Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 12, 2025

In short, MISO is responsible for planning and coordinating generation and transmission of electricity to ensure the lights stay on across its region, spanning from South Louisiana to Canada. Sunday’s outage was a demonstration of what can go wrong when there is not enough transmission to handle that “traffic.”

Regulations

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2024

And ever-increasing numbers of battery-powered cars on the road will also mean a growing number of waste batteries. waste stream in coming years. We’ve seen what happens in other industries when the waste stream isn’t responsibly managed and their products clog landfills, whether that’s plastic bags or smartphones.

Waste

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2024

As the market for the electric buses, cars, trucks, and trains that help curb the climate crisis continues to grow globally, the battery supply chain faces increased scrutiny.

Law

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Bidirectional EVs Could Be the New Standard Electric vehicles (EVs) should be a clean transportation and a clean energy solution. This could let drivers use these batteries to power critical appliances during emergencies, their homes during power shutoffs, or even the grid when electricity demand is high.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 8, 2025

Electric vehicle (EV) sales are increasing , and these vehicles are important to reduce fossil fuel use and air pollution. Relying on market dynamics alone risks wasted materials, unsafe and unregulated dismantling, and a lack of accountability for proper disposal.

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

JULY 9, 2025

On July 9, the PJM Interconnection announced it has opened the next electricity capacity auction bidding window of July 9 to 15 to determine wholesale electric prices throughout its 13 state and District of Columbia footprint that includes Pennsylvania. So, electricity prices are going nowhere but up.” Read more here.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This webinar showcases Benton Foundry’s green initiatives that have significantly reduced energy consumption and waste.

Recycling

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 7, 2025

The size of the toxic ash pile at the Scrubgrass cryptomining facility had turned waste coal into an even riskier form of pollution, said Patrick McDonnell, President and CEO of PennFuture. uses waste coal to fuel its operations, which results in large quantities of coal ash.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Route 220 in Bedford Township is being built for a facility that provides liquid natural gas as fuel for electricity generation, transportation and heat. The renewable energy source has generated more than 959,000 kilowatt-hours of energy, or 76% of the facilitys total electricity. And Going Higher?

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Meanwhile, it remains profoundly cheaper to produce electricity from solar than from new fossil fuel sources. Department of Energy estimated that unrestricted exports of LNG will increase wholesale domestic gas prices by over 30% by 2050.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 28, 2025

DeFrank, Chairman, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission PUC: Brace For Higher Electric Bills As A Result Of Soaring Power Use; Consumers Should Review Energy Options PJM Electricity Capacity Auction Bids For 134,311 MW Come It At Highest Price Allowed Under FERC-Approved Cap What The A.I. 6 Hearing, Sept. 6 Hearing, Sept.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

85% of conventional well owners with 23,708 wells failed to submit production and waste generation and disposal reports-- 19,644 of these wells are not required to have a plugging bond. 89% of well owners failing to submit production/waste reports have at least one well not required to have a bond. Read more here.

Waste

Earth 911

AUGUST 7, 2025

The Coming Wave of Solar Waste Unlike the relatively modest recycling needs of today, we’re heading toward a tsunami of solar panel waste. In the United States alone, the Environmental Protection Agency estimates recyclers will need to process one million tons of solar panel waste by 2030 and up to 10 million tons by 2050.

Recycling

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

From cars and trucks to buses and trains, electric vehicles are playing an increasingly vital role in decarbonizing mobility and reducing oil dependence However, this transition brings with it a significant challenge: the immense pressure on battery supply chains.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Oil & Gas Wastewater Injection Well In McKean County Until Hearing On Full Supersedeas [PaEN] -- TribLive: Environmental Groups Appeal CNX Slickville Pipelines Permits -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. PaEN] -- Alliance For The Chesapeake Bay Video: PA Riparian Forest Buffer Projects Plants Its 1,000th Acre!

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2025

Its a daily litany of spills, polluted water supplies, smell of natural gas in the air, noise, air pollution, explosions, landslides, truck traffic, radioactive waste, gas flares, erosion problems, dust, lights, road dumping waste, abandoned equipment and wells. Fortunately, no one was hurt.

Air Pollution

Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

This river system is the basis of millions of livelihoods, enabling transportation, agriculture, fishing and electricity generation. Due to the increasing availability of electricity, Cambodia’s power consumption per capita more than tripled between 2012 and 2022. Unfortunately, the expansion of hydropower has its downsides.

Government

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2024

30 Webinar - It’s Scary Out Here!

2024

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

When the job is to ensure reliable electricity for 67 million people, being largely invisible is often a sign that the system is working as it should. We act like an air traffic controller, maneuvering electricity through outages and storms across a multistate grid to match supply and demand in real time. Read more here.

Politics

Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 31, 2024

million homes’ electricity use for a year! Edwards was also a key player in the Mount Polley tailings dam disaster of 2014 , where Imperial Metals, of which he is a controlling shareholder, experienced a catastrophic breach to one of its tailings ponds that released billions of liters of toxic waste into nearby waterways.

Fossil Fuels

Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 13, 2025

From waste to resource: Transforming waste carbon felt into efficient cathodes for circular economy practices. Isgoren, M., Veli, S., & Dimoglo, A. Chemical Engineering Science, 305, 121162.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2025

Absorbent material and booms were in place along a path of brown staining from the release to help cleanup the waste and preventing it from traveling any further. The mixture traveled down slope from the tank for about 210 feet until it was stopped by a fallen tree from getting into any bodies of water.

Air Pollution

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 25, 2024

30 Webinar - It’s Scary Out Here!

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Commonwealth is a leading producer of energy and the nations largest exporter of electricity nearly a century ago, Pennsylvania helped to found PJM, and today still serves as a generation backbone for the region. My Administration will continue to work to ensure safe, reliable, and affordable power for Pennsylvanians for the long term.

Electricity

Legal Planet

JULY 31, 2025

Furthermore, a 2022 study from the World Wildlife Federation found that a shift toward healthier diets with an emphasis on more plant-based foods, while reducing food loss and waste globally, can increase mitigation by as much as 2.5 Gt CO₂ per year. Gt CO₂ per year.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 6, 2025

On March 6, the City of Reading announced it is now moving into the construction phase as part of a strategic partnership with Schneider Electric to implement a Guaranteed Energy Savings Act (GESA) project, reinforcing Reading's commitment to sustainability and energy efficiency. With over 4,300 solar panels generating more than 1.78

Renewable Energy

Scientific American

AUGUST 7, 2025

Members of China’s 41st Antarctic expedition team Five years ago electrical engineer Sun Hongbin was given what many would consider an impossible task: build a full-fledged clean-energy system amid some of the coldest temperatures on Earth, screaming winds and half-year darkness.

Clean Energy

Physics World

APRIL 4, 2025

Scientists in the US have developed a new type of photovoltaic battery that runs on the energy given off by nuclear waste. The battery uses a scintillator crystal to transform the intense gamma rays from radioisotopes into electricity and can produce more than a microwatt of power. The idea of a nuclear waste battery is not new.

Waste

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Containers labeled with radioactive waste sat on properties in the township. Over the past 20 years, cancer incidents in students in the Fort Cherry School District living near fracking facilities have made headlines. Residents’ contaminated water and land and their exposure to benzene from shale operations were reported on.

Natural Gas

Enviromental Defense

JULY 2, 2025

2 Energy The electricity required to power and cool date centres represents another significant environmental concern. per cent of the world’s electricity consumption in 2024, while this is set to more than double by the end of the decade. AI-induced electricity demand can lead consumers to pay significantly more for electricity.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 11, 2025

The House Environmental & Natural Resource Protection Committee is scheduled to meet March 18 to consider six pieces of legislation-- -- Notice Of Oil & Gas Permits: House Bill 43 (Conklin-D-Centre) require publication of newspaper notice of oil and gas well permits; -- Invertebrate Biodiversity: House Bill 441 (Pielli-D-Chester) amends the (..)

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2024

Get Your Passport To 2025 PA Farm Show, Enhance Your Conservation Skills Starting Jan. Schuylkill County; Possible Abandoned Mine Subsidence -- WNEP: DEP Crews Working To Fill Mine Subsidence Sinkhole In Schuylkill County That Swallowed Swimming Pool -- Republican Herald: Sinkhole In Mahanoy Twp.,

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MAY 22, 2025

Where We Are With The Issue At a June 10, 2024 hearing on House Bill 2384 (Vitali-D-Delaware) that would ban road dumping by the House Environmental Committee, DEP said, The Administration is supportive of this clear ban on the practice and views the Solid Waste Management Act as a sound vehicle for such statutory language. Read more here.

Natural Gas

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

APRIL 30, 2025

. -- York County - Harley-Davidson: As part of a $89 million grant, Harley-Davidson will be expanding and upgrading their York County facility for more energy-efficient EV motorcycle manufacturing and reducing waste from the painting process. Billion In Farm Products To China In 2023] [Posted: April 30, 2025] PA Environment Digest

Clean Energy

Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 7, 2025

In 2019, noticing AI was straining land and electricity resources, Singapore imposed a moratorium on new data centre construction. It will take robust policies to make sure we harness AI’s benefits while minimizing its environmental costs. Singapore used this pause to develop comprehensive sustainability standards.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Waste Permits -- Chrinergyy Power, LLC - Chrin Brothers Landfill Gas Project Waste Permit: DEP invites comments on a WMGM-55 Waste General Permit for a landfill gas project located in Glendon Boro, Northampton County. 1 Electricity Price Changes; Rates Will Vary From 8.4% Bradford County. ( Greene County. ( Received Nov.

Air Pollution