Earth 911

AUGUST 7, 2025

Solar power has become the driving force of the global energy transition. In 2024 alone, the world installed a record-breaking 597 gigawatts of solar capacity —a 33% increase over 2023, which brought global solar installations to over 1.6 Small changes by thousands of individuals will have a lasting, positive impact.

Recycling

Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

New clean energy, including combined solar and battery projects, have waited (and waited, and waited…) in interconnection queues. In 2023, grid planner PJM approved more transmission upgrades for the region, costing another $800 million. In recent years, the focus of grid modernization has been on connecting new supplies.

Nuclear Power

A Greener Life

JULY 27, 2025

United Nations: The fossil fuel industry is engaging in disinformation campaigns to slow the transition to clean energy What does the Paris Agreement say? And it singled out the failure of governments to curb fossil fuel production and consumption as a wrongful act”, she said.

Paris Agreement

Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

Yet not enough attention is given to the river’s care by the local government or population. In 2023, the combined river and lake system provided over 500,000 tons of fish, about 70% of the Cambodian fishing industry. According to a 2023 government report, 54.2% of Cambodian households are involved in agriculture, 93.9%

Government

A Greener Life

APRIL 3, 2025

Africa sits atop an enviable wealth of minerals crucial for the worlds clean energy transition. By Femi Akinrebiyo Africa sits atop an enviable wealth of minerals crucial for the worlds clean energy transition. The moment is ripe for Africa to seize its role as a vital player in the global clean energy revolution.

Clean Energy

Law Columbia

JULY 29, 2025

Courts across the world will continue to play a key role, even an enhanced role, in holding governments accountable for their climate, environmental and human rights commitments. These States’ failures, now understood as internationally wrongful acts and violations of human rights, will rightfully be targeted by litigation.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

APRIL 10, 2025

It was in 2014 that the government ramped up ambitions and committed the funds for a fully electric railway. India prepares to ramp up clean energy capacity Second, electric traction is more energy efficient. Burning stuff to make things go wastes a lot of energy as heat and noise.

Electricity

A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

Key updates reflect a dynamic landscape, from shifting deforestation rates in the Amazon to ground breaking initiatives in clean energy. These clean energy technologies are pivotal to Brazil’s goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and meeting its international climate commitments.

2025

Legal Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

These pledges are memorialized in the leases that BOEM executed with the five developers on June 1, 2023 (See the “Existing Leases” tab on BOEM’s “California Activities” webpage ). State legislation pertinent to Pier Wind includes AB 3 (Zbur, 2023), AB 2235 (Lowenthal, 2024), and if passed, SB 787 (McNerney, 2025).)

Ocean

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 29, 2025

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Conservation

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 7, 2025

Since early 2023, PJM has been warning of the potential for an electricity supply and demand imbalance — one we are now seeing play out — and the effect that could have on future grid reliability. The charges for both of these components are governed by the utility and the specific state and do not involve PJM.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2025

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Conservation

A Greener Life

JANUARY 2, 2025

The German example Germany, the economic and industrial powerhouse in Europe in 2023, decided, for ideological and emotional reasons, to wean itself off nuclear power , even though the low-carbon baseload energy source was key to stability and economic output.

2027

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2025

An August 15, 2023 DEP inspection report found no change in site conditions since the 2019 inspection report and issues violations for failure to submit annual production, waste generation and well integrity reports. A response requested by February 17, 2023. Response requested by June 20, 2023. Violations continued.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Degnan Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, will give the talk, “Repurposed Energy,” at 4:00 p.m. These obstacles include governance structures, political economy, decision-making dynamics and environmental justice concerns. on Monday, Nov. 4, in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 5, 2025

Original violation issued on November 16, 2023. Fortress Energy Corp. Washington Energy Co LLC; Ronald Wise; Mary A. In 2023, DEP issued 512 violations to conventional well owners for abandonment. In 2023, DEP issued or continued 20 violations to 10 shale gas well owners for abandoning and not plugging their wells.

2025

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

I easily recall how, as a young person in Torrance, each time I realized that yet another government entity wasnt serving the public good (often along predictable racial and socioeconomic lines), I was conditioned to expect less and less from that entity. This single sentence drew the most thunderous applause of the day.

2015

PA Environment Daily

JULY 20, 2025

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Conservation

Law Columbia

JUNE 30, 2025

While federal policy can have a significant impact on renewable energy development, local policy—and local sentiment—can be just as consequential. Between 2018-2023, at least 30% of utility-scale wind and solar projects were cancelled during the siting process, largely because of community opposition, local ordinances, and zoning.

Law

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 17, 2025

CCJ has over three thousand members and supporters and is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors. However, it is clear that additional burdens are likely to be imposed anyway, and the DEP did not choose to opt this permit into their Environmental Justice Policy, finalized in 2023.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2024

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Conservation

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Kerry reflected on the sentiment around the rising populism and the push-back on climate and clean energy focus because governments have not been delivered: A lot of average folks have been left back in the dust, he said.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 21, 2025

These companies have not only failed to take responsibility for their role in the climate crisis but also actively obstructed efforts to transition to a clean energy future. Nevertheless, fossil fuel industry proxies immediately filed lawsuits against the rule.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

Here are 183 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. 5 -- Guest Essay: Rewriting The Energy Story — Together - By Stephen M.

Conservation

Circle of Blue

JULY 8, 2025

The Trump administration is taking aim at integral regulatory acts, reversing 55 years of work towards cleaning up the country and restoring ecological values. Trump intends to end President Biden’s extensive clean energy program. California’s stringent air quality rules are being challenged.

Endangered Species Act

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

“The fossil fuel age is flailing and failing,” UN Chief António Guterres said in a speech last week, accusing coal, oil and gas of being “the greatest threat to energy security today.” Driving a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion,” which is weirdly what Zeldin says he’s doing, is not a way to govern.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

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Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 26, 2025

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Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 12, 2025

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Conservation

A Greener Life

JANUARY 26, 2025

Doubling capacity In 2024, the US power sector added 27 GW of new solar capacity, doubling what was added in 2023. Globally, analysts estimate that in 2024, just shy of 600 GW at 593 GW of new solar capacity was added, with China accounting for most installations.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 10, 2025

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Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2025

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Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 30, 2025

Here are 111 new stories in the PA Environment Digest about individuals, groups, local governments, farmers, businesses, watershed groups and many more working all across Pennsylvania to restore and protect the environment and show others the beauty that surrounds us. Thank you for your leadership! -- Guest Essay: March 28, 1979 At 3:53 a.m.

Conservation

Legal Planet

APRIL 30, 2025

has created myriad issues for environmental journalists, including the silencing of sources people inside and outside of government who typically help the flow of trustworthy information reach audiences. I wrote in 2023 that the state of climate journalism is strong. Same thing, different words. billion aid package.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MAY 9, 2025

Last year, PJMs summer peak was about 152,700 MW, and 147,000 MW in 2023. PJM documented this confluence of trends in the 2023 PJM paper Resource Retirements, Replacements and Risks (PDF). The National Weather Service predicts hotter-than-normal summer conditions, especially in the Atlantic seaboard states.

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2025

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Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 16, 2025

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Conservation