A Greener Life

APRIL 10, 2025

India Railways has ambitious plans to shift to 100% renewable energy , using its surplus land for solar farms. Solar train stations By the end of 2023, rooftop solar had been installed on 1,498 stations, and there are solar panels on the trains themselves as well, running the fans and lights.

Electricity

A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

The potential for further expansion is immense, with regions like the Northeast, with high solar irradiation and strong winds, being ideal for harnessing renewable energy. drop in Amazon deforestation between 2023 and 2024. However, this transition has not been without its controversies.

2025

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. Goldman Sachs analysis predicts that by 2028, AI will represent about 19 per cent of all data centre power demand. . #1 Water Data centres generate enormous heat.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2025

9, York County. -- Penn State Extension Home Garden News: Houseplant Master Class Webinar Series Available; Treen Tenders Training; Good Gardening Saturday Series -- Pike Conservation District: From Source To Sink - Groundwater Education Workshop Series Starts Jan. 13 -- Pike Conservation District: Pike/Wayne Counties Contractors Workshop Feb.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2025

12, 2023, Issued June 17, 2025. ( Received Oct. PA Bulletin, page 4765 ) Grants -- DEP published notice in the July 12 PA Bulletin announcing it has awarded a $75,000 Section 901 Household Hazardous Waste Education to Lebanon County for a household battery education program.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 30, 2024

From April 2022 to July 2023, she served in the Biden-Harris administration as deputy general counsel for energy efficiency and clean energy demonstrations at the U.S. Prioritizing such lands for clean energy projects addresses the dual problems of clean energy opposition and economic decline. Reprinted from Penn State News.)

Clean Energy

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

PA Environment Daily

JULY 23, 2025

He was appointed Chairman on August 30, 2023 and has served on the Commission since October 27, 2022. PJM Decisions Have Driven Up The Cost Of Electricity [PaEN] -- PUC: Pennsylvania Doubles Solar Power Generation In Just 17 Months To 2 Gigawatts [PaEN] -- Registration Open! Editor’s Note: The bold highlights are the author’s.]

Electricity

Law Columbia

JUNE 30, 2025

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. In December 2024, Cape May County finally dropped a lawsuit against Ocean Wind 1 , which had been canceled for financial reasons in 2023.

Law

PA Environment Daily

JULY 27, 2025

5 -- Guest Essay: Rewriting The Energy Story — Together - By Stephen M. 5 -- Guest Essay: Rewriting The Energy Story — Together - By Stephen M. .-

Conservation

Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 24, 2025

In August of 2024, Fords Minister of Energy Stephen Lece announced that the province needed to procure 5000 megawatts of power (enough electricity for 4.5M Texas generated more solar energy in 2023 alone than all in-state solar generation before 2021 combined. MT in 2020, or 13.5

Government

Legal Planet

JULY 29, 2025

More than 80% of us favor building more solar power stations in California. Like in New Mexico , where this Indigenous-led nonprofit group is bringing solar power to Navajo Nation and the Hopi tribe. These are some key findings of the Californians and the Environment survey by the Public Policy Institute of California.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Is Nuclear The Hot New Clean Power Source?

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

Wants To Do It In Pennsylvania -- DEP: Diversified Production LLC Abandons Shale Gas Powered Cryptocurrency Facility In Elk County; 9 More Violations For Abandoned Shale Gas Wells This Week [PaEN] -- Stronghold Digital Mining, DEP, Environmental Groups Settle Appeal, Require Removal Of Unpermitted Scrubgrass Power Plant's Coal Ash Pile 14 Months Faster (..)

Politics

Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 15, 2025

Since its initial implementation in 2022, the South Coast Warehouse ISR has influenced meaningful increases in zero-emission truck trips, electric cargo handling equipment usage, electric truck charging, and warehouse solar power generation.

Ground-Level Ozone

PA Environment Daily

MAY 4, 2025

Megawatts -- PennLive: 22 Bay Electric Vehicle Charging Station Opens In Lower Swatara Twp., Dauphin County -- PennDOT Focus On Innovations, Including Using Environment-Friendly Products, EV Charging Build Out -- LevitttownNow.com: Waste Management Opens $131 Million Landfill Gas Facility In Falls Twp.,

Conservation

Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

Wildfires across Canada are devouring land at a pace unseen in any year other than the historic 2023 season. Is it feasible for solar power to meet most of our electricity demand?

Clean Air Act

Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

fossil fuel production rose over the last four years, from 76 quads in 2020 to a record high of 86 quads in 2023, over ten times the amount of total renewable energy production, according to the U.S. The energy incentives in the IRA, likely to remain in place, favor more than just renewables like wind and solar power.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

Million In Solar For All Funding From Self-Imposed Freeze [PaEN] -- The Allegheny Front/WPSU: Solar Power Supporters In PA Say Outlook Is Positive, Even As Policies Could Change Under President -- City Of Reading Begins Energy Efficiency, Solar Energy Project To Save $13.3

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 9, 2025

EQM Gathering OPCO LLC Sue Union Twp.,

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JULY 23, 2025

Data Centers -- Utility Dive Guest Essay: Openings For CEO And On PJM’s Board Are An Opportunity To Chart A New Course - By David Lapp, Maryland Office Of People’s Counsel advocating for residential utility consumers -- Utility Dive: A.I.-

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Data Center Demands -- Pittsburgh Business Times: EQT Sees Growing Demand From A.I.

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Water Systems Above Legal Limit For PFAS Forever Chemicals In Bucks County -- York Daily Record: Why The Drought In York County Could Get Worse In The Coming Months -- PUC Highlights 2025 Fix A Leak Week Awareness -- TribLive Editorial: PA Fire Hydrants Should Be Flow Tested Regularly -- House Energy Committee Reports Out Bill To Unlock A State Freeze (..)

Conservation

Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 23, 2025

If these plants turn out to be obsolescent (due to overestimates of load growth, cheaper wind and solar power for example), the utility’s customers will still have to pay all the utility’s stranded costs.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

JUNE 6, 2025

Thanks to Chinese investments, both Malaysia and Vietnam manufacture solar power components for the global market. In November 2023, the Cirata floating-solar power plant, built by PowerChina, was fully connected to Indonesia’s power grid and became the largest such installation in Southeast Asia.

Paris Agreement

PA Environment Daily

JULY 26, 2025

DEP issued an order for Harju to plug four other wells in 2023 and the owner failed to do so. Original violations issued June 5, 2023. Penn State University To Host 5th Annual Online Solar Law Symposium Aug. Well appears to be abandoned.] Violations continued. No request made of owner. DEP inspection report. Read more here.

2025

Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 24, 2023

Here’s a taste: Wind power , the largest single source of renewable electricity in the country, grew the most of any renewable energy source in overall generation from 2021 to 2022. Solar power increased the most among renewable electricity sources in percentage terms, up 24 percent. Large solar provided 3.5

Clean Energy

Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The push and pull of progress and catastrophe made 2023 one of the most discordant—and consequential—years for the world’s climate. By ICN Staff In 2023, clean energy progress and the horrors of a radically warming climate fought almost to a draw.

2023

New Scientist

MAY 7, 2024

The rapid growth of solar power led to a record-breaking year for clean energy generation in 2023, and the year is expected to mark the start of a long-term decline in fossil fuels

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2023

ReImagine Appalachia Faith In Action will host an April 13 webinar on Solar-Powered Faith Community & Houses Of Worship - Saving Money & Ethical Labor from Noon to 1:00 p.m. Participants will learn about how nonprofit entities including houses of worship can help grow solar in our communities.

Solar Power

Law Columbia

JUNE 11, 2024

This is the fourth edition of the Sabin Center’s report on Opposition to Renewable Energy Facilities in the United States , and it covers developments through December 31, 2023. Previous editions of the report were published in September 2021 , March 2022 , and May 2023.

Renewable Energy

Clean Energy Law

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Deployment of solar power – More solar photovoltaic systems will be installed on available rooftop spaces of airport buildings at Changi Airport and Seletar Airport. By the end of 2023, Changi Airport generated approximately 4% of its 2019 electricity consumption [ii] through solar power deployment.

Solar Power

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Earlier this year, the MPSC approved a settlement agreement on Consumers Energy’s integrated resource plan that commits the company to retire all its remaining coal-fired power plants by 2025, construct no new fossil gas infrastructure, and build large amounts of new solar power between now and 2040.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Reimagine Appalachia Faith in Action Team and its partners recently hosted a webinar entitled “Solar-Powered Faith Communities and Houses of Worship: Saving Money and Ethical Labor” detailing how Faith communities can, and should, transition to solar systems while adopting ethical solar installation practices.

Solar Power

PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The Pennsylvania State University, - Understanding and Addressing the Impact of Solar Development on Pennsylvania Farmland; and, -- Russell C. The Pennsylvania State University, - Understanding and Addressing the Impact of Solar Development on Pennsylvania Farmland; and, -- Russell C. Hedberg II, Ph.D.

Solar Power

PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

Twenty-one school, business and community projects were honored with the 2023 Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence. It complements Phoenix Contact’s Combined Cooling, Heating, and Power (CCHP) system, which generates about half of the facility’s electric requirements. Posted: May 1, 2023] PA Environment Digest

2023

HumanNature

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Guest Post by Ben Platt , 2023-2024 Sustainability Leadership Fellow, and Ph.D. In 2022, the installed capacity of wind and solar power grew almost 10% in the United States [1]. Eia.gov 2023. [2] Eia.gov 2023. [3] Amazon.com 2023. [6] Colorado Solar Panel Cost: Is Solar Worth It In 2023?

Renewable Energy