PA Environment Daily
MARCH 13, 2024
On March 7, the Independent Fiscal Office issued its latest Pennsylvania Electricity update that reports the electricity grid is dependent on one fuel for 59% of the state’s electricity generation-- natural gas-- followed by nuclear power-- 31.9%, coal-- 5.4% In 2010, the mix was 48% coal, 34% nuclear, 15% gas and 2% renewables.
Law Columbia
JUNE 1, 2022
The Supreme Court of Japan may soon weigh in on a growing field of climate litigation in Japan against coal-fired power plants. On May 6, 2022, the Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant filed an appeal to Japan’s Supreme Court in Citizens’ Committee on the Kobe Coal-Fired Power Plant v.
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PA Environment Daily
JANUARY 18, 2022
In 2010, Gov. Million [January 18, 2022] PA Environment Digest Maybe this is like a topic for the budget hearings,” said Ziadeh. Note: The track record of the General Assembly and recent governors providing General Fund support to environmental programs isn’t exactly steller. [In Read more here.]
Environmental Progress
APRIL 20, 2021
While it decreased the use of such plants some, they are likely to be used significantly more if Germany follows through on its pledge to shutter all of its nuclear plants by the end of 2022. should maintain and expand its fleet of highly-reliable, carbon-free, and 94 percent efficient nuclear power plants. 354 (Bankr.
Circle of Blue
AUGUST 17, 2022
By Mark Olalde and Maya Miller, ProPublica —August 16, 2022. The failures at Homestake are emblematic of the toxic legacy of the American uranium industry, one that has been well-documented from its boom during the Cold War until falling uranium prices and concerns over the dangers of nuclear power decimated the industry in the 1980s.
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 4, 2023
Yaw noted the IEO would be modeled after Pennsylvania’s Independent Fiscal Office , which was created by Act 120 of 2010, and Act 100 of 2016. Yaw did not mention renewable energy in this announcement.]
PA Environment Daily
MARCH 27, 2022
. -- 65 Percent Of Shale Gas Leases Not Used In State Forests: DCNR said during budget hearings this year 65 percent of the land already leased for natural gas drilling on State Forest land in 2008 and 2010 hasn’t been developed. They could start drilling on these leases today if they wanted to.
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