Enviromental Defense

AUGUST 7, 2025

When they began easing the moratorium in 2022, data centres were required to meet stringent efficiency requirements and were allocated specific power use allowances, with priority given to facilities powered by renewable energy. Singapore used this pause to develop comprehensive sustainability standards.

Renewable Energy

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The Rural Energy for America Program (REAP ) offers grants and loan guarantees to farmers, ranchers, and rural small businesses for energy efficiency improvements and renewable energy systems. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022, as previously reported by NSAC , boosted REAPs funding, appropriating $820.25

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2025

A 2022 study found 43.5% Among those formally connected to the grid, over 30% face energy poverty, with monthly bills exceeding 10% of their income. It’s a holistic model that offers a glimpse of the future we need – one where clean energy, community empowerment and climate justice go hand in hand.

Renewable Energy

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This report reflects insights gathered over three years of stakeholder engagement, including contributions from the Clean Energy Workforce Roundtable , a regional network facilitated by Sustainable Pittsburgh aimed at aligning workforce development strategies with the growing demands of the clean energy sector.

Clean Energy

Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

At the same time, shifting global trade policies, evolving energy markets, the rise of renewable energy alternatives are leading even non-Chinese financiers to question the economic viability of mega-dams and intensifying scrutiny of their environmental and social impacts.

2011

A Greener Life

JULY 10, 2025

In April 2022, the initial phase of the world’s first zero-carbon industrial park, Envision Ordos , opened in Inner Mongolia. Running entirely on renewable energy, it sources 80% of its power from local wind and solar installations and the remainder via grid-purchased green electricity.

Carbon Dioxide

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Many of the organizations have received philanthropic funding, including from the Endowments, for planning, building and implementing the programs that made it easier for individuals, schools, businesses and municipalities to apply for funding for clean energy projects. million in funding for home solar installations.

Clean Energy

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

We need big investments in the energy transition from polluting fossil fuels to clean renewable energy. Photo credit: Government of British Columbia Yes, taking action to mitigate and adapt to climate change requires spending now. But the cost of not taking those actions is far greater.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

APRIL 10, 2025

The Swiss public gives the final nod to boosting renewable energy With 97% of its broad gauge lines now transitioned, India has the second highest electrification rate of any major rail network in the world. India Railways has ambitious plans to shift to 100% renewable energy , using its surplus land for solar farms.

Electricity

Law Columbia

APRIL 11, 2025

Over the last five years, several states, including New York (2020), California (2022), Illinois (2023), and Michigan (2023) have adopted comprehensive permitting reforms that curtail the power of local governments to block development of large-scale renewable energy projects.

Renewable Energy

Smith Enviorment

JANUARY 19, 2025

In March 2022, the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission (EMC) adopted a numerical water quality standard for a toxic chemical called 1,4-dioxane. The 2022 water quality standard never went into effect and there is no immediate prospect of EMC adoption of a numerical 1,4-dioxane standard. January 19, 2025.

2022

A Greener Life

APRIL 3, 2025

The potential is immense, with the International Energy Agency (IEA) reporting that global investment in EV batteries has surged eightfold since 2018 and fivefold for battery storage, rising to a total of $150 billion in 2023. Yet renewable energy offers a transformative solution.

Clean Energy

Enviromental Defense

JULY 2, 2025

While many tech companies are significant purchasers of renewable energy – Google, Meta, and Amazon are among the top five corporate buyers of wind and solar power globally – AI’s surging energy demand is also being used to justify extending the life of fossil fuel infrastructure.

Fossil Fuels

National Law Center

JULY 29, 2025

Truth in Labeling Law(suits) Research Fellows Rusty Rumley Solar Smarts Samantha Capaldo Samantha Mikolajczyk Bankruptcy Biofuels Biosecurity Biotechnology Carbon Checkoff Programs Climate Change Commercial Transactions Commodity Programs Conservation Programs Cooperatives Cottage Foods Country of Origin Labeling Crop Insurance Disaster Assistance (..)

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 16, 2025

consumer demand for renewable energy continues to grow, with more solar panel capacity installed in 2024 than in 2023, which saw more than in 2022. by Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, University of Michigan U.S. trade policy is in flux, and high tariffs have been imposed on imported solar panels, which may cause shortages.

Renewable Energy

A Greener Life

JANUARY 2, 2025

IEA analysts expect this amount to remain relatively stable until around 2027, when consumption levels will start to level off as renewable energy sources start to play a more significant role, particularly in China – the worlds largest coal consumer and producer. billion tonnes in 2024.

2027

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2025

Industry structure is a barrier to accessibility A final barrier to DERs in BIPOC and low income communities is baked into the structure of the utility industry itself, as explained in a 2022 article in Stanford Technology Law Review.

Electricity

Law Columbia

AUGUST 6, 2025

In 2022, the three arbitrators found that Italy had violated Rockhopper’s property rights and had to pay the company US$250 million in compensation for lost profits. In response, Rockhopper took the Italian State to arbitration. The award was recently annulled for reasons unrelated to the substance of the case.)

Fossil Fuels

Enviromental Defense

JULY 9, 2025

Between February 2021 and June 2022, the increase in oil, gas, fossil gas for home heating and recreational vehicle fuel prices directly contributed to 43 per cent of Canada’s overall inflation. From 2022 to the end of 2024, the increases in oil prices cost Canadians $200 billion.

Fossil Fuels

Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The Benefits AI Provides to the Environment Offsets its Energy Exertion It is undisputed that AI technology has the potential to significantly sap electricity consumption and exert unprecedented levels of energy. Indeed, data centers in 2022 made up 2% of electricity demand across the globe.

Technology

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 25, 2025

This is mainly a result of coal generation being replaced by natural gas generation (and to a smaller extent renewable energy sources like wind and solar) and energy efficiency improvements, due in part to Act 129 [utility energy efficiency program]. from 2019 to 2020 and 44.4% from 2005 to 2020.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

Yaw’s Senate District -- Williamsport Sun Editorial: Act 13 Shale Gas Drilling Impact Fee Just Part Of Gas Industry’s Success -- PA Capital-Star: Gov.

Conservation

A Greener Life

APRIL 25, 2025

Much like renewable energy 20 years ago, CDR is a long-standing yet underutilised technology that entails large sunk costs and offers uncertain returns. CDR purchases increased by 750% from 2022 to 2023, and by May 2024, they had already surpassed the previous years total.

Carbon Dioxide

HumanNature

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Guest Post by Taylor Bacon, 2022-2024 InTERFEWS Fellow, Ph.D. The buildout of solar energy has increased dramatically over the last decade and is expected to only continue increasing with an estimated 10 million acres of solar needed to meet state & federal climate standards and renewable energy targets.

Solar Power

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2025

[Cold Weather, LNG Demand Push Prices Higher] [ PDF of Article ] -- WTAJ: 200,000+ PA Residents Could See 18% Increase In National Fuel Gas Natural Gas Bills In 2025 -- WFMJ: National Fuel Gas Customers Could See 17% Increase In Gas Costs Starting Aug. 1 -- Altoona Mirror: Peoples Gas Natural Gas Rates To Increase Jan.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

4 - Repurposing Underutilized Lands For Energy - Marginal Farmlands, Abandoned Mine Sites, Brownfields [PaEN] -- EPA Awards $34 Million In Grants To Reduce Air Pollution At Schools; Highlights Efforts In Philadelphia [PaEN] -- DEP Awards $18.9 Million To 126 Municipalities To Support Local Recycling Programs [PaEN] -- DEP To Hold Nov.

Conservation

Law Columbia

MAY 6, 2025

Lithium has become a cornerstone of the global energy transition, powering technologies central to decarbonization efforts, such as electric vehicle batteries and large-scale renewable energy storage. At the regulatory level, oversight has also intensified.

Politics

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Despite trade-war rhetorics by the US and EU on Chinas clean energy products, the country is the worlds largest clean energy market, BNEF expects that the levelized cost of electricity produced by clean energy sources could fall by between 22-49% by 2035.

Clean Energy

Legal Planet

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Enacted in 2023, the American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act directs the EPA to address hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) by phasing down the production and consumption of HFCs in the United States by 85% by 2036, mirroring the Kigali Amendment (a climate-related treaty that the Senate had ratified in 2022.

Law

National Law Center

AUGUST 12, 2025

In an effort to better comply with the ESA, EPA announced in 2022 that it would be developing various mitigation measures to include on pesticide labels in order to reduce pesticide exposure to listed species. Since that announcement, EPA has finalized both an Herbicide Strategy and an Insecticide Strategy that identify such mitigations.

Endangered Species Act

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In Virginia, where data centers already account for 25% of electricity use, $627 million in grid projects were approved in 2022 to get enough power over the wires to support this data center alley. More recently, demand from data center growth has focused attention on the need to upgrade the power grid.

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The impacts of these obstacles are very real and apparent, with large renewable energy generation and transmission projects regularly facing denials or uneconomical delays. A national policy of repurposed energy may help counter local opposition and accelerate clean energy development.”

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Pennsylvania’s rate of total clean energy adoption has fallen well behind the national pace, and ranked 48th among the 50 states and Washington, D.C., Sadly, the renewable energy growth over the last decade in the Commonwealth is only enough to power less than 2% of Pennsylvania’s homes. Click Here for video from the event.

Renewable Energy

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

MAY 9, 2025

It specifically calls to eliminate what the President’s office says is wasteful programming in NIFA, such as activities related to climate change, renewable energy, and more. In 2022, approximately 15% of NIFAs total competitive funding supported research, education, and extension related to climate change.

Climate Change

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 18, 2025

PJM put this process in place as a result of lessons learned from Winter Storm Elliott over the Christmas holiday in 2022 and other extreme weather events. With the coldest weather since 2015 moving into the PJM footprint, electricity demand on Tuesday and Wednesday is expected to approach PJMs all-time winter peak of 143,295 MW, set on Feb.

Electricity

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

APRIL 3, 2025

The Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) REAP provides grants and loan guarantees to help farmers, ranchers, and rural small businesses invest in renewable energy systems and energy efficiency improvements. On March 26, 2025, the USDA announced p reviously obligated REAP funds would be released.

2025

National Law Center

JUNE 10, 2025

While the plaintiff argued that a letter issued to it by NRCS in 2022 notifying the plaintiff on how to request review of the 2010 wetlands determination was a final agency action, the court disagreed. According to the court, there is no evidence indicating that the plaintiff had formally requested a review of the wetland determination.

2013