PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Data Center Infrastructure; Amazon Told PUC It Has Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Goal By 2040 [PaEN] -- Better Path Coalition: Data Centers - Dirty Energy Deals Anything But Cheap [PaEN] -- Utility Dive: Talen Energy To Sell Amazon 1.9

Nuclear Power

PA Environment Daily

MAY 28, 2025

GW To Move Forward To Address Near-Term Electricity Demand Growth-- 39 Upgrades, 12 New Construction [PaEN] -- PJM Releases List Of 51 Fast Tracked Power Projects To Provide 9.3 GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2 MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 27, 2025

Shapiro Yet Another Troubling Escalation Of Political Violence -- TribLive Editorial: Political Violence Must Be Decried Every Day -- Budget 2025 -- Gov. -- Inquirer Editorial: Arson Attack On Gov.

Politics

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

Eddystone Generating Station in Delaware County to remain open past its expected closure date of May 31, 2025. The order requires Units 3 and 4 of the plant to remain open through August 28, 2025 when the order expires. GW Of Power-- 7 In PA With Power Potential Of 1.2 MW-Day For 2025/26 Delivery Compared To $28.92/MW-Day

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

MAY 19, 2025

We Are Going To Run Out Of Power, If We Dont Move Forward Rep. Thomas Mehaffie (R-Dauphin) , a member of the Committee, noted in 2018 a baseload power plant was shut down in his district [Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant]-- Dont make the same mistake. billion for 2025 26 compared to only $2.2

Electricity

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

Posted: June 1, 2025] PA Environment Digest Visit DEPs Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources. Visit the PA Environment Digest Calendar Of Events for more opportunities.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

APRIL 24, 2025

This en banc hearing, approved by a unanimous vote of the Commission on March 27, 2025, examined how to ensure a fair, transparent, and forward-looking approach to connecting high-energy users to the grid while protecting existing utility customers. All comments are due on or before May 27, 2025. M-2025-3054271. million U.S.

Carbon Emissions

Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 16, 2025

An appreciation of all the recent progress with clean energy has to be viewed in the context of 2025’s reality. One is the data so far in 2025 about US renewables: According to EIA data, renewable electricity generation in the first quarter of this year was 10% higher than in Q1 of 2024. So much momentum. In so many ways.

Clean Energy

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

Billion From Nippon Steel Set Aside For Mon Valley Facilities -- Wall Street Journal: Nippon Steel To Invest $6 Billion To Cut Carbon Emissions In Japan -- AP: US Government To Have Control In Nippon Steel- US Steel Deal, President, McCormick Say -- TribLive Editorial: Now Its On You, Nippon Steel [Posted: June 1, 2025]

Politics

PA Environment Daily

MAY 31, 2025

Exxon] - Violations: Failure To Restore Impoundment ( May 20, 2025 inspection of the Kozik Centralized Freshwater Impoundment in Summit Township, Butler County found the owner failed to restore the impoundment after its last recorded use on November 14, 2022. The impoundment was fenced and retaining water at the time of the inspection.

2025

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 3, 2025

With Nuclear Energy - By Carol Browner, Fmr EPA Administrator -- Financial Times: Is Giving Old Reactors New Life The Future Of Nuclear Energy? . -- March 3 - Weekly PA Environment Digest Now Available [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - Feb.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

-- In Memoriam: DCNR State Park Ranger Alec Campbell [PaEN] -- In Memoriam: DCNR Mourns The Death Of Dave Warfel, Weiser State Forest, Wildland Fire Academy Instructor [PaEN] -- In Memoriam: Gerry Kaufman Founder Of The Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership In Montgomery County And Philadelphia [PaEN] -- DCNR Celebrates Path Of The Flood Trail (..)

Conservation

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 11, 2025

“We also lament the proposed repeal of protections to limit carbon pollution from carbon-based power plants. The oil and gas industry has known for decades that failing to capture their carbon emissions would harm communities, families, and businesses by fueling more extreme weather, as witnessed last year in Asheville, NC. “At

Fossil Fuels

Legal Planet

AUGUST 5, 2025

Wang, who has a forthcoming book called “Chinese Global Environmentalism” due out in fall 2025, uses a Blockbuster Video analogy. Our colleague Mary Nichols echoed that sentiment to the SF Chronicle, saying “this leaves California much less subject to challenge if we say we want to regulate carbon emissions.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 3, 2024

. -- Chesapeake Bay Journal - Karl Blankenship: Agriculture To Get Greater Voice In Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Effort -- WITF StateImpactPA - Rachel McDevitt: $40 Million+ Heading To PA Farms To Increase Climate Resilience -- Lower Susquehanna Source Water Protection Partnership Holds Virtual Meeting Dec.

Natural Gas

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 13, 2025

Data Center Infrastructure; Amazon Told PUC It Has Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Goal By 2040 [PaEN] -- Utility Dive: Talen Energy To Sell Amazon 1.9 GW From Susquehanna Nuclear Power Plant In PA In ‘Front Of The Meter Deal’ To Supply Data Centers In PA -- WPost: Gov. Investment; Concerns Remain About Powering New A.I.

Politics

A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

Japan, a long-time supporter of nuclear power, now has serious hydrogen ambitions. The 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be powered by hydrogen. The Tokyo Olympics will be powered by a fuel with ambition – hydrogen. There is talk that a global “hydrogen economy” can emerge to save the climate from carbon emissions.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 12, 2025

502 Session of 2025. Data Center Infrastructure; Amazon Told PUC It Has Net-Zero Carbon Emissions Goal By 2040 [PaEN] -- Utility Dive: Talen Energy To Sell Amazon 1.9 Here is the text of the letter. The bold emphasis is his. Shapiro Announces Amazon Plans To Invest $20 Billion In Pennsylvania For A.I.

Regulations

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 10, 2024

‘It Simply Should Not Happen, Period’ [PaEN] -- Stars and Stripes Guest Essay: Pause On Permits For New LNG Gas Export Facilities Right Move For National Security - Rivals Like China Are Using US LNG To Build Influence - By Steve Anderson, US Army Brigadier General - Retired [PaEN] -- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: A Rescue Plan For American Energy And (..)

Renewable Energy

Environmental Progress

MARCH 11, 2021

4] Meanwhile, many experts see in recent trends an inevitable transition away from coal and nuclear power plants, designed to function as baseload capacity, toward variable renewable energy sources with just-in-time natural gas back-up. However, the Academies noted, “they too face short-term pressures and fiscal constraints.” [4]

Electricity

Environmental Progress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

By contrast, the Obama administration’s proposed carbon regulation of the power sector, the “Clean Power Plan,” proposed emissions reductions of 32 percent — by 2030. Carbon emissions are thus following the same trajectory as other air pollutants. gigawatts of low-carbon power.

2020

PA Environment Daily

JUNE 1, 2025

Isnt Necessarily A Better One -- TribLive: Chancellor Outlines Visit As Penn State New Kensington, Fayette Wind Down Operations -- Post-Gazette: At PAs Largest Detention Center, Immigrant Safety Endangered As Cuts Cripple DHS Oversight Arm -- Post-Gazette: The Mon Valley Is Back, Renewed Hope In Region; $2.2

Renewable Energy