A Greener Life

APRIL 10, 2025

A 100 year journey The journey began in 1925, and it is a hundred years to the day since the first electric train ran in India, a suburban service running into Mumbai. It was in 2014 that the government ramped up ambitions and committed the funds for a fully electric railway. The pace of change doubled and then doubled again.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2025

The growth in DER technologies by type over time. The figure below shows how the installed cost of residential solar PV systems has been falling steadily since 2001, while the price of residential electricity has been rising steadily. Source: U.S. Energy Information Agency. Make this plot yourself. Energy Information Agency.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 10, 2025

The staggering amount of electricity required to fuel artificial intelligence, and the data centers behind them, has driven these companies to such extreme measures that they are attempting to bring retired nuclear power plants back to life. There’s no question that data centers use a lot of electricity.

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Circle of Blue

JULY 24, 2025

Although the Khmer Empire is long gone, the use of the Mekong river system has only increased with population growth and the advancement of technology. This river system is the basis of millions of livelihoods, enabling transportation, agriculture, fishing and electricity generation. According to a 2023 government report, 54.2%

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 29, 2025

Louisiana residents already pay high electric bills for a very unreliable power grid that just recently left nearly 100,000 Louisianans in the dark due to electricity shortages. Entergy has signed a contract with Meta to supply electricity to the data center for 15 years. Source: IEEFA testimony on behalf of AAE and UCS.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 22, 2025

That’s enough clean energy to power the combined households of Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie, Scranton, York, and Williamsport-- based on average electricity usage of 10,000 kilowatt-hours (kWh) per year per household, and U.S. Click Here for video and photos. This pace of growth is remarkable,” said PUC Chairman Stephen M. persons per home.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen Amid increasing concern and anxiety in Ukraine about the war efforts, the largest wind farm in Ukraine , the Tyligulska wind farm, has received a welcome boost, allowing for the second phase to commence of the historic wind farm , which was constructed and the first phase opened in 2023, during the war between Russian and Ukraine.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 14, 2025

On April 10, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. filed a proposed electric generator cold weather reliability standard with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission as a result of its investigations into generation failures during multiple cold weather events since 2021. Read more here. Read more here.]

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A Greener Life

MAY 1, 2025

There was a time when anyone who produced solar electricity would receive a buyback, resulting in the construction of numerous solar farms, which reached a capacity of around 3 gigawatts (GW) at the time. Over the last decade, Thailand has been very aggressive on solar power development. By 2037, Thailand aims to have 51% renewable energy.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 27, 2025

These unexpected closures add urgency to the process of planning for an orderly transition from gasoline to renewable electricity as California’s primary transportation fuel. Evaluate and adjust incentive programs based on changing conditions in the electric vehicle market.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 14, 2025

By Meagan Weisner, PhD , Senior Scientist, Healthy Communities and Paige Varner, PhD , Scientist, Healthy Communities A new study from Environmental Defense Fund finds that even oil and gas production that uses the most stringent emissions reductions technologies poses health risks to nearby residents.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 23, 2025

We’re seeing the most dramatic transformation of our energy system in more than a generation, driven by unprecedented demand growth and accelerated technological change. It’s not about choosing winners or losing technologies-- it’s about deploying what works, where it works, and when it works best. billion in consumer savings.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 2, 2025

In 2023 alone, Google consumed 23 billion litres of water in its data centres, which is equivalent to the yearly water use of 280,00 people in Canada for one entire year. 2 Energy The electricity required to power and cool date centres represents another significant environmental concern. Microsoft similarly withdrew 12.9

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Catherine MacGregor, CEO of ENGIE, added, “This partnership with OCP Group reflects a shared vision of energy transition , with an integrated and diversified approach to technological solutions. OCP aims to invest $13 billion between 2023 and 2027 to rely entirely on renewable energy for its industrial processes and desalinated water.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 19, 2024

By Jiang Mengnan Chinas oil demand is projected to peak at approximately 770 million tonnes in 2025, according to a forecast by the China National Petroleum Corporations Economic and Technological Research Institute (ETRI), reports Caixin. By 2035, demand for refined fuel is expected to decrease by between 25-40% from 2023 levels.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 25, 2025

Several hours into last year’s flood, when her home lost electricity, her rechargeable oxygen tank fell to within eight minutes of emptying. In 2023 he was on a run through town when the lake brimmed with nearly 15 feet of meltwater and overtopped the river, gushing more than 25,000 cubic feet of water per second through its channel.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 3, 2025

Copper, lithium, cobalt, manganese, rare earth metals and graphite essential ingredients for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, renewable technologies and decarbonisation of industrial processes are plentiful across the continent. Without reliable electricity, industrialisation sputters.

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Physics World

APRIL 14, 2025

With increased water scarcity and global warming looming, electrochemical technology offers low-energy mitigation pathways via desalination and carbon capture. 3025 (2023) ; Rahman et al., A530 (2016) ] was among the top ten most downloaded in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society for five months in 2016. Energy Environ.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2025

It works for progress on methane pollution, clean electricity, clean transportation, forests, fisheries and oceans, healthy communities, fuels and feedstocks, agriculture, water, food, carbon markets and other critical environmental challenges. McKean County [PaEN] [Posted: May 1, 2025] PA Environment Digest

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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. Ironically, Germany also imports nuclear-produced electricity from France.

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A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

Renewable energy expansion Brazil’s renewable energy sector continues to grow, with hydropower providing around 60% of the country’s electricity, making it one of the world’s largest producers of hydropower. drop in Amazon deforestation between 2023 and 2024. GW, and solar capacity surpassed 25.5 GW, and solar capacity surpassed 25.5

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 13, 2025

Fatal Flood In Bucks County -- TribLive: National Weather Service Taps Technology, Volunteer Network To Monitor Storms -- TribLive Editorial: Prediction, Prevention Critical To Natural Disaster Response -- Gov.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2025

In a new report , Sam Wilson , a senior analyst at UCS, tracks the dramatic growth of electric trucks and buses and the big benefits to be gained from electrification. Electric trucks, however, dont create any tailpipe emissions. But heavy-duty vehicles can be cleaned up. AAS: How feasible is it to electrify truck fleets?

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Cresforum

OCTOBER 28, 2024

CRES Forum hosted the sixth and final CRES Academy session of 2024, “Nuclear 101: The Role of Nuclear Technologies in Powering the Future.” Nuclear energy provides reliable, zero-emissions electricity and has the highest capacity factor of any power-generation source. In 2023, U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 21, 2025

The ALA has a supplemental series, Something in the Air , that explores emerging and other technologies such as the use of satellites to collect data and help understand the pollution exposure in under-monitored regions. Analyzing vehicle pollution control technologies and testing pollution emissions from vehicles.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In 2023, Chinas listed firms earned CNY 72.7 Retail and services lead the way Breaking things down by industry, we found that the growth in renewables helped the fuel-production and power-generation sectors reduce carbon intensity significantly between 2016 and 2023. trillion (USD 9.9 That represents 57% of the GDP.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 22, 2024

20 RiverWatch Video Report -- Post-Gazette: PA Farmers Turning To No-Till Farming Focusing On Bottom Line, Human Health -- Penn State Extension Conservation Cornerstone: Jan. 20 RiverWatch Video Report -- Post-Gazette: PA Farmers Turning To No-Till Farming Focusing On Bottom Line, Human Health -- Penn State Extension Conservation Cornerstone: Jan.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Mine waste and end-of-life electronic and electric equipment are widely accepted as important sources of these critical metals. Recycling these critical materials faces challenges relating to policy, recycling technologies and logistics among others. For more information about the fall 2024 series, visit the EarthTalks website.

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Physics World

MAY 6, 2025

It absorbs indoor light and generates electricity to power the LED.” Kim is a professor in the Department of Physics at Imperial College London , and was director of the university’s EPSRC Plastic Electronics Centre for Doctoral Training , which closed in 2023. Plastic fabrication methods offer a further benefit.

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Vermont Law

DECEMBER 24, 2024

One of the byproducts of this process is concentrated radioactive materials, known as Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (TENORM). As of 2023, these servers demand about 1-1.5% of the worlds electricity. Copper mining is but one facet of environmental impacts of AI.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 10, 2025

In 2023, oil and gas operations in our commonwealth wasted $178 million-worth of natural gas – That was enough gas to serve the heating and cooking needs of 820,000 households – more than enough gas for every household in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh combined for one year.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The range in the requirement is because the ZEV regulation has significant flexibility built into the sales requirements: automakers can use past credits for compliance, participate in early action and pooling provisions, and use plug-in hybrids to reduce the number of fully electric vehicles required. Data from Atlas Public Policy.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 20, 2025

Data Center May Be Limited Under Current Lancaster City Zoning -- LancasterOnline: Google To Buy $3 Billion Worth Of Electricity For Data Centers From Holtwood, Safe Harbor Hydroelectric Plants, Locking Up PA Power -- PennLive: $26 Billion In Data Center Projects Coming To Central PA, Locking Up PA Power -- York Daily Record: $5 Billion A.I.

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Scientific American

JULY 16, 2025

Shanghai Hailanyun Technology To grow its economy, China is betting big on artificial intelligence , cloud computing and other digital technology—and a big part of that bet involves rapidly building data centers to boost computing power. Shanghai Hailanyun Technology But Microsoft has reportedly shelved Project Natick.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 8, 2025

On April 8, the Public Utility Commission highlighted the continued collaboration between state and federal investigators as the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its report and recommendations related to the tragic 2023 explosion at the R.M. Palmer candy factory in West Reading, Berks County.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

But when it came to the energy transition, Kerry was buoyant and optimistic despite Trump being in charge, recounting: In the first Trump term, 75% of new electricity capacity in the US came from renewables , and added that in 2024 that had risen to 90%.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

On one day in June 2023, 4,084 trucks and buses rolled through the intersection, according to data collected by the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization and the Center for Neighborhood Technologywith one passing through every 10 seconds during the busiest parts of the day.

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