Greenhouse

Enviromental Defense

JULY 11, 2023

This document is little more than a belated attempt to rationalize the government’s recent announcements for new nuclear and gas facilities. Numerous studies have shown that Ontario can meet its growing electricity demand with wind and solar, which can easily be combined with storage technologies to deliver power when needed.

Clean Energy

Law Columbia

MARCH 8, 2023

Section 60103 creates a “Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund” (GGRF), which the EPA Administrator can use to make grants for the deployment of zero-emission technologies, and to carry out other greenhouse gas emission reduction activities.

Renewable Energy

Law Columbia

JUNE 26, 2023

Backgrounds After the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, all nuclear power plants in Japan were temporarily shutdown due to safety concerns. This led to the increased use of other energy sources, especially coal, for electricity generation. Kobelco Power Kobe No. and Kansai Electric Power Co.,

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2023

The bill was introduced because a small number of cities in other states, not in Pennsylvania, were adopting ordinances requiring the electrification of new construction and prohibiting the use of natural gas and heating oil as part of initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate Change