PA Environment Daily

JULY 11, 2025

12, 2023, Issued June 17, 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. Received Oct.

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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. Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to deliver keynote remarks at Energypath 2025, hosted by the Sustainable Energy Fund at DeSales University.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 22, 2025

That increase didn’t happen overnight — it’s the result of systematic failures to keep up with improving technologies. 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! Read more here.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 7, 2025

On May 7, PennEnvironment released a new report saying Pennsylvania ranks 49th in the nation for percentage growth in total solar, wind and geothermal generation over the past decade. Click here for the State of Renewable Energy 2025 Related Articles This Week: -- PJM Releases List Of 51 Fast Tracked Power Projects To Provide 9.3

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Posted: June 8, 2025] PA Environment Digest Visit DEP’s Teaching Green webpage to learn about more environmental education resources. Visit the PA Environment Digest Calendar Of Events for more opportunities.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

By Anders Lorenzen Data released by BloombergNEF (BNEF), the clean energy analysts body owned by Bloomberg , have shown that despite the uncertainty, on a global level, the cost of clean energy technologies continues to decline. The global benchmarks for wind and solar generation are also set to fall this year at 4% and 2%, respectively.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 5, 2025

The country where President Donald Trump has waged wars on the leading renewable energy sources, solar and wind, hit a new electricity generation low for fossil fuels in March 2025, data from the global energy think tank Ember reveals. Date showing US fossil fuel generation in March 2025. Graph credit: Ember.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Data Centers And Pennsylvania's Future [PaEN] -- Volunteers Needed! 1 At The Southeast Agricultural Research Farm In Centre County [PaEN] -- Lehigh Valleys Wildlands Conservancy Highlights April Educational Programs; Tree Planting; Hikes; Summer Camps -- PittsburghUnionProgress.com: Its Spring!

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 8, 2025

Is Nuclear The Hot New Clean Power Source? s Urgent Need For Power Spurs Return Of Dirtier Gas Turbines -- W&J Center For Energy Policy & Management: Summer 2025 Brings Warnings Of Risk To Electric Reliability Due To Data Centers, Severe Weather Reliability -- Utility Dive: A.I.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 25, 2025

That means fewer jobs, less economic growth and an electric grid that will become increasingly strained under continued and unprecedented demand for more power. Dave McCormick and President Donald Trump were in Pittsburgh recently to announce a whopping $90 billion in energy and technology investments in Pennsylvania.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 29, 2025

Real leadership would mean exporting clean technology, not climate chaos. The Renewable Revolution Is Here Pennsylvania has abundant wind, solar, and geothermal potential. Solar power is now the cheapest electricity in history.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 3, 2025

Solar for All Implementation in 2025 Following his inauguration on January 20, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order directing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to freeze the $7 billion Solar for All (SfA) program created via the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

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Legal Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

According to the company, Beta Technologies, the flight from the airport in East Hampton took 45 minutes and cost just $8 to power, General Aviation News reports. Is it feasible for solar power to meet most of our electricity demand? A first: Earlier this month, a U.S. Kennedy Airport.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

When Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office in January 2025, his second presidency will have widespread implications for the energy industry, especially new investments, but not necessarily in the ways his supporters might expect. Negotiations on the 2025 tax bill will implicate many of the IRA’s provisions.

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New Scientist

JULY 25, 2025

It is based on the Solar Impulse 2 aircraft, which performed the first solar-powered flight around the world in 2016. Read more Drone versus drone combat is bringing a new kind of warfare to Ukraine The Skydweller drone made the world’s first uncrewed and autonomous flight of a solar-powered aircraft in April 2024.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Billion -- PUC Be Utility Wise 2025: A Powerful Gathering For Utility Consumer Advocacy & Community Support On March 19 In Philadelphia -- PUC To Investigate Proposed 10.8% Data Center Demands -- Pittsburgh Business Times: EQT Sees Growing Demand From A.I.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 23, 2025

Davis, DEP, Community Celebrate The Opening Of Federal/State Funded Blacklick Creek Mine Drainage Treatment Plant To Clean Up 25 Miles Of Waterways In Cambria, Indiana Counties [PaEN] -- Indiana Gazette: Blacklick Abandoned Mine Drainage Treatment Facility Celebrated Near Vintondale -- Berks County-based Rodale Institute Named One Of Fast Companys (..)

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 2, 2025

This version of the bill removes a proposed tax on solar and wind and includes incentives for clean firm technologies like geothermal and advanced nuclear. Senate approved a reconciliation budget bill, sending it back to the US House of Representatives for final approval.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2025

The PASEB was originally established by the Commission in 1999 to provide oversight, guidance and technical assistance to the regional sustainable energy boards that fund projects such as wind farms, solar power systems, smart thermostat programs and the construction of buildings using energy efficient technologies.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 6, 2025

House Consumer Protection, Technology & Utilities Committee information meeting on natural gas 101 - from generation to distribution. Room G-50 Irvis Building. Click Here to watch online. June 9-- NEW.

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PA Environment Daily

JULY 23, 2025

Orders, Vows US Will Win Race Over New Technology Related Articles This Week: -- Guest Essay: Rewriting The Energy Story — Together - By Stephen M. 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!

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 22, 2022

These investments will help accommodate accelerating amounts of low-cost renewable energy like wind and solar power, laying the groundwork for a cleaner, cheaper grid. Minnesota’s current goal is to reduce statewide carbon emissions 30 percent by 2025 compared to 2005 levels and 80 percent by 2050.

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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.

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A Greener Life

MAY 20, 2022

The new 100 MW Oruro solar plant is a boost to Bolivia’s energy transition, but there are obstacles to harnessing the radiation potential of its western highlands. Perched at 3,730 metres above sea level in the community of Ancotanga, the Oruro solar power plant is one of the flagship projects in Bolivia’s energy transition.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 21, 2024

While the changes are slated to go into effect for facilities placed in service on or after January 1, 2025, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) still have some complex—and deeply consequential—issues left to resolve.

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A solar power field in Kawasaki, near Tokyo. Last week, regulators in the local assembly of Tokyo , the capital of Japan , ruled that all new homes constructed by large-scale homebuilders after April 2025 must install solar panels to cut emissions. Poor solar uptake. Photo credit: Reuters / Toru Hanai.

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Enviromental Defense

OCTOBER 6, 2022

One is that gas plant contracts signed (or renewed) before 2025 will be able to evade meeting the national CERs beyond 2035 which is when the regulations are supposed to kick in. . The oft-repeated argument is that wind and solar can’t be counted on during periods of high demand. But there are loopholes.

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

By Leigh Hartman When Son Nguyen lived in the US, he saw rapidly advancing electric vehicle technology and heard stories from back in Vietnam about air pollution. The company sells electric motorbikes in Danang, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City and is exploring the reuse of electric batteries and how to power its factory with green energy.

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Enviromental Defense

JANUARY 19, 2023

Renewables like wind and solar, along with current storage technologies, can provide reliable and cheap electricity to meet our growing electricity needs. Wind and solar are now the cheapest new form of electricity generation and provide cheaper rates for the end consumer.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 14, 2023

2025 Hold Erie Coke Accountable Calls On EPA, DEP, Erie County & City To Form Erie Coke [Coal] Plant Community Working Group On Site Cleanup, Revitalization DEP Starts Taxpayer-Funded Hazardous Sites Cleanup Process For American Biodiesel Site In Erie County; Hearing Sept. Potter County To Sept. Potter County To Sept.

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A Greener Life

JULY 9, 2021

Energy authorities in Inner Mongolia are aiming to connect 50 gigawatts of renewable power to the grid by 2025. Wind and solar power can provide green electricity for those facilities, while the low local temperatures can help with cooling requirements. The Kubuqi desert. Photo credit: Alamy. Quick decisions needed.

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A Greener Life

JULY 23, 2021

The Tokyo Olympics will be powered by a fuel with ambition – hydrogen. The Olympic village will be powered by hydrogen made at a solar power plant in the exclusion zone created after the Fukushima nuclear accident a decade ago. Production is set to begin in 2025. The Olympic flame is already burning it.

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Enviromental Defense

MAY 31, 2022

Implement Ontario’s first comprehensive zero-emissions vehicle strategy, which in part includes: A province-wide electric vehicle sales target of 15 per cent by 2025, 45 per cent by 2030, and 100 per cent by 2030. Even faster reductions, i.e. to 60% by 2030, may be achievable as technology improves and costs decline. .

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A Greener Life

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Zhong Baoshen, chairperson of Longi Green Energy Technology, said that the excessive competition has led to oversaturation and subpar products. New restrictions on Chinese solar products in the US, Europe, and India, along with expanded US tariffs targeting Southeast Asia, could affect Chinese companies regional production capacity.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 23, 2023

Solar power is expected to make up about half of all additions of US electric generating capacity in 2023, according to data from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). gigawatts (GW) of planned solar projects expected to come online this year is almost double the previous 13.4 Solar” only includes large-scale solar.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 30, 2024

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

18 Winter Feeding Pasture Walk In Newville, Cumberland County [PaEN] -- PA Solar Center Hosts Oct. 18 Webinar On Solar For Schools Grant Program [PaEN] -- PA Environmental Professionals Host Oct. Solar Program In Oct. 7 [PaEN] -- Capital RC&D Hosts Oct. 31 Webinar For Businesses, Nonprofits, Communities [PaEN] -- Dept.

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