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Ask a Scientist: How Close Are We to a Clean Energy Transition?

Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 15, 2024

What’s the latest on the transition to clean electricity? MS: There is a lot happening on that front, but I’d like to focus on energy storage. To decarbonize the power grid, we’re going to need tons of renewable energy from sources such as solar and wind. CWdL: Why is energy storage so exciting?

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2024 Year in Review: Clean Energy Progress Steeped in Solar and Storage

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The end of every year is a great time for taking stock of what the year has broughtincluding in terms of clean energy in the power sector. As it turns out, 2024 has provided a whole lot of clean energy progress as fodder for that stock-taking. Offshore wind also made important progress, even with some strong headwinds.

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Walkable Neighborhoods and Public Transit are Part Of the Clean Energy Transition

Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

By expanding public transportation and rail, and by planning our communities in ways that let people meet their needs with biking, walking, and shorter driving trips we can make the clean energy transition more achievable and affordable. degrees Celsius. Today, this makes the U.S.

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Minnesota Lawmakers Could Go Big on Clean Energy, or Go Small

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 19, 2022

Minnesota needs substantial investments now to build toward an equitable clean energy future. The bad news is, they have to find a compromise between two vastly different clean energy bills—by Monday. With such a wide gulf to cross, Minnesota could miss another opportunity to advance many key clean energy programs.

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California Lawmakers Vote on Energy Affordability Soon

Legal Planet

MAY 7, 2025

Energy affordability has been a huge focus in Sacramento as the deadline nears for bills to move out of policy committees. Now, SB 254 (Becker) is the most ambitious energy affordability bill proposed in recent years. 1: Wildfire Spending SB 254 directly addresses the largest driver of electricity bill increaseswildfire spending.

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Want Clean Energy? Then You Also Want Battery Recycling.

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Lithium-ion batteries are essential for decarbonizing transportation through electric vehicles and building a resilient, renewable energy grid through energy storage batteries. By 2050, battery recycling could supply 22 to 27% of lithium, 40 to 46% of nickel, and 45 to 52% of cobalt needed for electric vehicles in the US.

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PA Ranks 49th In US For Renewable Energy Growth; Delays In Adding Clean Energy To The Grid Will Cost Electric Ratepayers Billions

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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Why the Climate Accountability Act Matters to Me—and Wisconsin

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 9, 2025

I came to Madison ten years ago to pursue a masters in electrical engineering. planned capacity additions in 2025, with the bulk of these new plants planned for states without a current clean energy standard (the proposed Wisconsin plants wont show up in the EIA data unless they are approved by the state). Madison is our home.

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The Heinz Endowments: Nonprofits, Philanthropy Create Infrastructure To Help Bring Nearly $1 Billion In Regional, Statewide Clean Energy Funding To Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This represents an unprecedented influx of state and federal support for clean energy in Pennsylvania, including a just-announced $303.5 million closed loan from the US Department of Energy for Eos Energy Enterprises, and has made the Pittsburgh region a clean energy gateway for the state.

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The Start of the Unraveling of Cheap Gas-Fired Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 22, 2022

For years, gas has been touted as a cheap fuel and a cheap electricity source. A recent analysis from UCS studied how gas plants operated in regional wholesale electricity markets in the Midwest in 2019. A recent analysis from UCS studied how gas plants operated in regional wholesale electricity markets in the Midwest in 2019.

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Local Officials Tour Burkholder's Country Market Solar Energy Project In Spring Mills, Centre County

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 25, 2025

In 2019, Burkholders Country Market worked with SunDirected to install a 581 kW solar carport system with over 1,200 panels. The carport produces enough energy to offset two-thirds of their annual energy usage. The carport system also powers free electric vehicle charging stations available for market customers.

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Illinois Utilities Ameren and ComEd Plan for the Grid of the Future

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

An ambitious law that promises to accelerate the state’s clean energy transition, CEJA provides a detailed framework for greater utility transparency and accountability to update electricity distribution infrastructure to ensure a clean energy future. Illinois utilities contributed to that trend.

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Analysis: Bolstering Southeast Asia’s clean energy transition

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The United States supports Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) partners in meeting their clean energy goals. By Leigh Hartman When Son Nguyen lived in the US, he saw rapidly advancing electric vehicle technology and heard stories from back in Vietnam about air pollution. © Zul Kifli / AFP / Getty Images.

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Rise Of The Machines: Senate, House Members Express Concern That Demand For Power To Run Computers Is Impacting The Price And Availability Of Electricity For ‘Ordinary People’

PA Environment Daily

MAY 12, 2025

On May 12, Senate and House Committees held hearings on how the rapid increase in demand for electricity to power data centers filled with computers is impacting the price and availability of electricity for ordinary people on the regional electric grid operated by the PJM Interconnection. Read more here. MW-day to $269.92/MW-day--

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Observer-Reporter Guest Essay: Why Politicians Want You To Pay More For Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Patrick McDonnell is the president and CEO of Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future , a nonprofit that focuses on clean energy and environmental issues. Million Settlement, Largest Of Its Kind, Over 2019 Philadelphia Refinery Explosion [Includes Copy Of Proposed Settlement] -- WHYY - Sophia Schmidt: EPA Reaches Historic $4.2

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Emissions by the Big Utilities: Where They Are, What They’re Aiming For

Legal Planet

MARCH 31, 2022

American Electric Power. Xcel Energy. Net zero by 2050, 50% cut by 2030, and 100% clean energy by 2040. 4) Dominion Energy. Energy Mix (2019): [link]. 6) American Electric Power. Energy Mix: [link]. Energy efficiency/demand response: 3%. Energy mix & Goals. Nuclear 17%.

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Gov. Newsom Goes to China to Talk Climate

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Here’s more: “California’s climate ambitions will be met only by deploying clean energy and transportation on an unprecedented scale, and China has a lot to offer on that score. China is also a world leader on offshore wind energy production, an area Newsom has sought to emphasize in California.

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Ready For 100% Montgomery County: Communities With Half The County Population Support Clean Energy Future

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 27, 2024

On August 27, Ready for 100% Montgomery County announced nearly one-third of the communities in Montgomery County committed to a gradual transition to 100 percent clean, renewable energy in its electricity usage by 2035 and in all sectors (heat, transportation) by 2050. This is a collaborative, iterative process.

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Germany’s Role in Climate Policy

Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Although its track record has some complexities, this timeline of German actions shows just its early and sustained attention to clean energy policy: 1990. Fifteen percent of electricity is renewable. Renewables are a third of electricity consumption. Climate law makes emission targets legally binding 2019.

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Energy Equity: How Can Power Utilities Get It Right?

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Like many other public-serving institutions throughout society, electricity and gas utilities are facing calls to be more equitable in their operations, planning, and treatment of customers. How are energy equity and energy justice connected? Energy equity lives under the umbrella of energy justice.

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Tornadoes and More: What Spring Can Bring to the Power Grid

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.

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Modernizing the Energy Charter Treaty - EU wants to stop investment protection for fossil fuels

Energy and Climate Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

One year ago, in October 2019, the European Commission made its position on the reform of the Energy Charter Treaty, the only multinational energy treaty that is in force since 1994, clear to the Energy Charter Secretariat. This shall also apply to electrical energy derived from these materials.

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Research fellowships target clean-energy innovation

Physics World

JANUARY 7, 2022

One of the biggest challenges in tackling the climate crisis will be to clean up our transportation networks. Electric vehicles already offer a viable route to zero-emission road travel, but more innovation is needed to build better batteries that enable longer journeys and faster charging – and all within an affordable price tag.

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California CCAs, including San Diego Community Power, Receive Proposed Decision for 2019 RPS Plan

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AUGUST 31, 2020

On August 19, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued a proposed decision accepting the 2019 Renewables Portfolio Standard Procurement Plans submitted by four new Community Choice Aggregators (CCAs): Butte Choice Energy Authority; Clean Energy Alliance; the City of Santa Barbara; and San Diego Community Power.

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Analysis: Kenya’s electric vehicle market is raring to go

A Greener Life

JUNE 27, 2022

In March, start-up BasiGo became the first company to launch an electric passenger bus in Kenya. We selected BYD because they are the largest manufacturer of electric buses globally and they are known for battery technology that is state-of-the-art,” BasiGo co-founder and CEO Jit Bhattacharya told China Dialogue. million in funding.

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DEP Releases 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update; 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

As of 2020, the three largest sources of emissions in Pennsylvania are: -- Electricity Generation (29% of gross emissions) -- Transportation Fuel Consumption (22% of gross emissions) -- Industrial Emissions (19% of gross emissions) Emissions from electricity generation decreased 10.4% from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4%

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EPA’s Power Plant Carbon Rules Are Critical—and Complex. Here’s What to Know, and What to Watch.

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 20, 2023

This is despite the clean energy progress the power sector has experienced to date—and despite the groundwork laid for more progress from leading states, as well as the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). And more gas is slated to come. In June 2022, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision in West Virginia v.

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PJM Interconnection Hears Testimony On Making Electricity Market Reforms To Address Nonperformance Of Natural Gas And Other Generators During Winter Storm Elliot; Transition To Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 28, 2023

On August 23, the PJM Interconnection Critical Issue Fast Path Resource Adequacy stakeholder group heard testimony and suggestions on the issue of making electricity market changes to address nonperformance of natural gas and other generators during emergencies and events like Winter Storm Elliot in December. Read more here. Read more here.

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Singapore Unveils Blueprint for Sustainable Air Hub

Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore will also launch 12 key initiatives, including a levy on sustainable aviation fuel and low-carbon electricity imports. By the end of 2023, Changi Airport generated approximately 4% of its 2019 electricity consumption [ii] through solar power deployment.

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DEP: Conventional Well Owner Has 2nd Well Explosion, Fire In A Week In Westmoreland County

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 29, 2025

The March 25 e xplosion involved a production storage tank and occurred at 10:25 a.m while the well tender was blowing out the well. DEP arrived on site at 11:30 a.m.

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Revival of Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant to Support Microsoft’s AI Growth

Green Bang

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

While Unit 2 remains decommissioned, the nearby Unit 1 was shut down in 2019 due to financial challenges. Now, it is set to resume generating approximately 835 megawatts of electricity for the Pennsylvania energy grid. Three Mile Island is historically significant for experiencing the worst nuclear incident in U.S.

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Analysis: IEA warns that the world is struggling to wean itself off coal

A Greener Life

JANUARY 2, 2025

Ironically, Germany also imports nuclear-produced electricity from France. Last month, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its report, Coal 2024, which looks at how coal usage is far from decreasing worldwide. Globally, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) is increasing the demand for electricity. billion tonnes.

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India prepares to ramp up clean energy capacity

A Greener Life

APRIL 7, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen Tenders for 250 gigawatts (GW) of clean energy by 2028 are set to be unveiled by the Indian government, according to a government memo. in 2019 to 72.8% India’s rate of renewable energy installation is the second-fastest in the Asia-Pacific region, only beaten by China.

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TCI Update: Final Model Rule Addresses EJ, but Political Will May Be Lacking

Law and Environment

JUNE 16, 2021

Membership fell to twelve when New Hampshire dropped out in 2019. While supporters of the TCI-P tout the public health benefits associated with reduced carbon emissions in from one of the highest greenhouse gas emitting sectors of the U.S. TCI-P was initially comprised of thirteen member states.

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PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - March 29

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 28, 2025

Withdraws Orphan Oil & Gas Well Regulatory Improvement Grant Program To Help Prevent Future Well Abandonments, A Severe Problem In PA [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission: Low Stream Flows Triggering Restrictions On 19 Shale Gas Water Withdrawals, 17 More Approaching Restrictions [PaEN] -- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Releases Natural (..)

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USDA Announces $163 Million In Rural Energy For America Funding, Including 4 Projects in Pennsylvania

PA Environment Daily

JULY 28, 2024

Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced USDA is partnering with farmers and small businesses to expand access to clean energy and lower energy bills through the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) and the Rural Energy for America Technical Assistance Grant Program.

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Maine, Massachusetts, and Maryland Expand Utility Regulators’ Mandate to Include Climate Considerations, Marking an Emerging Trend by State Legislatures

Law and Environment

JULY 22, 2021

Through the 2018 Clean Energy Omnibus Act, the District of Columbia directed their Public Service Commission (PSC) to consider “the preservation of environmental quality, including effects on global climate change and the District’s public climate commitments.”

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DEP Climate Change Committee To Discuss Scope Of Next Climate Impacts Assessment Report, Climate Action Plan Feb. 21

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Wolf: 2021 Climate Impacts Report Projects Pennsylvania Will Be 5.9° Wolf: 2021 Climate Impacts Report Projects Pennsylvania Will Be 5.9° EV Charging Network To Rivals In $7.5 Billion Federal Program -- MCall Guest Essay: What Is Higher Education’s Role In Tackling The Climate Change Crisis?

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Analysis: Water crisis pushes Brazil’s rural producers to switch to solar energy

A Greener Life

AUGUST 27, 2021

With fears of energy rationing and rising electricity bills, farmers and livestock breeders opt for sustainability and self-sufficiency. This brings with it the possibility of severe electricity rationing. Faced with this, the family saw solar as an opportunity for economic and energy self-sufficiency.

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111 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

Shapiro: What Labor, Industry, Environmental, Consumer Leaders Are Saying About The Lightning Energy Plan To Secure Pennsylvanias Energy Future -- PublicNewsService.org: PA Works To Counter Presidents Clean Energy Rollbacks With Lightning Energy Plan -- Post-Gazette - Ford Turner: Gov.

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Competitive Power Ventures Begins Construction Of Third Renewable Energy Project Using Abandoned Mine Land In PA

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 22, 2024

“The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has consistently been a strong state to do business in with CPV Fairview coming online in 2019 and CPV Maple Hill, the state’s largest solar project at the time, following in 2023,” said Gary Lambert, CEO of CPV. CPV Rogue’s Wind is expected to reach commercial operation in 2026.

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CARB Attempts to Contain LCFS Credit Prices

Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 13, 2020

On November 21, 2019, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) passed Resolution 19-27 , approving several amendments to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program designed to foster stability in the LCFS market and promote access to electric vehicle (EV) transportation for disadvantaged and low-income communities in California.

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New York Releases Much Awaited Roadmap for Deploying 10 Gigawatts of Distributed Solar by 2030

Law and Environment

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Can New York State satisfy nearly 30 percent of its electricity needs with solar projects less than five megawatts in size by the year 2030? Of this, 1,357 MWs would be targeted to an expanded Solar Energy Equity Framework. Representatives from labor and environmental justice organizations also voiced support for the proposal.

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Struggle To Plug Tatonka Oil Co. LLC’s Nancy 13 Conventional Well Leaking Gas, Production Wastewater Since 2018; Citizen Complaint Finds ‘Bubbling’ Gas Well

PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2023

DEP inspection report ] On February 8, 2019, a DEP inspection report noted Commonwealth Court had issued an order to Tatonka Oil Co. DEP inspection report ] DEP issued the first notice of violation to the Nancy 13 well for abandoning the well without plugging it and operating a well without a permit on June 3, 2019. [

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Ask a Scientist: How Close Are We to a Clean Energy Transition?

2024 Year in Review: Clean Energy Progress Steeped in Solar and Storage

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Walkable Neighborhoods and Public Transit are Part Of the Clean Energy Transition

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Minnesota Lawmakers Could Go Big on Clean Energy, or Go Small

California Lawmakers Vote on Energy Affordability Soon

Want Clean Energy? Then You Also Want Battery Recycling.

PA Ranks 49th In US For Renewable Energy Growth; Delays In Adding Clean Energy To The Grid Will Cost Electric Ratepayers Billions

Why the Climate Accountability Act Matters to Me—and Wisconsin

The Heinz Endowments: Nonprofits, Philanthropy Create Infrastructure To Help Bring Nearly $1 Billion In Regional, Statewide Clean Energy Funding To Pennsylvania

The Start of the Unraveling of Cheap Gas-Fired Power

Local Officials Tour Burkholder's Country Market Solar Energy Project In Spring Mills, Centre County

Illinois Utilities Ameren and ComEd Plan for the Grid of the Future

Analysis: Bolstering Southeast Asia’s clean energy transition

Rise Of The Machines: Senate, House Members Express Concern That Demand For Power To Run Computers Is Impacting The Price And Availability Of Electricity For ‘Ordinary People’

Observer-Reporter Guest Essay: Why Politicians Want You To Pay More For Natural Gas

Emissions by the Big Utilities: Where They Are, What They’re Aiming For

Gov. Newsom Goes to China to Talk Climate

Ready For 100% Montgomery County: Communities With Half The County Population Support Clean Energy Future

Germany’s Role in Climate Policy

Energy Equity: How Can Power Utilities Get It Right?

Tornadoes and More: What Spring Can Bring to the Power Grid

Modernizing the Energy Charter Treaty - EU wants to stop investment protection for fossil fuels

Research fellowships target clean-energy innovation

California CCAs, including San Diego Community Power, Receive Proposed Decision for 2019 RPS Plan

Analysis: Kenya’s electric vehicle market is raring to go

DEP Releases 2024 Climate Change Action Plan Update; 2024 Climate Impacts Assessment Report

EPA’s Power Plant Carbon Rules Are Critical—and Complex. Here’s What to Know, and What to Watch.

PJM Interconnection Hears Testimony On Making Electricity Market Reforms To Address Nonperformance Of Natural Gas And Other Generators During Winter Storm Elliot; Transition To Clean Energy

Singapore Unveils Blueprint for Sustainable Air Hub

DEP: Conventional Well Owner Has 2nd Well Explosion, Fire In A Week In Westmoreland County

Revival of Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant to Support Microsoft’s AI Growth

Analysis: IEA warns that the world is struggling to wean itself off coal

India prepares to ramp up clean energy capacity

TCI Update: Final Model Rule Addresses EJ, but Political Will May Be Lacking

PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - March 29

USDA Announces $163 Million In Rural Energy For America Funding, Including 4 Projects in Pennsylvania

Maine, Massachusetts, and Maryland Expand Utility Regulators’ Mandate to Include Climate Considerations, Marking an Emerging Trend by State Legislatures

DEP Climate Change Committee To Discuss Scope Of Next Climate Impacts Assessment Report, Climate Action Plan Feb. 21

Analysis: Water crisis pushes Brazil’s rural producers to switch to solar energy

111 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA

Competitive Power Ventures Begins Construction Of Third Renewable Energy Project Using Abandoned Mine Land In PA

CARB Attempts to Contain LCFS Credit Prices

New York Releases Much Awaited Roadmap for Deploying 10 Gigawatts of Distributed Solar by 2030

Struggle To Plug Tatonka Oil Co. LLC’s Nancy 13 Conventional Well Leaking Gas, Production Wastewater Since 2018; Citizen Complaint Finds ‘Bubbling’ Gas Well

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