Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Earlier this year, the MPSC approved a settlement agreement on Consumers Energy’s integrated resource plan that commits the company to retire all its remaining coal-fired power plants by 2025, construct no new fossil gas infrastructure, and build large amounts of new solar power between now and 2040.

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Law and Environment

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Other research and development opportunities identified include innovation in energy storage, alternative biofuels, electric vehicle batteries, and advanced wind and solar power. The post Biden Announces New Initiative on “Game-Changing” Technologies for Achieving Net-Zero Emissions first appeared on Law and the Environment.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2025

I applaud Governor Shapiros continued support for Community Solar and look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to get it signed into law.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 4, 2022

By Sharon Pillar, Executive Director PA Solar Center The recently passed [federal] Inflation Reduction Act offers a number of incentives that make transitioning to solar power very attractive to homeowners, businesses, and other organizations. Click Here to sign up for regular updates.

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Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Deployment of solar power – More solar photovoltaic systems will be installed on available rooftop spaces of airport buildings at Changi Airport and Seletar Airport. By the end of 2023, Changi Airport generated approximately 4% of its 2019 electricity consumption [ii] through solar power deployment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 19, 2023

It also makes offshore wind an important seasonal complement to the region’s abundant and growing solar power capacity. Power everywhere. And it will make it even more important when winter electricity demand increases because more households are using electric heat pumps. The US offshore wind map.

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Renewable + Law

MARCH 18, 2021

Today was a big day for the solar power industry at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). First, FERC reversed its Broadview Solar decision issued in September 2020, which prior decision overturned decades of precedent related to the method for determining the net output of qualifying facilities under PURPA.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

The IRA was passed into law to propel our nation’s clean energy transition forward. Treasury and the IRS are right to propose clear rules for solar- and wind-powered electricity generation. The power sector transition will overwhelmingly rely on the buildout of solar power and wind power.

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Law Columbia

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Specifically, it is important to understand that solar is not being sited in equal quantities on these three types of land, as farmland hosts far more solar projects (33%) than either grassland (6%) or forests (4%). For comparison, nearly 3% of solar power is currently sited in urban areas. [1].

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Vermont Law

OCTOBER 16, 2017

By Michael Hervey, 3L Staff Editor, Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. Lots of environmentalists have difficulty balancing our need to provide efficient energy with reducing the effects of climate change. Solar power seems promising, but access to solar power as an energy source can be.

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Physics World

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Chris Newman, a professor of space law at Northumbria Univeristy, claims that the new UK strategy is “more of a restatement of existing ideas rather than a new strategic direction”. Solar power. Alongside the space strategy, meanwhile, the UK government has released a feasibility study into Space Based Solar Power (SBSP).

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 7, 2025

The State of Renewable Energy 2025 documents the growth of six key clean energy technologies across the United States over the past decade and ranks states accordingly for solar power, wind power, battery storage, energy efficiency, electric vehicles and electric vehicle charging stations.

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A Greener Life

JULY 26, 2021

BP and Total are also leading the way in terms of upcoming solar power capacity.”. Wind and solar growth. Within the renewable power sector, solar and wind energy are expected to show the highest growth rates over the next ten years due to ongoing falling costs. between 2020 and 2030. over the same period. .

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2024

This funding-- made possible by the federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law-- will support a variety of diverse, locally-driven clean energy projects that can be replicated in current and former mining communities across the country. The project expects to create more than 750 construction jobs and six operations jobs, while providing $1.1

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A Greener Life

AUGUST 27, 2021

The milking shed for her 80 dairy cows that can yield 1,100 litres of milk per day, along with the barn that houses 21,000 chickens at a time, will soon sit alongside a photovoltaic solar plant with 85 panels. Even the new church in town, which is under construction, will have solar panels,” May says. MW to 791.32

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 9, 2022

On June 30, 2022, the State of California joined the State of New York in adopting legislation that allows state authorities to bypass local laws in permitting large-scale renewable energy projects. Law § 94-c(2)(h). Credit: New York Office of Renewable Energy Siting. b)(1) (emphasis added); and. emphasis added). 94-c(5)(b); and.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 15, 2024

Environmental Defence and West Coast Environmental Law, represented by West Coast lawyers Anna Johnson and Andrew Gage, are one of 11 groups of intervenors. We think that this misses the point: the Ontario government, through its laws, policies and actions, is actually contributing to climate change. What’s the case about?

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 3, 2023

Pennsylvania recently welcomed a slate of new administrative leaders, poised to help the Commonwealth’s business community capitalize on both the relentless transition to a cleaner energy future and new federal funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act. Click Here to register and for more information.

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Energy & the Law

MARCH 7, 2023

million in a fraudulent solar power scheme. claiming he had created a compact “nano panel” (which does not exist) using “technology” that could generate triple the amount of electricity as traditional solar panels. There oughta be a law … While the world needs energy, your Administration commits govenmental malpractice.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Schools Eye Energy Savings Study -- Bob Dornan Blog: Solar Power With Savings In November - 8th Electric Bill Under $8.00 . -- December 4 Weekly PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Nov. 25 to Dec.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 16, 2024

The Inflation Reduction Act is helping churches, synagogues, and mosques across the nation access the climate, cost, and reliability benefits of solar power. Read the full story at Canary Media.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

Industry is clamoring for the inclusion of wide-ranging loopholes all in service of just one aim: enabling polluting power plants to suddenly count as “clean.” Based on comments submitted and testimony provided, their task will not be an easy one.

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A Greener Life

JANUARY 30, 2025

China issues energy law To achieve Mission 300, we estimate that we will need around $30 billion in public funding and at least $10 billion in private investment. Second, matching ambition with funding. Across Sub-Saharan Africa, this movement has already begun. Other countries have already achieved impressive results.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2025

9, York County. -- Penn State Extension Home Garden News: Houseplant Master Class Webinar Series Available; Treen Tenders Training; Good Gardening Saturday Series -- Pike Conservation District: From Source To Sink - Groundwater Education Workshop Series Starts Jan. 13 -- Pike Conservation District: Pike/Wayne Counties Contractors Workshop Feb.

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Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 23, 2023

All told, it will be $4 billion spent on a make-work project for power plant developers and the fossil fuel industry. The government knows that these plants will have to close in 2035 when federal climate laws come into effect. Why spend $4 billion on fossil fuel infrastructure that may or may not be used?

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Solar growth is outpacing other renewable energy generation sources in Pennsylvania, but local governments may not be prepared to handle these new projects. His research uncovered the fact that only 13 percent of zoning codes in the state addressed solar energy and that was mostly residential solar energy systems.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Greenworks Law & Consulting LLC The following article first appeared on LinkedIn November 19, 2022 -- On November 3, 2022, Pennsylvania Governor Wolf quietly signed into law resurrecting the prospect of liquified natural gas ("LNG") export facilities at the Port of Philadelphia. By Lauren M. Williams, Esq., Williams, Esq.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 26, 2024

The pipeline owner – Plains Midstream Canada ULC – later faced three charges under provincial law. I then launched Sacred Earth Solar , an Indigenous-led organization that works with communities protecting their homelands by bringing solar power to the frontlines of the climate crisis.

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Law Columbia

MAY 31, 2023

In addition, at least 228 local laws, ordinances and policies have been enacted in 35 states to restrict renewable energy projects, according to a report, Opposition to Renewable Energy Facilities in the United States , issued on May 31 by Columbia Law School’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

Multiple lines of analysis make clear that regardless of how cheap wind and solar power get, without directly addressing pollution from coal and gas plants, the country’s clean energy transition will not happen fast enough. But to bring those solutions fully to bear, we also need to force a reckoning with the problem itself.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 17, 2023

Shapiro Provides Fresh Support To Key Changes Recommended In 2020 Grand Jury Report To Tighten Regulation Of The Natural Gas Drilling Industry To Better Protect Public Health, Environment Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1

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Law Columbia

APRIL 11, 2025

In New York, a lawsuit challenging regulations that were promulgated by a state agency to implement the siting law was finally defeated in November 2024, after multiple appeals. Amicus brief filed by the Sabin Center and Goodman Acker P.C. In Michigan, a similar challenge is pending before the Michigan Court of Appeals.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 4, 2023

Shapiro Signs ‘Common Sense, Bipartisan’ State Budget Into Law -- The Center Square: Property Tax, Rend Rebate Expansion Crosses Finish Line -- Erie Times: Mail-In Ballots Can Be Requested By PA Voters -- PennLive: Pittsburgh Republican State Sen. “Pursue Your Happiness In Pennsylvania” Senate next voting day September 18, 19, 20; Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2024

20 -- Republican Herald: Solar-Powered Compacting Trash Receptacles Debut In Pottsville -- Jan. Million By Allegheny County For Hydrogen Sulfide Exceedances At Clairton Coke [Coal] Works From March to November -- KDKA: US Steel Fined $2.2 National- $3.08 National- $3.08

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Enviromental Defense

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Similarly, a study from the Netherlands based on long-term testing also showed the country’s newest facility is emitting much higher levels of dioxin and furans than is allowed by European law. Focus on increasing truly renewable, low-emission energy such as wind and solar power.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 21, 2025

Davis, DEP, Community Celebrate The Opening Of Federal/State Funded Blacklick Creek Mine Drainage Treatment Plant To Clean Up 25 Miles Of Waterways In Cambria, Indiana Counties [PaEN] -- Indiana Gazette: Blacklick Abandoned Mine Drainage Treatment Facility Celebrated Near Vintondale -- DEP Now Accepting Applications For First Round Of Federally-Funded (..)

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Law Columbia

AUGUST 1, 2024

Established by the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law , this competitive grant program is set to award $2.5 To the extent that CPRG strategies involve expanding access to residential solar, Solar for All funds might help fill funding gaps. Another relevant grant program is the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) program.

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