PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 7, 2025

During those inspections, DEP identified 35,237 violations, and resolved 32,699 of them, including some from 2023. DEP issued 7,296 violations to conventional oil and gas well owners, far exceeding the 6,860 violations issued in 2023, 5,416 violations issued in 2022 and 4,514 violations in 2021 [ Read more here ]. Read more here.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 10, 2025

The growth in DER technologies by type over time. A 2023 report from NREL organizes these barriers into three categories: cost-based, socioeconomic, and historical. The report focuses on barriers to VPPs, but many of these also apply to DERs as the underlying technology that VPPs are built on.) Source: U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This demonstration of the connections between people and systems, and the need for collective solutions to complicated problems, came to mind when I read about an idea for a different real estate host technology: nuclear power plant owners seeking to bring large data centers to co-locate on their land. Modernize, or bypass, the grid?

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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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Circle of Blue

MAY 20, 2025

The Great Lakes ground zero for data center growth With artificial intelligence and the demand for cloud computing set to grow in the years and decades ahead, technology companies are increasingly eying up the Great Lakes regions comparatively cooler climate and ample water resources. There are so many things we are concerned about.

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Law Columbia

DECEMBER 10, 2024

It had many good recommendations for using technology to modernize the environmental review process and it said positive things about NEPAccess but it said nothing about extending its funding or creating anything like it elsewhere. CEQ released that study in July 2024. This was a missed opportunity.

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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. 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%

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Scientific American

JUNE 19, 2025

Oremus and her co-author, Anna Papp, an environmental economist, who will be starting a postdoctoral position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology later this year, began the research when they learned about a massive trove of data from a nonprofit organization called the Ocean Conservancy.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

A widening gap While the investment will buoy established players in the sector, the analysis highlights a large gap between mature and emerging technologies. In India and Canada, investments grew by 13% and 19% respectively. In the US and Europe, investments were either declining or stagnant.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 22, 2025

Click Here for video and photos. This pace of growth is remarkable,” said PUC Chairman Stephen M.

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HumanNature

APRIL 17, 2025

Their ability to quickly absorb new tools, technologies, and methodologies allows them to become change agents in any organization. Engineers work ripples outward improving the quality of life, driving economic growth, advancing technology, and addressing global challenges like climate change, public health, cybersecurity, etc.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 20, 2025

Companies that use gas, on the other hand, will have to respect the annual limit by investing in technologies to reduce emissions – or reduce how long they run their plant. While they werent entirely successful, the final regulations are significantly weaker than the draft form published in June 2023. GW in 2023.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 27, 2025

In the next few years, California should modernize its gasoline regulations to reflect changes in vehicle emissions technology and the latest science, which can make the gasoline market more flexible and competitive while protecting air quality and public health.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 25, 2025

billion in 2023 to $723 million in 2024. Much like renewable energy 20 years ago, CDR is a long-standing yet underutilised technology that entails large sunk costs and offers uncertain returns. Like renewables, pyrolysis technology has existed for decades, but until recently, it was perceived as too risky for investment at scale.

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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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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 31, 2025

Arizona Department of Water Resources decisions in 2023 about groundwater availability in the region sent shockwaves through the housing industry, halting new subdivisions in Buckeye and certain other locations around Phoenix that would have used local groundwater.

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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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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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PA Environment Daily

JULY 14, 2025

The permit backlog has been reduced by 98% since November 2023, decreasing the backlog from over 2,400 permit applications to fewer than 50. DEP is modernizing its permitting process by investing in new technology and reviewing processes to identify and eliminate bottlenecks.

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Physics World

JUNE 17, 2025

As the world celebrates the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology , it’s natural that we should focus on the exciting applications of quantum physics in computing, communication and cryptography. But what other technologies and projects are out there?

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A Greener Life

MAY 1, 2025

This is a huge hurdle for solar panel development, though the coalition government, which took control in 2023, has now removed one of the checks that required anyone developing a system larger than 1 MW to apply for a power plant licence. Ultimately, the Thai government or policymakers are scared of solar development.

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ESA

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Over 2023-2024, mAHTEG assessed the rapid advancements in synthetic biology, prioritizing issues that the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) must address moving forward. Parties emphasized that these technologies often impact their regions first, making it essential to have local experts capable of assessing the associated risks.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 25, 2025

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. Sean Fagan stands before the Mendenhall Glacier. Photo: Diego Noreña.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 9, 2025

Permit Review Modernization DEP is modernizing its permitting process by investing in new technology and reviewing processes to identify and eliminate bottlenecks. Since 2023, DEP has also added 225 employees to carry out critical functions like public health and safety inspections and permit application reviews.

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Acoel

DECEMBER 5, 2024

It had many good recommendations for using technology to modernize the environmental review process and it said positive things about NEPAccess but it said nothing about extending its funding or creating anything like it elsewhere. CEQ released that study in July 2024. This was a missed opportunity.

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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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A Greener Life

JULY 6, 2025

These clean energy technologies are pivotal to Brazil’s goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and meeting its international climate commitments. Environmental activist safety Brazil is one of the deadliest countries for environmental activists, with 25 killings in 2023 alone, making it the second most dangerous globally.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2025

Conducted in partnership with Chester County Water Resources Authority and the University of Delaware Water Resources Center, the Flood Study was launched in August 2023 in response to more frequent and extreme flooding events impacting communities along the Brandywine Creek in both Pennsylvania and Delaware.

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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. . #1 Water Data centres generate enormous heat. Microsoft similarly withdrew 12.9 billion litres of water across its operations in the same year. . #3

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 29, 2025

For context, the City of New Orleans peak summer demand in 2023 was about 1,200 MW (see Table 2 of Appendix B here ), so the Meta data center would draw more than twice the maximum power consumption of the states largest city.

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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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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 18, 2025

The technology to enable widescale electrification has grown at impressive rates over a short amount of time, as our new report shows. We can achieve most of the shift we need with technologies that are available and economically feasible right now. AAS: How feasible is it to electrify truck fleets?

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2025

In 2023, the organization helped secure commitments from 50 oil and gas companies, representing 40 percent of global oil sales, to reduce their methane pollution by 90 percent by 2030. Greene County [PaEN] -- 6-Inch Conventional Natural Gas Gathering Pipeline Rupture Causes Spill In Rostraver Twp.,

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A Greener Life

APRIL 10, 2025

Technological improvements have gone hand in hand with more clean energy in the generation mix, and with every passing year, theres more renewable energy coming online. In the earliest days of electric trains, they were less efficient, and most electricity was from coal power.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Most of the original violations were issued in November 2023. Original violations issued November 2023. 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. Read more here.

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Legal Planet

MAY 20, 2025

As chair of the California Air Resources Board for nearly 20 years, I attended the annual conferences from Bali in 2007 to Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, in 2023. In 2023, data show the planet was losing rainforest equivalent to 10 soccer fields a minute, and had lost more than 7% since 2000. Trust me, Ive been there.

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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. Solar, wind and energy storage technologies are becoming cheaper and more viable, particularly for rural areas.

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